Philosophy Theses: Recent submissions
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Dialectics of contingency : Nietzsche's philosophy of art
(University of St Andrews, 1993-07) - ThesisThis thesis examines the function of art in Nietzsche's philosophy. Its primary concern is with Nietzsche's turn to art as the means to counter what he terms metaphysics. Metaphysics is a metonym for the system of beliefs ... -
Realism, reference and the growth of scientific knowledge
(University of St Andrews, 1979-07) - ThesisIn Chapter 1, I discuss the background to the problems which confront a realist account of the growth of scientific knowledge. At the beginning of Chapter 2, I explain in what sense relativism constitutes a challenge to ... -
Realism and idealism in the theory of value
(University of St Andrews, 1995-07) - ThesisThis thesis defends an account of value which emphasizes the central place occupied by experiences among the objects of evaluation, a point that is particularly stark in the case of aesthetic value, to which a chapter is ... -
Wittgensteinian fideism and the linguistic turn in post-war British philosophy of religion
(University of St Andrews, 1998-08) - ThesisThe intention of this dissertation is to provide a descriptive account of the changes that occurred in British philosophy of religion after it began to be influenced by the so- called 'revolution in philosophy' in the ... -
The Kantian defence of freedom : with special reference to eighteenth-century determinism
(University of St Andrews, 1954-08) - Thesis