Philosophy Theses: Recent submissions
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Content and computation : a critical study of some themes in Jerry Fodor's philosophy of mind
(University of St Andrews, 1997-06) - ThesisIn this thesis I address certain key issues in contemporary philosophy of mind and psychology via a study of Jerry Fodor's hugely important contributions to the discussion of those issues. The issues in question are: (i) ... -
Attitudes and their attributions
(University of St Andrews, 1996-07) - ThesisThis doctoral dissertation is on the semantics of propositional attitude ascriptions. To be more precise, it is mainly concerned with various kinds of analyses of singular propositional attitude ascriptions. These are ... -
Objectivity and realism : meeting the manifestation challenge
(University of St Andrews, 1999-08) - ThesisThe anti-realist maintains that all thoughts that we may entertain are thoughts whose truth-values we can in principle come to recognise. The realist refuses to make any such claim about the limits of our thinking. The ... -
Realism: a critical analysis of some arguments by Michael Dummett
(University of St Andrews, 1981-07) - ThesisCHAPTER ONE This thesis is a critical analysis of arguments which Michael Dummett has developed against realism. Dummett characterizes realism as the thesis that the meaning of sentences should be analyzed in terms of the ... -
The individual and the absolute: a re-examination of some points in British Idealist philosophy
(University of St Andrews, 1973-10) - Thesis