Philosophy Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Legal paternalism 

      Batstone, Aislinn (University of St Andrews, 2003) - Thesis
      Legal paternalism is the interference by the state in the choice or choices of citizens, for the good of those citizens. There are strong intuitions for and against paternalism, which correspond to the value we place on ...

    • Naturalism, normativity, and the 'open question' argument 

      Fisher, Andrew David (University of St Andrews, 2003) - Thesis
      The 'open question' argument, as it has come to be known, was popularized by G. E. Moore. However, it is universally recognized that his presentation of it is unconvincing, as it is based on dubious metaphysics, semantics ...

    • Aesthetic antirealism 

      Cooke, Brandon L. (University of St Andrews, 2003-06) - Thesis
      A puzzle is generated by two intuitions about artworks: 1. There is no prima facie reason to take artworks to be mind-independent objects; 2. Aesthetic judgments are objective. These intuitions seem to be in tension, for ...

    • The phrasal implicature theory of metaphors and slurs 

      Yavuz, Alper (University of St Andrews, 2018-06-28) - Thesis
      This thesis develops a pragmatic theory of metaphors and slurs. In the pragmatic literature, theorists mostly hold the view that the framework developed by Grice is only applicable to the sentence-level pragmatic phenomena, ...

    • Philosophical perspectives on the stigma of mental illness 

      Nowak, Lisa Rebecca (University of St Andrews, 2018-06-28) - Thesis
      This thesis is concerned with philosophical perspectives on the stigma of mental illness, with each chapter exploring different philosophical issues. Chapter one delineates the central concept around which the rest of the ...