Philosophy Theses: Recent submissions

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    • A vindication of logical necessity against scepticism 

      Philie, Patrice (University of St Andrews, 2002) - Thesis
      Some philosophers dispute the claim that there is a notion of logical necessity involved in the concept of logical consequence. They are sceptical about logical necessity. They argue that a proper characterisation of logical ...

    • Davidson's third dogma 

      Hough, Gerard Michael (University of St Andrews, 2001) - Thesis

    • Immunity to error through misidentification and the trilemma about the self 

      Coliva, Annalisa (University of St Andrews, 2001) - Thesis
      The thesis addresses the issues of error through misidentification and immunity to error through misidentification in relation to the problem of the first person. First, it provides an explanation of error through ...

    • Formal causation and mental representation : a thomistic proposal 

      De Anna, Gabriele (University of St Andrews, 2003) - Thesis
      In the past years, the relevance of Thomas Aquinas's theory of cognition for contemporary debates on epistemology has been widely discussed. That theory claims that mind and world are formally identical and that this ...

    • Vagueness and identity 

      Odrowąż-Sypniewska, Joanna (University of St Andrews, 2001) - Thesis
      The main focus of this thesis is indeterminate identity and its relations to vague objects and to imprecise designation. Evans's argument concerning indeterminate-identity statements is often regarded as a proof that vague ...