Philosophy Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Mandeville, Hutcheson, and Hume on pride and honour 

      Barrenechea Dominguez, Bihotz (University of St Andrews, 2014-09) - Thesis
      Pride has been a problematic passion in many moral systems for it has been seen as having harmful consequences at an individual and political level. This thesis will argue that is a philosophical tradition that has seen ...

    • Russell's metaphysical accounts of logic 

      Ito, Ryo (University of St Andrews, 2017-12-08) - Thesis
      Bertrand Russell’s works on logic, despite his reputation as a founder of mathematical logic, appear unnecessarily metaphysical and even naïve to contemporary logicians and philosophers. He offered several accounts of logic ...

    • Commutative justice 

      Mildenberger, Carl David (University of St Andrews, 2016-12-01) - Thesis
      The purpose of this thesis is to present a conception of commutative justice. Commutative justice is defined as that part of justice in transfer (as opposed to justice in acquisition as well as distributive or rectificatory ...

    • Knowledge-how : linguistic and philosophical considerations 

      Habgood-Coote, Joshua (University of St Andrews, 2017-12-08) - Thesis
      This thesis concerns the nature of knowledge-how, in particular the question of how we ought to combine philosophical and linguistic considerations to understand what it is to know how to do something. Part 1 concerns the ...

    • Being : a dialetheic interpretation of the late Heidegger 

      Casati, Filippo (University of St Andrews, 2017) - Thesis
      In my thesis, I present a novel interpretation of the so-called second Heidegger. In the first chapter I discuss the paradox of being, according to which talking and thinking about being leads to a contradiction. I also ...