Philosophy Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Liberal trusteeship : preparatory work for an epistemic defence of non-egalitarian liberalism 

      Dagkas-Tsoukalas, Vladimiros (University of St Andrews, 2017-06-22) - Thesis
      This thesis examines some epistemic defences of democracy put forward by David Estlund, Michael Fuerstein, Cheryl Misak, and Fabienne Peter, as well as a critique of democracy raised by Jason Brennan. It then develops an ...

    • Proof, rigour and informality : a virtue account of mathematical knowledge 

      Tanswell, Fenner Stanley (University of St Andrews, 2017-06-22) - Thesis
      This thesis is about the nature of proofs in mathematics as it is practiced, contrasting the informal proofs found in practice with formal proofs in formal systems. In the first chapter I present a new argument against the ...

    • Reflective luck and meta-epistemological scepticism 

      Neil, Charles Anthony (University of St Andrews, 2014) - Thesis
      In this thesis, I argue that a particular type of epistemic luck, called “reflective luck”, motivates a meta-epistemological challenge to externalism about justification. I argue that the meta-epistemological challenge ...

    • Against type E 

      McKeever, Matthew (University of St Andrews, 2016-12-01) - Thesis
      It’s generally assumed that a compositional semantic theory will have to recognise a semantic category of expressions which serve simply to pick out some one object: e-type expressions. Kripke’s views about names (Kripke, ...

    • Perspectives on what to believe : the information-sensitivity of the doxastic 'should' and its implications for normative epistemology 

      Becker, Sebastian Josef Albrecht (University of St Andrews, 2016-12-01) - Thesis
      This thesis explores the extent to which the doxastic ‘should’ is information-sensitive and the implications of this for a number of debates in normative epistemology. The doxastic ‘should’ is a special case of the deontic ...