Philosophy Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Full-bloodedness, modesty and minimalist truth 

      Billinge, Daniel (University of St Andrews, 2016-06-23) - Thesis
      This thesis discusses the central ideas that surround Michael Dummett’s claim that there is an incompatibility between a truth-conditional conception of meaning and a minimalist conception of truth. These ideas are brought ...

    • An argument for anti-perfectionism 

      McDevitt, Patrick (University of St Andrews, 2016-06-23) - Thesis
      In political philosophy, perfectionism is the view that it is the job of the state to best enable its citizens to live good or flourishing lives. It claims that certain lives can be judged to be sound, and thus instructs ...

    • The epistemic province of photography 

      De Asis, Ines Nicole Echevarria (University of St Andrews, 2016-06-23) - Thesis
      This thesis argues that photographs enhance the repertoire of seeing the way eyeglasses, microscopes and telescopes do. This kinship is based on these devices sharing a feature called transparency. Transparent devices ...

    • Necessitism, contingentism and theory equivalence 

      Jacinto, Bruno (University of St Andrews, 2016-06-23) - Thesis
      Two main questions are addressed in this dissertation, namely: 1. What is the correct higher-order modal theory; 2. What does it take for theories to be equivalent. The whole dissertation consists of an extended argument ...

    • Saying nothing : in defence of syntactic and semantic underdetermination 

      Bowker, Mark (University of St Andrews, 2016-06-23) - Thesis
      According to the Encoding Model, speakers communicate by encoding the propositions they want to communicate into sentences, in accordance with the conventions of a language L. By uttering a sentence that encodes p, the ...