Philosophy Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Breaking the trust : the case for regulating anonymous shell companies 

      Sorger, Andreas-Johann (University of St Andrews, 2020-07-27) - Thesis
      Anonymous shell companies (ASCs) are corporate entities whose sole purpose is to cloak the identity of their beneficial owner. Due to their strong anonymity provisions, ASCs allow individuals to perform a variety of illicit ...

    • A defence of the truth norm of belief 

      Wei, Xintong (University of St Andrews, 2022-06-13) - Thesis
      For belief, the standard of correctness is truth. Truth is said to be the norm of belief. This thesis aims to address some recent challenges relating to various aspects of the truth norm of belief on a reason-based normative ...

    • Reality Engineering and social kinds 

      Calosi, Duccio (University of St Andrews, 2022-06-13) - Thesis
      Conceptual Engineering is a new and interesting trend in Philosophy. However, it is not free from problems. The most relevant issue is that, at least following a Cappelen-like account, we are forced to commit to the ...

    • I'm a believer : Evans' transparency remark and self-knowledge 

      Conlan, Paul John (University of St Andrews, 2022-06-14) - Thesis
      The central goal of this thesis is to understand self-knowledge through understanding a particularly difficult and promising remark of Gareth Evans’, from his The Varieties of Reference (Evans, 1982), a remark which has ...

    • The verbal dispute about verbal disputes 

      Becker, Niklas (University of St Andrews, 2022-06-13) - Thesis
      Whether a dispute is verbal is important to figure out because it appears to make a huge difference for how the dispute should be resolved. To figure out whether individual disputes are verbal and to figure out how to ...