Philosophy Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Liberalism & internally illiberal minority cultures : a plea for a substantive exit rights strategy 

      De Vries, Bouke (University of St Andrews, 2014-06) - Thesis
      This dissertation seeks to answer the following question: does a commitment to liberalism require state remediation of illiberal practices of illiberal minority cultures that only affect their own members? Put differently, ...

    • The agential fork : the hidden consequences of agency for plenitude in David Lewis' thesis of genuine modal realism 

      Cole, Marc William (University of St Andrews, 2015-06-25) - Thesis
      In this dissertation, I argue that David Lewis' abductive argument for Genuine Modal Realism (GMR) has the unwelcome, and hidden, implication of being unable to accommodate agent causation theories of free will. This is ...

    • The unity of action 

      Chik, Janice Tzuling (University of St Andrews, 2015-06-25) - Thesis
      This thesis develops a disjunctivist approach to action as an alternative to the standard causal theory, or 'causalism'. The standard theory promotes a concept of action as constituted by a bodily event joined to certain ...

    • Second-order logic : ontological and epistemological problems 

      Rossberg, Marcus (University of St Andrews, 2006) - Thesis
      In this thesis I provide a survey over different approaches to second-order logic and its interpretation, and introduce a novel approach. Of special interest are the questions whether (a particular form of) second-order ...

    • Knowledge of modality by imagining 

      Strohminger, Margot (University of St Andrews, 2014-06-26) - Thesis
      Assertions about metaphysical modality (hereafter modality) play central roles in philosophical theorizing. For example, when philosophers propose hypothetical counterexamples, they often are making a claim to the effect ...