Philosophy Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Perspective in context : relative truth, knowledge, and the first person 

      Kindermann, Dirk (University of St Andrews, 2012-11-30) - Thesis
      This dissertation is about the nature of perspectival thoughts and the context-sensitivity of the language used to express them. It focuses on two kinds of perspectival thoughts: ‘subjective’ evaluative thoughts about ...

    • The answering machine paradox 

      Gudmundsson, David (University of St Andrews, 2012) - Thesis
      The answering machine paradox has relatively recently sparked some debate regarding Kaplan’s Demonstrative (1977). A popular approach to solve the answering machine paradox has been to reject Kaplan’s proper context ...

    • The routes of sense : thought, semantic underdeterminacy and compositionality 

      Pedriali, Walter B. (University of St Andrews, 2012) - Thesis
      What does it mean to be a rational language user? What is it to obey linguistic rules? What is the proper account of linguistic competence? A Fregean answer to these questions would make essential appeal to the notion ...

    • Virtue epistemology and the analysis of knowledge 

      Church, Ian M. (University of St Andrews, 2012-06) - Thesis
      This thesis centers on two trends in epistemology: (i) the dissatisfaction with the reductive analysis of knowledge, the project of explicating knowledge in terms of necessary and jointly sufficient conditions, and (ii) ...

    • John Stuart Mill and romanticism 

      Macleod, Christopher (University of St Andrews, 2011-11-30) - Thesis
      This thesis is an examination of the philosophy of John Stuart Mill and its relation to the romantic movement. The Introduction outlines reasons to believe that such an inquiry is sensible: Mill’s readings of the British ...