Philosophy Theses: Recent submissions

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    • A defence of the Kaplanian theory of sentence truth 

      Sweeney, Paula (University of St Andrews, 2010-06) - Thesis
      When David Kaplan put forward his theory of sentence truth incorporating demonstratives, initially proposed in ‘Dthat’ (1978) and later developed in ‘Demonstratives’ (1989a) and ‘Afterthoughts’ (1989b), it was, to his ...

    • Coincidence and modality 

      Kang, Li (University of St Andrews, 2011) - Thesis
      How should we understand de re modal features of objects, if there are such features? Any answer to the question is connected to how we should think about coincident objects, objects which occupy the same spatio-temporal ...

    • Negation in context 

      De, Michael (University of St Andrews, 2011-06-24) - Thesis
      The present essay includes six thematically connected papers on negation in the areas of the philosophy of logic, philosophical logic and metaphysics. Each of the chapters besides the first, which puts each the chapters ...

    • The role of the imagination in Hume's science of man 

      Bernard, Christopher (University of St Andrews, 1990) - Thesis
      In recent years there has been an explosion of writing on David Hume. His scepticism, his writings on morality, politics, and religion, have all received substantial attention. What I attempt to do in this thesis is to ...

    • Freud's concept of the unconscious 

      Lewczuk, Zinaida (University of St Andrews, 1983) - Thesis