Philosophy Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Aristotle on ethical ascription : a philosophical exercise in the interpretation of the role and significance of the hekousios/akousios distinction in Aristotle's Ethics 

      Echeñique, Javier (University of St Andrews, 2010-09-22) - Thesis
      In his ethical treatises Aristotle offers a rich account of those conditions that render people’s behaviour involuntary, and defines voluntariness on the basis of the absence of these conditions. This dissertation has two ...

    • Aristotle's eudaimonia and two conceptions of happiness 

      Grech, George J. (University of St Andrews, 2010) - Thesis
      Are you happy? This question is asked of people by friends, parents and psychiatrists alike. What happiness consists of for each person seems, at first glance, to be entirely subjective in that is it up to each individual ...

    • Two sources of moral reasons 

      Macdonald, Iain Ezra (University of St Andrews, 2010) - Thesis
      One of the core questions in contemporary metaethics concerns the nature and status of moral claims. However, this question presupposes that morality is unified, and that a single metaethical account will suffice. This ...

    • What if? : an enquiry into the semantics of natural language conditionals 

      Hjálmarsson, Guðmundur Andri (University of St Andrews, 2010-06-25) - Thesis
      This thesis is essentially a portfolio of four disjoint yet thematically related articles that deal with some semantic aspect or another of natural language conditionals. The thesis opens with a brief introductory ...

    • Autonomy and purity in Kant's moral theory 

      Benson, Carolyn Jane (University of St Andrews, 2010-06-25) - Thesis
      Kant believed that the moral law is a law that the rational will legislates. This thesis examines this claim and its broader implications for Kant’s moral theory. Many are drawn to Kantian ethics because of its emphasis ...