Philosophy Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Inferences in context : contextualism, inferentialism and the concept of universal quantification 

      Tabet, Chiara (University of St Andrews, 2008-11-27) - Thesis
      This Thesis addresses issues that lie at the intersection of two broad philosophical projects: inferentialism and contextualism. It discusses and defends an account of the logical concepts based on the following two ideas: ...

    • Truth and goodness : a minimalist study 

      Edwards, Douglas O. (University of St Andrews, 2008-11-27) - Thesis
      Philosophers are often thought to be in the business of analysing concepts, in particular, concepts taken to be fundamental in human thought and practice: truth, goodness, beauty, knowledge, meaning, rightness, causation, ...

    • Liberal legitimacy : a study of the normative foundations of liberalism 

      Rossi, Enzo (University of St Andrews, 2008-11-27) - Thesis
      This thesis is a critique of the prominent strand of contemporary liberal political theory which maintains that liberal political authority must, in some sense, rest on the free consent of those subjected to it, and that ...

    • McDowell, Gettier, and the bipartite account of perceptual knowledge 

      Archer, Adrian Avery (University of St Andrews, 2008-06-27) - Thesis
      In his essay, “Knowledge and the Internal Revisited”, John McDowell claims that “seeing that p constitutes false-hood excluding justification for believing that p.” In this thesis I attempt to construct an account of ...

    • Living on the slippery slope : the nature, sources and logic of vagueness 

      Zardini, Elia (University of St Andrews, 2008-06-25) - Thesis
      According to the dominant approach in the theory of vagueness, the nature of the vagueness of an expression ‘F’ consists in its presenting borderline cases in an appropriately ordered series: objects which are neither ...