Philosophy Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Reality Engineering and social kinds 

      Calosi, Duccio (University of St Andrews, 2022-06-13) - Thesis
      Conceptual Engineering is a new and interesting trend in Philosophy. However, it is not free from problems. The most relevant issue is that, at least following a Cappelen-like account, we are forced to commit to the ...

    • I'm a believer : Evans' transparency remark and self-knowledge 

      Conlan, Paul John (University of St Andrews, 2022-06-14) - Thesis
      The central goal of this thesis is to understand self-knowledge through understanding a particularly difficult and promising remark of Gareth Evans’, from his The Varieties of Reference (Evans, 1982), a remark which has ...

    • The verbal dispute about verbal disputes 

      Becker, Niklas (University of St Andrews, 2022-06-13) - Thesis
      Whether a dispute is verbal is important to figure out because it appears to make a huge difference for how the dispute should be resolved. To figure out whether individual disputes are verbal and to figure out how to ...

    • The time we experience : understanding the phenomenologies of temporal passage and presentness 

      Chen, Keyu (2024-06-10) - Thesis
      This dissertation explores what is involved in the alleged phenomenologies of the passage of time and the present, two phenomenological data that are normally cited to support the A-theory of time. It argues that the ...

    • Indeterminacy and the law of the excluded middle 

      Engler, Jann Paul (2024-06-10) - Thesis
      This thesis is an investigation into indeterminacy in the foundations of mathematics and its possible consequences for the applicability of the law of the excluded middle (LEM). It characterises different ways in which the ...