Philosophy Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Identifying oneself as an element of the objective order : Nagel's question and Evans' response 

      McGrath, Jack Dylan (2023-06-12) - Thesis
      Frege leaves us with a task: to elucidate the fundamental character of the way in which we know which spatio-temporal particular is in question when we use the first person by formulating a semantic account of the first ...

    • Affective experience as a source of knowledge 

      Jost, Lara Apolline (2023-06-12) - Thesis
      In analytic philosophy, appropriate sources of knowledge do not include affective experience. In this thesis, I oppose this commonly accepted view and argue in favour of valuing the contribution of affective experience to ...

    • The achievement of perceptual presence : to perceive by having access to the world 

      Gong, Qianrong (2022-11-30) - Thesis
      This dissertation provides an enactive approach to perception. It argues that perceptual presence is achieved by perceivers. They do this by having access to the world through the navigation of sensorimotor contingencies ...

    • The nature and rationality of trust and trustworthiness 

      Mitchell, Thomas James Arthur (2023-06-12) - Thesis
      Trust and trustworthiness are highly important concepts; Trusting well enables us to achieve things we cannot do alone and to discover things that we cannot check for ourselves. Issues of trust sit in the intersection of ...

    • Productive being : the continuity between life and action 

      Prokop, Mirko Alexander (2022-11-30) - Thesis
      What is the relationship between life and agency? Are all agents necessarily living organisms? How are we to understand the phenomena of life and action? This thesis aims to answer these questions against the background ...