Philosophy Theses: Recent submissions
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Attitudes first: rationality attributions and the normativity of rationality
(University of St Andrews, 2020-12-02) - ThesisThis thesis has two distinct aims. The first is to shed light on our practice of attributing rationality to others. To begin, Chapter 2 demonstrates that we cannot rely on questions of what rationality requires to make ... -
Brain death: what we are and when we die
(University of St Andrews, 2020-12-02) - ThesisWhen does a human being cease to exist? For millennia, the answer to this question had remained largely unchanged: death had been diagnosed when heartbeat and breathing were permanently absent. Only comparatively recently, ... -
Virtue education and deliberation : an Aristotelian account
(2020-07-27) - ThesisBuilding on a philosophical reconstruction of Aristotle, this dissertation argues for a non-intellectualist account of virtue education and practical deliberation. This dissertation will first examine the notion of ... -
How to kill 999 flowers : in defence of logical monism
(University of St Andrews, 2021-06-21) - ThesisHow many correct logics are there? For much of logic’s history it was widely assumed that there was exactly one correct logic, a position known as logical monism. However, the monist’s hegemony has recently become increasingly ... -
Disagreement, concepts and convergence : a new theory of political realist legitimacy
(University of St Andrews, 2020-12-02) - ThesisThis thesis argues for a novel conception of political realism as a theory of political legitimacy: the Dual Convergent Conception. The thesis is framed by the thought that one way of theorising about political legitimacy ...