Philosophy Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Invariance and intensionality : new perspectives on logicality 

      Grossi, Marco (University of St Andrews, 2018-12-07) - Thesis
      What are logical notions? According to a very popular proposal, a logical notion is something invariant under some “transformation” of objects, usually permutations or isomorphisms. The first chapter is about extending ...

    • The dual nature of causation : two necessary and jointly sufficient conditions 

      Touborg, Caroline Torpe (University of St Andrews, 2018-06-28) - Thesis
      In this dissertation, I propose a reductive account of causation. This account may be stated as follows: Causation: 𝘤 is a cause of 𝘦 within a possibility horizon ℋ iff a) 𝘤 is process-connected to 𝘦, and b) 𝘦 ...

    • A pluralistic solution to the relationalism versus representationalism debate 

      Black, Paul Andrew (University of St Andrews, 2018-12-07) - Thesis
      A great deal of philosophy of perception literature has been concerned with determining the fundamental philosophical account of perception. The overwhelming majority of contemporary work in this area has advocated for ...

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      Randall, Leonard Avery (University of St Andrews, 2016) - Thesis

    • Essentialism in Aristotle, Kripke and Fine : differences in explanatory purposes 

      Sattler, Wolfgang (University of St Andrews, 2017) - Thesis
      In this dissertation I compare the different forms of essentialism that we find in Aristotle, Saul Kripke and Kit Fine. I argue that there is a clear difference in explanatory purpose between Aristotle’s essentialism on ...