Philosophical, Anthropological & Film Studies (School of): Recent submissions
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Water bodies : coastal expression in ecocinema practice
(2025-06-30) - ThesisPositioning coastal ecosystems as particularly vulnerable to severe effects of anthropogenic climate change, this thesis develops a framework for an ecocinema practice which shifts focus away from human perspectives by ... -
Little Being in the Great Art Worlds : an anthropological study on self, creativity, aspiration and escape among young Chinese artists in London
(2025-06-30) - ThesisThis thesis delves into the life and art-practice experiences of young Chinese artists (also Chinese-speaking and Sino-phone artists) navigating the art scenes of London. Drawing from a year-long fieldwork study, it explores ... -
Ghosts and ancestral spirits as witnesses of World War Two in Papua New Guinea
(2025-06-30) - ThesisMy thesis explores relationships with the ‘ghosts of war’ – foreign war dead from Australia, Japan, and the United States – in former battlefield sites in Papua New Guinea. I focus on two sites prominent in PNGs World War ... -
Hume's theory of obligation : morality between nature and artifice
(2025-06-30) - ThesisHume’s account of obligation has been widely discussed in the literature, but many aspects of his conception of obligation, including its definition, taxonomy, and scope, are still subjects of interpretative controversy. ... -
Kantian constitutivism and the limits of agency
(2025-06-30) - ThesisThe philosophical method referred to as constitutivism regards some norms as constitutive of the active exercise of a particular capacity. The distinctive feature of Korsgaard’s Self-Constitution Constitutivism (SCC) is ...