Honours theses: Recent submissions
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HILARY PUTNAM AND CONCEPTUAL RELATIVITY
Published 2017-01-01First lines of the Introduction (as abstract not provided): In The Many Faces of Realism, Hilary Putnam suggests that although the phenomenon of conceptual relativity has become pervasive in contemporary scientific practice, ...Open AccessThesis -
The Moral Status of Whole Brain Emulations
Published 2017-01-01First lines of the Introduction (as abstract not provided): Artificial Intelligence is going to radically change our world; the only real question is by how much. A number of prominent figures believe that current AI ...Open AccessThesis -
Can we Build a Superintelligence Without Being Superintelligent?
Published 2017-01-01If we create an entity of greater intelligence to us, a superintelligence, it has the possibility to explode in intelligence, creating more and more intelligent entities. If the intelligence explosion argument holds, then ...Open AccessThesis -
Adaptive Preference Formation & Autonomy: Moving towards Respect
Published 2017-01-01First lines of the Introduction (as abstract not provided): This thesis seeks to primarily answer the following question: are adapted preferences autonomous? In pursuing the answer of this question, I am unsurprisingly ...Open AccessThesis -
“Truth is Subjectivity” in Johannes Climacus’ Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments: Developing an Understanding of Kierkegaard on Truth
Published 2017-01-01This thesis investigates what the statement “truth is subjectivity” means within the context of Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments, the last work written under the Søren Kierkegaard’s pseudonym, ...Open AccessThesis