Honours theses: Recent submissions
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'Harry the Ninth (The Uncrowned King of Scotland) Henry Dundas and the Politics of Self-Interest, 1790-1802
Published 2012-01-01The career of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville underscores the importance of individual self-interest in British public life during the 1790-1802 Revolutionary Wars with France. Examining the political intrigue surrounding ...Open AccessThesis -
Harbouring Discontent: World Heritage, the Great Barrier Reef and the Gladstone Port Development
Published 2012-01-01The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is facing unprecedented pressures from a range of inputs– one of the most prominent being industrial coastal development. Of these developments, none has more current significance than the ...Open AccessThesis -
Ministerial Advisers: How Ministers Shape Their Conduct – A Study of Ministers and Advisers in the Rudd Government
Published 2012Ministerial advisers have become part of the standard advisory arrangements in Westminster governments, yet there is disagreement about their roles and behaviour. In Australia, some academic work has considered their ...Open AccessThesis -
Neo-pragmatist accounts of truth: Rorty's "ethnocentrism" and Putnam's "internal realism"
Published 2012-01-01This work will discuss a recent series of public exchanges that took place between the two founding figures of neopragmatism, Richard Rorty and Hilary Putnam, regarding truth and its relation to justification. Like the ...Open AccessThesis -
Empathy for Prinz of the “Dark Side”
Published 2012-01-01Jesse Prinz has argued that empathy plays no important role in moral judgement, and further that it has a “dark side” which renders it by and large bad for morality. This paper challenges these conclusions and demonstrates ...Open AccessThesis