School of Humanities: Recent submissions
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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 -
FREE WILL HUNTING: A RECONCEPTUALISATION OF VOLUNTARINESS, DURESS AND NECESSITY USING ARISTOTLE’S ETHICS
Published 2012-01-01Jurisprudential philosophers concerned with the question of legal responsibility will be familiar with the problematic category of cases where conduct which would otherwise attract liability is committed as a result of ...Open AccessThesis -
Metaphysical accounts of modality: A comparative evaluation of Lewisian and neo-Aristotelian modal metaphysics
Published 2012-01-01In this essay I comparatively evaluate two realist metaphysical accounts of modality: David Lewis’ (1986) genuine modal realism (GMR), and neo-Aristotelian modal realism (AMR) as put forth by Alexander Pruss (2011). GMR ...Open AccessThesis -
A Naturalistic Theory of Perceptual Representation
Published 2012-01-01I propose a theory of representation concerning the perceptual events that are posited and studied by the cognitive and neuro-sciences. The theory is intended to help explain relationships between the perceptual and executive ...Open AccessThesis -
Thrown Impossibility: The Ontological Structure of Despair
Published 2012-01-01This thesis is a phenomenological analysis of the ontological structure of despair. It begins with an analysis of Heidegger’s work on ‘Affectedness’ whereby through the critique given by Ratcliffe it is seen that moods are ...Open AccessThesis