School of Humanities: Recent submissions
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Gender, Insanity and Moral Obligation: Widows and the Action for Testamentary Incapacity in Late-Colonial New South Wales
Published 2021-04-13The enactment of a Testator’s Family Maintenance Act in 1916 is rightly remembered as a signature achievement of New South Wales’ early feminists, providing protection against the destitution that a cruel will could inflict ...Open AccessThesis -
The Sociolinguistic State of Alemannic Dialects
Published 2021-03-18The various dialects of Alemannic, a set of German dialects spoken in South-Western Germany, North-Eastern France, and Switzerland, are spoken by, in general, a decreasing number of people in these regions. However, the ...Open AccessThesis -
Vagueness, Identity, and Quantum Objects
Published 2021-03-18While classical accounts of identity (‘classical’ here pertaining to both logics and physics) are generally well understood, the advent of quantum theory, specifically quantum statistics, has cast shadow over these conceptions. ...Open AccessThesis -
"Contact - Wait Out": The Search for a Unique Australian Counterinsurgency.
Published 2021-03-02Between 1962 and 1972 Australia was involved in a counterinsurgency war in Vietnam. Counterinsurgencies emerged as the definitive style of warfare during the Cold War. Many prominent nations employed their own unique ...Open AccessThesis -
Getting others to do things: A pragmatic typology of recruitments
Published 2020-01-01Getting others to do things is a central part of social interaction in any human society. Language is our main tool for this purpose. In this book, we show that sequences of interaction in which one person’s behaviour ...Book