School of Humanities: Recent submissions
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Sojourner intimacies: Chinese international students negotiating dating in Sydney
Published 2018-01-01Despite being a large community of sojourners making up 30% of the total international student population in Australia (End of Year Summary of International Student Enrolment Data, 2017), Chinese international students’ ...Open AccessThesis -
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