Recent Submissions

• Technē without Archē: Foucault’s Last Decade 

  Yin, Chenglong

  Published 2025-03-18

  In this paper I use the concept of technē to argue that Foucault’s last decade is a unified program of research, offering a new interpretation of freedom in his later work. Whereas much of the existing scholarship treats ...

  Open Access

  Thesis
  View

• Disobedient Discourse: Mill, ContraPoints, and the Limits of Free Speech Norms 

  Anderson, Lachlan

  Published 2024-02-02

  In this paper, I explore contemporary disagreement regarding protests against speakers deemed regressive or bigoted by progressive activists. I do so by examining the rationale, scope, and operation of free speech norms ...

  Open Access

  Thesis
  View

• Locked Up & Locked Out: Incarceration & Children's Interests 

  McGuire, Gabriel

  Published 2024-02-01

  In this thesis I question the justifiability of the current practice of juvenile incarceration. I argue that children have rights borne out of both extrinsic and intrinsic interests. I suggest that the detained child's ...

  Open Access

  Thesis
  View

• Does Sexual Objectification Make Erotic Love Impossible? 

  Lewis, Hamish

  Published 2024-01-19

  Theories about the nature of sexual objectification and its relationship to heterosexual erotic love have largely failed to express why objectification is philosophically important, the relationship between gender and ...

  Open Access

  Thesis
  View

• Vagueness, Identity, and Quantum Objects 

  Alafaci, Christian

  Published 2021-03-18

  While 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 Access

  Thesis
  View

See more