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Disobedient Discourse: Mill, ContraPoints, and the Limits of Free Speech Norms
Published 2024-02-02In 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 AccessThesis -
Locked Up & Locked Out: Incarceration & Children's Interests
Published 2024-02-01In 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 AccessThesis -
Does Sexual Objectification Make Erotic Love Impossible?
Published 2024-01-19Theories 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 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 -
The Philosophy of Human Rights: Its Role in Global Justice. What can we learn from a clash between a philosopher and an historian?
Published 2018-01-01What is the role of philosophy in the human rights project?4 And what is the role of human rights in creating a better world? These are the questions at the core of a dispute between the philosopher John Tasioulas and the ...Open AccessThesis, Honours