Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework
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The Essence of Friendship: A Generous Interpretation of Aristotle
Published 2025-06-02This paper revisits Aristotle’s account of friendship in The Nicomachean Ethics. I argue that Aristotle’s broad, detailed framework offers us a cogent characterisation of friendship that contemporary philosophical accounts ...Thesis -
Technē without Archē: Foucault’s Last Decade
Published 2025-03-18In 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 ...Thesis -
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 ...Thesis -
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 ...Thesis -
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 ...Thesis