Browsing Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework by author "Department of Philosophy"
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Across the borderlines - Coalitional feminist politics beyond identity and difference
Hush Egerton, AnnaPublished 2017-01-01First lines of the Introduction (as abstract not provided): Class and identity politics have long had a vexed relationship. Proponents of ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Adaptive Preference Formation & Autonomy: Moving towards Respect
Karavolas, KryssaPublished 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, Honours -
Can we Build a Superintelligence Without Being Superintelligent?
Sternhell, RobertPublished 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, Honours -
Commonwealth, Conversion and Consensus: An Examination of the Medieval Icelandic Free State and Political Liberalism
Kennedy, Roderick George JacobPublished 2011-01-01Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Empathy for Prinz of the “Dark Side”
Mathers, AnandaPublished 2012-01-01Jesse Prinz has argued that empathy plays no important role in moral judgement, and further that it has a “dark side” which renders it by and large bad for morality. This paper challenges these conclusions and demonstrates ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
A Free Choice to Trust: An Essay on the Necessary Requirement for Freedom of Choice in Interpersonal Trust
Coffman, NicholasPublished 2013-01-01In everyday life we are constantly confronted with situations that we think require us to trust. Getting on the bus, depositing a check, or simply buying food from a local street vendor all seem to call upon us to trust ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
FREE WILL HUNTING: A RECONCEPTUALISATION OF VOLUNTARINESS, DURESS AND NECESSITY USING ARISTOTLE’S ETHICS
Hariharan, JeevanPublished 2012-01-01Jurisprudential philosophers concerned with the question of legal responsibility will be familiar with the problematic category of cases where conduct which would otherwise attract liability is committed as a result of ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
HILARY PUTNAM AND CONCEPTUAL RELATIVITY
McKenna TravisPublished 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, Honours -
Iris Murdoch on the role of Art in Moral Perception
Reid, DianaPublished 2017-01-01First lines of the Introduction (as abstract not provided): Throughout her work, Iris Murdoch often touches on the intersection between ethics and aesthetics, in particular focussing on art’s role in moral perception. As ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Metaphysical accounts of modality: A comparative evaluation of Lewisian and neo-Aristotelian modal metaphysics
Chua, DavidPublished 2012-01-01In this essay I comparatively evaluate two realist metaphysical accounts of modality: David Lewis’ (1986) genuine modal realism (GMR), and neo-Aristotelian modal realism (AMR) as put forth by Alexander Pruss (2011). GMR ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Moral Discourse: Error-Ridden or Relatively Defensible?
Norton, James PeterPublished 2011-01-01Open AccessThesis, Honours -
The Moral Status of Whole Brain Emulations
GIDNEY, PADRAIC XAVIERPublished 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, Honours -
A Naturalistic Theory of Perceptual Representation
Lees, AdamPublished 2012-01-01I propose a theory of representation concerning the perceptual events that are posited and studied by the cognitive and neuro-sciences. The theory is intended to help explain relationships between the perceptual and executive ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Neo-pragmatist accounts of truth: Rorty's "ethnocentrism" and Putnam's "internal realism"
Taylor, AlistairPublished 2012-01-01This work will discuss a recent series of public exchanges that took place between the two founding figures of neopragmatism, Richard Rorty and Hilary Putnam, regarding truth and its relation to justification. Like the ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
A New Approach to the Coherence Theory of Truth
Dimech, DominicPublished 2013-01-01This paper does not argue that the coherence theory should be the accepted theory about what truth is. It aims, rather, to present the coherence theory of truth in a new light, in a way that sheds understanding on why the ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Objects, objectivity and idealism: Robert Brandom's analytic Hegelianism
Mendelsohn, Joshua AidanPublished 2011-01-01Open AccessThesis, Honours -
An offer you can't (rationally) refuse: systematically exploiting utility-maximisers with malicious gambles.
Chalmers, AdamPublished 2017-01-10Decision theory aims to provide mathematical analysis of which choice one should rationally make in a given situation. Our current decision theory norms have been very successful, however, several problems (such as Pascal’s ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
On Moral Hedging, the Problem of Intertheoretic Value Comparisons, and Vagueness
Welsh, ClydePublished 2017-01-01First lines of the Introduction (as abstract not provided): When we are confronted with decisions of moral significance, the ideal course of action, at least according to most moral philosophers, is to look to the moral ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
On the Compatibility of Presentism and our most fundamental Physics.
Dempsey, PatrickPublished 2013-01-01It has been alleged that Presentism is incompatible with our most fundamental physics. More specifically, it is argued that this follows from the fact that Presentism and The Special Theory of Relativity are incompatible. ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
The Philosophy of Human Rights: Its Role in Global Justice. What can we learn from a clash between a philosopher and an historian?
Tighe, AlexanderPublished 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
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