Browsing Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework by publication year
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Objects, objectivity and idealism: Robert Brandom's analytic Hegelianism
Published 2011-01-01Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Commonwealth, Conversion and Consensus: An Examination of the Medieval Icelandic Free State and Political Liberalism
Published 2011-01-01Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Moral Discourse: Error-Ridden or Relatively Defensible?
Published 2011-01-01Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Neo-pragmatist accounts of truth: Rorty's "ethnocentrism" and Putnam's "internal realism"
Published 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 -
FREE WILL HUNTING: A RECONCEPTUALISATION OF VOLUNTARINESS, DURESS AND NECESSITY USING ARISTOTLE’S ETHICS
Published 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 -
Empathy for Prinz of the “Dark Side”
Published 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 Naturalistic Theory of Perceptual Representation
Published 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 -
Thrown Impossibility: The Ontological Structure of Despair
Published 2012-01-01This thesis is a phenomenological analysis of the ontological structure of despair. It begins with an analysis of Heidegger’s work on ‘Affectedness’ whereby through the critique given by Ratcliffe it is seen that moods are ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Metaphysical accounts of modality: A comparative evaluation of Lewisian and neo-Aristotelian modal metaphysics
Published 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 -
On the Compatibility of Presentism and our most fundamental Physics.
Published 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 -
A Free Choice to Trust: An Essay on the Necessary Requirement for Freedom of Choice in Interpersonal Trust
Published 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 -
A New Approach to the Coherence Theory of Truth
Published 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 -
Revisiting Hume’s Sceptical Crisis: an Essay on the Imagination, Ideas and Belief in Hume’s Treatise
Published 2015-01-01Hume began his Treatise with the bold intention to turn philosophy into a ‘science of man’. In the conclusion to Book One, however, Hume’s confidence is replaced with intense despair over the unreliability of this human ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
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, Honours -
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, Honours -
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, Honours -
Retribution and the Evolution of Human Punishment
Published 2017-01-01First lines of the Introduction (as abstract not provided): Social scientists have long considered punishment to be one of the most promising ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
On Moral Hedging, the Problem of Intertheoretic Value Comparisons, and Vagueness
Published 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 -
The Point of Our Words
Published 2017-01-01First lines of the Introduction (as abstract not provided): On the Origin of Species(1) marked a shift in the appreciation not only of ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Across the borderlines - Coalitional feminist politics beyond identity and difference
Published 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