Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework: Recent submissions
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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 ...Open AccessThesis -
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 ...Open AccessThesis -
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