Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework: Recent submissions
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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 -
Iris Murdoch on the role of Art in Moral Perception
Published 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 -
An offer you can't (rationally) refuse: systematically exploiting utility-maximisers with malicious gambles.
Published 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 -
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 -
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