Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework: Recent submissions
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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