Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework: Recent submissions
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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