Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework: Recent submissions
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Vagueness, Identity, and Quantum Objects
Published 2021-03-18While classical accounts of identity (‘classical’ here pertaining to both logics and physics) are generally well understood, the advent of quantum theory, specifically quantum statistics, has cast shadow over these conceptions. ...Open AccessThesis -
The Philosophy of Human Rights: Its Role in Global Justice. What can we learn from a clash between a philosopher and an historian?
Published 2018-01-01What is the role of philosophy in the human rights project?4 And what is the role of human rights in creating a better world? These are the questions at the core of a dispute between the philosopher John Tasioulas and the ...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