Philosophy Masters thesis collection: Recent submissions
Now showing items 21-40 of 185
-
Can contractualism really avoid aggregation?
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018)This paper presents multiple reasons for why contractualists should adopt a weighted lottery in saving-lives cases. First, under both a principle allowing us to hold an equalchance lottery as well as a principle that ... -
Abide by ME(T), Maurice Merleau-Ponty: incorporating Merleau-Ponty’s ‘pre-objective’ perception into material engagement theory
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018)MET’s goal of ‘taking material culture seriously’ in cognitive archaeology has been met with praise for its novel approach and scepticism for its radical theoretical claims. MET has argued that we are ontologically intertwined ... -
Contemporary interpretation of Aristotle's concept of happiness and community perspective
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018)In this paper I have analyzed and elucidated Aristotle’s, Richard Kraut’s and Laura Sizer’s conceptions conceptions of happiness. Aristotle emphasized on the objective part of the conception of happiness. Richard Kraut ... -
Duty to dissent: do the citizens of a participatory liberal democracy have a political duty to practice civil disobedience?
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018)Throughout the history of 20th century democracies such as the United States, protest movements that encompassed both campaigning to spread awareness as well as breaking the law to highlight injustice have succeeded in ... -
The concept of tradition and authority in science and theology with special reference to the thought of Michael Polyani
(The University of Edinburgh, 1980)Michael Polanyi's philosophy is one which is based on the rejection of the objectivist ideal of knowledge and its replacement by Personal Knowledge, by a conception of knowing in which the place of the personal participation ... -
Language of Thought: A Dynamical Systems Approach to Syntax and Semantics
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016) -
Are Human Genetic Enhancement Technologies Morally Permissible?
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016) -
Do 'That'-clauses Designate Propositions?
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016) -
Do Linguistic Suppositions Cause a Problem for Two-Dimensional Semantics?
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016) -
Is Merleau-Ponty's rejection of traditional mind-body dualism persuasive?
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016) -
The Multiple-Line View of Vagueness
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016) -
Can Literature Be Read as Moral Philosophy?
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016) -
A defense of the Meinongian Theory of Non-being
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016) -
The narrative of the self in Alzheimer's disease
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016) -
The Cognition of True Pleasure in Plato's Ontology of Perception
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016) -
Expression and Harm: An examination of the limits of freedom of expression under a Millian harm-principle
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016) -
Epistemic rationality and moral obligation
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016) -
Can Extended Conscious Mind be Justified: A Discourse about ECM from the Perspective of Prediction-Driven Processing
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016) -
Exploring the relations between Embodiment, Predictive Processing and Theory of Mind
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016)
