Theses - Philosophy
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Ontological Pragmatism
(2018-08-31)Ontology is the study of what exists. Metaontology is the study of ontology. This dissertation is a work in metaontology. In particular, its goal is to develop, motivate, defend, and explore a distinctively pragmatist ... -
The Common Foundation of Neo-Logicism and the Frege-Hilbert Controversy
(2017-03-08)In the first half of the thesis I investigate David Hilbert's early ontology of mathematics around the period 1899-1916. Hilbert's early views are of significant philosophical interest and have been largely ignored due to ... -
Language, Necessity and Convention: Reconsidering the Linguistic Approach to Modality
(2018-07-21)This thesis is an examination of the linguistic approach to modality (also known as 'linguistic conventionalism') - i.e. the view that necessity is to be explained in terms of the linguistic rules that we have adopted. ... -
How to make money: Distributive justice, finance, and monetary constitutions
(2018-04-28)A capitalist society has two defining features. The first is well-known. A capitalist economy leaves coordination of exchange and production largely to private authority. The dissertation investigates a second feature. In ...
