Theses - Philosophy
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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 ... -
Moral Realism – Time To Relax?
(2018-08-15)This thesis critically assesses ‘relaxed realism’ – a group of views that have entered the metaethical debate recently (Dworkin, 1996; Kramer, 2009; Parfit, 2011; Scanlon, 2014). Relaxed realism promises a novel perspective ... -
The Truth Norm Account of Justification
(2017-10-21)This thesis is about the relationship between a belief being justified and it being true. It defends a version of the view that the fundamental point of having a justified belief is to have a true one. The particular version ...
