Theses - Philosophy
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Alterpieces: Artworks as Shifting Speech Acts
(2019-05-18)Art viewers and critics talk as if visual artworks say things, express messages, or have meanings. For instance, Picasso’s 'Guernica' has been described as a “generic plea against the barbarity and terror of war”, forming ... -
Defending Deflationary Heuristics Against Hyperintensional Manoeuvres
(2019-04-27)`Deflationary heuristics' for deflating metaphysical disputes are prominent due to the work of Hirsch, Chalmers and Thomasson. Though these heuristics differ in detail, they work broadly on the same basis. They show that ... -
An Anscombean Approach to Animal Agency
(2019-03-02)The ultimate aim of this thesis is to explain how the theory of action found in Anscombe’s Intention can be modified to deliver a plausible account of non-human animal agency (henceforth, animal agency). More specifically, ... -
Reductive Aspects of Thermal Physics
(2019-03-23)This thesis examines various reductive case studies in thermal physics. In particular, I argue that according to my account of reduction-as-construction, there are two suc- cessful examples of reduction. Thermodynamics ...
