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Williams, Pedro S. "Metaphysics of normativity." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2015. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/81672/.

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This work represents an interdisciplinary attempt at the development of a-- scientific theory of norms and normativity. Normativity, understood in its most general interpretation as value determinations and prescriptions, has traditionally been troublesome to account by science and difficult to “place” within a scientific worldview. Such an accomplishment is attempted by the joining in conversation of two bodies of literature. The first of these is Steve Fuller’s naturalist epistemology and the second corresponds to the situated study of cognition, along with the epistemologies that have resul

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Stow, Diana L. "Metaphysics and pornography." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.336153.

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Winkler, Rafael. "Nature, technics, metaphysics." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.443962.

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Whittington, Lee John. "Metaphysics of luck." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/20409.

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Clare, the titular character of The Time Traveller's Wife, reflects that "Everything seems simple until you think about it." (Niffenegger, 2003, 1) This might well be a mantra for the whole of philosophy, but a fair few terms tend to stick out. "Knowledge", "goodness" and "happiness" for example, are all pervasive everyday terms that undergo significant philosophical analysis. "Luck", I think, is another one of these terms. Wishing someone good luck in their projects, and cursing our bad luck when success seems so close to our reach or failure could have so easily been otherwise, happens so of

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Carmichael, Chad. "Foundations of metaphysics /." May be available electronically:, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU1MTUmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=12498.

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Saha, Bishnupriya. "Possibility of Metaphysics." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 2022. http://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/4782.

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Evans, Deborah Jasmine Elizabeth. "Writing against the other : a comparative study of temporality in the early existential narrative of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.340854.

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Hoffman, Dylan Kirk. "Jung and Plotinus| The Shadow of Metaphysics, the Metaphysics of Shadow." Thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10242189.

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<p> This study provides a comparative analysis, using dialectical hermeneutics, of the philosophy of Plotinus and the depth psychology of C. G. Jung. While coming from different historical contexts, they each address the nature of unconsciousness, or the unconscious. This study concentrates in particular on one archetypal aspect of the unconscious that Jung calls the shadow. According to Jung, the shadow is a psychological dynamic that both hides from our awareness certain aspects or depths of our own inner reality, and also, when recognized, mediates our initial confrontation with those fulle

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BOGEA, DIOGO BARROS. "METAPHYSICS OF WILL, METAPHYSICS OF IMPOSSIBLE: THE PULSIONAL DIMENSION AS EXCLUDED MIDDLE." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2016. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=27203@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO<br>COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR<br>PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO<br>Nietzsche e Heidegger delineiam os caminhos que se entrecortam dando origem ao nosso horizonte de questões: É ainda possível um pensamento que resista ao mesmo tempo à tentação de uma fundamentação absoluta, mas também ao furor desenfreado da maquinação calculadora? É ainda possível um pensamento que se coloque em condições de compreender e também de se posicionar criticamente tanto em relação aos fundamentalismos nostá

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Schlosser, Markus Ernst. "The metaphysics of agency /." St Andrews, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/163.

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Bernecker, Sven. "The metaphysics of memory." [Dordrecht] Springer, 2002. http://d-nb.info/98670685X/04.

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Oliver, Alexander Duncan. "The metaphysics of sets." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.319538.

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Schlosser, Markus E. "The metaphysics of agency." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/163.

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Mainstream philosophy of action and mind construes intentional behaviour in terms of causal processes that lead from agent-involving mental states to action. Actions are construed as events, which are actions in virtue of being caused by the right mental antecedents in the right way. Opponents of this standard event-causal approach have criticised the view on various grounds; they argue that it does not account for free will and moral responsibility, that it does not account for action done in the light of reasons, or, even, that it cannot capture the very phenomenon of agency. The thesis defe

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Bradley, Mark Christopher. "The metaphysics of qualia." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.493563.

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Experiences are usually multi-faceted and made up of different features. These features are called qualia, the various ways that colours, sounds, and pains, for example, feel to us - the way that they appear to be. These qualitative features are a central part of our lives and seem to have important connections with the world around us - a world which seems to be largely if not entirely physical.

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Stoute, Dick A. "The metaphysics of information." Thesis, University of Reading, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.630446.

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The etymology of the term "information" suggests that it has evolved from the term "form" and a theory of perception in which thoughts are in-formed of the external environment. I briefly trace this conceptual evolution and draw from it the concept that information is the form conveyed by data. I then examine, in some detail, the concepts that accompanied the "information revolution" that started just after the Second World War when technology was developed which greatly facilitated information communication and processing. Several claims about information by more recent contributors are exami

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Miller, Elizabeth Louise. "No Metaphysics within Physics?" Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11403.

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This dissertation has three parts. In "Quantum Entanglement, Bohmian Mechanics, and Humean Supervenience," I defend David Lewis's metaphysical doctrine of Humean supervenience, and traditional metaphysical reductionism more generally, against an alleged holistic threat encapsulated in the non-separability argument from quantum entanglement. I argue that, contrary to popular belief, realism about quantum mechanics is compatible with Humean reductionism.<br>Philosophy

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Boothroyd, David. "Metaphysics and the other." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1987. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2539/.

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This thesis is about the relationship between ethics and language in the work of the contemporary French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. The approach taken is to place his work in the context of a current debate in philosophy about the limits of language and the end(s) of philosophy. In the first chapter it looks at the place and significance of the thinking of Hegel, Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Derrida in this debate, and locates Levinas' thinking within it by examining his reading of Descartes. The thesis then goes on to examine the major themes in Levinas' work and offers an interpretation of h

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Tahko, Tuomas E. "The necessity of metaphysics." Thesis, Durham University, 2008. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/2256/.

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The purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate that metaphysics is a necessary discipline - necessary in the sense that all areas of philosophy, all areas of science, and in fact any type of rational activity at all would be impossible without a metaphysical background or metaphysical presuppositions. Because of the extremely strong nature of this claim, it is not possible to put forward a very simple argument, although I will attempt to construct one. A crucial issue here is what metaphysics in fact is - the nature of metaphysics. The conception of metaphysics which I support could be called Ar

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McLeod, Stephen K. "Modality and anti-metaphysics." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.364089.

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Ooms, Renard Nicole Marie Anne. "Plato's metaphysics of explanation." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.324884.

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Aytemiz, Volkan. "Theology in Aristotle’s Metaphysics." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2011. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/6335/.

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Whether Aristotle wrote the treatises of Metaphysics with different conceptions of the science of Being in mind has long puzzled scholars. The particular question that causes them unease is whether Aristotle's enterprise in establishing the science of Being through the several treatises of Metaphysics is marked by a general science of Being, studying all departments of Being whatsoever (metaphysica generalis), or whether his investigation of this science reflects an attitude towards a special metaphysics (metaphysica specialis) seeking knowledge of a special department of Being, in this case,

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Black, Joshua David. "Peirce's conception of metaphysics." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/18188/.

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This thesis develops and defends a Peircean conception of the task of metaphysics and critically compares it with recent anti-metaphysical forms of pragmatism. Peirce characterises metaphysics in terms of its place within his hierarchical classification of the sciences. According to the classification, metaphysics depends on logic for principles and provides principles to the natural and social sciences. This arrangement of the sciences is defended by appeal to Peirce's account of philosophy as 'cenoscopy'. The dependence of the natural and social sciences on cenoscopy is then argued for on th

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Simpson, Matthew William Harris. "Non-representationalism and metaphysics." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/267949.

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In recent years there has been increasing interest in philosophical theories which downplay the importance of the idea that our words and thoughts represent aspects of the world. The best-known example of these non-representational theories is metaethical expressivism, the view that ethical language and thought is best understood not as representing or describing ethical features of the world, but as expressing our attitudes towards it. Other theories apply similar ideas to other kinds of language and thought, and global versions apply it to all kinds. Non-representationalism has undergone a m

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Graham, Andrew J. (Andrew John). "The significance of metaphysics." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68914.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2011.<br>"September 2011." Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 74-78).<br>In this thesis, I investigate the nature of metaphysics and the role it plays in our broader theoretical pursuits. In doing so, I defend it against various criticisms and offer a novel conception of why metaphysical disputes are important. In Chapter One I address the general question of when disputes are defective and when they are worth taking seriously. I first criticize one popular

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McKitrick, Jennifer (Jennifer Louise) 1964. "The metaphysics of dispositions." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/9368.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1999.<br>Includes bibliographical references.<br>As Nelson Goodman put it, things are full of threats and promises. A fragile glass, for example, is prone to shatter when struck. Fragility is the glass's disposition, shattering is the manifestation of the disposition, and striking is the circumstances of manifestation. The properties of a fragile glass which are causally efficacious for shattering constitute the causal basis of the glass's fragility. The glass can remain fragile even if it never shatter

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Clark, Michael John. "The metaphysics of grounding." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2013. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-metaphysics-of-grounding(b967c39a-efc9-4e62-b785-fc02fec20a89).html.

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The phrase ‘in virtue of’ is a mainstay of metaphysical discourse. In recent years, many philosophers have argued that we should understand this phrase, as metaphysicians use it, in terms of a concept of metaphysical dependence called ‘grounding’.This dissertation explores a range of central issues in the theory of grounding. Chapter 1 introduces the intuitive concept of grounding and discusses some compulsory questions in the theory of grounding. Chapter 2 focusses on scepticism on grounding, according to which the recent philosophical interest in the topic is misguided. In chapter 3 I discus

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Corti, Alberto. "The Metaphysics of Spin." Doctoral thesis, Urbino, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/11576/2701957.

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Chua, David. "Metaphysical accounts of modality: A comparative evaluation of Lewisian and neo-Aristotelian modal metaphysics." Thesis, Department of Philosophy, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9001.

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In this essay I comparatively evaluate two realist metaphysical accounts of modality: David Lewis’ (1986) genuine modal realism (GMR), and neo-Aristotelian modal realism (AMR) as put forth by Alexander Pruss (2011). GMR offers a reductive analysis of modal claims of possibility and necessity in terms of claims quantifying over concrete worlds and counterparts, and is in this way committed the existence of a plurality of concrete worlds other than the actual world; AMR, on the other hand, offers an analysis of modal claims in terms of claims about the causal powers of existing objects in the a

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Hoffmann-Kolss, Vera. "The metaphysics of extrinsic properties." Frankfurt, M. [i.e.] Heusenstamm Paris Lancaster New Brunswick, NJ Ontos-Verl, 2008. http://d-nb.info/1002533007/04.

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Ney, Alyssa L. "The metaphysics of unified science /." View online version; access limited to Brown University users, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3174649.

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Wilson, Aaron. "The metaphysics of privileged properties." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-metaphysics-of-privileged-properties(3e025ad0-b4c5-4a71-b2dd-e04520da54c8).html.

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Objects are characterised by their properties. If an object is a red postbox, then it has the property of being red, and the property of being a postbox. This thesis is an attack on a particular view of the metaphysics of properties, according to which some properties are privileged over others. The most well-known theories of privileged properties are Armstrong’s theory of sparse immanent universals (1979b) and Lewis’ natural properties (1983). According to their supporters, only privileged properties perform certain jobs, such as featuring in laws of nature, or grounding similarity between o

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Stein, Nathaniel. "The metaphysics of Aristotelian explanation." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.530078.

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Adams, Danielle Helen. "The metaphysics of divine causation." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/15561/.

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It is something of an orthodoxy that the nature of causation can be characterised by the following metaphysical theses: that causes do not necessitate their effects, that causes must temporally precede their effects, that causation is governed by laws of nature, that causation entails counterfactual dependence, and that causation is not systematically overdetermined. Two further commonly accepted metaphysical claims are that causal notions give us the correct tools to properly understand agency, and that the causes of actions are mental events. Classical theism, however, is comprised by certai

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Roche, David. "Biodiversity: Its Measurement and Metaphysics." University of Sydney. Unit for the History and Philosophy of Science, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/819.

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Biodiversity is a concept that plays a key role in both scientific theories such as the species-area law and conservation politics. Currently, however, little agreement exists on how biodiversity should be defined, let alone measured. This has led to suggestions that biodiversity is not a metaphysically robust concept, with major implications for its usefulness in formulating scientific theories and making conservation decisions. A general discussion of biodiversity is presented, highlighting its application both in scientific and conservation contexts, its relationship with environmental e

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Bell, Ian Hamilton. "Metaphysics as an Aristotelian science." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0005/NQ41400.pdf.

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De-Blacquiere-Clarkson, Richard. "The metaphysics of mental representation." Thesis, Durham University, 2011. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/833/.

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The representational theory of mind (RTM) explains the phenomenon of intentionality in terms of the existence and nature of mental representations. Despite the typical characterisation of mental representations in terms of their semantics, RTM is best understood as a metaphysical – more specifically formal ontological – theory whose primary defining feature is stipulating the existence of a class of mental particulars called representations. In this regard it is false, since mental representations do not exist. My argument is primarily methodological. Using an extended analysis of mereology an

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Gibb, Sophie Catherine. "The metaphysics of mental causation." Thesis, Durham University, 2002. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/3863/.

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This thesis argues that the fundamental issues within the mental causation debate are metaphysical ones. Consequently, it is only with metaphysical clarity, that any clarity can be gained in the mental causation debate. In order to provide a successful theory of mental causation one cannot divorce oneself from metaphysics. Neither can one hope to provide a theory of mental causation that is somehow neutral between the various metaphysical systems. Rather, to be plausible, a theory of mental causation must be based within an independently plausible metaphysical framework. I divide the metaphysi

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Kirchin, Simon Thomas. "The metaphysics of ethical values." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.339961.

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Hay, Michael Charles Munro. "Russell on logic and metaphysics." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.272639.

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Boulding, Jamie Timothy. "The multiverse and participatory metaphysics." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2019. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/290140.

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This dissertation brings a new philosophical perspective to an important topic in the contemporary theology and science dialogue, specifically the theological reception of multiverse thought in modern cosmology. In light of recent cosmological speculation about the plausibility of a 'multiverse,' a cosmic ensemble in which our own universe is just one of many, theological responses have largely focused on the question of whether such a multiverse might be an alternative to divine design (or might itself be compatible with divine design). However, this approach neglects the fundamental metaphys

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Page, James Hampton. "On the metaphysics of numbers." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/14139.

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Smith, Thomas. "The metaphysics of corporate agency." Thesis, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2007. http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/804/.

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In Chapter 1, I defend “the first thesis”, which is that expressions of the form ‘_decided to ’, ‘_wished to ’, ‘_intended to ’ and ‘_believed that p’ may be used to truly say something about something that the expression ‘the East India Company’ may be used to pick out. In Chapter 2, I defend “the second thesis”, which is stronger than the first thesis, and which is that an individual i that is picked out by a standard use of the expression ‘the East India Company’ is such that expressions of the form ‘_decided to ’, ‘_wished to ’, ‘_intended to ’ and ‘_believed that p’ may be used to t

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Doyle, Tsarina. "Nietzsche on epistemology and metaphysics." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2002. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/73124/.

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This thesis examines Nietzsche's philosophy as a response to Kant. I show that Kant, as interpreted by Nietzsche, dissociates epistemology and metaphysics. According to Nietzsche, the consequence of this dissociation is the collapse of Kant's transcendental epistemology into a sceptical idealism, which disables the making of positive metaphysical claims about the nature of reality. I argue that Nietzsche overcomes the dissociation of epistemology and metaphysics by rejecting Kant's distinction between constitutive, empirical knowledge and regulative, metaphysical belief. Furthermore, I show th

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Builes, David(David Alan). "The empirical relevance of metaphysics." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/127150.

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Thesis: Ph. D. in Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, May, 2020<br>Cataloged from the official PDF of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references.<br>Are metaphysical debates relevant to ordinary empirical inquiry? This dissertation collects a series of papers which answers in the affirmative. The first part of the dissertation is concerned with inductive inference. I argue that we shouldn't expect the world to be amenable to induction if orthodox versions of Humeanism or Non-Humeanism are correct. I then develop and defend a hybrid

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Roche, D. M. "Biodiversity its measurement and metaphysics /." Connect to full text, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/819.

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Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Sydney, 2002.<br>Title from title screen (viewed Apr. 24, 2008). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science to the Unit for the History and Philosophy of Science, Faculty of Science. Degree awarded 2002; thesis submitted 2001. Includes bibliography. Also available in print form.

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Benschop, Hans Peter. "Berkeley on method and metaphysics /." Leiden : Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, 1992. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb357653445.

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Bell, Ian. "Metaphysics as an Aristotelician science /." Sankt Augustin : Academia, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39114570h.

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Spencer, Cara (Cara J. ). 1971. "On the metaphysics of belief." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/9767.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1998.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves [119]-121).<br>There is a traditional picture of belief, according to which someone's having a belief is that person's standing in a certain relation to an abstract object, a proposition. My dissertation examines the metaphysical demands that two problems for this picture of belief make on these abstract objects. The first problem comes to us from Frege's "On Sense and Reference," and the second concerns a certain sort of one's beliefs about oneself,

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Chambers, Ethan. "A Humean metaphysics of character." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2018. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/111840/.

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The primary aim of this thesis is to analyse the tension between Humean epistemology and Humean ethics. The tension is identified as being due to the strict Humean empiricist epistemology, which severely limits the scope of ethical investigation. A key point of contrast, between Hume’s bundle theory of the self and his commitment to long-term durable character traits, is analysed, to exemplify the difficulties. Humean empiricism leads directly to a bundle conception of the self, one that is comprised entirely of observable impressions and ideas, yet it is unclear how this conception is related

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Basu, Saheli. "Samkhya metaphysics : some philosophical problems." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1266.

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