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Browsing Theses & Dissertations by Thesis (Discipline) "Philosophy"
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1980)This dissertation examines B. A. O. Williams' recent attack on utilitarianism. It begins by making it clear just what sort of ethical theory utilitarianism is. Distinguishing between descriptive, normative, and ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2008)The Chinese Room Argument is a reductio ad absurdem argument, intended to show that a contradiction follows from the principles of the theory of computer functionalism. If a contradiction follows from these principles, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2008)In this thesis, I propose a solution to the apparent incompatibility between Aristotle's account of virtuous friendship and his idea of the contemplative life in the Nicomachean Ethics. In the first chapter, I outline the ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1993)The author has embarked on an investigation of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitivism. The focus is directed at AI's attempt to implement a program to endow a computer with intelligence. However, this endeavor may have ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)This thesis focuses on defending the conceptual distinction between evil persons and irredeemable monsters. I argue that applying the comparative methodology to borderline cases can make sense of the intuition that evil ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2005)The standard view of people who get Alzheimer's disease is that, while remaining the same person throughout the progression of the disease, they gradually lose their autonomy (and only cease to be the same person when they ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2023-10-12)Copyright in its modern legal form has a brief history dating back to the early eighteenth century. While initial formulations betrayed some tension between natural rights and consequentialist views, jurisprudence would ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2016)The purpose of this thesis is to critically examine the educational consequences of the corporatization of the university. Consideration will be given to the following questions: What is the impact of the corporatized ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1967)The aim of this study is to examine that portion of the philosophical doctrine of René Descartes containing his reaction to and alternative for the traditional theory of human knowing which shall be called the “Correspondence ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1996)This thesis is a critical examination of the arguments found in Chapter Five of Stephen P. Stich's book, The Fragmentation of Reason. Generally speaking, Stich's books is designed to deconstruct some significant aspects ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2018)This thesis focuses on defending the claim that contemporary philosophy deals inadequately with issues of public concern. Beginning with an Aristotelian distinction between dialectical and rhetorical argument, I argue that ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)My aim is to show that if the privation theory of evil is true, then at any moment in which there is actual evil in the world necessarily there exists a thing whose essence is identical to its existence, namely, Existence ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-04-24)As a scientist and philosopher writing in the nineteenth century, Hermann von Helmholtz attempts to use the emerging findings of physiology and his own theories of learning, memory, and perception (what we would now ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)This thesis explores the ontology of relations and the implications of it. I make the case that relations between multiple substances are impossible. Furthermore, I argue that existence is a predicate, and can therefore ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1977)Abstract unavailable.
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-07-11)Horror – despite the disapproval pervading its commonplace use, there is a clear asymmetry between humanity’s general aversion to, and negative characterization of, horror in its “natural” sense, and our attraction to ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)I open this thesis by arguing that complex metaphor is neglected by prominent theorists in the theory of metaphor. Specifically, Max Black’s and Donald Davidson’s accounts of metaphor not only leave complex metaphor aside, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2002)It is my objective, in this thesis, to present an imagined process by which the human species could have come to objectively value certain forms of moral principles from the ground of subjective self interest and thereby ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1994)This paper is an argument for euthanasia that is developed around the Sue Rodriguez case which was recently before the Supreme Court of Canada. In the first chapter, an analysis of both the majority and the dissenting ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1970)The purpose of this thesis is twofold. First, I want to discover what Aristotle’s position is with respect to the reality of proper sensibles. That is to say, I want to show whether or not Aristotle regards the proper ...
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