This collection contains theses and dissertations from the Department of Philosophy, collected from the Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Creating and Raising Humans: Essays on the Morality of Procreation and Parenting, Jason T. Marsh
Anti-Foundational Categorical Structuralism, Darren McDonald
Explanation in Science, James A. Overton
Ordinary Empirical Judgments and our Scientific Knowledge: An Extension of Reformed Empiricism to the Philosophy of Science, Nicholas M. Ray
The Case for Quantum State Realism, Morgan C. Tait
Thomas Hobbes on Punishment, Arthur L. Yates
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Heuristics, Concepts, and Cognitive Architecture: Toward Understanding How The Mind Works, Sheldon J. Chow
Aristotle’s Naïve Somatism, Alain E. Ducharme
Aristotle's Concept of Nature: Three Tensions, W.W. Nicholas Fawcett
Meta-heuristic Strategies in Scientific Judgment, Spencer P. Hey
Emergence and Reduction in Science. A Case Study, Alexandru Manafu
A Rawlsian Idea of Deliberative Democracy, Angela D. White
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Kant and the Fact of Reason, Kenneth KH Chung
Feeling, Impulse and Changeability: The Role of Emotion in Hume's Theory of the Passions, Katharina A. Paxman
The Ethics of Humanitarian Intervention, Amanda J. Porter
The Problem of Katholou (Universals) in Aristotle, Riin Sirkel