• Error bounds for an inequality system 

  Wu, Zili (2018-10-23)

  For an inequality system, an error bound is an estimation for the distance from any point to the solution set of the inequality. The Ekeland variational principle (EVP) is an important tool in the study of error bounds. ...
• Telling "I"'s: figuring the female subject in linking narratives by Anna Jameson, Sara Jeannette Duncan and Mavis Gallant 

  Sellwood, Jane Leslie (2018-06-14)

  The linking short narratives explored in this study-- Anna Jameson's Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada, Sara Jeannette Duncan's The Pool In the Desert and Mavis Gallant's Home Truths— employ first-person ...
• Unbelievable doubts (and other skeptical discoveries) 

  Faerber, Jonathan (2017-05-01)

  Moral skeptics sometimes argue that science is at odds with morality. These arguments sometimes privilege scientific explanations of moral belief at the expense of objective moral knowledge. More specifically, since morality ...
• Health care in a multicultural Canada: the ethics of informed consent and the duty to warn of hereditary risk 

  Dheri, Poonam (2016-08-24)

  Different people can have different cultural interpretations of the person—atomic versus embedded—and these may affect health care decision-making. This study examines both the ethics of variations in personhood as well ...
• Costly choices: gender and luck egalitarianism 

  Byrnes, Emma (2016-02-01)

  Does choice excuse inequality? Some contemporary egalitarians – often referred to as “Luck Egalitarians” – believe it does. However, many seemingly chosen inequalities obtain between men and women as a group. A recent surge ...
• Social Intercourse and Social Epistemology from Thomas Reid's Point of View 

  Crosby, Alastair (2015-09-02)

  The first aim is to present the correct interpretation of Thomas Reid’s (1710-96) social epistemology. The second is to use Reid’s insights on these matters to help make some progress on a related contemporary philosophical ...
• On Virtue, Value, and Epistemic Normativity 

  Boren, Ted (Buddy) (2015-09-01)

  Virtue epistemology is epistemological evaluation that gives ‘intellectual virtue’ a primary consideration in its analysis. This thesis is about how two types of virtue epistemology are related to each other, and how when ...
• Is Sufficientarianism Sufficient? Prospects for the Sufficiency Threshold 

  Hiebert, Melissa (2015-09-01)

  The central doctrine of sufficientarianism is that there is a certain threshold below which people are said to be objectively "badly-off," and that providing benefits to people who fall into this category has a special ...
• Overeating, Obesity, and Weakness of the Will 

  Sommers, Jennifer Heidrun (2015-08-28)

  The philosophical literature on akrasia and/or weakness of the will tends to focus on individual actions, removed from their wider socio-political context. This is problematic because actions, when removed from their wider ...
• What makes pain unique? : a critique of representationalism about pain in service of perceptualism 

  Park, Andrew Erich (2014-09-02)

  The goal of this thesis is to defend non-representationalist perceptualism about pain against the challenges brought to it by Murat Aydede. These challenges are intended to apply to both a strong version of representationalism ...
• Existence, Noneism, and the varieties of worlds 

  Garland, Carolyn (2014-08-06)

  Intentionality is a feature of mental states that are directed towards objects. One puzzle of intentionality is that mental states can be directed towards nonexistent objects. We may relate to fictional characters, or worry ...
• Disability and Sexual Justice 

  De Boer, Tracy (2014-08-06)

  In this thesis my aim is to bring attention to the problem of sexual exclusion as experienced by members of the disability community and argue that this is an issue of justice. I do this by first discussing the value of ...
• Reexamining the Problem of Demarcating Science and Pseudoscience 

  Westre, Evan (2014-05-01)

  The demarcation problem aims to articulate the boundary between science and pseudoscience. Solutions to the problem have been notably raised by the logical positivists (verificationism), Karl Popper (falsificationism), ...
• For What It’s Worth: Artistic Evaluation and the Institutional Theory of Art 

  Abhainn, Michael (2014-04-25)

  For most of its history art has been mimetic in nature; not surprisingly, mimetic theories of art held sway for a long time. By the middle of the twentieth century art had departed so radically from the mimetic traditions ...
• Can Torture Ever Be Justified for a Democracy? 

  St. Peter, Jerry (2014-01-08)

  In this work, I defend the view that torture is an inexcusable practice for a democracy. Philosophical defenses of torture rely on hypothetical, abstract scenarios in which we are asked to imagine that a ticking bomb has ...
• Sacred Places, Storied Places: Ancient Wisdom for a Modern World 

  Beauchamp, Michelle (2014-01-08)

  This dissertation begins with the hypothesis that sacred places and their stories are connected in complex ways. This refers to place-based sacred places; that is, places which gain their sacred qualities from their natural ...
• The semantic approach as an anti-physicalist renewal of the explanatory gap problem in contemporary philosophy of mind 

  Canning, Adrienne (2014-01-02)

  Contemporary philosopher, Joseph Levine, has argued that human phenomenological experience cannot be explained solely through the resources of neuroscience, and that a significant ‘explanatory gap’ exists between the rich ...
• The Spirit of Empiricism?: An Analysis of Empiricism as a Stance 

  Di Carlo, Navarre (2013-09-27)

  In The Empirical Stance Bas van Fraassen sets out to uncover the spirit of empiricism: “what is empiricism, and what it could be, if it is to be a viable philosophy today?” (2002, p. 31). In answer to this question van ...
• The Foundations of Aristotle's Functionalist Approach to Political Theory 

  Welle, Nathan (2013-09-27)

  Aristotle’s articulation of a correct state is inherently socially hierarchical. This has led many scholars to view the functionalist approach as being at odds with the inherent equality of persons that is taken for granted ...
• Confronting the Normativity Objection: W.V. Quine’s Engineering Model and Michael A. Bishop and J.D. Trout’s Strategic Reliabilism 

  Moghaddam, Soroush (2013-09-04)

  The purpose of this thesis is to critically examine how W.V. Quine, Michael A. Bishop and J.D. Trout confront the normativity objection against naturalized epistemology. In Chapter One, normativity in epistemology is ...

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