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  • Animal minds : the empirical foundations of the interests of animals 
    Bell, Mark Cameron. (2008-04-10)
    In this thesis, I submit an empirical method for assessing the interests of non-human animals. This method involves attributing interests to animals on the basis of the choices they make between competing commodities/environments ...
  • Answering Harman's relativism 
    Kalef, Peter Justin (2011-05-26)
    In this dissertation, I propose a new method of dealing with moral relativism. This method, which I call the 'parallel arguments' approach, has the unusual feature that -- if successful -- it neutralizes the force of ...
  • Anti-foundationalism and liberal democracy: Richard Rorty and the role of religion in the public sphere. 
    Curry, Mary Jo (2011-05-06)
    The purpose of this paper is to critically examine Richard Rorty’s arguments in favour of a limited role for religion in the public sphere, both with regard to their practical value and their consistency with Rorty’s other ...
  • Aristotle's metaphysics of living bodies 
    Gemelli, Thomas (2011-10-03)
    This thesis discusses questions about the legitimacy and scope of Aristotle's metaphysics as it applies to both living and non-living substances. Resolving such questions is necessary for articulating Aristotle's philosophical ...
  • 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 ...
  • Care relationships, testimony, and the argument from religious experience 
    Jordan, Michael Ken (2010-03-26)
    One issue that has been generating considerable debate within the philosophy of religion is whether or not certain religious experiences could provide at least some evidence towards justifying beliefs in the existence of ...
  • Christian theology and the modern science of nature: a critical analysis of Michael Beresford Foster's Mind articles 
    Teel, Paul David Wilkinson (2010-02-04)
    In 1934, Oxford philosopher Michael Beresford Foster (1903-1959) published an article in Mind, the prestigious British journal of philosophy. The article argued for a positive relationship between Christian theology and ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • David B. Milne: an artist's epistemology 
    Murphy, Rosemary Marilla (2010-06-15)
    David Milne's extensive writings about visual art - focused largely on his subjects and practice - present. when translated into philosophical language, a coherent epistemology. The major themes in Milne's thought include ...
  • Deliberative democracy: answering the practical challenges 
    Jardine, Marcus (2009-08-31)
    Sceptics about deliberative democracy point out that some issues involve material that is inaccessible to the untrained public, while other issues highlight fundamental value differences that cannot be resolved by public ...
  • 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 ...
  • Ectogenesis: the ethical implications of a new reproductive technology 
    Najand, Nikoo (2010-09-09)
    Ectogenesis has been billed a revolutionary new advancement in technology that could have a profound impact in the area of human reproduction. My aim is to investigate the supposed benefits and objections to the development ...
  • Education and the right to autonomy 
    Riddett, Matthew (2012-05-01)
    In this essay I argue that all children have a right to Autonomy Facilitating Education (AFE), and a corresponding right to freedom from indoctrination. Citizens of liberal-democratic societies have a fundamental interest ...
  • An epistemological framework for inclusive democratic deliberation 
    Butterfield, Mary Stewart (2010-04-12)
    My primary focus is in articulating a theory of knowledge that can support a robust, justice-driven conception of democracy and deliberation. I argue that it is not possible to achieve this task without conceiving knowledge ...
  • 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. ...
  • Ethical consistency, the Canada Health Act and resource allocation : arguments for a rights-based approach to decision-making 
    Tomasson, Kimberley. (2008-04-10)
    The purpose of this work is to show the importance of ethical consistency and its application in the decision-making process when allocating health care resources with respect to the Canada Health Act. Based on the ...
  • 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 ...
  • Exploring ethical issues in data mining: the role of collective privacy 
    Miskelly, Kenna Jill (2010-03-03)
    Data mining and other information technologies cause ethical concerns when they are used to categorize and discriminate. Even though there is an intuitive connection between privacy and personal information, it is hard to ...
  • 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 ...

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