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A solution to the Problem of Evil: Advaita Vedanta and the challenge of horrendous evil (2022)
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O’Neill-Adkins, H. E. (2022). A solution to the Problem of Evil: Advaita Vedanta and the challenge of horrendous evil. (Thesis). Keele University

The problem of evil is possibly the most difficult question facing the theist. How are we to resolve the presence of evil in the world with the belief in an all loving, all powerful, God? For generations Western theists have offered possible solution... Read More about A solution to the Problem of Evil: Advaita Vedanta and the challenge of horrendous evil.

Ecoaesthetics: Environmental aesthetics and Kant's deduction (2022)
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Kings, A. E. (2022). Ecoaesthetics: Environmental aesthetics and Kant's deduction. (Thesis). Keele University

This thesis is designed to develop an understanding of the problems, limitations and potential uses of Kant's aesthetic deduction. Motivated by an interest in environmental aesthetics, this thesis offers a critical analysis of Kantian aesthetics in o... Read More about Ecoaesthetics: Environmental aesthetics and Kant's deduction.

From quarks to cognition: in pursuit of a complete micropsychist theory of consciousness (2022)
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Hibbert, B. J. (2022). From quarks to cognition: in pursuit of a complete micropsychist theory of consciousness. (Thesis). Keele University

Despite having received a recent resurgence of interest, Panpsychism remains a worldview afflicted by various explanatory shortfalls. Chiefly, the literature is yet to provide a ‘proper’ panpsychist theory of consciousness with the potential to expla... Read More about From quarks to cognition: in pursuit of a complete micropsychist theory of consciousness.

Kant's 'World': an interpretation of a central idea in the Three Critiques (2021)
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Orlander, S. O. J. (2021). Kant's 'World': an interpretation of a central idea in the Three Critiques. (Thesis). Keele University

This thesis examines the idea of world in Kant’s Critical philosophy. This is a central idea in the Kantian corpus and plays an important role in different contexts. While interpretations of Kant’s philosophy tend to emphasize the theoretical aspect... Read More about Kant's 'World': an interpretation of a central idea in the Three Critiques.

Environmental virtue ethics and the plastic pollution crisis: finding the missing exemplars (2021)
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Wynne, H. S. (2021). Environmental virtue ethics and the plastic pollution crisis: finding the missing exemplars. (Thesis). Keele University

Plastic pollution has reached a crisis point, with scientists estimating that, by 2050, there could be more plastic in the oceans than fish by weight. This presents a major issue in the subject of environmental ethics and shows that our relationship... Read More about Environmental virtue ethics and the plastic pollution crisis: finding the missing exemplars.

The meaning of life: a defence of the question’s legitimacy and routes towards ultimate meaning (2021)
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Fox, J. (2021). The meaning of life: a defence of the question’s legitimacy and routes towards ultimate meaning. (Thesis). Keele University

This dissertation establishes and defends three positions: (1) The question ‘What is the meaning of life?’ is a request for a global-metaphysical explanation for life and existence that narrates across those elements of most existential import to hum... Read More about The meaning of life: a defence of the question’s legitimacy and routes towards ultimate meaning.

Understanding gender and its relation to the philosophy of personal identity (2020)
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McCarthy, J. (2020). Understanding gender and its relation to the philosophy of personal identity. (Thesis). Keele University

The aim of this thesis is to establish that there is no metaphysical account of personal identity that requires us to regard gender as essential to our identities. I shall begin by examining forms of essentialism as well as rejections of essentialism... Read More about Understanding gender and its relation to the philosophy of personal identity.

Popper’s open society and Nietzsche’s existentialist social engineering: A comparison (2020)
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Dhima, M. (2020). Popper’s open society and Nietzsche’s existentialist social engineering: A comparison. (Thesis). Keele University

This thesis aims to stage a productive dialogue between the existentialist philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 -1900) and the socio-scientific philosophy of Karl Popper (1902-1994). I intend to define Popper's open society by presenting his polit... Read More about Popper’s open society and Nietzsche’s existentialist social engineering: A comparison.

Agrippa's trilemma: scepticism and contemporary epistemology (2020)
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Burns, A. S. (2020). Agrippa's trilemma: scepticism and contemporary epistemology. (Thesis). Keele University

Take any belief of yours – even one about which you feel supremely confident. The Sceptic will ask: why do you think it is true? You might take yourself to have a very good reason to believe what you do. But the sceptic will also want to know why you... Read More about Agrippa's trilemma: scepticism and contemporary epistemology.

A collaborative approach to developing a shared morality to protect the natural environment (2019)
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Udrea, L. I. (2019). A collaborative approach to developing a shared morality to protect the natural environment. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413066

Given the limitations of current governmental approaches in influencing people to take pro-environmental action, especially in the longer term, this thesis explores whether a shared morality towards nature can be developed. Focusing on one community... Read More about A collaborative approach to developing a shared morality to protect the natural environment.

Personal identity (a critical survey of the problem from John Locke to the present day)
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(1979). Personal identity (a critical survey of the problem from John Locke to the present day)

The problem of personal identity, as I propose to discuss herein, is the problem of what, if anything, makes a person the same person at different times. It is a problem because although many things about a person go on changing - his physical featur... Read More about Personal identity (a critical survey of the problem from John Locke to the present day).

John Locke and the scientific revolution: a study of the essay concerning human understanding in relation to seventeenth century science
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Rogers, G. (1971). John Locke and the scientific revolution: a study of the essay concerning human understanding in relation to seventeenth century science

This work aims to set Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding in the context of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. It does this by showing that the problem of the extent of human understanding to which Locke tried to find an a... Read More about John Locke and the scientific revolution: a study of the essay concerning human understanding in relation to seventeenth century science.

Theism and scientific method
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(1984). Theism and scientific method

Sir Isaac Newton maintained that the question whether or not there is a God could be settled by appeal to experience. Against this David Hume maintained that experience could never provide a foundation for an inference concerning the existence and at... Read More about Theism and scientific method.

Mind over matter or matter over mind? A comparison and evaluation of four approaches to the problem of mental causation
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(2011). Mind over matter or matter over mind? A comparison and evaluation of four approaches to the problem of mental causation

This thesis concerns the problem of mental causation and four contemporary approaches committed to its solution or dissolution. The problem of mental causation is the question of how, given the causal closure of the physical, the mental can have caus... Read More about Mind over matter or matter over mind? A comparison and evaluation of four approaches to the problem of mental causation.

Is my red yours? Understanding experience and perception in light of spectral inversion
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(2018). Is my red yours? Understanding experience and perception in light of spectral inversion

The problem of Scepticism has long haunted the Philosophy of Mind—a particularly noxious form of Scepticism is articulated by John Locke’s problem of Inversion. The problem of inversion acts to undermine two of the dominant theories of mind: Function... Read More about Is my red yours? Understanding experience and perception in light of spectral inversion.