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    Logical planning in Temporal Defeasible and Dynamic Epistemic Logics: the case of t-DeLP and LCC 

    Pardo Ventura, Pere (Date of defense: 2013-11-19)

    In this thesis, we study planning systems based on logics, for two particular cases: Temporal Defeasible Logic Programming t-DeLP and the Logics of Communication and Change LCC. A planning problem consists in building a ...

    Lògica i fonaments: 1850-1920. Un estudi comparatiu de les contribucions del corrent algèbric i logicista a la lògica contemporània 

    Roselló Moya, Joan (Date of defense: 2003-03-06)

    L'objectiu principal del nostre estudi ha estat, en primer lloc, fer una "història de la lògica" que abastés el període que va aproximadament des de mitjans del segle XIX, època en què Boole i De Morgan renoven la lògica ...

    Nombres, referencia y valor cognoscitivo 

    Vicario Arjona, Ignacio (Date of defense: 2001-09-14)

    El tema de la tesis doctoral concierne a la semántica de los nombres propios y, principalmente, se centra en el estudio de algunos problemas cognoscitivos derivados de su comprensión. El punto de vista defendido es que los ...

    On the leaks and boundaries of imagination 

    Rivadulla Duró, Andrea (Date of defense: 2022-07-25)

    The present dissertation explores the role of imagination in different philosophical domains of inquiry. The thesis set out as a collection of self- standing essays and can be divided into two parts: leaks of imagination ...

    Operators and strong versions of sentential logics in Abstract Algebraic Logic 

    Albuquerque, Hugo Cardoso (Date of defense: 2016-03-16)

    This dissertation presents the results of our research on some recent devel-opments in Abstract Algebraic Logic (AAL), namely on the Suszko operator, the Leibniz filters, and truth-equational logics. Part I builts and ...

    The Quasi-Persuasive Nature of Disagreement 

    Pietroiusti, Giulio (Date of defense: 2022-06-17)

    This thesis is made up of two papers. Both of them are concerned with the “motive for altering or calling into question the attitude of the other” that Stevenson included in his characterization of disagreement. ...

    Self-Involving Representationalism (SIR): A naturalistic Theory of Phenomenal Consciousness 

    Sebastián González, Miguel Ángel (Date of defense: 2011-06-17)

    A naturalistic account of phenomenal consciousness is presented: Self-Involving Representationalism. The first step for the project of naturalizing phenomenal consciousness is to make the project itself feasible. The ...

    Substructural Logics and Pragmatic Enrichment 

    Terrés Villalonga, Pilar (Date of defense: 2020-01-27)

    In this dissertation, we argue for a Pragmatic Logical Pluralism, a pluralist thesis about logic which endorses Classical, Relevant, Linear, and Ordered logic. We justify that the formal languages of these four logics are ...

    The Literal Meaning of Definite Descriptions 

    Moldovan, Andrei (Date of defense: 2015-04-24)

    This thesis focuses on the semantics of definite descriptions (DDs). In chapter 1 I introduce a framework for doing compositional semantics for natural language that follows Heim and Kratzer (1998) and Fintel and Heim ...

    The World As I Found It. A Subjectivist Metaphysics of the Mental 

    Merlo, Giovanni (Date of defense: 2015-06-01)

    The first part of this thesis articulates and defends the Subjectivist View of the Mental. According to this view, my mental states are essentially different from the mental states of everyone else, but the fact that they ...

    La Transformación Financiera de Occidente en el final del s. XX. Financiarización y Subjetividad 

    Bárcena Arteagabeitia, Juan (Date of defense: 2023-09-13)

    [spa] La Financiarización, “el creciente papel de las motivaciones, los mercados, los agentes y las instituciones financieras en las actividades económicas tanto nacionales como internacionales” ha traspasado el ámbito de ...