A few things about hyperimaginaries and stable forking 

    Potier, Joris (Date of defense: 2015-06-8)

    The core of this PhD dissertation is basically twofold : On one hand, I get some new results on the relationship between compact groups and bounded hyperimaginaries, extending a little bit the classical results of Lascar ...

    Análisis lógico-comparativo de las formulaciones de la termodinámica 

    Sánchez Ferrer, Juan Manuel (Date of defense: 2016-02-08)

    1. OBJETIVO PRINCIPAL Sean las termodinámicas fundamentales de la vertebración histórica de los conceptos específicamente termodinámicos, es decir, la termodinámica de lo que aquí se denomina 2ª etapa de Clausius, la ...

    Análisis ontológico del estrato prerreflexivo de la experiencia 

    Alonso Cano, Oriol (Date of defense: 2013-06-20)

    La investigación que se presenta a continuación tiene como objetivo elucidar una de las problemáticas más relevantes de la historia del pensamiento, a saber: puede defenderse la existencia de un estrato prerreflexivo, ...

    Apriority and Colour Inclusion 

    Reining, Stefan (Date of defense: 2014-06-20)

    My central aim in this dissertation is to propose a new version of local scepticism regarding the a priori, namely, a version of scepticism regarding the apriority of (knowledge of) truths about certain relations between ...

    Ascriptions in context / An Experimental Study on the Context-sensitivity of Belief Reports 

    Pérez Pérez, Laura Natalia (Date of defense: 2012-10-05)

    In this dissertation I study and empirically test whether belief attributions are context-sensitive, i.e., whether the truth value of a belief report of the form ‘A believes that S’ is sensitive to contextual parameters. ...

    Cognitive Phenomenology: A Non-Reductive Account 

    Jorba Grau, Marta (Date of defense: 2013-04-11)

    The aim of this dissertation is to provide a non-reductive account of cognitive phenomenology and the experience of thinking. The nature of conscious thought is an issue that has occupied philosophers since ancient times, ...

    Composites 

    Horden, John (Date of defense: 2015-12-11)

    The four main chapters in this dissertation, while each largely self-standing, can be seen as together providing an extended defence of the view that classical mereology is analytically true. In chapter 1, I criticise Eli ...

    Conceptos modales e individuación 

    Pérez Otero, Manuel, 1964- (Date of defense: 1996-10-09)

    Según el punto de vista predominante en la filosofía sobre la modalidad durante la mayor parte del siglo XX cualquier noción de necesidad que pueda tener sentido es dependiente de nuestros sistemas lingüísticos de ...

    Context and compositionality: an essay in metasemantics 

    Briciu, Adrian (Date of defense: 2015-07-17)

    The general aim of this dissertation is to analyze two intersecting topics. One is what constraints the principle(s) of compositionality place on semantic theories, and the second is whether context-sensitivity endangers ...

    Contribucions a la teoria de models de la lògica sense identitat 

    Dellunde i Clavé, Pilar (Date of defense: 1996-01-01)

    La tesis doctoral es un estudio de la teoria de modelos de la lógica sin identidad. Se estudia el fragmento de la lógica de primer orden compuesto por las fórmulas que no tienen el símbolo de identidad. Los conceptos ...

    La determinación de la referencia de los términos para artefactos 

    Ortega Cano, Laura (Date of defense: 2013-05-13)

    La tesis trata de un aspecto semántico de los términos para artefactos: la determinación de su referencia. Para abordar esta cuestión, exploro la sugerencia putnamiana según la cual la referencia de los términos de clase ...

    Dir i implicar no lògicament 

    Domingo Belando, Ambròs (Date of defense: 2005-12-13)

    La tesi s'ocupa de qüestions centrals relacionades amb la distinció entre semàntica i pragmàtica. En primer lloc aborda la distinció entre allò que es diu i allò que s'implica no lògicament amb la proferència d'un enunciat, ...

    Disability Justice is Collective Liberation: Pragmatist Approaches to Tactile Aesthetics and Reorganizational Tactics in Access Arts 

    Pérez Casanovas, Àger (Date of defense: 2023-12-19)

    [eng] The aim of this dissertation is to provide a theoretical framework where the double significance of Disability Justice artistic practices aesthetic and political can be accounted for , and to show the emancipatory ...

    Duality Theory and Abstract Algebraic Logic 

    Esteban, María (Date of defense: 2013-11-04)

    In this thesis we present the results of our research on duality theory for non-classical logics under the point of view of Abstract Algebraic Logic (AAL). Firstly, we propose an abstract Spectral-like duality and an ...

    Fictional names and fictional discourse 

    Panizza, Chiara (Date of defense: 2017-01-12)

    In this dissertation I present a critical study of fiction, focusing on the semantics of fictional names and fictional discourse. I am concerned with the issue of whether fictional names need to refer, and also with the ...

    Forcing Arguments in Infinite RamseyTheory 

    García Ávila, Luz María (Date of defense: 2012-07-12)

    This is a contribution to combinatorial set theory, specifically to infinite Ramsey Theory, which deals with partitions of infinite sets. The basic pigeon hole principle states that for every partition of the set of all ...

    Investigations into the role of translations in abstract algebraic logic 

    Moraschini, Tommaso (Date of defense: 2016-06-08)

    This memoir is divided into two parts, devoted to two topics in (ab-stract) algebraic logic. In the first part we develop a hierarchy in which propositional logics “L” are classified according to the definability conditions ...

    Large cardinals and resurrection axioms 

    Tsaprounis, Konstantinos (Date of defense: 2012-12-14)

    In the current dissertation we work in set theory and we study both various large cardinal hierarchies and issues related to forcing axioms and generic absoluteness. The necessary preliminaries may be found, as it should ...

    Les bases epistemològiques de la filosofia política de Ciceró 

    Pozo, Joan Manuel del (Date of defense: 1990-01-01)

    La tesis se plantea el objetivo de analizar la coherencia entre la filosofía política de Cicerón y lo que pueden ser sus bases epistemológicas: la teórica neoacadémica del conocimiento que sitúa las posibilidades de la ...

    Logical Localism in the Context of Combining Logics 

    Benito-Monsalvo, Carlos (Date of defense: 2023-05-22)

    [eng] Logical localism is a claim in the philosophy of logic stating that different logics are correct in different domains. There are different ways in which this thesis can be motivated and I will explore the most important ...