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 ...
Sabanés del Barco, Fernando (Date of defense: 2022-12-16)
[spa] El presente trabajo evalúa y determina de qué modo podemos hablar de “ética” en la hermenéutica de Hans-Georg Gadamer. La solución sostenida es la de considerar la ética como el origen de la ...
Deulofeu Batllori, Roger (Date of defense: 2020-02-24)
Understanding how scientists explain has been one of the major goals of the philosophy of science. Given that explaining is one of the most important tasks that scientists aim at and given the high ...
Anta Pulido, Javier (Date of defense: 2021-12-16)
The main objective of this dissertation is to philosophically assess how the use of informational concepts in the field of classical thermostatistical physics has historically evolved from the late 1940s ...
Darbellay, Aurélien (Date of defense: 2017-09-27)
This thesis has four chapters which, together, offer a non-exhaustive but still quite extensive account of social reality. In Chapter 1, I defend an analysis of the notion of sociality which has it ...
Mahoodi, Nasim (Date of defense: 2023-01-11)
[eng] This dissertation is a contribution to the application of topology to the philosophical problem of vagueness. We pursue two main goals: The first goal is to give an account of the main features ...
Chilovi, Samuele (Date of defense: 2019-06-12)
The four main chapters of this thesis, while each largely autonomous, collectively provide a study of the relation between grounding and supervenience, and a comprehensive application of grounding theory ...
Alexandrov, Anton (Date of defense: 2023-06-22)
[eng] The dissertation investigates the method of explication from an externalist point of view. Chapter1 explains externalism in the philosophy of mind and language. Externalism holds that the meaning ...
Fernández Gel, Enric (Date of defense: 2023-07-10)
[eng] I study the metaphysical foundation of ethics in Aristotle and Aquinas. I conclude their ethical systems rest on an essentialist and teleological metaphysics, without which they collapse. Next, I ...
Vogt, Lisa (Date of defense: 2022-09-28)
Dispositional Essentialism is the view that fundamental properties essentially confer nomic roles on their bearers and as such are the sources of natural modality. The view offers an intriguing account ...