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Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations of graduate students of the University of Alberta. The collection contains a very large number of theses electronically available that were granted from 1947 to 2009, 90% of theses granted from 2009-2014, and 100% of theses granted from April 2014 to the present (as long as the theses are not under temporary embargo by agreement with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies). IMPORTANT NOTE: To conduct a comprehensive search of all UofA theses granted and in University of Alberta Libraries collections, search the library catalogue at www.library.ualberta.ca - you may search by Author, Title, Keyword, or search by Department.
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Items in this Collection
- 5Realism
- 1Bundle Theory
- 1Intelligibility
- 1Kierkegaard
- 1Lewis, David K. (David Kellogg), 1941-2001
- 1Modality (Logic)
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Spring 2020
I argue that in order to resolve the debate between taxonomic monism and taxonomic pluralism, we should construe the reality of natural kinds in terms of relative fundamentality: a natural kind is real if and only if it is more fundamental than its members, whose reality is taken for granted in...
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Spring 2012
An increasing number of realists about science believe that what science really tells us about are the world's structural features. For these realists, then, we should restrict our realist commitments: the theoretical objects described by science are not the kinds of entities towards which we...
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Fall 2020
The ‘resolute’ reading of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s work is often taken to involve a kind of anti-realism about what the philosopher calls ‘logic,’ or ‘grammar’ – the order of meaning that structures our understanding of the world and which is expressed in our uses of language. Conversely, I argue...