Browsing Department of Philosophy (MU) by Thesis Semester "2014 Spring"

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  • Epistemic duties and blameworthiness for belief 

    Gadsden, Christopher Todd (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
    People sometimes believe things they shouldn't. Tommy believes in Santa Claus, Rev. Jones believes that the world is ending, and Adolf believes that some ethnic groups are superior to others. But are they somehow at fault ...

  • Moral wrongness and reactive attitudes 

    Fan, Wenwen, 1984- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
    In my dissertation, I examine the relationship between moral wrongness and negative reactive attitudes. In particular, I inquire (1) whether moral wrongness is conceptually connected to the empirical disposition to hold ...

  • Skill-based reliabilism 

    Marshall, Daniel C. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)

  • A solution to skeptical puzzles 

    Lee, Kok Yong (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
    In this dissertation, I aim at resolving the skeptical puzzle. An instance of this puzzle is as follows: (1) I know that I have hands. (2) I don't know that I am not a brain in a vat (being stimulated to experience having ...