Browsing Department of Philosophy (MU) by Thesis Semester "2022 Summer"

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  • Enlarging the possibility space for scientific model-based explanation 

    Holmes, Travis (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
    Two prominent views in the scientific explanation literature are: (1) that scientific explanations should be ontic or track causal or constitutive relations between the explanans and explanandum; (2) Idealizations in ...

  • Evident yet opaque: a defense of the evaluative normativity of logic 

    Cruz, Duke J. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
    The research in this dissertation concerns the philosophy of logic. More specifically, it concerns the normative status of deductive logic. Many philosophers and logicians have thought that logic tells us how we ought to ...