Browsing Department of Philosophy (MU) by Thesis Advisor "Weirich, Paul"

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  • 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 ...

  • Obligations and indeterminism: a challenge for dominance act utilitarianism 

    Cruz, Duke J. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This paper is an investigation into an area of philosophical logic called deontic logic. More specifically, this paper is a critical evaluation ...

  • Self-deception and epistemic blame 

    Rabii, Zeinab (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
    This dissertation consists of three papers, and each of the papers has a main question: a) how do we reconcile the knowledge thesis (namely, a view which says that it is impossible for an agent to act intentionally without ...