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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)I consider three ways in which our epistemic situation might be more impoverished than we ordinarily take it to be. I argue that we can save our robust epistemic lives from the skeptic. But only if we accept that they ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)This dissertation is about whether and how non-representational attitudes could play a role in our theories of rationality. In Chapter 1 ('Negation, expressivism, and intentionality') I argue that the best explanation for ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)Many have thought that it is impossible to rationally persuade a skeptic that we have knowledge of the external world. My dissertation aims to show that this can be done. In chapter one I consider a common reason for ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)This dissertation proposes that the constraint component of OT grammars should be expanded to include a family of faithfulness constraints that evaluate input-output/output-output mappings for the preservation of gross Fo ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)Repetition is avoided in countless human languages and at a variety of grammatical levels. In this dissertation I ask what it is that makes repetition so bad. I propose that at least three distinct biases against repetition ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)This thesis demonstrates that perception plays a role in computing grammatical well-formedness. This is shown specifically for grammatical constraints on word-final consonant cluster inventories (VC 1 C2#), with focus on ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)Abstract The independence results in set theory invite the search for new and justified axioms. In Chapter 1 I set the stage by examining three approaches to justifying the axioms of standard set theory (stage theory, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)This dissertation focuses on phonological alternations that are influenced or constrained by word-internal prosody, i.e. prominence and foot structure, and what these alternations can tell us about metrical theory. Detailed ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)The traditional view has it that self-locating beliefs are distinctive in that they have distinctive contents. Against this, I claim that the distinctive element of self-locating beliefs should be placed outside contents. ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
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