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Non-standard features
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
The dissertation is composed of three papers on properties and their relatives. "Second-Order Predication and the Metaphysics of Properties" argues that giving a happy account of second-order predication motivates us to ...
Enzo and Me : essay concerning the mental lives of humans and other animals
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
(cont.) Dennett's and Fodor's positions on propositional attitudes, and offer alternative criteria to theirs for what features a system must have to have propositional attitudes.
The syntax and semantics of focus particles
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
(cont.) (iii) covert operations such as reconstruction and type raising are constrained by an economy principle so that they are disallowed when not motivated.
All things being unequal : locality in movement
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
In this thesis I demonstrate that a simplified theory of locality \ has greater success in accounting for locality in movement than more complicated alternatives that have been suggested. In particular, I argue that closeness ...
Magnetoencephalographic investigations of morphological identity and irregularity
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
This thesis addresses the longstanding debate in the psycholinguistics literature about the correct way to characterize the psychological status of morphological relatedness and irregular allomorphy. The model argued for ...
Economic inequalities and choice : a reassessment of Ronald Dworkin's theory of distributive justice
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
This dissertation proposes a new reading and appraisal of an important theory of distributive justice, Ronald Dworkin's "Equality of Resources" (ER). ER is traditional in holding that choices made by rational, ignorant and ...
Siding with Euthyphro : response-dependence, essentiality, and the individuation of ordinary objects
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
(cont.) essentiality. I start with our practices of engaging in thought experiments about the essences of things and show how my account vindicates those practices.
Moral properties and moral imagination
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
"Moral Realism" is about an argument against moral realism, why it is unsound, and what emerges from that. The argument is that if there were moral properties, they would be queerly related to non-moral properties and this ...
Consciousness and intentionality
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
(cont.) having perceptual experiences, subjects can be--and usually are--directly aware of material objects.