Jorba Grau, Marta (Date of defense: 2013-04-11)
The aim of this dissertation is to provide a non-reductive account of cognitive phenomenology and the experience of thinking. The nature of conscious thought is an issue that has occupied philosophers ...
Pérez Pérez, Laura Natalia (Date of defense: 2012-10-05)
In this dissertation I study and empirically test whether belief attributions are context-sensitive, i.e., whether the truth value of a belief report of the form ‘A believes that S’ is sensitive to ...
Moldovan, Andrei (Date of defense: 2015-04-24)
This thesis focuses on the semantics of definite descriptions (DDs). In chapter 1 I introduce a framework for doing compositional semantics for natural language that follows Heim and Kratzer (1998) and ...
Roselló Moya, Joan (Date of defense: 2003-03-06)
L'objectiu principal del nostre estudi ha estat, en primer lloc, fer una "història de la lògica" que abastés el període que va aproximadament des de mitjans del segle XIX, època en què Boole i De Morgan ...
Pérez Otero, Manuel, 1964- (Date of defense: 1996-10-09)
Según el punto de vista predominante en la filosofía sobre la modalidad durante la mayor parte del siglo XX cualquier noción de necesidad que pueda tener sentido es dependiente de nuestros sistemas ...
Ortega Cano, Laura (Date of defense: 2013-05-13)
La tesis trata de un aspecto semántico de los términos para artefactos: la determinación de su referencia. Para abordar esta cuestión, exploro la sugerencia putnamiana según la cual la referencia de los ...
Sebastián González, Miguel Ángel (Date of defense: 2011-06-17)
A naturalistic account of phenomenal consciousness is presented: Self-Involving Representationalism. The first step for the project of naturalizing phenomenal consciousness is to make the project ...
Reining, Stefan (Date of defense: 2014-06-20)
My central aim in this dissertation is to propose a new version of local scepticism regarding the a priori, namely, a version of scepticism regarding the apriority of (knowledge of) truths about certain ...
Horden, John (Date of defense: 2015-12-11)
The four main chapters in this dissertation, while each largely self-standing, can be seen as together providing an extended defence of the view that classical mereology is analytically true. In chapter ...
Vicario Arjona, Ignacio (Date of defense: 2001-09-14)
El tema de la tesis doctoral concierne a la semántica de los nombres propios y, principalmente, se centra en el estudio de algunos problemas cognoscitivos derivados de su comprensión. El punto de vista ...