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 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 ...
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 ...
Panizza, Chiara (Date of defense: 2017-01-12)
In this dissertation I present a critical study of fiction, focusing on the semantics of fictional names and fictional discourse. I am concerned with the issue of whether fictional names need to refer, ...
Domingo Belando, Ambròs (Date of defense: 2005-12-13)
La tesi s'ocupa de qüestions centrals relacionades amb la distinció entre semàntica i pragmàtica. En primer lloc aborda la distinció entre allò que es diu i allò que s'implica no lògicament amb la ...
Rivadulla Duró, Andrea (Date of defense: 2022-07-25)
The present dissertation explores the role of imagination in different philosophical domains of inquiry. The thesis set out as a collection of self- standing essays and can be divided into two parts: ...
Milić, Ivan (Date of defense: 2016-01-28)
In this thesis, I propose and defend a theory according to which committing oneself to knowing the proposition expressed counts as an assertion of that proposition. A consequence of this view is the ...
Delgado Aqueveque, Laura Angelina (Date of defense: 2018-05-25)
This essay is devoted to the study of proper names. Although the view that sees proper names as referential singular terms is widely considered orthodoxy, there is a growing popularity to the view that ...
Grodniewicz, Jędrzej Piotr (Date of defense: 2020-12-10)
In this thesis, I have presented and defended a series of claims regarding the nature and epistemic role of linguistic understanding. Firstly, I have argued that, besides the state- and ...
Valente, Matheus (Date of defense: 2020-06-16)
In this dissertation, I have investigated several philosophical puzzles associated to the thesis that thoughts are public, i.e. that in successful instances of communication, understanding, and in cases ...