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Becoming to Belong: An Essay on Agency and Democratic Rights
(2017-07-27)My project develops what I call a dignity oriented model of human agency, and a related approach to human rights; especially democratic rights. I also juxtapose my model of agency against those offered by the liberal and ... -
From Indifference to Difference: Theorizing Emancipation through Sylvia Wynter and Alain Badiou
(2018-03-01)In this project I argue that Alain Badious theory of emancipation fails to properly account for racial and racialized subjects as well as racial emancipation. All particularities, including race, must be subtracted from ... -
The Semiotic Mind: A Fundamental Theory of Consciousness
(2018-03-01)One of the leading concerns animating current philosophy of mind is that, no matter how good a scientific account is, it will leave out what its like to be conscious. The challenge has thus been to study or at least explain ... -
Becoming Godless: Heidegger's Nietzsche and the Eternal Return
(2018-08-27)Nietzsches concept of eternal return best exemplifies his anti-theological thought, but it is often misread as either classical physics or a thought experiment. Insofar as Anglo-American and analytic interpretations reject ... -
Religion and Secularism-Towards a Reconciliation
(2018-08-27)This dissertation examines the evolving relationship between religion and the state in political philosophy. I begin with an examination of what religion is. I argue that religion is not primarily a belief system about ... -
A Narrative Account of Argumentation
(2018-08-27)In this dissertation I attempt to accomplish three goals. The first goal is to develop a narrative account of argumentation. I show that storytelling serves as a legitimate mode of argumentation. I develop an account of ... -
Defending the Coherence and Practicability of Autonomy through a Multi-level Analytical Approach
(2019-03-05)The objective of this dissertation is to develop a coherent account of autonomy that builds on a general understanding of autonomy as the capacity by which people decide or discover for themselves what is valuable and live ... -
Non-Naturalism and the Metaphysics of Normative Properties
(2019-03-05)Normative non-naturalists seem to be committed to a supervenience relation about the normative. This means that the normative necessarily varies with the non-normative, such that the normative features of a person or a ... -
Semantic Scepticism and the Possibility of Meaning
(2019-11-22)Nearly four decades ago, Saul Kripke articulated a semantic version of scepticism, according to which no finite goings-on, either mental or behavioural, can establish what someone means by an expression. The semantic ... -
3D Reconstruction of Indoor Corridor Models Using Single Imagery and Video Sequences
(2020-05-11)In recent years, 3D indoor modeling has gained more attention due to its role in decision-making process of maintaining the status and managing the security of building indoor spaces. In this thesis, the problem of continuous ... -
The Value of Genetic Ties as Ethical Justification for Banning Gamete Donor Anonymity
(2020-08-11)Do we have a right to know who our genetic parents are? Do donor-conceived individuals have a moral right to know their gamete (sperm and egg) donors? From the beginning of the clinical practice of donor conception, ... -
Accounting for the Epistemic Benefits of Diversity: Social Location, Identity, and the Politics of Knowledge
(2020-08-11)This dissertation investigates and supports arguments intended to justify claims that social diversity in scientific research communities not only promotes justice but is good for knowledge. One such claim that I focus on ...