Honours theses in the Department of Philosophy
The list below is of the Department of Philosophy’s thesis holdings. Unless otherwise identified, these are Honours theses. These theses are available for loan to staff, students and those outside the University of Sydney community. Some recent Honours theses can also be found online in the Sydney eScholarship Repository.
Postgraduate theses are held in the Rare Book Collection at Fisher Library. Titles and abstracts for current postgraduate theses can be found on the Postgraduate Students page of this site.
Borrowing procedures for Honours theses:
Email to request a thesis.
Loan Periods:
- University of Sydney academics - 6 week loans + renewals
- Current USYD students: 7 calendar day loans + 1 renewal
- Non USYD borrowers: 6 hours on campus (10am-4pm, Monday-Friday)
| Surname | First | Thesis | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Angel | Alex | Wittgenstein, Sensation Avowals and Expressivism | 2007 |
| Angert-Quilter | Joseph | Existential Nonviolence and Phenomenolgocial Pacifism` | 2007 |
| Anstey | Peter | Relative Identity, Partial Identity and the Problem of Persistence | 1991 |
| Barnard | Edwin | Outside the circle, looking in: Versions, worlds and the grip of habit in the philosophy of Nelson Goodman | 2006 |
| Behi | Riaz | Understanding Spinoza's Doctrine of the Mind's Eternity | 2006 |
| Burns | Carolyn | Justice and Difference: John Rawls and Hishida Kitaro on International relations | 2007 |
| Christensen | Carleton Bruin | Hegel's Concept of Finitude | 1979 |
| Cleland | Keith N | "Polotical obligation and the general will, with specific reference to J.J. Rousseau" | 1972 |
| Clugston | Byron | Reason and Nature: Intertwining in a Logical Space | 2006 |
| Corderoy | Amy | Reconsidering libertarianism | 2007 |
| Costa | Matthew | Constructing Justice: The aims and scope of John Rawls' later philosophy | 2005 |
| Curthoys | J | Kant and Mathematics | 1970 |
| Dally | Katharine | (No title) | 2004 |
| Dawson | Alexander |
Life in the Woods: Thoreau's Trail in Natural Living |
2008 |
| Delofski | Alexandra | Exploration of Language and Thought, shadowed and unshadowed, in the world | 2006 |
| Diprose | R | Plato and the Enigma of Woman | 1986 |
| Dodds | Mark | Against a Liberal Eugenics | 2006 |
| Field | C.J. | Charles Sanders Peirce's Theory of Relations | 1966 |
| Finnigan | Bronwyn Kate | A Challenge to the Onotological Commitments of Parfit’s Reductionism and Indeterminacy Thesis | 2005 |
| Fisher | Kristy | Heidegger's Notion of Authenticity | 2006 |
| Gaukroger | Cressida | On aesthetic understanding and why it should be pursued | 2006 |
| Godfrey | Carl | Metaphysical Foundations in Sellars, Kant and Hegel | 2006 |
| Goff | Alastair | Morality, Disconnection and Supremacy | 2005 |
| Gray | Brian | Une Approche de la Justice Linguistique (Phil/French honours) | 2007 |
| Gregory | Daniel | Synthesis and Time: A Thesis on the Subjective Deduction | 2007 |
| Hamilton | Hayley | Intentions and the Making of Art | 2007 |
| Hirst | Robert | "One simple principle" Mill's Defence of Liberty | 2007 |
| Hooper | Anthony | Art as Activity: A New Definition of Art | 2006 |
| Hou | Richard W.T. | On Quine’s Empirical Theory of Content | |
| Kirby | Nikolas | Contemporary Pragmatism: Conversation between Philosophy and Life | 2006 |
| Lawrence |
Nicholas Jeremy |
Rationality, Self-Consciousness and the Rights of Humans |
2008 |
| Leis | Samuel H. |
The Value of Human Life - A Preliminary Investigation |
2008 |
| Lin | Charmaine Shaojuan | Public RelationsEthics: Lying on behalf of client organisations | 2006 |
| Lumsden | Simon | The Re-orientation of Consciousness (PhD) | 1997 |
| Lundy Apply | Craig | Deleuze and History | 2005 |
| Mackie | J.L. | Eliminative Methods of Induction manuscript | 1938 |
| Malek | Adam | An exploration on what substance is, as contrasted and complemented by the views of Descartes, and Aristotle, respectively | 2006 |
| Maloney | Kate | Morality without borders | 2007 |
| Markey | Brendan | Happiness and Welfare | 2007 |
| Massey | Frances | Truth in Dilthey's Method: Is Gadamer Right About Dilthey? | 2007 |
| McIntyre | John | Adorno and Benjamin: The dispute about art | 2007 |
| Mulvey | Simon | The Politics of Vocabularies | 2007 |
| Napper | Lucinda | The Good Life: Virtue and Happiness | 2007 |
| Nasti | Giulio G. | Two Externalisms, One Quietism: Reinterpreting the Heidegger-Wittgenstein Nexus | 2005 |
| O’Brien | Seamus | Wittgenstein and Definitions in Art: Understanding Family Resemblances | 2006 |
| Overall | Gina | Consider theories about the moral status of nonhuman animals, focussing on the work of Peter Singer and Tom Regan | 2006 |
| Papakonstantinou | Mahi | Eudaimonia and the Morality System | 2007 |
| Patton | Paul | Theories of Meaning | 1972 |
| Pereira | Rachael | Three Kinds of Nonsense: Carnap, Ryle and Wittgenstein | 2005 |
| Pettit | Rory | Reconceptualising Democratic Representation | 2007 |
| Phillips | Ben | Combinatorialism, Aliens and Incompatible Properties | 2006 |
| Pickering | Phillip | Personal Identity and Concern for Future Selves | 2007 |
| Russell | Luke | Evolutionary Ethics | 1995 |
| Shiu |
Nicole | The Moral Status of Living Non-Human Entities |
2008 |
| Slezak | Michael | Towards a Theory of Understanding and Explanation: The Past State Hypothesis | 2006 |
| Smith | Lucy M. | Myth and Politics in Plato's Laws | 2007 |
| Smith | Nicholas JJ | Time Travel and Conceptual Change | 1994 |
| Stasa | Helen | Can the Doctrine of Double Effect's intention/foresight distinction be accommodated within a consequentialist framework? | 2005 |
| Stoljar | Daniel | Persistence and Causality | 1998 |
| Suen | Vanessa | The Social Contract of Self-Interested Rationality and the Morality of Corporations | 2005 |
| Walker | Mary | Our Ontology of Persons and it Normative Implications | 2004 |
| Willcox | Susannah | Climate change and (some of) its implications for moral and political responsibility on a global scale | 2007 |
| Williams | Ben | The liberal dilemma What is it? What needs to be done to solve it? And Can a solution be offered? | 2006 |
| Wilson | J | A Reappraisal of Determinism | 1990 |
| Windfield | James | Why are we moral? | 2006 |
| Wright | Emma | Divine Command Theory and the Content of Moral Goodness | 2007 |
| Yong | Patrick T. M. | Does Plato believe that knowledge is true belief plus a logos? | 1993 |