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 name	Thesis title	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
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	1998
Kirby	Nikolas	Contemporary Pragmatism: Conversation between Philosophy and Life	2006
Lin	Charmaine Shaojuan	Public RelationsEthics: Lying on behalf of client organisations	2006
Lumsden	Simon	The Re-orientation of Consciousness (PhD)	1997
Lundy	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 & 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
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