Terrés Villalonga, Pilar (Date of defense: 2020-01-27)
In this dissertation, we argue for a Pragmatic Logical Pluralism, a pluralist thesis about logic which endorses Classical, Relevant, Linear, and Ordered logic. We justify that the formal languages of ...
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 ...
Suárez Díaz, Javier (Date of defense: 2020-05-20)
Symbiosis research is a growing field in contemporary biology. Current advances in modelling and experimental techniques have made possible to develop new ways of studying some multispecies symbiotic ...
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 ...
Picazo Jaque, Claudia (Date of defense: 2017-11-29)
The aim of this dissertation is to explore the hypothesis that language is occasion- sensitive. To hold that language is occasion-sensitive is to hold that the truth-conditions of most of our utterances ...
García Lapeña, Alfonso (Date of defense: 2021-12-17)
Truthlikeness is a property of a theory or a proposition that represents its closeness, similarity or likeness to the truth. The notion allows to defend a middle position between infallibilism 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 ...
Serrahima Balius, Carlota (Date of defense: 2019-07-01)
In this dissertation the feasibility of Experientialism about the sense of bodily ownership (SBO) is explored and defended. An original experientialist proposal on the SBO is presented. On this view, ...
Zuppone, Romina (Date of defense: 2018-12-18)
The goal of this thesis is to show, against Harry Collins, that there are scientific and internal grounds for the resolution of controversies in experimental practice. The approach I take is twofold: ...