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 ...
Rey Sampedro, David Alejandro (Date of defense: 2016-12-20)
The present dissertation explores the hypothesis that English is a language with time-shifting grammatical devices. According to this hypothesis, the linguistic objects of English grammar which serve ...
Oms Sardans, Sergi (Date of defense: 2016-12-19)
In this dissertation I examine some of the most relevant proposals of common solutions to the Liar and the Sorites paradoxes. In order to do that, I present first a definition of what a paradox is so ...
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 ...
Albert Gandía, Milagros (Date of defense: 2016-11-29)
This is a thesis about word definition. Early developmental studies of word definition, tested nous rather than other morphological categories (adjectives, verbs). As some authors have pointed out ...
Valenciano i Mañé, Alba (Date of defense: 2017-12-22)
This thesis is about grassroots strategies of material and political extraversion. It is an ethnography of the provisioning of clothing goods in Equatorial Guinea and it bridges the everyday lives of ...
Yanygina Yanygina, Galina (Date of defense: 2020-07-07)
Other-directed emotions, both positive (e.g. love, pity, admiration) and negative (e.g. hatred, anger, disgust), play an important role in communication due to their social nature and involvement of ...
Amarianakis, Stamatis (Date of defense: 2020-10-26)
This thesis focuses on grassroots practices, meanings and understandings in the context of the Greek economic crisis and austerity restructurings that were unilaterally imposed by hegemonic institutions ...
Wang, Linlin (Date of defense: 2021-07-13)
The main objective of the doctoral thesis is to study the Soundscape in the Chinese route of the Silk Road based on the premises issued in 2003 by the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible ...
Bernaus, Mercè (Date of defense: 1992-04-01)
La principal hipótesis que se plantea en esta tesis es que la motivación influye en el aprendizaje del inglés como lengua extranjera. Otra de las hipótesis planteadas es que el entorno socio-cultural ...