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    Self-Involving Representationalism (SIR): A naturalistic Theory of Phenomenal Consciousness 

    Sebastián González, Miguel Ángel (Date of defense: 2011-06-17)

    A naturalistic account of phenomenal consciousness is presented: Self-Involving Representationalism. The first step for the project of naturalizing phenomenal consciousness is to make the project itself feasible. The ...

    Strict-Weak Languages. An Analysis of Strict Implication 

    Bou Moliner, Félix (Date of defense: 2004-10-01)

    Esta tesis doctoral introduce los aquí llamados lenguajes estricto-débiles, y los analiza desde diversos puntos de vista. Los lenguajes estricto débiles son aquellos lenguajes formales que constan de conjunción, disyunción, ...

    The Literal Meaning of Definite Descriptions 

    Moldovan, Andrei (Date of defense: 2015-04-24)

    This thesis focuses on the semantics of definite descriptions (DDs). In chapter 1 I introduce a framework for doing compositional semantics for natural language that follows Heim and Kratzer (1998) and Fintel and Heim ...

    The Semantics of Implicit Content 

    Zeman, Dan Cristian (Date of defense: 2011-04-26)

    The main aim of the thesis is to give a semantic account of implicit content – the kind of content that plays a crucial role in implicit communication. Implicit communication is a species of communication in which a speaker ...

    The World As I Found It. A Subjectivist Metaphysics of the Mental 

    Merlo, Giovanni (Date of defense: 2015-06-01)

    The first part of this thesis articulates and defends the Subjectivist View of the Mental. According to this view, my mental states are essentially different from the mental states of everyone else, but the fact that they ...

    Topological dualities and completions for (distributive) partially ordered sets 

    González, Luciano J. (Date of defense: 2015-09-17)

    This PhD thesis is the result of our research on duality theory and completions for partially ordered sets. A first main aim of this dissertation is to propose different kind of topological dualities for some classes of ...