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 ...
Horden, John (Date of defense: 2015-12-11)
The four main chapters in this dissertation, while each largely self-standing, can be seen as together providing an extended defence of the view that classical mereology is analytically true. In chapter ...
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 ...
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 ...
Potier, Joris (Date of defense: 2015-06-8)
The core of this PhD dissertation is basically twofold : On one hand, I get some new results on the relationship between compact groups and bounded hyperimaginaries, extending a little bit the classical ...
Briciu, Adrian (Date of defense: 2015-07-17)
The general aim of this dissertation is to analyze two intersecting topics. One is what constraints the principle(s) of compositionality place on semantic theories, and the second is whether context-sensitivity ...