Ortega Cano, Laura (Date of defense: 2013-05-13)
La tesis trata de un aspecto semántico de los términos para artefactos: la determinación de su referencia. Para abordar esta cuestión, exploro la sugerencia putnamiana según la cual la referencia de los ...
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 ...
Reining, Stefan (Date of defense: 2014-06-20)
My central aim in this dissertation is to propose a new version of local scepticism regarding the a priori, namely, a version of scepticism regarding the apriority of (knowledge of) truths about certain ...
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 ...
Vicario Arjona, Ignacio (Date of defense: 2001-09-14)
El tema de la tesis doctoral concierne a la semántica de los nombres propios y, principalmente, se centra en el estudio de algunos problemas cognoscitivos derivados de su comprensión. El punto de vista ...
Romo Feito, José (Date of defense: 1991-12-17)
Sabemos la centralidad que la noción de estado electro-tónico tuvo en la primera formulación de las ecuaciones de Maxwell. El concepto, sin embargo, proviene de Faraday, que lo introdujo a raíz de su ...
Elgueta Montó, Raimon (Date of defense: 1994-05-25)
In our opinion, it is fair to distinguish two separate branches in the origins of model theory. The first one, the model theory of first-order logic, can be traced back to the pioneering work of L. ...
Esteban, María (Date of defense: 2013-11-04)
In this thesis we present the results of our research on duality theory for non-classical logics under the point of view of Abstract Algebraic Logic (AAL). Firstly, we propose an abstract Spectral-like ...
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 ...
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 ...