Unfinished architecture: urban continuity in the age of the complete by Temple, Nicholas

“…Drawing upon Merleau-Ponty's argument in a series of investigations of built examples from the both historic and modern settings, I argue that the unfinished in architecture is a crucial 'barometer' of the life of cities, serving as a material expression of continuity and collective memory. …”
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Establishing rhythm as a theological category: experience, metaphysics, salvation by Eikelboom, A

“…It puts forward the argument that rhythm is a category of significance for Christian doctrine, particularly the doctrine of salvation, rather than one that pertains only to Christian religious expression (in liturgy for example) or aesthetics. …”

Law’s author, things personated, political representation by Mor, S

“…</p> <p>The next three chapters make an argument connecting representation to law creation. …”

Circle-actions, quantum cohomology, and the Fukaya category of Fano toric varieties by Ritter, A

“…The proof uses a deformation argument, via a generic generation theorem and an argument about continuity of eigenspaces. …”

Philosophical theology and the limits of explanation by Gutteridge, J

“…Moore’s Limit Argument, which demonstrates that any attempt to draw a limit in thought will be self-stultifying. …”

Rethinking resistance by Lim, CM

“…I argue that this argument does not apply to conditions where injustice is entrenched and normalised.…”

Diderot and d’Holbach: a theory of determinism by Sciuto, R

“…<p>This thesis offers a detailed analysis of Diderot and d'Holbach's argument for determinism, identifying its building blocks in the Causal Principle, Causal Necessitation, and the Laws of Nature. …”

One world and the many sciences by Melnyk, A, Melnyk, Andrew

“…In the second part, responding to the objection that there is just no reason to be a physicalist, I develop a positive argument for eliminative type physicalism, an argument resting upon a strong version of the explanatory test for reality according to which only explanatorily indispensable properties can justifiably be said to exist. …”

The representation of gods on Roman historical narrative reliefs, 200 BC-AD 315 by Pears Runeckles, TE

“…Chapter Six extends the argument into the later imperial periods and analyses the diverse treatment of the gods on the Arches of Septimius Severus and Constantine. …”

Taste and see: real presence as revelation in Heideggerian perspective by Olson, JW

“…</p> <p>In order to establish this constructive argument, this project consults the work of Martin Heidegger. …”

Apologies and damages: the moral demands of tort law as a reparative mechanism by Pino-Emhart, A

“…<p>This thesis seeks to justify on moral grounds the existence of tort systems. The argument is that corrective justice is necessary but not sufficient to succeed at this task. …”

Natural resources and territorial sovereignty by Mukoyama, N

“…Based on extensive archival research, I substantiate this argument through two sets of comparative historical analysis of colonial units in Borneo and the Persian Gulf, focusing primarily on Brunei, Qatar, and Bahrain. …”

The ground and nature of religious belief in the work of John Macmurray, John Baillie and John Oman, with special reference to their understanding of the relation between ordinary... by Hood, A, Hood, Adam

“…I maintain, for instance, that Macmurray's argument that religion is a derivative response to a critical dimension of ordinary experience is an illuminating perspective. …”

Authority, philosophical anarchism, and legitimacy by Farris, J, Jeremy Farris

“…It then argues that no argument for the practical authority of the state overcomes that presumption. …”

Ethics of religious belief by Sykes, R, Sykes, Robert Arthur Roderick

“…I remedy these faults by developing a "Modest Formalist" ethic of belief: a'partly formal set of standards for rational metaphysical argument,"given in. the form of a set of constitutive rules for certain games of interpretive argument. …”

Democracy and the justification of political authority by Chen, L

“…The first part considers the lines of argument that being democratic is necessary for political authority to be fully justified. …”

Political theory as moral philosophy by Turner, J

“…Chapters 6 to 8 tackle various political realist arguments for the autonomy thesis. In Chapter 6 I argue that political theory is not required to deal with empirical facts in any way that distinguishes it from moral philosophy, and any argument for its autonomy that is based on a prior claim about the purpose of political theorizing would be question-begging. …”

Electoral competition and the dynamics of public debt by Hanusch, M

“…Similarly, coalition government reduces responsibility associated with individual coalition partners, and thus the strategic value of public debt - yet this effect is moderated by the distribution of cabinet portfolios. The argument in this thesis is based both on formal models and on empirical, time series-cross sectional, analyses. …”

Below the summit: cultural and scholarly exchange visits in Sino-American relations, from ping-pong diplomacy to normalisation, 1971–1978 by Millwood, P

“…Exchange visits, as well as the ongoing negotiations around this programme of contacts, were a critical factor in the successes and failures, the progress and setbacks in Sino-American negotiations towards normalisation. The second argument of this thesis is that non-state exchange organisations, as well as individuals connected to these groups, were key actors in the Sino-American relationship. …”

Tyranny and liberty, resistance and regicide: political assassination in John Galt’s 'The Spaewife' by Garber, ZB

“…</p> <p>This line of argument reveals a committed Tory who fears the potential for violence&#x2014;particularly political assassination and regicide&#x2014;in the post-Revolutionary era. …”