Browsing Theses by Subject "Science"

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The Evolution of Reason

Abdallah, Sajad (University of Waterloo, 2017-01-17)

Aristotle’s metaphysics bridges the gap between mind and nature explaining how their relationship constitutes development in life. Charles Sanders Peirce’s objective idealism similarly aims to investigate how the principles ...
A Study of the Discursive Aspect of Scientific Theorizing and Modeling

McEwan, Micheal Joseph (University of Waterloo, 2014-09-26)

My dissertation contributes to the study of scientific theories and models by using a speech-act-theoretic framework to investigate the discursive aspect of theorizing and modeling practices. In the philosophical study of ...
Submechanophilia

Sumanth, Snehanjali (University of Waterloo, 2017-01-23)

Twenty-three federal offshore oil platforms line the coast of Southern California for approximately 200 miles from Point Concepcion, Santa Barbara County to Huntington Beach, Oxford County. Installed from1968 to 1989, they ...