Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Subject "Kant"
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METAPHYSICS & MORALS IN CANADIAN CRIMINAL JUSTICE: A PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF THE CONFLICT BETWEEN NEUROSCIENCE AND RETRIBUTIVE FOLK PSYCHOLOGY
(2020-09-10)The retributive justification of Canadian criminal law contains several assumptions about human nature that conflicts with what neuroscience has established regarding human behavior and the function of rationality. ... -
Public Reason and Political Critique: Toward a Kantian Reading of Rawls' Political Liberalism
(2018-08-21)This thesis presents and defends a newly Kantian understanding of John Rawls’ political thought. Focusing on his doctrine of public reason and his view of political justification more generally, I offer a reading of Rawls’ ...