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Silent conversations : the influence of human exceptionalism, dominance and power on behavioural expectation and canine consent in the dog-human relationship.
(2022)The relationship between humans and dogs is complex and enmeshed with socially-constructed expectations of the roles of dogs in society. This thesis draws on data I collected, using a mixed methods approach, to argue that ... -
Attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help
(1983)In the past, attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help have been associated with a variety of demographic and experiential variables. This study firstly assessed the utility of a modified version of the ... -
Scientific and evaluative inquiry in education
(1984)Within this essay I hope to illuminate some of the inadequacies and limitations of one currently popular approach to educational inquiry. By this I am referring to an easily discernible but unwarranted heavy emphasis upon ... -
A thematic exploration of three countries’ government communication during the COVID-19 crisis and corresponding media coverage
(Informa UK Limited, 2022)This study attempts to add to the current literature on crisis communication by exploring differences in COVID-19 governmental crisis communication and variances in the media coverage of that communication through thematic ... -
Construct validation of the job activities guide
(1983)The Job Activities Guide was administered to 370 male and 273 female sixth and seventh form students drawn from urban and rural areas. The results consist of a principle components factor analysis with varimax rotation ... -
On the Authenticity of De-extinct Organisms, and the Genesis Argument
(2017)Are the methods of synthetic biology capable of recreating authentic living members of an extinct species? An analogy with the restoration of destroyed natural landscapes suggests not. e restored version of a natural ... -
Does the solar system compute the laws of motion?
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021)The counterfactual account of physical computation is simple and, for the most part, very attractive. However, it is usually thought to trivialize the notion of physical computation insofar as it implies ‘limited ... -
The history of drug crime and policy in New Zealand.
(2022)New Zealanders are among the world’s highest consumers of a number of illicit substances. This, however, has not always been the case. There was a time when there was no use of drugs in this country. It is often thought ... -
Melajah Nabuh : teaching Balinese gamelan within the context of the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
(2022)This thesis explores pedagogical issues related to teaching Balinese gamelan music to Udgita Canda Gamelan students, at the University of Canterbury (UC). The study focuses on teaching methods and processes that are aimed ... -
The subculture of the Lurker : participatory non-participation in digital subculture.
(2022)This thesis develops a new theorisation of subculture in digital gaming culture. I propose that online streaming services and online interaction about games have created an under-theorized subculture of those who engage ... -
The Eightfold Way: Why Analyticity, Apriority and Necessity are Independent
(2017)This paper concerns the three great modal dichotomies: (i) the necessary/contingent dichotomy; (ii) the a priori/empirical dichotomy; and (iii) the analytic/synthetic dichotomy. These can be combined to produce a tri-dichotomy ... -
The Inconceivable Popularity of Conceivability Arguments
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2017)Famous examples of conceivability arguments include (i) Descartes’ argument for mind-body dualism, (ii) Kripke's ‘modal argument’ against psychophysical identity theory, (iii) Chalmers’ ‘zombie argument’ against materialism, ... -
Against Lewis on ‘Desire as Belief’
(Philosophy Documentation Center, 2017)David Lewis describes, then attempts to refute, a simple anti-Humean theory of desire he calls ‘Desire as Belief’. Lewis’ critics generally accept that his argument is sound and focus instead on trying to show that its ... -
Doxastic desire and Attitudinal Monism
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2018)© 2016 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht How many attitudes must be posited at the level of reductive bedrock in order to reductively explain all the rest? Motivational Humeans hold that at least two attitudes are ... -
The Fragmentation of Being
(Informa UK Limited, 2019)This is a densely argued dive into deep and rich metaphysical waters. McDaniel defends ontological pluralism, the doctrine that there are multiple ways of being (i.e., multiple modes, or degrees, or orders, or levels, or ... -
Why Katz is Wrong: A Lab-Created Creature Can Still Have an Ancient Evolutionary History
(Informa UK Limited, 2022)Katz denies that organisms created in a lab as part of a de-extinction attempt will be authentic members of the extinct species, on the basis that they will lack the original species’ defining biological and evolutionary ...