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Quasi-Empirical Fictionalism as an Approach to the Philosophy of Geometry

Waygood, Scott (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)

The central claim of this thesis is that geometry is a quasi-empirical science based on the idealisation of the elementary physical operations that we actually perform with pen and paper. This conclusion is arrived at after ...
The Queer Agenda: Exploring the Political Participation of LGBTIQ+ Youth

Fraser, Brodie (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

Youth participation literature is yet to fully explore the ways in which young marginalised LGBTIQ+ identifying youth engage in the political sphere. While there is a significant amount of existing literature about youth ...
The Quietist Posit: A Methodologically Agnostic Resolution to the Problem of Qualia

Quartermaine-Bragg, Nicolas (Victoria University of Wellington, 2021)

This thesis paper addresses the aim and methodology of an argument by Daniel Dennett (1988; 1992), who proposes an eliminativism with regards to the referent of the term “qualia”. Dennett’s argument centres on the purported ...
Radical spaces: New Zealand's resistance bookshops, 1969-1977

Simpson, Megan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)

‘Radical Spaces’ explores the Resistance Bookshops and their place within the culture of protest and radical politics in New Zealand between 1969 and 1977. The bookshops, which were set up by activists in Auckland, Wellington ...
The reactionary and the radical: A comparative analysis of mass conservative mobilisation in Australia and New Zealand during the Great Depression

Cunningham, Matthew (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

The Great Depression witnessed an unparalleled explosion of mass conservative mobilisation across Australia and New Zealand. Large populist movements sprang into being virtually overnight and amassed a collective membership ...
The Reality of Return: Exploring the Experiences of World War One Soldiers after Their Return to New Zealand

Clarkson, Coralie (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)

The focus of this thesis is the lives of New Zealand's returned Great War soldiers. This thesis explores the experiences of men who did not successfully repatriate as a counterpoint to the experiences of those who did, and ...
REASONABLE DISPOSITIONS: A RESPONSE TO THE SITUATIONIST CRITIQUE OF VIRTUE ETHICS

Vandenberg, Tobias (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

In The Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle presents a theory of ethics as the development of character, specifically the cultivation of particular character traits lying on the mean between two vices which he calls the virtues. ...
The "Regionalist" Approach to Austrian History: Austrian Studies Within the Context of German and East European History

Maxwell, Alexander (Victoria University of Wellington, 2006)

A regionalist approach to teaching European history at the undergraduate level enables Austrian history to be integrated into broader historical narratives that may attract significant student interest. This essay describes ...
Regional order in the South Pacific and Fiji’s challenge to it

Gradwell, John (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

Drawing from a body of leading literature on international and regional order, this thesis applies these concepts to the context of the South Pacific. Examining recent developments in the region through a framework of ...
The Relationship between Foreign Aid and Democratization in Myanmar in respect to Civil Society

Paing, Aye Mon (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

Since 2010, Myanmar has been making a transition to a democratic country after 40 years under successive military regimes. The semi-civilian government led by President U TheinSein has been in charge of Myanmar since the ...
Removing Temptation: New Zealand's Alcohol Restrictions, 1881-2005

Christoffel, Paul John (Victoria University of Wellington, 2006)

This thesis provides an historical overview of the legal restrictions placed on access to alcohol in New Zealand and details some consequences of these restrictions. It questions whether the historical evidence from New ...
Representative Institutions in Western Samoa During the Mandate 1919 - 1946

Martin, J. R. (Victoria University of Wellington, 1959)

This study began as a description of the government of Western Samoa as a whole during the Mandate period 1919-1946. It soon became apparent that within the limits imposed by the time and space available it would not be ...
Resolving The Democratic Dilemma: Contestation, Anti-Power and Democracy

Tonello, Samuele (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

This thesis in divided in two main parts. First, I develop the claim that current democracies are unable to properly defend what I deem the pivotal feature to evaluate the quality of a political system - namely the people’s ...
Restless Spirit, Resolute Conviction: The Life and Times of Joseph ‘Ivo’ Evison

Clarke, Stephen Robert John (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

At first glance, Joseph Evison's life was a confusion of convictions and contradictions, played out in the pages of the many newspapers he edited and wrote for in New Zealand and Australia. A late nineteenth-century ...
Reviving Hedonism about Well-Being: Refuting the Argument from False Pleasures and Restricting the Relevance of Intuitive 'Evidence'

Turton, Daniel Michael (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)

Throughout the vast majority of its history, hedonism about well-being has been perennially unpopular (Feldman 2004). The arguments in this essay take steps towards reviving the plausibility of hedonism about well-being. ...
The Rise of Islamists in the Middle East and Chinese Interests in the Region

Elhomosany, Mohamed Kamal Ali Ahmed (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

The uprising in the Middle East is representing the beginning of a new era in the history of the region. The region has not been stable during most of the 20th century. The strategic position of the region has influenced ...
The Rise of the State: Broadband Policy in New Zealand 2000-2011

Carter, Jordan Tracy (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

Between 2000 and 2011, changes in government policy significantly increased the role of the state in telecommunications markets in New Zealand. In both regulatory and investment activities, the historic approach of liberal ...
Rocking the Boat:The Participation Rhetoric Exposed: Why Should People Living in Poverty Have a Voice and Space at the United Nations?

Soanes, Vicki (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

Poverty is one of the most serious issues of our time, and the major seat of the poverty eradication discourse is at the United Nations. The term participation has increasingly featured in the high level poverty discourse ...
The Role of Analogy in Adaptive Explanation

Currie, Adrian Mitchell (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

Cases of 'convergence' (traits which have independently evolved in two or more lineages) could play an important role in the construction and corroboration of adaptive hypotheses. In particular, they could inform us about ...
The role of Islam in Indonesia's contemporary foreign policy

Al Anshori, Mohamad Zakaria (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

This study aims to investigate the extent to which Islam influences Indonesian foreign policy in the post-Suharto era. Specifically, this research intends to examine under what circumstances the influence of Islam on ...