INTRODUCTION
Research in ihe Department was strengthened by the presence o f a University of Melbourne Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr Martin Davies, whose special field of interest is philosophy of language.
RESEARCH TOPICS IN PROGRESS 1. The defining criteria of'Personhood'-L. M . Broughton.
2. Masculine/feminine roles and images— L. M . Broughton.
3. Consciousness —L. M . Broughton.
4. Aesthetics of architecture —L. M . Broughton.
5. Thc justification of violence— C. A. J. Coady.
6. Regress and speaker meaning — C. A. .1. Coady.
7. Thc epistemology of testimony —C. A. J. Coady.
8. Hobbes's theory of obligation —C. A. J. Coady.
9. Conscience and mcta-cthics in J. H. Newman and John Rawls —J. E. D'Arcy.
10. Empiricist vcrificationism —J. E. D'Arcy 11. R. B. Braithwaite's conatism — J. E. D'Arcy.
12. Personhood —J. E. D'Arcy.
13. Significance logic— L. Goddard.
14. Paradoxes—L. Goddard.
15. Continuation of research into the topic of inicntionalily wilh reference to Frege's theory of sense and Husserl's phenomenology-M. J. Harney.
16. Philosophy of art: an investigation of contemporary European philosophy in relation to (a) thc origins of creativity (b) art and civilisation —M. J. Harney.
17. Identity through time—B. Langtry.
18. Principles of social justice —B. Langtry.
19. Logical probability and induction —B. Langtry.
20. Kant's groundwork of aesthetics —M. A. McCloskey.
21. Reasons, morals and mental conflict —M. A. McCloskey.
22. Mind and morals —M. A. McCloskey.
23. Introduction to Plalo's Hippias M a j o r - M . A. McCloskey.
24. Intrinsic good —M. A. McCloskey.
25. Pleasure, beauty and good in Plato's works— M . A. McCloskey.
26. Rational man theory, and the social sciences —G. D. Marshall.
27. Activity and passivity —G. D. Marshall.
28. Emotions and instincts— G. D. Marshall.
29. Thc theory of logic and language proposed in Wittgenstein's Tractulus — L. J. O'Neill.
30. The concepts of techniques of rational inquiry —L. J. O'Neill.
31. Mysticism — W. K. Presa.
32. Emotions —W. K. Presa.
33. Metaphor and imagination —W. K. Presa.
34. Materialism and dualism —B. F. Scarlett.
35. Ethics of belief — B. F. Scarlett.
36. War and morality— B. F. Scarlett.
37. Examination of concepts of responsive government —J. T. J. Srzednicki.
38. S. Lesniewski's Logical Papers, etc. —J. T. J. Srzednicki.
39. Contemporary importance of some Kantian problems —J. T. J. Srzednicki.
40. Motivations behind logics —J. T. J. Srzednicki.
41. The semantics of natural language—B. M . Taylor.
42. Wittgenstein and mind —D. L. Gunner.
43. Semantics of demonstratives —M. Davies.
44. Causal theories of perception-M. Davies.
45. Pronouns and anaphora—M. Davies.
PUBLISHED WORK Books
1. SRZEDNICKI, J. T. J. (cd.) (with BROUGHTON, L. M . (ass. e<i.))-Melbourne Inter national Philosophv Series, Vol. 6— NOONAN, H. W — Object and Identity, Marlinus Nijhoff, The Hague (1980).
2. SRZEDNICKI, J. T. J. (ed.) (with BROUGHTON, L. M . (ass. ed.))-Melbourne Inter- national Philosophy Series, Vol. 7—CROCKER, L. — Positive Liberty, Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague (1980).
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Chapter of Book
3. MARSHALL, G. D. —Ovcrdctermination and the Emotions, Chapter 8 in Explaining Emo- tions, ed. Amclic Rorty, University of California Press, Berkeley & Los Angeles: 197-222 (1980).
Articles
4. BROUGHTON, L. M. —The Androgyny of Christ: a philosophical discussion of masculine and feminine in Christian thought. St. Mark's Review, December, 1980: 8-72 (1980).
5. BROUGHTON, L. M. — Empiricism and Innate Structure. Papers of Warsaw University:
Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, I : 71-89 (1980).
6. COADY, C. A. J. —The Leaders and the Led: Problems of Just War Theory. Inquiry, 23:
275-291 (October 1980).
7. GODDARD, L. —Significance, Necessity and Verification. Notre Dame Journal of Por mal Logic, X X I (2): 193-215 (April 1980).
8. GODDARD, L. and GOLDSTEIN, L.-Strengthened Paradoxes. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 58 (3): 211-221 (September 19S0)
9. MARSHALL, G. D. — Review o i Action and Interpretation: Studies in the Philosophy ofthe Social Sciences, ed. Hookway& Pettit. Australasian Journal of Philosophv, 57(4): 359-361 (December 1979).
10. O'NEILL, I . . J.-Singular Causal Statements. Mind: 595-598 (October 1980).
11. O'NEILL, L. J. — Review of Kannegieser, Knowledge and Science. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 58 (4): 426-427 (December 1980).
12. PRESA, W. K.-Creativity and the Creative Process. Journal of Ihe Institute of A n Educa- don, 4 (1): 55-61 (May 1980).
13. PRESA, W. K . - S t . Thomas on Religious Faith. Sophia, 19: (3): 22-26&51 (October 1980).
14. SRZEDNICKI, J. T. J.-Spor O Uprawnienia Zwicrzat. Ruch Filozoficzny, X X X V I I : 136-142 (1979).
15. SRZEDNICKI, J. T; J.-What Creativity is Not, reprinted in S. Johnson, The Stuff of Argu- ment, Nelson: 98-104 (1980).
16. DAVIES, M . —Determinism and Evil. Australasian Journal of Philosophv, 58: 116-127 (1980).
17. DAVIES, M . , with HUMBERSTONE, L . - T w o Notions of Necessity. Philosophical Studies, 38: 1-30 (1980).
18. DAVIES, M . - A Note on Substitutional Quantification. Nous. 14: 619-622 (1980).
THESES PASSED FOR HIGHER DEGREES Master of Arts
1. BLONDER, I. G. — Psvchologism: Frege-Husserl debate.
2. INCIGNERI, J. E.-Names in fiction.
3. SANDS, C. A. —Review of Sartre's critique of Freud's theory of mind.
4. TULLOCH, G. — Skinner and 'seeing red'.
5. WOOD, D. A. R. — Rawls' theory of distributive justice.
THESES IN PROGRESS PhD Theses in Progress 1. AKIE, M. G. — Human rights, public order and social purpose.
2. BLONDER, I. G.-A theory of supposition.
3. BURNS, L. C- Vagueness.
4. CROSS THWAITE, }.—Analysis and comparison of some theories of meaning.
5. DELPORTO, A. F. — A studv of Nozick's contribution to moral and political philosophv.
6. FLEMING, P. J.-Rationality.
7. FOSTE R, R. M. — Use of symbols.
8. GREY, B. M. — Modality, reference and time.
9. HENDERSON, A. —Notion of reciprocity, its relation to Kant's ethics and metaphysics.
10. HYNES, L. M. — A comparison of the theory of moral development of Jean Piaget with his theory of knowledge.
11. JARAS1US, V. V.-Necessity.
12. KONDOR, }. —Explanation in the social sciences.
13. MARNELL, G. R. — The use of inela-ethics.
14. MILLER, S. R.-Convention.
15. OPIE, C. J. — The logical structure of a language containing vague terms.
16. PATAKI, T. — Facts, events and stale of affairs.
17. ROBINSON, D. J. — The semantics of mass terms [Monash].
18. WECKERT, J. F. — Conceptual schemes.
19. WOODS. M. — A study of the semantics of natural kind predicates and their importance and role in rational inquiry.
MA Theses in Progress 20. BECKETT, D. G.-The philosophv of creativity.
21. BORTHWICK, M. — Philosophy of history.
22. DAVENPORT, D. C. — Problems in Dummetl's philosophy of language and logic.
23. DUSCOVTC, B. — Metaphysics and ihe aeslhelic experience.
24. GI1.HEANY, J. C.-Activitv. abilitv, skills.
25. HALIK, S. C — Power.
26. HAWTHORNE, S. — The nature of belief structures and religious beliefs in ancient society.
21. .JOHNSTON, M. — Indexicalilv and the self.
2S. JOLLEY. M. C.-Mood and mode.
29. KESKINNEN, I. A. — Epistemological problems in philosophy of social sciences especially in philosoph v of history.
30. LEWIS, N. T. — Time and non-realistic theories of meaning.
31. McKlE, J. R. — Epistemology, precursors of existentialism 32. MANHAL, T.— philosophy of psychology and ethics.
33. MILLER, R. — On explanation.
34. MILTIADOU, R. — Towards an ethical knowledge.
35. NORTHROP, J. M. — Meaningfulness.
36. POULTON, .1. D. — Meaning, values and coercion.
37. RAINER, V. J. —Some metaphysical problems, wilh special reference to lmmanuel Kant.
3S. ROSE, .]. — Epislemology/nielaphysics.
39. RUSSELL, S. — Kant's moral and political philosophv.
40. SCOLYER, D. — 77ie connection between rights/duties and hierarchies of need and wants as the groundwork for a naturalistic ethics.
41. . SMITH, G. E. — Mysticism.
42. SOPHOCLEOUS, A. — Pleasure, the beautiful and the sublime are symbols of morality (us thev come out of ethical and aesthelical experience) in Kant's Critique of Judgement.
43. SPRACKLAN, i. — Kant.
44. TAYLOR, C. J. Yi.-Philosophy of language.