Here are some essays and writeups from my last couple of years at uni. Judging by the google search results, most people seem to be interested in my Thesis, or the reading option paper on the History of Cryptology.

Thesis

Thesis – Implicit knowledge: How thinking of concepts as sets of instances throws new light on the sciences and other expert disciplines.

From HPST2118 tutorials at UNSW, “Body, Mind and Soul”

Behaviourism

Consciousness as a Brain Process

Descartes

Free Will and Determinism

Chomsky and Putnam on Innateness of Language

Plato’s Meno and Aristotle’s De Anima

The Mind-Body Problem

Personal Identity and Brain Transplantation

Final HPST2118 Essay

Free Will and Determinsm – an old problem revisited

From HPST2111 “The Scientific Revolution”

Thomas Kuhn and The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Karl Popper and Falsificationism

Final Essay – Is the puzzle not why it took so long for Aristotelian natural philosophy to be overthrown, but why it was ever overthrown at all?

Reading Option

A Brief History of Cryptography

Coursework for Thesis

Barnes and Ravetz

Thesis Seminar

Seminar Writeup – Readings on the macrohistory of human invasion processes Looking at John Keegan and Jared Diamond

Final Essay – Internalism, Externalism, Contextualism, Dynamicism