Category Archives: University Theses

(1976) An Examination of Sir Karl Popper’s Political Philosophy with Reference to Popper’s Exposition and Critique of Marxism

TABLE OF CONTENTS SYNOPSIS CHAPTER 1: EPISTEMOLOGY AND POLITICS CHAPTER 2: POPPER’S EXAMINATION OF HISTORICISM CHAPTER 3: POPPER’S CRITIQUE OF THE HISTORICIST DOCTRINE OF POLITICS CHAPTER 4: POPPER’S EXPOSITION AND CRITIQUE OF MARXISM CHAPTER 5: WHAT IS LIVING AND WHAT IS DEAD IN POPPER’S POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY BIBLIOGRAPHY   SYNOPSIS This thesis provides a critical exegesis…

(2016) The Application of a Theory of Real Options (TRO) to the Decision-making of Mega Urban Transport Projects (MUTPs)

The Ph.D. thesis, completed in 2016 at the School of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne, investigated the application of a theory of real options to decision-making on major transport projects.

(2013) New Boots from the Old: Matthew Walker Robieson’s Ideas and the Struggle for Guild Socialism

This Ph.D. thesis, completed at the Australian Defence Academy of the University of NSW, revives interest in a philosopher, Matthew Walker Robieson (1890-1919), Assistant Lecturer in Moral Philosophy at Glasgow University from 1911 to 1913, Lecturer in Moral Philosophy and History of Philosophy, Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) from 1914 to 1919, and frequent contributor to The New Age journal and other publications.

(2012) A.J. Penty and the Spaces of Hope

This M.Sc. thesis, completed at Campion Hall at the University of Oxford, revives interest in the ideas of Arthur J. Penty and places his thought in the context of an English tradition of sustainability.