The phrase "thesis defended" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It typically refers to a student successfully presenting and defending their thesis in front of an academic committee. Example: "After months of research and preparation, John proudly presented his thesis to his faculty advisors and successfully defended his arguments with a strong presentation."
This is the thesis, defended by Bas van Fraassen in his 1980 book, The Scientific Image, that the aim of science (or at least "pure" science) is the construction of theories that are "empirically adequate" (that is, that yield a true or correct description of observables) and not, as scientific realists suppose, theories that aim to tell literally true stories about unobservables.
That chapter title combines two conceptually distinct theses: first, the thesis defended by Michael Ghiselin (Ghiselin 1997) and championed and refined by David Hull Hulll 2001), that species are in a robust sense of the term 'individuals'; and second, that there may well be selection among groups of organisms, qua groups.
In his thesis defended in Berlin on 18 February 1869 and devoted to the microscopic anatomy of the pancreatic gland, Paul Langerhans reported the presence of some cell groups that were not in connection with the ducts and quite genuinely wrote, "I admit frankly that I am not able to explain the nature and function of these cells... .......... (10).
The Institut de Recherches Scientifiques sur les Boissons ( IREB) offers grants for research on alcoholic drinks, including an annual thesis prize of ?2000 for the best PhD thesis defended at a French university looking at alcoholic drinks from the perspective of biology, sociology, epidemiology, or economics.
The monistic interpretation of the ten theses defended below was first proposed by Hu Shih (1922).
Frkovic et al. reported data on master theses defended at two Croatian medical schools [ 20].
This is exemplified in Table 4, which is a listing of selected theses defended at Umeå University.
Stephanie Zacharek, at Salon, claimed that "this isn't filmmaking; it's thesis defending".
The thesis defends free schools – currently the subject of fierce debate between the Conservatives and Labour – and says some are "an inspiration", citing the Greenwich free school, in south-east London, which teaches children from 8am to 5.30pm each day and offers Oxford-style subjects such as PPE, politics, philosophy and economics, from year 7.
Tune in next time to see what happens once the thesis is defended and the partying begins.
This thesis is defended by Dretske (1995) and Lycan (2001), and criticized by Block (1990) and (1996).
