Browsing by Subject "Kant"

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    • Emotional Intelligence and Moral Theory: A Kantian Approach 
      Williamson, Diane (2009-07-10)
      Department: Philosophy
      This project examines the role that emotions can and should play in morality and moral theory. A philosophical study of emotion inevitably leads to an discussion of the evaluation of emotion, which is a topic covered both ...
    • Kant and the Crisis of Symbolic Rationality 
      Eamon, Kathleen Margaret (2008-12-30)
      Department: Philosophy
      This dissertation develops a theory of symbolic rationality, which it posits as an affectively informed mode of cognition modeled on Kant’s conception of reflective judgment as presented in his Critique of Judgment but ...
    • Silence and Silencing: Aesthetic Response as the Impetus for Community Formation 
      Bradfield, Erin Cecilia (2012-07-26)
      Department: Philosophy
      Innovations in aesthetic and linguistic expression contribute to the expansion of communication and culture, yet these innovations in expression are often the target of censure. In this dissertation, I explore the risks ...
    • The Compass of Reason: Intellectual Interest in the Beautiful as a Mode of Orientation 
      Cunningham, Sarah Bainter (2004-12-20)
      Department: Philosophy
      Kant’s Critique of Judgment discusses reflective judgment as a faculty that mediates the concept of nature and freedom. The dissertation provides a detailed exploration of the concept of intellectual interest as a significant ...
    • The Genesis of Heidegger's Reading of Kant 
      Bredeson, Garrett Zantow (2014-11-25)
      Department: Philosophy
      Since its 1929 publication, philosophers have been more or less unsure what to make of Heidegger’s Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics. Although it wielded more than its fair share of influence over the course of the ...
    • The living system: Life, ideation and freedom in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit 
      Matocha, Johanna Martha (2015-03-16)
      Department: Philosophy
      This dissertation engages the question of the relation between nature and rationality, and the conditions of our freedom, through the lens of the concept of Life. It begins by analyzing biological life in Kant’s Critique ...
    • The Problem of the Highest Good: Kant and Hope in the Age of Environmental Collapse 
      Heneghan, Fiacha D.; 0000-0002-8508-5677 (2021-07-13)
      Department: Philosophy
      This dissertation explores the origins of a pessimistic strand in Kant’s ethical thought and uses it as a lens for understanding contemporary environmental issues. Kant’s ethics is riven by the inevitability of clashes ...