Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "Philosophy"
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(2011-07-28)Department: PhilosophyFor over thirty years now, reclamations of historical women’s philosophical writing have provided us with more access to the work of women who have largely not been represented in philosophical history. Yet, within the ...
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(2017-08-08)Department: PhilosophyMy research centers on analytic pragmatist approaches to intentionality. One goal that defenders of such approaches set for themselves is to be able to provide a naturalistically sound account of intentionality without ...
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(2019-07-15)Department: PhilosophyIn this dissertation, I adapt Aristotle and neo-Aristotelian philosophers to argue that (a) a virtue of playfulness exists, and (b) playfulness is necessary for achieving happiness. Playfulness helps people, uniquely and ...
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(2021-03-25)Department: PhilosophyThe philosopher Adrian Margaret Smith Piper has labored hard to show how theories of knowledge and theories of motivation are deeply embedded in a ‘conception of self’ that guides how self-conception functions for the ...
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Placebos of Development: A Critique of Modern Health Objectivity in Kant, Marx, and Psychoanalysis (2009-12-16)Department: PhilosophyIn my dissertation, I critically examine the relationship between health, development, and the unconscious conditions of our symbolic use of objects of value. If we look at the average biomedical and cognitive-behavioral ...
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(2015-07-21)Department: PhilosophyRawlsian political liberalism is often rejected by feminist philosophers on the grounds that it reinstates a problematic public/private divide and includes sexist comprehensive doctrines as reasonable. My dissertation ...
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(2015-03-18)Department: PhilosophyIn this dissertation I explore the conceptual relationship between equality and resistance in political philosophy. Through examination of the work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, John Dewey, and Jacques Rancière, I ...
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(2013-07-29)Department: PhilosophyIn this dissertation, I establish that Ludwig Wittgenstein’s and Michel Foucault’s thoughts share a common philosophical ethos of freedom which shapes the political dimensions of their works. As opposed to accusations on ...
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(2009-07-25)Department: PhilosophyIn this dissertation I use the philosophies of William James and Friedrich Nietzsche to draw a connection between metaphysical conceptions of experience and the meaning and practice of democratic education. I argue that ...
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(2015-03-27)Department: PhilosophyAgainst non-analytic naturalism and quietist realism, I defend a robust form of non-naturalism. The argument proceeds as follows: In the face of extensional underdetermination, quietist realism cannot non-question-beggingly ...
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(2015-07-20)Department: PhilosophyIn this project, I combine theoretical resources from metaethics and philosophy of language with contemporary issues in critical philosophy of race. Drawing from these literatures, I examine the nature of racial norms by ...
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(2021-08-18)Department: PhilosophyWhite supremacy is often conceptualized as an ensemble of affects, attitudes, beliefs, practices, and/or institutions that directly or indirectly harm people of color by virtue of their social status as people of color. ...
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(2015-03-23)Department: PhilosophyReal Fit: Identity, Society, and Viewer Investment in Reality TV is first and foremost a philosophical experiment in how to articulate the space between viewer and screen. It’s driven by a methodological investment in ...
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(2012-07-11)Department: PhilosophyFollowing an analysis of the theory and practice of traditional liberal democratic and moral philosophy from Locke to Rawls, I combine Dewey's pragmatic ethics and his suggestion that politics be understood as shared problem ...
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(2015-03-19)Department: PhilosophyWhile the writings of Freud, Benjamin, and Cavell have exerted an interest on philosophers of various persuasions, they have nonetheless remained unclassifiable in terms of familiar philosophical categories. This is due, ...
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(2010-05-07)Department: PhilosophyABSTRACT: REPRESENTING MATERNITY IN PHILOSOPHY Few living philosophers would conjecture that women cannot be philosophers; however, the classical notion that those who “generate life” cannot “create ideas” continues to ...
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(2016-02-29)Department: PhilosophyMedicine needs re-articulation of its moral commitments and obligations and re-dedication to the recognition of patients as persons. The practice of medicine is crucially dependent upon patient trust to accomplish its goals ...
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(2018-07-18)Department: PhilosophyThe aim of my dissertation is to explore philosophical questions motivated by the mass sexual slavery of Yazidi women and girls by the Islamic State. The Islamic State has targeted the Yazidis in Syria for destruction due ...
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(2018-08-15)Department: PhilosophyThe aim of this dissertation is to define and defend a viable concept of ideology. I seek to do this by situating myself within the nexus of Baruch Spinoza’s Ethics and G.W. F. Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. I argue that ...
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(2014-08-01)Department: PhilosophyThis dissertation examines sexual difference in its logical, natural, and spiritual iterations throughout Hegel’s Encyclopedia system, in light of the fact that no previous feminist interpretation of Hegel has adopted a ...