Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "Philosophy"
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(2012-07-26)Department: PhilosophyInnovations 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 ...
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(2016-04-04)Department: PhilosophyThis dissertation proposes the central elements of a Social Enactive Theory of Perception (SEP). According to SEP, perception consists in sensory-based practices of interaction with objects, events, and states of affairs ...
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(2014-07-29)Department: PhilosophyRecent philosophical research on normativity has clarified the nature and dynamics of social norms. Social norms are distinguished from legal and moral norms on the basis of their scope, their grounds, their characteristic ...
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(2021-03-27)Department: PhilosophyG.W.F. Hegel’s political thought took shape in response to the two great democratic revolutions of his lifetime (France, Saint-Domingue). Although Hegel sympathized with aspects of both rebellions, his final judgment was ...
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(2012-10-03)Department: PhilosophyI demonstrate how listening functions in deliberative endeavors. Because speaking does not much matter if no one is listening, I argue that democratic participation can be undermined by those who simply refuse to listen ...
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(2015-03-30)Department: PhilosophyScholars have begun to explore Baruch Spinoza’s critique of rationalism, largely because of his importance for later thinkers deeply concerned about the nature of body, including Nietzsche, Freud, Marx, Frankfurt school ...
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(2012-07-10)Department: PhilosophyThe dissertation examines how Kantian constructivism seeks to retain a Kantian theory of ethics without the burden of Kant’s metaphysics. I examine Rawls’ decision to sidestep the problem of metaphysics altogether. I then ...
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(2015-06-29)Department: PhilosophyThis dissertation examines the relationship between the concepts of ethics and politics in political theory. It does so by asking how conceptions of subjectivity result in formulations of ethics and politics and what this ...
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(2016-11-30)Department: PhilosophyTax policy discussions are dominated by economic theories, and do not often involve philosophical analysis. Because tax is applied distributive justice, it makes sense to bring the insights of philosophy to bear on the ...
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(2012-07-24)Department: PhilosophyMy dissertation suggests a new approach to political and ethical questions surrounding immigration by providing an account of the ways that “illegal aliens” are constituted as subjects in the contemporary United States ...
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(2004-12-20)Department: PhilosophyKant’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 ...
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(2019-07-17)Department: PhilosophyStatistics indicate that one in five women will be raped in her lifetime. Despite rape’s prevalence and regularity, victims are often disbelieved – their testimony treated as aberrant and astonishing. Current literature ...
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(2008-07-26)Department: PhilosophyExperience seems to give us insight about what objects are valuable, which actions are right or wrong. These experiences seem, at the very least, to provide us with some direction about the appropriate response towards ...
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(2014-11-25)Department: PhilosophySince 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 ...
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(2012-07-23)Department: PhilosophyAnimals have populated philosophical texts in various forms: idioms, jokes, metaphors, and examples. But most often they are summoned as a foil to illustrate what it means to be human. Animals are instrumental in the ...
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(2015-03-16)Department: PhilosophyThis 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 ...
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(2010-08-05)Department: PhilosophyThis dissertation clarifies a tension within the modern ideals of sovereignty that inform the contemporary state system. On one hand, sovereignty is idealized as a kind of authority that constitutes the collective subject ...
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(2012-07-18)Department: PhilosophyPHILOSOPHY THE PHENOMENON OF MEANING AND HEIDEGGER’S ONTOLOGY DAVID G. FRAHM Thesis under the direction of Professor Michael Hodges The thesis is presented that the “ontological meaning” of an individual thing (a being) ...
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(2021-07-13)Department: PhilosophyThis 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 ...
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(2024-02-01)Department: PhilosophySeveral scholars working at the intersection of social-political philosophy and the philosophy of race & racism have turned toward Marxist theories of racist ideology to explain how persistent and systematic racial injustice ...