Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "Philosophy"
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(2009-03-31)Department: PhilosophyA major focus in recent studies of Josiah Royce has been on his relevance to applied ethics—to ethics in the public sphere. These accounts have shown, in numerous ways, the historical and ongoing relevance of Royce’s ethics. ...
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(2019-07-19)Department: PhilosophyIn my dissertation, I engage in a political history of waste; in particular I look at modern philosophers from the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries and the way that waste functions alongside narratives of ...
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(2015-08-03)Department: PhilosophyLife is challenging. Philosophy is, among other things, a response to the challenges of life. Among the methods of philosophy is rational reflection on the nature of reality and the significance of life. This conceptual ...
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(2020-05-19)Department: PhilosophyIn “White Mythology,” Jacques Derrida claims that the structure of metaphor reveals the impossibility of constructing complete theories of meaning. He targets two metaphors—the metaphor of metaphor, and the metaphor of ...
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(2023-07-11)Department: PhilosophyThis dissertation argues that a sufficiently worked out concept of habit is crucial for understanding race, and specifically whiteness. It has become common for race theorists to think about white privilege as a matter of ...
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(2023-07-11)Department: PhilosophyThis dissertation argues that a sufficiently worked out concept of habit is crucial for understanding race, and specifically whiteness. It has become common for race theorists to think about white privilege as a matter of ...
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(2013-06-17)Department: PhilosophyWorking at the nexus of bioethics and disability studies, I argue that the quest for human enhancement is at least partially motivated by the rejection of the disabled body. In other words, positive and negative eugenics ...
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(2016-07-26)Department: PhilosophyIn this dissertation, I respond to the question: “What should institutions of criminal justice provide to persons aggrieved by murder?” I argue that a common response of victims’ rights advocates—that support for aggrieved ...
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(2021-06-02)Department: PhilosophyIn this dissertation, I explore a question in liberal political philosophy about what it takes to treat citizens with equal regard in health care using insights from public health practices and bioethical theory. Two views ...
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(2013-01-04)Department: PhilosophyThe purpose of my dissertation is to develop a reading of three of the most significant concepts in Nietzsche’s thought, namely will to power, will to truth, and self-overcoming. Specifically, I argue that Nietzsche ...
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(2014-07-18)Department: PhilosophyAs the cognitive sciences reveal more and more to us about the ways in which ours brains function, legal scholars, philosophers, and bioethicists are but a few of the academics that will have accommodate this increasing ...
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(2010-08-03)Department: PhilosophyMy dissertation explores the significance of “biopower” to forms of life and language in the contemporary West. Generally defined, biopower is a type of regulatory power that directs and fosters the biological life of ...