Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "Philosophy"
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(2019-08-21)Department: PhilosophyWhile blame is not a difficult practice to defend, in part because of its ineradicability in our moral lives, angry blame has been a tougher sell. Critics of angry blame cast it as an unnecessary, punitive, or unproductive ...
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(2016-06-24)Department: PhilosophyDrawing on empirical evidence in medicine, economics, law, and anthropology, I argue that a market is uniquely capable of meeting the demand for transplantable kidneys, and that it may be arranged so as to operate safely. ...
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(2023-05-03)Department: PhilosophyThis dissertation rehabilitates the concept of social class for contemporary social and political philosophy. In much contemporary work, the concept of class is often uncritically presupposed in an unreconstructed Marxist ...
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(2015-03-31)Department: PhilosophyMy thesis aims to defend Wittgenstein’s concept of the “ordinary” as a unique conception of “home” which can model a form of political subjectivity crucial for our complex form of contemporary life. I use the term of the ...
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(2011-08-04)Department: PhilosophyMy dissertation tackles the question of how to theorize the democratic commitment that collective decisions must accommodate the voices and interests of those subject to them. The rigorous demands of this democratic ...
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(2010-12-13)Department: PhilosophyA TRIAL OF PHILOSOPHY JOEL C. BEAUPRÉ Dissertation under the direction of Professor David C. Wood This “trial of philosophy” is of whether suffering, through a reading of Job, can arraign philosophy. I examine the form ...
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(2023-07-18)Department: PhilosophyPhilosophy aims at uncovering the deeper truths about our world and ourselves, and it does so by means of argument. Argument is philosophy’s prime mover. However, given the fact that extra-argumentative norms often pollute ...
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(2014-12-01)Department: PhilosophyHannah Arendt theorizes that public spaces for thought and private spaces of reflection are constitutive components necessary for the production of a robust political world of thinkers, story-tellers and meaning-makers. ...
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(2021-07-19)Department: PhilosophyAfrican American Language (AAL), African American Vernacular English (AAVE), or Ebonics argumentative tactics are seen as hostile, irrational, and not adhering properly to norms of Western argumentative engagement. Speakers ...
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(2017-06-08)Department: PhilosophyContemporary theories of blame say surprisingly little about self-blame. My thesis is that by examining self-blame, we learn something distinctive about the value and nature of blame as such. Through an analysis of cases ...
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(2019-07-17)Department: PhilosophyMy Cavellian argument is that the form or space of skeptical questioning – regardless of whether we are asking about the veridicality of the appearance of another’s pain, about the veridicality of the meaning of a word or ...
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(2020-07-24)Department: PhilosophyMichel Foucault’s deeply influential theorization of modern power has had an extraordinary impact on those disciplines seeking to understand the “historical ontology of ourselves.” Despite his radical claim that the modern ...
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(2020-07-19)Department: PhilosophyThis dissertation performs an examination of the role played by religion – conceptually and semantically – in the debate over the best conception of public reason. The public reason debate has recently been revitalized by ...
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(2019-06-13)Department: PhilosophyWe intuitively think and talk about health care as a human right. Moreover, we tend to talk about health in the language of basic rights or human rights without a clear sense of what such rights mean, let alone whose duty ...
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(2022-05-03)Department: PhilosophyIn this dissertation, I propose a framework for evaluating a minimally adequate egalitarian theory of justice. I argue that the minimum adequacy requirements for such a theory are that the theory must be (1) clearly an ...
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(2007-08-03)Department: PhilosophyA standard epistemic view of political legitimacy (e.g. Plato’s or Rousseau’s) holds that political outcomes are legitimate if they are correct. There is a dispute between such views, however, about who can expertly produce ...
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(2016-08-24)Department: PhilosophyThis dissertation examines the injustices perpetrated against Indigenous people in Canada within the explicit framework of democratic theory. I examine the ability of Deweyan democracy as a purported problem-solving mechanism ...
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(2015-02-09)Department: PhilosophyPHILOSOPHY Echoing Demystified Aspirations: Human Flourishing and the Dialectic of Happiness Patrick Joseph Ahern Dissertation under the direction of Idit Dobbs-Weinstein The question of the possibility or even the ...
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(2009-07-10)Department: PhilosophyThis 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 ...
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(2016-08-01)Department: PhilosophyDrawing on the work of Audre Lorde and Hannah Arendt, I offer an account of the problem of epistemic injustice that focuses on the contributions of hermeneutically marginalized epistemic agents. Taking Miranda Fricker’s ...