Browsing by Subject "philosophy."
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(Texas A&M University, 1997)In this thesis I argue that the best justification for an environmental ethic for the US Army is one which is based on an anthropocentric or humanistic approach, and I evaluate the Armys Environmental Ethic in light of ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2001)The philosophical approach known as existentialism is commonly recognized for its view that all of the experiences and interactions of life are meaningless. Many existentialist thinkers are led to conclude that life is ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2001)Theories of hermeneutics -- the study of interpretation -- have been used both to support and to reject the division of the natural and human sciences. Wilhelm Dilthey and Charles Taylor defend that divide, while Richard ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2001)The problems posed by gender essentialisms are important for both feminist theorists and environmental ethicists. Ecofeminist philosophers, as both feminist theorists and environmental ethicists, should therefore find ...
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(Texas A&M University, 1995)A recent resurgence in interest in the philosophy of Georg Simmel, especially by postmodernists, warrants a closer examination of his life and thought, particularly in light of the fact that he is poorly understood and ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2001)This thesis compares the descriptions of God that come from religion and from the Cosmological Argument. The Cosmological Argument has long been held to support the traditional concept of God held by religious adherents. ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004)In this thesis, I argue that current attempts to ground intentionality face one of two challenges. Either the grounding feature of intentionality will be itself intentional or the grounding feature is disparate in nature ...
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(Texas A&M University, 1996)The hegemony of the Inference to the Best Explanation as the rule which scientists follow in theorizing has been challenged in recent debates in philosophy of science by the concept of Symmetry. Inference to the Best ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2003)In this thesis I argue that Heidegger avoids a problem regarding totalitarianism that is found in political thought within the Western tradition, most specifically seen in Plato and Hegel. In order to fully understand what ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2000)In this thesis, I have explored, explicated and argued for some specific areas of commonalities between the philosophy of John Dewey and the teaching of Confucius. Both theories start with the same fundamental assumption ...
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(Texas A&M University, 1997)Human rights enforcement is an important issue within international law. Unfortunately, the status quo of human rights within international law is unsatisfactory. Men, women and children suffer daily violations of their ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)If grains of sand are added, one by one, to a growing collection of sand on an otherwise empty table, there will eventually be a "heap" of sand on the table. It seems impossible, however, to specify the precise point at ...
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(Texas A&M University, 1998)It is widely recognized that in order for one's belief to be justified (in the sense of justification thought to be necessary for knowledge, i.e., doxastic justification) one's belief must be based on that which justifies ...
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(Texas A&M University, 1999)In this thesis I argue that there is no complete notion of epistemic justification that can be defined in terms of intellectual virtues. A complete notion of justification would have to capture both the idea that there are ...
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(Texas A&M University, 1997)This first chapter locates crucial elements of James's notion of truth within James's 'The Will to Believe." James recognizes evidential criteria in the formation of belief, in contrast to a common claim that for him beliefs ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2001)The purpose of this project is to advance the thesis that the notion of an appropriative self, reconstructed from the philosophy of William James, answers, in part, the concerns outlined in the Critical Theory of Theodor ...
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(Texas A&M University, 1997)Not available
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(Texas A&M University, 1998)The use of functional language in biology creates a philosophical difficulty for anyone who, for whatever reason, maintains that biological entities were not consciously designed. Since a majority of biologists presently ...
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(Texas A&M University, 1999)Current investigations in epistemology tend to follow either the continental or the analytic school of thought. These schools of thought have different goals for epistemology and different procedures for achieving these ...
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(Texas A&M University, 1998)genetic engineering, there are few arguments made for a positive moral obligation to genetic intervention. This is especially so with respect to human germ-line gene therapy. Burke. K. Zimmerman makes one of the few arguments ...