Browsing by Department "Philosophy and Humanities"
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(2022-05-18)This dissertation reexamines the experience of human finitude in the hermeneutical works of Karl Jaspers, Martin Heidegger, and Hans-Georg Gadamer. In this, I claim that hermeneutic experience is an experience with human ...
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The term “moral luck” is used to describe any instance of where a moral agent is appropriately praised or blamed for an event or its outcomes despite having no control over the preceding causes of either the event or its ...
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Polarization has become an increasingly concern for the United States, especially in recent years. The political parties have refrained from working together, but instead have been dehumanizing one another that has been ...
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(2009-05-15)The phenomenon of addiction has been a subject of investigation for a number of academic disciplines, but little has been written about addiction from a philosophical perspective. This dissertation inserts philosophy into ...
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(2017-07-31)TThis dissertation investigates how aesthetic play supports moral life, with the Shakespeare Behind Bars (SBB) prison theater program as its centerpiece. This project responds to the ascendancy of instrumental rationality ...
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An Aesthetics of Liberation: Gonzalo Arango's Neglected Thought and Cultivating Un Sentido de Vivir (2019-05-28)In this dissertation, I focus on the theme of liberation explored through the work of 20th century Colombian poet-philosopher, Gonzalo Arango (1931-1976). Gonzalo Arango founded the countercultural movement, Nadaísmo, in ...
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(2022-12-12)Introduction Internalists and externalists disagree over the source and nature of moral motivation. Internalists believe that motivation necessarily accompanies moral judgments and so is internal to moral judgment. ...
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(2018-08-06)Anticolonial Amerika: Resisting the Zone of Nonbeing in an Anglo-Saxon Empire revives the anticolonial tradition of Black radical philosophy, drawing upon its unique understandings of race and empire, citizenship and ...
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(2019-05-15)The plot of Sophocles’ Antigone is that Antigone performs the burial rites for her brother, Polyneices, despite the ruling king’s decree that anyone caught doing so would be sentenced to death. My project surveys the ...
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(2016-04-12)Theories of substance have dominated much of the literature in metaphysics. Today, there are two prominent accounts of substance: bare particularism and bundle theory. Both theories are attractive for different reasons, ...
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In the standard literature today, the prevalent view concerning Aristotle’s theory of reproduction in Generation of Animals is the argument that Aristotle conceives of a system in which the end goal of reproduction is the ...
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(2011-08-08)In the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle introduces his Doctrine of the Mean, where he argues that virtue is the mean between two extremes, the mean between excess and deficiency. However, Aristotle mentions actions whose ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)This project sets as its goal the development of an Intelligent Design paradigm that makes falsifiable predictions. According to Karl Popper, such falsifiability is a key component of scientific theories. To accomplish ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)There is a debate in the philosophy of time over the status of non-present entities. Do these things exist, and if so, what sorts of things are they? Recently, the debate has split into two groups, presentists and ...
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(2012-07-16)This thesis seeks to address two distinct sets of criticisms that have been offered at medical practice. The first criticism suggests that medicine today is too exclusive in its application of the term 'disease.' As a ...
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(2021-07-26)The history of philosophy has been characterized by a suspicion of technology. Discourses surrounding technology—from the pre-Socratics to the present—often position technology as an external other and as something that ...
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(2019-11-26)The Africana philosophy reliance on a few mainstream theorists of slavery, who constitute the school of philosophical thought, diminishes the philosophical importance of the theories of slavery and freedom developed by ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)This thesis will examine the individual and the community. The question will be, what effect does the community have on the individual, and whether or not this limits individuals development and personal freedom. I will ...
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In the year 2020, the United States of America was ravaged by the global COVID-19 pandemic. However, even in a pandemic, crimes are committed, and people are imprisoned. The severely overloaded court system was forced to ...
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(2018-05-07)The aim of this project is to create a conceptual blueprint for a Chican@ philosophy. I argue that the creation of a Chican@ philosophy is paramount to liberating Chican@s from the imperial and colonial grip of the Western ...