Browsing Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Records of Study (2002– ) by Author "Easwaran, Kenny"

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    • Contextual Reason and Rationality 
      Afroogh, Saleh (2019-05-23)
      In Internal and External Reasons, Bernard Williams proposes a speculative argument for the idea that internal reasons are the only kind of normative reason, and that his counterfactual internal interpretation is the only ...
    • A Fallibilistic Approach to Education Policy 
      Petrik, Kathryn Rose (2016-04-22)
      Drawing on classical and contemporary sources in the philosophy of science and education, I argue that a robust understanding of fallibilism is absent from current education policy decisions. An inadequate appreciation of ...
    • New Tools for Classifying Convex Neural Codes: The Factor Complex and the Wheel 
      Ruys De Perez, Alexander Mark (2021-04-30)
      The neural code has prompted many questions in pure mathematics concerning how much topological data can be stored combinatorially. The question of whether one can determine the convexity of a neural code is particularly ...
    • Property of Rapid Decay and Free Wreath Products 
      Weeks, John Munroe (2022-07-21)
      Compact quantum groups have been objects of study for nearly fifty years as ``perturbations" of groups, ones whose algebras of ``continuous functions" is defined to be non-commutative. The quantum automorphism group ...
    • Rethinking the Fittingness of Emotions 
      An, Dong (2021-04-09)
      Emotions are always about something and are thus intentional. Emotional fittingness is a normative concept that is used to describe the relationship between an emotion and its object. If an emotion is fitting, it must ...
    • Stability of Heisenberg Coefficients 
      Ying, Li (2019-07-23)
      The Heisenberg product is an associative product defined on symmetric functions which interpolates between the ordinary product and the Kronecker product. Heisenberg coefficients are Schur structure constants of the ...
    • Strong Relative Novikov Conjecture 
      Tian, Geng (2019-06-19)
      This dissertation can be said to consider Relative Strong Novikov Conjecture for a pair of countable discrete groups. The first part of the dissertation is about formulation of the relative Baum-Connes assembly map for a ...