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. ...

This dissertation presents three scholarly papers dealing with the philosophical dilemmas of drone warfare that challenge the pervasive reliance of current literature on a paradigm of colonialist ideology and offer alternative ...

This study proposes an approach to a solution for the problem of the perceived ‚separatedness‛ of language from reality which employs the rhetorical concept of ethos, the doctrinal concept of the Chalcedonian definition ...

Mestizaje—the notion that people of Latin American descent are neither Indigenous nor European, but a “species midway”— has and continues to serve as an ideological tool that at most times is oppressive to the majority of ...

This thesis focuses on the contemporary literature in Anglo-American analytic jurisprudence that takes answering the question â what is law?â as the primary goal. Agreement about what is lawâ that is, agreement about ...

Five studies tested for evidence of teleological (i.e., function- or purpose-based) reasoning in the folk psychology of personal identity. Specifically, these studies tested the hypothesis that teleological processes give ...

The term American Exceptionalism is used to designate political myths purporting the qualitative distinction of the United States to other nations. I argue that American Exceptionalism should not be viewed as a single ...

In this thesis I present a cosmopolitan case for open borders. First, I examine the U.S. border policy of the last several decades and challenge its cost-effectiveness and impact on undocumented immigrants. Then I tackle ...

In this dissertation, I examine the practice of what I term serial memoir in the second-half of the twentieth century in American literature, arguing that serial memoir represents an emerging and significant trend in ...

In Kant's critical system, war plays a dual role as a catalyst for cultural development and as a moral evil to be overcome. In this thesis, I explore the geopolitical language of domain and territory used in Kant's third ...