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Fall 2011
First and foremost, this work offers a critical review of recent influential environmental theorists’ efforts to construct and defend normatively significant accounts of wilderness. As such, this work focuses on the definitions provided by environmental philosophers Eric Katz, Holmes Rolston...
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Fall 2013
The Non-Identity Problem arises in cases in which an agent causes someone to exist in an undesirable state, and it intuitively seems they have acted wrongly by doing so. It can be difficult to locate the source of this wrongdoing, however, since in these cases there is no way for the agent to...
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Political Liberal or Comprehensive Capabilities? A Critique of Nussbaum's Capabilities Approach
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This project examines the capabilities approach as developed by Martha Nussbaum. Its question is whether Nussbaum’s theory is best conceived as a version of political liberalism as she contends, or rather as a form of comprehensive liberalism that is culturally sensitive and pragmatically...
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Circumstance, Character or Both? The Intersection of Situationist Social Psychology, Virtue Ethics and Virtue-Ethical Moral Education
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Situationist social psychology challenges the existence of robust character traits of the sort moral virtues are taken to be. This problematizes a virtue-ethical moral education project which aims to develop good character and thereby improve “interpersonal human relations” (Carr 1999, p.29)....
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Fall 2018
My goal in this dissertation is to identify the essential features of mass art and provide a definition of mass art in terms of a set of necessary conditions which are jointly sufficient. To achieve this goal, I will provide a conceptual analysis of mass technology, mass appeal, and emotion in...
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Spring 2021
There are many things that we might feel obligated to justify to other people, but having a child is not usually one of them. It is difficult to imagine a decision more personal, or more apparently within one’s rights to make. Yet in recent decades a number of thinkers have raised questions and...
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Fall 2023
Since the establishment of modern bioethics in standardized medicine in the mid-late 20th century, the paradigm of Principlism has dominated its teleological landscape. This dominance is largely attributable to the success of the book, Principles of Biomedical Ethics. The multi-faceted nature...