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2019-09-25
Gregory P. Thomas, Debbie Feisst, Virginia Pow
This is a PDF of a PowerPoint presentation that accompanies the podcasts "Developing Graduate Students’ Metacognition Regarding the Use of Citations: Scholarly Podcast" found at https://era-av.library.ualberta.ca/media_objects/4x51hj87d Teachers and students might find it useful as a framework...
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2021-02-01
SSHRC IDG awarded 2021: My proposed research project seeks to address the prevalence of a narrow and undertheorized vision of the rule of law in Canadian society. I aim to tackle this problem through three objectives. Objective 1 is to further develop my account of the theoretical underpinnings...
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Fall 2018
This thesis focuses on Abelard’s solution to the problem of understanding universals as presented in the Tractatus de Intellectibus. He examines this issue by asking what is understood when we consider the term ‘man’, a problem I call the ‘homo intelligitur [man is understood]’ problem. This is...
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2021-09-09
SSHRC IG awarded 2022: This project asks how does our ability to produce and understand conversational reduced speech change as speakers age at the phonetic, lexical, and phrasal levels? To address this research question this project proposes the creation of a cross-sectional (different age...
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What We Make for Ourselves: Interconnections of Geometry, Science, and Politics in Hobbes’ System of Ideas
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This thesis is an attempt to locate Hobbes’ civil philosophy in the context of his theory of science, which is a theory primarily about how to acquire the knowledge of causes and effects. By working through the reasons why Hobbes praises geometry, this thesis will explain why he believes that...
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2021-04-29
This article investigates the later philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein from the perspective of Intellectual Freedom in librarianship. The article argues that Intellectual Freedom tends to be informed by individualism and linguistic idealism. This in turn limits IF to advocacy rather than social...