Philosophy Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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Nietzsche: experiencing the real
(University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)Abstract My argument is about the centrality of the imageless in The Birth of Tragedy. I argue that the imageless is not just the absence of image, but that in The Birth of Tragedy the imageless is rather to be indentified ... -
AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE AND BECOMING GOOD: AN EXAMINATION OF THE CONNECTION BETWEEN AESTHETICS AND ETHICS IN PLATO, KANT, AND IRIS MURDOCH
(University of Kansas, 2014-12-31)ABSTRACT In my dissertation, I examine the connection between aesthetic experience and morality. I specifically focus on the work of Plato, Kant, and Iris Murdoch, who all share the thesis that aesthetic experience has an ... -
Studies on the iodine coulometer
(University of Kansas, 1935) -
A historical and experimental study of reaction time
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DAVIDSON ON ACTIONS: REASON, RATIONALITY, AND IRRATIONALITY
(University of Kansas, 2014-12-31)Donald Davidson's analysis of weakness of will explains the possibility of weakness of will and the cause of weakness of will. Davidson shows the compatibility between the existence of incontinent actions and the principle ... -
Metaphysics and Natural Kinds: Slingshots, Fundamentality, and Causal Structure
(University of Kansas, 2014-08-31)My dissertation addresses a question relevant to metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of science: What are natural kinds? I explore a view that holds that natural kinds are complex, structural properties ... -
The Utility of Religion: Mill, Nietzsche, and James
(University of Kansas, 2014-08-31)In contrast to the truth of religion, the utility of religion has been a historically-underappreciated subject of philosophical scholarship and everyday discourse, and this dissertation aims to draw more attention to the ... -
Happiness and Welfare
(University of Kansas, 2014-08-31)In this dissertation I argue that while hedonism seems to be the correct theory of happiness, happiness does not seem to be the essence of welfare; after all, it appears that a person may be brainwashed over a given duration, ... -
Effects and Meaning: Metaphors as Implicit Speech Acts
(University of Kansas, 2014-08-31)In this paper I show that the typical accounts of meaning do not provide us with what is most important about metaphors. The meaning of a metaphorical utterance is nothing more than what it says. What is important about ... -
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Modern Interpretations of the Unconscious
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Cognitive Akrasia in Moral Psychology and Normative Motivation
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)A number of persistent questions surround akrasia. Is akrasia (acting intentionally against one's own better judgment) possible? If it is, how best to explain akrasia in a way consistent with acceptable theories of normative ... -
Why Sensations Must be Neurological Properties: A Defense of the Identity Theory
(University of Kansas, 2013-05-31)In this dissertation, I defend the thesis that qualitative mental states known as qualia (e.g., tastes, feelings, pains) are identical to physical properties. In Chapter 1, I argue that qualia have a functional role in the ... -
Hybrid Accounts: Uncovering the Philosophical and Psychological Foundations of the Distortion of Information Via News Presentation
(University of Kansas, 2013-05-31)Ideally, democratic citizens enjoy equal opportunity to deliberate, vote, and express feedback, as well as equal voice enabling them to civically participate in order to further their projects and interests. To take full ... -
Bernard Williams's Internalism: A New Interpretation
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)There has been significant and continued debate over the nature and truth of Bernard Williams’s internalism. My aim is to resolve much of the dispute over both of those issues by providing a new interpretation of his ... -
The Philosophy of William James
(University of Kansas, 1911-05) -
The Concept of the Absolute
(The University of Kansas, 1910) -
Imitation
(University of Kansas, 1912-05-31) -
The Socialization of the Individual Through Education
(University of Kansas, 1910) -
Evolution of the Roycean Philosophy
(University of Kansas, 1909)