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Philosophy: Recent submissions
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Revising Philosophy Through the Wide-Angle Lens of Feminism
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Oppression by Choice
(Wiley Blackwell, 1994) -
Multiculturalism as a Cognitive Virtue for Scientific Practice
(Wiley Blackwell (Hypatia), Indiana University Press (Reprint), 1998) -
Is Pareto Optimality a Criterion of Justice?
(Florida State University Department of Philosophy, 1996) -
Indefinitely Repeated Games: A Response to Carroll
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Substance and Skepticism in Hume's Treatise
(University of Kansas, 2011-04-25)Abstract Nathan Robert Cox, Ph.D. Department of Philosophy, April 20th 2011 University of Kansas 1.4.5 of Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature provides several reasons for close, sustained reading and general concern for ... -
Other Than Omniscient: An Interpretation and Defense of Kant's Rejection of Aristotle's Notion of Finite Reasoning
(University of Kansas, 2011-04-25)Although actual human omniscience is unimaginable, it is not obvious what it means to be limited with regard to thought. One of Kant's significant contributions to epistemology was his redefinition of the limits of thought. ... -
What Moral Responsibility Requires
(University of Kansas, 2011-04-27)The primary goal of this dissertation is to articulate and defend a robust commonsense libertarian theory of moral responsibility; that moral agents are the causes, and owners, of their actions, and in virtue of this it ... -
How to Explain Oppression
(Sage, 2005)This article discusses explanatory theories of normative concepts and argues for a set of criteria of adequacy by which such theories may be evaluated. The criteria offered fall into four categories: ontological, theoretical, ... -
Enforced Pregnancy, Rape, and the Image of Woman
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Analytic Feminism: A Brief Introduction
(Wiley-Blackwell, 1995)This essay introduces the subject of this special issue by offering a characterization of analytic feminism in terms of its context, methods, and problem areas. I argue that analytic feminism is a legitimate sub-field both ... -
Illuminating the Meaning of 'being' in the later Heidegger Through Aspects of the Theologies of Pseudo-Dionysius and Meister Eckhart
(University of Kansas, 2010-07-03)The dissertation involves an attempt to illuminate the meaning of being in Heidegger through the dialectic of negation, the complex and subtle relation between affirmation and negation which is present in the 'negative' ... -
Revolution vs. Devolution in Kansas: Teaching in a Conservative Climate
(Teaching Philosophy, 2007) -
Missionary Positions
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2005)Postcolonial feminist scholars have described some Western feminist activism as imperialistic, drawing a comparison to the work of Christian missionaries from the West, who aided in the project of colonization and assimilation ... -
Educational Inequality and the Science of Diversity in Grutter: A Lesson for the Reparations Debate in the Age of Obama
(University of Kansas School of Law, 2009-05) -
From Africa of States to United Africa: Towards Africana Democracy
(University of Kansas, 2008-08-21)Since Western Liberal Democracy's philosophical, cultural, and value foundations are radically different from that of Africa and; based on post-disciplinary approach and review of the vast literature on theories and ... -
Arguments for an Alternative Account of Analyticity
(University of Kansas, 2009-11-09)This dissertation presents an alternative account of analyticity, as well as arguments for that account. Although an analysis and interpretation of previous accounts of analyticity are presented, the focus is on the analysis ... -
An Ethic of Freedom
(University of Kansas, 2009-02-09)The dissertation argues that what is moral is to act in accordance with one's prior interest in choice; knowledge of that prior interest instructs one (and especially all choosers) to help provide the pre-conditions of ... -
Dialectical Humanism: An Ethic of Self-Actualization
(University of Kansas, 2008-01-01)Abstract In the history of western philosophy, few thinkers have managed to generate as much controversy and confusion as Karl Marx. One issue caught in this controversy and mired in confusion the presence of evaluative ... -
The Logical Problem of Identity
(University of Kansas, 2008-07-31)Abstract Keith A. Coleman Department of Philosophy, February 2008 University of Kansas A traditional problem concerning the meaning or logical content of statements of identity received its modern formulation in Gottlob ...