Philosophy: Recent submissions
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The philosophy of Edwards
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The Significance of a Life’s Shape
(The University of Chicago Press, 2015-01)The shape of a life hypothesis holds, very roughly, that lives are better when they have an upward, rather than downward, slope in terms of momentary well-being. This hypothesis is plausible and has been thought to cause ... -
Objectivity and Perfection in Hume's Hedonism
(John Hopkins University Press, 2015-04)In this paper, I investigate David Hume’s theory of well-being or prudential value. That Hume was some sort of hedonist is typically taken for granted in discussions of his value theory, but I argue that Hume was a ... -
The Natures of Pride and Shame
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)In this dissertation, I explore the natures of emotional pride and shame. Using elements from Hume’s discussion of pride and humility in Book 2 of the Treatise, as well as Gabriele Taylor’s analysis of pride and shame in ... -
Parmenides' Theistic Metaphysics
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)The primary interpretative challenge for understanding Parmenides’ poem revolves around explaining both the meaning of, and the relationship between, its two primary sections: a) the positively endorsed metaphysical arguments ... -
The problem of immediate knowledge in the philosophy of Mr. Bertrand Russell and Mr. Bernard Bosanquet
(University of Kansas, 1927) -
The brain’s cutting-room floor: segmentation of narrative cinema
(Frontiers Media, 2010-10-01)Observers segment ongoing activity into meaningful events. Segmentation is a core component of perception that helps determine memory and guide planning. The current study tested the hypotheses that event segmentation is ... -
Changes in Events Alter How People Remember Recent Information
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2011-05)Observers spontaneously segment larger activities into smaller events. For example, “washing a car” might be segmented into “scrubbing,” “rinsing,” and “drying” the car. This process, called event segmentation, separates ... -
Virtue and Heroism
(University of Kansas, Department of Philosopy, 2015-10-23) -
Letter knowledge in parent–child conversations: differences between families differing in socio-economic status
(Frontiers, 2014-06-24)When formal literacy instruction begins, around the age of 5 or 6, children from families low in socioeconomic status (SES) tend to be less prepared than children from families of higher SES. The goal of our study is to ... -
Philosophical Methodology and its Implications for Experimental Philosophy
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)Since most philosophers accord some role to intuitions in the practice of philosophy, my dissertation’s first paper addresses an important subsidiary question: Whose intuitions should be allowed to play a role in proper ... -
The Primitive Thesis: Defending a Davidsonian Conception of Truth
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)In this dissertation I defend the claim, long held by Donald Davidson, that truth is a primitive concept that cannot be correctly or informatively defined in terms of more basic concepts. To this end I articulate the history ... -
Kant's Knowledge of Unknowable Things in Themselves: An Examination of the Doctrine of Ignorance and the Non-spatiotemporality Thesis
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)This dissertation is an examination of things in themselves as they are presented in the Critique of Pure Reason. Chapter 1 deals with Kant’s notion of a thing in itself generally. I argue that Kant uses ‘things in themselves’ ... -
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 ... -
Mindreading and Tacit Knowledge
(Elsevier, 2014-01)Debate over the nature of mindreading proceeds on the assumption that theory and simulation offer distinct characterizations of this ability. The threat of collapse objection questions this assumption, suggesting that ... -
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
(University of Kansas, 1920) -
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 ... -
Harming the Dead
(University of Chicago Press, 1985-10-01)No abstract is available for this item.