Philosophy: Recent submissions
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Contemplation, the Noble, and the Mean: The Standard of Moral Virtue in Aristotle's Ethics
(De Gruyter, 1995-12-01)No abstract is available for this item. -
Selection, Drift, and Independent Contrasts: Defending the Methodological Foundations of the FIC
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2013-02-01)Felsenstein’s method of independent contrasts (FIC) is one of the most widely used approaches to the study of correlated evolution. However, it is also quite controversial: numerous researchers have called various aspects ... -
Duties and Ideals in Leonard Nelson's Ethics
(De Gruyter, 1960) -
What's Wrong with These Cities? The Social Dimension of sophrosune in Plato's Charmides
(John Hopkins University Press, 2001-07) -
The General Account of Pleasure in Plato's Philebus
(John Hopkins University Press, 1996-10) -
Conceptualized and Unconceptualized Desire in Aristotle
(John Hopkins University Press, 1994-10) -
Emergence and Reflexive Downward Causation
(Principa, 2002)This paper responds to Jaegwon Kim's powerful objection to the very possibility of genuinely novel emergent properties. Kim argues that the incoherence of reflexive downward causation means that the causal power of an ... -
How to Resolve an Ethical Dilemma Concerning Randomized Clinical Trials
(Massachusetts Medical Society, 1999-08-26)An apparent ethical dilemma arises when physicians consider enrolling their patients in randomized clinical trials. Suppose that a randomized clinical trial comparing two treatments is in progress, and a physician has an ... -
Nietzsche's Questions Concerning the Will to Truth
(John Hopkins University Press, 2012)By a will to truth Nietzsche understands an overriding commitment, unlimited in scope, to believing in accordance with evidence and argument. I show that the critique of this commitment found in Nietzsche’s later works ... -
Hegel's Concept of Desire
(John Hopkins University Press, 2009)Hegel’s assertion that self-consciousness is desire in general stands at a critical point in the Phenomenology, but the concept of desire employed in this identification is obscure. I examine three ways in which Hegel’s ... -
Hutcheson's Deceptive Hedonism
(John Hopkins University Press, 2010-10)Francis Hutcheson’s theory of value is often characterized as a precursor to the qualitative hedonism of John Stuart Mill. The interpretation of Mill as a qualitative hedonist has come under fire recently; some have argued ... -
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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Is Capitalism Good for Women?
(Springer Netherlands, 2014-05-21)This paper investigates an aspect of the question of whether capitalism can be defended as a morally legitimate economic system by asking whether capitalism serves progressive, feminist ends of freedom and gender equality. ... -
Truly humanitarian intervention: considering just causes and methods in a feminist cosmopolitan frame
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-11-29)In international law, ‘humanitarian intervention’ refers to the use of military force by one nation or group of nations to stop genocide or other gross human rights violations in another sovereign nation. If humanitarian ... -
Commitment as Motivation: Amartya Sen’s Theory of Agency and the Explanation of Behavior
(Cambridge University Press, 2014-03-04)This paper presents Sen's theory of agency, focusing on the role of commitment in this theory as both problematic and potentially illuminating. His account of some commitments as goal-displacing gives rise to a dilemma ... -
Social Movements, Experiments in Living, and Moral Progress: Case Studies from Britain’s Abolition of Slavery
(University of Kansas, Department of Philosophy, 2014-02-11)