This thesis explores Heidegger’s project in Being and Time as a response to the central problem of transcendental philosophy: epistemological foundationalism. Kant and po[...]

This paper attempts to explore the nature of human dignity as used by Martha Nussbaum in her Capabilities Approach. After introducing the Capabilities Approach system fro[...]

Bias is deeply embedded in human perception, decision-making, and social interactions, shaping the ways we interpret the world, develop artificial intelligence systems, a[...]

This dissertation addresses three critical topics at the intersection of ethics and aesthetics in the digital age. First, it examines the existing literature on the moral[...]

This thesis offers an explication of Jerrold Levinsons arguments for the realism of aesthetic properties, insofar as he claims that some are real as response-dependent pr[...]

The discovery of rigidification by Kripke and its formalization by Kaplan in the case of a definite description was misinterpreted as providing a pretext for the theory o[...]

Transcendental arguments have been a topic of considerable debate in philosophy during the last several decades. Most of the debate surrounding transcendental arguments h[...]

The Sources of Normativity is lauded as one of the most important contemporary works in ethics. However, Korsgaards lectures are brief and gloss many complicated theoreti[...]

The guiding question in the Theaetetus is what is knowledge?, and as inmost of Platos dialogues no satisfactory answer to the guiding question is found. My dissertation w[...]

This dissertation shows that Charles W. Mills theory of the Racial Contract provides a conceptual foundation for resisting systemic racism. Several objections to the usef[...]

This work lies at the juncture between religious epistemology and virtue epistemology. Currently, both fields in epistemology are burgeoning with interest and novel theo[...]

Plato has Socrates give a formulation of the Principle of Non-contradiction (PNC) in book IV of the Republic. The principle is used as a premise in an argument which div[...]

One of the most contentious topics in contemporary environmental philosophy is whether an effective environmental ethic should be holistic or individualistic in scope. I[...]

In this project, I clarify and expand on G. E. M. Anscombes claim that its logically incoherence for philosophers to employ the concept of obligation in their moral theor[...]

The goal of my dissertation project is to defend two logically independent but related conclusions regarding epistemic justification. The first is that epistemic justific[...]

Gilles Deleuzes "Riemannian geometry of sufficient reason" casts everything as a solution to a problem. John Cages 433, soap films, heronseach is comprehensible only in t[...]

The subject of the present work is the currently fashionable,scientific view of reality, which Ishall denominate reductive materialism.Accordingto this metaphysical theor[...]

Philosophers have come to no consensus on the role of honor and its relationship to moral philosophy. This dissertation uses the frame of the Beowulf, the life of St. Fra[...]

When discussing how it is that we persist through time, most philosophers have, at best, an incidental place for things like moral character traits; if these traits have [...]

I argue that understanding Ernst Cassirer's Philosophie der Symbolischen Formen Vol. 1 Die Sprache requires grasping how he predicates "autonomy" to language, and I argue[...]

In my dissertation, I aim to bring emotion into philosophy. I explore how to philosophically understand emotions better, and simultaneously, how to emotionally understand[...]

Traditionally, the concept of universality has been governed by four dogmas: the principle of non-contradiction, the finitude of the concept, the separation of the princi[...]

In his recent works, Paul Ricoeur devotes considerable attention to the importance of John Rawlss political philosophy. At the same time, he develops his own positive acc[...]

This project begins with the assumption that modern technology has radically increased the scope and impact of human action. Since ethics concerns itself with human acti[...]

In this dissertation I take up a reading of Leibnizs metaphysics from the perspective of his mathematical reflections on the nature of infinitesimals. A longstanding trad[...]