Browsing Graduate Theses and Dissertations - Philosophy by Creation Date
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Euthanasia, assisted suicide, and the philosophical anthropology of Karol Wojtyla
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Fodor and Aquinas : the architecture of the mind and the nature of concept acquisition
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Human Well-Being: The No Priority Theory
(Georgetown University, 2009)Desire-fulfillment (DF) theories and objective list (OL) theories are the two dominant types of theories of human well-being. I argue that DF theories fail to capture the good part of `good for', and that OL theories fail ... -
Justifying self-defense, defense of others, and the use of force in law enforcement
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Exploitation in personal relationships : from consenting to caring
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The epistemological foundation of transcendental phenomenology : Husserl and the problem of knowledge
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The normativity of personal commitment
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The well-governed person
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Responsibility for group transgressions
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The metaphysical role of causal roles
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A two-dimensional account of epistemic modals
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The Ethics of Public Health Nudges
(Georgetown University, 2012)There is growing interest in using non-coercive interventions to promote and protect public health, in particular "health nudges." Behavioral economist Richard Thaler and law scholar Cass Sunstein coined the term nudge to ... -
Ties that Bind: Respect and Relationship-Based Responsibilities
(Georgetown University, 2012)We commonly think we have special obligations to our friends and family members. For instance, if someone's brother were to move to town, we would likely think that she ought to at least offer her help, though we would ... -
Agony and Integrity: An Erotic Psychology for Prefigurative Ethical Practice
(Georgetown University, 2012)The goal of this dissertation is to clarify and address a problem of integrity understood as the question of how one ought to live out one's robustly motivating and normatively orienting attachments to persons, projects ... -
Islamic Democracy: The Struggle for and Limits of Recognition
(Georgetown University, 2012)The post-uprising Arab world is facing a problematic socio-political situation. For some, infusing the political realm with Islamic principles and reasoning - the practice of Islamic politics - is key for their emancipation. ... -
Political Obligations Without Authority
(Georgetown University, 2012)What grounds political authority? When pursuing this question, philosophers often proceed as though the very idea of one party obligating another by issuing a speech act--here, enacting a law--is puzzling. Yet children ... -
Resolving the Ethical Challenges of Irregular War
(Georgetown University, 2012)After more than ten years of war, the United States military is still trying to come to grips with the practical and ethical demands of combating irregular adversaries. This discussion will examine and attempt to resolve ... -
The Political Dimensions of Quotidian Choice and the Expressive Theory of Rationality
(Georgetown University, 2013)Many of our everyday choices take place within sprawling and complex political structures and processes that bring about outcomes that we view as harms. Yet, because an individual's actions do not contribute measurably ... -
Owing it to Us
(Georgetown University, 2013)Ethical theorists have traditionally analyzed duties, both individual and collective, into two categories: duties to others and duties to oneself. Reflection upon the moral domain, however, suggests cases in which an ... -
Hume's Faculty-Based Account of Reasoning
(Georgetown University, 2013)I resolve several longstanding disputes about Hume's view of reasoning and his faculty psychology by clarifying Hume's use of terms related to reasoning. After first arguing that Hume uses many terms in more than one sense ...
