Browsing Graduate Theses and Dissertations - Philosophy by Title
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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 ... -
Association Theory: An Aristotelian Defense of Claim-Rights
(Georgetown University, 2017)This thesis addresses the following question: Can, and should, Aristotelian normative theory account for claim-rights? In response, I argue that yes, Aristotelian normative theory can account for claim-rights to a degree, ... -
The epistemological foundation of transcendental phenomenology : Husserl and the problem of knowledge
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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 ... -
Euthanasia, assisted suicide, and the philosophical anthropology of Karol Wojtyla
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Exact Studies of Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Properties of Correlated Bosons in One-dimensional Lattices
(Georgetown University, 2013)In this thesis, we study both equilibrium and nonequilibrium properties of hard-core bosons trapped in one-dimensional lattices. To perform many-body analyses of large systems, we utilize exact numerical approaches including ... -
Exclusionary Speech and Constructions of Community
(Georgetown University, 2017)This project explores the complex ways language, social power, and identity entwine to structure social interactions and the contours of community boundaries. How an audience takes up discursive moves can constitute who ... -
Exploitation in personal relationships : from consenting to caring
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First-principles Study of Charge Density Waves, Electron-phonon Coupling, and Superconductivity in Transition-metal Dichalcogenides
(Georgetown University, 2013)In this thesis we investigate the electronic and vibrational properties of several transition-metal dichalcogenide materials through first-principles calculations. First, the charge-density-wave (CDW) instability in 1T-TaSe2 ... -
Fodor and Aquinas : the architecture of the mind and the nature of concept acquisition
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Global Climate Justice and Individual Duties
(Georgetown University, 2017)In this dissertation I develop an account of the morality of climate change. As a moral problem that is a function of the aggregation of many seemingly innocuous individual actions, climate change is in significant tension ... -
Gratitude and the Correlativity of Obligations and Rights
(Georgetown University, 2014)Most people take three platitudes about gratitude for granted: -
Heidegger's Investigation of Death: Human Finitude and the Final End
(Georgetown University, 2015)In this dissertation, I put forward a novel interpretation of Heidegger's investigation of death in Being and Time before arguing that death serves to ground the intelligibility of human existence. I show that in situating ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
In Defense of Dependence on Moral Testimony
(Georgetown University, 2015)In this dissertation, I defend dependence on moral testimony. To that end, against pessimistic views regarding dependence on moral testimony I argue that moral testimony can confer epistemic warrant and that dependence on ... -
International Political Legitimacy and Procedural Justice
(Georgetown University, 2016)In this project, I offer and defend an account of international political legitimacy of international actors with economic charters, such as the International Monetary Fund and World Trade Organization. With an emerging ... -
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. ... -
Justifying self-defense, defense of others, and the use of force in law enforcement
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The Language of Emotion
(Georgetown University, 2016)In this dissertation, I defend a novel analysis of emotional expression, and then use it to explore the myriad ways in which emotional expressions function in communication. I argue that emotional expressions may be best ...
