Browsing Graduate Theses and Dissertations - Philosophy by Title
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A Propositional Attitude Approach to Emotions
(Georgetown University, 2018)Being an emotional being is having a unique mode of access to certain sorts of evaluative facts, such as that a bear is scary. Fear is a way of accessing that fact. What I mean when I say that emotions are unique modes ... -
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, ... -
Being-Together: An Essay on the First-Person Plural
(Georgetown University, 2019)This dissertation concerns the philosophy of the first-person. It consists of three principal philosophical studies, each concerning a set of concepts that, when taken together, form a skeletal though unified account of ... -
Eating as a Self-Shaping Activity
(Georgetown University, 2019)My dissertation offers a new account of eating as a self-shaping activity. I argue that the ways we understand and practice eating shape our agency, affects, capacities, values, temporality, and other important aspects of ... -
The epistemological foundation of transcendental phenomenology : Husserl and the problem of knowledge
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Epistemological Hermeneutics in the Clinic
(Georgetown University, 2021)Sometimes, people using different epistemological strategies have to work together on a shared project. The differences between their epistemological strategies may make it difficult to share knowledge relevant to their ... -
Ethics and the Social Constitution of Agency
(Georgetown University, 2021)In this dissertation, I offer an account of the social constitution of agency and I show how it grounds normative features applying to us as agents. This is a theory that I call social constitutivism. Constitutivism holds ... -
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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Get Good: Self-Regulation, Education, and Epistemic Agency
(Georgetown University, 2018)In this dissertation, I defend a unified account of knowledge and use it to articulate and resolve a number of problems in social epistemology. I argue that to know how to Φ is to have a self-regulated ability to live up ... -
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 ...
