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The purpose of this work is to introduce the writings of composer and music critic Virgil Thomson to the discourse of philosophy of music. It is divided into four main parts. Part one is an introduction and biographical sketch of Thomson...
Increasingly, psychologists and neuroscientists have become interested in moral psychology and moral judgment. Despite this, much of moral philosophy remains isolated from this empirical research. I seek to integrate these two...
The problem of moral luck is rooted in the following pair of conflicting intuitions. On the one hand is the idea that the basis of moral assessments should be limited to factors under agents' control. This intuition can be formulated as...
Do humans lack character? Or if they possess it, is it very different from what most people think it is? While it has long been held that character plays an indispensible role in moral theory, recent work from social psychologists...
A large portion of philosophy done in the Western analytic tradition attempts to provide conceptual analyses which are tested by examples that elicit intuitions. These intuitions are, in turn, used as evidence either for or against a...
Although the word "autonomy" is not featured in daily folk discourse, the concept of autonomy as self-government is endemic in Western culture. Each of us wants to be free to make her own decisions for her own reasons, but given the...
According to the Principle of Alternate Possibilities (PAP), a person is blameworthy for what he did only if he could have avoided doing it. This principle figures importantly in disputes about the relationship between determinism, ...
While most philosophers agree that the concept of intentional action plays an important role in our folk psychology, there is still wide-scale disagreement about the precise nature of this role. Unfortunately, there has traditionally...
Sometimes ignorance functions as a legitimate excuse, and sometimes it doesn't. It is widely maintained that, when the ignorance an agent acts or omits from is blameless, it excuses an agent. Call this claim the Blameless Ignorance...
I intend to examine a particular human behavior, suicide, from an evolutionary perspective. It has been nearly 150 years since Darwinism has captivated the minds of mankind and I consider this thesis to be a continuation of Darwin's work...
In this dissertation, I draw from the fields of philosophy, psychology, and applied behavior analysis in order to present what I take to be a necessary condition for morally responsible agency, the Integrated Mental Status condition (IMS...
At Theaetetus 187b, Socrates' interlocutor Theaetetus offers a definition of knowledge as true belief. Since Socrates has already argued that Theaetetus' first definition of knowledge as perception is inadequate, the discussion has moved...
At the intersection of meta-ethics and philosophy of science, Nicholas Sturgeon's "Moral Explanation" ([1985] 1988), Richard Boyd's "How to be a Moral Realist" (1988), and David Brink's Moral Realism and the Foundations of Ethics (1989)...
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