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The purpose of this dissertation is to argue that while a discussion of the nature of human knowledge might be a worthy goal to pursue in public education, the science classroom is not the appropriate place for this discussion. The...
In this paper I set out to problematize what the distinguished evolutionary biologist, Edward O. Wilson, has presented to a popular audience as his consilience worldview. Wilson's consilience worldview is a metaphysical framework that...
This dissertation has grown out of a simple observation. I happened to be reading selections from Bishop Joseph Butler's sermons and his dissertation On the Nature of Virtue around the same time that I was reading Jane Austen's Mansfield...
Empirical research suggests that our moral behaviors, judgments, and intuitions have been evolutionarily selected for because they provide strategic solutions to the problems we face as social animals. Nonetheless, a great deal of moral...
This dissertation defends the position that vagueness is semantic – a feature of language and thought alone. In order to do so, I argue that vagueness is genuine; that it cannot be reduced to ignorance. I then refute three arguments that...
This dissertation both surveys contemporary work in metanormativity and argues for a position that I call moderate normative skepticism. I begin by evaluating efforts to characterize the normative domain and conclude that while some...
Modality refers to the concepts (and surrounding controversies) of "possibility" and "necessity." Recently, a great deal of attention paid to these concepts in metaphysics. Not surprisingly, this literature has not been adopted in the...
The central thesis of the following dissertation is that we should understand moral worth as the practical corollary of knowledge. I therefore agree with those standard accounts of moral worth which maintain that moral worth requires us...
Suppose I don’t give this dissertation a title. In such a case am I responsible for not giving my dissertation a title? Does my responsibility for not giving my dissertation a title require that I could have given my dissertation a title...
The purpose of this study is exposition on the themes of method and mysticism in the work of Simone Weil. Nearly a decade before the onset of her first mystical experience, Weil developed a method to be rigorously applied in daily...
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