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Several philosophers have appealed to social scientific evidence in support of the view that most people fail to act on the basis of reasons far more often than is ordinarily recognized. According to the so-called “situationist” research...
An underexplored aspect of moral experience is the experience of apprehending ("seeing") other people as mattering, grasping the significance of whether their interests are set back or enhanced. I refer to these as value-apprehensional ...
Historically-oriented and revisionist scholars advance two main approaches to contemporary just war thinking. Historically-oriented scholars argue for the continued use of historic just war thinking as it has provided sufficient, ...
It seems to me that the greatest contribution which Christianity has made to the history of ethics is its claim that what we should do, above all else, is love—love everyone with no exceptions. It is strange to me that this insight has...
In "Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing", Miranda Fricker offers a framework of the ways in which an agent can be wronged in her capacity as a knower. According to Fricker, epistemic injustice comes in two interrelated...
After numerous obstacles and the inability to establish a placement in which to conduct my thesis, I decided to reframe my topic in order to explore the challenges of conducting art therapy research as a graduate student. Previous...
Given a friend who has committed a grave moral transgression against someone else, how should one react to them in the public sphere? In this paper, I focus on cases of unacknowledged, grave transgressions with a human victim, involving...
This dissertation aims at contributing to conceptual debate about good lives by offering a framework for understanding the concepts that concern us here. I present a theory of the good lives in terms of well-functioning. A life that...
This work examines the debate between the luck and relational egalitarians. The former, including authors like Dworkin, Cohen, Arneson, Tan, and Lippert-Rasmussen, are said to view equality as deriving from the nullification of certain...
In this study, I investigate the history and ethical implications of Christian discourses of political power, expressed through the modern phenomenon of bureaucracies. I argue that as a technical system of political power there is little...
This dissertation aims to present a more compelling and transformative religious-moral framework for environmental behavior. It specifically seeks to offer alternatives to prevalent Anglo-European, Christian approaches such as dominion, ...
This dissertation examines market-based shifts in moral reasoning within nineteenth-century England's lucifer matchstick industry. Lucifers were the first widely-produced friction matches, able to be struck on any surface thanks to a...
Religious communities find unity in a shared tradition, system of beliefs, and a determination to respond to those beliefs through active ethical engagement in the world. While these shared beliefs, often founded on sacred texts and...
In this dissertation, I examine the prospects for moral particularism. Moral particularism, which, like most views, comes in a variety of flavors, is essentially the view that the role general principles have traditionally played in...
In this dissertation, I argue for a virtue-epistemological take on doxastic agency, doxastic reasons, doxastic obligations, and doxastic justification. After a brief introduction, in chapter 2 I argue in favor of doxastic involuntarism....
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...
My dissertation approaches the issue of Muslim radicalization in the West from the standpoint of comparative religious ethics (CRE). As practitioners of a discipline rooted in the analysis of arguments, scholars of comparative religious...
In this project, I contribute to ongoing debates regarding proper conceptions of “political Islam” or “Islamism” by bringing greater attention to the roles that Islamic mysticism, or Ṣūfism (taṣawwuf), has played in shaping theories and...
It seems well accepted that agents can only be morally responsible for what they voluntarily control. Yet as a matter of practice, we seem to hold agents responsible for items outside of their voluntary control, blaming others for...
A viable theory of well-being has useful applications for individuals and groups alike. Psychologists frequently refer to notions of well-being for the sake of enhancing patients' well-being when it is lacking, and public policy makers...
My aim here is to offer and defend an account of forgiving, which I’ll call ‘the charity account’: to forgive is to declare an enemy a friend (with respect to some wrong). That phrase employs a few semi-technical terms that need...
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...
Two basic types of proposals for elucidating the concept of existential meaning have been made in the literature: 1) monist proposals; 2) family-resemblance proposals. Monist proposals attempt to give one overarching concept to which all...
This dissertation contains emotion. In fact, it is about emotion, and particularly how emotions can disrupt and otherwise force us to reexamine our preconceived notions (or hypothetically predicted values) about important facets of our...
Tom Skinner, a preacher and evangelist from Harlem during the 1960's and 70's was publicly critical of Billy Graham's support of Richard Nixon. He and Graham shared many of their theological commitments but not their political ones. This...
The present study revisits both historically and analytically the work of Ernst Troeltsch (1865–1923), centering its interpretive lens primarily around his various theoretical and methodological contributions to Religionswissenschaft....
In 2015, Pope Francis published his second encyclical entitled Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home. The encyclical’s primary purpose was to address the widespread inequality, poverty and injustice that threatens to worsen as we...
The genre of Arthurian literature is defined by its presentation of a noble society of knights and ladies, most often utilized in literary texts as a kind of medieval shorthand for acceptable social behavior, perhaps especially in...
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...
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...
This dissertation provides a comparison of religious ethics between Christian and Muslim sources to describe an anti-imperial liberation ethic. It takes three subjects – Gustavo Gutierrez, Camilo Torres, and Ali Shariati – and...
This dissertation contends that scholars should incorporate a concern for the suffering of those most vulnerable as a criterion for evaluating the merits of works of theological ethics. It does so by considering four case studies in...
Some philosophers have recently argued that a decision-theoretic model of rational choice can guide us to the answer of what it is appropriate to do in situations of moral uncertainty (i.e., uncertainty about what one ought to do). By...
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