Philosophy Student Papers and Projects

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This collection includes student projects and papers produced in the Philosophy Department.Abstracts are generally available to the public, but PDF files are available only to current Kalamazoo College students, faculty, and staff. If you are not a current K College student, faculty, or staff member, email us at dspace@kzoo.edu to request access to this material.

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    Quine’s double standard, revisited
    (2016) Dalluge, Brian
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    Conference Paper
    (2014) Morris, David
    Habermas's Discourse Ethics provides the most hospitable, democratically-oriented platform for considering individual, legal moral rights. This theory has social requirements that had to be met-namely, a robust educational system and an engaged public-and I briefly showed that Gutmann's democratic theory of education is the answer to these social requirements in order that human rights are representative of, democratically determined by, and secured for the people of the modern state. A system that may pragmatically work in the diverse modern state we share today. In order that this system proves effective, though, is a matter for the public to discuss and decide.
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    Co-authoring Speech Genres: A Bakhtinian Approach to Mutually Recognitive Dialogue
    (2011) Cheatham, William R.; Latiolais, Christopher, 1957-
    In his theory of communicative action, Habermas posits that language is a fundamentally intersubjective tool used for the activity of reaching mutual understanding. Interlocutors assume the freedom to question claims made in discourse and use reason to achieve communicative power together. Thus language in itself forms the drive mechanism of successful discourse—that is, only by presupposing the ability of other subjects to take language as an alterable, reason-based, and empowering tool is mutually recognitive dialogue possible. However, beyond these basic presuppositions, speakers maintain, I argue, an acute appreciation for the particular ways of speaking—what Bakhtin termed “speech genres”—at work in conversation. It is my position that sensitivity to the influence that speech genre choices have on the subjectivities in dialogue poses the subject as ethically responsible for the co-creation of ways of speaking that are more or less enabling for interlocutors in context. While speakers use the norms of communication in different social and institutional spheres to inform their choice of utterance, these norms depend as well on changing, contextualized patterns of speech. Thus the subject takes an active stance in dialogue: communicative freedom allows the subject a bearing in the utterance act as a rearticulator of speech genre, as one who can therefore influence generic norms.
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    Habermas and Bakhtin: Two Conceptions of Truth
    (2010) Cheatham, William R.; Latiolais, Christopher, 1957-
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