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Philosophy Senior Integrated Projects
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This collection includes Senior Integrated Projects (SIP's, formerly known as Senior Individualized Projects) completed 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.
All materials in the Kalamazoo College Digital Archive are subject to Title 17 of the U.S. Code. All rights reserved. Unless otherwise stated, authors retain the copyright for all content posted to the Kalamazoo College Digital Archive.
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On the Fragmentation of Contemporary Society : An Aesthetic Diagnosis and Prescription
(2022-05-13)The more we are online in the current age of social media, the more we struggle with disconnection from our physical world. The deterioration of our passionate involvement in the world can be seen as some kind of gross ... -
DIY Senior Integrative Project
(2022-03-01)I initially set out to use Heidegger’s Being in Time as the foundational theory for revealing illusions of authenticity and resoluteness in everyday life through the short form social media content labeled “do-it-yourself”. ... -
Belief, Obligation, and Objectivity
(2022-03-01)In this paper, I develop and argue for the view that an agent’s moral obligations depend on their non-moral beliefs, a view which I call doxasticism. I situate doxasticism within the current debate on whether an agent’s ... -
Modal Branching Temporalism : An Alternative to Lewisian Genuine Realism
(2022-03-01)Possible worlds theory has been wildly successful in contemporary logic and metaphysics ever since Kripke (1959) proved the completeness and consistency of modal logic using possible worlds semantics. According to possible ... -
Habermas’ Critical Social Theory and the Evolution of Money
(2022-03-01)Money plays a terrifyingly dominant role in our lives. In one way or another, it is interrelated with almost every aspect of modern society and because of this prevalence, it is difficult to imagine a world without it. ... -
On the Gendered Subject: Queering Heteronormativity
(2022-03-01)The thinkers that I have chosen provide optimistic doctrines although it might not seem that way on the surface. They invite us to be more comfortable with the idea of gendered freedom and viewing our gender as more ... -
The Body and Mind in Transition
(2021-03-01)The question of what it is to have a mind and a body is a recurring central theme in both early and modern philosophy. This question come to the forefront when examining and understanding transgender identities. In the ... -
Act and Rule Utilitarianism
(2021-06-01)Utilitarianism is a doctrine of ethical theories that justifies the rightness of all actions on the outcome in which they produce. By accepting the foundation that Utilitarianism roots itself in, which states that rightness ... -
An Exploration of Personal Identity : Internal V. External
(2020-04-01)The self is a curious thing. It is not primarily physical but can be created and destroyed. The philosophy of self is the study of the many conditions of identity that make one a subject of experience. The self is sometimes ... -
A Philosophical Examination of the Strategic and Distorted Nature of Social Media through the Frameworks of Plato, Habermas, and Kierkegaard
(2019)This essay focuses on the dangerous nature of social media through an analysis of Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” Habermas, and Kierkegaard. Plato’s allegory represents the imagistic nature of social media. This is an ... -
Ecological and Cultural Self-Understanding Through the Language of Food
(2018)Applying a critical analytic approach to food studies touches both environmental and social concerns since food exists fluidly—inextricably connecting the two. Thus, a critical theory approach to food extends across the ... -
Language and Ontology : A Reconstructive Study of the Analytic Philosophy of Language
(2018)The overarching aim of this project is an investigation of the relationship between language and ontology. For these reasons, my SIP should be seen as a reconstructive enterprise, one I undertook with the intents of telling ... -
Physician-Assisted Death
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“Fill all my holes, please”: Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference, and Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac
(2015)When approaching Lacan’s theory of subjectivity, it is important to keep in mind that, up until recently, in the English-speaking world, French poststructuralist thought along with postmodern theory have historically been ... -
Critical Pedagogy for Life Projects
(2002)The work begins with a consideration of Gary Gregg's structuralist theory of self. I introduce a variety of concerns stemming from a number of basic conceptual assumptions at work in his ideas. These concerns serve to ... -
Music and the Sublime: Aesthetics, Phenomenology, and Lacanian Psychoanalysis
(2015)This project first explores the relation between art and the sublime with a special emphasis upon music, for it has been historically accorded a certain affinity to this borderline experience. It is for this reason that ... -
Trans Healthcare Politics: The Affective Motility of the Flesh
(2015)There has not been much work on the connections of Trans Theory to healthcare politics. In navigating trans healthcare politics and theory I have encountered three main groupings of theoretical approaches: Judith Butler ...
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