Browsing Philosophy Senior Integrated Projects by Title
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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 ... -
Action, Intention, and Desire as Discussed by Hampshire Melden and Anscombe
(1965)This project began as an ambitious program to demonstrate how various concepts of a person were related to various types of ethical theory. During the course of my research my interest began to focus on one o£ the ... -
Actions, Reasons and Becauses
(1970)The purpose of this project is to delve into this controversy and become familiar with the major arguments involved and examine their weaknesses and strengths. I will be primarily concerned with the positions of four ... -
An Adequate Conception of Personhood as the Foundation of Political Theory
(2001)Within the Western political tradition, two distinct conceptions of human being have emerged. According to one account, men and women are deemed to be social in nature. Aristotle once referred this by claiming man to be ... -
The Aesthetic Subject: Exploring the Relation Between Art and Post-Kantian Philosophy
(2010-04-27)The aim of my SIP was to explore the relationship between knowledge, subjectivity, and art in a way that might reconcile the Kantian notion of self-determination with more contemporary doubts concerning the ability of such ... -
The Aesthetics of Kant
(1984)Kant's aesthetic theory asseses one particular problem: why is it when we judge an aesthetic object to be beautiful, we demand the assent of others. Kant discusses four moments--"Quality," "Quantity," "Relation," and ... -
Afterword and Afterward
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An Analysis of Moral Education
(1977)My S.I.P. is an analysis of the distinction of moral and skill education. Methodologically, I have analyzed three writers, Kant in the monograph Education, Dewey in his lectures on Experience and Education, and Illich ... -
An Analysis of Wittgenstein's Picture Theory
(1980)Wittgenstein's distinction between what is shown and what can be said is controversial because implicit in this distinction is the assertion that both sides of it are mutually exclusive, that is, what can be shown ... -
Art as Social Commentary
(2003)Too often in our busy contemporary lives we separate the beautiful into a domain aside from our daily regimen. Art is left for aesthetes who presumably form subjective and fleeting opinions in order to maintain a discourse ... -
At the Intersection of Cyberspace and Democracy: The Internet as a Digital Public Sphere
(2011)The purpose of this work is to explore the postmetaphysical justification and structure of democracy as advocated by Habermas by examining the concept of the public sphere. This examination takes place amidst a long-running ... -
Autonomy, Critical Praxis, Self-Realization, and Freedom: a Philosophical Analysis of the Banking Model and the Need for Aesthetic Education in the Learning Environment
(2013)In contemporary society, education practices have become characteristically unilaterally structured, giving rise to the subordination of self-realization of the student to institutionalized training of generic skills and ... -
Axel Honneth and Jurgen Habermas on Critical Social Theory: A Focus on Their Theories of Social Evolution
(1997)This paper was inspired by a debate that I was first introduced to in Chris Latiolais's Continental Philosophy class. While reading Axel Honneth's Struggle for Recognition and Jiirgen Habermas's Theory of Communicative ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Herland: An Unfeminine Feminist and A Female World Without Women
(1991)Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born in 1860 in New England, lived a long and productive life, and died in 1935. During her lifetime she was described by her peers as one of the most influential women in the United States. ...