SENIOR PAPERS: PhilosophyA selective of list of student research papersAll students in the Department of Philosophy are required to write are required to write a senior paper or to produce a senior project to demonstrate competency as an philosophy major. Ramsey Library Special Collections holds bound volumes of senior papers from 1992 and 1995 to 2006. Copying or publication of these papers is not permitted but they are available for review in Special Collections.
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2006Evans, Leigh F. -- John Rawl's The Law of Peoples: A Flawed Foundation to an International Law Theory ; cannot copy/publish Falls, James -- Quine, Holism, and Science ; cannot copy/publish Gardner, Eric -- Godel as Phenomenologist ; cannot copy/publish Harlan, Kostas -- Dialectical Materialism and Philosophy ; cannot copy/publish Holcombe, Kristen -- Nussbaum's Capabilities Approach for Individuals with Special Needs ; cannot copy/publish Perlowin, Shane -- Formal Indeterminacy: Cageian Indeterminacy as an Expression of Kantian Formalism ; cannot copy/publish Poteet, Geoff -- Adorno's Method and its Consequence ; cannot copy/publish Roach, David -- Berel Lang's Incomplete Principle of Forgiveness ; cannot copy/publish
2005Perry, Margaret 'Meg' -- "A Philosophical Comparison of Aristotle and Mencius: A Study on Virtue" ; cannot copy/publish
2004Arcos, Carlos James -- Moral Obligation and the State: How the State Must be Subject to a Moral Imperative ; cannot copy/publish Bokmiller, Vincent James -- Matter and Form: An Argument for Thomas Aquinas' Composite Theory ; cannot copy/publish Close, Rob -- Williams James and Pragmatic Belief ; cannot copy/publish Green, Karl Joseph Deneke -- A Critique of Democracy ; cannot copy/publish Holloman, Crystal -- Criticism of John Dewey's Philosophy of Education: Kieran Egan and Bertrand Russell ; cannot copy/publish Kitchen, John -- Tension and Release: A Philosophical Inquiry Into Music's Ability to Express Emotion and/or Affect an Emotional Release in a Listener ; cannot copy/publish Macomber, Colin -- "Success and Failure in Quine's Naturalized Epistemology" ; cannot copy/publish Rosen, Alex -- Mandating Sustainability: Resolving the Tragedy of the Commons ; cannot copy/publish
2003Brewer, Sarah -- Assessing the Role of Veracity in the Medicinal Practice: The Components of a Physician's Ethical Duty ;cannot copy/publish Brown Zach -- Kosgaard's Appeal to Autonomy and Positive Use of Placebos ; cannot copy/publish Cunningham, Brian -- Danto's Use of Indiscernibles in his Definition of Art ; cannot copy/publish Eland, C. J. -- Economics of Liberty: A Response to Hayek's Critique of Socialism ; cannot copy/publish Ludes, Joe -- "The Exclusionary Functions of Truth in Deliberate Democracy" ; cannot copy/publish Muhlin, Margaret -- The Harms of Assisted Reproductive Technology ; cannot copy/publish
2002Charen, Hannes-- Joyful Suffering and the Decadence of the Ascetic ; cannot copy/publish Locke, John -- Accounting for the Nature and Ethical Status of Interactions Through the Work of Emmanuel Levinas ; cannotcopy/publish MacKay, Karen L. -- Searching for a Universal Element in Existentialism ; cannot copy/publish Meilleur, Laurie -- "The Education of Polemarchus: Justice is to Harm as Fish is to Pogostick" ; cannot copy/publish Norin, Sterling -- An Investigation into the Use of :Dynamic Rhetoric" in Plato's Phaedrus ; cannot copy/publish York, Kevin R. -- Problem of Evil: A Concise Overview ; cannot copy/publish
2001Davis, Kristi A. -- A Particular Portrait of the Duty: Duty as a Social and Political Concept ; cannot copy/publish D'Onofrio, Andrew -- [Untitled] ; cannot copy/publish Eckard, Thad - [Untitled] ; cannot copy/publish Grissom, Caren Elaine -- Human or Market Value? Ethical Conflict in the Mental Health Care System ; cannot copy/publish Smith, Seth -- On Technological Accountability: Can Humans Use Technology Ethically? ; cannot copy/publish Staatz, Natasha -- Humans: Source of Moral Evil ; cannot copy/publish
2000Berner, Amanda -- An Existential Analytic of the Beautiful ; cannot copy/publish Boersma, Anna H. -- Civil Disobedience Revisited: An Analysis of Thoreau's Civil Disobedience ; cannot copy/publish Jackson, Keri -- The Institutionalization of Birth and the Oppression of Women ; cannot copy/publish Morris, Alexandra -- Lyotard's Postmodern Politics ; cannot copy/publish Triplett, Stephen -- Ethics as a Logical Institution ; cannot copy/publish Wagener, Lauren -- Negritude: Equality or Assimilation? ; cannot copy/publish
1999Sanders, Sean -- Marx, the Classless Society, and Perfection ; cannot copy/publish Wiles, Katie -- Machiavelli and Rousseau: The Idea of a Republic ; cannot copy/publish
1998Cruitt, Ray -- Philosophy vs. Theology ; cannot copy/publish Keel, Jared -- What is Truth? A Study and an Answer Experimental ; cannot copy/publish Kirk, James -- Aristotle or Nietzsche or Calvin? Alasdair MacIntyre and Richard Mouw on the Origins of the Enlightenment Project ; cannot copy/publish Landrum, Brian -- "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition" Rethinking Christian Morality and War ; cannot copy/publish Liner, Heather -- An Analysis of the Mystical Claim of Ineffability ; cannot copy/publish Parker, Chris -- Discourse on the Divine: How We Use Language to Speak of God ; cannot copy/publish Tweed, Patricia D. -- Utilization Principles in a Modern Economy ; cannot copy/publish
1997Phillips, Jeremy -- A Battle of Wills: Jonathan Edwards' Answer to Thomas Hobbes ; cannot copy/publish
1996Hardy, Benjamin J. -- The Problem of Representation or Can We Know the Truth of the Original From the Copy? ; cannotcopy/publish
1995Hensley, Dale -- Retributive Punishment ; cannot copy/publish
1992Martin, Joan (Kayli) -- Toward an Ethics of Respect ; cannot copy/publish | |||||
