Browsing by Subject "ethics"
Now showing items 1-15 of 15
-
(2023-03-27)Department: Computer ScienceWhile it is advisable to be cautious in the face of new technological developments, aggressive negativity towards a piece of technology can cause fear and distrust in the technology. This is the case for deepfakes, which ...
-
(2010-04-16)Department: ReligionThis dissertation is a study of the pneumatologies of Augustine and Karl Barth, and argues that pneumatology is the performative discourse of participation in Jesus Christ. I claim that for both theologians trinitarian ...
-
(2015-10-29)Department: EnglishObedience is a concept without much purchase in the modern academy, often assumed to be synonymous with totalitarian regimes and restrictive ideologies. Yet obedience itself, when closely examined, emerges as a content-less ...
-
(2009-07-10)Department: PhilosophyThis project examines the role that emotions can and should play in morality and moral theory. A philosophical study of emotion inevitably leads to an discussion of the evaluation of emotion, which is a topic covered both ...
-
(2013-12-03)Department: PhilosophyThough Deleuze, Derrida, and Badiou each center their ethical thinking on the event, there has been no systematic investigation of the relationships between their work on the subject. After interpreting each thinker ...
-
(2019-07-12)Department: EnglishThis project brings Victorian literature and twentieth-century moral philosophy into conversation to argue that thinking about ethics also implies thinking about subjectivity. The critique of Enlightenment subjectivity as ...
-
(2012-07-19)Department: EnglishThroughout Moby-Dick, Herman Melville describes successive pairs of animals—man and man, man and whale, whale and whale—in which the two animals maintain a connection via a physical line, whether it be harpoon line, tow ...
-
(2014-04-19)Department: ReligionHistorically religion has been a powerful agent of social justice and activism within black communities. It has also been a means of organization and agency for countless blacks in areas of politics and education. However, ...
-
(2006-08-09)Department: GermanThe dissertation investigates how anthropological discourses in lexica, novels, moral weeklies, and essays shaped the constitution of the moral individual during the Enlightenment. By integrating historiography and methods ...
-
(Annals Of Surgery, 2023-01-28)Objective:The aim of this review was to review the ethical and multidisciplinary clinical challenges facing trauma surgeons when resuscitating patients presenting with penetrating brain injury (PBI) and multicavitary trauma. ...
-
(2019-08-22)Department: ReligionBringing together phenomenological and relational analyses through a critical correlational method, this dissertation asks whether empathy can help religious caregivers broaden their consciousness of marginalized persons ...
-
(2015-06-29)Department: PhilosophyThis dissertation examines the relationship between the concepts of ethics and politics in political theory. It does so by asking how conceptions of subjectivity result in formulations of ethics and politics and what this ...
-
(2021-03-17)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityResearchers have argued that students’ experience of mathematics education—especially students from historically marginalized backgrounds—is often characterized by a violence that teaches students that they are not ...
-
(2015-08-03)Department: PhilosophyLife is challenging. Philosophy is, among other things, a response to the challenges of life. Among the methods of philosophy is rational reflection on the nature of reality and the significance of life. This conceptual ...
-
(2017-07-25)Department: EnglishWhat does “virtue” have to do with “the virtual,” in any senses of these terms we now recognize? While the virtual seems a contemporary term and preoccupation, this dissertation argues that through the prism of virtue, ...