Browsing by Author "Charles Scott"

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    • Epistemic Injustice Expanded: A Feminist, Animal Studies Approach 
      Tuvel, Rebecca Dayna (2014-07-14)
      Department: Philosophy
      In this dissertation, I argue that an account of epistemic injustice sensitive to interlocking oppressions must take us beyond injustice to human knowers. Although several feminist epistemologists argue for the incorporation ...
    • Ethics and the Event in Deleuze, Derrida, and Badiou 
      Davies, Christopher Jason (2013-12-03)
      Department: Philosophy
      Though 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 ...
    • Figuration: A Philosophy of Dance 
      Hall, Joshua Maloy (2012-08-06)
      Department: Philosophy
      Dance receives relatively little attention in the history of philosophy. My strategy for connecting that history to dance consists in tracing a genealogy of its dance-relevant moments. In preparation, I perform a ...
    • Moral openness: on the climate for reasoned moral agreement 
      Stansbury, Jason Martin (2011-03-15)
      Department: Management
      Businesspeople sometimes face moral equivocality at work, when they must discern the moral implications of a problem. That equivocality poses a risk of overlooking or misconstruing important implications of a problem; for ...
    • Narrative Structures of Emotions in Nineteenth-Century Prose: Hoffmann, Kierkegaard, Stifter, Ebner-Eschenbach 
      Panter, Rebecca Ann (2016-04-08)
      Department: German
      This project draws on work in cognitive science to examine the representation of emotions in several works of Germanic literature from an individual-psychological, as opposed to a collective-cultural perspective. The ...
    • Power and Pure Experience: A Metaphysics of Education 
      Edmonds, Jeffrey Sims (2009-07-25)
      Department: Philosophy
      In this dissertation I use the philosophies of William James and Friedrich Nietzsche to draw a connection between metaphysical conceptions of experience and the meaning and practice of democratic education. I argue that ...
    • Radical Democracy or Symptomatic Closure: An Immanent Critique of Chantal Mouffe's Agonism 
      Frederiksen, Jens (2010-04-20)
      Department: Political Science
      In this project, I examine Chantal Mouffe’s agonistic pluralism as a model for radical democracy. In so doing, I focus upon Mouffe’s simultaneous emphasis on liberalism as a necessary condition for the possibility of radical ...
    • The "Illegal Alien": A Genealogical and Intersectional Approach 
      Cisneros, Natalie Packard (2012-07-24)
      Department: Philosophy
      My dissertation suggests a new approach to political and ethical questions surrounding immigration by providing an account of the ways that “illegal aliens” are constituted as subjects in the contemporary United States ...
    • The Poetics of Embodiment in Islamic Mystical Philosophy 
      Loevy, Katharine Denise (2012-07-05)
      Department: Religion
      RELIGION THE POETICS OF EMBODIMENT IN ISLAMIC MYSTICAL PHILOSOPHY KATHARINE DENISE LOEVY Thesis under the direction of Professor William Franke What modes of reading can be provoked by reading different kinds of texts ...
    • Transhumanist Utopias: Rethinking Enhancement and Disability 
      Hall, Melinda Charis (2013-06-17)
      Department: Philosophy
      Working at the nexus of bioethics and disability studies, I argue that the quest for human enhancement is at least partially motivated by the rejection of the disabled body. In other words, positive and negative eugenics ...
    • Will to Power as the Self-Overcoming of Will to Truth 
      Turk, Adam Sean (2013-01-04)
      Department: Philosophy
      The purpose of my dissertation is to develop a reading of three of the most significant concepts in Nietzsche’s thought, namely will to power, will to truth, and self-overcoming. Specifically, I argue that Nietzsche ...
    • Zoe, Bios and the Language of Biopower 
      Hansen, Sarah K. (2010-08-03)
      Department: Philosophy
      My dissertation explores the significance of “biopower” to forms of life and language in the contemporary West. Generally defined, biopower is a type of regulatory power that directs and fosters the biological life of ...