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Vocabulary Pedagogy: A Wittgensteinian Approach (thesis)
My claim in this thesis is that we do not need to rely solely on studying dictionary definitions as the exclusive means of learning new words. Rather, there are far more powerful ways to increase students' vocabularies — ...
The Moral Permissibility of Torture in a Terrorized World and The Problem of Dirty Hands (thesis)
In this paper, I will argue that despite philosophers' and legal theorists' attempts to justify the use of torture in certain situations, torture has always been and will always be universally morally impermissible. [From ...
The Reality of Fiction: An Inquiry into the Ontology and Logic of Fiction (thesis)
This paper will begin by outlining and explaining David Lewis's argument for the existence of possible worlds. In Lewis's extreme form of modal realism, all worlds are equally as real as the actual world. I will then address ...
Freedom and Moral Responsibility in a Deterministic Universe: Perspectives from Buddhism and Clinical Psychology (thesis)
I will be arguing that the concept of an ultimately free agent who takes final responsibility for his actions and desires is inherently incompatible with the dominant western paradigm of materialism and universal causation. ...
How to Do Things With Rules
Truth within governing systems can come in two forms: judicial and meta-judicial. Judicial facts
arise from verdicts or rulings, whereas meta-judicial facts arise from application of a governing system's
standard in a way ...
The Reality of Fiction: An Inquiry Into the Ontology and Logic of Fiction
This paper will begin by outlining and explaining David Lewis's argument for the existence of possible worlds. In Lewis's extreme form of modal realism, all worlds are equally as real as the actual world. I will then address ...
A Critical Analysis of the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals
The Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, prepared by the National Institutes of Health, provides an interpretation of the Animal Welfare Act. The Guide is the most stringent of the regulatory documents ...
A Philosophical Analysis of the Traditional Christian Orthodox Concept of Hell
This thesis opens with the distinction between two models of hell -- the so-called static and dynamic. The static model asserts that damned individuals are punished only tor their sins accumulated during their temporal ...
Virtue in Practice and Theory: An Exploration of MacIntyre's Ethics
Through this examination we can see why Maclntyre's theory works well today. Were the fundamental rules and principles of the Enlightenment project to be understood as its necessary foundation, Maclntyre's moral theory ...
The Felt World: Musical Experience, Emotion, and Meaning
. . . Is music known through the intellect, or felt through the senses, even the soul? In other words, does the cognitive understanding of music or the emotional feeling dominate musical experience? Or, perhaps more ...