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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 ...
The Environment, Future Generations, and John Rawls
I would like to note that my thesis's main point is not to present an entirely new and complete argument as to why we should preserve the environment, and more importantly, I do not argue that the only reason we should ...
Person' as a Family Resemblance Concept
For the purposes of this paper, the question of the concept 'person' is directed toward the use of 'person' that concerns "having or not having rights." I do not intend to pursue personality, identity, or any of the many ...
On the Theory of Action
This paper concerns several points of action theory. I begin with a discussion of Arthur Dante's thesis on basic and nonbasic action, clarifying and differentiating between, the two. While Danto advances the notion of ...
Knowledge Through Participation: The Epistemic Status of Religious Belief
Critical philosophy has severely restricted the role of philosophy of religion. A hallmark of the critical approach is an acceptance of Locke's epistemological ethics: belief ought not to go beyond what explicit data or ...
Personal Honor and the Possibility for Redemption
What exactly is redemption? Webster's defines it as "an act or instance of repairing or restoring," and "expiation of guilt or wrong." More to the heart of the matter, is it possible to redeem oneself in an honor society ...
Wittgenstein on the Groundlessness of Our Fundamental Empirical and Religious Beliefs
This paper first examines Wittgenstein's treatment in On Certainty of the groundlessness of our fundamental beliefs. It then examines some 'groundless' aspects of religious (specifically Christian) beliefs, looking for ...
Rawls Under the Scrutiny of Nozick
In 1971 John Rawls published A Theory of Justice (TJ) in which he expounds what is today one of the most debated theories of social justice. Just three years later, partially in response to Rawls' work, Robert Nozick ...
Please Vote Responsibly: An Argument for Why We Have an Ethical Responsibility to Inform Ourselves Before Voting (thesis)
. . . Given the fact that citizens living in a free and democratic state have the right to vote, this entails a civic responsibility to sufficiently inform themselves before voting or before engaging in other politically ...
Conventions, Idiolects, and Malapropisms: A Critical Evaluation of Davidson (thesis)
Donald Davidson concludes his 1986 article, "A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs" by making a few seemingly sensational and ambitious claims: "I conclude that there is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything ...