A selective of list of student research papers
All 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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Evans, 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
Perry, Margaret ‘Meg’ — “A Philosophical Comparison of Aristotle and Mencius: A Study on Virtue” ; cannot copy/publish
Arcos, 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
Brewer, 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
Charen, 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
Davis, 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
Berner, 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
Sanders, Sean — Marx, the Classless Society, and Perfection ; cannot copy/publish
Wiles, Katie — Machiavelli and Rousseau: The Idea of a Republic ; cannot copy/publish
Cruitt, 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
Phillips, Jeremy — A Battle of Wills: Jonathan Edwards’ Answer to Thomas Hobbes ; cannot copy/publish
Hardy, Benjamin J. — The Problem of Representation or Can We Know the Truth of the Original From the Copy? ; cannotcopy/publish
Hensley, Dale — Retributive Punishment ; cannot copy/publish
Martin, Joan (Kayli) — Toward an Ethics of Respect ; cannot copy/publish