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Author’S Place, Digital Space: Mapping Tennessee Williams, 1938-1948, Carmi Acosta, Arthur Aguilera, Amanda Baschnagel, Clark Gillespie, Kathleen Hamilton, Sam Hansen, Ty Huff, Bryce Klinger, Janne Knight, Corina Monoran, Laurie Plummer, Brittany Reichel

College of Arts and Sciences Presentations

From 1938-­1948, twentieth-­century American author Tennessee Williams traveled the country with his portable typewriter and a battered suitcase. He wrote every day, and his writings reflect the places and people he encountered. Williams’s journey from obscurity to fame as a writer during this decade parallels the nation’s path from depression to postwar prosperity. The events of this time period remain scattered across Williams’s scholarship; however, our collaborative, interdisciplinary project takes advantage of new methods of investigation and dissemination to create a multimedia map that traces the writer’s movements. We use Google Earth to create placemarks that highlight Williams’s professional and …

Worlds Of Gods And Goddesses - Saturn, Alexandra Aldecoa

College of Arts and Sciences Presentations

Each team member created a planet poster based on the concept that humans use both science and religion to explain the unexplainable. Each of the planets has a mythological background, usually Greek, which is related to the planets and the name of its moons. These posters had both physical and digital aspects to them. The typography used for each poster is related to statistics and facts about that planet. Video and audio related to the still images are visible using an augmented reality application. By downloading the Android or iOS Layar app from www.layar.com you can view media related to …

Situationism, Honesty, And The Folk, Drew Lindgren, Jared Talley, Travis Bundy, Lauren Stevens, Kim Hayes, Kyle Brasil, Sara Couture, Amanda Lynch

College of Arts and Sciences Presentations

This project aims at finding a widespread folk theory of honesty in order to construct an accurate account of the philosophical nature of honesty as a character trait. Our research process involves gathering responses from the folk, then combining and interpreting the responses. Our broad goal is to discover a solid case for the existence of character traits that can be used against the recent situationist attacks being seen in psychology. Proponents of situationism reject the existence of broad character traits, arguing that behaviour is driven by situational factors and that humans posess no significant character traits at all (Harmon, …

The Truth About Honesty: An Interdisciplinary Analysis Of The Trait Of Honesty, Jared Talley, Lauren Stevens, Drew Lindgren, Sara Couture, Amanda Lynch, Kyle Brasil, Trevor Adams, Kim Hayes

College of Arts and Sciences Presentations

In both the psychological and philosophical literature, there is little time devoted to a robust understanding of the character trait of honesty. The trait of honesty is often used as an example of a beneficial or good character trait, yet the gap in the literature raises a vexing question: what is honesty? This poster reports ongoing work aimed at identifying folk theories of honesty. We argue that an understanding of these theories can illuminate a principled understanding of this character trait in both psychology and philosophy.

Currently, we are using qualitative surveys to develop an operational definition of honesty. This …

Developing Perceived Writerly Self-Efficacy: A Proposed Study Of Expressive And Poetic Discourse In The Writing Center, Allison King

College of Arts and Sciences Presentations

In what ways can expressive and poetic discourse impact writerly self-efficacy during a writing center consultation? The focus of this study is on assessing the internal construct of writerly self-efficacy—to understand the connections between poetic (specifically, creative writing) /expressive writing techniques, encouraged during in-person writing consultations, and the student writer’s perceived competence development as an academic writer. Provocative revision activities inspired by creative writing technique will be specific to High-Order concerns (i.e. Limiting, Adding, Switching, and Transferring). Critical reflection will also be encouraged during each peer in-person writing consultation. A mixed-methodologies approach will be used to garner a comprehensive look …

Experimental Philosophy--An Emerging Discipline, Lauren Stevens, Kyle Brasil, Travis Bundy, Sara Couture, Kim Hayes, Drew Lindgren, Amanda Lynch, Jared Talley, Patrick Beach, Stephen Crowley, Kimberly Mcadams

College of Arts and Sciences Presentations

This poster will explain the nature of a newly emerging field in philosophy called experimental philosophy (“X-phi”) and its presence on Boise State’s campus. BSU’s X-phi group operates via gathering data from “everyday” people, sorting and statistically analyzing the data, then reviewing trends identified people’s intuitions about certain concepts (e.g. know-how, intentional action, moral correctness, etc.). We are exploring the concept of Honesty—a concept that has, to date, not been adequately analyzed. To distinguish theories developed as a result of this research, X-phi employs the term “folk theory”, literally referring to the theory that the majority of people are found …

Worlds Of Gods And Goddesses - Mercury, Paige Coyle

College of Arts and Sciences Presentations

Each team member created a planet poster based on the concept that humans use both science and religion to explain the unexplainable. Each of the planets has a mythological background, usually Greek, which is related to the planets and the name of its moons. These posters had both physical and digital aspects to them. The typography used for each poster is related to statistics and facts about that planet. Video and audio related to the still images are visible using an augmented reality application. By downloading the Android or iOS Layar app from www.layar.com you can view media related to …

Worlds Of Gods And Goddesses - Venus, Kellie Fox

College of Arts and Sciences Presentations

Each team member created a planet poster based on the concept that humans use both science and religion to explain the unexplainable. Each of the planets has a mythological background, usually Greek, which is related to the planets and the name of its moons. These posters had both physical and digital aspects to them. The typography used for each poster is related to statistics and facts about that planet. Video and audio related to the still images are visible using an augmented reality application. By downloading the Android or iOS Layar app from www.layar.com you can view media related to …

Worlds Of Gods And Goddesses - Uranus, Cory Varland

College of Arts and Sciences Presentations

Each team member created a planet poster based on the concept that humans use both science and religion to explain the unexplainable. Each of the planets has a mythological background, usually Greek, which is related to the planets and the name of its moons. These posters had both physical and digital aspects to them. The typography used for each poster is related to statistics and facts about that planet. Video and audio related to the still images are visible using an augmented reality application. By downloading the Android or iOS Layar app from www.layar.com you can view media related to …