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The Genealogy Of Mass Surveillance: Foucault, Diagrams, And The U.S. Intelligence Community (1945-2001), David Williams

Honors Theses

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Emmanuel Levinas And The Meaning Of Ecological Responsibility, Joe Matthew Larios

LSU Master's Theses

Recent work in eco-phenomenology has often tried to find a way to situate Emmanuel Levinas’s ethical philosophy in a way that would be productive for environmental ethical concerns. This has often proved difficult due to the anthropocentrism of Levinas’s philosophy and the sometimes inconsistent interpretations of what the face of the Other signifies and whether it should be understood as perceptually present to the one who “sees” it in any way. This, combined with a general lack of engagement with Levinas’s writings on politics, has often made an ecological interpretation of Levinas difficult or awkward.

In this thesis, I try …

Diversity And Development In Early Christian Gnostic Thought: An Analysis Of Chaos, The Salvific Function Of Humanity, And The True Nature Of The Rulers In The Secret Book Of John, The Nature Of The Rulers, And On The Origin Of The World, Mikaela Shayne Allen

Honors Theses

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[Review Of] Robert J. Richards And Michael Ruse, Debating Darwin, Charles H. Pence

Faculty Publications

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Augustine And Heidegger: Curiosity And The Structure Of Time, Phillip Andrew Mclean

Honors Theses

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Evotext: A New Tool For Analyzing The Biological Sciences, Grant Ramsey, Charles H. Pence

Faculty Publications

We introduce here evoText, a new tool for automated analysis of the literature in the biological sciences. evoText contains a database of hundreds of thousands of journal articles and an array of analysis tools for generating quantitative data on the nature and history of life science, especially ecology and evolutionary biology. This article describes the features of evoText, presents a variety of examples of the kinds of analyses that evoText can run, and offers a brief tutorial describing how to use it.

“My Way Or The Highway To Heaven”: The Role Of Choice In Religious Conversion, Marylynn Smitherman

Honors Theses

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Is Genetic Drift A Force?, Charles H. Pence

Faculty Publications

One hotly debated philosophical question in the analysis of evolutionary theory concerns whether or not evolution and the various factors which constitute it (selection, drift, mutation, and so on) may profitably be considered as analogous to “forces” in the traditional, Newtonian sense. Several compelling arguments assert that the force picture is incoherent, due to the peculiar nature of genetic drift. I consider two of those arguments here—that drift lacks a predictable direction, and that drift is constitutive of evolutionary systems—and show that they both fail to demonstrate that a view of genetic drift as a force is untenable. I go …

Front Matter

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Social Mobility And Personal Displacement Queen Charlotte Between England And Germany, Mascha Hansen

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Eighteenth-Century Merchant Circles In London's Wapping Peter Hieuusson, Maritime Trade, And The Global Movement Of Money, Kenneth J Cozens

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Cook's Ark Animals On The Move In The Service Of Empires, Bärbel Czennia

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Moving Letters In Eighteenth-Century Epistolary Writing Arrivals And Departures, Hélène Dachez, Allan Ingram

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Picturesque Movement In Ann Radcliffe's Novels, Julien Morel

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Yorick And Lovelace Physical Manifestations And Internal E-Motions, Maryam Ghabris

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Motion In (Eighteenth-Century) Poetry, Bill Overton

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Swift's Concept Of Physical Exercise: The Gravel Path To Human Perfection, Esther F. Sommer

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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The Creative Cost Of Jane Austen's Move To Bath, Gerald J Butler

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Stability Turned Into Motion Erasmus Darwin's Recourse To Ovid's Metamorphoses, Sonja Fielitz

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Kinetic Metaphors In Alexander Pope's The Rape Oe The Lock, Essay On Man, And The Dunciad, Michael Szczekalla

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Drifting Unguided Or Involuntary Motion And The Enlightenment Sense Of Direction, Kevin L Cope

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Thomas Jefferson, Travel Writer, Kevin J Hayes

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Traveling To Rome For Artistic Purposes The Theoretical Background In Eighteenth-Century France And Britain, Elisabeth Martichou

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Turning Round Or Standing Still Movement And Stasis In Defoe, Pope, And Sterne, Allan Ingram, Hélène Dachez

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Darwin’S Dice: The Idea Of Chance In The Thought Of Charles Darwin, Charles H. Pence

Faculty Publications

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Front Matter

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Is Organismic Fitness At The Basis Of Evolutionary Theory?, Charles H. Pence, Grant Ramsey

Faculty Publications

Fitness is a central theoretical concept in evolutionary theory. Despite its importance, much debate has occurred over how to conceptualize and formalize fitness. One point of debate concerns the roles of organismic and trait fitness. In a recent addition to this debate, Elliott Sober argues that trait fitness is the central fitness concept, and that organismic fitness is of little value. In this paper, by contrast, we argue that it is organismic fitness that lies at the bases of both the conceptual role of fitness and its role as a measure of evolutionary dynamics.

Military Genomic Testing: Proportionality, Expected Benefits, And The Connection Between Genotypes And Phenotypes, Charles H. Pence

Faculty Publications

Mehlman and Li offer a framework for approaching the bioethical issues raised by the military use of genomics that is compellingly grounded in both the contemporary civilian and military ethics of medical research, arguing that military commanders must be bound by the two principles of paternalism and proportionality. I agree fully. But I argue here that this is a much higher bar than we may fully realize. Just as the principle of proportionality relies upon a thorough assessment of harms caused and military advantage gained, the use of genomic research, on Mehlman and Li's view, will require an accurate understanding …

The Many Chances Of Charles Darwin, Charles H. Pence

Faculty Publications

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