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Humanity Amid Innovation: Exploring Our Relationship To Technology, Sarah Durkee
Humanity Amid Innovation: Exploring Our Relationship To Technology, Sarah Durkee
Senior Theses and Projects
This thesis examines the impacts of technology on fundamental aspects of human nature and experience. Drawing on the works from Kant, Turing, Arendt, Benjamin, and Freud, it explores how rapid technological change is redefining human reason, intelligence, and creativity in the digital age. The first chapter analyzes whether modern online communication platforms realize or undermine Kant's vision of an enlightened public sphere fostering free discourse and critique. It argues that prioritizing engagement over substantive debate, these digital realms corrode the depth of interaction essential for cultivating human reason. The second chapter explores the pursuit of artificial intelligence as a reproduction …
Reading Kierkegaard In Terms Of Faith, Christopher Chiasera
Reading Kierkegaard In Terms Of Faith, Christopher Chiasera
Senior Theses and Projects
Søren Kierkegaard's unique conceptualization of faith has historically been most valued for its interpretive potential in clarifying the relationship between Kierkegaardian philosophy and ethics. In this thesis, I argue that such a narrow, strictly ethical focus on the implications of Kierkegaardian faith has occluded the vast hermeneutical utility of this concept. By appropriating the movement of faith as a tool for reconsidering certain key themes in Kierkegaard's authorship, I posit a deep homology between the proper Christian orientation towards faith on the one hand and Christ, selfhood, and divine forgiveness on the other. Incidentally, moreover, I suggest that this study's …
Legacies Of Freedom: Tracing Theories Of Freedom Into The Contemporary Conversation On International Intervention, Sarah Bello
Legacies Of Freedom: Tracing Theories Of Freedom Into The Contemporary Conversation On International Intervention, Sarah Bello
Senior Theses and Projects
This paper presents an exploration into the lineage of freedom, investigating the historic structures configured in an attempt to distribute freedom in an equalizing fashion. This text will outline the intricate relationship between freedoms and liberties, by surveying the prominent political philosophies, and forms of governance within their respective temporalities. By taking up the ideas of enlightenment thinkers such as Kant, decolonial voices like Fanon, and comparing them to the current neo-liberal framework we find ourselves in, we are faced with the incompatible realities of liberalism and capitalism. This text will consequently call for a revolution of our current structures …
A Case For Abolition: Analyzing The Death Penalty In The United States, Abigail E. Nick
A Case For Abolition: Analyzing The Death Penalty In The United States, Abigail E. Nick
Senior Theses and Projects
This thesis delves into the multifaceted debate surrounding the death penalty in the United States, exploring its constitutionality, morality, and implications for the justice system. Drawing from legal, philosophical, and empirical analyses, it argues against the continued practice of capital punishment, contending that it violates fundamental human rights, inhibits rehabilitation efforts, and fails to align with evolving societal norms. The discussion navigates through historical contexts, international perspectives, and philosophical theories of punishment, examining the right to life, methods of punishment, and evolving standards of decency. It underscores the tension between retributive justice and the protection of human rights, highlighting the …
The Dangerous Loss Of Meaning Through Consumerist Practices, Johan Rosario
The Dangerous Loss Of Meaning Through Consumerist Practices, Johan Rosario
Senior Theses and Projects
The internet appears and it is a better television, a better radio, and a better way of transmitting information to one another, but is this information actually being communicated? In this essay, I will be looking at Jodi Dean’s Blog Theory: Feedback and Capture in the Circuits of Drive to describe how an overabundance of content provided by the internet renders all content meaningless, and the ways in which engagement with the internet generates more behaviors in people whose purpose is purely the act of communication, and not at all the contents of what is being communicated. Finally, I will …
The Philosophy Of Punishment: An Analysis Of Criminal Punishment In The Context Of Moral Justice, Bailey Mckeon
The Philosophy Of Punishment: An Analysis Of Criminal Punishment In The Context Of Moral Justice, Bailey Mckeon
Senior Theses and Projects
No abstract provided.
Egoism: A Case Study Of The Relationship Between Self-Interest And Ethics, India Rhodes
Egoism: A Case Study Of The Relationship Between Self-Interest And Ethics, India Rhodes
Senior Theses and Projects
No abstract provided.
Auf Dem Weg Zum Cyberpunk (On The Way To Cyberpunk), Yuzhou Sun
Auf Dem Weg Zum Cyberpunk (On The Way To Cyberpunk), Yuzhou Sun
Senior Theses and Projects
"Cyberpunk" is a word that is both familiar and unfamiliar to us. In some ways, it is familiar to us. As a sub-genre of science fiction, Cyberpunk is a popular futuristic theme that greatly influenced pop culture in the 21st century. We are fascinated by the bizarre but realistic fictional world, a dystopian society characteristic of "high tech and low life" for the majority population, it presents. In most works of this genre, an overwhelming technology company monopolies most social resources and dominates society like a "leviathan". The majority population is alienated from the well-being brought by high technology. …
The Three “Cs” Of Animal Self-Consciousness: Complex Nervous System, Communication And Collaborative Social Play, Elena Bernewitz
The Three “Cs” Of Animal Self-Consciousness: Complex Nervous System, Communication And Collaborative Social Play, Elena Bernewitz
Senior Theses and Projects
No abstract provided.
Kantian Just War Theory, Deven Anand
'To Give You My Life I Must Tell You A Story': Readerly Empathy And Phenomenological Involvement In Ford And Woolf, Ben Gambuzza
'To Give You My Life I Must Tell You A Story': Readerly Empathy And Phenomenological Involvement In Ford And Woolf, Ben Gambuzza
Senior Theses and Projects
No abstract provided.
Ethicizing Art: A Rancièrean Analysis Of 'Feminist' Art And The Notion Of Victimhood, Bora Zaloshnja
Ethicizing Art: A Rancièrean Analysis Of 'Feminist' Art And The Notion Of Victimhood, Bora Zaloshnja
Senior Theses and Projects
No abstract provided.
Not Just Pretty Clothes: Fashion's Progressive Operationalization As Seen In Baudelaire And Benjamin; Addendum: Anna Karenina's Appropriation Of Her Mortality Through Dress, Serena Laine Trainor
Not Just Pretty Clothes: Fashion's Progressive Operationalization As Seen In Baudelaire And Benjamin; Addendum: Anna Karenina's Appropriation Of Her Mortality Through Dress, Serena Laine Trainor
Senior Theses and Projects
Throughout this double thesis, the author investigates the philosophical significance of fashion. Through her pursuit, she works through the reformulations of the experience of the beautiful as constructed by French poet Charles Baudelaire, then expands her findings with insights from Walter Benjamin and Georg Simmel in their fashion theories. In working through these conceptualizations, as analyzed by fashion and philosophy scholar Philipp Ekardt, fashion's mechanics emerge as a model for time, history, and the human life. To more deeply understand these insights, and for a more insightful reading of Leo Tolstoy's famed novel, the author applies her analysis to the …
An Investigation On Rawls’ Theory Of Justice And Its Relationship To Metaphysics, Liangxuan Xu
An Investigation On Rawls’ Theory Of Justice And Its Relationship To Metaphysics, Liangxuan Xu
Senior Theses and Projects
No abstract provided.
Escaping The Master’S House: Claudia Jones & The Black Marxist Feminist Tradition, Camryn S. Clarke
Escaping The Master’S House: Claudia Jones & The Black Marxist Feminist Tradition, Camryn S. Clarke
Senior Theses and Projects
In this Senior Project, I will argue that the path to liberation is through the discourse of Black Marxist Feminism as articulated by Caribbean political activist, Claudia Jones. The intersectional nature of such a discourse will encompass all who are oppressed —Black people, women, and workers. I explore what it means to be Black through the lens of Marcus Garvey, to be Woman through the lens of Monique Wittig, and to be a Worker through the lens of Karl Marx in order to understand Claudia Jones’ standpoint on what it means to be at the intersection of all three. The …
God The Father Or Mother Divine? : Subversive Theology In John Milton's Paradise Lost And Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, Jordan Pace
Senior Theses and Projects
No abstract provided.
Amor Fati In Jaco Van Dormael's Film, Mr. Nobody, Rebecca L. Smith
Amor Fati In Jaco Van Dormael's Film, Mr. Nobody, Rebecca L. Smith
Senior Theses and Projects
The argument in this thesis is how the philosophies of the German Frederich Nietzsche are portrayed throughout the Belgian director Jaco Van Dormael’s film Mr. Nobody (2009). Mr. Nobody is a film about every imaginable way one man’s life could unfold from every major and minor decision he makes. Nietzsche’s philosophy of Amor Fati, or love of fate, is portrayed by the film’s main character, Nemo Nobody (Jared Leto). Within the different quantum branches of Nemo’s life he portrays both the man of reason and the man of intuition; a topic central to Nietzsche’s philosophy. In the various timelines in …
Foucault, Power And The Modern Panopticon, Connor Sheridan
Foucault, Power And The Modern Panopticon, Connor Sheridan
Senior Theses and Projects
No abstract provided.
Jacques-Louis David And The Enlightenment: The Intersection Of Art And Politics In Prerevolutionary France, Ashley B. Mullen
Jacques-Louis David And The Enlightenment: The Intersection Of Art And Politics In Prerevolutionary France, Ashley B. Mullen
Senior Theses and Projects
An analysis of Jacques-Louis David's art and politics before and during the French Revolution.
Les Entretiens De Fontenelle: The Rhetorical Strategies Of A Cosmological Dialogue, Mark R. Komanecky Jr.
Les Entretiens De Fontenelle: The Rhetorical Strategies Of A Cosmological Dialogue, Mark R. Komanecky Jr.
Senior Theses and Projects
Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle’s Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds is one of the first major works of the French Enlightenment. First published in 1686, the work is organized as a series of dialogues between a philosopher and a marquise who discuss scientific topics such as heliocentrism and the possibility of extra-terrestrial life. Treating these subjects was a risky affair; less than a century earlier Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake, and fifty years before Fontenelle, Galileo was arrested for “holding, teaching, and defending” heliocentrism. Fontenelle employed several rhetorical and stylistic strategies in the work: he wrote in …
Illusory Democracy: A Platonic Examination Of Perception, Opinion, And Neoliberalism, Gregory A. Palmer
Illusory Democracy: A Platonic Examination Of Perception, Opinion, And Neoliberalism, Gregory A. Palmer
Senior Theses and Projects
This thesis sets out to define and investigate the problem of "Illusory Democracy" as well as, how it relates to the modern American political system. This thesis uses Plato, through a Straussian lens, to interpret and analyze the nature, causes, and possible solutions to this modern problem facing the American democratic system.
The Failure Of The Colorblind Ideal, Bahiyyah Williams
The Failure Of The Colorblind Ideal, Bahiyyah Williams
Senior Theses and Projects
No abstract provided.
La Muerte, La Memoria Y La Filosofía Existencial En La Literatura Testimonial Pos-Dictatorial De Primo Levi, Jorge Semprún Y Jacobo Timerman, Andrew Mcnair
Senior Theses and Projects
What effect does the ubiquity of death in a traumatic experience have on an individual's memory and soul, and how is this manifested in one's written testimony? Through the analysis of their philosophical introspection, the testimonies of Primo Levi's The Drowned and the Saved, Jorge Semprún's Literature or Life, and Jacobo Timerman's Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number meditate on the atrocities they experienced during Levi and Semprún's incarceration under the Nazi regime in Europe between 1942 and 1945, and Timerman's imprisonment under the regime of Jorge Rafael Videla in Argentina between 1976 and 1983. The …
The Project Of The Physician: An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Medicine, Alexander X. Shea
The Project Of The Physician: An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Medicine, Alexander X. Shea
Senior Theses and Projects
The telos of this project is twofold – in Part I, I will attempt to solidify the goal of the physician in medical practice, and in Part II, I will examine the specific ways by which the doctor can actualize that goal. In other words, the central questions are: 1) What is the goal of the physician? and 2) How is the physician to accomplish or actualize that goal?
What Should We Do With The Social Construct Of Race?, Jason A. Gordon
What Should We Do With The Social Construct Of Race?, Jason A. Gordon
Senior Theses and Projects
Today, race is something that many people still consider to be an essential component of their identities. Even though race has been proven to be nothing more than a social construct, it still is in many regards something that the people living in our society tend take for granted. In this paper, the concept of race will be critically examined and analyzed. The history of race will be closely followed and it will be discussed as to whether or not this social construct is something worth preserving.
The Unit Theory, Lianjiang Lu
The Philosophy Of Anxiety, Julie B. Daniels
The Philosophy Of Anxiety, Julie B. Daniels
Senior Theses and Projects
In utter selfishness, my hope is for the following pursuit, to which my reader will be witness, ends in such a way that I am calmer and my reader is anxious. Within the framework of self- liberation, I aim to draw strong ties between personal experience, and the views held by various thinkers, including Martin Heidegger, Søren Kierkegaard, and Jean-Paul Sartre. Being and Time will serve as the lens through which I examine the texts of Søren Kierkegaard and Jean-Paul Sartre. Their philosophies on anxiety serve as a voice for those who grapple with the phenomenon. I aim to illuminate …
Reason, Happiness, And The Divine Spark: A Global Perspective On Hiv And Bioethics, Anna K. Grindy
Reason, Happiness, And The Divine Spark: A Global Perspective On Hiv And Bioethics, Anna K. Grindy
Senior Theses and Projects
Much of the international effort to prevent and treat HIV involves testing products and techniques on members of highly-infected populations in places such as sub-Saharan Africa. All of the ethical principles guiding and structuring this research are rooted in prominent Western ethical systems, and most research projects are conducted by Western or Westernized institutions. In a global culture that tends to reject ethical cultural relativism, the international community regularly touts these Western ideals as universally acceptable and applicable, often coming dangerously close to paternalism. While institutions and researchers are fundamentally well-intentioned, often the study set-up and procedures conflict with the …
A Discussion Of The Theological Implications Of Free Will In The Biblical Story Of The Exodus From Egypt, Michelle Okun
A Discussion Of The Theological Implications Of Free Will In The Biblical Story Of The Exodus From Egypt, Michelle Okun
Senior Theses and Projects
The exploration of free will and divine providence was a focus of medieval, specifically Jewish, philosophers. Three men wrote extensively about the subject: Philo of Alexandria, Saadia Gaon, and Moses Maimonides. All argued through textual proof and critical thinking that God was innocent and just throughout the occurences described in the Exodus from Egypt. Each man used principles they held to be true and textual evidence to defend God, prove the continued existence of free will, and the ability for divine providence to exist without interfering with free will. Through an exploration of the story of Creation, mind and knowledge, …
Truth And Being: Heidegger's Turn To Poetry, Alexandra J. Pell
Truth And Being: Heidegger's Turn To Poetry, Alexandra J. Pell
Senior Theses and Projects
No abstract provided.