Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Keyword
-
- Ethics (2)
- Blackbody (1)
- Cultural artifact (1)
- Determinism (1)
- Epistemology (1)
-
- Ethnobotany (1)
- Folk taxonomy (1)
- Freedom (1)
- Hamlet (1)
- Hate Speech (1)
- Invention (1)
- Justice (1)
- Kant (1)
- Law (1)
- Literature (1)
- Midwest plant names (1)
- Nietzsche (1)
- Nonobjectivity (1)
- Opening (1)
- Perspectivism (1)
- Phaedo (1)
- Phantom (1)
- Phantom problem (1)
- Phantomness (1)
- Philosophy (1)
- Planck (1)
- Plant story (1)
- Rhetoric (1)
- Scientific classification (1)
- Scientific nihilism (1)
- Publication Type
Articles 1 - 6 of 6
Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
What's In A Name? Plant Naming As Cultural Artifact And Story In The Midwestern United States, Sophie Wesseler
What's In A Name? Plant Naming As Cultural Artifact And Story In The Midwestern United States, Sophie Wesseler
Undergraduate Theses
This project sought to collect and contextualize the historical and contemporary names given to plants by inhabitants of the Midwestern United States, understanding plant names as cultural artifacts that can offer insight into the communities in which they were created and evolved. Formatted as a series of entries, this collection gathered these names and contextualized them within other artifacts of cultural significance, such as art or poetry, and alongside historical research on their origins and cultural environments. Examining plant names through the fields of linguistics, semiology, anthropology, cultural studies, taxonomy, and ethnobotany, this work traces the names of various plants …
Phantoms In Science: Nietzsche's Nonobjectivity On Planck's Quanta, Donald Richard Dickerson Iii
Phantoms In Science: Nietzsche's Nonobjectivity On Planck's Quanta, Donald Richard Dickerson Iii
Undergraduate Theses
What does Maxwell Planck's concept of phantomness suggest about the epistemological basis of science and how might a Nietzschean critique reveal solution to the weaknesses revealed? With his solution to Kirchoff's equation, Maxwell Planck launched the paradigm of quantum physics. This same solution undermined much of current understandings of science versus pseudoscience. Using Nietzsche's perspectivism and other philosophical critiques, Planck's answer to blackbody radiation is used to highlight the troubles with phantom problems in science and how to try to direct science towards a more holistic and complete scientific approach.
A Rhetorical Analysis Of Opening Statements In Trial: Reconsidering The Classical Canon Of Invention, Andrew Chandler
A Rhetorical Analysis Of Opening Statements In Trial: Reconsidering The Classical Canon Of Invention, Andrew Chandler
Undergraduate Theses
This analysis of 21 opening statements probes at current persuasive practices employed by trial attorneys through the lens of mainstream legal advice and an expanded definition of rhetorical invention – one which includes both discovery and creation. An evaluation of such practice reveals the utility, and furthermore the duty of the advocate, to draw upon an expanded realm of available arguments.
Where Literature And Philosophy Meet And Diverge, Clare C. Hagan
Where Literature And Philosophy Meet And Diverge, Clare C. Hagan
Undergraduate Theses
Many writers and philosophers have asked “What is art?” or “What is philosophy?” but it is difficult to encounter a text where these questions are set beside each other. Many works of philosophy appear very literary in form and content, just as there are many literary works that are very philosophical in nature. This essay examines the intersection of literature and philosophy, using Kant’s Critique of Judgement as a way into analyzing Plato’s Phaedo, as an example of literary philosophy; and Shakespeare’s Hamlet, as an example of philosophical literature. The first section deals with literature and philosophy as texts, looking …
Digital Intimacy, Katherine Landers
Digital Intimacy, Katherine Landers
Ethics and Social Justice Center Essay Prizes
This papers seeks to determine how, and to what extent, social media affects humans as moral beings. The discussion revolves around the idea of media detaching humans beings from the world around them, and in turn, other humans.
Freedom To And Freedom From, Clare C. Hagan
Freedom To And Freedom From, Clare C. Hagan
Ethics and Social Justice Center Essay Prizes
This paper seeks to answer the question, "If I cannot express my hatred, am I less free?" The discussion is framed through an examination of positive and negative freedom, looking at whether or not the loss of certain freedoms-from, such as freedom from injustice, freedom from discrimination, and freedom from fear might potentially outweigh the right of an individual to express his or her hatred.