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Intricacies Of Agency: Rational Choice, Behavioral Economics, And Our Normative Commitments, Max Hendrix
Intricacies Of Agency: Rational Choice, Behavioral Economics, And Our Normative Commitments, Max Hendrix
Fenwick Scholar Program
This project undertakes a philosophical analysis of the intricacies of agency found in rational choice theory - the mainstream economic theory that agents are fundamentally rational and utilize their rationality to identify and pursue their self-interest. Recent experimental evidence within and outside of economics has cast doubt on the psychological accuracy and predictive prowess of the theory, laying the foundation to discuss the strengths and limitations of the theory as well as the impacts that this paradigm of agency has on our society today. I argue that rational choice theory struggles as a holistic conception of agency both from an …
From Court To Collar: Post-Elizabethan Poetics And The Submissive Stance, Timothy J. Duffy
From Court To Collar: Post-Elizabethan Poetics And The Submissive Stance, Timothy J. Duffy
Fenwick Scholar Program
This project was created out of one key observation about the English Renaissance: that the poets of the sixteenth and seventeenth-centuries had to deal with social pressures, influences, and expectations far more directly than their eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth-century, or contemporary counterparts. The struggle to establish an individual and innovative identity was as much a motivation for these poets as for any artists, yet the unique political circumstances that surrounded them called for a clever strategy, one inspired by continental models, the taking on of the submissive stance.
James Joyce And His Other Language: The "Abnihilization Of The Etym", Lisa J. Fluet '96
James Joyce And His Other Language: The "Abnihilization Of The Etym", Lisa J. Fluet '96
Fenwick Scholar Program
This thesis proposes to say something new about Joyce's female characters that would in a sense redeem Joyce from the sharp criticism his texts encounter from feminist theorists. To achieve this, I have worked to dismantle the notion of literal, primary-word meanings to expose the etymon's origin from nothing. By tracing points in various works of Joyce where the word, the basis for most patriarchal literary representation, is not revered, but instead is dismantled, proven inadequate, and ultimately "abnihilizated," I attempt to demonstrate that female characters kept outside active participation with the word warrant serious consideration, as harbingers of a …
Hippocratic Pharmacology: Investigations Into The Theoretical Assumptions And Function Of Drug Therapy In The Corpus Hippocraticum, Edward G. Soltesz '94
Hippocratic Pharmacology: Investigations Into The Theoretical Assumptions And Function Of Drug Therapy In The Corpus Hippocraticum, Edward G. Soltesz '94
Fenwick Scholar Program
The topic of this thesis is Hippocratic Pharmacology. While I intended to examine drugs and their efficacy in therapeutics, I soon realized the gravity of this undertaking: John Riddle and John Scarborough have been working on this for decades; my year's work would accomplish little. Instead, I found that work needed to be done in investigating the theoretical assumptions which the Corpus authors held about drug use: how did they believe these medicines worked? What were their underlying concepts? The methodological difficulty in answering these questions is evident at once. I decided to pursue this topic in two ways: first, …
Living In A Disenchanted World, John Margiotta
Living In A Disenchanted World, John Margiotta
Fenwick Scholar Program
This thesis draws on Allan Bloom and Martin Heidegger, among others, to articulate the communitarian vision of how Enlightenment philosophy has led the Western world into an age of philosophical and religious homelessness.
Signs Of Culture: Deafness In Nineteenth-Century America, Rebecca A. Rourke '90
Signs Of Culture: Deafness In Nineteenth-Century America, Rebecca A. Rourke '90
Fenwick Scholar Program
While there is an abundance of research on twentieth-century manifestations of Deaf culture, the nineteenth-century roots have been largely overlooked. The creation of residential schools for the deaf gave the Deaf population a place to meet and share ideas, for the first time in American history. The close and sustained contact generated cultural development. This thesis addresses the development of a cultural identity among the Deaf population by attempting to compare the experiences and opinions of the Deaf and hearing communities as they existed in nineteenth-century America.
Beowulf For Modern Man: Orality And Literacy And The Anglo-Saxon Heroic Poem, Mark David Nevins
Beowulf For Modern Man: Orality And Literacy And The Anglo-Saxon Heroic Poem, Mark David Nevins
Fenwick Scholar Program
My goal in this thesis is to show the difference of interpretation between a reading of the Old English poem Beowulf as the work of an oral performer and a reading of it as the work of a literate author. Given the premises set down by intensive study of oral composition of poetry, and given all the literate arguments for interpreting the poem, I would like to show that Beowulf can still be read as an oral poem, and that such a reading may result in an understanding of the poem that is at least as good, if not more …
Valley At Dusk, Gary J. Gala '83
American Revival Songs, 1820-1850: The Christian Lyre And Spiritual Songs For Social Worship, Paula M. Kane '80
American Revival Songs, 1820-1850: The Christian Lyre And Spiritual Songs For Social Worship, Paula M. Kane '80
Fenwick Scholar Program
This thesis focuses on the period 1820-1850, the heyday of revivalism and revival songs. The first section describes the background, nature and dynamics of 19th-century revivals in order to provide the historical setting and theological climate for the emergence of revival songs. The second section examines the origins, development and use of revival music in general. Two song collections are emphasized: the Christian Lyre compiled by Joshua Leavitt and Spiritual Songs for Social Worship by Thomas Hastings and Lowell Mason.
A Study Of The Connotations And Meanings Of The Greek Word [Philos] And Its Cognates In The Works Of Homer, Hesiod And Selected Lyric Poets, Brian W. Hattery '73
A Study Of The Connotations And Meanings Of The Greek Word [Philos] And Its Cognates In The Works Of Homer, Hesiod And Selected Lyric Poets, Brian W. Hattery '73
Fenwick Scholar Program
This project is the study of the wide range of meaning for Greek word [philos]. It also traces the development of the meaning of the word in literature from the eighth century B.C. to the end of the sixth century B.C.
Sophocles In The Age Of Goethe: An Analysis Of Sophoclean Influence In The Klassik-Romantik Era, Edward J. Vodoklys '72
Sophocles In The Age Of Goethe: An Analysis Of Sophoclean Influence In The Klassik-Romantik Era, Edward J. Vodoklys '72
Fenwick Scholar Program
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of Sophocles, the man, and the entire corpus of his plays within the developing trends of 18th and 19th century German literature.
The Attitude Of William Wilberforce And The Evangelicals Toward The Reform Of Working-Class Conditions In Early Nineteenth-Century England, James J. Dorey '70
The Attitude Of William Wilberforce And The Evangelicals Toward The Reform Of Working-Class Conditions In Early Nineteenth-Century England, James J. Dorey '70
Fenwick Scholar Program
This paper attempts to ascertain by what standard the Evangelicals of early nineteenth-century England judged slavery immoral, and to apply that standard to the condition of England's working class. The stature of William Wilberforce as a great humanitarian is challenged.