Factory To Table: A Philosophic Analysis Of The Justice Or Lack Thereof Of Agricultural Markets,
2021
Claremont Colleges
Factory To Table: A Philosophic Analysis Of The Justice Or Lack Thereof Of Agricultural Markets, Will Carter
CMC Senior Theses
How food is produced has dramatic consequences on how we live, our world’s justice, and the future of our planet. In a world increasingly driven by neoliberalism, agricultural markets have been incentivized to industrialize, globalize, and consolidate. This has resulted in the global dominance of a new type of agriculture, industrial agriculture, driven by the market logic of lowering costs and raising profits. Industrial agriculture has undoubtedly generated the profound benefit of cheaper, more plentiful food in much of the world. These favorable innovations lead many scholars to argue that free markets produce the most just and efficient arrangements for …
The Economic And Philosophic Manuscripts Of Data,
2021
Claremont Colleges
The Economic And Philosophic Manuscripts Of Data, Sage D. Young
CMC Senior Theses
Society is filled with words and images that elucidate the positive force radiating from technology entities. I push back against this imprecise and inaccurate narrative by breaking down the illusions created by surveillance capitalism. I argue that there exists a unique relationship between an individual and their environment in creating value, especially in the form of data. This relationship tears down the smokescreens prompted up by the surveillance state because it demonstrates the costs of technology and surveillance capitalism. I found that how data is created and made monetarily valuable has significant, adverse repercussions on the capability to flourish as …
On Inadvertently Created Tables: A Brockean Theory Of Concrete Artifacts,
2021
James Madison University
On Inadvertently Created Tables: A Brockean Theory Of Concrete Artifacts, Jeffrey C. Goodman
Faculty Scholarship
There has been a lot of discussion recently regarding abstract artifacts and how such entities (e.g., fictional characters like Sherlock Holmes, and mythological planets like Vulcan), if they indeed exist, could possibly be our creations. Much of this debate has been carried out by Stuart Brock and David Friedell in this journal. One interesting aspect of their discussion concerned the extent to which creative intentions play a role in the creation of artifacts, both abstract and concrete. I here address the creation of concrete artifacts in particular. I ultimately defend a Brock-inspired, heterodox view on which creative intentions are not …
แนวคิดปฏิสังสรรค์กระทำการกับปัญหาเรื่องช่องว่าง,
2021
คณะอักษรศาสตร์
แนวคิดปฏิสังสรรค์กระทำการกับปัญหาเรื่องช่องว่าง, พงศ์ศิริ ศรีวรรธนะ
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
วิทยานิพนธ์ฉบับนี้มีวัตถุประสงเพื่อวิเคราะห์และประเมินข้อถกเถียงเกี่ยวกับปัญหาเรื่องช่องว่างในกลุ่มแนวคิดปฏิสังสรรค์กระทำการ และต้องการปกป้องแนวทางการแก้ปัญหาเรื่องช่องว่างภายใต้กรอบแนวคิดปฏิสังสรรค์กระทำการแบบสร้างตนเองโดยอิสระ กล่าวคือ กลุ่มแนวคิดปฏิสังสรรค์กระทำการมีข้อเสนอร่วมกันต่อการแก้ปัญหาช่องว่างระหว่างความรู้เกี่ยวกับข้อเท็จจริงทางกายภาพกับความรู้เกี่ยวกับข้อเท็จจริงทางปรากฏการณ์ว่า ความรู้เกี่ยวกับข้อเท็จจริงทางกายภาพที่เชื่อมโยงกับความรู้เกี่ยวกับข้อเท็จจริงทางปรากฏการณ์ เป็นความรู้เกี่ยวกับรูปแบบการมีปฏิสัมพันธ์ระหว่างระบบการรู้คิดซึ่งประกอบด้วยสมองและร่างกาย กับสิ่งแวดล้อม อย่างไรก็ตาม มีข้อถกเถียงในกลุ่มแนวคิดปฏิสังสรรค์กระทำการว่า ระบบการรู้คิดซึ่งเป็นส่วนหนึ่งของปฏิสัมพันธ์ดังกล่าว เป็นระบบที่มีความสามารถสร้างตัวตนหรือไม่ ในขณะที่แนวคิดปฏิสังสรรค์กระทำการแบบสร้างตนเองโดยอิสระให้ความสำคัญกับความสามารถเรื่องการสร้างตัวตน แต่แนวคิดปฏิสังสรรค์กระทำการแบบรับสัมผัสและเคลื่อนไหวและแนวคิดปฏิสังสรรค์กระทำการแบบถึงรากถึงโคนแย้งความเห็นดังกล่าว โดยอ้างมโนทัศน์เรื่องความสามารถปรับตัว วิทยานิพนธ์ฉบับนี้ปกป้องแนวคิดปฏิสังสรรค์กระทำการแบบสร้างตนเองโดยอิสระว่าเป็นแนวทางที่แก้ปัญหาช่องว่างได้ เนื่องจากมโนทัศน์เรื่องความสามารถสร้างตัวตนเป็นมโนทัศน์ที่จำเป็นต่อการแก้ปัญหาช่องว่าง มโนทัศน์ดังกล่าวสามารถอธิบายกระบวนการการสร้างอัตลักษณ์ของระบบการรู้คิดที่แสดงถึงความเป็น ‘ผู้กระทำการ’ ของระบบ และแสดงถึงการเป็นประธานผู้มีมุมมองแบบอัตวิสัยที่มีปฏิสัมพันธ์กับสิ่งแวดล้อม การมีมุมมองอัตวิสัยของผู้กระทำการนี้เป็นพื้นฐานสำคัญของการมีประสบการณ์ความรู้สึก แต่มโนทัศน์เรื่องความสามารถปรับตัวเพียงอย่างเดียวนั้น ไม่เพียงพอที่จะอธิบายลักษณะดังกล่าวของระบบการรู้คิด จึงไม่สามารถแก้ปัญหาเรื่องช่องว่างได้
Retributive Justice, Capital Punishment, And Jurors In Northeast Florida,
2021
University of North Florida
Retributive Justice, Capital Punishment, And Jurors In Northeast Florida, Joseph S. Hamrick
UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Jacksonville is nationally recognized as being a city that disproportionately places defendants on death row. The author, who has been both a prosecutor and an appellate attorney representing inmates on death row in Jacksonville, believes that the high number of death sentences being issued in this city, at the recommendation of juries, is driven by a strong retributive intuition held by a significant part of Jacksonville’s society. This thesis evaluates the views of three philosophers who played influential roles in the resurgence of retributive theory in the latter half of the twentieth century in America, in seeking to identify and …
Can Mind Perception Explain Virtuous Character Judgments Of Artificial Intelligence?,
2021
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Can Mind Perception Explain Virtuous Character Judgments Of Artificial Intelligence?, Daniel Burton Shank, Mallory North, Carson Arnold, Patrick Gamez
Psychological Science Faculty Research & Creative Works
People tend to attribute less of a virtuous or unvirtuous characteristic to artificial intelligence (AI) agents compared to humans after observing a behavior exemplifying that particular virtue or vice. We argue that this difference can be explained by perceptions of experiential and agentic mind. Experiential mind focuses on one's emotions, sensations, and past experiences, whereas agentic mind focuses on one's intentions, capacity for action, and behaviors. Building on person-centered morality, virtue ethics, and mind perception research, we argue that both agentic and experiential mind are possible mediators of behavior-to-character attributions. We conducted two experiments (n = 613, n = 584) …
African Environmental Ethics: Keys To Sustainable Development Through Agroecological Villages,
2021
Old Dominion University
African Environmental Ethics: Keys To Sustainable Development Through Agroecological Villages, Charles Verharen, Flordeliz Bugarin, John Tharakan, Enrico Wensing, Bekele Gutema, Joseph Fortunak, George Middendorf
Center for Global Health Publications
This essay proposes African-based ethical solutions to profound human problems and a working African model to address those problems. The model promotes sustainability through advanced agroecological and information communication technologies. The essay's first section reviews the ethical ground of that model in the work of the Senegalese scholar, Cheikh Anta Diop. The essay's second section examines an applied African model for translating African ethical speculation into practice. Deeply immersed in European and African ethics, Godfrey Nzamujo developed the Songhaï Centers to solve the problem of rural poverty in seventeen African countries. Harnessing advanced technologies within a holistic agroecological ecosystem, Nzamujo's …
Modal Understanding Of Robustness Analysis,
2021
University of Montana, Missoula
Modal Understanding Of Robustness Analysis, Grayson O'Reilly
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
No abstract provided.
The Digital Gaze: Anthropomorphic Reflections Of Future Posthuman Reality,
2021
Old Dominion University
The Digital Gaze: Anthropomorphic Reflections Of Future Posthuman Reality, Joshua Nieubuurt
English Faculty Publications
The human world continues to be ever more entangled with the nebulous realms of the digital. The digital lives of humans are constantly viewed, analyzed, and organized by the use of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) as tools of governments, institutions, and corporations. Digital-machines are able to harvest massive swaths of data from users the world over including discursive elements and biometrics; accumulating the essences of what it means to dwell in a digital world. Although such digital-machines, and the algorithms on which they operate, are becoming more and more complex, they are still viewed as a tool …
The Effect Of Competency Modeling On Restaurant Employee Engagement And Turnover Intent,
2021
Walden University
The Effect Of Competency Modeling On Restaurant Employee Engagement And Turnover Intent, Erin Mclaughlin Vu
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
High turnover and low engagement among restaurant employees cost restaurant owners thousands of dollars per employee each year due to costs associated with training and lost productivity. Competency models are used in many industries to improve employee engagement and reduce turnover, but there is a gap in knowledge surrounding the use of competency models in restaurant organizations. The purpose of this pretest-posttest quasi-experimental quantitative study is to examine if the implementation of a competency model affects turnover intent and employee engagement for restaurant employees. Employee engagement and turnover intent were measured before and after a competency model was implemented. Four …
Making Sense Of The Divinely Beautiful: Essays On Friendship, Love, And Attraction,
2021
University of Kentucky
Making Sense Of The Divinely Beautiful: Essays On Friendship, Love, And Attraction, Michelle Catlin
Theses and Dissertations--Philosophy
Essay 1: As interpersonal communication has changed with the proliferation of technology-based forms of meeting and interacting with others, philosophers have begun considering ways in which these new types of communication have altered the landscape of our relationships. Although philosophers are split on whether online friendships can measure up to the Aristotelean standard of virtue friendship, none have questioned the importance of truth telling or accurate representation of oneself in the context of online sharing. The underlying assumption is that in a virtuous friendship, there is no role whatsoever for anything other than strict honestly. I disagree with this …
Spinoza's Methodology: A Genetic Account Of Fundamental Concepts In His Early Writings,
2021
University of Kentucky
Spinoza's Methodology: A Genetic Account Of Fundamental Concepts In His Early Writings, Clay Graham
Theses and Dissertations--Philosophy
Spinoza’s magnum opus, the Ethics, is written in a very peculiar, “geometrical” style, one that builds metaphysical and ethical doctrines out of mathematical, deductive proofs. These proofs rely on a series of definitions, axioms, propositions, and demonstrations. Nowhere in the Ethics does Spinoza explain his fundamental definitions and axioms, nor does he proffer a defense of his manner of presentation. I claim that by a thorough and systematic investigation of his earliest writings we can peel back the mystery of this geometrical garb and grasp why Spinoza presents his philosophy with formal, mathematical structure. I argue for the view …
Past Prescient,
2021
University of Colorado Law School
Past Prescient, Christopher Tomlins
University of Colorado Law Review
No abstract provided.
Sufficientarianism Revised: A Look At Past Theories Of Distributive Justice And Working Prospects For Future Theories,
2021
Claremont Colleges
Sufficientarianism Revised: A Look At Past Theories Of Distributive Justice And Working Prospects For Future Theories, Georgia Dietz
CMC Senior Theses
In philosophy, distributive justice is the economic, political, and social structure that constitutes a larger debate on how resources should be divided in society. What is a ‘fair’ way of distributing resources? Many philosophers have created different frameworks that attempt to answer this question. This paper will focus on the attempts that have been made by sufficientarians, then look at problems with these theories that have been pointed out by critics, and finally attempt to revise sufficientarianism altogether.
A Feminist Re-Imagining Of Participatory Planning,
2021
Claremont Colleges
A Feminist Re-Imagining Of Participatory Planning, Elena Castellanos
CMC Senior Theses
This thesis presents the benefits of feminist epistemologies in exposing current unjust structures hindering spatial justice in the urban planning process. I explore three main questions: (1) how do urban planners’ and designers’ biases shape American neighborhoods’ physical and social landscape?, (2) why traditional government or private planning approaches historically chose not to encode community-making functions into their frameworks for community input?, and (3) does a substantively inclusive and equitable urban planning project require a rigorous context-based understanding of people?. Additionally, I investigate what a participatory planning process that embraces feminist epistemologies would look like, a practice that prioritizes epistemically …
Honesty And Love In Plato's Symposium,
2021
Claremont McKenna College
Honesty And Love In Plato's Symposium, Cheng Rui Yap
CMC Senior Theses
Plato’s account can be understood in two sections, his critical method, which prioritizes true nature over false praise, and his account of Love. This paper is divided into three sections. The first section discusses the importance of the critical spirit and explains his praise of honesty and truth. The second section describes the nature of Love as virtues of passion. In the third section, I criticize Plato for going against his virtues of passion because of his bad passions, disinterest and malice.
On The Wrongs Of Fake News,
2021
Claremont Colleges
On The Wrongs Of Fake News, Samuel Fiske
CMC Senior Theses
While fake news has become a hot political issue in the past years, it presents novel and apolitical philosophical problems that are often neglected. This paper explores the epistemic and moral wrong of fake news, drawing on work from Immanuel Kant, Seana Shiffrin, and Miranda Fricker to explain exactly why fake news is so problematic. I argue that creating and sharing fake news violates Kant’s Categorical Imperative because it cannot be willed into a universal law and because it fails to respect rational agents as ends in themselves. I also argue that fake news presents distinct epistemic harms as it …
Arguments For The Abolition Of Gender,
2021
Claremont Colleges
Arguments For The Abolition Of Gender, Antonio Pineda
CMC Senior Theses
Throughout the process of writing this thesis, I have struggled with whether or not to use the term “gender abolition.” In one sense, the term itself initially piqued my interest in the topic. I remember the first time I heard of gender abolition, I had an immediate intuitive resistance. I thought it was another manifestation of the disconnect that exists between academia and society at large. However, my feelings quickly changed when the concept was explained to me in my sophomore year philosophy seminar. My incredulousness transformed to excitement when I realized gender abolition was actually simply the full realization …
The Jigsaw Model: A Key To A Loving Romantic Relationship,
2021
Claremont Colleges
The Jigsaw Model: A Key To A Loving Romantic Relationship, Stz-Tsung (Stone) Han
CMC Senior Theses
Using a simple “jigsaw” analogy to explain love and its objectives, comedian Daniel Sloss had triggered 50,000 break-ups, 34 engagement cancelations, and 42 divorces. This goes to show that many people do not have a clear understanding of what is romantic love and loving relationships. This study aims to examine romantic relationships and their transformative nature. Combining the work of Professor Simon Keller and Niko Kolodny, I developed a new model that helps to address the questions raised above. I conclude that, in the short term, people are motivated by the attractive qualities of others, which contribute to the formulation …
Didactic Democracy: Rethinking The Roles Of Individuality, Political Freedoms And “Cultural Values” In The Process Of Development,
2021
Claremont Colleges
Didactic Democracy: Rethinking The Roles Of Individuality, Political Freedoms And “Cultural Values” In The Process Of Development, Sabrina Hartono
CMC Senior Theses
Working off of Amartya Sen’s “Development as Freedom,” this paper challenges the conception of political freedoms and their instrumental, constructive and intrinsic roles in the development of society. I explore how identity formation is not as individualistic as Sen implicitly assumes in his framework. Using Elizabeth Anderson’s work on the importance of community in developing an individual identity, as well as incorporating ideas from Marx and Somers, I argue that there is strong reason to believe that Sen’s emphasis on the instrumental and constructive roles of political freedoms is exaggerated. I challenged Sen’s conception of the intrinsic value of political …
