Distributive Justice And Climate Change: The What, How, And Who Of Climate Change Policy,
2016
University of Montana
Distributive Justice And Climate Change: The What, How, And Who Of Climate Change Policy, Jason F. Moeller
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
The goal of this paper is to examine climate change through the lens of distributive justice. In doing so, it will attempt to answer how three important questions of distributive justice apply to climate change policy. These questions, what is the object of distribution, how should this object be distributed, and among whom should this distribution take place, will be the topics of the topics of the first, second, and third sections respectively. Through this examination, it is the hope of this paper that certain policy recommendations and climate change strategies can be developed which adequately take into account both …
A Case For Untrammeledness As The Foundational Goal Of Wilderness Management,
2016
University of Montana
A Case For Untrammeledness As The Foundational Goal Of Wilderness Management, Robert A. Mcglothlin
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
This thesis addresses the quandary faced by wilderness managers in a time of heightening anthropogenic change, who are tasked with the conflicting goals of leaving wilderness untrammeled from management control, while simultaneously maintaining natural conditions free from human influence. I explain how this debate between conflicting management goals reflects a deeper rift between two competing philosophical paradigms of wilderness stewardship, which I term the Naturalness- paradigm and the Untrammeledness-paradigm. The Naturalness-paradigm embraces a techno-centric view of wilderness stewardship that exalts the role of managers in shaping wilderness ecosystems, whose persistence it considers to be dependent upon human provisioning. The Untrammeledness-paradigm …
Better Talking Heads: Concerning Fuller "Experience" In Environmental Philosophy,
2016
University of Montana
Better Talking Heads: Concerning Fuller "Experience" In Environmental Philosophy, Christina Bovinette
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
Through this project, I demonstrate how professional environmental ethics is constrained by, what I call, a rationalist bias and I offer a different approach to environmental questions in the face of this observation. Intellectual life depends on material conditions and our necessary physical ties to Earth. I suggest that an emphasis on our physical connections with the planet can benefit professional environmental ethics. I draw from some feminist understandings to discuss the advantages of a professional environmental ethics that respects and integrates experiences outside of rational deliberation. I attempt to bring my discussion of experience, environmental ethics, and some feminist …
What Happened To The Grandsons And Great-Grandsons Of The House Of York?,
2016
Bowling Green State University
What Happened To The Grandsons And Great-Grandsons Of The House Of York?, James H. Forse
Quidditas
Josephine Tey, in her famous murder mystery centering on Richard III, The Daughter of Time, asserts that Richard was not a murderous tyrant determined to eliminate any challengers to his throne; rather it was the aim of Henry VII and Henry VIII to eliminate most of the male descendants of Richard Duke of York. Do the fates of those male descendants actually demonstrate that such was the policy of the first two Tudor monarchs?
Le Morte Darthur And The Extratextual Significance Of Prophecy Across The Centuries,
2016
University of New Mexico
Le Morte Darthur And The Extratextual Significance Of Prophecy Across The Centuries, Stephanie Victoria Violette
Quidditas
Prophecy is the driving force of Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur. The Morte emerged from a tradition of prophecy that existed long before its creation, and which continued into the early modern period. Prophecy influenced both political and religious spheres, as well as medieval cultural perceptions of time. English culture absorbed the Morte’s prophetic elements and used them to either bolster later uses of prophecy or to defame them. Using the Morte as a starting point, this examination draws on elements from various sources: Greek, Christian, and Welsh folklore, Geoffrey of Monmouth and contemporaries of Thomas Malory. Also part …
The Reception Of Tacitus’ Germania By The German Humanists: From Provence To Empire,
2016
Saginaw Valley State University
The Reception Of Tacitus’ Germania By The German Humanists: From Provence To Empire, Thomas Renna
Quidditas
It is well known he German Humanists (1490-1540) used Tacitus’ Germania to advance their notion of the German nation in response to Italian criticism. But less attention has been given to the German nature of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (1509). I argue that Humanists after Conrad Celtis (Bebel, Wimpheling, Cochlaeus, Brant, Irenicus, Franck, Hutten) emphasized the Germanness of the empire by reinterpreting the traditional Translation of Empire, the Germanic migrations out of Germania after Constantine, and the designation of a new national purpose (the protection and expansion of the Church and the faith). They grafted the …
Full Issue,
2016
Brigham Young University
When Society Becomes The Criminal: An Exploration Of Society’S Responsibilities To The Wrongfully Convicted,
2016
Pitzer College
When Society Becomes The Criminal: An Exploration Of Society’S Responsibilities To The Wrongfully Convicted, Amelia A. Haselkorn
Pitzer Senior Theses
This thesis explores how society can and should compensate those who have been wrongfully convicted after they are exonerated and how we can prevent these mistakes from happening to others in the future. It begins by presenting research on the scope of the problem. Then it suggests possible reforms to the U.S. justice system that would minimize the rate of innocent convictions. Lastly, it takes both a philosophical and political look at what just compensation would entail as well as a variety of state compensation laws.
Is Genetic Drift A Force?,
2016
Louisiana State University
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 …
Berkeley On The Source Of Self-Knowledge: Introspection And Causal Maxim,
2016
University of Mississippi
Berkeley On The Source Of Self-Knowledge: Introspection And Causal Maxim, Scott Harkema
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Most Berkeley commentators agree that Berkeley’s theory of self-awareness depends on some type of direct introspective access to the self. In this paper, I challenge this consensus view, arguing that Berkeley’s theory does not claim that there is direct introspective access to the self until after his first publication of the Principles of Human Knowledge in 1710. The first edition of the Principles, as well as Berkeley’s Philosophical Notebooks, reveal a significantly different, perhaps more “Humean,” perspective concerning self-awareness than his works after 1710. During this period, Berkeley thought that the self cannot be encountered directly through introspection, but is …
Index,
2016
Louisiana State University
Index
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
No abstract provided.
Front Matter,
2016
Louisiana State University
Front Matter
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
No abstract provided.
Moving Letters In Eighteenth-Century Epistolary Writing Arrivals And Departures,
2016
Louisiana State University
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
No abstract provided.
Motion In (Eighteenth-Century) Poetry,
2016
Louisiana State University
Motion In (Eighteenth-Century) Poetry, Bill Overton
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
No abstract provided.
Picturesque Movement In Ann Radcliffe's Novels,
2016
Louisiana State University
Picturesque Movement In Ann Radcliffe's Novels, Julien Morel
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
No abstract provided.
Kinetic Metaphors In Alexander Pope's The Rape Oe The Lock, Essay On Man, And The Dunciad,
2016
Louisiana State University
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
No abstract provided.
Swift's Concept Of Physical Exercise: The Gravel Path To Human Perfection,
2016
Louisiana State University
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
No abstract provided.
Drifting Unguided Or Involuntary Motion And The Enlightenment Sense Of Direction,
2016
Louisiana State University
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
No abstract provided.
Stability Turned Into Motion Erasmus Darwin's Recourse To Ovid's Metamorphoses,
2016
Louisiana State University
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
No abstract provided.
Turning Round Or Standing Still Movement And Stasis In Defoe, Pope, And Sterne,
2016
Louisiana State University
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
No abstract provided.
