Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Keyword
-
- Epistemology (6)
- Agency (4)
- Art (3)
- Consciousness (3)
- Metaphysics (3)
-
- Modality (3)
- Normativity (3)
- Attention (2)
- Autonomy (2)
- Cognition (2)
- Culture (2)
- Democracy (2)
- Essence (2)
- Ethics (2)
- Ethnography (2)
- Freedom (2)
- Identity (2)
- Knowledge (2)
- Language (2)
- Meaning (2)
- Narrative (2)
- Naturalism (2)
- Ontology (2)
- Oppression (2)
- Philosophy (2)
- Political economy (2)
- Reasons (2)
- Resistance (2)
- Respect (2)
- Ritual (2)
- Publication Year
Articles 61 - 67 of 67
Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Human Freedom In A World Full Of Providence: An Ockhamist-Molinist Account Of The Compatibility Of Divine Foreknowledge And Creaturely Free Will, Christopher J. Kosciuk
Human Freedom In A World Full Of Providence: An Ockhamist-Molinist Account Of The Compatibility Of Divine Foreknowledge And Creaturely Free Will, Christopher J. Kosciuk
Open Access Dissertations
I defend the compatibility of the classical theistic doctrine of divine providence, which includes infallible foreknowledge of all future events, with a libertarian understanding of creaturely free will. After setting out the argument for theological determinism, which purports to show the inconsistency of foreknowledge and freedom, I reject several responses as inadequate and then defend the ‚Ockhamist‛ response as successful. I further argue that the theory of middle knowledge or ‚Molinism‛ is crucial to the viability of the Ockhamist response, and proceed to defend Molinism against the most pressing objections. Finally, I argue that a proper understanding of the Creator-creature …
Composition As Identity: A Study In Ontology And Philosophical Logic, Einar Bohn
Composition As Identity: A Study In Ontology And Philosophical Logic, Einar Bohn
Open Access Dissertations
In this work I first develop, motivate, and defend the view that mereological composition, the relation between an object and all its parts collectively, is a relation of identity. I argue that this view implies and hence can explain the logical necessity of classical mereology, the formal study of the part-whole relation. I then critically discuss four contemporary views of the same kind. Finally, I employ my thesis in a recent discussion of whether the world is fundamentally one in number.
Phenomenal Acquaintance, Kelly Trogdon
Phenomenal Acquaintance, Kelly Trogdon
Open Access Dissertations
Chapter 1 of Phenomenal Acquaintance is devoted to taking care of some preliminary issues. I begin by distinguishing those states of awareness in virtue of which we’re acquainted with the phenomenal characters of our experiences from those states of awareness some claim are at the very nature of experience. Then I reconcile the idea that experience is transparent with the claim that we can be acquainted with phenomenal character. In Chapter 2 I set up a dilemma that is the primary focus of the dissertation. In the first part of this chapter I argue that phenomenal acquaintance has three key …
On The Objectivity Of Welfare, Alexander F. Sarch
On The Objectivity Of Welfare, Alexander F. Sarch
Open Access Dissertations
This dissertation is structured in such a way as to gradually home in on the true theory of welfare. I start with the whole field of possible theories of welfare and then proceed by narrowing down the options in a series of steps. The first step, undertaken in chapter 2, is to argue that the true theory of welfare must be what I call a partly response independent theory. First I reject the entirely response independent theories because there are widely-shared intuitions suggesting that some psychological responses are indeed relevant to welfare. Then I reject the entirely response dependent theories …
On The Measurability Of Pleasure And Pain, Justin Allen Klocksiem
On The Measurability Of Pleasure And Pain, Justin Allen Klocksiem
Open Access Dissertations
The topic of my dissertation is the hedonic calculus. The hedonic calculus presupposes that pleasure and pain come in amounts amenable to addition, subtraction, and aggregation operations. These operations are ones that utilitarianism and related normative ethical theories treat as central to moral phenomena. The first chapter is an introduction to the problem--in it, I explain what the hedonic calculus is, why it is important, and why it has recently come under disfavor. The second chapter explores the nature of hedonic phenomena, arguing that pleasure and pain are propositional attitudes; they are not feelings or feeling-tones, nor are they fundamentally …
Synthetic Ethical Naturalism, Michael Rubin
Synthetic Ethical Naturalism, Michael Rubin
Open Access Dissertations
This dissertation is a critique of synthetic ethical naturalism (SEN). SEN is a view in metaethics that comprises three key theses: first, there are moral properties and facts that are independent of the beliefs and attitudes of moral appraisers (moral realism); second, moral properties and facts are identical to (or constituted only by) natural properties and facts (ethical naturalism); and third, sentences used to assert identity or constitution relations between moral and natural properties are expressions of synthetic, a posteriori necessities. The last of these theses, which distinguishes SEN from other forms of ethical naturalism, is supported by a fourth: …
Post-Marxism After Althusser: A Critique Of The Alternatives, Ceren Ozselcuk
Post-Marxism After Althusser: A Critique Of The Alternatives, Ceren Ozselcuk
Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014
This dissertation provides a particular Marxian class analytical political economy critique of post-Marxism. The dissertation demonstrates the ways in which different positions within post-Marxism continue to essentialize the conceptualizations of class and capitalist economy. What distinguishes this dissertation from other dominant critiques of post-Marxism is the anti-essentialist epistemological and ontological position it adopts. By adopting an anti-essentialist epistemological position the dissertation is able to demonstrate the discontinuities and continuities between post-Marxism and the Marxian tradition. The dissertation does this by reading the heterogeneous and disparate post-Marxian approaches as so many different ways to "resolve" the central tension of the Althusserian …