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Simulation Design Characteristics: Perspectives Held By Nurse Educators And Nursing Students, Jane Brekke Paige
Simulation Design Characteristics: Perspectives Held By Nurse Educators And Nursing Students, Jane Brekke Paige
Theses and Dissertations
Simulation based learning (SBL) is pedagogical method poised to innovate nursing educational approaches. Yet, despite a growing body of research into SBL, limited investigation exists regarding assumptions and beliefs that underpin SBL pedagogy. Even though key simulation design characteristics exist, the particular methods nurse educators use to operationalize simulation design characteristics and how these choices are viewed from the perspective of nursing students is unknown. Without understanding what motivates educators to design simulations as they do, it is difficult to interpret the evidence that exists to support chosen methods. Through the exploration of perspectives (points-of-view), underlying beliefs can be uncovered. …
Perdurance And Personhood: A Reply To Burge, Joel Knowles
Perdurance And Personhood: A Reply To Burge, Joel Knowles
Theses and Dissertations
This essay is a response to the attack on reductionist and perdurantist views of persons which Tyler Burge presents in a paper entitled "Memory and Perons". Burge's arguments appeal to a specific form of egocentric indexing called de se form, which he suggests is involved in the individuation conditions of the mental states entailed in the exercise of the core psychological competencies of personhood (i.e. intentional agency, perception with use, inference). Burge argues that the preservation of states with de se form requires the possession of a veridical de se memory competency, which in turn requires transtemporal agent identity. Burge …
The Modal Status Of Kant's Postulate Of God's Existence, Mathew Jonathan Snow
The Modal Status Of Kant's Postulate Of God's Existence, Mathew Jonathan Snow
Theses and Dissertations
Kant is traditionally read as arguing that moral agents are rationally required to postulate the actual existence of God, but contemporary commentators' reconstructions of the argument only seem sufficient to warrant postulating the merely possible existence of God. There have been three attempts to address this seeming lacuna between what the argument is supposed to justify and what it does justify. Allen Wood defends the traditional interpretation - that Kant postulated the actual existence of God. M Jamie Ferreira proposes a revisionary interpretation - that Kant postulated the possible existence of God. Finally, Paul Guyer simply criticizes Kant for postulating …
Commitment And Temporal Mediation In Korsgaard's Self-Constitution, David Shope
Commitment And Temporal Mediation In Korsgaard's Self-Constitution, David Shope
Theses and Dissertations
In Self-Constitution Christine Korsgaard argues that our reasons are public. What she means by this is that if a rational agent has a reason to perform some action, it is a reason that has normative force for everyone who is a rational agent. Korsgaard also argues in Self-Constitution that when we will a course of action, we must do so in the form of a determinate commitment. Doing so requires determining some reasons to be bad reasons to opt out of the course of action that we will. Finally, Korsgaard claims that the selves occupying our own body at different …
Second Nature In Kant's Theory Of Artistic Creativity, Adam Blazej
Second Nature In Kant's Theory Of Artistic Creativity, Adam Blazej
Theses and Dissertations
One of the central claims of John McDowell's Mind and World is that, in reconciling an apparent opposition between the normative and the natural, philosophers should look to a notion of second nature: the idea that nature includes a species of animals (namely, human beings) who, through their socialization, transform themselves into rational beings capable of thinking about and acting in the world in response to reasons. McDowell argues that Kant lacks a notion of second nature and thereby fails to overcome the relevant problem of reconciliation. My aim in this paper is to show that (pace McDowell) Kant does …
The Myth Of Given Reasons: An Essay On Agency And Rational Constraint, John Samuel
The Myth Of Given Reasons: An Essay On Agency And Rational Constraint, John Samuel
Theses and Dissertations
Any satisfying account of practical deliberation—and the grounding of the reasons on which it is based—needs to make sense of how we can be both rationally constrained and at the same time responsible agents. If we lean too far to the side of grounding normativity in features of the world external to ourselves as agents we run the risk of losing sight of how we can be anything other than mechanically responsive, while if we lean too far to the side of voluntarism we risk losing sight of how our free actions can be nonetheless rational. Ruth Chang proposes an …
"Just Perceiv'd & Next Door To Nothing:" An Investigation Of Minima In The Work Of George Berkeley, Nicholas Bryant Nash
"Just Perceiv'd & Next Door To Nothing:" An Investigation Of Minima In The Work Of George Berkeley, Nicholas Bryant Nash
Theses and Dissertations
For George Berkeley the minimum visibile and the minimum tangibile are the minimum points that can be perceived by the senses of sight and touch (NTV 54). His account of minima is considered by some to be central to his account of perception and his assault on skepticism, while others view the account as simply a digression from his main theme in the New Theory of Vision. One issue in particular that commentators disagree on is whether or not Berkeley understands minima to be extended or not extended. I argue that minima can only be understood as not extended. In …
How I Spent My Summer Defending-Or-Defeating Anscombe: Anscombian Action Theory And The Possibility Of Logically Complex Actions, Andrew Mckay Flynn
How I Spent My Summer Defending-Or-Defeating Anscombe: Anscombian Action Theory And The Possibility Of Logically Complex Actions, Andrew Mckay Flynn
Theses and Dissertations
This paper attempts to bridge the divide between action theorists who work in a conceptual terrain shaped primarily by Donald Davidson and Michael Bratman and action theorists who work in a conceptual terrain shaped primarily by G.E.M. Anscombe. In it, I consider a feature of action that has only been discussed by the Anscombe camp: the means-end structure of actions in their unfolding over time. Then, I draw out an implication of this feature: that actions can involve structure which is logically complex (that is, can involve means taken to a logically complex end). Next, I argue that numerous arguments …
Decent Peoples, Political Legitimacy, And Informed Consent, Jonathan Grandits
Decent Peoples, Political Legitimacy, And Informed Consent, Jonathan Grandits
Theses and Dissertations
In The Law of Peoples, John Rawls attempts to work out principles of justice for the foreign policy of a reasonably just liberal people. One of his primary goals is to establish the minimum requirements necessary for a people to be an equal member (or a 'members in good standing') within a Society of Peoples (SoP). While Rawls believes that all well-ordered liberal peoples meet these requirements, he also believes that there are non-liberal peoples that are capable of doing so as well. He thus imagines the possibility of a non-liberal, well-ordered people. He calls such peoples Decent Hierarchical Societies …
Hume, Skepticism, And Induction, Jason Thomas Collins
Hume, Skepticism, And Induction, Jason Thomas Collins
Theses and Dissertations
This paper concerns the following interpretative problem: Hume's most explicit arguments in both the Treatise and the Enquiry strongly suggest that he is a skeptic about inductive reasoning. This, indeed, has been the traditional interpretation. And yet, Hume engages in and explicitly endorses inductive reasoning throughout his works. I examine two prominent attempts to reconcile these features of Hume's position. One group of commentators, the descriptivists, argues that Hume is not concerned with whether we ought to accept inductive beliefs; he is only concerned with the psychological causes of such beliefs. Because Hume is not concerned with the normative epistemic …
How To Think About Indiscernible Particles, Daniel Joseph Giglio
How To Think About Indiscernible Particles, Daniel Joseph Giglio
Theses and Dissertations
Permutation symmetries which arise in quantum mechanics pose an intriguing problem. It is not clear that particles which exhibit permutation symmetries (i.e. particles which are indiscernible, meaning that they can be swapped with each other without this yielding a new physical state) qualify as "objects" in any reasonable sense of the term. One solution to this puzzle, which I attribute to W.V. Quine, would have us eliminate such particles from our ontology altogether in order to circumvent the metaphysical vexations caused by permutation symmetries. In this essay I argue that Quine's solution is too rash, and in its place I …
The Supersubstantivalist Response To The Argument From Vagueness, Mark Puestohl
The Supersubstantivalist Response To The Argument From Vagueness, Mark Puestohl
Theses and Dissertations
Unrestricted Composition is the axiom of classical extensional mereology according to which any objects, the xs, compose some y. Perhaps the most powerful argument for Unrestricted Composition is the Argument from Vagueness, which purports to secure Unrestricted Composition on the grounds of a few plausible theses about composition, vagueness, and the number of objects. Here I present Theodore Sider's (2001) formulation of the Argument from Vagueness. I show that given supersubstantivalism--the thesis that material objects are identical to spacetime regions--we are in a position to consider the Argument from Vagueness unsound. I then consider supersubstantivalist responses from Andrew Wake (2010) …
Re-Presenting Rossetti: The Art Of Frank Cadogan Cowper, Lail A. Marmor
Re-Presenting Rossetti: The Art Of Frank Cadogan Cowper, Lail A. Marmor
Theses and Dissertations
The art of Frank Cadogan Cowper is virtually unknown, yet his paintings attest to a post-modern presence in British art during the rise of High-Modernism. Cowper maintained a 19th-century style during the development of formalism and was not alone. The artist belongs to a wider, loosely formed group of marginal, British painters who drew inspiration from the art of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Like Rossetti, Cowper was particularly fascinated with the cultural phenomenon of the femme fatale, whose iconography forms a pervasive motif in the artist's oeuvre. Against the wider cultural context, one of the more salient transformations in social stratification …
Disagreement, Dispositions, And Higher-Order Evidence, Paul Leonard Blaschko
Disagreement, Dispositions, And Higher-Order Evidence, Paul Leonard Blaschko
Theses and Dissertations
In opting to consider toy cases of disagreement -- cases that, like Christensen's dinner bill scenario, obviously involve evidence-sharing epistemic peers -- epistemologists have hitherto failed to take seriously a distinct and "deeper" kind of disagreement. The distinction emerges most clearly, I argue, when cases that are typically thought to be vulnerable to the threat of "spinelessness" are brought in for more careful consideration (i.e. political disagreements, religious and philosophical disagreements, etc.). By picking out distinctive features of this sort of disagreement -- deep disagreement -- and arguing that it is, in fact, epistemically significant (though, perhaps requiring a different …
The Starry Heavens Above Me And The Starmaking Power Within Me, Philip Mack
The Starry Heavens Above Me And The Starmaking Power Within Me, Philip Mack
Theses and Dissertations
The worldmaking thesis stands as a contentious view of reality. Its primary tenet, that we play a role in cognitively making objects, properties, facts, and thereby the world, is dismissed by many philosophers as an incoherent and misguided position. In this paper I critically discuss the thesis and defend it against several criticisms: that (1) it is cosmologically incoherent, (2) raises a problem of causation, (3) implies subjectivism, (4) commits a use-mention fallacy, and (5) it commits the problem of disagreement. I show that these criticisms are not ultimately deleterious to the thesis. Furthermore, I explore ways in which worldmaking …