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Aethelflaed: History And Legend, Kim Klimek Jan 2013

Aethelflaed: History And Legend, Kim Klimek

Quidditas

This paper examines the place of Aethelflaed, Queen of the Mercians, in the written historical record. Looking at works like the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the Irish Annals, we find a woman whose rule acted as both a complement to and a corruption against the consolidations of Alfred the Great and Edward’s rule in Anglo-Saxon England. The alternative histories written by the Mercians and the Celtic areas of Ireland and Wales show us an alternative view to the colonization and solidification of West-Saxon rule.

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What's Love Got To Do With It? An Exploration Of The Symposium And Plato's Love, Remy P. Pinson Jan 2013

What's Love Got To Do With It? An Exploration Of The Symposium And Plato's Love, Remy P. Pinson

CMC Senior Theses

To many people love is special, sacred even. Love plays a countless number of roles for a countless number of people. Contemporary ideas about love, however, are more in alignment with the philosophies of Aristotle, and not of Plato. Aristotle held that love could exist as many people see it today – wishing well for others purely for their own sake. But Plato disagreed. Plato claimed that love was a way by which one could better themselves and become wiser. In this thesis, I explain Plato’s theory of love put forth in the Symposium. I also explore the textual …

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A New Foundation For The Propensity Interpretation Of Fitness, Charles H. Pence, Grant Ramsey Jan 2013

A New Foundation For The Propensity Interpretation Of Fitness, Charles H. Pence, Grant Ramsey

Faculty Publications

The propensity interpretation of fitness (PIF) is commonly taken to be subject to a set of simple counterexamples. We argue that three of the most important of these are not counterexamples to the PIF itself, but only to the traditional mathematical model of this propensity: fitness as expected number of offspring. They fail to demonstrate that a new mathematical model of the PIF could not succeed where this older model fails. We then propose a new formalization of the PIF that avoids these (and other) counterexamples. By producing a counterexample-free model of the PIF, we call into question one of …

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Identifying Pathway Proteins In Networks Using Convergence, Kathryn Dempsey Cooper, Hesham Ali Jan 2013

Identifying Pathway Proteins In Networks Using Convergence, Kathryn Dempsey Cooper, Hesham Ali

Interdisciplinary Informatics Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

One of the key goals of systems biology concerns the analysis of experimental biological data available to the scientific public. New technologies are rapidly developed to observe and report whole-scale biological phenomena; however, few methods exist with the ability to produce specific, testable hypotheses from this noisy ‘big’ data. In this work, we propose an approach that combines the power of data-driven network theory along with knowledge-based ontology to tackle this problem. Network models are especially powerful due to their ability to display elements of interest and their relationships as internetwork structures. Additionally, ontological data actually supplements the confidence of …

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Liberal Education And Moral Education, Daniel R. Denicola Jan 2013

Liberal Education And Moral Education, Daniel R. Denicola

Philosophy Faculty Publications

Mark Van Doren, the noted literary scholar, once remarked, "The college is meaningless without a curriculum, but it is more so when it has one that is meaningless." Many current critics of undergraduate curricula in America assent to the crucial need for programmatic renewal in our colleges and universities. They bemoan the cookie-cutter sameness in far too many of them. The oddity is that U.S. colleges have long touted their "diversity" while largely holding fast to rather traditional pathways. This illuminating volume goes beyond formulaic nuts-and-bolts recipes for constructing curriculum: it seeks to interpret and analyze the contemporary landscape of …

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Mukulabhaṭṭa's Defense Of Lakṣaṇā: How We Use Words To Mean Something Else, But Not Everything Else, Malcolm Keating Jan 2013

Mukulabhaṭṭa's Defense Of Lakṣaṇā: How We Use Words To Mean Something Else, But Not Everything Else, Malcolm Keating

Philosophy: Faculty Publications

We frequently use single words or expressions to mean multiple things, depending upon context. I argue that a plausible model of this phenomenon, known as laks{dot below}aN{dot below}ā by Indian philosophers, emerges in the work of ninth-century Kashmiri Mukulabhat{dot below}t{dot below}a. His model of laks{dot below}aN{dot below}ā is sensitive to the lexical and syntactic requirements for sentence meaning, the interpretive unity guiding a communicative act, and the nuances of creative language use found in poetry. After outlining his model of laks{dot below}aN{dot below}ā, I show how arthāpatti, or presumption, forms the basis of both semantic and pragmatic processes in this …

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Staffan Müller-Wille And Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, A Cultural History Of Heredity, Charles H. Pence Jan 2013

Staffan Müller-Wille And Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, A Cultural History Of Heredity, Charles H. Pence

Faculty Publications

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Front Matter Jan 2013

Front Matter

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Marketing The "Good Man" Sir Charles Grandison And The Clementinas, Murray L. Brown Jan 2013

Marketing The "Good Man" Sir Charles Grandison And The Clementinas, Murray L. Brown

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Unorthodox Transportation And The Enlightenment, Jessika Wichner Jan 2013

Unorthodox Transportation And The Enlightenment, Jessika Wichner

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Loyalty Oaths A Reminder From The Enlightenment, A. G. Monaco Jan 2013

Loyalty Oaths A Reminder From The Enlightenment, A. G. Monaco

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Philosophizing The Game The Morals Of Chess In Diderot's Rameau's Nephew, Florian Vauleon Jan 2013

Philosophizing The Game The Morals Of Chess In Diderot's Rameau's Nephew, Florian Vauleon

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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The Paddle Wheel Boat A Technical Invention Of Late Antiquity, Dorit Engster Jan 2013

The Paddle Wheel Boat A Technical Invention Of Late Antiquity, Dorit Engster

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Winter Travelers Captain Jones's Treatise On Skating, Jessika Wichner Jan 2013

Winter Travelers Captain Jones's Treatise On Skating, Jessika Wichner

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Burke's Target In A Vindication Of Natural Society From Bolingbroke To "This Sort Of Writers," Or An Early Burkean Defense Of Church And State, Norbert Col Jan 2013

Burke's Target In A Vindication Of Natural Society From Bolingbroke To "This Sort Of Writers," Or An Early Burkean Defense Of Church And State, Norbert Col

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Cosmopolitan Friendship In James Boswell's Journal Of A Tour To Corsica, Melvin Pena Jan 2013

Cosmopolitan Friendship In James Boswell's Journal Of A Tour To Corsica, Melvin Pena

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Seafaring Nuns The Journey Of Six Capuchin Sisters From Toledo To Mexico City, 1665, Frieda Koeninger, Raquel Gutierrez Estupinan Jan 2013

Seafaring Nuns The Journey Of Six Capuchin Sisters From Toledo To Mexico City, 1665, Frieda Koeninger, Raquel Gutierrez Estupinan

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Swift And Temple, Ashley Marshall Jan 2013

Swift And Temple, Ashley Marshall

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Book Reviews Jan 2013

Book Reviews

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Cumulative Index Volumes 1-20 Jan 2013

Cumulative Index Volumes 1-20

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Macintyre And The Emotivists, James E. Mahon Jan 2013

Macintyre And The Emotivists, James E. Mahon

Publications and Research

This chapter both explains the origins of emotivism in C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards, R. B. Braithwaite, Austin Duncan-Jones, A. J. Ayer and Charles Stevenson (along with the endorsement by Frank P. Ramsey, and the summary of C. D. Broad), and looks at Alasdair MacIntyre's criticisms of emotivism as the inevitable result of Moore's attack on naturalistic ethics and his ushering in the fact/value distinction, which was a historical product of the Enlightenment.

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Jewish, Christian – Or What? Questions Of Self-Designation In The 'Ascension Of Isaiah', Meghan Henning, Tobias Nicklas Jan 2013

Jewish, Christian – Or What? Questions Of Self-Designation In The 'Ascension Of Isaiah', Meghan Henning, Tobias Nicklas

Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Publications

The Question of the “Parting of the Ways” between Jews and Christians has become a matter of debate again: is it really appropriate to speak about two more or less coherent groups going two different ways from a certain point in history – perhaps after Paul’s mission, after the destruction of the Second Temple (70 CE), or after the Bar-Kokhba War (132-135 CE)? Does the image of a tree with one root and two different trunks going into two different directions really fit what the extant sources tell us about the complexities of the past? Or shouldn’t we distinguish between …

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By Design: Ethics, Theology, And The Practice Of Engineering, Brad Kallenberg Jan 2013

By Design: Ethics, Theology, And The Practice Of Engineering, Brad Kallenberg

Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Publications

Both engineering and human living take place in a messy world, one chock full of unknowns and contingencies. "Design reasoning" is the way engineers cope with real-world contingency. Because of the messiness, books about engineering design cannot have "ideal solutions" printed in the back in the same way that mathematics textbooks can. Design reasoning does not produce a single, ideally correct answer to a given problem but rather generates a wide variety of rival solutions that vie against each other for their relative level of "satisfactoriness." A reasoning process analogous to design is needed in ethics. Since the realm of …

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Ua35/11 Honors Program, Wku Archives Jan 2013

Ua35/11 Honors Program, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about the Honors Program. Includes brochures, awards programs, student handbooks, newsletters and research publications.

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Existential Phenomenology's Role In Understanding Minority Cynicism In The American Legal System, Layla Garcia-Brown Jan 2013

Existential Phenomenology's Role In Understanding Minority Cynicism In The American Legal System, Layla Garcia-Brown

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

This paper will discuss the cynicism many people of color have toward the American legal system by using the intersections between existential philosophy, Africana philosophy, black existentialism and phenomenology. This paper will explore the cynicism and lack of trust held by many American minorities toward the American legal and judicial systems primarily through the lenses of philosophy, but additionally, the disciplines of: psychology, political science, criminology and sociology will also be discussed as they are vital and unavoidable disciplines to the discussion. Therefore, the methodology of this paper is intersectionality, meaning that all of the above systems as well as …

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Hypothetical Pattern Idealization And Explanatory Models, Yasha Rohwer, Collin Rice Jan 2013

Hypothetical Pattern Idealization And Explanatory Models, Yasha Rohwer, Collin Rice

Philosophy Faculty Research and Scholarship

Highly idealized models, such as the Hawk-Dove game, are pervasive in biological theorizing. We argue that the process and motivation that leads to the introduction of various idealizations into these models is not adequately captured by Michael Weisberg’s taxonomy of three kinds of idealization. Consequently, a fourth kind of idealization is required, which we call hypothetical pattern idealization. This kind of idealization is used to construct models that aim to be explanatory but do not aim to be explanations.

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Higher Than The Original Stands The Translation: Translating Heidegger Into Filipino, Remmon E. Barbaza Jan 2013

Higher Than The Original Stands The Translation: Translating Heidegger Into Filipino, Remmon E. Barbaza

Philosophy Department Faculty Publications

This paper is a reflection on the author’s experience of translating Martin Heidegger into Filipino. It first addresses the questions of principles underlying the act of translation, such as those of fidelity (to both source and target languages, original author and translator), as well as the role of the translator as an intermediary between the original author and the readers. Then it demonstrates examples of his experience of translating selected key terms and passages in Heidegger—such as sein, stellen, Ereignis, and their cognates—indicating the difficulties as well as the challenges that arise in the work of translation. A notable problem …

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The Role Of Adaptation To Disability And Disease In Public Health, Meghan Mary Connors Jan 2013

The Role Of Adaptation To Disability And Disease In Public Health, Meghan Mary Connors

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

Some patients with chronic disabilities and diseases are able to adapt to their health states and, as a result, rate their quality of life higher than hypothetical patients imagining themselves to be in such states. Due to this phenomenon of adaptation, there is much controversy surrounding the effect of adaptation on patient preferences and the role that these adapted preferences ought to play in health care resource allocation decisions. The process of adaptation affects public health debates about whether we ought to give priority to the worst off in allocation decisions because within traditional public health frameworks, it is unclear …

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Why The Basic Structure Is Basic : A Defense Of The Doctrinal Autonomy Of Political Philosophy, Pete Murray Jan 2013

Why The Basic Structure Is Basic : A Defense Of The Doctrinal Autonomy Of Political Philosophy, Pete Murray

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

In my dissertation, I defend John Rawls's claim that the question of the design of the basic structure of society is the central question of distributive justice. The basic structure, on my understanding, and following Samuel Freeman, is the system of basic background institutions within which we pursue our everyday lives. It includes the institutions of our political and legal system, our system of property, our economic system, and the legal structure of the family.

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Illusion In The Commonplace : Reinterpreting Ernst Gombrich's Concept Of Illusion, Jonathan Auyer Jan 2013

Illusion In The Commonplace : Reinterpreting Ernst Gombrich's Concept Of Illusion, Jonathan Auyer

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

In the dissertation I analyze and interpret Ernst Gombrich's book Art and Illusion, focusing on his view that illusion is involved in pictorial representation. Since Gombrich never gave a concise, systematic account of illusion, my goal will be to fill this void by using the text of Art and Illusion as well as Gombrich's subsequent writings in order to present a coherent account of how illusion might play a role in a picture's representing an object.

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