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Modal Understanding Of Robustness Analysis, Grayson O'Reilly
Modal Understanding Of Robustness Analysis, Grayson O'Reilly
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
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Complicity And Climate Change, Shalomita Kristanugraha
Complicity And Climate Change, Shalomita Kristanugraha
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
As individuals, how should we understand our personal complicity in climate change related harms? In this thesis, I argue that the predominant way we think of complicity within the Western moral paradigm—that is, as a distribution problem—is inadequate in helping us understand the nature of our complicity in climate change related harms. This inadequacy, in turn, psychologically hampers individual citizens residing in high-emitting nations of the Global North from effective and sustainable social and political engagement with climate change. To address the inadequacy and obstructions that result from it, I follow the discussion between Christopher Kutz and Iris Marion Young …
The Kite And The String: Why Philosophy Needs More Storytellers, Mason James Voehl
The Kite And The String: Why Philosophy Needs More Storytellers, Mason James Voehl
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
This thesis seeks to explore the relationship between philosophy and storytelling as grounded in their shared task of instructing readers in how to live a rich and moral life. Using a combination of narratives and the philosophical theories of Martha Nussbaum, Edward Mooney, and Iris Murdoch, I claim that philosophy and storytelling ought to be natural allies rather than territorial enemies as each reveals and attends to separate but equally important aspects of the good life in community with others. I then extend this claim into the context of environmental philosophy, using the work of writer Jason Mark as an …