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The Feeling Mind, Maria Doulatova
The Feeling Mind, Maria Doulatova
Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations
According to standard conceptions of agency, our reasons and intentions guide our actions. That is, goal-directed intentions play a key role in practical deliberation, planning, and execution of action. Furthermore, purposeful, goal-directed behavior warrants attributions of responsibility or “reactive attitudes” like resentment, anger, gratitude and forgiveness. However, recent developments of the dual-process theory of mind cast doubt on the empirical adequacy of this picture. While people take themselves to be responding to relevant reasons, they are often bypassed by irrelevant affective or automatic reactions. In this work I go beyond the dual-process theory of mind to offer a mechanistic account …
Singing As A Therapeutic Technique To Improve Gait For People With Parkinson Disease, Elinor Harrison
Singing As A Therapeutic Technique To Improve Gait For People With Parkinson Disease, Elinor Harrison
Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Abstract of the Dissertation
Singing as a Therapeutic Technique to
Improve Gait for People with Parkinson Disease
by
Elinor Clare Harrison
Doctor of Philosophy in Movement Science
Neurosciences
Washington University in St. Louis, 2018
Professor Gammon Earhart, Chair
Gait impairment is common in older adults and even more prevalent for people with Parkinson disease (PD). Gait dysfunction is often characterized by reductions in speed, step frequency, and step length. In addition, decreased ability to regulate step length and step frequency may contribute to increased gait variability, making walking less stable and increasing risk for falls. As gait deficits are often …
The Solid & The Shifting: Darwinian Time, Evolutionary Form And The Greek Ideal In The Early Works Of Virginia Woolf, Joseph Monroe Kreutziger
The Solid & The Shifting: Darwinian Time, Evolutionary Form And The Greek Ideal In The Early Works Of Virginia Woolf, Joseph Monroe Kreutziger
Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations
ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION
“The Solid & the Shifting”: Evolutionary Form, Darwinian Time, and the Greek Ideal in the Early Works of Virginia Woolf
By
Joseph Kreutziger
Doctor of Philosophy in English and American Literature
Washington University in St. Louis, 2017
Professors Melanie Micir, Robert Milder, Steven Meyer, Vincent Sherry, Zoe Stamatopoulou
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“Now is life very solid or very shifting?” Virginia Woolf asks in her diary of 1931, a question she claims haunts her in its contradictions. This dynamism between the solid and the shifting aspects of life and temporality is fundamental to an analysis of Woolf’s writing process. …
Seeds As Artifacts Of Communities Of Practice: The Domestication Of Erect Knotweed In Eastern North America, Natalie Graham Mueller
Seeds As Artifacts Of Communities Of Practice: The Domestication Of Erect Knotweed In Eastern North America, Natalie Graham Mueller
Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Humans are the ultimate ecosystem engineers, and in transforming ecosystems we also change the selective environment for the plants and animals that live among us. The bodies and behaviors of domesticated plants and animals are thus rich artifacts of traditional ecological knowledge and practice. I study the morphology and behavior of domesticated plants as a proxy for ancient agricultural communities of practice. The transition from food procurement to food production is one of the most significant shifts in human history. I consider this process as the evolution and spread of a knowledge system. Domestication studies are usually focused on differentiating …