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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Other (Philosophy)"”.
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Discarnation: Expounding on Marshall McLuhan's Critique of Modern Subjectivity
<p>This project presents Marshall McLuhan’s work as an explication of discarnate subjectivity in mediated environments, with special focus on the consequences of technological environments in society. The first and second chapters focus on McLuhan’s ground, sensibilities, and practice to shed light …
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The Experienced Self and Other Scale: A technique for assaying the experience of one's self in relation to the other
… construct validity of the Experienced Self and Other Scale (E-SOS), which is a self report measure that assesses the experience of one's self in relation to others. Statistical analyses were conducted using Exploratory factor analysis with an orthogonal rotation, and Confirmatory factor …
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Locating Albanian otherness via the black female body : an ethnographic inquiry of (non)belonging
This report is an ethnographic exploration of othering and belonging in Albania . In the past twenty years there has been a significant amount of scholarship addressing the construction of difference and collective identity in the Balkans. Much of that research has focused on processes of …
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Authenticity as Compassionate Being in the World
<p>This paper will present a thesis on what it means to be authentic in the world and how a person can cultivate an authentic being. I will argue that being authentic leads to a healthier self that lives her life to its fullest potential and how being authentic will result in a more compassionate …
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Evil and the Ontological Disproof
<p>This dissertation is a revival of the <em>ontological disproof</em>, an ontological argument against the existence of God. The ontological disproof, in its original form, argues that God is impossible, because if God exists, he must exist necessarily, and necessary existence is impossible. The …
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El nuevo historicismo y la otredad en la narrativa contemporánea nicaragüense : el caso de Sergio Ramírez.
… and taking into consideration the concept of the other proposed by Renato Martínez Torres, includes a close reading of three recent novels of Ramírez: Margarita, está Linda la mar (1998), Sombras nada más (2002), and Mil y una muertes (2004). We propose that these narrative texts defy the …
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A Genealogy Of Ecological Rhetoric: Heraclitus, Bacon, Darwin And Huxley
… each figure's new investigations into natural philosophy, nature, and evolutionary biology, while drawing out relevant lessons for contemporary ecological and rhetorical thinkers. The main threads in my study include the evolution of rhetoric as technê as productive knowledge, invention or …
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Key Components for an Ethics Consultation Curriculum
… American health care is diminished amongst other health care professionals. While medical specialties, organizational leadership positions, and other miscellaneous health care occupations possess governing bodies that posit credentials that justify these roles, clinical ethics consultants …
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Measuring the Counter/Assumption Model's Effect on Argumentation Quality
<p>This thesis presents a new platform called See the Reason, built upon a tree- structured argumentation model called the Counter/Assumption model. In the Counter/Assumption model, a topic is posted first, then under that topic, reasons for and against, and for each reason, counterarguments, and …
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On Craft
<p>Craft is a relationship - a dialogue - between craftsman, tool, and material. Craft begins with the intent of all of these loci, and all of these loci are rooted in Being.</p> <p>Being is known through the consciousness, awareness, and perception of a subject. Being is the inherent existence and …
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Cooperation: The Ethics of Shared Agency
… a central planner (e.g. a film director), another involves selective processes of a roughly Darwinian sort. Both mechanisms can coordinate our activities even in the absence of shared intentions. This minimalist account does justice to the variety of jobs that the concept of shared agency …
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Free Will and Meaningful Action: Expressions of the Self
… originative value. I conclude by reviewing other various objections against agent-causation.</p> <p>In chapter three, I defend a particular agent-causal model, coined by Helen Steward (2012), called “agency incompatibilism,” which assumes the power of agents to settle their fine- grained …
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A Rhetoric and Philosophy of Gifts
<p>This project synthesizes a selected scope of rhetorical and philosophical perspectives of the gift. The research question is what the relationship between gifts and rhetoric might be. In order to approach this question, this project offers a review of related literature on the topic of gifts. It …
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The Martyr’s Desire: Levinas, Girard, and Infinite Responsibility
… highlights the role of the martyr in Levinas’s philosophy. As with other philosophical and religious concepts, I argue that Levinas inverts the dynamic of martyrdom by deposing the fundamentally agential subject. From this redefinition of the martyr as primary subjectivity emerges a politics of …
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Complicity
<p>What does it mean to be complicit in diffuse collective wrongs like structural racism, gender-based oppression, or environmental damage, and what responsibilities are entailed by complicity? Moral philosophers have often understood complicity to consist in some degree of inherited culpability, …
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Three analytic philosophy of mind debates and a Deleuzian intervention: Folk Psychology, Personal Identity and Free Will
… Deleuze can offer valuable input to the three philosophy of mind debates: folk psychology, personal identity and free will. Prior to this I attempt to show that analytic philosophy in general might benefit from accepting ‘process’ philosophy as an already existing but neglected part of its rich …
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Pierre Hadot's Holistic Philosophy of Communication
<p>Pierre Hadot’s holistic philosophy of communication attends to the health of the self and community through practice of spiritual exercises for the transformation of one’s entire being, working at the nexus of mind, body, soul, and cosmos. The task is ever-incomplete, works in an understanding …
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