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Philosophy and the professional Image of philosophy
Philosophy is an academic discipline whose practitioners are subject to forces of professionalization. These forces shape the discipline in ways that often go unnoticed. I present an analysis of the currently dominant image of philosophy that working philosophers have, one that focuses on …
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The philosophy of Edwards
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Philosophy, 1928.
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Hegel's Philosophy of History
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Bentham's Philosophy of Rhetoric
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Avicenna's Philosophy of Mathematics
I discuss four different aspects of Avicenna’s philosophical views on mathematics, as scattered across his various works. I first explore the negative aspect of his ontology of mathematics, which concerns the question of what mathematical objects (i.e., numbers and geometrical shapes) are not. …
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Wittgenstein's philosophy of language
Includes bibliographical references.
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Normativity and Experimental Philosophy
… make of the emergent practice of experimental philosophy. Generally speaking, experimental philosophers set as their methodology the suspension of a priori reflection in favor of empirical experimentation in order to examine the cognitive factors that influence concept application and behavior. …
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Nietzsche's Notes, Nietzsche's Philosophy
… are given in various interpretations of his philosophy. I argue that the unpublished material can sometimes assist in interpreting passages from Nietzsche's published work, but that it should not be given equal interpretive status as books Nietzsche himself authorized for publication. Since …
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Michel Serres’s Philosophy of Limits. Passages between the Philosophy of Science and Critical Theory
This thesis examines Michel Serres’s philosophy of limits. Its aim is to trace limit formations as operative functions of thought, which perform interdisciplinary translations between philosophy of science, aesthetics, and critical theory. In order to pursue this aim, a number of Serres’s works …
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"Integrated Arts" Pedagogy and Philosophy
… proposes and discusses the pedagogy and philosophy behind an original method titled IAM (Integrated Arts Method), which is an alternate experiential, integrated, conducive, and student-centered music and arts pedagogical method that can facilitate effective teaching for effective …
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Corridors in Conservation and Philosophy
My thesis focuses on philosophical themes implicit in corridor conservation, using the Big Thicket National Preserve as an example. The way in which corridors, boundaries and communities are ambiguous, as both limits and connections, is dealt with. Corridor-patch matrices assemble ecological and …
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Ontology in Emmanuel Levinas's Philosophy
… work, this thesis argues that Levinas's philosophy does not respond to a consistently articulated problem. He eventually transforms ontological evil into social evil, a shift that is visible in his handling of il y a.</p>
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A Thomistic Philosophy of Culture
<p>Nicolas Berdyaev in The End of Our Time characterizes modem history as "an unfolding of ideas and events wherein we see Humanism destroying itself by its own dialectic, for the putting up of man without God and against God, the denial of the divine image and likeness in himself, lead to his own …
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The philosophy of anti-art
In this thesis I examine problems raised by the phenomenon of anti-art and, in particular, Duchamp's Readymades which most acutely raise these problems. I argue that the problems to which I draw attention have not been sufficiently appreciated by those philosophers and critics and historians who …
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