Philosophy


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Philosophy

THE SENIOR PROGRAM

Recent Senior Seminar projects in philosophy include:

  • "How Do Children Become Moral Agents?"
  • "Diversity and the Ideals of Higher Education"
  • "Are Space and Time A Priori Intuitions?"
  • "Who Decides What Art Is?"
  • "Faith, Certainty and Action"
  • "Qualitative Experience: The Problem for Physicalism"
  • "A Paper on Nothing: A Comparison of Nothing in Sartre and Mahayana Buddhism"
  • "Nonviolence and the Element of Trust"
  • "A Nietzschean Defense of Democracy"

Recent Senior Thesis projects include:

  • "A Comparison of Heidegger and Sartre's Notions of Authenticity"
  • "William James's Pragmatic Philosophy: Active Choices and Personal Decisions"
  • "When Realism and Cooperation Collide: The Future of International Relations"
  • "Abusing the Principle of Natural Purposiveness: A Critique of Kant's Condemnation of Homosexuality"
  • "The Inessentiality of Meaning: Wittgenstein's Descriptive Method"
  • "Toward a More Perfect Union: A Philosophical Assessment of the American State"
  • "Reductionist Ethics: An Overextension of Evolutionary Theory"
  • "The Moral Accountability of Psychopaths"
  • "Ethical Consequences of Genetic Enhancement for Sport"
  • "Can Autonomy and an Ethics of Care Coexist?"
  • "The Nature of Hunger and Obligation in Third World Assistance"