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Vocabulary Pedagogy: A Wittgensteinian Approach (thesis)
My claim in this thesis is that we do not need to rely solely on studying dictionary definitions as the exclusive means of learning new words. Rather, there are far more powerful ways to increase students' vocabularies — ...
The Moral Permissibility of Torture in a Terrorized World and The Problem of Dirty Hands (thesis)
In this paper, I will argue that despite philosophers' and legal theorists' attempts to justify the use of torture in certain situations, torture has always been and will always be universally morally impermissible. [From ...
The Reality of Fiction: An Inquiry into the Ontology and Logic of Fiction (thesis)
This paper will begin by outlining and explaining David Lewis's argument for the existence of possible worlds. In Lewis's extreme form of modal realism, all worlds are equally as real as the actual world. I will then address ...
Freedom and Moral Responsibility in a Deterministic Universe: Perspectives from Buddhism and Clinical Psychology (thesis)
I will be arguing that the concept of an ultimately free agent who takes final responsibility for his actions and desires is inherently incompatible with the dominant western paradigm of materialism and universal causation. ...
How to Do Things With Rules
Truth within governing systems can come in two forms: judicial and meta-judicial. Judicial facts
arise from verdicts or rulings, whereas meta-judicial facts arise from application of a governing system's
standard in a way ...
Please Vote Responsibly: An Argument for Why We Have an Ethical Responsibility to Inform Ourselves Before Voting (thesis)
. . . Given the fact that citizens living in a free and democratic state have the right to vote, this entails a civic responsibility to sufficiently inform themselves before voting or before engaging in other politically ...
Conventions, Idiolects, and Malapropisms: A Critical Evaluation of Davidson (thesis)
Donald Davidson concludes his 1986 article, "A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs" by making a few seemingly sensational and ambitious claims: "I conclude that there is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything ...
Can an Effective Lawyer be a Morally Upstanding Person? An Examination of Legal Ethics (thesis)
In this essay, I will analyze various scholarly responses to a widely debated question within legal ethics: does the lawyer's role mint permissions to violate ordinary morality? I will begin with a brief introduction to ...
A Defense of Utilitarianism (thesis)
I will attempt to defend utilitarianism from the demandingness objection. The sort of utilitarianism that I refer to throughout is the consequentialist moral theory that obligates us to maximize well-being. The form of ...