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Gesang ist Dasein: Nietzsche, Aesthetics, and Why Art is Worth More than the Truth
What, then, are we to make of Nietzsche's exaltation of art? The goal of this study is to examine why Nietzsche might have declared art to be worth more than the Truth and, with sufficient prudence so as not to attempt to ... -
W. V. Quine's Naturalized Epistemology and Rationality
My aim in this essay is to portray Quine's naturalized epistemology, despite its points of departure from traditionalist rationalist and empiricist epistemologies, as a viable theory of knowledge. I will conclude by ... -
An Investigation of the Effects of Acute vs. Chronic Ethanol Exposure on the Embryonic Chick Brain: A Model of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome-Associated Brain Damage
The chick embryo was used as a model for Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) to perform a dose-response study of brain damage. Two common maternal drinking patterns were compared. Chronic drinking was simulated by administering ... -
An Experimental Study of Selected Remedial Reading Techniques
Throughout the past two decades a great deal or attention has been focused upon the correction of poor reading habits. Reliable clinical procedures aimed at correcting defective reading habits have been brought into use ... -
Determining the Primers and Methods for T-RFLP Analysis of Yellowstone National Park Soil and Soil from Washington and Lee's Campus to be Used with the LI-COR 4300
At the onset of our research, our goals consisted of determining the primers that should be used in the T-RFLP protocol with the LI-COR 4300, optimizing the conditions for soil DNA extraction, PCR, and T-RFLP, and ultimately ... -
Acid Solutions of Nitryl Chloride Nitrations of Benzene
The suggestion has been made by Wise and Volpe (1) that solutions made from nitryl chloride and concentrated sulfuric acid may contain the nitronium ion. This was based upon the fact that these solutions contain no chlorine. ... -
A Meeting of Minds: Frederick the Great and Voltaire
Primary source material for this paper in addition to Frederick's and Voltaire's respective works was their correspondence which began in 1736 and ended in 1778. The original correspondence was exclusively written in French, ... -
Microfacies of the Middle Ordovician New Market limestone in Rockbridge County, Virginia
Two� sections were measured and their microfacies defined macroscopically at two locations in Rockbridge County, Virginia. Nineteen microfacies are defined on the basis of detailed petrographic study of one section. Most ... -
Changing Perspectives on Thought and Action in Andre? Malraux's Major Novels
Malraux has expressed his ideas concerning thought and action in many forms. He has explored the conflict between thought and action through various characters on both personal and political levels. He has evaluated "pure" ... -
Modesty and excess in the philosophical critique of the idea of public justification
This essay is the outcome of personal reflection on procedural rationality in politics. Finding a rational and universal principle behind a liberal doctrine has been the ambition of many philosophers who have believed in ... -
An Empirical Attack on the Traditional A Priori
Does this mean we should discard the entire methodology of a priori philosophy? If a priori examination requires a propositional conception of knowledge, then I would argue yes. Conceptual analysis is not a completely ... -
Many Shades of One Man: Heroic Personalities in the Works of J. R. R. Tolkien
Tolkien's heroes appeal to the reader because the heroic development of the individual is so apparent; heroes progress in noticeable ways which are easy for the reader to follow and understand. Plus, no heroic figure goes ... -
The Missing Piece of the Puzzle: Utility and the Just Allocation of Health Care Resources
The current American health care system is plagued by three main factors: out of control spending, allocation inequalities and profound scarcity. For example, the United States spend above 14% of its GDP on health care as ... -
The Relationship Between Psychological Androgyny and Performance on Piagetian Spatial Tasks in College Women
Past research has shown that males typically perform better than females on Piagetian spatial tasks. Other studies indicate that when a task is labelled "masculine" or "feminine", subjects tend to perform better in the ... -
The Role of the Central Nucleus of the Amygdala in Feeding and Monitoring Internal State Cues in the Rat
These experiments examined the role of the central nucleus of the amygdala (CN) in rats' ability to use internal and external cues as signals for shock. Half of the animals received Pavlovian discrimination training prior ... -
Some Elements of High Tension Power Transmission
This subject will be treated as follows: First -- A general statement of the conditions which suggest a high tension transmission project, and the circumstances limiting the maximum transmission distance and maximum ... -
Quine and the Enigma of Analyticity, or, What it is Like to Think Like a Quinean
Quine's attack on what he considers to be two defunct dogmas of empiricism -- the notions of analyticity and reductionism -- is based on a misconception of the nature of language. Quine's fascination with the workings of ... -
Treatise on Highway Construction and Maintenance
In this discussion I shall endeavor to discuss the problem of highway construction in a general way, but especially the construction of a modern highway in a country which has a natural deposit of gray limestone such as ...