Browsing by Author "Judisch, Neal"

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    • Aristotle on the metabolic status of perception 

      Weaver, Joseph (2021-12-17)
      According to Aristotle in De Anima 2.12, perception occurs when a perceiver receives a perceptible form without its matter. The result is that a percipient is qualitatively altered in a way by its reception of the perceptible ...

    • Disagreement And Skepticism: A Grecoian Response To The Skeptical Threat Of Epistemic Superior Disagreement 

      Osmundsen, Gary (2014-08-15)
      ABSTRACT: This dissertation is a response to the skeptical threats and challenges leveled by disagreement. Any plausible response to skepticism should explain what knowledge is and explain why the skeptic’s assumptions ...

    • Essays on Discourse by and about the Divine 

      Nordby, Stephanie Nicole (2016-12-16)
      Chapter One Divine Predication, Direct Reference, and the Attributes of Classical Theism The Church’s affirmation of statements predicating certain positive attributes to God is central to Christian doctrine. However, ...

    • Fit, Faith, and Fear: Evidence and Evidentialism 

      Grosz, Daniel (2019)
      This dissertation is an elaboration and application of evidentialism, the view that a proposition is justified for a person just in case it fits (is supported by) that person’s evidence. I elaborate on evidentialism by ...

    • Forgiveness, Revenge, and the Shape of a Life 

      Taylor, Mark (2023-05-12)
      Dissertation Summary—Mark Taylor My dissertation explores forgiveness and revenge within a narrative conception of human lives. In Chapter One, I lay out an account of human life stories and argue for its advantages in ...

    • Intellectual Virtues and Reasonable Disagreement 

      Bickel, Jewelle (2019-08)
      The contemporary problem of disagreement has two prominent solutions. The Conciliationists think that after discovering a case of disagreement one should be less certain of one’s original position. Those who favor Conciliatory ...

    • Methodus Poetico-Philosophicus 

      McCumber, Steven Chase (2024-05-10)
      A plausible interpretation of Wittgenstein’s claim that philosophers should be poets can be constructed by drawing together: (1) his conception of the goal of philosophy as the ethical and existential transformation or ...

    • New Directions in Religious Experience 

      Nordby, Kevin (2020-12-18)
      Chapter One An Argument Concerning the Epistemic Status of Religious Experience I endeavor to show that the skeptic, even on her own terms, will never succeed in ruling out all beliefs based on religious experience by ...

    • Normativity, Human Nature and Practical Reason: A New Approach to an Old Problem 

      Parish, Max (2017-05-12)
      Neo-Aristotelian ethical naturalism (henceforth: Aristotelian naturalism) claims ethical goodness is a kind of human natural goodness, where natural goodness is a function of human nature. Call this the core thesis. The ...

    • Parodies and the Role of Medieval Ethical Concepts in the Ontological Argument 

      Byer, Sammuel Robert (2017-05-12)
      In this dissertation, I examine historical and contemporary versions of the ontological argument for God’s existence and objections to it, focusing on versions of the argument that contain Linkage Premises (premises that ...

    • Realism, Natural Kinds, and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder 

      Spindle, David (2017-05)
      Realism about mental disorders is a perennial area of dispute, but the controversy burns especially intensely for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). In this dissertation, I clarify what is at issue in these ...

    • Skeptical Theism and Epistemic Propriety 

      Rutledge, Jonathan (2016-05)
      Contemporary proponents of the problem of evil argue that evil is evidence, even strong evidence, against the existence of God. Next, these so-called atheologians claim that having such evidence against God’s existence ...