Browsing by Author "Olberding, Amy"

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    • Auditory and Musical Experience: Perception, Emotion and Expression 

      M. Khoshroo, Babak (2023-08-04)
      In this dissertation, I address two questions about auditory and musical experience: (1) How can music (a set of organized sounds) be heard as expressive of emotions such as sadness or happiness? (2) How are sounds (not ...

    • Character and Moral Judgment: Designing Right and Wrong 

      Robertson, Seth (2019-05-10)
      I argue that an adequate theory of rightness should meet (at least) two distinct conditions: a “Consequences Condition” according to which the rightness or wrongness of some, but not all acts should be determined conclusively ...

    • A CROSS-CULTURAL ANALYSIS OF SHAME IN MORAL EDUCATION BETWEEN SOUTH KOREA AND THE UNITED STATES 

      You, Sula (2017-05)
      Although there have been various issues involving shame in the educational scene, little research in the field of philosophy of education has seriously investigated this topic. In my dissertation, a comparative philosophical ...

    • Emotions, Reasons, and Rationality 

      Epley, Kelly (2016)
      Intuitively, emotion/judgment conflicts are irrational because they are disruptive. They create disturbances and divisions in our generally well-ordered and cohesive selves. When you fear the spider, even though you judge ...

    • Everyday Strategies of Aesthetic Resistance 

      Martin-Seaver, Madeline (2018-08)
      The three papers of this dissertation argue that our everyday aesthetic activities and experiences can be enlisted in our resistance projects. Ordinary decisions about how we get dressed and how we attend to our bodies ...

    • Fat Justice: Mitigating Anti-Fat Bias Through Responsible Aesthetic Agency 

      Frazier, Cheryl (2022-05-13)
      In my dissertation I develop a series of guidelines for responsibly and respectfully navigating varying facets of aesthetic activity involving fat communities. I argue that fat people's engagement with the aesthetic can ...

    • Living well with worries, humility, and other people: learning to reflect on life with the Analects 

      Xie, Wenhui (2022-05-13)
      In this dissertation, I present three distinct papers connected through the theme of control. The Analects suggests a view of control or human efficacy that we have a great deal of control over events related to us. But ...

    • Protecting Artists’ Moral Rights in the U.S. Legal Context 

      Fried, Jeremy (2022-08-04)
      The three chapters of this dissertation work together and build on each other to make an argument for stronger uniform artists’ moral rights protections in the United States legal system. The current system provides ...

    • The Value of Aesthetic Experience 

      Schurtz, Landon (2014-08-15)
      In this dissertation, I argue that aesthetic experience is a kind of valuing experience that has certain, objective features not dependent on the psychological state of the subject. Accounts of aesthetic experience can ...