Browsing OSU - Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Author "Cain, James"
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Connectionism, Chinese Rooms, and Intuition Pumps
Carver, Michael (Oklahoma State University, 2014-05-01)John Searle's famous Chinese Room argument is perhaps the most well-known attack on computational views of mind. At the center of this argument is a thought experiment in which the reader (thinker) is lead to an intuition ... -
Evolution of Religious Belief and Naturalism: Agency, Character and Adaptation in Christian Belief
Reynolds, Montaque Frayejohn (2017-08-01)In this project, I defend Alvin Plantinga’s evolutionary argument against naturalism from Blake Roeber’s use of the inscrutability argument. I argue that Roeber’s criticism does not account for all species of religious ... -
Good, the bad and the excellent: An exploration of moral exemplarism theory
Kascsak, Thes David (2021-05)Dr. Linda Zagzebski's virtue theory, Exemplarist Moral Theory, proposes that through the emotion of admiration we seek moral exemplars who we then emulate and become virtuous ourselves. It is those whom we have admiration ... -
Interpreting and Clarifying Quine's Indeterminacy Thesis
Allen, Heath Anthony (Oklahoma State University, 2014-07-01)Since the publication of Word & Object in 1960, Quine's indeterminacy thesis has been a subject of great debate. This debate has generated many confusions and misinterpretations of what Quine was actually arguing. In this ... -
The Problem of Doctrinal Decidability: Methods for Evaluating Purported Divine Revelations
Wellington, Ryan Asher (2017-05-01)The plethora of contrary doctrines pertaining to salvation, among the variety of religions in the world today, creates a problem for the sincere investigator who seeks to find out if there is such a thing as salvation and, ...