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IN HIM WE LIVE AND MOVE AND HAVE OUR BEING: PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGY IN NICOLAS MALEBRANCHE AND GEORGE BERKELEY
(2010)
My chief argument is that Malebranche and Berkeley hold similar theories of philosophical theology and that in each case understanding their philosophical theology helps us to understand their philosophical system. Both ...
Theism, Naturalism, and Narrative: A Linguistic and Metaphysical Proposal on the Meaning of Life
(2010)
This dissertation consists of two distinct yet related projects on the meaning of life. Part I centers on the challenge of understanding what the, admittedly, vague question, "What is the meaning of life?" is asking. This ...
A Moral Evaluation of Terrorism
(2010)
The purpose of my dissertation is to provide a moral evaluation of terrorism from a rights-based perspective. I define terrorism as the use or credible threat of systematically random attacks on the vital interests of ...
A Convergence Account of Ethics and Aesthetics Through A Composite Understanding of Evaluative Judgments
(2010)
In this dissertation, I argue for a convergence account of the ontological status of the fields of ethics and aesthetics. This project is accomplished in three parts.
IN HIM WE LIVE AND MOVE AND HAVE OUR BEING: PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGY IN NICOLAS MALEBRANCHE AND GEORGE BERKELEY
(2010)
My chief argument is that Malebranche and Berkeley hold similar theories of philosophical theology and that in each case understanding their philosophical theology helps us to understand their philosophical system. Both ...
Aristotle's 'Genetic Account' and the Problem of Induction
(2010)
The problem of induction--the problem of how one can justify an inference from observations of some things of a type to a generalization about all (or most) things of the type--is one of the most important in logic and ...
Virtue and Happiness in Plato's Euthydemus
(2010)
There is perhaps no philosophical thesis that has more often been thought to be most central to or most distinctive of the philosophy of Socrates in Plato's dialogues than the thesis that virtue is sufficient for happiness. ...
Virtue and Happiness in Plato's Euthydemus
(2010)
There is perhaps no philosophical thesis that has more often been thought to be most central to or most distinctive of the philosophy of Socrates in Plato's dialogues than the thesis that virtue is sufficient for happiness. ...
A Convergence Account of Ethics and Aesthetics Through A Composite Understanding of Evaluative Judgments
(2010)
In this dissertation, I argue for a convergence account of the ontological status of the fields of ethics and aesthetics. This project is accomplished in three parts.