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Browsing Philosophy by Subject "Philosophy"
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A Relational Account of Exploitation in Clinical Research
Exploitation is an important concept in moral and political philosophy. There is an increasing focus on exploitation as an important concept that limits how clinical research is conducted. Yet, there is disagreement at ... -
Balance and Belonging: Harmony and its Role in Understanding Morality
In my dissertation I explore the moral relevancy of the relationship between an agent and their surroundings by assessing how we understand, and how we ought to understand, moral problems. This dissertation is composed of ... -
Beyond the Basic/Nonbasic Interests Distinction: A Feminist Approach to Inter-Species Moral Conflict and Moral Repair
(2012-09-13)There is no longer a dearth of well-reasoned argumentation for taking animals seriously and thus for questioning our exploitative relationships with them. It is over-determined that animals warrant moral attention. ... -
Blaming Appropriately
I argue for an account of blame as a reactive attitude, claiming that respectful blaming attitudes are affective, evaluative attitudes of disapproval directed at the wrongdoer, and are primarily about the wrongness of the ... -
Consensus and Collaboration in Contemporary Scientific Practice
I argue that there is no single, monolithic conception of ‘consensus’ in scientific practice. I distinguish between two categories of aggregative and collaborative consensus. Collaborative consensus, which is produced by ... -
Constructing and Being Constructed: Relational Trans Identity and Responsibility for Microaggressions
This project centers on the question: Given the everyday and structural dynamics of gender oppression, how should we treat others’ genders in our everyday interactions with them, particularly given that those everyday ... -
Curating Stories, Caring for Selves: Bioethical Dimensions of Narrative Stewardship
Social practices of storytelling help shape who we are. The recognition and uptake we grant others’ stories shapes our understandings of ourselves and our responsibilities to those around us. In this way, I take personal ... -
Disability, Identity, and the Body as a Context of Choice: Making Space for the Mere Difference View in Healthcare Justice
My dissertation seeks to defend the “mere difference” view of disability from the charge that it leads to objectionable implications in healthcare justice. The mere difference view, briefly put, conceptualizes disability ... -
Equitably Ending the Fossil Fuel Era: Climate Justice, Capital, & the Carbon Budget
This dissertation makes the moral case for equitably transitioning away from fossil fuels in line with keeping global warming as close as possible to the Paris Climate Agreement’s more stringent target of keeping global ... -
Facing the Genocidal Present
This dissertation argues that genocide, in settler colonies like the US, is a processual and structural condition, not an event; one that does not require genocidal intent, since genocide is the background hum—the rhythm—that ... -
Fat – Therefore, Unhealthy? Oppressing Fat People in the Name of Health
This dissertation is primarily a response to the concern for health objection that is frequently used in an attempt to discredit the fat acceptance movement. I offer a critical understanding of “health” in relation to ... -
Feeling Proud and Being Proud: An Investigation Into the Moral Psychology of Personal Ideals
(2012-09-13)I argue that there are two sorts of pride--the emotion of pride and the character trait of pride--and defend descriptive and normative accounts of each sort of pride. The emotion of pride involves an evaluation that one ... -
Immigrant Oppression and Social Justice
My dissertation provides a partial response to the question of what is owed by states to undocumented migrants in their territory. According to one prominent philosophical position, long-term undocumented migrants should ... -
Immigration in a Global Economy: Why the Left Should Embrace Open Borders
My dissertation explores the implications of discretionary control over immigration policies, arguing that the class-based selection that it facilitates plays a vital role in constructing and maintaining issues of global ... -
Intelligent Automaticity in Moral Judgment and Decision-Making
Is conscious reflection necessary for good moral judgment and decision-making? Philosophical attention to this question has increased in the last decade due to recent empirical work in moral psychology. I conclude that ... -
Intertheoretic Relations in Context: Details, Purpose, and Practice
An intertheory comparison should be assessed with regards to what goals it seeks to accomplish. Traditionally reductions have sought to establish ontological primacy, and also to have the reducing theory explain features ... -
A Leap into Darkness: Domination and the Normative Structure of International Politics
(2013-11-14)Philosophers have developed sophisticated theories of domestic legitimacy that discuss how a coercive state could be justified to its citizens. Yet, theorizing about global justice is characterized by a pervasive methodological ... -
Love in Descartes' Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy
I argue for an account of René Descartes’ theory of love that is deeply rooted in his metaphysics and heavily influences his moral philosophy. Descartes maintains that the soul “join[s] itself in volition” to those it ... -
Modulating Agency: the Moral & Aesthetic Import of Closed-Loop Deep-Brain Stimulation
Deep-Brain Stimulation (DBS) is an FDA-approved treatment for symptoms of motor disorders—with experimental use for psychiatric disorders. DBS, however, causes a variety of side effects. The next generation of DBS ... -
The Normative Dimensions of State Action
States tend to be the centerpiece of International Relations theory, as they are commonly considered the primary actors of international relations. As such, states are commonly analyzed as intentional beings that act on ...