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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 ... -
Wilderness for Wildness: Saving the Wild in a Post-Natural World
Humanity stands at a crossroads. We are at the brink of a planetary crisis of our own making. Carbon emissions threaten a level of climate instability not seen in this epoch. Accelerating species loss invites the possibility ... -
Understanding White Superagency
According to the dominant structuralist view of racism, racist outcomes can be explained by a combination of the following behaviors and phenomena: policies, rules, norms, institutional acts and objects, and implicit bias. ... -
Science and the Structure of Social Experiment: A Socio-political Study of Climate Data Infrastructure
In recent years a growing literature on science addresses the problem - some may even call it a crisis - of science’s public legitimacy (Douglas 2009, Oreskes and Conway 2010, de Melo-Martin and Intemann 2018). Analysts ... -
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 ... -
Tower to Agora: Insularity and Philosophical Methodology
Academic philosophy sits at a methodological crossroads, facing threats to its foundational practices, well-justified challenges to its lack of diversity across several axes, and fears of irrelevancy in response to modern ... -
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 ... -
The Mismeasure of Woman: The Epistemic and Social Impacts of Gendered Citation Practices
This dissertation will explore the philosophical problems that arise from the finding that women are cited less frequently than men in a number of sciences, what I’ll call gendered citation practices. Gendered citation ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Resurrection of Radical Pacifism: A Defense
Within the ethics of self-defense, the predominant view is that there are liability justifications for harming. A minority position, which I call radical pacifism, denies that there are liability justifications for harming. ... -
A study in the originality of Hobbes' political theories
(1938)These comments of W. R. Sorley asserting the originality of Hobbes arein conformity with the statements made by Hobbes himself; and togetherwith many others of similar purport, they interested me in the problemof Hobbes' ... -
The priority of being to truth according to Aristotle
(1969)There appears to be a difficulty in the account which Aristotle offers of being and truth in the Categories and De Interpretatione. In general terms, Aristotle's position is the "realist" one that "propositions are true ... -
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 ... -
Toward a Pragmatic Ontology of Scientific Concepts
I argue that current projects in 'naturalized metaphysics' fail to be properly naturalistic, and thereby fail in their stated aim to take one's metaphysics from science. I argue that naturalism must involve the idea of ...
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