Philosophy: Recent submissions
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Moral Authority in Scientific Research
(2019-04-01)This paper addresses the issue of applying moral guidelines to modern scientific research and who or what should have the authority to do so. It examines the role of morality in scientific research, and makes the argument ... -
Exercising Power as a Care-Giver, Revisited: An Argument for Virtue and Responsibility in Childcare
(2016-04-01)This paper will set forth an argument for the ethical course of action for adult care-givers when dealing with moral issues regarding the children in their care. I will begin by setting the context for this argument by ... -
The Moral Obligation We Have to Our Community to be Vaccinated
(2016-04-01)Vaccines have shown to be one of modern medicine’s greatest achievements due to their effectiveness in either greatly limiting or eradicating the spread of many infectious diseases. Vaccines work best to prevent against ... -
An Investigation Of The Self As Relational And The Propensity For Evil Produced From Indifference Towards Human Relationships
(2015-04-01)Provoked by Albert Camus’ The Stranger, this paper explores the connection between evil and an indifference towards human relationships. Relying heavily on Hannah Arendt and Simone de Beauvoir, I offer an understanding of ... -
Maurice Merleau-Ponty And Aesthetics: On Perception, Art, And Embodied Existence
(2014-04-01)French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty is one of the 20th century’s greatest phenomenological thinkers. Merleau-Ponty’s main philosophical concern is understanding how humans experience and perceive the world around them. ... -
Potest?s Marci Aurelii: Cursus Philosophus
(2011-04-01)What is it that makes a man who he is? What causes him to make certain decisions - to take certain actions over others? The beliefs and values of a human being are the only reasons for which a free person will act. Marcus ... -
Replacement of the 'Augustinian' Theodicy with an 'Irenaean' Theodicy and the Need for a New Metaphysical Foundation
(2007-04-01)The basic questions with which this essay is concerned have confronted me throughout the course of my study as a student at Carroll. My studies in the sciences and liberal arts have taken place in conjunction with and often ... -
Putting the World Correctly: Wittgenstein's conception of aesthetics and the philosophy of language
(2006-04-01)This essay begins with the claim the reader must grant the author: no person is without a past. Yet the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein has often been split into two distinct periods of thought titled “The Early Wittgenstein” ... -
Godel’s Proof and Its Philosophical Ramifications
(2005-04-01)The most significant theorem of 20th century logic was Godel’s incompleteness theorem. In the thesis Godel’s theorem, both how it works and what it means philosophically, is given a penetrating analysis. I explain both the ... -
The Meaning of Language: A Study and Critique of Wittgensteinian Philosophy
(2002-04-01)Gilbert Ryle has said that “the ‘master-issue’ with which Wittgenstein was concerned above all others was that of the nature of philosophy itself. What sort of activity is philosophizing? With what kind of problems should ... -
Biological, Metaphysical, And Ethical Investigations Into The National Bioethics Advisory Commission's Position On Human Cloning
(1999-04-01)This Honors Thesis will examine the position of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC) on human cloning. This examination includes looking at the position of the NBAC through three different sets of eyes, in ... -
Artificial Intelligence
(1999-04-01)This paper explores the project of creating artificial intelligence (AI) by examining three relationships central to the project. The relationships are between mind and brain, syntax and semantics, and simulation and ... -
The Ethics Of Pain
(1998-04-01)Pain is a part of everyone’s life; it is inescapable. There is not one person who has ever lived who has not experienced some sort of pain. Over the millennia, philosophers have tried different approaches to deal with it. ... -
Environmental Holism: A Sacred Trust with the Earth
(1998-04-01)The Blackfoot River has been called "the most endangered river in America" by American Rivers, a national conservation group. When Meriwether Lewis walked this river he saw a waterway emanating a rich dark green hue — a ... -
The Human Genome Project: Ethical Implications And Issues
(1996-04-01)The discovery of the double helix in 1953 by James Watson and Francis Crick opened the door to amazing investigations and discoveries. In recent years, knowledge of DNA's structure has led to expanding capabilities involving ... -
The Heart of Community: Marriage, Friendship, and Sexual Love An Argument Against In Vitro Fertilization and Artificial Contraception
(1994-04-01)In the spring of 1993,1 decided to write an honors thesis concerning the issues of z'« vitro fertilization (hereafter, IVF) and artificial contraception. At that point, I was sure that I, as a Catholic, would employ natural ... -
Existentialism and Free Will
(1992-04-01)In the mid- to late nineteenth century, two movements arose In Europe with apparently disparate intentions: one embodied a purely philosophical awareness of the human condition, while the other spurred the psychological ... -
Should We Strive for Perfection? The Ethics of Human Genetic Engineering
(1990-04-01)Genetic engineering. What sorts of images does this term conjure? Is it mad scientists slaving over a microscope to develop the perfect being? Is it an assembly line of test tubes filled with chemicals which are later to ... -
The Thinking Machine: A Philosophical Study of Thought, Sentience and Intelligence in Computers
(1989-04-01)Artificial intelligence, or AI as it is known in the trade journals, is as much a buzzword and a marketing term as it is the title and description of an area of research in computer science or epistemology. To sell a ... -
On The Compatibility Of Marxism And Existentialism
(1986-04-01)Marxism and Existentialism? The mere proposal of a thesis researching for compatibility between these two prominent modern philosophical doctrines will no doubt strike the vast majority of readers as a somewhat peculiar— ...