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Philosophy

Research and Active Learning

Students

Read about some of the undergraduates who have engaged in research and internships:

  • Gwladys Ngo Tedga, double major in philosophy and government, spent the summer of 2005 conducting research at the Ethics Institute of South Africa in Pretoria.

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  • Abigail Rollings researched an 1980 California Supreme Court case involving injuries from a cancer-causing drug.
  • Zachary Galen set out to explore the link between the philosophy of aesthetics and jazz improvisation.
  • To read more about students' work, follow this link.
Selected senior honors thesis titles
Zachary Galen Nietzsche and the crisis of modern art.
Jonathan Messinger Wittgenstein and the crisis of language.
Andrew Magnusson Nietzsche and the return to naturalism.
Timothy Nulty Personal identity: overcoming the Cartesian-Empiricist tradition.
Jacqueline Sullivan A new theory of man: the philosophical ideas of Walker Percy.
Jeffrey Bernstein Foucault's critique of modernity and the project of a therapeutic ethics.

 

2006 Academic Spree Day Posters
Bridget Millman '08 Victim Impact Statements and Capital Punishment: Payne v. Tennessee
Irena Kaci '06 Paternalism and Religious Belief:  Kennedy Hospital v. Heston
Emma Gabriele '08 The Problem of Consent in Rape Cases:  State v. Rusk

 

Faculty

Read about the research of some of our faculty:

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Recent faculty publications. Click on title, below, to read more. Clockwise from top left:
Judith DeCew, In Pursuit of Privacy: Law, Ethics, and the Rise of Technology;
Patrick Derr, ed., Case Studies in Environmental Ethics;
Walter Wright, trans., The Science of Knowing
Michael Pakaluk, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: An Introduction;

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