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Brence, Steven Barry
(University of Oregon, 2001-06)
Charles Taylor, in his essay “The Politics of Recognition,” frames the issue of multiculturalism in terms of the relationship between recognition and identity. Upon what basis and to what degree can different identities ...
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Bardwell-Jones, Celia Tagamolila, 1972-
(University of Oregon, 2007-12)
This dissertation seeks to recover a notion of agency for those who are caught in the interstices of transnational relationships, which are generally determined by practices of globalization. I examine notions of travel ...
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Emmick, Christopher, 1980-
(University of Oregon, 2007-12)
Philosophy of education should be unfolded alongside a deep understanding of how critical thinking transforms the student/teacher relation as a form of philosophic praxis. This account primarily draws on the philosophic ...
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Arola, Adam, 1981-
(University of Oregon, 2008-03)
The question of freedom has been a present and constant concern since the inception of the occidental philosophical tradition. Yet after a certain point the manner in which this question is to be asked has been canonized ...
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Reynolds, Christine Sara, 1981-
(University of Oregon, 2008-03)
In this essay, I propose a method by which humans may understand themselves in relation to our imagined origin. Many believe that humanity's origin offers great insight into our present condition, yet its historical distance ...
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Shew, Melissa M., 1977-
(University of Oregon, 2008-09)
This dissertation engages three facets of Greek philosophy: (1) the phenomenon of tyche (chance, fortune, happening, or luck) in Aristotle's Physics, Nicomachean Ethics , and Poetics ; (2) how tyche informs Socrates' ...
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Sukovaty, Beckey D.
(University of Oregon, 2008-09)
This thesis identifies four major problems facing the Altemative Dispute Resolution
profession-especially domestic mediation-and proposes constructive solutions using
ADR pioneer and feminist-pragmatist philosopher Mary ...
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Qualtere-Burcher, Paul, 1963-
(University of Oregon, 2008-12)
This work argues that the principle of autonomy set forth in the Principalist theory
of biomedical ethics should be replaced by "the just distance"-a concept first suggested
by Paul Ricoeur. Beginning with the prevailing ...
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Brown, Lori Jean, 1968-
(University of Oregon, 2008-12)
In The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir uses enslavement to the species to shape
her concepts of animality, the female body, and immanence. The connection of these
~oncepts to reproductive processes links them together in ...
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Sims, Jessica R., 1981-
(University of Oregon, 2009-06)
This project explores Martin Heidegger's extensive engagement with technology
and stands as a defense of his approach. In doing this I will explicate how technology
should not be viewed simply as a means for human use ...
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Culbertson, Carolyn Sue, 1982-
(University of Oregon, 2010-06)
This dissertation develops an interpretation of Martin Heidegger's philosophical project in On the Way to Language and some of his earlier works that pave the way for this text and offers criticism of Heidegger's project ...
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Williams, Sean, 1980-
(University of Oregon, 2010-06)
The question of the present study concerns the relationship between language and nature as it has been taken up in the history of Western philosophy. The goal of this study is to show how language and nature are held ...
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Hentrup, Miles, 1984-
(University of Oregon, 2010-06)
My thesis begins by acknowledging the fact that our time is marked by crisis.
Although this seems, to most, undeniable, I argue that because we lack the criterion for
legitimating this claim, appeals to crisis are always ...
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Moyer, Derek Harley, 1981-
(University of Oregon, 2010-06)
Emmanuel Levinas has recently been given much attention for the resources that
his writing could provide for an ethics of the non-human. While some commentators
dismiss the humanistic biases of Levinas' analyses in favor ...
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Thomson, Andrew James, 1985-
(University of Oregon, 2010-12)
The system of higher education in the United States suffers from deficits in several generally agreed-upon categories, including affordability, access, effectiveness of teaching and learning, and usefulness of degrees ...
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Nail, Thomas
(University of Oregon, 2011-03)
We are witnessing today the beginning of a return to and renewal of the theory and
practice of political revolution. This return to revolution, however, takes none of the
traditional forms: the capture of the state, the ...
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Jones, Emma Reed, 1985-
(University of Oregon, 2011-06)
This dissertation presents a reading of the work of French feminist philosopher Luce Irigaray, with a particular focus on her most recent texts, which explicitly concern the question of ethics. Responding to concerns that ...
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Banerjee, Amrita, 1979-
(University of Oregon, 2011-06)
As an increasing number of differentially situated women implicated within the global economy continue to come into contact with each other, a host of opportunities and challenges are inaugurated for feminist praxes across ...
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Carter, Vernon Anthony, 1985-
(University of Oregon, 2011-06)
While John Dewey's work on the philosophy of education provides a robust descriptive account of educational experience, it does not provide anything like a critical system for the analysis of particular educational curricula. ...
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Adams, Sarah LaChance, 1975-
(University of Oregon, 2011-06)
My dissertation is an existential-phenomenological account of human relations and ethics in dialogue with feminist care ethics. Using the work of Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Simone de Beauvoir, I describe ...
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