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The Social and Political Dimensions of the Ethics of PrEP for HIV Prevention Among MSM
(2021-03-08)For many men who have sex with men (MSM), the risks, treatment, and prevention of HIV are central and unavoidable aspects of their experiences of sex and romance. This constant vigilance around HIV complicates their lives ... -
The Value of Genetic Ties as Ethical Justification for Banning Gamete Donor Anonymity
(2020-08-11)Do we have a right to know who our genetic parents are? Do donor-conceived individuals have a moral right to know their gamete (sperm and egg) donors? From the beginning of the clinical practice of donor conception, ... -
Accounting for the Epistemic Benefits of Diversity: Social Location, Identity, and the Politics of Knowledge
(2020-08-11)This dissertation investigates and supports arguments intended to justify claims that social diversity in scientific research communities not only promotes justice but is good for knowledge. One such claim that I focus on ... -
3D Reconstruction of Indoor Corridor Models Using Single Imagery and Video Sequences
(2020-05-11)In recent years, 3D indoor modeling has gained more attention due to its role in decision-making process of maintaining the status and managing the security of building indoor spaces. In this thesis, the problem of continuous ... -
Semantic Scepticism and the Possibility of Meaning
(2019-11-22)Nearly four decades ago, Saul Kripke articulated a semantic version of scepticism, according to which no finite goings-on, either mental or behavioural, can establish what someone means by an expression. The semantic ... -
Defending the Coherence and Practicability of Autonomy through a Multi-level Analytical Approach
(2019-03-05)The objective of this dissertation is to develop a coherent account of autonomy that builds on a general understanding of autonomy as the capacity by which people decide or discover for themselves what is valuable and live ... -
Non-Naturalism and the Metaphysics of Normative Properties
(2019-03-05)Normative non-naturalists seem to be committed to a supervenience relation about the normative. This means that the normative necessarily varies with the non-normative, such that the normative features of a person or a ... -
Becoming Godless: Heidegger's Nietzsche and the Eternal Return
(2018-08-27)Nietzsches concept of eternal return best exemplifies his anti-theological thought, but it is often misread as either classical physics or a thought experiment. Insofar as Anglo-American and analytic interpretations reject ... -
A Narrative Account of Argumentation
(2018-08-27)In this dissertation I attempt to accomplish three goals. The first goal is to develop a narrative account of argumentation. I show that storytelling serves as a legitimate mode of argumentation. I develop an account of ... -
Religion and Secularism-Towards a Reconciliation
(2018-08-27)This dissertation examines the evolving relationship between religion and the state in political philosophy. I begin with an examination of what religion is. I argue that religion is not primarily a belief system about ... -
From Indifference to Difference: Theorizing Emancipation through Sylvia Wynter and Alain Badiou
(2018-03-01)In this project I argue that Alain Badious theory of emancipation fails to properly account for racial and racialized subjects as well as racial emancipation. All particularities, including race, must be subtracted from ... -
The Semiotic Mind: A Fundamental Theory of Consciousness
(2018-03-01)One of the leading concerns animating current philosophy of mind is that, no matter how good a scientific account is, it will leave out what its like to be conscious. The challenge has thus been to study or at least explain ... -
A Defense for Scientific Realism: Skepticisms, Unobservables & Interference to the Best Explanation
(2017-07-27)The epistemological status of scientific knowledge claims has been undermined by skepticism, in particular by universal skepticism. This thesis asserts that Bas C. van Fraassens empirical stance is akin to universal ... -
Becoming to Belong: An Essay on Agency and Democratic Rights
(2017-07-27)My project develops what I call a dignity oriented model of human agency, and a related approach to human rights; especially democratic rights. I also juxtapose my model of agency against those offered by the liberal and ... -
Justification for a Probabilistic Account of Conditionals
(2017-07-27)In this dissertation I argue that a probabilistic account of conditionals similar to the one proposed by Robert Stalnaker in 1968 is the logical account of conditionals that most aptly models conditional use in natural ... -
Social Construction and the Possibility of Emancipation
(2016-11-25)In this dissertation, I attempt to accomplish two main objectives. First, I attempt to clarify what social construction amounts to in contemporary analytic philosophy. Research on the social construction of social categories ... -
The Social and the Real: The Idea of Objectivity in Peirce, Brandom, and Mcdowell
(2016-11-25)This dissertation focuses on Robert Brandoms and John McDowells philosophies of mind and language. Its particular emphasis is on the idea of objectivity as it is presented within the framework of Brandoms and McDowells ... -
Putting the Folk Back in Folk Psychology: The Social, Cultural, and Moral Character of Folk Psychology
(2016-09-20)This project provides a critical analysis of how philosophers have traditionally characterized and understood folk psychology, what I call the traditional construal of folk psychology. On the basis of a growing and diverse ... -
Thomistic Personalism: Clarifying and Advancing the Project
(2016-09-20)Personalism is a reaction against two equally serious errors in the moral and political realms: placing ultimate importance on autonomy and self-interest (individualism), and placing ultimate importance on the glory of the ... -
A Kantian Program for Contemporary Issues in Business Ethics
(2016-09-20)Theoretical approaches to business ethics have been dominated by empirically oriented ethical theories that largely follow in the Enlightenment tradition whereby ethical theories play only a supportive role. However, ...
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