"Integrity, honesty, and truth seeking are clearly important virtues that most people care about and want to see promoted in society. Yet surprisingly there has been relatively little work among scholars today aimed at helping us better understand this cluster of virtues related…
"Integrity, honesty, and truth seeking are clearly important virtues that most people care about and want to see promoted in society. Yet surprisingly there has been relatively little work among scholars today aimed at helping us better understand this cluster of virtues related…
This thesis looks at the Spiritualist community of Lily Dale, New York through the perspective of the first part of a cultural landscape report. Inside is a literature review, a summary of the history of Spiritualism and its beliefs, the history of Lily Dale, an examination of i…
The dissertation addresses the social and political experiences of Muslim-Americans within the Muslim community and as part of the larger pluralistic society. It focuses specifically on experiences of distrust and disenfranchisement and the challenges they pose to social and pol…
The integrity of positioning systems has become an increasingly important requirement for location-based Intelligent Transports Systems (ITS). The navigation systems, such as Global Positioning System (GPS), used in ITS cannot provide the high quality positioning information req…
Authenticity refers not only to the physical characteristics of cultural properties, but also to the ways in which collective memories connect with particular environments. Each historic site presents a unique interpretation of authenticity, rooted in a combination of the materi…
Erotic literature remains a blind spot in modern or contemporary literary criticism, even though sex and sexual identity is a widely accepted component of individual, social, and cultural identity. However, a careful investigation of erotic literature can provide valuable insigh…
Corruption, in particular police corruption, has become a problem for societies and institutions for decades. Attempting to imagine a community without corruption is almost impossible. However, it is possible to see that corruption is much more endemic in some societies or group…
This dissertation deals with integrity understood as a state of the psyche. Its primary interlocutor is Professor Bernard Williams, and its point of departure is my interpretation of his Objection from Integrity to impartialist moral theories. Against Williams, I hope to show th…