"Responding to important developments over the past few years, Leonard Linsky continues and reevaluates work in philosophical logic and the theory of reference that he presented in his earlier book, Referring (1976). In Names and Descriptions, Linsky discusses paradoxes and puzz…
"Responding to important developments over the past few years, Leonard Linsky continues and reevaluates work in philosophical logic and the theory of reference that he presented in his earlier book, Referring (1976). In Names and Descriptions, Linsky discusses paradoxes and puzz…
The iconic Periodic Table of the Elements is probably in its most satisfactory, elegant form it will ever have. This is because all the 'gaps' corresponding to missing elements in the seventh row, or period, have recently been filled and the elements named. But where do these na…
Acupuncture is the medical practice of inserting fine needles at specific places in the body, named acupoints. These points are located on pathways (called meridians) that run through the body, normally depicted as lines on the body’s surface. According to the medical paradigm o…
This dissertation examines the naming methods on Late Viking Age Swedish runestones. It is well-known in the runological world that the runestones of the Late Viking Age preserve a plethora of personal names. At the same time, name scholars have long observed that the older Germ…
Homophily—our tendency to form ties with people like ourselves—is a near-universal feature of human social networks. Scholars often assume that ties between members of different racial, ethnic, or religious groups will not only be rarer but also weaker on average than ties withi…
Statement of Problem or Issue: The Wilcox Museum at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas is in need of digitizing and organizing all of their paperwork from 1888 to current (2021).A majority of their documentation has begun to fade with time and they risk losing the hist…
Reformed ectypal theology can refine Thomistic analogy by supplementing Aquinas’ creational account of analogy’s ground with a covenantal account. Aquinas presents the ultimate ground of analogy as inexplicable but demonstrably real, terminating in the mystery of divine actualit…
More than one contemporary scholar has written about the “search” for the Anglo-Saxon oral poet. They consider historical texts and poetry and every other possible place where some record of who the Anglo-Saxon scop may have been might be found. Some claim to recognize the Old E…
Pejorative attitudes from mental health clinicians towards individuals diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) are well documented (Horn et al. 2007, Veysey 2013, Lester 2014, Charles 2020). Those thus labelled are frequently seen as ‘manipulative’, ‘attention-seeki…
This dissertation focuses on the Izanagi-ryū, a Japanese folk religion closely associated with the Monobe region in Kōchi Prefecture, to study the challenges faced by local communities in preserving and transmitting their intangible cultural heritages. Using an interdisciplinary…
This thesis is a study of the processes involved in the making, unmaking and potential remaking of a Pacific phosphate island. It is a history of Makatea, an uplifted coral atoll in the Tuamotu Archipelago (French Polynesia), mined by a French private company from 1908 to 1966 a…
This thesis document researches the newly-emergent field of Ecosomatics as a meeting place for ecological consciousness, somatic-based movement practices, quantum physics, and social justice, as perceived through the lens of embodiment practices. The paper examines a multiplicit…