This study aims to link the essay form in a novel way to the philosophical problem of scepticism and to suggest the ways in which analytical philosophy can benefit from the employment of literary reading strategies, including generic or stylistic approaches to philosophical text…
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This dissertation is dedicated to the idea that the cultural phenomenon of wellness—understood as an ethos of self-directed healthcare—provides a generative framework for thinking through the formal and critical dimensions of a diverse selection of novels published in the years …
As the use of the Internet has evolved over the past few decades, digital advertising has become an increasingly important part of how firms reach their consumers. Since 1996, digital advertising spending has increased from 30 million to over 35 billion in 2019 (PwC & IAB, 2020)…
Divination is a universal phenomenon in the ancient world. It once assumed the roles of philosophy and science in providing guidance on how to live. In our present time, this ancient practice is reduced to a mere form of irrationality, magic, or superstition and this suggests th…
This thesis examines the development of materialism in the French Enlightenment from 1745 to 1789. As a relatively new intellectual category in the eighteenth century, materialism was systematized after the 1740s in France and endorsed a monistic ontology and cosmology of matter…
Skeptics argue that we can know very little, threatening our claims to knowledge. Many philosophers now think there is no use in talking to skeptics—that nothing can change their minds, curing them of skepticism. These philosophers opt for mere prevention, aiming to convince onl…
Evolutionary Debunking Arguments (EDAs) are arguments that use considerations from evolutionary science to raise doubts about some broad class of beliefs, such as moral beliefs, religious beliefs, object beliefs, or all beliefs. A given EDA will attack some particular positive e…
Public reason liberalism requires that coercive measures be justified to all reasonable citizens. As a result, when publicly deliberating, citizens must only invoke those beliefs that all citizens could reasonably accept, on some level of idealization. Religious beliefs are rout…
The topic of this dissertation is the epistemology of 18th century Scottish philosopher David Hume. Hume notoriously pursues a constructive science of human nature in his masterpiece A Treatise of Human Nature while raising serious skeptical doubts about that project and leaving…
Chronic pain is common, costly, challenging to manage, and affects patients’ quality of life. High confidence is placed in the nurses caring these patients. Nurses displaying skepticism or doubt about patients’ motives for seeking pain treatment contribute to the challenges of e…
This dissertation examines the development of skeptical views concerning causation from the medieval to the early modern period. While causal skepticism is often overlooked by intellectual historians, I argue that, in spite of its typical motivation as a religious response to sh…
This dissertation explores the intellectual problem of evil by asking several questions. (1) How does one define the word "evil?" (2) How does evil arise? (3) How might one find a sense of meaning and hope in the face of one's experience of evil? (4) How can one reconcile one's …