The full text of Senior Independent Study Theses submitted during and after 2012 are available to download only by College of Wooster users. Unless listed as an exemplar, all other theses are restricted.

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Senior Independent Study Theses from 2011

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Irish Political Society: a Normative Democratic Evaluation, Andrew Dirgo
Department: Philosophy; Political Science

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Engineering New Life in a Utilitarian World: Creating a Social Policy For Synthetic Life, Benjamin Gartin
Department: Philosophy

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A Crash Course in Riding Philosophy: Why Zen & Motorcycles Really Do Go Together, Alexandra Gioiella
Department: Philosophy; History

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The Importance of Being Earnest: Virtue Ethics and the Environment, William Hiatt
Department: Philosophy

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Determining the Goal of An Education, Jacob Hill
Department: Philosophy

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Caring For Justice: When Liberalism Is Not Enough, Meghan Hough
Department: Philosophy; Sociology and Anthropology

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The Language of Totalitarianism: Newspeak, Freedom, and Orwellian Dystopia, Thomas Irvin
Department: English; Philosophy

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Stuck at the Fork in the Middle of the Road?: Towards the Rational Discretion of Microfinance Institutions, Christopher Miller
Department: Economics; Philosophy

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Establishing Good Will- Its Not Just About the Criminal: An Analysis of Punishment Theory, Laura Munro
Department: Philosophy

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The Poetics of Metaphor: How It Means, Conceptualizes, and Creates, Lindsay Neff
Department: English; Philosophy

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Create, Think, Be, Sarah Pardee
Department: Philosophy

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Ethical Weapon: Just War in the Gulf, Abbas Ali Sabur
Department: Philosophy

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Procedural Justice in Game Theoretical Systems, Halden Reid Schwallie
Department: Philosophy

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Understanding Sense: Word Sense Disambiguation, David Small

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Breaking the Law: Justified Civil Disobedience, Dylan Takores
Department: Philosophy

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What Is It Like to Be a Shark?, Michael Allan Walton
Department: Philosophy

Senior Independent Study Theses from 2010

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Explanation, Relation, and Meaning in Scientific Realism and Anti-Realism, Christopher J. Andrews
Department: Philosophy

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Ancient Virtue Theory Verses Contemporary Virtue Theory: Why/How Macintyre's Virtue Theory Is Better Perceived Than Aristotle's Virtue Theory, Ramses Saladin Clements
Department: Philosophy

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Presence of Mentality in a Phenomenon: the Work of William James on Consciousness and Free Will, Barnaby Simon Katz
Department: Philosophy

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We Are How We Eat: Industrial v. Agrarian Agricultural Ethics, John Officer
Department: Philosophy

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Destruction of Identity and Citizenship Through Loneliness & Totalitarianism, Sarah Palagyi
Department: Political Science; Philosophy

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Relationship Between Personal Morality and Professional Ethics: a Critical Assessment of the FBI and the Ideal Conduct For Interrogation Practice, Shane Swearingen
Department: Philosophy

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Why Should I Care?: A Comparative Discussion on Service, Altruism, and Personal Identity, Samuel Addison VanFleet
Department: Philosophy

Senior Independent Study Theses from 2009

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Consistent Histories Interpretation As a Solution to the Quantum Measurement Problem, Matthew T. Gorski
Department: Philosophy; Physics

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Why Neoclassical Economics Must Eliminate the Assumption of Utility Maximization, Ceteris Paribus, Jonathan Shaw Howden
Department: Economics; Philosophy

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Investigation Into Human Rights: the Case of Female Genital Cutting in the Gambia, Amihan Jones
Department: Philosophy; Religious Studies

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Pan-Handlers, Deserted Islands, and Philosophers: Solving Problems of Charity, Katelyn M. Kiley
Department: Philosophy

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Faith as Coherence: An Alternative Justification For Religious Belief, Matthew Kirk
Department: Philosophy

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Free Will and Animals: Rethinking the Traditional View, Emmett Mckay Lodge
Department: Philosophy

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Moral Responsibility and the Insanity Defense: Implications For the Mentally Ill, Katharine McCarthy
Department: Philosophy

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My Friends, There Are No Friends: Friendship, Egoism, and Altruism in Ancient Greek and Christian Thought, Tiffany E. Speegle
Department: Philosophy

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The Case For Consideration of Animal Rights and Ethics to Reform the Commercial Dog Breeding Industry, Nicholas Ian Waychoff
Department: Philosophy

Senior Independent Study Theses from 2008

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Environmental Ethics in the Arctic: Investigating the Source of Moral Obligations to Wilderness, David Albrechta
Department: Philosophy

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Recovery of Philosophy Through Pragmatism, Matthew E. Jensen
Department: Philosophy

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There Is No Theory, Only a Strategy: Speculation to Death, Jeff Kaatz
Department: Philosophy; Political Science

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Don't Be Deceived, This Is Not a Lie: An Examination of the Role of Truth (Or Lack Thereof) in Our Adversary System, Abigail Adams Kline
Department: Philosophy

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Philosophy of Development: Towards a Normative Theory, Erik Russell Larson
Department: Economics; Philosophy

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Thinking Outside the Belief-Box: Problems With Mental Representations in Cognitive Science, Jonathan Martin
Department: Philosophy

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Moral Foundations of Truth Commissions in Theory and Practice, Lara Anne Pfaff
Department: Philosophy

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Philosophy or Social Science: Determining and Assessing the Factors That Underpin Moral and Profitable Worker Productivity, Jolene Poynter
Department: Philosophy

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Dirty Little Secret: Photography's Relationship With Harm, Christina Marie Shiroma
Department: Philosophy

Senior Independent Study Theses from 2007

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Melodious Decree of the Passions: Defining Melody's Role in Opera, Theater, and Life, Kyle McRee Beliczky
Department: Philosophy

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Resurrecting the Dead Canvas: Aesthetic Post-Essentialism and the Reevaluation of the Traditional Theories of Justifying Art Restoration, Stewart William Campbell
Department: Philosophy

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Role Morality Vs. Moral Right: An Examination of Legal Ethics, Dan Fleszar
Department: Philosophy

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Concerns of An Anti-Skeptic: Traditional Epistemology: Why It Should Be Naturalized and Taken Back to Common Sense, Andrew Russo
Department: Philosophy

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Concept of Epistemic Responsibility, Michael von Ansbach-Young
Department: Philosophy

Senior Independent Study Theses from 2006

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For the Love of Wilderness: Conceptual Analysis of Contemporary Wilderness, Laura Eileen Barnhart
Department: Philosophy

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Repairing Perception, Timothy Scott Bowersox
Department: Philosophy

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Ontological Conflict and Moral Discourse, Daniel Cohen
Department: Philosophy

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Mp3: Laws, Ethics, and Metaphysics, James Richard Lauwers
Department: Philosophy

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On Meaning and Life, Colin Turner
Department: Philosophy

Senior Independent Study Theses from 2005

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What's Personhood Got to Do, Got to Do With It? Questioning the Relevance of Personhood Within the Context of Abortion and Other Related Issues, Abigail Perry Adams
Department: Philosophy

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Live and Let Die: the Moral Permissibility of Euthanasia, Donald Cornelius Caughlan
Department: Philosophy

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Is There a Difference Between a Work of Literature and An Instruction Manual?, John Evans
Department: English; Philosophy

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Four Moral Criteria: Reconciling Kantian Moral Theory and Utilitarianism, Roderick F. Ganiard III
Department: Philosophy

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Michel Foucault: Power, Ethics, and Their Prescription For An Adequate Model of the Physician/Patient Relationship, Andrew Woodburn Hillyer
Department: Philosophy

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Starvin' Marvin Versus the Fatcats: An Examination of the Duty to Give Aid, Miles Holding
Department: Philosophy

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What Business Ethics Should Not Overlook: a Re-Examination of the Scope of Business Ethics, Jameson David Rehm
Department: Philosophy

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Buddhist Paradox of No-Self: Can It Be Resolved in Today's Terms?, Bethany Lynne Reiner
Department: Philosophy

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Searching For and Authentic Moral Attitude Toward the Environment: An Investigation Into the Development of Human Morality and the Resulting Implications on the Role of Humans in the Environment, Christine Ellen VanderWyden
Department: Philosophy

Senior Independent Study Theses from 2003

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Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics: Instructions in Life, Thomas Fowkes
Department: Classical Studies; Philosophy

Senior Independent Study Theses from 2002

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He, Arlyn E. Keith
Department: English; Philosophy

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"Sex": A Comparison on the Place of Sex in the Buddhist, Tantric, and Platonic Traditions, Sarah Sobel-Poage
Department: Religious Studies; Philosophy

Senior Independent Study Theses from 2001

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Politics of Rationality?: Habermas and Foucault on Contemporary Political Reason, Kevin D. Egan
Department: Political Science; Philosophy

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Journalism Ethics and the Outing of Oliver Sipple A Discussion About the Importance of Incorporating Feminine Ethics into the Practice of Journalism, Amelia Kays
Department: English; Philosophy

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1999

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Kierkegaard's Philosophical Fragments, James F. Cubie
Department: Religious Studies; Philosophy

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Nazi Germany on Trial: a Historical and Philosophical Analysis of the Nuremberg Trial, Aaron Veith
Department: History; Philosophy

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1998

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Affliction and Attention: a Study of the Philosophy of Simone WeilAnd Its Connections to Theology of Gustavo Gutierrez, Shannon R. Vance
Department: Philosophy; Religious Studies

Theses/Dissertations from 1997

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The Effects of the Nature of Women's Movements on Their Societal Status and Consciousness: A Comparative Study of Nicaragua's Amnlae and Argentina's Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, Mildred E. Soto

Theses/Dissertations from 1994

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The Application of Intergenerational Justice in Modern America and its Practical Application, Michael L. Dawson II

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Upon Distinguishing the Public and the Private: The Application of Hannah Arendt Towards a Participatory Politics of Feminism, Jennifer L. Novak
Department: Philosophy; Political Science

Theses/Dissertations from 1984

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Cuestiones en la Filosofía de la Religión Reveladas en la Literatura Mística: Un Estudio Filosófico sobre las Obras de San Jean de la Cruz y Santa Teresa de ´Avila, Lee-Anne Cirillo