Senior Philosophy Essays
A student majoring in philosophy is expected to take a minimum of ten courses in philosophy. In addition, it is required that students take the Junior Tutorial. All entering majors are required to propose a concentration in the major. A concentration will normally consist of three courses at the 300- and 400-levels that are organized around some specific theme. In addition, each senior is required to write a senior essay in a course in his or her concentration. Qualified students may satisfy this latter requirement by writing an honors essay. The essays presented here are the work of senior philosophy majors.
Class of 2007
The
Jenna Ingersoll
The Failure of Socrates: Limitation or Defect?
Joseph Plaxco
The World Famine Crisis: Two Utilitarian Viewpoints
Naythaniel Williams
Battle Royale: Kripke vs. Luntley on Wittgenstein's
Account of Practice & Rules
Class of 2006
Caitlin Mary McCollister (honors)
Richard Rorty's Ironic Liberalism, The Charge of Relativism, and the Priority of Pragmatism
Isabel Witherspoon Foster
A Defense of Confucianism and Non-Theoretical Ethical Systems
Bill Frazier
Finding Truth with Tradition: Why MacIntyre Defeates the Charge of Relativism
Hunter McDonald Groves
An Inquiry into the Problem of Becoming Present in Alfred North Whitehead's Process and Reality
Joseph Alan Jackson
Democracy, Tradition, and the Local Community
Campbell McKee Wright
Finding a Middle Ground Between an Inclusive and Intellectualist Interpretation of Happiness in the Nicomachean Ethics
Class of 2005
Nicole Bermel (honors)
Nietzsche: Christianity and Truth
Brad Cherry (honors)
On the Coherence of Sartre's Defense of Existentialism Against the Essentialist Charge of Ethical Relativism in His
"Existentialism and Humanism"
Chris Guptill (honors)
"The Same Truly God and Truly Man": Aquinas, Reduplication and the Problems of the Incarnation
Adriana Zimova (honors)
Nietzsche and Truth
W. Andrew McClarty
A Wise man and a Fool: Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics
Christopher Miller
On Process and Eternity:
An examination of the Divine Nature
Emily Nelson
The Morality of Active Euthanasia
Class of 2004
Austin Cox (honors)
An Ethical Evaluation of the PACE Program
Kate Sullivan (honors)
Medical Futility Within the Realm of End-of-Life Care
Ellie Bostwick
Kierkegaard vs. Nietzsche--Discerning the Nature of True Christian Faith
Wil Oakes
The Function of the Forms:
Examining Plato's Conception of Aitia Against the Criticisms of Aristotle
Andrew Schmidt
Wittgenstein and Fiction: An Abundance of Philosophical Investigation?
Class of 2003
Derek Lemoine (Honors)
The Evaluation of Cognitive Systems
Haley Hardin
Wittgenstein's Critique of Freud and the Confusion between
Reasons and Causes
Tappan Heinsohn
Henry David Thoreau's
Walden: A Radical Philosophical Charge for Individuality
Sara Staggs
Virtue
and After: MacIntyre's Solution to a Modern Dilemma
Class of 2002
David Atkinson (Honors)
Zhuangzi—The non-Post-Nietzschean Perspectivist
Jordan Martins (Honors)
Playing in the World: Comparing Zhuangzi and Early
Wittgenstein
Alan Wray (Honors)
Significant Objects & Authentic People
Carl Dull
The Tao Te Ching,
Virtue Ethics, and the Foundations of Moral Inquiry
Jessica Farmer
The Use and Above of Dionysus: Testing Nietzsche against
His Standards
Pete Greenfield
The Role of Laughter in the Good Life: A Philosophical
Examination
Alice Martin
Plato's Feminism: A Discussion of Women in Ancient
Philosophy
Elizabeth Vige
Beyond Reason: A Narrative Response to an Enlightenment
Interpretation of Morality
Class of 2001
Thomas L. Humphries,
Jr. (Honors)
A Modest Defense of Transubstantiation
Cara Sanders
The Virtues and Vices of Deep Ecology
Anne Dorsey
Wendell Berry: Should Environmentalists
be Pro-life?
Ben Miles
Can We Know the Nature of the Self?
Carrie Hunsicker
The Aesthetics of Architecture
John Holyer
A Defense of Alvin Plantinga's Attack on
Evidentialism
Raymond McAnally
Kierkegaard's Indirect Communication
Class of 2000
John David Spiller,
Jr. (Honors)
Nietzsche's Philosophy of Affirmation: A Paradox
Avoided
Natascha Berryman
(Honors)
Truth and Metaphor
Nathan
C. Clendenin (Honors)
Christianity
and Liberalism:A Call for Change from Stanley Hauerwas
Michael Hoffman
(Honors)
Did Dawkins Reveal a Blind Watchmaker?
Mary
Jacklyn Bailey
The
Liberal Ironist or the Authentic Self?
Nicki Cavender
Individualism, Commitments, and the Practices that
Save Us
Brooks Marks
Environmental Ethics : a Comparative Study of Christian and Buddhist
Ideals
Danielle Stevens
Nietzsche's Criticism of the Herd Mentality and
Kierkegaard's Individual
Class of 1999
Scott
Maule (Honors)
Untangling
the Affirmative Action Debate
Hannah
Love (Honors)
Objective
Truth, Morality, and Confusion:
A New Solution through Narrative and Tradition
William
Phillips
A
Moral Guideline for Rorty's Concept of Self-Creation:
Liberalism vs. the Hobbesian Theory of Human Nature
Robert
Birdsey
The
Ethics of Genetic Engineering:
Questions Concerning Future Genetic Treatment and Enhancement
Mark
Hancock
Rudolf
Steiner's Spiritual Epistemology
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