Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "ethics"
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Apocalypse and the Algorithm: Muslim Spiritual Cultivation as Critique
In this thesis, I advance a Muslim way to think about politics, ground it in an ethics, and then consider what aesthetics accompany that political-ethical orientation. In response to a totalizing and intertwining set of ... -
Artificial Humanities: A Literary Perspective on Creating and Enhancing Humans from Pygmalion to Cyborgs
(2020-09-11)This dissertation explores boundaries and relationships between humans and humanlike artificial entities in the twentieth-century and contemporary literature. The central question, What is human?, is posed in relation to ... -
Caregiving as Moral Experience
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Character before the Novel: Representing Moral Identity in the Age of Shakespeare
(2013-02-20)This dissertation argues that the modern concept of literary character was an unintended consequence of Renaissance moral poetics. The evolution of "character" as a term of literary analysis, from the rediscovery of ... -
The Commonwealth as Agent: Group Action, the Common Good, and the General Will
(2013-09-18)In this dissertation, I argue for a Rousseauvian vision of an ideal society: one in which the people constitute a group agent, unified under a collective will, willing action that constitutes the common good. Most have ... -
Decline of Violence: Taming the Devil Within Us
(Nature Publishing Group, 2011)We are getting smarter, and as a result the world is becoming a more peaceful place, says Steven Pinker. -
Dirty Work, Clean Hands: The Moral Psychology of Indirect Agency
(Elsevier, 2009)When powerful people cause harm, they often do so indirectly through other people. Are harmful actions carried out through others evaluated less negatively than harmful actions carried out directly? Four experiments examine ... -
Empirical and Normative Implications of Social Networks for Disparities: The Case of Renal Transplantation
(2013-08-28)This dissertation examines the extent to which individual-level and social network-level factors explain disparities in living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) and considers the moral implications. Paper One examines ... -
Ethics and Religion in a Classic of Sanskrit Drama: Harṣa's Nāgānanda
(2013-10-17)Dissertation Advisor: Parimal G. Patil Elon Goldstein -
Kierkegaard on Faith and Desire: The Limits of Christianity and the Human Heart
(2021-07-12)This dissertation analyzes and evaluates several major productions by Danish philosopher and theologian Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855). It focuses on three works Kierkegaard authored under pseudonyms – Either / Or (1843), ... -
The Normativity of Structural Rationality
(2014-10-21)Many of us take for granted that rationality requires that we have our attitudes combined only in certain ways. For example, we are required not to hold inconsistent beliefs or intentions and we are required to intend any ... -
Obama's Ethics Agenda: The Challenge of Coordinated Change
(Berkeley Electronic Press, 2009)Obama's "ethics agenda" is the most ambitious ever set out by a new administration. It promises a tougher approach not only to the usual problems such as conflict of interest and the revolving door, but also to broader ... -
Patrul Rinpoche on Self-Cultivation: The Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century Tibetan Buddhist Life-Advice
(2012-12-17)Buddhist forms of “ethical advice”—instructions that address life’s problems and offer methods for alleviating them—are widespread in Buddhist literary history. This dissertation studies four such works, all written by the ... -
Precise of The Contents of Visual Experience
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Rationales for Indirect Speech: The Theory of the Strategic Speaker
(American Psychological Assoication, 2010)Speakers often do not state requests directly but employ innuendos such as Would you like to see my etchings? Though such indirectness seems puzzlingly inefficient, it can be explained by a theory of the strategic speaker, ... -
The Religious Significance of Kant's Copernican Revolution
(2014-10-21)This dissertation argues that Immanuel Kant's critical philosophy must be understood as an attempt to hold together a robust commitment to divine transcendence and an affirmation of immanent human activity. This argument ... -
Replies to Campbell, Prinz, and Travis
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Teaching Academic Honesty in CS50
(ACM, 2020-03)We aspire to teach academic honesty in CS50 at Harvard University not only by addressing academic dishonesty when it occurs but by addressing it before it does. By way of communication, course- and campus-wide awareness ... -
The Lives and Deaths of Animals in Soviet Cinema
(2022-06-06)This dissertation argues that Soviet ideologues turned to animals as allies of the working class after the October Revolution of 1917. Whereas the contributions of animals to human society under capitalism had been ...