Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "Ethics"
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Algorithms for the People: Democracy in the Age of AI
(2022-06-06)Our society is being transformed by prediction tools like artificial intelligence and machine learning. And yet, we find ourselves chasing tech companies whose AI systems we know nothing about, condemning algorithms that ... -
Bounded Rights: Citizenship in Non-Ideal Settings
(2021-08-03)Enforcing rights under non-ideal settings poses moral challenges. When, if ever, is a society justified in circumventing the ordinary enforcement of human and civil rights, to address problems, especially those that undermine ... -
Contested Boundaries: Evaluating Institutional and Government Authority in Academia and Public Health
(2014-02-25)This dissertation explores tensions between individual freedom and institutional authority. Chapter one examines public perceptions of the legitimacy of "new frontier" public health measures. I present results from a ... -
Cultural Hegemony, Political Movements, and the Problem of Publicity
(2022-05-12)How does social change happen in a political arrangement? My dissertation argues that societies are transformed by the acceptance of “hidden scripts” that challenge the legitimacy of the dominant narratives accepted by the ... -
Duties of Rescue: a Moderate Account
(2013-10-18)This dissertation clarifies a challenge present in Peter Singer's famine-relief argument and offers a new account of our moral duties of rescue. The challenge, in essence, is to differentiate two classes of idealized ... -
Essays in Ethics and Health Policy
(2013-09-18)In 1999 New York enacted Kendra's Law, in memory of Kendra Webdale, a young woman who was pushed to her death in front of an oncoming train by a man with untreated schizophrenia. Under Kendra's Law a court can order a ... -
Ethics Amidst Uncertainty: Essays on Global Health Priority Setting
(2024-03-12)Global health actors must allocate limited resources. For instance, non-governmental organizations must decide which public health interventions to prioritize, research funders must decide what grants to make, and governments ... -
Ethics and Religion in a Classic of Sanskrit Drama: Harṣa's Nāgānanda
(2013-10-17)Dissertation Advisor: Parimal G. Patil Elon Goldstein -
The Ethics of Physician Collaboration in Conditions of Uncertainty
(2014-06-06)Patient care often involves collaboration among physicians from different areas of specialization and diverse institutions. Moral quandaries can arise if collaborators do not have common ethical standards to guide their ... -
The Ethos of Language and the Ethical Philosophy of Odysseus Elytis
(2014-06-06)My dissertation deals with the ethical philosophy of the Greek poet and Nobel Prize winner Odysseus Elytis (1911-1996). Responding to the "ethical turn" in literary scholarship, I scrutinize the notion of ethos and ethics, ... -
From Each: Essays in the Theory of Productive Justice
(2013-03-08)A just society must provide a range of goods: police protection, education, medical care, legal representation, to name only a few. But how should a just society organize production of these goods? To ask this question is ... -
In Search of Truth: Jealousy and the Violation of Privacy in Marcel Proust
(2021-06-23)Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is, among many other things, a landmark study of jealousy. Proust depicts two sides to jealousy: The Proustian lover exemplifies the internal and imaginative, even aesthetic, side of ... -
Militarism, Civilianism, and the Normative Theory of Democratic Civil-Military Relations
(2023-03-14)How should the normative commitments entailed by liberal-democracy inform the choices that must be made regarding the military as an institution? This dissertation argues that liberal-democratic civil-military relations ... -
Political Ethics and the Spirit of Liberalism in Twentieth-Century Political Thought
(2014-10-21)Liberalism is often criticized as too moralistic and removed from the realities of politics; and too complacently accepting of injustices. Such criticisms, familiar among contemporary political theorists, were expressed ... -
Priority Setting for HIV and Mental Health in Mexico: Historical, Quantitative and Ethical Perspectives
(2014-02-25)Mexico's innovative health reforms have attracted scholarly attention beyond its own borders, making it a valuable case to study how countries set priorities. This dissertation examines the multifaceted topic of priority ... -
Reforming the Common Boundary: An Ethic of Technical Media
(2023-05-01)This two-part dissertation combines intellectual history and formal analysis to activate the ethical potential of media theory. In “Part One: Informing the Media Concept,” I argue that the media concept has sublimated core ... -
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 ... -
Responsibility for Implicitly-Biased Actions: A Strawsonian Approach
(2022-05-13)In this dissertation I argue that we are responsible and blameworthy for actions caused by implicit biases. And that we are responsible for these actions because we are blameworthy for them. I argue for this in two parts. ... -
Stylistic Virtue in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
(2013-10-18)To many readers, the Victorian novel is synonymous with moral insight and Victorian criticism with moral philistinism. While the novel remains celebrated for its complex treatment of decision-making and sympathy, the ... -
The Consequences of Inaccurate Group Meta-Perception
(2020-08-10)How we believe others perceive us – meta-perception – plays a critical role in how we make reputationally impactful decisions. For social group members, meta-perceptive concerns arise not only at the individual level but ...