Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Kant's Science of the Moral World and Moral Objectivity
(2015-08-28)Kant’s Science of the Moral World and Moral Objectivity Abstract Critics of Kant's moral philosophy often object that it cannot account for moral requirements that are both genuinely objective and contentful. Notwithstanding ... -
Kant's Typo, and the Limits of the Law
(2013-10-08)This dissertation develops a Kantian philosophical framework for understanding our individual obligations under public law. Because we have a right to do anything that is not wrong, the best interpretation of Immanuel ... -
Karma and Punishment: Prison Chaplaincy in Japan from the Meiji Period to the Present
(2017-05-11)This dissertation analyzes prison chaplaincy (kyōkai) in Japan from the Meiji period (1868-1912) to the present day focusing on the chaplaincy activities of Shin Buddhist sects, Christian churches, Shintō shrines, and new ... -
Katherine Cohen Senior Thesis
(2018-06-29)The viral dynamics model based on a system of differential equations is an incredibly useful tool towards understanding the kinetics of HIV. The parameters of the system of equations provide important insights into the ... -
Kernel Machine Methods for Risk Prediction with High Dimensional Data
(2012-10-22)Understanding the relationship between genomic markers and complex disease could have a profound impact on medicine, but the large number of potential markers can make it hard to differentiate true biological signal from ... -
Khronika: Soviet Newsreel at the Dawn of the Information Age
(2012-10-31)This dissertation considers ten years in the life of one word. Between 1918 and 1928, khronika—the Russian word that describes newsreel filmmaking—became the site of extensive debates about the aesthetics and social ... -
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), ... -
Killing the Innocent: A Theory of Violent Interactions between Regimes and Resistors
(2022-07-19)I study the motivations for, and responses to, violent regime repression of civilian dissent. The effects of violent interactions on the form of resistance that anti-regime civilians opt for are not well understood. I start ... -
Kinematics and Hydrodynamics of Undulatory Locomotion in Hagfishes (Myxinidae) and Hagfish-like Robotic Models
(2013-09-30)Hagfishes have both intrigued and confused biologists since Linnaeus first mistakenly classified one as an "intestinal worm." Modern hagfishes (Myxinidae) are elongate, marine fishes often described by what they lack: jaws, ... -
Kinetic control of DNA self-assembly with programmable monomer coordination
(2020-10-06)Biological systems exhibit remarkable control over the assembly of complex multi-component molecular architectures across several orders of magnitude in size, in which biomolecules are primarily connected by reversible, ... -
Kingly Exchange: The Silk Road and the East Eurasian World in the Age of Fragmentation (850-1000)
(2017-05-13)This dissertation is a cultural history of travel on the Silk Road in East Eurasia in the ninth and tenth centuries from the vantage point of Dunhuang, an oasis town situated between China proper and Central Asia. Following ... -
Kino-Eye, Kino-Bayonet: The Avant-Garde Documentary in Japan, France, and the USSR
(2017-09-08)This dissertation considers a grouping of films in the former USSR, France, and Japan from the perspective of the political aesthetics they aim to create. These films, usually considered avant-garde documentaries, provide ... -
Kirkuk, 1918-1968: Oil and the Politics of Identity in an Iraqi City
(2012-11-07)In this dissertation, I use methodological approaches from studies of urbanism, oil modernity, nation building, and identity formation to analyze the relationships between urban change, oil, state integration, and the ... -
Kisaeng: A Sociopolitical History of Entertainment Labor in Korea, 1900–1950
(2023-06-01)This dissertation is a labor history of the early-twentieth-century kisaeng, a class of women entertainers in Korea whose labor comprised a fluid combination of musical performance and sexual commerce. While the figure of ... -
Kitāb al-Rimāḥ of ‘Umar Fūtī Tāl: Sealing Muhammadan Sainthood in Nineteenth Century West Africa
(2022-03-17)This dissertation offers an in-depth exploration of the key themes, sources and contributions of Kitāb Rimāḥ ḥizb al-Raḥīm ‘alā nūḥūr ḥizb al-rajīm; West Africa’s “most widely circulated text” written by Shaykh ‘Umar Fūtī ... -
Knowing the Nile: Landscape, Empire, and Engineering the Past in Ottoman Egypt, 1713-1863
(2023-06-01)Most historical studies of the Lower Nile in the nineteenth century focus largely on the ways in which expert engineers dominated the river through large-scale public works like barrages and dams. This dissertation asks ... -
Knowing With
(2022-03-31)This dissertation comprises four chapters. Its goal is to defend a thoroughly social epistemic framework and to explore some important normative implications of it. In Chapter 1, entitled “Epistemic Communities and Epistemic ... -
Knowledge and Representation through Baroque Eyes: Literature and Optics in France and Italy ca. 1600-1640
(2016-05-16)The scientific discoveries and inventions of the early seventeenth century, which include Johannes Kepler’s inverted retinal image, the refinement of lenses, and the invention of the telescope, transformed the status of ... -
Knowledge in Action
(2013-08-12)It is widely acknowledged that an agent is doing A intentionally only if she knows she is doing A. It has proved difficult, however, to reconcile two natural thoughts about this knowledge. On the one hand, the agent seems ... -
Knowledge, Action, and the Ultimate Goal of Human Life: A Hindu-Muslim Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Religion in the Early Modern Era: Gadādhara (d.1660) and Mullā Ṣadrā (d.1635)
(2023-05-16)This dissertation focuses on a specific inquiry within the writings of two 17th-century philosophers: Gadādhara (d. 1660) and Mullā Ṣadrā (d. 1635). The question under investigation is the roles that knowledge and action ...