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Causal Skepticism and the Destruction of Antiquity

Jordan, Jason M. (University of Oregon, 2011-12)

This dissertation examines the development of skeptical views concerning causation from the medieval to the early modern period. While causal skepticism is often overlooked by intellectual historians, I argue that, in spite ...
Co-Speech Gesture in Communication and Cognition

Cuffari, Elena Clare (University of Oregon, 2011-12)

This dissertation stages a reciprocal critique between traditional and marginal philosophical approaches to language on the one hand and interdisciplinary studies of speech-accompanying hand gestures on the other. Gesturing ...
Metaphors and Models: Paths to Meaning in Music

Linsley, Dennis E. (University of Oregon, 2011-12)

Music has meaning. But what is the nature and source of meaning, what tools can we use to illuminate meaning in musical analysis, and how can we relate aspects of musical structure to our embodied experience? This dissertation ...
The music and liturgy of Kloster Preetz: Anna von Buchwald's Buch im Chor in its fifteenth-century context

Altstatt, Alison Noel, 1970- (University of Oregon, 2011-06)

This dissertation investigates the music and liturgy of the German Benedictine convent of Kloster Preetz as reflected in three fifteenth-century manuscripts: the Buch im Chor of prioress Anna von Buchwald, an antiphoner ...
Persistent Mythologies: A Cognitive Approach to Beowulf and the Pagan Question

Luttrell, Eric G. (University of Oregon, 2011-09)

This dissertation employs recent developments in the cognitive sciences to explicate competing social and religious undercurrents in Beowulf. An enduring scholarly debate has attributed the poem's origins to, variously, ...
Re-thinking the Doctor-Patient Relationship: A Physician’s Philosophical Perspective

Qualtere-Burcher, Paul, 1963- (University of Oregon, 2011-12)

The principle of respect for autonomy has been the center of gravity for the doctor-patient relationship for forty years, replacing the previous defining concept of physician paternalism. In this work, I seek to displace ...
Thinking about Justice from “the Outside” of Nationality: Re-Thinking the Legal and National Dimensions of Citizenship

Silva, Grant Joseph, 1982- (University of Oregon, 2011-09)

This dissertation examines the legal and national dimensions of citizenship, focusing on the nature of social justice, multiculturalism and state formation in light of an increasing "migrant" population in the United ...
The unheard voice of law in Bartolome de Las Casas's "Brevisima relacion de la destruicion de las Indias"

Orique, David Thomas, 1959- (University of Oregon, 2011-06)

The organizing principle of this dissertation is that Las Casas's most famous work, the Brevisima relacion , is primarily an intricately reasoned legal argument against the excesses of early Spanish colonialism rather than ...