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  • The Echo of God's Laughter: Aesthetic Experience and the Virtue of Openness within a Pragmatist Ethics 
    Rodriguez, Aaron (University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)
    Immanuel Kant's claim that morality is a matter of rational judgment is perhaps the apotheosis of a tradition within ethical philosophy that sought certainty with regards to how one ought to live or what one should to do ...
  • Ethics for the Depressed: A Value Ethics of Engagement 
    Fitzpatrick, Devin (University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)
    I argue that depressed persons suffer from “existential guilt,” which amounts to a two-part compulsion: 1) the compulsive assertion or sense of a vague and all-encompassing or absolute threat that disrupts action and ...
  • Extended Virtues 
    Skorburg, Joshua (University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)
    The central argument of this dissertation is that virtue ethics is overly individualistic. In response, I develop and defend a more relational, ecological account - what I call extended virtues. First, following Andy Clark, ...
  • Impossible and Necessary: The Problem of Luck and the Promise of Kindness 
    Lundquist, Caroline (University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)
    My dissertation explores the promise of kindness as a response to the problem of luck which confronts both ancient and modern visions of the moral life. A rich articulation of kindness in the light of historical moral ...
  • A Pragmatic Realism: Events, Powers, and Relations in the Metaphysics of Objective Relativism 
    Taylor, Patrick (University of Oregon, 2013-07-11)
    The early twentieth century witnessed the emergence of "objective relativism," a distinctly American school of metaphysical realism inspired by the works of John Dewey and A.N. Whitehead. Largely forgotten, objective ...
  • The Enchantment of Ethics: Empathy, Character, and the Art of Moral Living 
    Parzuchowski, Kimberley (University of Oregon, 2016-02-23)
    My dissertation explores the role of narrative in the cultivation of empathy for ethical attitudes and behaviors. I begin by exploring an uncommon view of human nature, concluding that we are not autonomously individualistic ...

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