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    Enduring Aristotle’s Dialectic: The Discipline of Non-Contradiction
    Author: Jamie Mellway, Subject: Ancient Philosophy, Epistemology, Logic, Method, Type: Academic, Annual Meeting, Draft, Undergraduate, Size: 20 K, Date: 2001-4-20

    Valuing in Games and Life
    Author: Ted O'Connor, Subject: Ethics, Politics, Sociology, Psychology, Economics, Type: Academic, Annual Meeting, Undergraduate, Size: 12 K, Date: 2001-4-8

    Distorted Memories Cause Problems for Locke's Self-Same Theory of Personal Identity
    Author: Luis Concepcion, Subject: Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Modern Philosophy, Type: Academic, Course Essay, Undergraduate, Size: 13 K, Date: 2001-2-27

    The Form of Experience: The Transcendental Analogy
    Author: Jamie Mellway, Subject: Epistemology, Metaphysics, Method, Logic, Type: Academic, Commentary, Course Essay, Undergraduate, Size: 28 K, Date: 2001-2-16

    Entities, Concepts, and Propositions: A Computational Approach
    Author: Ted O'Connor, Subject: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Computer Science, Type: Academic, Online Conference, Undergraduate, Size: 40 K, Date: 2001-2-11

    On Ideas As Such: Short Commentary on a Selection from The Critique of Pure Reason, Transcendental Dialectic
    Author: Jamie Mellway, Subject: Epistemology, Type: Academic, Annual Meeting, Commentary, Course Essay, Undergraduate, Size: 40 K, Date: 2000-11-22

    Strong AI Theorists Fail to Account for Human Experience
    Author: Luis Concepcion, Subject: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence, Type: Undergraduate, Size: 37 K, Date: 2000-11-1

    Reid Against the Theory of Ideas
    Author: Bryan Register, Subject: Epistemology, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 13 K , Date: 2000-7-24

    Connative Terms, Common Natures, and Intuitive and Abstract Cognition
    Author: Jamie Mellway, Subject: Medieval Philosophy, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Course Essay, Size: 36 K, Date: 2000-8-6

    Augustine's City of God Book XIX.3-18, 24-8
    Author: Jamie Mellway, Subject: Medieval Philosophy, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Course Essay, Size: 26 K, Date: 2000-8-6

    The Logic and Validity of Emotional Appeal in Classical Greek Rhetorical Theory
    Author: Bryan Register, Subject: Epistemology, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Bachelor's Thesis, Size: 288 K, Date: 1999-5-1

    The Ontology of Causality in Aristotle
    Author: Bryan Register, Subject: Metaphysics, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Course Essay, Size: 29 K, Date: 1999-5-1

    What is a Language Game?
    Author: Bryan Register, Subject: Epistemology, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 11 K, Date: 1998-8-1

    Complementarity: Content, Context and Critique
    Author: Bryan Register, Subject: Philosophy of Science, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 71 K, Date: 1997-12-1

    What Does Searle Say About Performatives?
    Author: Bryan Register, Subject: Epistemology, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 8 K, Date: 1997-12-1

    Discourse on Metaphysics
    Author: Bryan Register, Subject: Metaphysics, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 7 K, Date: 1997-5-1

    Lenin v Freud on War and Aggression
    Author: Bryan Register, Subject: Politics, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 16 K, Date: 1997-5-1

    The Moral Worth of Happiness
    Author: Diana Mertz Hsieh, Subject: Ethics, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 8 K, Date: 1997-4-22

    The Bias of Impartialism
    Author: Diana Mertz Hsieh, Subject: Ethics, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 9 K, Date: 1997-4-04

    Barthes and Beauvoir on Stasis and History
    Author: Bryan Register, Subject: Philosophy of History, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 17 K, Date: 1997-4-1

    Kafka v Zamyatin on Oppression and Tyranny
    Author: Bryan Register, Subject: Politics, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 16 K, Date: 1997-4-1

    Between Instinct and Habit: The Role of Dispositions in Moral Decision-Making
    Author: Diana Mertz Hsieh, Subject: Ethics, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 114 K, Date: 1997-3-10

    Virtue as the Mean
    Author: Diana Mertz Hsieh, Subject: Ethics, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 7 K, Date: 1997-2-21

    Instinct and Habit: Connections between Nietzschean and Aristotelian Acquired Dispositions
    Author: Diana Mertz Hsieh, Subject: Ethics, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 16 K, Date: 1996-12-16

    The Analytic-Synthetic Distinction: A Critique And An Alternative Hypothesis
    Author: Diana Mertz Hsieh, Subject: Epistemology, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 22 K, Date: 1996-5-9

    Putting the Sex Back into Gender: A Tentative Theory Of Femininity And Sexuality
    Author: Diana Mertz Hsieh, Subject: Feminism, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 21 K, Date: 1996-5-6

    Representationalism and Perceptual Error
    Author: Diana Mertz Hsieh, Subject: Epistemology, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 41 K, Date: 1995-5-12

    Can Kant's Ethics Survive His Metaphysics?
    Author: Diana Mertz Hsieh, Subject: Metaphysics, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 16 K, Date: 1995-5-05

    Aristotle on Responsibility
    Author: Diana Mertz Hsieh, Subject: Ethics, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 19 K, Date: 1995-5-1

    The Problem of Self-Referentiality in Marx's Historical Materialism
    Author: Diana Mertz Hsieh, Subject: Philosophy of History, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 9 K, Date: 1995-4-5

    Kant's Copernican Turn
    Author: Diana Mertz Hsieh, Subject: Metaphysics, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 9 K, Date: 1995-2-8

    Affirmative Action and Sexual Favors
    Author: Diana Mertz Hsieh, Subject: Politics, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 5 K, Date: 1994-12-16

    The Danger of Animal Rights
    Author: Diana Mertz Hsieh, Subject: Politics, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 12 K, Date: 1994-12-6

    Is Altruism Benevolent?
    Author: Diana Mertz Hsieh, Subject: Ethics, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 9 K, Date: 1994-12-5

    The Roots of Dictatorship and Freedom
    Author: Diana Mertz Hsieh, Subject: Politics, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 10 K, Date: 1994-12-4

    Undermining Ethics through Duty
    Author: Diana Mertz Hsieh, Subject: Ethics, Type: Academic, Undergraduate, Size: 12 K, Date: 1994-11-11

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