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An analysis of the State
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
What the state is remains far from clear in political philosophy. However, the state is also a key concept at work in many discussions in political philosophy. For example, there is a debate about anarchism, the question of whether or not the state...
Gatekeeping and international datelines in the American newspaper : the decision process
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
decisions made? Why do they make the choices they make? And how are these gatekeepers determining the needs of the American public? The gatekeeping process in choosing international stories at three Ohio - The Columbus Dispatch, The Cincinnati Enquirer...
Rethinking the evolution of human intelligence
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Humans have very large, complex brains for their size. Why are humans so intelligent and why did we become intelligent so quickly? My dissertation ...
Van Fraassen and a defense of inference to the best explanation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
Inference to the best explanation (IBE) is an inductive argument type that takes advantage of the fact that explanatory considerations serve as an epistemic guide to believing what is the case. Bas van Fraassen has presented ...
Justifying war : an account of just and merely justifying causes for war
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] My project is to offer a new answer to the traditional question: What can justify the resort to war? I defend substantive accounts of the Just Cause ...
The Harold : a revolutionary form that changed improvisational theatre & American comedy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
become one of the most important and influential forms of performance. The comic philosophy of the Harold has ushered in an era of comedy marked by support, trust, and collaborative creativity. Despite its vast influence on contemporary performance...
The real world : frames of authenticity in features articles of leisure travel magazines
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Some scholars suggest that contemporary interest in tourism and foreign travel is partially the result of a modern "authenticity crisis." In other words, a disruption of the relationship between individuals and their sense ...
A search for the behavioral roots of consociationalism : the case of Kenya
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Contemporary approaches have increasingly focused on the structural elements of consociational theory thereby revealing a neglect of crucial behavioral ...
Multi-attribute decision making: a test on the impact of data attributes dependency
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] In Multi-Attribute Decision Making (MADM) problems, several methods have been developed to aid the decision maker. MADM procedures can be applied to a ...
Bounded rationality in games of strategy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Traditional game theory predicts behavior contrary to how real people actually behave. And what traditional game theory prescribes as the rational ...
Choice, ownership and responsibility
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
My dissertation is to answer these two questions: "Does moral responsibility require choice?" and "If not, what does it require?" Classic accounts of moral responsibility, such as libertarian accounts, assume a volition ...
Optimality explanations : a new approach
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Despite its importance, philosophers have found it difficult to say precisely what constitutes a scientific explanation. One of the most prominent ...
Pleasure reading: Playboy's literary fiction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
of consumerism, and this study reveals that these stories relied on an enduring emphasis on individualism to connect to emerging social impulses in the postwar period. After an introduction of the magazine's history and the Playboy philosophy of consumerism...
The Chinese scholar's garden in France : Moulin Joli in Claude-Henri Watelet's Essai sur les jardins
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
published Essai sur les jardins in which he discusses his philosophy about gardens and describes Moulin Joli. Included is a chapter on "The Chinese Garden," a description of a Scholar's garden. However, the style of Moulin Joli was not created based...
A new defense of the knowledge norm of assertion
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Recent work in both the philosophy of language and epistemology has relied on the premise that there is a norm of assertion, that there are certain epistemic conditions that a...
Philosophical intuitions -- philosophical analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This work is a defense of philosophical intuitions and the use of them in philosophy. First, I survey the main forms of intuition-based philosophical methods - conceptual analysis, explication, and reflective equilibrium - and demonstrate how each...
Conducting a pedagogy : the influence of Maria Irene Fornes's teaching and the Padua Hills Playwright Workshop and Festival on three contemporary women playwrights
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
." Many of these exercises were honed in various workshops including the legendary Padua Hills Playwrights Workshop and Festival under the direction of playwright Murray Mednick, whose pedagogical philosophy closely matched that of Fornes. In an effort...
Revisiting fund-raising encroachment of public relations in light of the theory of donor relations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This qualitative study of public relations and fund-raising practitioners in charitable organizations found fund-raising encroachment of public relations occurring at a rate roughly comparable to levels documented in the first studies...
Social critiques in three prose plays by Maxwell Anderson : Saturday's children, Both your houses, and The star-wagon
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
to a distinctly American brand of philosophy from Jeffersonian agrarianism to American Transcendentalism to the frontierism of Frederick Jackson Turner. The plays offer a range of critiques, at times defending and at other times subverting the status...
South Korean parents' goals, knowledge, practices, and needs regarding music education for young children
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
about a program's philosophy or history. Findings related to family music practices indicated that the primary activities were singing, listening to music, playing instruments, and dancing/movement. In describing their needs, parents expressed the desire...