Philosophy
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Critiquing Wittgenstein?s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: A Call for Lenses Beyond the Logical Structure
(2006-01-01)In Ludwig Wittgenstein?s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Wittgenstein claims that regardless of the mode of projection, two different modes of communication, such as a picture of a cat in a hole, and the sentence, ?The cat ... -
Conceptualizing Reality: The Philosophical Implications of Relative-State Quantum Mechanics and Shankara?s Advaita Vedanta
(2005-01-01)Reality, and the pursuit of understanding it, is a fundamental core shared by both scientific inquiry and religious and spiritual belief. In the science of quantum mechanical theory, there has been a radical shift in the ... -
Live as if Someone is Always Watching You: Integrating Policy and Technology in the New World of Electronic Surveillance
(2007-01-01)The development and deployment of electronic surveillance technology in the post-9/11 world poses a political challenge to balance the imperative of security with the Constitutional mandate of government to protect civil ... -
What's the Word? or Marriage Equality in a Constitutional Democracy
(2010-01-01)This paper analyzes the complex issue of defining marriage through the lens of legal philosophy. Equal protection analysis and due process analysis are central tenets of marriage jurisprudence. The reluctance of the federal ... -
The Impact of California's Medical Marijuana Law on Criminal Offenses: A Study of Los Angeles
(2009-01-01)California?s medical marijuana policy has been the subject of much debate and confrontation between federal, state, and local government. The very existence of state sanctioned medical marijuana defies the Controlled ... -
The Philosophical Functionality of the Tattoo
(2004-01-01)My research explores the philosophical questions that the concept of permanent tattooing gives rise to. It is my position that a tattoo can be art work, but that not all tattoos are indeed works of art. In my final paper ... -
The Ethics of Torture
(2008-01-01)Torture is used by government's across the world in order to extract information from unwilling victims.In America's war on terror, which is fought on multiple fronts against a disperse network of terrorist cells, soldiers ... -
Vision of Utopia: The Anahata Intentional Community
(2004-01-01)The goal of my project was to study the philosophical ideals and aims developed by the Anahata Intentional Community in Auckland, New Zealand. It was a philosophical project with photo documentation because I looked at two ...
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