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  • A Practical, Ethical Critique of Hydraulic Fracturing and the Shale Gas Extraction Process

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    Bullock, Claude George, III
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    This thesis analyzes the emerging technology of hydraulic fracturing and shale gas extraction process through a pluralistic philosophical approach. Rather than defending traditional values in nature, such as intrinsic value, I defend a metaphilosophical pragmatism centered on policy implications. I argue that different philosophical positions will, most of the time,...
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    Thompson This thesis analyzes the emerging technology of hydraulic fracturing and shale gas extraction

  • Ethics and Human Biomedical Enhancement : A Case for Compatibilism

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    White, Benjamin A.
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    This thesis explores some of the ethical issues pertaining to the use of so-called radical enhancement technology. Key concepts analyzed include “normal function”, “human being”, and “personhood.” I argue that the use of these key concepts in the debate thus far has lacked philosophical rigor, and that a reexamination of...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Allen Thompson This thesis explores some of the ethical issues pertaining to the use

  • The expansion of Catholicism : an exploration of St. Joseph's College, the first Catholic boarding school for boys within the Oregon territory

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    Hill, Cayla L.
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    St. Joseph's College was located within St. Paul, Oregon, the first Roman Catholic mission in the Pacific Northwest. The St. Paul mission was finally established in 1839 by Father Francois Blanchet, four years after the French-Canadian settlers in the area, appropriately known as French Prairie, had requested the presence of...
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    . Joseph’s College was located within St. Paul, Oregon, the first Roman Catholic mission in the Pacific

  • The problems [of Paul Ricoeur's symbols] of evil

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    Ritenour, Karen E.
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    In the early part of his philosophical career, Paul Ricoeur worked out a general theory of symbols which he illustrated with the symbols of evil. He subsequently explained this theory in several essays (his final major statement on symbols can be found in Interpretation Theory: Discourse and the Surplus of...
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    of Master of Arts in English presented on November 16, 2001. Title: The Problems lof Paul Ricoeur's

  • A training program with young cleft palate and brain injured children

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    Borland, Lois
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    . It 18 a teacher-oriented study and not a re3earch paper. The conclusions drawn have been based n a

  • Conjuring September 11, 2001 : Midwest Narratives in the Time of Death

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    Josten, Jonathon M.
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    Over the past fourteen years since the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, Americans of varied political persuasions have continually identified the day as a defining moment in the history of the nation, which caused a rupture in the cultural rhythm and psyche. This sensibility is...
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    citizens run through many emotions; clergy open arms to help people deal with tragedy; ISU professor: B-N

  • Empathy, Person and Community: the Foundation of the Sciences in the Phenomenology of Edith Stein

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    Lovestone, Lauren R.
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    During the first decades of the twentieth century different attempts were made to unify the diversifying and specializing sciences. One of these attempts manifested as the History of Science. Established in 1913 with the academic journal Isis, its first article written by George Sarton clarified that the field was created...
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    : ________________________________________________________________ Paul E. Kopperman During the first decades of the twentieth century different attempts were

  • William Ernest Castle, American geneticist : a case-study in the impact of the Mendelian research program

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    Taylor, H. Terry
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    In their modern context questions of heredity have come to be closely aligned with theories of evolution because all such theories require the presence of heritable variation. Thus the need for an understanding of a source of variation and a mechanism for its inheritance became very apparent with the general...
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    . Finally, it is a privilege to acknowledge Dr. Paul Farber, my major advisor. His role has been of a very

  • A second look at Alexander Pope and Newtonian science

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    Reid, Tim S.
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    "This Long Disease, My Life": Alexander Pope and the Sciences by Marjorie Nicolson and G.S. Rousseau has been the standard work on Alexander Pope and Newtonian science ever since it was published in 1968. Literary scholars and biographers continue to be swayed by its influence. Unfortunately, the work they so...
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    Newtonian Science. Abstract approved: Paul Kopperman "This Long Disease, My Life": Alexander Pope and the

  • The light within us : Quaker women in science

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    McCabe, Leslie N.
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    This thesis explores the role of Quaker women in science in an attempt to arrive at some understanding of what motivated Quaker women in nineteenth century America to go into the sciences. George Fox founded the Society of Friends in the mid-seventeenth century in England and the Quaker theology centered...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Leslie N. McCabe for the degree of