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Moral Disagreement and Moral Genealogy : Two Sources of Empirically-Based Epistemological Challenges to Robust Realism

Creator:: Pho, Alexander
Abstract:: I defend robust realism from arguments that raise epistemological challenges to it based on considerations about either moral disagreement or the genealogy of our moral beliefs. The first argument is the “Argument from Conciliationism,” which contends that the moral disagreements that obtain between moral peers give us reason to believe...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: _____________________________________________________________________ Jonathan M. Kaplan, Committee Member, representing the School of History, Philosophy, and

Exploring urban parks: plant communities, visitor experiences, and manager perspectives in Portland, Oregon

Creator:: Talal, Michelle L.
Abstract:: Urban parks are biodiversity hotspots within cities and have the potential to provide a range of socio-cultural benefits for people, but may not always meet the needs and desires of park visitors. A variety of land use practices and environmental factors affect urban park biodiversity and vegetation structure, composition, and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , committee members (Dr. Mary Santelmann [advisor], Dr. Jonathan Kaplan, Dr. Robert Kennedy, Dr. Vivek

Out-migration, income and poverty in nonmetropolitan America

Creator:: Marre, Alexander
Abstract:: Why do rural households leave for urban places? And how does this decision affect their economic well-being? Rural places in the United States have higher poverty and unemployment rates and lower levels of educational attainment relative to urban places. Does leaving a rural place for a city offer a pathway...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
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COVID-19 and the mental health of college students : an oral history project

Creator:: Burt, Sydni M.
Abstract:: College students today have a lot to contend with in their journey as young adults. The college years are often a transitional time for students, and as such there is a vulnerability to mental health declines. Financial, academic, and social strain are some of the factors that can contribute to...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: _____________________________________________________________________ Jonathan Kaplan, Committee Member, representing School of History, Philosophy, and Religion

Moral Truth and Hume's Fork: The Prospects of Reconciliation

Creator:: Embleton, Clark A.
Abstract:: Hume’s division of truth into agreement with matters of fact or relations of ideas casts doubt on our capacity to have moral knowledge, as moral propositions do not seem to fall obviously into either category. This thesis looks at how two views, ‘descriptive moral functionalism’ and ‘moral concept essentialism’, try...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: _____________________________________________________________________ Jonathan Kaplan, Committee Member, representing the School of History, Philosophy, and

The cage has two sides : an ethical perspective of prison abolition

Creator:: Lenn, Christopher
Abstract:: Current calls for prison abolition have been met with major public resistance. It is time for movements for prison abolition to engage with these questions: How have contemporary people of the United States come to accept mass incarceration and the prison industrial complex, and, what is the impact? Using an...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: facing; Dr. Jonathan Kaplan for his sharp insight on almost any topic I’ve questioned, feedback on my

Energy recovery from biodiesel waste : performance of microbial electrochemical systems on glycerol

Creator:: Chignell, Jeremy
Abstract:: Pure glycerol and the crude waste glycerin byproduct of biodiesel production were tested as substrates for electricity production in single-chamber, air-cathode microbial fuel cells (MFCs) and in single-chamber microbial electrolysis cells (MECs), using pure and mixed microbial cultures as anode biocatalyst. Current densities of 0.40 A/m² and 0.13 A/m² were...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of 0.40 A/m 2 and 0.13 A/m 2 were generated on 50 mM glycerol in air- cathode MFCs by pure

Toward a more ethical engineering : four habits of highly ethical engineering practice

Creator:: Sugie, Masayuki Luke
Abstract:: In this thesis, I conduct an analysis of paradigmatic background assumptions deployed in engineering decision-making processes, in order to understand how these assumptions, operating tacitly and in tension with each other, contribute to decisions that are ethically less effective and less substantial than they would otherwise be. I do so...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: production of this thesis, as well as Jonathan Kaplan, Rebecca Warner and Michelle Bothwell for their

Family dental care : perspectives from women recovering from methamphetamine addiction

Creator:: Hanks, Melissa A.
Abstract:: This research focuses on the economic and social impacts to women’s and children’s dental health after methamphetamine abuse. Family oral health status, access to professional services, health literacy and home hygienic practices are evaluated in the frameworks of critical medical anthropology, applied anthropological praxis and matrix and bio-psycho-social addiction models...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The Impact of Malolactic Fermentation Conducted by Oenococcus oeni on Brettanomyces bruxellensis Growth and Volatile Phenol Production

Creator:: Lauderdale, Adam D.
Abstract:: Wine is particularly vulnerable to infection by Brettanomyces bruxellensis during or shortly after malolactic fermentation (MLF). While different methods and techniques enable winemakers to prevent wine spoilage due to this organism, no single intervention is universally sufficient. Moreover application of sulfur dioxide, the most commonly used of these methods, is...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Moral Disagreement and Moral Genealogy : Two Sources of Empirically-Based Epistemological Challenges to Robust Realism

Exploring urban parks: plant communities, visitor experiences, and manager perspectives in Portland, Oregon

Out-migration, income and poverty in nonmetropolitan America

COVID-19 and the mental health of college students : an oral history project

Moral Truth and Hume's Fork: The Prospects of Reconciliation

The cage has two sides : an ethical perspective of prison abolition

Energy recovery from biodiesel waste : performance of microbial electrochemical systems on glycerol

Toward a more ethical engineering : four habits of highly ethical engineering practice

Family dental care : perspectives from women recovering from methamphetamine addiction

The Impact of Malolactic Fermentation Conducted by Oenococcus oeni on Brettanomyces bruxellensis Growth and Volatile Phenol Production

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