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  • Learning to Care : Applied Ethics for Improving Farmed Animal Welfare

    Creator:
    Zarajczyk, Katie MaryRuth
    Abstract:
    This thesis seeks to explore how an ecofeminist lens is currently the most useful approach for improving farmed animal welfare. Through examining Western conceptions of non-human animals, I seek to shed light upon the inconsistent treatment of domestic species. Species that are dependent upon us deserve, at a minimum, not...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • A Philosophical Analysis of Ethical Considerations in Cuban Tourism

    Creator:
    Finlay, Samantha R.
    Abstract:
    Tourism is one of the largest industries in the world, and causes many cultural, environmental, and economic problems. In this thesis, I explore ethics in the field of tourism studies, and identify three ethical models used to discuss ethics in tourism, which are: business ethics, alternative tourism, and philosophical ethics....
    Resource Type:
    Honors College Thesis
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    _____________________________________________________________________ Barbara Muraca, Committee Member, representing Philosophy

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

    Creator:
    Lovestone, Lauren R.
    Abstract:
    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...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    . Thank you for fighting for my voice so that I could fight for myself. • Thank you to Dr. Barbara

  • Exploring Embodied Gender Identities in Steven Universe

    Creator:
    Painter, Stephanie
    Abstract:
    Steven Universe, a relatively new show from Cartoon Network, explores an unexpectedly complex understanding of gender through their main protagonists. Utilizing Judith Butler’s work on gender performativity and doing gender, as well as Daniel Dennett’s conception of the self as a theorist’s fiction, and Alexander Weheliye’s understanding of power and...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    also like to thank Dr. Barbara Muraca as well as my minor advisor, Dr. Elizabeth Sheehan, for your

  • Torn : A Cluster Analysis

    Creator:
    Mulatero Ferrando, Oriana
    Abstract:
    Pornography remains one of the most controversial topics in our culture. Politicians, religious groups, and special interest organizations tend to focus on the ‘effects’ pornography has on those who consume it, and fear that pornography is a threat to public health. The general discourse surrounding pornography is that men produce...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • Environmental Virtue Ethics in Buddhism

    Creator:
    Peng, Chih-Wei
    Abstract:
    In this thesis, in order to understand why Buddhists in Southeast Asia protect rainforests and to establish a solid foundation for Buddhist environmental ethic, my first two tasks are to draw a clear picture regarding two major environmental concepts--nature and anthropocentrism--in Buddhism and to defend the claims that the Buddhist...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis