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In Defense of What Good Sex Can Be: Reimagining the New Natural Law Theory’s Stance on Homosexuality

El Darazi, Ahmad (2023-11-07)

Homosexual sex is considered to be a morally unacceptable form of sexual conduct based on a lot of flawed arguments, such as the Against -Nature Argument, the Harm Argument, and the Universalization Argument with its ...
The Interplay Between Ingroup Bias and the Attributions of Moral Responsibility

Cherry, Mohamad (5/9/2023)

In this paper, I will begin Chapter 1 by introducing P. F. Strawson’s descriptive account of Moral Responsibility and attribution from his essay, “Freedom and Resentment,” where he presents a new compatibilist version to ...
Liberalism, Rationality and the Subsidiarity Principle: A Vindication of the Rule-and-exemption Approach for Solving Clashes in Multicultural Societies

Suarez, Alejandro (9/23/2020)

The fact that individuals in liberal and multicultural societies pursue their own goods as dictated by their own values inevitably gives rise to conflicts. This paper focuses on clashes that take place between the state ...
Moral folk intuitions : psychological foundations and normative implications

Sadek, Fatima Hussein (2019)

It seems that in the last few decades, rationalist models started giving way to emotive-intuitionist models of moral judgment. This came about due to the role of the empirical sciences in providing evidence for the role ...
On the Necessity of the Causal Principle. A Critique of Hume's Analysis of Causation from the Perspective of the Conceivability Principle.

Bazzy, Mohamed (1/12/2021)

In this thesis I will be discussing Hume’s critique of the causal principle. I will explain his strategy in basing the argument on the conceivability principle. I will thoroughly elucidate the principle and provide its ...
Personhood and Artificial Intelligence: A Non-Binary Approach

El Masri, Rayane (2024-01-29)

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI), especially personal assistants and social robots, has prompted renewed interest in whether machines can be considered persons. However, this question remains highly contested, with ...
Star Stuff and Forms: Hylomorphism and Mereology

Eldanaf, Ziad (2021-05-07)

Hylomorphism, regardless of its historical associations, is the doctrine that form and matter are both ontologically fundamental constituents of objects in this world. It has been a viable ontological project in the last ...
The myth of the economic hypothesis : an examination of Wittgenstein’s critique of psychoanalysis

Khelifi, Raed T. (2019)

This work examines the complex relation between psychoanalysis and science in light of Freud’s insistence that he is engaging in natural science. This thesis argues that psychoanalysis is not a natural science, and attempts, ...
Toward a Transcendent Political Philosophy: A Philosophical Study of Rūḥullāh al-Khumaynī’s Theory of Wilāyat al-Faqīh

Ibrahim, Hussein Ibrahim (2/15/2021)

This thesis critically explores Rūḥullāh al-Khumaynī’s (1902–1989) theory of Wilāyat al-Faqīh (guardianship of the jurist), tracing its philosophical sources, and bringing to light its conceptual structure and implications. ...
Wittgenstein’s Philosophy as Method: A Grammatical Inquiry into Cartesian Dualism

Arslanian, Nerses Armen (9/6/2021)

Wittgenstein once claimed to have solved all philosophical problems after the publications of the Tractatus. When he revised and developed his philosophy in the Investigations, he made similar remarks that philosophical ...

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