Senior Projects Approved in 2003-2004 (with name of supervisor)

David Shuler “Kant’s Theory of Freedom” Bowie
Maran Wolston “A Theory of Ethical Action and Decision Making” Tiberius
Karen Mountain “John Stuart Mill’s Utiliarianism and the Self” (Summa: Tiberius with Dahl
and Savelsberg)
Brian Lake “Violent Cinema: A Philosophical and Historical Enquiry” Eaton
Lyndon McDowell “Why I No Longer Go to Truth Meetings” Wallace
Samantha Pace “Cross-Cultural Medicine” Elliott
Carl Barron “Absolute versus Relative Space” Savage
Ryan Paquin “Assessing an Iraqi Threat: Testimony and the Limits of Public Knowledge”
Root
Soren Anderson “The Nietzschean Approach to Morality: Does Nietzsche Create a Morality
or Merely Destroy One?” Root
Sean Jones “Environmental Discovery Learning: A Thought Experiment in Education”
Wallace
Jon Poor “Substitution in Plato’s Euthyphro: An Analysis of the Central Argument” Peterson
Libby Schultz “Reflections on Plato’s Theaetetus” Peterson
Daniel Strand “Morality of Memory” Mason
Joshua Knudson “Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act” Hopkins
Megan Dunn “Remarks on Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations” Peterson
Seth Boodle “John Finnis, Natural Law and Natural Rights: the Quandary of the Basic Goods”
Bix
Bethany Suhreptz “Discovering Sartre’s Unethical: Jean Genet, Bad Faith, Lies, and Society”
Hopkins
Sari Eckhoff “Learning to Hope: An Analysis of What Is Necessary for Social Change”
Wallace
Michael Bjurlin “In Virtue of What? An Inquiry into Logical Consequence” Hanson
Anthony de Sam Lazaro “Democratic Education with Children” Wallace
Matt Ryan ‘Socialization and Mentality’ Owens
Thomas Young “Locke on Space and Time by the Numbers” Gunderson
Josh Mrazek "I Only Give You My Situation" Hanks
Nicholas Ryan "Crows, Kites, Ants, and Worms: A Story" Wallace
Matthew Holen "The Ethics of Performance Enhancing Technology" Longino
Justin Jennissen "How We Acquire Knowledge: Plato and Hume Compared" Lewis

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Senior Projects Approved in 2002-2003

Jeff Dreher “An Evaluation of the Gell-Mann/ Holland Complex Adaptive Systems
Theoretical Framework” Savage
Michael Burr “A Brief Introduction to the Social Contract Theory” Holtman
Aaron Cavaleri “Run, Albert, Run! A Critical Evaluation of Ian Hacking’s Mad
Travelers” Moffatt/ Peterson
Steven Happel “Is Knowledge a Social or an Individual Achievement?” Root
Travis Husby “On the Nature of Other Minds” Gunderson
Justin Murawski “Life as Art: the Importance of Asking Questions and Creating Answers”
Eaton
Lee Tuchfarber “Searle’s Chinese Room Experiment and Popular Responses” Gunderson
Aria Williams “The Intersection of Aesthetics and Ethics in Environmental Ethics” Eaton
Bryan Lake “Violent Cinema: A Philosophical and Historical Enquiry” Eaton
Natala Menezes “Hobbes” Holtman
Sean Jones “Environmental Discovery Learning: A Thought Experiment in Education”
Wallace
Justin Sytsma “The Triptych Self” Gunderson
Heather Brehm “The Use of the Placebo in Psychiatric Research” Elliot
Adam Colberg “The Information Age and the Environment: Theories that Threaten the
Natural World” Tiberius
Ryan Rangitsch “Buddhism: the Answers Are Not Mine to Give: They Are Yours to Take”
Wallace
David Midtvedt “Socrates’ Use of Induction in Plato’s Earliest Dialogues” (Summa)
Peterson, Dahl, Belfiore
Kevin Kautzman "An Interpretive Introduction to the Papyrus of Ani, which is the Egyptian
Book of the Dead or the Book of Going forth by Day" (for his other major in History) Von Dassow
Ryan Paquin “Assessing an Iraqi Threat: Testimony and the Limits of Public Knowledge”
Root
Soren Anderson “The Nietzschean Approach to Morality: Does Nietzsche Create a Morality
or Merely Destroy One?” Root
Joel Larimore “Mill, Kant, and the Good” Tiberius
Austen Morris “The Concept of Self: Its History and Philosophical Basis” Savage
Sam Sharma “Philosophical Concerns in Quantum Mechanics or How Many Ways Are
There to Skin a Dutch Cat?” Hellman
Jessica Bailey “Economic Sanctions and the Prospects for Perpetual Peace” Holtman
Stephen Birmingham “An Analysis of the Concepts of Justice, Judgment, and Responsibility
in Camus’ The Fall” Lewis
Mike Muggli “Kantian Ethics and Everyday Life” Tiberius
Completed Senior Projects, continued
David Shuler “Kant’s Theory of Freedom” Bowie
Karen Mountain “John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism and the Self” (Summa) Tiberius, Dahl,
Savelsberg

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Senior Projects Approved in 2001- 2002

Annie Baril “Altruism and Animals” (Summa) Michelle Mason
Jason Daza “The Use of Race in Biomedical Research” Root
Andrew Grahn “Martial Arts and the Good Life: Reality Speaks the Truth to Oneself”
Wallace
Gerd Groenewold “Plato on Dialectic and the Form of the Good” (Summa) Peterson
Nathaniel Kramer “Fact or Fiction: Martha Nussbaum and Poetic Justice” Holtman
Lorenzo Michelutti “A Comparison between David Hume and Immanuel Kant”
Tiberius
Rob Milbrandt “On Being Able to Be Free” Tiberius
Todd Millenacker “Modern Conscience: An In-Depth Study of Albert Camus’s The
Fall” Lewis
Jasleen Modi “Moral Nobility: Dignity and Sincerity in Hume and Kant” Tiberius
Thomas Nelson “Solutions to the Mind-Body Problem” Gunderson
Tracy Nelson “Kant’s Account of Just Punishment” Holtman
Tera Nyberg “Mill’s Subjection of Women” Holtman
Jeffrey Seltz “The Vision among the Lakota” Martinez/ Tiberius
Dustin Semo “Morals and Criticism: Mining Hume’s Aesthetics in Defense of His
Ethics” Michelle Mason
Thane “Personal Identity and Discontinuity” Scheman
Choua Thao “Schopenhauer’s ‘Will to Life’ Exemplified as Sexual Love” Bix

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