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Title: A Framework for the Design and Analysis of Socially Pervasive Games
Author: Powell, Eve
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Philosophy
Description: Pervasive games have the potential to create large social impacts on players and non-players alike. However, this can only happen when the game becomes integrated and accepted within a social community - or in other words, is socially adopted in i...

Title: A Thick Cloud of Forgetting: The Functions of Unknowing in the Cloud of Unknowing
Author: Staton, Jonathan
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Religion, Literature, Medieval, Philosophy
Description: The exercise of mystical unknowing is central to the contemplative process prescribed in The Cloud of Unknowing. This thesis argues three distinct but interrelated claims about how unknowing works and what unknowing does in The Cloud of Unknowing....

Title: AN ARGUMENT FOR THE USE OF COMPUTER SIMULATED MODELS IN PHILOSOPHY
Author: Rines, Jason
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Philosophy, Science--Philosophy
Description: This thesis will attempt to show how computer simulated models can act as a tool for philosophers. To accomplish this goal, this thesis will be broken down into six sections. The first three sections will go into more detail regarding the nature o...

Title: American pragmatism, evolution, and ethics
Author: Pearce, Trevor
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Evolution, Philosophy
Description: This chapter provides an overview of pragmatist evolutionary ethics—specifically that of John Dewey and Jane Addams—and its intellectual context. To make things manageable, I will focus on pragmatist texts from 1890 to 1910, a period that includes...

Title: Andrea Pitts oral history interview, 2021, November 17
Creator: Pitts, Andrea J.
Date Created: 2021-11-17
Subjects--Topical: Philosophy, Philosophy, Mexican, College teachers, LGBTQ+ employment
Description: Dr. Andrea Pitts, Associate Professor of Philosophy at UNC Charlotte, discusses their personal background and how that has affected the way they think about the world and the current problems facing Latinx students at the University. On their moth...

Title: Black Bodies That Matter: Corporeality in the Movement for Black Lives
Author: Williams, Ashley
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Philosophy, Dance
Description: The purpose of this research project is to merge discourses concerning performance studies, dance theory, and the use of bodies in the Movement for Black Lives. Protest descriptions may include demographic information of participants, but they alm...

Title: Creating a Market for Salvation: Neoliberalism and Pastoral Power
Author: Eyrich, Timothy
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Philosophy
Description: This thesis examines the megachurch phenomenon in the United States since the 1950s as a way of explaining the transformation of pastorship in Christianity with the onset of American neoliberalism. This examination relies on Michel Foucault’s anal...

Title: Habermas, The Religious Side of a Postmetaphysical Thinker
Author: Molina, Luciano
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Political science, Religion, Philosophy
Description: The goal of this paper is to show Jürgen Habermas’s recent work on religion as a well-intended effort to deal with religious conflicts in the world that yet presents two serious and related flaws: on one hand, Habermas claims his ideas on religion...

Title: I, October 6, 1952 to June 24, 1953
Creator: Bernstein, Mark R., 1930-2015
Author: Bernstein, Mark R., 1930-2015
Date Created: 1952-10-06, 1955-03-31
Subjects--Topical: Diaries, Military education, Politics and government, World politics, Anti-communist movements, Communism, Race relations, History, Philosophy, Philosophy and religion, Judaism

Title: II, March 27, 1954 to November 4, 1957
Creator: Bernstein, Mark R., 1930-2015
Author: Bernstein, Mark R., 1930-2015
Date Created: 1954-03-27, 1957-11-04
Subjects--Topical: Diaries, Politics and government, World politics, Democracy, Anti-communist movements, Communism, Autonomy and independence movements, Race relations, History, Philosophy, Philosophy and religion

Title: III, November 7, 1957 to September 14, 1960
Creator: Bernstein, Mark R., 1930-2015
Author: Bernstein, Mark R., 1930-2015
Date Created: 1957-11-07, 1960-09-14
Subjects--Topical: Diaries, Democracy, History, Judaism, Philosophy, Philosophy and religion, Politics and government, Race relations, World politics

Title: IV, September 15, 1960 to July 3, 1962
Creator: Bernstein, Mark R., 1930-2015
Author: Bernstein, Mark R., 1930-2015
Date Created: 1960-09-15, 1962-07-03
Subjects--Topical: Diaries, Art and philosophy, History, Judaism, Law--Philosophy, Philosophy, Philosophy and religion, Politics and government, Religion, World politics

Title: IX, May 26, 1969 to March 5, 1972
Creator: Bernstein, Mark R., 1930-2015
Author: Bernstein, Mark R., 1930-2015
Date Created: 1969-05-26, 1972-03-05
Subjects--Topical: Diaries, Art and philosophy, Civil rights, Democracy, History, Philosophy, Philosophy and religion, Politics and government, Religion, Revolutions, Spirituality, World politics

Title: Naturalism and despair : George Herbert Mead and evolution in the 1880s
Author: Pearce, Trevor
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Evolution, Philosophy
Description: This chapter examines Mead’s encounter with evolution in the 1880s, demonstrating that evolutionary ideas could have a devastating effect if they were interpreted as threatening life’s meaning. I argue that Mead could not fully embrace the evoluti...

Title: SOARING WITH DRAGONS: FINDING PLAY AND INTIMACY IN CHILDREN'S AND YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
Author: Williams, Joshua
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Literature, Philosophy, Philosophy and religion
Description: This thesis examines the way children’s and young adult literature deals with play and intimacy. Using Georges Bataille’s conception of intimacy, this thesis posits that intimacy, deriving from play, allows for a deeper understanding of self and a...

Title: V, July 7, 1962 to January 6, 1964
Creator: Bernstein, Mark R., 1930-2015
Author: Bernstein, Mark R., 1930-2015
Date Created: 1962-07-07, 1964-01-06
Subjects--Topical: Diaries, History, Judaism, Law--Philosophy, Philosophy, Philosophy and religion, Politics and government, Presidents--Assassination, Religion, World politics

Title: VI, January 16, 1964 to March 8, 1965
Creator: Bernstein, Mark R., 1930-2015
Author: Bernstein, Mark R., 1930-2015
Date Created: 1964-01-16, 1965-03-08
Subjects--Topical: Diaries, History, Philosophy, Philosophy and religion, Politics and government, Race relations, Racism, Religion, World politics

Title: VII, March 28, 1965 to January 7, 1967
Creator: Bernstein, Mark R., 1930-2015
Author: Bernstein, Mark R., 1930-2015
Date Created: 1965-03-28, 1967-01-07
Subjects--Topical: Diaries, Civil rights, History, Judaism, Philosophy, Philosophy and religion, Politics and government, Race relations, Religion, World politics

Title: VIII, January 12, 1967 to May 25, 1969
Creator: Bernstein, Mark R., 1930-2015
Author: Bernstein, Mark R., 1930-2015
Date Created: 1967-01-12, 1969-05-25
Subjects--Topical: Diaries, Art and philosophy, Assassination, Civil rights, Criticism, History, Judaism, Philosophy, Philosophy and religion, Politics and government, Race relations, Spirituality

Title: X, March 17, 1972 to August 27, 1976
Creator: Bernstein, Mark R., 1930-2015
Author: Bernstein, Mark R., 1930-2015
Date Created: 1972-03-17, 1976-08-27
Subjects--Topical: Diaries, Democracy, History, Philosophy, Philosophy and religion, Politics and government, Political corruption, Spirituality, World politics