This dissertation is a detailed study of ethics in the second-century BCE text Huainanzi, and its implications for our understanding of classical Daoist ethics in …
Interpreters of Thomas Hobbes take two distinctive approaches to his views on religion, either rendering God foundational to his vision or giving primacy to human …
This work seeks to explain the recurrent doubt and misunderstanding of, and hostility towards, naturalistic, Darwinian evolutionary accounts of the origins and development of living …
In this dissertation, I argue that in climate literature and the popular imagination common affects—in tandem with an under-interrogated acceptance of what I call the …
This dissertation takes up the question, who is Halakhic Woman? Joseph Soloveitchik’s elegant and influential work Halakhic Man describes what it is like to be …
This dissertation proposes a new blueprint for an ethically informed reading of literary texts. It takes up four novels that highlight outsider or maligned protagonists …
This dissertation is an interdisciplinary work that integrates material from the humanities and social sciences in service of a more sophisticated theory of the relationship …
This dissertation is an analysis and critique of the use of the concept of religious capital in the explanation of religious beliefs and practices. The …
This dissertation investigates the promise and peril of the concept of vulnerability in contemporary ethical and political thought. Many strands of modern Western thought castigate …