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PHILOSOPHY ESSAY ARCHIVE
During the the time that the ground-breaking Pathways to Philosophy distance learning program has been running, students from around the world have produced many fine examples of philosophical writing.
Reproduced here are essay portfolios which have received the Associate Award, as well as dissertations successfully submitted for the Fellowship Award.
For shorter essays by students taking the six Pathways to Philosophy programs, follow the links at Pathways to Philosophy: the six programs.
All work is copyright of the original authors. No material may be transmitted or reproduced without permission. For further information, e-mail klempner@fastmail.net.
Geoffrey Klempner
Director of Studies
Associate Award
Fellowship Award
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Mary Jennings: Associate Award
Essay One Doubt, certainty and knowledge in Descartes and Merleau-Ponty
Essay Two Justice and the Other in Levinas Totality and Infinity
Essay Three Heidegger's Dasein and Cartesian scepticism
Essay Four Heidegger's notion of Befindlichkeit in Being and Time
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Andrew Watson: Associate Award
Essay One Plato's view of the fine arts in the Republic
Essay Two Plato's theory of divine inspiration (mania)
Essay Three A Comparison of Plotinus' philosophy of art and beauty with that of Plato
Essay Four Mimesis in Aristotle and Pollock
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Kenneth Head: Associate Award
Essay One Does Life Have a Meaning?
Essay Two The Status of Religious Language
Essay Three Moral Complexity in the Making and Keeping of Promises
Essay Four Personal Autonomy and Individual Moral Growth
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Stuart Hopkins: Associate Award
Essay One Justice and Morality in Plato's Republic
Essay Two Kant and the 'Morality of Anger'
Essay Three Hobbes and Absolute Sovereignty
Essay Four Locke's Theory of Resistance
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Tony Bellotti: Associate Award
Essay One Descartes' Method of Doubt
Essay Two Problems that arise from the incompatibility of Subjective and Objective knowledge
Essay Three Does Kant's theory of knowledge lead to solipsism?
Essay Four Schopenhauer's Criticism of Kant's Analysis of Object
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Oliver Leech: Associate Award
Essay One The Mind-Body Problem
Essay Two Responses to the Doctrine of Mind-Body Identity
Essay Three A Response to Functionalism
Essay Four The Free Will-Determinism Problem in Greek Philosophy: Aristotle
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Alan Bradnam: Associate Award
Essay One The Ultimate Nature of Matter
Essay Two Egocentric Subjectivism
Essay Three Truth and the Majority View
Essay Four The Moral Difference between Animals and Humans
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Shirley Hughes: Associate Award
Essay One Why Does Being A Philosopher Help In Philosophical Practice?
Essay Two Proving A Moral Principle
Essay Three Rules and Exceptions
Essay Four Can Ethical Terms Be Defined?
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Terence Kuch: Associate Award
Essay One The Peachum Dilemma: Are Emotions Ethically Significant?
Essay Two Moral Education and Emotional Lying
Essay Three Kierkegaard: "Love Thy Neighbour as Thyself" as a Basis for Ethics
Essay Four Schopenhauer: "The World as Will" as a Theology
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Fr. Seamus Mulholland: Associate Award
Essay One The Beginnings of Greek Philosophy
Essay Two The Critical Philosophy of Immanuel Kant
Essay Three The Metaphysics of Duns Scotus
Essay Four The Contribution of Plato to Political Philosophy and the Search for the Common Good in Hobbes, De Tocqueville and Marx
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John Eberts: Associate Award
Essay One Existential Human Existence
Essay Two Michel de Montainge: Introspection
Essay Three Immanuel Kant: Eighteenth Century Thought
Essay Four The Concept of Evil
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Gordon Kennedy: Associate Award
Essay One The Significance of Philosophical Scepticism
Essay Two Berkeley's Idealism
Essay Three Personal Identity and Psychological Reductionism
Essay Four Temporal Becoming and the A- and B- Theories of Time
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Justin Woods: Associate Award
Essay One Russell's Theory of Descriptions in 'On Denoting'
Essay Two Wittgenstein's Dilemma
Essay Three A.J. Ayer and the Verification Farcical
Essay Four Naïve Symbolism and the Metaphysics of Meaning
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Neil Munro: Associate Award
Essay One Objectivity in History
Essay Two Causation in History
Essay Three The Value of History
Essay Four Counterfactualism in History
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John Dudley: Associate Award
Essay One It's All in the Mind
Essay Two Words and Meaning
Essay Three Saying and Meaning
Essay Four Citizenship, Liberalism and the National Curriculum
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Samuel Thorpe: Associate Award
Essay One The Case Against Science
Essay One The Foundation of Morality: Is Morality Subjective or Objective?
Essay One Xenophanes' Concept of God
Essay One The Nature of Faith
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Jürgen Lawrenz: Associate Award
Essay One Arche and Apeiron in Early Presocratic Philosophy
Essay Two Kant's Metaphysics: End of the Road or Unfulfilled Future?
Essay Three Music, Truth, Profundity
Essay Four Fichte and Individuality
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Tony Fahey: Fellowship Award
Dissertation Giambattista Vico on Language and Education (PDF format)
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Martin Jenkins: Fellowship Award
Dissertation Aristocratic Radicalism or Anarchy? An Examination of Nietzsche's Doctrine of Will to Power (PDF format)
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Peter Jones: Fellowship Award
Dissertation From Metaphysics to Mysticism: Exploring the Case for a Neutral Metaphysical Position (PDF format)
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George Brooks: Fellowship Award
Dissertation Otto Bird's Dialectic Idea of Justice and Modern German Positive Law Theory (PDF format)
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Samuel Michaelides: Fellowship Award
Dissertation Mary and the Philosophical Goose Chase: Physicalism and the Knowledge Argument (PDF format)
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Mike Finch: Fellowship Award
Dissertation A Metaphysics of Distinction, Performance and Practice (PDF format)
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Rachel Browne: Fellowship Award
Dissertation Ethical Relations (PDF format)
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Jürgen Lawrenz: Fellowship Award
Dissertation Sources of Metaphysical Thinking in Presocratic Philosophy (PDF format)
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