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Conversing with the Dynamic Nominalist: Hacking into the Social Sciences by Emelia Erickson

Ian Hacking posits that the looping effect is occurring within the social sciences and it is causing scientists to change their object of study as…

Moral Responsibility of the Psychopath by Anders Goodwin

Psychopathy is estimated to affect approximately 1% of the population of the United States (Neumann & Hare, 2008a), yet the harms stemming from…

The Difficulty in Being a Woman: Gender's Role in Complicating the Understanding of Autonomy by Alexandra Finken

Autonomy, as a concept, has typically been associated with the term "self-governance", but there has been many inconsistencies in a true definition…

What’s Mine is Mine, Because it’s Better if it’s Mine: A Defense of a Utilitarian Incentives-Based Account of Intellectual Property Rights by Jeffrey Grinde

Intellectual property (IP) rights have been codified into law ever since we have thought about intellectual property. What we want is a theory that…

David Hume and Adam Smith: Comparing Mentor and Mentee Publications by Jordan Braband

Both Hume and Smith are influential philosophers and economists, and wrote some of the most important historical works in the beginnings of the study…

Time Travel and the Nature of Time by Eve Green

Backward time travel is something most people in modern society are familiar with through the presence of this form of time travel in popular culture.…