I’ve just updated the main page of DianaHsieh.com with the graduate papers that I’ve written over the last year. If you’re interested, feel free to take a peek at them:
Stillborn Ends – Paper for Contemporary Moral Theories (Ben Hale, Spring 2006) on the major defects in David Schmidtz’s attempt to ground final ends in “maieutic ends.” Completed on 3 May 2007. 5663 words.
Descartes and Newton on Body – Paper for Medieval Origins of Modern Philosophy (Robert Pasnau, Spring 2006) on Descartes’ account of the nature of body and Newton’s criticisms thereof. Completed on 15 April 2007. 6660 words.
Locke on Human Action – Paper for Locke (Dan Kaufman, Fall 2004) on Locke’s mechanistic theory of the generation of human action. Completed on 14 March 2007. 6758 words.
Better Good Than Lucky: The Illusion of Constitutive Moral Luck – 5th Semester Qualifying Paper on the failure of Nagel’s constitutive moral luck in the face of Aristotle’s account of moral responsibility for character. Completed on 7 December 2006. 10717 words.
Please remember that these papers were written for graduate courses, not for my own purposes. However, I do think that the Aristotelian positions I defend in both Better Good Than Lucky and Stillborn Ends are substantially correct.
