Senior Theses
A collection of senior theses written by students in the Philosophy Department at Linfield University.
Theses from 2019
Expertise and Expression in Second Language Acquisition: An Embodied Perspective, Mia Burnett
Superhero Movies and Politics: The Moral Obligations of Film Makers according to Virtue Ethics, Russell Hendrickson
Theses from 2017
Rocky Horror Sublimation: Identity as a Contingency of Experience, Josh Harper
Sustaining Autonomous Communities in the Modern United States (The United Communities of America), Lucas Hester
Theses from 2014
A Reinterpretation of the Dao De Jing, Tianyue Luo
A Pedestal of Power: Analyzing Consciousness in Nonhuman Animals, Conner Lee Varnell
Theses from 2013
Virtue through Harmony: An Exploration of the Ethical Role of Music in Society, Sylvan Tovar
Theses from 2012
I'm Polynesian Too: Philosophy of Assimilation, Cosmopolitanism, Colonialism, Race, & Culture, Aaron Hire
Theses from 2011
Videogames, Experiential Reality, Ethics, and Gamers, Sean Naubert
Living the Martial Way, Blair Schur
A Mind for Language: How Language Shapes Our Reality, Eric Tompkins
