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POSNER'S PRAGMATIC ADJUDICATION
Comparison between pragmatic adjudication and judicial positivism with Judge Richard Posner at the spotlight, along with some commentaries of my own.
QUINE'S REJECTION OF THE TWO DOGMAS
Quine’s arguments on analyticity’s circularity and the problem of reductionism in support of his theory on holism, which he believes provides a pragmatic approach that goes beyond the analytic.
SCOTT V. SANDFORD
Brief on Scott v. Sandford. Submitted for PSCI 1111 on August 26, 2019.
KANT'S ACCOUNT OF SPACE
Kant’s account of space in the New Elucidation, Directions in Space, the Inaugural Dissertation, and the Transcental Aesthetic in Critique of Pure Reason.
PEIRCE AND THE METHOD OF SCIENCE
Difference between doubt and belief and how they relate to the scientific method, in the context of Peirce’s four methods of inquiry.
STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY AS SEEN THROUGH SOCIOLOGICAL LENSES
An essay on how society shapes the conventions of stock photography and how, by abiding them, stock photogrpahy creats its own aesthetics.
EMERSON ON THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR
Emerson’s definition of the American Scholar and inquiry into how they came to be.
KANT’S RESPONSE TO HUME IN PROLEGOMENA
I will first present Hume’s argument for the impossibility of causality.
PRICE GOUGING IN THE CYBER CONTEXT
An essay on how society shapes the conventions of stock photography and how, by abiding them, stock photogrpahy creats its own aesthetics.
LOCKE AND BERKELEY ON EXISTENCE OF SUBSTANCE
Kant argues in the Transcendental Dialectic that the knowledge of the self as a substance as put forth by rationalists is in fact unreachable knowledge beyond human constitution.