Macalester Journal of Philosophy

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The Philosophy Department regularly publishes a journal of student work, the Macalester Journal of Philosophy.

You can read these works through Digital Commons.

A Wittgensteinian Defense of Cultural Relativism
Emily Heckel

Human Rights and Relativism
Colleen Good

Preventing Rwanda in a Rawlsian World
Gerbrand Hoogvliet

Rights Trump Torture: How Dworkin’s System of Rights Should Include a Right not to be Tortured and Defeat Ticking Time-Bomb Scenario Type Arguments
Jennifer Eler

Determined to Feel Free: The Psychological Reality of Moral Responsibility
Sara Gottlieb

The Naturalistic Epistemology of Hume and Wittgenstein
Dawit Dame

Economics: The Precocious Social Science
Gayatri Sarin

Examining Potentiality in the Philosophy of Giorgio Agamben
Elizabeth Balskus

The Positive Take on Nothingness: Transcendence as the Metaphysical Foundation of Individual Fulfillment
Lauren Roso

Heidegger’s Unzuhandenheit as a Fourth Mode of Being
Zachary Dotray