Help me find this thesis
December 1, 2019 2:15 PM Subscribe
Back in 2013 I read this summary on lolmythesis.com and ever since I've been itching to read it: Advice columns are where the real philosophy is getting done.
Over the years I have tried Google Scholar, the University of Chicago online library catalogue, and https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/, but my search-fu is clearly lacking. Even if I can't access the full paper I'd like to read an abstract, at least.
I have thought that it may not even exist - the scholar may have given up, changed subject, taken all their notes out the middle of the desert and created a bonfire to dance around, etc. But I figured it'd be worth trying to seek it out, one more time.
Over the years I have tried Google Scholar, the University of Chicago online library catalogue, and https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/, but my search-fu is clearly lacking. Even if I can't access the full paper I'd like to read an abstract, at least.
I have thought that it may not even exist - the scholar may have given up, changed subject, taken all their notes out the middle of the desert and created a bonfire to dance around, etc. But I figured it'd be worth trying to seek it out, one more time.
Best answer: Sounds like it might be this, written by an undergraduate (which is why you wouldn't find it in the library catalog). The author's contact page. Also it looks like there is a copy (draft?) stored online... it comes up in search results for the title. Not gonna read the whole thing but she mentions columnists like Dear Sugar, etc so I'm quite certain this is what you're looking for.
posted by acidic at 2:41 PM on December 1, 2019 [6 favorites]
posted by acidic at 2:41 PM on December 1, 2019 [6 favorites]
It's almost certainly not what you're looking for, but you might be interested in reading Beth Blum's work on modernism and self-help.
posted by dizziest at 3:45 PM on December 1, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by dizziest at 3:45 PM on December 1, 2019 [1 favorite]
Best answer: Well, here is a list of all the PhD theses from University of Chicago Philosophy department, between 2009 and 2013. I tried to get them from earlier, but they were not showing up on proquest. I suggest you google.scholar search these titles and see what comes up. Good luck!
(Also, I have a feeling Dr. D. Han was just , like, so over it by the time this thesis was written.)
Backstrom, S. (2013). The mind's movement: An essay on expression
Boyce, K. (2010). Why wander into fiction? analytic philosophy and the case study of henry james
Elliott, J. R. (2010). Prudent virtues
Goodman, R. (2013). Singular thought: Making the most of the notion
Gray, A. (2012). Names and name-bearing: An essay on the predicate view of names
Groll, D. M. J. (2009). ‘It's my life and I'll do what I want’: The value of autonomy
Han, D. (2010). Yet another study of wittgenstein's “Tractatus logico-philosophicus”
Hannon, J. F. (2011). Aristotle's conception of science: The case of “On youth and old age, and life and death, and respiration”
Hansen, N. D. (2010). Radical contextualism
Hasan, R. A. (2012). Obligation and happiness in rousseau
Hensley, J. M. (2014). Equity strikes back: The lost ideal of aristotelian equitable justice in contemporary statutory interpretation
Hicks, L. H. (2013). The ascetic ideal and the will to power: A reading of nietzsche's "on the genealogy of morals", essay three
Holberg, E. A. (2011). Pleasure and the nature of the ethical subject
Hopwood, M. (2014). Love's work: Eros and moral agency
Hubner, K. (2010). Spinoza on substance as cause
Land, T. C. (2010). Kant's theory of synthesis
Lockhart, J. R. (2011). Kierkegaard: Indirect communication and ignorant knowledge
Lockhart, T. (2012). Frege, singular terms, and logical objects
Long, R. D. (2012). Responsibility, luck, and equality
Lott, M. E. (2011). “Secundum naturam hominis” an essay on human form and moral goodness
Lubenow, J. K. (2013). On the foundations of human rights
Luboff, A. L. (2014). On the ground: Opening a coherent space for the insights of cultural relativism
McKinney, T. (2014). Heidegger on human finitude and normative governance
Patrick, C. M. (2012). Internalism, practical relations, and psychologism
Remington, Clark A. (2012) Originary temporality: An essay on Heidegger's Being and Time and his interpretation of Kant
Rothschild, J. J. (2014). Striving to be better: Incomplete character and the unity of the virtues
Ruvinsky, I. (2009). Proust: The circle of time
Schwartz, J. F. (2014). Quine, disquotation, and truth
Shaddock, J. B. (2011). Kant's transcendental methodology: An essay on justification, objectivity, and subjectivity in kant's transcendental deduction of the categories
Small, C. W. (2012). Two kinds of practical knowledge
Todd, C. N. (2011). Life interrupted: Akrasia, action, & active irrationality
Tuma, J. R. (2011). Biological boundaries
Zuckerman, N. M. (2012). Becoming who we already are: Human existence and originary temporality in "being and time"
posted by EllaEm at 6:42 PM on December 1, 2019
(Also, I have a feeling Dr. D. Han was just , like, so over it by the time this thesis was written.)
Backstrom, S. (2013). The mind's movement: An essay on expression
Boyce, K. (2010). Why wander into fiction? analytic philosophy and the case study of henry james
Elliott, J. R. (2010). Prudent virtues
Goodman, R. (2013). Singular thought: Making the most of the notion
Gray, A. (2012). Names and name-bearing: An essay on the predicate view of names
Groll, D. M. J. (2009). ‘It's my life and I'll do what I want’: The value of autonomy
Han, D. (2010). Yet another study of wittgenstein's “Tractatus logico-philosophicus”
Hannon, J. F. (2011). Aristotle's conception of science: The case of “On youth and old age, and life and death, and respiration”
Hansen, N. D. (2010). Radical contextualism
Hasan, R. A. (2012). Obligation and happiness in rousseau
Hensley, J. M. (2014). Equity strikes back: The lost ideal of aristotelian equitable justice in contemporary statutory interpretation
Hicks, L. H. (2013). The ascetic ideal and the will to power: A reading of nietzsche's "on the genealogy of morals", essay three
Holberg, E. A. (2011). Pleasure and the nature of the ethical subject
Hopwood, M. (2014). Love's work: Eros and moral agency
Hubner, K. (2010). Spinoza on substance as cause
Land, T. C. (2010). Kant's theory of synthesis
Lockhart, J. R. (2011). Kierkegaard: Indirect communication and ignorant knowledge
Lockhart, T. (2012). Frege, singular terms, and logical objects
Long, R. D. (2012). Responsibility, luck, and equality
Lott, M. E. (2011). “Secundum naturam hominis” an essay on human form and moral goodness
Lubenow, J. K. (2013). On the foundations of human rights
Luboff, A. L. (2014). On the ground: Opening a coherent space for the insights of cultural relativism
McKinney, T. (2014). Heidegger on human finitude and normative governance
Patrick, C. M. (2012). Internalism, practical relations, and psychologism
Remington, Clark A. (2012) Originary temporality: An essay on Heidegger's Being and Time and his interpretation of Kant
Rothschild, J. J. (2014). Striving to be better: Incomplete character and the unity of the virtues
Ruvinsky, I. (2009). Proust: The circle of time
Schwartz, J. F. (2014). Quine, disquotation, and truth
Shaddock, J. B. (2011). Kant's transcendental methodology: An essay on justification, objectivity, and subjectivity in kant's transcendental deduction of the categories
Small, C. W. (2012). Two kinds of practical knowledge
Todd, C. N. (2011). Life interrupted: Akrasia, action, & active irrationality
Tuma, J. R. (2011). Biological boundaries
Zuckerman, N. M. (2012). Becoming who we already are: Human existence and originary temporality in "being and time"
posted by EllaEm at 6:42 PM on December 1, 2019
Response by poster: acidic - I think you cracked it! Within an hour of me posting, damn, I am impressed. Thanks everyone for contributing, this has been itching at my brain since 2013.
posted by Gin and Broadband at 2:10 PM on December 2, 2019
posted by Gin and Broadband at 2:10 PM on December 2, 2019
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If you can find some metadata like that, the official thesis and dissertation database is ProQuest. It's probably prohibitively expensive to search one-off online as an individual, but a public university library near you is probably subscribed if it's worth an in-person trip to do some searching. Good luck.
posted by Joey Buttafoucault at 2:22 PM on December 1, 2019