Category

ShortTitle

Synopsis

Biology I

Life w/o Light

Comparing and contrasting life in the soil, deep sea, and caves

Freshman Composition

The Missing Link

A study of the shrinking concept of a “missing link” in human evolution

Philosophy of Language

False Pictures

Corrects a technical problem in Ludwig Wittgenstein’s “Picture Theory” of language

Senior (Prep School) English

Billy Won’t Be a Hero

Author paper on Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five

Moral Philosophy

Moral Life

Aristotle misinterprets intellectual pleasure as a distinct form of happiness

Sexual Liberation Politics

Army of Lovers, by Adam Rosenberg and Murray Sexton

Letter to the Editor of the Columbia Spectator arguing that the military, as a discriminatory recruiter, should not be allowed to recruit on campus

Philosophy of Language

Discourse Representation Theory

Explains the relation between Definite Description and Propositional Attitude

Senior (High School) English

Bands, Voices, and Fire

A classic English paper defining Myth

Philosophy of Language

Paradigmatic Betting

An excruciatingly formal theoretical analysis of the speech act of betting

Junior (High School) English

What Makes a Person Neat?

Saccharin drivel, but well-written saccharin drivel

Moral Philosophy

The Essense of Selflessness

Adapting Spinoza to accomodate altruism