{"id":15,"date":"2025-06-30T16:11:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T20:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/philosophy\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2025-08-12T15:17:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T19:17:21","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/philosophy\/philosophy-ba\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\">Philosophy, B.A.<\/h1>\n\n\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><nav class=\"is-responsive wp-block-navigation is-layout-flex wp-block-navigation-is-layout-flex\" aria-label=\"Navigation 2\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/navigation\" data-wp-context='{\"overlayOpenedBy\":{\"click\":false,\"hover\":false,\"focus\":false},\"type\":\"overlay\",\"roleAttribute\":\"\",\"ariaLabel\":\"Menu\"}'><button aria-haspopup=\"dialog\" aria-label=\"Open menu\" class=\"wp-block-navigation__responsive-container-open\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.openMenuOnClick\" data-wp-on--keydown=\"actions.handleMenuKeydown\"><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><path d=\"M4 7.5h16v1.5H4z\"><\/path><path d=\"M4 15h16v1.5H4z\"><\/path><\/svg><span class=\"menu-title\">Navigation<\/span><\/button>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-navigation__responsive-container\" id=\"modal-1\" data-wp-class--has-modal-open=\"state.isMenuOpen\" data-wp-class--is-menu-open=\"state.isMenuOpen\" data-wp-watch=\"callbacks.initMenu\" data-wp-on--keydown=\"actions.handleMenuKeydown\" data-wp-on--focusout=\"actions.handleMenuFocusout\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-navigation__responsive-close\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-navigation__responsive-dialog\" data-wp-bind--aria-modal=\"state.ariaModal\" data-wp-bind--aria-label=\"state.ariaLabel\" data-wp-bind--role=\"state.roleAttribute\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<button aria-label=\"Close menu\" class=\"wp-block-navigation__responsive-container-close\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.closeMenuOnClick\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><path d=\"m13.06 12 6.47-6.47-1.06-1.06L12 10.94 5.53 4.47 4.47 5.53 10.94 12l-6.47 6.47 1.06 1.06L12 13.06l6.47 6.47 1.06-1.06L13.06 12Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-navigation__responsive-container-content\" data-wp-watch=\"callbacks.focusFirstElement\" id=\"modal-1-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"wp-block-navigation__container is-responsive wp-block-navigation\"><li class=\" wp-block-navigation-item wp-block-navigation-link\"><a class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__content\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/philosophy\/philosophy-ba\/\"><span class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__label\">Overview<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\" wp-block-navigation-item wp-block-navigation-link\"><a class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__content\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/philosophy\/philosophy-ba\/curriculum\/\"><span class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__label\">Curriculum<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\" wp-block-navigation-item wp-block-navigation-link\"><a class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__content\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/philosophy\/philosophy-ba\/research\/\"><span class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__label\">Research<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\" wp-block-navigation-item wp-block-navigation-link\"><a class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__content\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/philosophy\/philosophy-ba\/careers\/\"><span class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__label\">Careers<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/nav>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">Research<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group triple-bottom-margin is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Projects<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-query is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><ul class=\"columns-3 wp-block-post-template is-layout-grid wp-container-core-post-template-is-layout-6d3fbd8f wp-block-post-template-is-layout-grid\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-188 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-projects\">\n<div class=\"entry-content wp-block-post-content is-layout-flow wp-block-post-content-is-layout-flow\">\n<aside class=\"wp-block-group boxout has-light-warm-gray-background-color has-background is-content-justification-left is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-12dd3699 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What do you meme? The philosophy of language and memes<\/h3>\n\n\n<div style=\"color:inherit\" class=\"eyebrow  has-text-align-left\">Tetrah Clark &#8217;24<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">presented at ClarkFEST<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-81 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-projects\">\n<div class=\"entry-content wp-block-post-content is-layout-flow wp-block-post-content-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<aside class=\"wp-block-group boxout has-light-warm-gray-background-color has-background is-content-justification-left is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-12dd3699 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Question of Artificial Agency<\/h3>\n\n\n<div style=\"color:inherit\" class=\"eyebrow  has-text-align-left\">Nadav Battat &#8217;20<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">presented at the 2018 meeting of the Northern New England Philosophical Association at the University of Vermont, Burlington<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-84 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-projects\">\n<div class=\"entry-content wp-block-post-content is-layout-flow wp-block-post-content-is-layout-flow\">\n<aside class=\"wp-block-group boxout has-light-warm-gray-background-color has-background is-content-justification-left is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-12dd3699 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Probabilistic Indeterminism<\/h3>\n\n\n<div style=\"color:inherit\" class=\"eyebrow  has-text-align-left\">Nadav Battat &#8217;20<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">presented at the 2017 meeting of the Northern New England Philosophical Association (NNEPA) at Stonehill College, Easton, Mass<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group double-bottom-margin is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Senior honors theses<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list double-bottom-margin\">\n<li>The Compatibility of Constitutive Luck and Moral Responsibility,&nbsp;<strong>Catherine Hackett<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Strangers Together: Towards Accepting Psychological and Political Foreignness,&nbsp;<strong>Kaitlyn Anderson<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Quest for Harmony: the Thomist View of the Relationship between Faith and Reason,&nbsp;<strong>Alfredo Nicol\u00e1s Due\u00f1as Burneo<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A New Characterization of Emergence, and Its Consequences,&nbsp;<strong>Henry Weiss<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>An Encomium of Gorgias: a new interpretation of the&nbsp;<em>Helen<\/em>,&nbsp;<strong>Ram Sharma<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Autonomy and Paternalism in Medical Ethics: The Great Conflict,&nbsp;<strong>Alyssa 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