This is the journal of the Ferrum College Philosophy Department. Compiled here are the essays that graduating philosophy majors have written in partial fulfillment of the requirements for their senior seminars. These essays have been presented and defended in a quasi-professional setting before an audience of philosophy majors, philosophy minors, faculty members, and other invited guests.
Essays from 2015:
Can Kant Be Merciful?
By Brian Eckley
A Critical Response to Sartre's Conclusions about Love and Relations with Others
By Caila Cummings
Essays from 2014:
A Response to David Ray Griffin's Critique of a Traditional Free-Will Theodicy
By Julia Cornelius
Essays from 2013:
A Dismissal of Merleau-Ponty’s Aesthetics from the Philosophico-Anthropological Foundation of Andrè Malraux
By Laine Wilde
Essays from 2012:
Fundamental Flaws in Thomas Mertens’ Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
By Kristian A. Percival
Essays from 2011:
Gay Marriage: I Do, but I Can’t
By Sarah Turner
The Ethics of Human Enhancement: The Argument Against Savulescu
By Kyle Underwood
Essays from 2010:
Freedom, Responsibility, and a Defense of Capitalism
By Jeremiah Breen
Can Kant Be Merciful?
By Brian Eckley
A Critical Response to Sartre's Conclusions about Love and Relations with Others
By Caila Cummings
Essays from 2014:
A Response to David Ray Griffin's Critique of a Traditional Free-Will Theodicy
By Julia Cornelius
Essays from 2013:
A Dismissal of Merleau-Ponty’s Aesthetics from the Philosophico-Anthropological Foundation of Andrè Malraux
By Laine Wilde
Essays from 2012:
Fundamental Flaws in Thomas Mertens’ Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
By Kristian A. Percival
Essays from 2011:
Gay Marriage: I Do, but I Can’t
By Sarah Turner
The Ethics of Human Enhancement: The Argument Against Savulescu
By Kyle Underwood
Essays from 2010:
Freedom, Responsibility, and a Defense of Capitalism
By Jeremiah Breen