Journal of Undergraduate Research

William LaDuke and Dr. James L. Siebach, Philosophy Although I have not yet researched the subject as thoroughly as I had planned, I have discovered some interesting things about the deification of man in early Christianity. I began by searching the secondary literature and found that there was much more written on the subject than […]

Dennis Packard and Dr. Jared Inouye, Philosophy I proposed to articulate the art of healing by examining the relationship between morality and practical knowledge. I proposed to examine this relationship by extensively interviewing and working with a local neurosurgeon. I hypothesized that his reputation as an excellent surgeon—a healer—was grounded in his moral way of […]

James Guymon and Dr. Dennis Packard, Philosophy Since its earliest beginnings film has been the subject of intense philosophic study. It has naturally followed that the industry has become a playground/battlefield for the creatively thoughtful, where a person’s rationale is often more important than her finished product. It is this environment that has nurtured a […]

James B. Gibson Jr. and Dr. Michael Arts, Philosophy In the Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant develops an account of geometry which rests upon his central claim about metaphysics: that we see the world not as it may be independent of our perceiving it, but as an object of our sensible intuition. Thus, in […]

Brooke Bentley and Dr. C. Terry Warner, Philosophy Kierkegaard, the Danish, Christian, Existentialist of the 19th century is not only a philosopher, but also a psychologist. Kierkegaard’s interactions and responses to his audiences reveal a complex view of human freedom or agency that has far-reaching implications for psychotherapy. The assumptions about what it means to […]

Jason Scoffield and Dr. David Paulsen, Philosophy The purpose of this project was threefold. First, the thesis resulting from this project was to provide a basic commentary on Discourse on Thinking. This was be done by using the much simpler “Memorial Address” and how it relates to the ideas developed in Heidegger’s other works to […]

John Byron Manchak and Dr. David Grandy, Philosophy G. N. Lewis coined the word ‘photon’ in 1926 to describe what he thought was a particle that transmitted radiation from one atom to another.1 The word ‘photon’ caught on and eventually became the name for the smallest measurable bit of light. Developments in physics since that […]

John Rather and Dr. James Siebach, Philosophy In the Confessions, St. Augustine writes that his conversion to Christianity was made possible by a prior conversion to philosophy. By the time of his Christian conversion, and for the rest of his life, Augustine’s philosophical and theological views were most deeply affected by Neoplatonism. It was by […]

Kevin Winters and Dr. Mark Wrathall, Philosophy In May of 1843, Joseph Smith gave a decisive statement against dualism: “There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but it is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes; we cannot see it; but when our bodies are […]

Vanessa Stanfill and Dr. Dennis Packard, Philosophy In the 1930s, a 24-year-old mathematician named Kurt Gödel developed a theorem showing that certain mathematical and logical systems, those capable of defining numbers, arithmetic, and multiplication, must be incomplete. These systems are incomplete, he showed, because they can generate certain true, but unprovable, statements. Gödel’s theorem has […]