Philosophy as Verse-Performance: five poems and a formalist prospectus

The mathematician as a formalist

Bachelor of Philosophy Sample Thesis Prospectus

Everyday we use a number of sentence structures in our written and spoken communication. As children, we learn how to do this quickly and discover that there are multiple possibilities to construct sentences with the same meaning. For example, “The man kissed the woman” and “The woman was kissed by the man” are essentially conveying the same meaning but in two different ways. In a colorful and ...

Bachelor of Philosophy Sample Thesis Prospectus

Rats were injected subcutaneously daily with 2 mg DOC dissolved in 0.4 ml sesame oil, after which a single-bottle drinking test was conducted. The fluid administered during the drinking tests always was saline, which varied in concentration across treatment groups. Concentrations of 0.10 M, 0.15 M, 0.20 M, 0.25 M and 0.30 M NaCl were tested, and the duration of the drinking test decreased each ...

Bachelor of Philosophy Sample Thesis Prospectus

Less than two centuries ago, some natural philosophers speculated that all things had their ontological place on a “chain of being.” God occupied the position of greatest perfection; humans were farther down on the scale but still above all other mortal creatures. Although this imagery is supposed to carry little weight in the life sciences (the progeny, as it were, of natural philosophy), I wi...

Bachelor of Philosophy Sample Thesis Prospectus

As new technologies are developed on the nano-to microscale, inspiration from biological systems often plays an important role. Recent advances allow the fabrication of vesicles from bilayer membranes, similar to cell membranes, of lipids or block copolymers. Multicomponent vesicles, containing more than one type of amphiphile, can phase separate into distinct domains. These domains have the ab...