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Action and Uncertainty in Pascal’s Wager and Shakespeare’s Hamlet

An Examination of the Role of Evil in the World as it is Considered in the Works of Leibniz and Darwin

Candide, Beyond the Satire on Leibniz

Exploring the Philosophy of Purpose in Voltaire’s Candide

General Guidelines for Essay Assignments

Inconsistency and Chance in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Links between Human Rationality and Animal Savagery in The Island of Dr. Moreau

On the Erroneous Consideration of Wells’ Dr. Moreau as an Allegory for Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection

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Spring 2008

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Undergraduate

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