Student Atelier

Spring 2020_A student's perception of this corona-semester-- (Thank you, DM!):

Fall 2019_ Pix of student philosophers studiously philosophizing: Instagram link.

Spring 2019: A UCR student initiative-- a survey, about the Future of University College Roosevelt. This concerns a Response to the Reorientation Plan. Take the survey @: 

https://www.petities24.com/the_future_of_university_college_roosevelt_a_response_to_the_reorientation_plan?fbclid=IwAR0-E9vOuzXLwO31cz0lRRLE0TjbXY7FutHISZ_cE5JN9sk2BbZxVNicqS8

 

Spring 2018 : Harvest of Excellence -- each of these research projects received a grade of A+ 

Combined Papers: A&H 256 Great Philosophers A: Plato & A&H 357 Topics and Philosophy A: God and the Philosophers

• “THERE SHALL BE WEEPING AND GNASHING OF TEETH”: A GENEALOGY OF THE IDEA OF HELL_A&H 256 Great Philosophers A: Plato & A&H 357 Topics and Philosophy A: God and the Philosophers_Tim Beelen

A&H 357 Topics and Philosophy A: God and the Philosophers

•  In the Name of God? A Historical and Philosophical Perspective on the Origins and Universality of the Qur’an_AH 357 God and the Philosophers, Tom Leijnse

•  The Illusory Wall. Questioning the Separation of Church and State in the U.S.A_AH 357 God and the Philosophers_Jesse Grote  

•  A River’s Personhood, Maori Ontology, and Christian Beliefs Regarding Nature_A&H 357 God and the Philosophers_ Sasha Talmon 

• Nietzsche’s Eternal Recurrence: The Eternally Becoming Lymph of Life_A&H 357 God and the Philosophers_Laura De Gaetano

A&H 256 Great Philosophers A: Plato 

• Myth as a Medium for Philosophical Thought_A&H 256 Great Philosophers A: Plato_Jesse Grote

Spring 2017 Harvest of Excellence -- each of these research projects received a grade of A+

AH 358 Hermeneutics & AH 257 Nietzsche and the Existentialists – Combined Papers

• Philosophy as Therapy: Insights from Existentialism on the Nature of Psychological Trauma and How to Overcome the Trauma_AH 358 Hermeneutics & AH 257 Nietzsche and the Existentialists_Iris Rosendaal
• Nietzsche, Foucault and Camus Against History: The Genealogical Method as Means for Reconstructing the Past_AH 358 Hermeneutics & AH 257 Nietzsche and the Existentialists_Aira Garcia Lacarta

AH 358 Hermeneutics

• Hermeneutics in Dutch Civil and American Common Law: A Question of Justice_AH 358 Hermeneutics_Elizabeth McPherson and Eva Versteeg 
• Women, Androids and Other Dangerous Objects: An Examination of Feminised Machines and Mechanised Femininity in Popular Narrative_AH 358 Hermeneutics_Aleksandra Vulic  
• Framing: The Holocaust and The Rest_AH 358 Hermeneutics_Meta Huijsmans

AH 257 Nietzsche and the Existentialists 

• Joseph Brodsky, 20th Century Existentialism in Art and Exile_AH257 Nietzsche and the Existentialists_Stein Deelstra 
• Existentialism and Music_AH 257 Nietzsche and the Existentialists_Fanny Mojet 
• Life-writing and Existentialism: An Application of Nietzsche’s Concept of the Pseudonymic Self to the British Contemporary Autobiography_AH257: Nietzsche and the Existentialists_Hannah Davita Ludikhuijze 
• European Integration: A Violation of National Identity_AH257 Nietzsche and the Existentialists_Jurian Sandvoort

Spring 2016 Harvest of Excellence

•  A New Narrative: The Virginal Conception of Jesus, AH 357 God and the Philosophers_Clara Sporer. 
• The American Noble Lie: An Interpretation of Manifest Destiny as a Religious and Nationalist Myth, A&H 256 Great Philosophers A: Plato &
  A&H 357 Topics and Philosophy A: God and the Philosophers_Debby Esmeé de Vlugt. 
• The Republic: On Riddles, A&H 256 Great Philosophers A: Plato &
  A&H 357 Topics and Philosophy A: God and the Philosophers_ Joren Ossewaarde.
• The Platonic Toothpaste: Exploring the Truth about Language in the Cratylus and Lost in Translation_A&H 256 Great Philosophers A: Plato_Mijke van Leersum 

Spring 2015 Harvest of Excellence

• How is Hiphop Existential? Studying the History and Legacy of a Musical Culture, AH 256 Existentialism_Dan B. Hasan.
• A Hermeneutic of the Idea of Sustainability, AH 358 Hermeneutics_Beau Huijsse & Peter Williamson.
• A Hermeneutical Approach to the Epochs of RA and UCR, AH 358 Hermeneutics_Ivar Troost & Anna de Bruyn. 
• The Existentialist Body – Anorexia as Self-Destructive Self-Creation?_AH 256 Existentialism_Alina Achenbach.
• Res Animans: the Human Edges of the Nonhuman Animal_AH 358 Hermeneutics_Daniel Shaharudin & Ruben Hordijk.
• Drawn into Divine Raptures: a Genealogy of Genius_AH 358 Hermeneutics_Durk van der Meer & Clara Spohrer. 
• The Existentialist Pascal?_AH 256 Existentialism_Douwe Schipper.

Spring 2014 Harvest of Excellence

• The Platonic Hero’s Journey: A Reinterpretation of the Noble Lie in Plato’s Republic, AH 357 God and the Philosophers_Ramon van der Does
• Essential Debate: How 15-M Illuminates the Difficulties of Democracy, Honors Thesis, Tajha Chappellet-Lanier (Supervisor: Dr. David Aiken; Second Reader: Carolina Sanchez) 
• A Genealogy of Truth_AH 357 God and the Philosophers_Ruben Hordijk
• Making an Educated Judgment on the Metaphysical Existence of Mathematical Objects _AH256 Plato_Dylan Goldsborough
• THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING IRONIC: On the Essential Role of Irony in the Development of the Individual_AH256 Plato_Anna de Bruyn
• America’sTrue Religion: Why Washington Rivals Christ in the American Psyche_AH357 God and the Philosophers_Sebastian Posthumus Meyjes
• Culpabilité et « santé mentale » du croyant chrétien – comparaison entre catholiques et protestants_AH357 God and the Philosophers_Sabina Weistra
• Plato in Mathematics_AH256 Plato_Thijs van den Boomen 

Fall 2013 Harvest

• God’s gaze, the Other’s Gaze, and the Internalization of the External Eye_Reflection Essay, Ruben Hordijk.
• An Enquiry Concerning Present Day Scepticism_Honor Thesis_Robin Brons.
• Based on their class presentation in Ethics, Ivar Troost and Blue Tarhan created a "crowd-sourced" article, which was recently published in UCR's Tabula Rasa. The article is entitled, "Money: Interesting and Valuable Insights."

Spring 2013 Harvest

• An Evaluation of Personal Love_AH 256 Existentialism_Maxime Houtekamer.
• Techné and Technology: Revealing and Concealing_AH 256 Existentialism_Ruben Hordijk.
• Kierkegaard's Motion_AH 256 Existentialism_Daniel Shaharudin.
• The Edges of the Study of Mythology_AH357 Hermeneutics_Robin Brons &  Ilja J. Küh.
• Undecidability - On Paradigm Shifts in the "Purest Science"_AH 357 Hermeneutics, Bas Tönissen & Zeno de Hoop.
• A Hermeneutic of Realism in International Relations - The Evolution and Edges of a Paradigm_AH 357 Hermeneutics_Willem van den Berg & Jair van der Stelt.
• Nietzsche Reading Kant_Philosophy Honors Thesis_Bas Tönissen.
•  ....Therefore We Exist (Capstone Project Film & AH 256 Existentialism)_Stella Panova.

 Spring 2012 Harvest

• The Seeing God and the Forgetting God_Roland Bolz.
• Some Remarks on the Light-Metaphor in Religion and Philosophy_Roland Bolz.
• Christianity in America. A critical examination of socio-cultural phenomena. _Jair Van Der Stelt.
• Linking Human Nature to Ritualistic Initiation._Esmeralda Bon.
• The Unchallenged Believer – An Irreligious Critique of Christopher Hitchens’ Militant Atheism. _Bas Tönissen.
• Timaeus as Platonic Parody – A Hermeneutical Etude. _Bas Tönissen.

 Fall 2011 Harvest

• (IRP): Objectivism and the Contemporary Free Will Problem. A Defense of Libertarian Free Will. _Reiner Schuur.