Compos Mentis

The Compos Mentis Publication Archive

Two issues of Compos Mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics (ISSN: 2330-0264) were published every year. Both the conference and open issues of the Compos Mentis journal were entirely managed by undergraduate students affiliated with the Philosophy Department at the University of Michigan-Flint. Accessing all Compos Mentis publications is free and open to the public. The purpose of Compos Mentis was to support and encourage the intellectual work of undergraduates.

 Issues

 

Volume 10, Issue 1

Owen Crocker
University of Victoria

Keywords: Free Will, Moral Responsibility, Crime, Free Will Skepticism, Criminal Law, Compatibilism, Determinism, Libertarianism, Legal Personhood, Autonomy, Rationality
Citation: . . "Moral Responsibility in the Age of Free Will Skepticism: A Defence of Frankfurtian-Compatibilism" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 10 (1): 1–19.

Nansi Dingle
Earlham College

Keywords: Arendt, Baldwin, Kant, Love, Politics, Salvation, Metaphysics, Natality
Citation: . . "The Tragic Bind of the Political" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 10 (1): 21–31.

Amanda Galloway
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis

Keywords: Death Anxiety, Human Nature, Memento Mori, Terror Management Theory, Thanatophobia, Coping Mechanisms
Citation: . . "Origins and Manifestations of Death Anxiety" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 10 (1): 33–52.

Amanda Galloway
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis

Keywords: Altruism, Selfishness, Motive, Empathy, Egoistic
Citation: . . "Reconsidering Psychological Egoism" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 10 (1): 53–61.

Nathaniel Kastl
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

Keywords: Akrasia, Donald Davidson, Aristotle, Decision Making
Citation: . . "Shifting the Problem of Akrasia" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 10 (1): 63–76.

Kyle Kirby
Kalamazoo College

Keywords: Moral Obligation, Belief, Objectivism, Prospectivism, Subjectivism, Ought Implies Can
Citation: . . "Doxasticism About Moral Obligation" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 10 (1): 77–97.

Carlyn Kirk
University of South Carolina

Keywords: Standpoint Theory, Intersectionality Theory, Abortion, Minority Women, Feminism, Epistemic Injustice
Citation: . . "Undue Burden: How White Feminism Misdirected the Politics of Reproductive Healthcare and Failed the People Who Need It Most" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 10 (1): 99–118.

Trinity Lopez
Lawrence University

Keywords: Wittgenstein, Kripke, Thing, Accordance, Meaning, Agreement, Private Language
Citation: . . "The Meaning That Matters" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 10 (1): 119–136.

Clara Moreton
University of Essex

Keywords: Feminism, Transgender, Sex, Objectification, Autonomy
Citation: . . "Passing as Fuckable: Objectification, Sexualisation and the Conditions of Autonomy" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 10 (1): 137–146.

Kacper Mykietyn
University of Toronto

Keywords: Moral Anger, Agape Love, Myisha Cherry, Fighting Oppression, Social Hierarchy, Racial Injustice
Citation: . . "Moral Anger as an Expression of Agape Love: Can Moral Anger Lower One’s Status?" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 10 (1): 147–152.

Joachim Nicolodi
King's College London

Keywords: Free Will, Determinism, Philosophy of Psychology, Neuroscience, Benjamin Libet
Citation: . . "Surviving Libet: Why Neuroscience Did Not Disprove Free Will (Yet)" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 10 (1): 153–164.

Levi M. Satter
Brooklyn College

Keywords: Animal Consciousness, Moral Psychology, Hope, Emotions, Cephalopods, Ethics
Citation: . . "The Hopeful Capacity of Octopuses" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 10 (1): 165–186.

Chelsea Schwartz
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis

Keywords: Aesthetics, Art, Asger Jorn, Situationists International, COBRA, Capitalism, Consumerism, Theodor Adorno, Leo Tolstoy, Avant-Garde, Culture Industry
Citation: . . "Asger Jorn, Modified Art, and the Importance of the Relation of the Human Animal to Capitalist Society" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 10 (1): 187–201.

Neil Van Kanegan
Calvin University

Keywords: Chike Jeffers, Culture, Ethnicity, Metaphysics, Race, Sally Haslanger, Social Justice, Social Ontology
Citation: . . "A Defense of Sally Haslanger’s Sociopolitical Account of Race" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 10 (1): 203–217.
 

Volume 9, Issue 1

Natalie Anderson
Eastern Michigan University

Keywords: Teaching, Learning, Bias, Assessment
Citation: . . "How the Self-Serving Attributional Bias Affects Teacher Pedagogy" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 9 (1): 1–12.

Betty Barnett
Vanderbilt University

Keywords: Murdoch, Moral Psychology, Ethics, Consciousness
Citation: . . "Murdoch’s Vision: Original-M vs. Brain-of-M" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 9 (1): 13–17.

Luke Batt
Calvin University

Keywords: Epistemology, Justification, Coherentism, Infinitism
Citation: . . "Coherent Infinitism as a Hybrid Model of Epistemic Justification" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 9 (1): 19–36.

Mitchell Baty
Kalamazoo College

Keywords: Free Will, Libertarian Free Will, Metaphysics, Moral Responsibility
Citation: . . "Defending Free Will: A Libertarian’s Response to Waller and Waller’s Challenge" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 9 (1): 37–45.

Abigail Bergeron
Trent University

Keywords: Martin Heidegger, Heidegger’s Nietzsche, The Problem of Other Minds, Subjectivity, Philosophy of Animals, Dasein, Perspectival Realism, Jakob von Uexkull, Thomas Nagel
Citation: . . "Impoverished Bees: A Critical Analysis of Heidegger’s Conception of Man As World-Forming and the Animal as Poor-In-World" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 9 (1): 47–66.

Joshua Doland
University of California, Los Angeles

Keywords: Political Obligation, Gratitude, Fairness, Reciprocation, Good Will
Citation: . . "Issues Surrounding Attempts to Ground Political Obligation in Gratitude" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 9 (1): 67–78.

Emma Fergusson
Kalamazoo College

Keywords: Aesthetics, Art Criticism, Film, Perception, Spectatorship
Citation: . . "Everyone’s a Critic: The Importance of Accountability in Artistic Engagement and Creation" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 9 (1): 79–96.

Ethan Galanitsas
University of Essex

Keywords: Torture, Ethics, Morality, Public Policy, Moral Absolutism, Meta-ethics
Citation: . . "The Moral Distinctiveness of Torture" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 9 (1): 97–103.

E. C. Hamilton
Concordia University

Keywords: Prejudice, Discrimination, Ethics, Attitudes, Policy, Sexism, Misogyny, Cissexism, Transphobia
Citation: . . "Putting the “Judge” in “Prejudice:” Neutralizing Anti-discrimination Efforts Through Mischaracterizing the Motives for Prejudice" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 9 (1): 105–117.

Seyeong Hanlim
Denison University

Keywords: Ethical Responsibility, Animal Cruelty, Abortion, Principle of Equality, Moral Status, Human obligations
Citation: . . "J. Doe’s Right to Moral Status: Moral Responsibility Beyond Principle of Equality" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 9 (1): 119–131.

Michael Hyde
Central Michigan University

Keywords: Metaphysics, Carnap, Wittgenstein, Analytic Philosophy, Nietzsche, Taoism
Citation: . . "The Clarification of Philosophical Inquiry: In Defense of Metaphysics, Ethics, and Aesthetics" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 9 (1): 133–144.

AJ Jinkins
Portland State University

Keywords: Dissent, Privilege, Testimony, Injustice, Standpoint
Citation: . . "White Privilege and Epistemic Polarity" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 9 (1): 145–164.

Matthew Kern
Kent State University

Keywords: Naturalized Epistemology, Normativity, Naturalism, Quine
Citation: . . "Degrees of Naturalism in Epistemology and Philosophy of Science" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 9 (1): 165–180.

Omar Khali
Eastern Michigan University

Keywords: Philosophy of Mind, Folk Psychology, Phenomenology, Social Cognition
Citation: . . "Understanding the Other: Spaulding and the Inclusion of Being-in-the-World in Folk Psychology" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 9 (1): 181–190.

Corine LaFrenier
Hope College

Keywords: Freedom, Determinism, Neuroscience, Cognition, Psychology, Free Will
Citation: . . "Freedom or Determinism: In Light of Recent Neuroscientific Discoveries" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 9 (1): 191–198.

Zhixuan Li
The University of Hong Kong

Keywords: Aesthetics, Feminist Aesthetics, Feminist Philosophy, Feminism
Citation: . . "Is Beauty Objective?" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 9 (1): 199–228.

Derek Minton
Central Michigan University

Keywords: Confirmation Bias, Emotion, Subjective, Belief, Context
Citation: . . "Confirmation Biases and Emotional Probabilities" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 9 (1): 229–246.

Juan Ignacio Murillo Vargas
University of Toronto

Keywords: Semantics, Semantic Competence, Language Understanding, Cognitive Activity
Citation: . . "Semantics is not Just Semantics: On the Status of Formal Semantic Theory" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 9 (1): 247–262.

Ember Reed
University of Puget Sound

Keywords: Meta-philosophy, Intuition, Rationalism, Hegemony
Citation: . . "The Liberation of Philosophy: The Principle of Sufficient Reason as an Anti-Racist Principle" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 9 (1): 263–273.

Candice Wiesner
Eastern Michigan University

Keywords: Concepts, String Theory, Multiverse, Informational System, Biological System
Citation: . . "Concepts, String Theory, and Separate Mental Reality" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 9 (1): 275–285.
 

Volume 8, Issue 1

Chris Abell
Michigan State University

Keywords: Personal Identity, Circularity, Memories, Psychological Continuity
Citation: . . "In Defense of "I": A Defense and Revision of Psychological Continuity" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 8 (1): 1–9.

Matt Denaro
Brooklyn College

Keywords: Authenticity, Communication, Trauma, Memory Erasure
Citation: . . "The Inauthenticity of Memory Manipulation and the Ethics of Vulnerable Communication" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 8 (1): 11–25.

Cynthia Gonzalez
University of California, Santa Cruz

Keywords: Ancient Greek, Aristotle, Egoism, Ethics, Mereology, Nicomachean Ethics, The Politics, Virtue Ethics
Citation: . . "Aristotle’s Politics and The Charge of Egoism" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 8 (1): 27–36.

Dakotah Kinsella
Augustana College

Keywords: Individuality, Authenticity, Conscious-Experiences, Aesthetics, Language, Representations
Citation: . . "The Beauty Within the Individuality of the Self" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 8 (1): 37–52.

Jacob Kokoris
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Keywords: Epistemology, Testimony, Reductionism, Lackey
Citation: . . "Missing the Matter of Fact: The Reductionist’s Restriction Problem" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 8 (1): 53–68.

Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li
University of Toronto

Keywords: Transcendental Idealism, Cyberpunk, Matrix, Time
Citation: . . "On “Kant Meets Cyberpunk”: An Analysis of Science Fiction and Transcendental Idealism" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 8 (1): 69–79.

Isabella Maguire
University of Akron Undergraduate

Keywords: Perception, Knowledge, Perceptual Immediacy, Direct Realism, Cognition, Cognitive Penetration, Psychology, Belief
Citation: . . "Perceptual Assumptions: An Argument Against Epistemic Immediacy" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 8 (1): 81–96.

Eli McGraw
Beloit College

Keywords: Participatory Sense-Making, Interaction Theory, Autonomy, Enactivism, Social Cognition
Citation: . . "Autonomy and Sense-Making: Problematizing the Individual in Social Cognition" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 8 (1): 97–113.

Coner Segren
University of Michigan-Flint

Keywords: Virtual Realism, Virtual Irrealism, Illusion, Virtual Reality, Digital Object
Citation: . . "Against Virtual Realism" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 8 (1): 115–126.

Jack Swick
Villanova University

Keywords: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Buddhism, Cognitive Science, Selfhood, Phenomenology
Citation: . . "Enaction, Anātman, & Episodicity: The Self in Principle & Practice" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 8 (1): 127–148.

Jack Vavrinchik
Elmhurst College

Keywords: Aesthetic Perception, Flow State, Disinterest, Artists
Citation: . . "Aesthetic Flow: The Implications and Neural Correlates of a Goal-Directed Aesthetic Experience" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 8 (1): 149–159.

Xisheng Wang
Michigan State University

Keywords: Epistemology, Cartesian Skepticism, External World, Epistemic Closure Principle, Tracking Theory, Epistemic Operator, Relevant Alternative Theory, Infallibilism
Citation: . . "On Epistemic Effects of Cartesian Skepticism" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 8 (1): 161–180.
 

Volume 7, Issue 2

Nadia Ayensah
Augustana College

Keywords: Basic Desert Responsibility, Free Will, Free Will Skepticism, Morality, Moral Enhancement, Neuroscience, Retributive Justice, Rehabilitation System, Take-Charge Moral Responsibility
Citation: . . "How Responsible Are You For Your Actions?" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 7 (2): 1–21.


Logan B. Cross
Michigan State University

Keywords: Euphemisms, Philosophy of Language, Evolution of Language, Praxis, Meaning, Truth
Citation: . . "Euphemisms and Praxis: Degradation of Truth and Meaning" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 7 (2): 23–33.


Jacob Gordon
Northwestern University

Keywords: Consequentialism, Deontology, Value
Citation: . . "A Defense of Common-Sense Deontology" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 7 (2): 35–52.


Eleanor Goulden
Occidental College

Keywords: Pain, Somatic Symptom Disorder, Gender Bias, Sex Differences in Pain, Medical Sexism, Hysteria, Sex as a Biological Variable, Illness
Citation: . . "Sex Differences and Gender Bias in SSD" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 7 (2): 53–76.


Andrew Kesler
Eastern Michigan University

Keywords: Epistemology, Hermeneutical Ignorance, Epistemic Resources, Marginally Situated Knower, Dominantly Situated Knower, Epistemic Injustice
Citation: . . "Accounting for Willful Hermeneutical Ignorance" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 7 (2): 77–91.


Caitlyn Lecour
Augustana College

Keywords: Being, Human, Personhood
Citation: . . "Being Human" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 7 (2): 93–109.


Andrew Lee
Haverford College

Keywords: Heidegger, Natality, Dasein, Death, Anxiety, Anne O’Byrne, Being and Time, Freedom Towards Death
Citation: . . "Birth, Natal Anxiety, and Possibility" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 7 (2): 111–119.


Ameer Sarwar
University of Toronto, St. George

Keywords: Chinese Room Argument, ‘Strong’ AI, Turing Test, Semantics, Formal Systems, Joint Personalities, Other Minds, Original Meaning
Citation: . . "Semantics, ‘Strong’ AI, and the Chinese Room Argument" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 7 (2): 121–131.


August Smith
Wheaton College

Keywords: Epistemology, Self-deception, Virtue Theory, Vice, Cognitive Barrier
Citation: . . "Self-Deception" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 7 (2): 133–142.
 

Volume 7, Issue 1

Lisa M. Gawel
The University of Michigan-Flint

Keywords: Intersex, Sports, Sex Testing, Segregation, Athletics
Citation: . . "Where Do Intersex Fit in Sports?" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 7 (1): 1–9.


Natalie Hardy
Augustana College

Keywords: Pain, Suffering, Life, Dilemma
Citation: . . "The Pain-Suffering Dilemma" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 7 (1): 11–26.


Kyle Mykietiuk
The University of Michigan-Flint

Keywords: Antinatalism, Polyanna Principle, Existence, Utilitarianism
Citation: . . "The Harm of Existence" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 7 (1): 27–41.


Klementyna R. Pozniak
Baldwin Wallace University

Keywords: Eastern European Studies, Ethics, Genocide, International Ethics
Citation: . . "Ethical and Historical Analysis of the Holodomor" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 7 (1): 43–56.


Andrew Stevens
Illinois State University

Keywords: Socrates, Justice, Civil disobedience, Crito, History of Philosophy
Citation: . . "The Death of a Gadfly: Civil Disobedience and the Trial of Socrates" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 7 (1): 57–66.


Sidney VanMeter
Ball State University

Keywords: Forgiveness, Virtue, Morality, Violence
Citation: . . "The Value of Withholding Forgiveness: An Intermediary between Violence and Forgiveness" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 7 (1): 67–76.
 

Volume 6, Issue 2

Adina Cianciotto
Northwestern University

Keywords: Identity, Cross-cultural, Personhood, Self, Thought Experiments
Citation: . . "Culture on Self-Construal: Personhood and Identity" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 6 (2): 1–26.


Tong (Victoria) Liu
University of Toronto, St. George

Keywords: Relevance Realization, Mental Representation, Computationalism, Dynamical System, Continuous Representation
Citation: . . "Relevance Realization in the Formation of Mental Representation: Analyzing Discrete Thought: Why Cognition Must Use Discrete Representations" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 6 (2): 27–37.


Rhea Thukral
Purdue University

Keywords: Death, End of Life Policy, Vegetative State, Patient Considerations
Citation: . . "Who Decides?" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 6 (2): 39–54.


Yufan Yang
Northwestern University

Keywords: Special Composition Question, Folk Mereology, Teleology, Teleologically Restricted Composition, Creative Intentions Account, Creative Intent Restricted Composition, Experimental Metaphysics
Citation: . . "Human Intuition in Folk Mereology" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 6 (2): 55–68.
 

Volume 6, Issue 1

Kathleen Berta
University of Michigan-Flint

Keywords: Personal Identity, Psychological Criterion, Amnesia, External and Internal Criteria, Mind
Citation: . . "The Mind of Personal Identity: A Criticism of the Psychological Criterion" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 6 (1): 1–8.


Logan B. Cross
Michigan State University

Keywords: Prima Facie Consequentialism, Ethics, Ethical Theory, Consequentialism, Deontology, Morality, Utilitarianism, Cognitive Heuristics, Moral Cognition, Normative Ethical Theory
Citation: . . "Prima Facie Consequentialism: Reconciling Consequentialism and Deontology into a Normative Ethical Theory" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 6 (1): 9–32.


Patrick Ewell
University of Michigan-Flint

Keywords: Health, Illness, Disease, Bioethics, Katskee vs Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Nebraska, Social Health, Philosophy of Health, Concepts of Disease and Health
Citation: . . "Defining Illness" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 6 (1): 33–44.


Samantha Hortop
University of Michigan-Flint

Keywords: Property dualism, Occam’s Razor, Neuroscience, Psychology, Dualism, Mind
Citation: . . "Neuroscience and Property Dualism" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 6 (1): 45–50.


Hamzaullah Khan
University of Michigan-Flint

Keywords: Commodious Living, Basic Rights, Material Rights, Physical Security
Citation: . . "Human Standards of Commodious Living" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 6 (1): 51–55.


Mason Majszak
Loyola University Chicago

Keywords: Bioethics, Epistemology, Genetic Ethics, Subjective Good Life, Disability Rights, Liberty, Discrimination, Beneficence, Self-Knowledge, Reproductive Rights
Citation: . . "Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis: Limiting Personal and Societal Knowledge Through Genetic Discrimination" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 6 (1): 57–69.
 

Volume 5, Issue 2

Bahaa Arbid
Loyola University Chicago

Keywords: Anti-Love Drug, Neuro-Enhancement, Love, Medicalization, Commercialization, Safety
Citation: . . "A Re-Invention of Love" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 5 (2): 109–123.


Luke Arend
Bethel University

Keywords: Moral Responsibility, Free Will, Compatibilism and Incompatibilism, Determinism, Quantum Mechanics, Libet Experiments, Neuroscience
Citation: . . "Can Neuroscience Comment on Whether We Have Moral Responsibility?" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 5 (2): 1–10.


Sabine Bickford
Eastern Michigan University

Keywords: Descartes, Schramme, Ryle, Kafer, Mental Illness, Identity, Mind Body Dualism, Relational Model, Feminism, Disability
Citation: . . "Beyond the Mind Body Problem: A Feminist Relational Model of Mental Illness and Identity" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 5 (2): 11–18.


Max van den Broek
University of Amsterdam

Keywords: Extended Mind, Extended Cognition, Externalism, Coupling-Constitution Fallacy, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognition
Citation: . . "The Cognitive Complexity Thesis: Refuting Multiple Objections to the Extended Mind Thesis" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 5 (2): 19–30.


Jonathan Covey
Union College

Keywords: Smart Drugs, Cognitive Enhancers, Neuroethics, Nootropics, Learning Acquisition, Psychostimulants, Medical Ethics, The Role of Medicine, Psychological Treatments, Competitive Fairness
Citation: . . "Ethical Considerations and Implications of Smart Drugs" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 5 (2): 31–43.


Sharon Dassouli
Loyola University Chicago

Keywords: ADHD, Adderall, Study Drugs, Irresponsible, Unethical, Unfair, Unsafe
Citation: . . "Popping One “Study Drug” At A Time" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 5 (2): 125–136.


Joseph Longo
Eastern Michigan University

Keywords: Emotions, Fear, Idealization, Positivism, Cognivitism, Social Constructionism, Attitudes, Judgments, Observations, Death
Citation: . . "Emotional Synthesis and Moral Sociality" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 5 (2): 45–61.


Alexander Palka
Clemson University

Keywords: Infant, Euthanasia, Infanticide, Escobar, Marquis, Munson, Nesbitt, Future of Value, Future Like Ours, Bente Hindriks, Suffering, Treatment, Utilitarian, Bioethics, Moral Status
Citation: . . "In the Absence of a Future Like Ours" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 5 (2): 63–82.


Kathryn Petrozzo
Saint Michael’s College

Keywords: Neuroethics, Free Will, Responsibility, Agency, Compatibilism, Criminal Law, Technology
Citation: . . "Free Will and Responsibility in the Neuroscientific Age" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 5 (2): 83–100.


Mikayla Pouliot
Hope College

Keywords: Justified True Belief, Knowledge, Cognitive, Function, Design Plan, Neurotypical, Disorder, Disability, Dysfunction, Autism
Citation: . . "Validating Knowledge of Individuals with Mental Disorders: An Extension of Plantinga’s Functionalist-Theory of Knowledge" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 5 (2): 101–107.
 

Volume 5, Issue 1

Jonah Branding
Central Michigan University

Keywords: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science, Mental Causation, Epiphenomenalism, Justification, Mysterianism, Physical Closure, Cognitive Closure, Knowledge of Causation, Causal Inference
Citation: . . "Mental Causation Under Two Types of Closure" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 5 (1): 1–12.


Michael Fiorica
State University of New York at Buffalo

Keywords: Akrasia, Weakness of Will, Depression, Practical Reason, Mental Illness, Phenomenology, Procrastination, Rationality, Psychology, Normativity
Citation: . . "Depression: Symptoms May Include Akrasia?" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 5 (1): 13–26.


Russell Guilbault
University at Buffalo

Keywords: Zen, Buddhism, Shobogenzo, Dogen, Japan, Eastern, Mind, Free Will, Monism, Materialism
Citation: . . "Mind as Action in Zen Buddhist Thought" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 5 (1): 27–34.


Leah Elizabeth Hasdan
DePaul University

Keywords: Scientific Realism, Freedom, Will, Underdetermination, Philosophy of Science, Cognitive Functioning, Darwin, Lewontin, Popper, Khun, Lewens
Citation: . . "Does Scientific Realism Think For Us?" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 5 (1): 35–40.


Julia Lei
Western University

Keywords: Animalism, Hylomorphism, Personal Identity, Metaphysics, Morality, Thomism, Neo-Aristotelian, Soul, Persistence, Moral Status
Citation: . . "What We Are: Our Metaphysical Nature & Moral Implications" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 5 (1): 41–47.



Molly Ockert
University of Michigan-Flint

Keywords: Gender Norms, Plastic Surgery, Pixee Fox, Bodily Disconnect, Body Functionality, Rib Removal, Cosmetic Surgery, Ideal Body Image, Rhinoplasty, Augmentation
Citation: . . "Plastic Surgery and Bodily Disconnect" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 5 (1): 49–55.
 

Volume 4, Issue 2

Benjamin Cline
Bethel University

Keywords: Self-deception, cognitive psychology, neurophysiology, emotion, cognitive dissonance, empiricism, psychology, error minimization (PEDMIN), unintentional, information processing, cognitive bias
Citation: . . "A Psychological Account of the Formation of Self Deceptive Beliefs" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 4 (2): 1–12.


Thomas M. DePietro
University of Delaware

Keywords: Reductionism, Functionalism, Physicalism, Materialism, Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, Belief, Cognition, Neurophysiology, Epistemology
Citation: . . "Belief According to Reasons: Can the Brain Detect Truth?" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 4 (2): 13–28.


Cody Hatfield-Myers
University of Michigan-Flint

Keywords: Boorse, Clouser, Culver, Gert, Mordacci and Sobel, Reductionism, Malady, Disease, Illness, Narrative, Health, Social Model, Medical Model, Normalcy, Stigmatization
Citation: . . "Insidious Illness: A Criticism of Medical Reductionism" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 4 (2): 29–44.
 

Volume 4, Issue 1

Keagan Potts
Loyola University Chicago

Keywords: Enactivism, Perception, Understanding, Perceptual Presence, Fragility, Implicit Bias, Interpersonal Understanding, Alva Noë, Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Citation: . . "The Revised Enactive Account: Interpersonal Understanding and Perceptual Achievement" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 4 (1): 1–22.


Ryan Powers
Ohio University

Keywords: Logical Fatalism, Saul Kripke, Essential Properties, Determinism, Joseph Diekemper, Time, Temporal, Necessity, Contingency, Aristotle, Modal Fallacy
Citation: . . "Logical Fatalism: Origins as Essential Properties of Events" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 4 (1): 23–32.


Lokita Rajan
Emory University

Keywords: Conceptual Act Theory, Basic Emotions, Subjective Character of Experience, Nativism, Empiricism
Citation: . . "Cognitive Theories of Emotion: Conceptualizing Pain and Suffering" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 4 (1): 33–41.


Shweta Sahu
Emory University

Keywords: Cognitive Enhancement, tDCS, Noninvasive Brain Stimulation, Authenticity, Safety, Responsibility, Implicit Coercion, Open Futures, Cosmetic Neurology, Treatment
Citation: . . "Responsibility: Revis(ion)ing Brains via Cognitive Enhancement" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 4 (1): 43–54.


Christopher D. Schultz
The University of Akron

Keywords: Consciousness, Reductive Materialism, Dualism, Scientism, Neutral Monism, Panpsychism, Neuroplasticity, DMT, Psilocybin, Religious Experience, Neo-darwinism, Theoneurological Models
Citation: . . "Neuroplasticity, Nagel and nn-DMT: Where Neuroscience and Evolutionary Biology Meet Mystical Mathematics and Theoneurological Models of Consciousness" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 4 (1): 55–66.


Laura Teal
Hope College

Keywords: Free Will, Unconscious Actions, Moral Responsibility, Willpower, Attitudes, Schemas, Behavior, Social Psychology, Agency, Will
Citation: . . "Unconscious Acts as Acts with Moral Responsibility" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 4 (1): 67–75.


Albwin Wagner-Schmitzer
University of Cincinnati

Keywords: Possible Worlds, Counterfactual, Reality, Fantasy, Self, Worlds, Ideal Worlds, Material World, Symbiotic Relationship, Picture of the World
Citation: . . "Fantasy, Reality, and the Self" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 4 (1): 77–89.
 

Volume 3, Issue 2

Charles Dalrymple-Fraser
University of Toronto

Keywords: Anorexia Nervosa, Bioethics, Consent, Egosyntonicity, Medical Ethics, Paternalism, Pathology, Pathological Identity, Personal Identity
Citation: . . "Egosyntonicity as Pathology in At-Risk Anorexia Nervosa Patients" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 3 (2): 1–16.


Thomas M. DePietro
University of Delaware

Keywords: Libet, Free Will, Choice, Decision, Action, Consciousness, Freedom, Volition, Voluntary, Neurophysiology
Citation: . . ""Is Free-Will Defensible in light of Modern Day Psychology?"" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 3 (2): 17–29.


Shawn Forquer
Grand Valley State University

Keywords: Cognitive Dissonance, Desensitization, Dream Function, Evolutionary Psychology, Fear, Implicit Learning Rehearsal, Sleep, Threat Simulation Theory, TST
Citation: . . ""Waking From a Bad Dream: A Response to Threat-Simulation Theory"" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 3 (2): 31–50.


Elena Sobrino
University of Michigan-Flint

Keywords: Autism, Disability, Biomedicine, Alternative Medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine
Citation: . . ""An Alternative Approach: Chinese Medicine and Autism"" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 3 (2): 51–63.


Annie Zhao
Western University (Formally known as The University of Western Ontario)

Keywords: Gender dysphoria (GD), Diagnostic and Statistic Manual (DSM), Mental Illness, Gender Identity Disorder, Feminist Theory, Transgender Issues, Sexuality
Citation: . . ""Should ‘gender dysphoria’ be classified as a mental illness?"" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 3 (2): 65–69.
 

Volume 3, Issue 1

Charles Dalrymple-Fraser
University of Toronto

Keywords: Advance Directives, Alzheimer’s, Applied Ethics, Dementia, Ethics, Future Planning, Identity, Personal Identity
Citation: . . "Dissolving the “Other Person” Problem" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 3 (1): 1–12.


Abigail E. DeHart
Grand Valley State University

Luke S. DeHart
Grand Valley State University

Keywords: History, Moral Sentimentalism, Adam Smith, Altruism, Neuroethics, Empathy, Ethics
Citation: . . "The Philanthropy Machine: Neuroethics and Empathy" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 3 (1): 13–23.


Daniel P. Flavin
Hope College

Keywords: Partial Reference, Incommensurability, Kuhn, Causal Theory of Reference, Translation, Interpretation
Citation: . . "Incommensurability and Partial Reference" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 3 (1): 25–34.


Andrew Rydlund
University of St. Thomas, Minnesota

Keywords: Full-brain Death, Hylomorphism, Substance, Accident, Prime Matter, Substantial Form, Accidental Form
Citation: . . "Seemingly Alive: Full-brain Death Is Death" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 3 (1): 35–45.


Rebecca Valeriano-Flores
DePaul University

Keywords: Causality, Identity, Ethics, Free Will, Determinism
Citation: . . "Identity and Causality: Foucault’s Subject and Kant’s Third Antinomy" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 3 (1): 47–61.
 

Volume 2, Issue 2

Rachel Fischell
Duke University

Keywords: Pharmacological Enhancement, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Emotional Memory Consolidation, Propranolol, Moral Decision-Making, Personal Identity, Value of a Life
Citation: . . "Ethics of Memory Dampening Using Propranolol as a Treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in the Field of Emergency Medicine." compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 2 (2): 1–14.


Tracy Graves
Ball State University

Keywords: Philosophy of action, positive and negative causation, rehabilitation, incarceration, punishment
Citation: . . "Rethinking the Goal of Imprisonment." compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 2 (2): 15–27.


Joelle Hershberger
Bethel University

Keywords: Rationalism, sentimentalism, intuitionism, society, morality, moral psychology
Citation: . . "Reason, Society, and the Social Intuitionist Model." compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 2 (2): 29–43.


Samuel Kratzer
Bethel University

Keywords: Virtue, character, situationism, agency, dispositions, preemption, sustaining social contribution to character, enabling and stimulus conditions
Citation: . . "Are Virtue Ethics and Situationism Really Incompatible?." compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 2 (2): 45–58.


Maxim Perel
The Ohio State University

Keywords: Other Minds, Physicalism, Analogical Inference, Human Biology, Probabilistic Arguments
Citation: . . "Revisiting the Problem of Other Minds." compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 2 (2): 59–67.


Andy Slabchuck
University of Michigan-Flint

Keywords: Epistemology, Know-how, Structure of knowledge, Gilbert Ryle, Regress, Propositional Knowledge, Intellectualism, Anti-Intellectualism
Citation: . . "Chess and Regress: A Defense of Intellectualism." compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 2 (2): 69–78.


Jordan Tiffany
University of Michigan-Flint

Keywords: Autism, Alternative Medicine, Autonomy, Children, Medicine, Measles, Parents, Rights, Treatments, Vaccines
Citation: . . "Should Parental Rights be the Final Judgment for Their Child’s Medical Needs?." compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 2 (2): 79–90.
 

Volume 2, Issue 1

Joel Anderson
Bethel University

Keywords: Situationism, Character, Virtue Ethics, My Lai, Abu Ghraib, Atrocity, Responsibility, Kantian Consistency
Citation: . . "Kantian Consistency and Military Atrocity: Holding Military Personnel Responsible for Atrocity." compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 2 (1): 1–15.


Thomas Mann
University of Michigan-Flint

Keywords: Psychopathy, moral responsibility, moral agency, amygdala, serotonin
Citation: . . "Morality, Psychopathy, and Responsibility: Can Psychopaths be Morally Responsible Agents?" compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 2 (1): 17–34.


Areins Pelayo
University of South Florida

Keywords: Literary Criticism, Identity, Formalism, Romanticism, Postmodernism, Immanuel Kant, bell hooks, Nominalism, Nagel, Racial Bias, Gender Bias
Citation: . . "Individuals, Identity, and Interest Groups." compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 2 (1): 35–42.



Kaylie Provenzano
University of South Florida

Keywords: Cognitive-Science, Cognitive-Functionalism, Neuro-Ethics, Rational-Logic, Aesthetics, Truth
Citation: . . "Pursuit of Progressive Truths: Cognitive Functionalism." compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 2 (1): 43–62.


Paul So
University of Maryland

Keywords: David Lewis, Derek Parfit, Personal Identity, Tense Identity, Numerical Identity, Qualitative Identity, Common Sense Notion of Personal Identity, Formal Identity, Survival, and Fusion Paradox
Citation: . . "Lewis’ Personal Identity." compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 2 (1): 63–72.
 

Volume 1, Issue 1

Elizabeth Arnold
University of Michigan-Flint

Keywords: Psychosomatic, mind, biomedical, placebo, cognitive psychology
Citation: . . "Psychosomatic Illnesses: Philosophical Implications and the Current State of Research." compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 1 (1): 1–13.


Shouta Brown
Western Kentucky University

Keywords: Arpaly, Compatibilism, Conscious Will, Determinism, Free Will, Hume, Kane, Significance of Free Will
Citation: . . "The Desirability of Free Will: The Value of the Concept Regardless of Its Existence." compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 1 (1): 14–24.


Kiefer Owens
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Keywords: Qualia, consciousness, physicalism, reductive physicalism, epiphenomenalism, substance dualism, functionalism, topic-neutral, ineffable, causal efficacy
Citation: . . "Explaining Qualia." compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 1 (1): 25–34.


Tyler Rauh
University of Michigan-Flint

Keywords: Near-Death Experience, Out-of-Body Experience, Physicalism, Dualism
Citation: . . "Near-Death Experiences: A Potential Problem for Physicalism." compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 1 (1): 35–44.

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Editorial policies and content decisions for the compos mentis: Undergraduate Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics progress by collaboration between the University of Michigan-Flint Philosophy Club, select faculty from the University of Michigan-Flint Philosophy Department, and under the advice from the Center for Cognition and Neuroethics.

Faculty Advisors

Joel Zuehlke
Lecturer I
University of Michigan-Flint
jzuehlke@umich.edu

Editors

Alana Petsch
Student Assistant
apetsch@umich.edu

Lisa Gawel
Editor

Zea Miller
Production Editor