Undergraduate Essay
A Pathway to Engineering Consciousness: Models of Biological & Artificial Attention
Senior spring cognitive science paper.
Archive
Selections from my undergraduate essays at Yale
Spanning philosophy, literature, neuroscience, and beyond.
May serve as a potential resource for college students engaging with similar topics.
2022
2020
2019
Undergraduate Essay
(In)distinctness and Divinity in Spinoza’s Ethics Attribute-Affection Dualism & Substance Monism
Freshman spring philosophy paper.
Undergraduate Essay
Humanity in Beasts and Bestiality in Man: Conway’s Transmigration & Locke’s Personal Identity
Freshman spring philosophy paper.
Undergraduate Essay
From Padmavati to Padmaavat: Religious Tropes in Mediaeval/Modern India
Sophomore fall religious studies paper.
2018
Undergraduate Essay
The Socratic Elenchus on Piety in the Euthyphro: How (not) to Define Piety
Freshman fall philosophy paper. Published in the Yale Historical Review
Undergraduate Essay
Aristotle’s Hierarchy of Hylomorphism: Form-Matter Intersectionality in the Physics
Freshman fall philosophy paper. Winner of the Mike Dodge Prize for best philosophy paper.
Undergraduate Essay
Evodius’ Divine Vicissitude within Will & Evil: Augustine’s Argument for the Acquittal of God
Freshman fall literature paper.
Undergraduate Essay
Blood. Fire. Rage.
Freshman fall literature paper.
Undergraduate Essay
Humanity in Beasts & Bestiality in (Wo)man: The Canine Leitmotif in The Oresteia
Freshman fall literature paper.
Undergraduate Essay
Of Poets, Prophets, & Poetic Prophecy: Plotting Predestination in Virgil’s Aeneid
Freshman fall literature paper.
Undergraduate Essay
The Complexity of Causality in The History: Determinism, Divine Causation, Hereditary Damnation, and Destiny
Freshman fall history paper.
Undergraduate Essay
The War on Verse in The Republic: Plato’s Polemic against Poets in the Polis
Freshman fall history paper.
Undergraduate Essay
Plutarch’s Political Puzzle: On Caesar, Scandal, & Spectacle
Freshman fall history paper.