A Pathway to Engineering Consciousness: Models of Biological & Artificial Attention
Undergraduate Essay
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
A Computational Vision Analysis of Camouflage
Undergraduate Essay
Junior fall computational vision final project.
2019
(In)distinctness and Divinity in Spinoza’s Ethics Attribute-Affection Dualism & Substance Monism
Undergraduate Essay
Freshman spring philosophy paper.
Humanity in Beasts and Bestiality in Man: Conway’s Transmigration & Locke’s Personal Identity
Undergraduate Essay
Freshman spring philosophy paper.
From Padmavati to Padmaavat: Religious Tropes in Mediaeval/Modern India
Undergraduate Essay
Sophomore fall religious studies paper.
2018
The Socratic Elenchus on Piety in the Euthyphro: How (not) to Define Piety
Undergraduate Essay
Freshman fall philosophy paper. Published in the Yale Historical Review
Aristotle’s Hierarchy of Hylomorphism: Form-Matter Intersectionality in the Physics
Undergraduate Essay
Freshman fall philosophy paper. Winner of the Mike Dodge Prize for best philosophy paper.
Evodius’ Divine Vicissitude within Will & Evil: Augustine’s Argument for the Acquittal of God
Undergraduate Essay
Freshman fall literature paper.
Humanity in Beasts & Bestiality in (Wo)man: The Canine Leitmotif in The Oresteia
Undergraduate Essay
Freshman fall literature paper.
Of Poets, Prophets, & Poetic Prophecy: Plotting Predestination in Virgil’s Aeneid
Undergraduate Essay
Freshman fall literature paper.
Undergraduate Essay
Freshman fall history paper.
The War on Verse in The Republic: Plato’s Polemic against Poets in the Polis
Undergraduate Essay
Freshman fall history paper.
Plutarch’s Political Puzzle: On Caesar, Scandal, & Spectacle
Undergraduate Essay
Freshman fall history paper.