Date Thesis Awarded

4-2019

Access Type

Honors Thesis -- Access Restricted On-Campus Only

Degree Name

Bachelors of Arts (BA)

Department

Philosophy

Advisor

Aaron Griffith

Committee Members

Adela Amaral

Philip Swenson

Abstract

This is a thesis about ghosts. Ghosts, as I engage with them throughout the following pages, are not merely those entities that haunt the fringes of the human psyche; the uncanny encounters that, when they are spoken of, are endlessly qualified with the many different ways there are of saying "I don't believe in ghosts, but..." Ghosts, as I will argue, are materially constitutive of the world; they are the chair you sit on, the mass extinction event you are living through; they are the paper you hold in your hands and the thoughts you have as you read these words.

Recommended Citation

Covert, Riley, "Ghosts of the Anthropocene" (2019). Undergraduate Honors Theses. William & Mary. Paper 1398.
https://scholarworks.wm.edu/honorstheses/1398