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Archimedes sought a point on which he could stand to move the world, thereby setting a precedent for legions of Western philosophers, whose history is marked by metaphysical assumptions exogenous to the systems built around them. This problem has been forcefully and most fully examined by Jacques Derrida and his poststructuralism. Some critics, however, allege postmodernism has deviated from Derrida’s initial project., Published as part of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Journal of Undergraduate Research, Volume 3 (2000)

Anaximander and other Pre-Socratic Greek philosophers saw reality as a fluctuating, dynamic process, but this vision later stagnated into an abstract model of a static world. This paper explores the Pre-Socratic vision, then points out signals of a return to the embrace of flux in twentieth-century phenomenology, process philosophy, and physics., Published as part of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Journal of Undergraduate Research, Volume 2 (1999)