Recent Graduate Student Placement
| Year | Title of Thesis or Oral Exam Paper> | Applied to Philosophy PhD programs? | Program that the graduate attended after the Texas Tech MA program (Philosophy unless otherwise noted) |
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2022 |
The Risk of Psychologizing, Respectful Reason-Giving, and the Desire to be in Solidarity with Others |
Yes (applied F23) |
UNC-Chapel Hill (also offers from Pittsburgh, UCSD, Penn, Maryland, Northwestern, UIC, UCSB) |
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2023 |
Believing, Wondering and Inquiring |
Yes |
Maryland (also offers from UMass Amherst, Northwestern) |
|
2023 |
Dualism about Normative Reasons |
Yes |
Georgetown (also offers from UW Madison, York, FSU, UIC, ASU) |
|
2022 |
An Analysis of Doxastic Morality |
Yes (applied F23) |
UCSB |
|
2023 |
Securing Genuine Disagreement for Humean Constructivism |
Yes |
FSU |
|
2023 |
Color's Value and It's Place in Conscious Sensory Experience |
Yes |
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2023 |
Justified Belief in Zetetic Instrumentality |
Yes |
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2023 |
Carving Causation at the Joints |
No |
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2023 |
Interpreting Silence: A Social Epistemological Perspective |
No |
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2023 |
Conspiracy Theorists, they're just like us |
No |
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2023 |
Diachronic Conditionalization and The Metaphysics of Time and Persistence |
No |
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2022 |
Subject Naturalism and Normativity: Essays on Expressivism |
Yes |
Harvard (also offers from UNC, Arizona, Maryland, Indiana, Penn, Wisconsin, Georgetown) |
|
2022 |
Risk, Expected Utility, and Pragmatic Encroachment |
Yes |
Maryland (also Nebraska) |
|
2022 |
A Puzzle about Invariantism and Action |
No |
Univ. of Nebraska Law |
|
2022 |
Epistemic Paternalism as Rationality-Bypassing Indoctrination |
No (applied F23) |
Univ. of Oklahoma |
|
2022 |
Superstitious Liberalism |
No |
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2022 |
Reformulating the Philosophy of Creativity: Expression and Generation of Non-standard Ideas within a Social Context |
No |
TTU History PhD Program |
|
2021 |
The Problem of Experience Ownership Recognition |
Yes |
UCLA (also offers from Notre Dame, Arizona, Syracuse, Miami, Cincinnati, Missouri, Nebraska) |
|
2021 |
Political Obligation: Fair Play and Samaritanism |
Yes |
New England Law School |
|
2021 |
Expanded Atheism's Implicit Doctrine of Man |
Yes |
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|
2021 |
Epistemic Responsibility in Cases of Sexual Violation Accusations |
No |
Hofstra Law School (also offers from Rutgers Law School, University of Baltimore Law, Quinnipiac School of Law, Chicago-Kent Law, and New York School of Law) |
|
2021 |
Had We but World Enough and Time: A Critique of Hume's Test of Time |
No |
UT Austin Pharm.D |
|
2021 |
Speech Acts in Fiction |
No |
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2021 |
Open-mindedness as Epistemic Virtue: Jane Austen's Wollstonecraftian Inheritance |
No |
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2021 |
Naturalizing Propositions, Cognitive Complexity, and Animal Minds |
No |
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|
2020 |
The Particularity and Objectual Unity of Visual Experience |
Yes |
New York University (also offers from Rutgers, Pitt, MIT, UCLA, Toronto, Columbia, CUNY, Notre Dame, UT, Brown, UCSD, WUSTL, Maryland, Rice) |
|
2020 |
The Limits of Partiality in Friendship |
Yes |
University of Pittsburgh (also offers from Ohio State, Georgetown, Duke, UT, UC Riverside, Maryland, Nebraska, Colorado) |
|
2020 |
Appropriation as Metaphor |
Yes |
CUNY (also offers from WUSTL, UConn, Miami, UC Davis, UCSB) |
|
2020 |
Illusion of Support: Positive Illusions and Epistemic Pragmatism |
Yes |
University of Rochester |
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2020 |
Kripke's Thesis of Meaning Normativism in Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language |
Yes |
University of Iowa |
|
2020 |
Why Expressivists Cannot and Should not Use Schroeder's Strategy to Solve Their Problem with Negation |
Yes |
Tulane University (also offers from Nebraska, Kansas) |
|
2020 |
Cognitive Science of Religion and the Justification of Religious Beliefs" |
Yes |
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2020 |
Black Fire: In Praise of the Bad |
No |
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2020 |
Making the Link: Preliminaries of a Historical-Intentional Definition of Linked Short Story Collections |
No |
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2020 |
Justice: The Ordinary Understanding Examined |
No |
TTU Law School |
|
2019 |
How Gradable Adjectives Work |
Yes |
Rutgers University (also offers from USC, UT, UNC, Northwestern, UC Davis) |
|
2019 |
Evidence, Evidentialism and Reasons |
Yes |
Ohio State University (also offers from Florida State and UCSB) |
|
2019 |
Defending the Principle of Maximizing Expected Utility |
Yes |
University of Maryland (also offers from Munich, Bristol, ANU) |
|
2019 |
On the Ontology of Art |
No |
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2019 |
A Defense of Truth Conditional Accounts of Indicative Conditionals |
No |
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2019 |
The Nature of Epistemic Reasons: Hypothetical or Categorical? A Reply to Thomas Kelly |
No |
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2018 |
Two Conceptions of Ground and a Dilemma for Schaffer |
Yes |
Indiana University (also offer from Cincinnati) |
|
2018 |
Nietzsche and the Virtue of Self-Knowledge | Yes |
University of South Florida |
|
2018 |
Buddhist Ethics as Upaya | No |
Boston University (sociology PhD program) |
|
2018 |
Privacy in Information Technology |
No |
University of Maine (computer science PhD program) |
|
2018 |
The Conversion Theory Solution to the Paradox of Tragedy |
No |
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2018 |
Satisfying Dowell's Demand: NFM as an Unobvious and A Priori Thesis |
No |
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2018 |
Singer, Act-Utilitarianism, and Self-Defeat |
No |
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2018 |
Physician Assisted Death: Taking Psychological Pain Seriously |
No |
Teaching secondary school in the El Paso school district |
|
2017 |
Four Conceptions of Physicalism |
Yes |
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2017 |
Descartes, Diagonal Deduction, and God: a Fictionalist Reconciliation |
No |
St. Andrews (MA in analytic theology) Transferred to Notre Dame |
|
2017 |
How could Altruistic Behavior Evolve? |
No |
Mitchell Hamline School of Law |
|
2017 |
Ends That Are Also Duties |
No |
University of Minnesota Law School |
|
2017 |
Knocking Saul Off His Horse: Unsought Religious Experiences and Ultimate Realities |
No |
Texas Tech University (Technical Writing MA program) |
|
2017 |
Reading Law as Art: Comparing Legal and Artistic Interpretation |
No |
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2017 |
A Defense of Agent-Based Virtue Ethics |
No |
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2017 |
Hold the Line: Plato on Education, Virtue, and Language |
No |
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|
2016 |
What are we aware of during hallucination? |
Yes |
Rutgers (also offers from Texas, UCSD, WUSTL, Wisconsin, Maryland, UConn, UC Davis, UCSB, Rice) |
|
2016 |
A New Route to Causal Pluralism |
Yes |
WUSTL (also offers from Maryland, UConn, UCSB) |
|
2016 |
Challenges from the Schmagent |
Yes |
Ohio State (also offer from UC Davis) |
|
2016 |
Kantian Nonconceptualism, Priority to Thought, and Intuition |
Yes |
Syracuse (also offers from Nebraska and Bowling Green) |
|
2016 |
A pincer problem for the DN model of scientific explanation |
Yes |
Arkansas |
|
2016 |
The B-Derived A-Series; a Response to McTaggart |
Yes |
Admitted to Kansas (philosophy), Toronto (HPST), Washington State University (Environmental Science) |
|
2016 |
A Definition of Art |
No |
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2016 |
Descriptive and Normative Accounts of Rational Choice |
No |
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2016 |
The Earthly Wager |
No |
Stephen F Austin (psychology MA program); now Colorado State (psychology PhD program)
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2016 |
Discussion on the debate on Sobel's "would promote" statements in evolutionary biology |
No |
Utah |
|
2016 |
On the Role and Success of Descartes' Evil Genius |
No |
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2016 |
Optimizing Moral Character: A Virtue Ethics Training Framework for Achieving Moral Readiness In the United States Army |
No |
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|
2015 |
The Origin of Empirical Concepts in Kant and the Specificity of Experience |
Yes |
Florida State (also offer from Missouri) |
|
2015 |
Virtue Ethics and the Empirical Challenge from Social Psychology |
Yes |
Florida State |
|
2015 |
Hybrid Expressivism and Speech Act Theories |
Yes |
University of Cincinnati |
|
2015 |
Pragmatic Intentionalism: A New Look at Art Interpretation |
Yes |
Adjunct Faculty at Converse College and University of South Carolina Upstate; now Illinois at Chicago (also offers from SUNY Buffalo and Oklahoma) |
|
2015 |
Edmund Burke and the Paradox of Tragedy |
No |
Texas Tech Philosophy Instructor |
|
2015 |
Rebellion and Reasonableness |
No |
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2015 |
Critical Pluralism and the Postulated Author |
No |
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2015 |
Out of the Gutters: A Defense of the Hayman-Pratt Definition of Comics |
No |
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2015 |
Crowds of Balls, Speckled Hens, & Flocks of Geese: An Examination of Visual Perception |
No |
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2015 |
Diotima's Ladder - Material vs. Abstract Beauty |
No |
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|
2014 |
Can the No-Miracles Argument Support Moral Realism |
No |
Texas Tech University English program |
|
2014 |
Phenomenal Knowledge as Non-Theoretical Factual Knowledge |
Yes |
Syracuse (also offer from UIUC) |
|
2014 |
Leibniz on Personal Identity and Desire |
Yes |
UIUC |
|
2014 |
Epistemicism and Vagueness |
Yes |
Texas Tech MS in Computer Science (also offers from Kansas and SUNY Albany) |
|
2014 |
Aesthetic Realism and the Problem of Fundamental Disagreement |
Yes |
Texas Tech Philosophy Instructor; now at Missouri (also offer from Rice)
Transferred to Rutgers |
|
2014 |
Trial and Hare: An Exploration of the Experimental |
No |
Marine Corps Officer School |
|
2014 |
Can Morality be Grounded in God? A Defense of Divine Grounded Ethics |
No |
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2014 |
Context Sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism |
No |
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2014 |
"With regard to politics" – Hume on Rebellion and Reform |
No |
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|
2013 |
N/A |
Yes |
Texas |
|
2013 |
Genius and the Origins of Art in Kant's Aesthetics |
Yes |
Kentucky (funded offer from Oklahoma) |
|
2013 |
McDowellian Virtue Ethics and Individuality |
Yes |
Offer from Temple |
|
2013 |
Revision Theory of Truth, Contextualism, and the Liar Paradox |
No |
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2013 |
Interpreting the Pre-Socratic Poet-Philosophers |
No |
Virginia (PhD program in classics) |
|
2012 |
A Place for Moral Theory in the Argument from Evil |
Yes |
Virginia (funded offers from Texas A&M, Rochester, and St. Louis) Transferred to Texas A&M |
|
2012 |
On a Fundamental Inconsistency of the Humean Theory of Motivation |
Yes |
Wisconsin (funded offers from Florida State, Indiana, Rochester, and Baylor) Transferred to UT Austin TT at U.C. Davis |
|
2012 |
The Ideal Critic: Foie Gras and Twinkies |
No |
Texas Tech University History PhD program |
|
2012 |
The Antihero: A Special Case for Radical Moralism |
No |
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|
2012 |
A Phenomenological Account of Conventional Truth |
No |
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|
2012 |
An Underdetermination Argument Against Underdetermination |
Yes |
University of Massachusetts (also offers from Baylor, Syracuse,and University of Virginia) Transferred to U.C. Berkeley (also offer from U.C. San Diego) |
|
2012 |
Moral Supervenience: The Problem and the Beginnings of a Solution |
Yes |
Wisconsin (also offers from Baylor, Virginia, Illinois, Rice and Purdue) |
|
2012 |
A Minimalist Ethics |
No |
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2012 |
Revolution, Spinoza, and Tyranny |
No |
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|
2011 |
A Case Study on Theoretical Strength |
Yes |
Johns Hopkins (also offers from Rice, Illinois, and Cincinnati) Transferred to Pitt (HPS) (also offer from Notre Dame HPS) |
|
2011 |
N/A |
Yes |
University of Pennsylvania |
|
2011 |
The Existence of Evil: Evidence for or Against Theism |
Yes |
University of Tennessee (also offers from Texas A&M and Georgia) Transferred to U.C. Riverside. |
|
2011 |
Van Inwagen's Theodicy From a Moral Point of View |
Yes |
University of Missouri (also offer from Georgia) |
|
2011 |
Art & Moral Development in Selected Works of Plato and Aristotle |
Yes |
SUNY Binghamton |
|
2010 |
Interventionism, Supervenience, and Epiphenomenalism |
No |
University of Tennessee Pharmacy School |
|
2010 |
Man Pain and Mollusc Pain; or Multiple Realizations as an Empirical Hypothesis |
Yes |
University of Texas TT at University of Central Okhlahoma |
|
2010 |
Expressive Meaning and Truth Conditions |
Yes |
University of Missouri |
|
2010 |
Epistemic Contextualism as an Empirical Hypothesis |
Yes |
London School of Economics Transferred to U.C. Davis |
|
2010 |
A Semantic Internalist Account of Racial Epithets |
Yes |
University of Virginia Transferred to University of Connecticut. |
|
2010 |
Mental Illness as an Epistemic Defeater of Religious Experienced-Based Testimony |
No |
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2010 |
Fiction |
No |
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2010 |
Fearing the Monstrous: Redefining Horror |
No |
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2009 |
An Evolutionary Account of Aesthetic Experience |
Yes |
Rice University (Anthropology) |
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On Demonstrating “Everything” |
Yes |
Stanford University TT at San Francisco State |
|
2009 |
The Nature of Law and Judicial Decisions |
No |
University of California—Berkeley Law |
|
2009 |
Practical Pluralism |
Yes |
University of Cincinnati |
|
2009 |
Rawls Law of Peoples, the Global Basic Structure and Global Poverty |
Yes |
University of Missouri |
|
2009 |
The Tension Between Faith and Christian Mystical Practices |
No |
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|
2008 |
Expressivism and the Problem of Embedding |
Yes |
University of Rochester |
|
2008 |
Formative Pruning: Trimming Growth to Increase Structural Strength |
No |
University of Houston Law School |
|
2008 |
A Value-based, Holistic Approach to Environmental Ethics |
Yes | Temple University |
|
2008 |
The Truth Goal and the New Evil Demon Problem |
Yes |
University of Washington |
|
2008 |
Possibilities Self-Deception and Religious Insight |
Yes |
University of Rochester |
|
2008 |
Kant's Respoonse to the Problem of Induction |
Yes |
University of Rochester |
|
2007 |
L.W. Sumner and the Perfectionist Requirement for Well-being |
Yes |
Duke University |
|
2007 |
Norma's Knowledge |
No |
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|
2007 |
An Aesthetic Theory of Art |
Yes |
University of Miami |
|
2007 |
Complete Radical Skepticism |
Yes |
Bowling Green |
|
2007 |
A Critique of Cohen's Relational Theory of Color |
No |
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2007 |
Moralism in Aesthetics |
No |
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2006 |
The Supernatural Problem of Extended Minds |
Yes |
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|
2006 |
Virtue Theory and Global Poverty |
No |
Teaching ethics in TTU College of Engineering |
|
2006 |
Functional Reductionism |
Yes |
University of Illinois at Chicago |
|
2006 |
Games and Dilemmas in Hobbes's State of Nature |
Yes |
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2006 |
The Mystery Surrounding the Identity of the Ubermensch |
No |
University of Georgia |
|
2006 |
Photography as Readymade Art |
No |
Texas Tech (fine arts PhD) |
|
2006 |
The Argument from Reason |
Yes |
UC Santa Barbara |
|
2006 |
Connectionism |
No |
University of Texas Law |
|
2006 |
Business Ethics and Moral Psychology |
No |
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2006 |
Physicalism and Qualia |
No |
University of Virginia Law |
|
2006 |
An Aristotelian Account of Sensory Perception |
Yes |
Florida State |
|
2006 |
God's Omniscience and the Problem of Free Will |
No |
University of Kansas |
|
2006 |
Hume on the Standard of Taste |
No |
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2006 |
A Comprehensive Study of Anatta and its Relative Truth Within Buddhism |
No |
Teaching math in Arlington, TX |
|
2005 |
Imagination and Supposition |
Yes |
Cornell |
|
2005 |
An Externalist Defense of the Practicality Requirement |
Yes |
Ohio State |
|
2005 |
Content under Pressure: The Broad and Narrow of Segal's Argument against Externalism |
No |
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|
2005 |
The Compatibility of Causal Determinism and Moral Responsibility |
Yes |
Florida State |
|
2005 |
Defensible Arbitrariness: U.S. Death Penalty Jurisprudence |
No |
Also received a degree in law from TTU (2005) |
|
2004 |
INUS Abnormalism: A Semantic Theory of Singular Causal Statements |
Yes |
Duke |
|
2004 |
Aristotle and the Productive Class: Did Aristotle Argue in Favor of Education for All? |
Yes |
Catholic University Law |
|
2004 |
Special Predication: A Naturalistic Account of the Special Sciences |
Yes |
Florida State |
|
2004 |
Rejecting Riggs: Hart, Dworkin, and the Problem of Indeterminacy |
No |
University of Texas Law |
|
2004 |
Knowledge Claims and Cross-Cultural Judgements: Internal Feminism, 'Female Circumcision', and Epistemologies of Ignorance |
No |
Financial Aid Advisor at TTU |
|
2004 |
An Understanding of Alcibiades Speech in the Symposium |
No |
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2004 |
Constructive Empiricism and Truthlikeness in the Context of Scientific Progress |
Yes |
St. Louis University |
|
2004 |
Theory of Self and Self-Knowledge in Plato's Alcibiades 1 |
No |
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2003 |
Anti-Realism, Van Fraassen, Epistemology, and Metaphysics |
No |
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2003 |
Redefining the Moving Image |
No |
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2003 |
Education, Representation, and Liberation |
No |
Teaching high school in Chicago |
|
2002 |
Feminist Critiques of Rawls |
No |
University of North Texas (library science) |
|
2002 |
Exposing the Domination of Language |
No |
Texas A&M (sociology PhD) |
|
2002 |
Color and After-Image Experiences |
Yes |
Ohio State |
|
2002 |
Finding Criteria for Moral Responsibility |
Yes |
Wisconsin |
|
2002 |
A Defense of Karma |
No |
Southern Illinois (anthropology PhD) |
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