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Philosophy Theses and Dissertations
Theses/dissertations from 2023 2023.
Karl Marx on Human Flourishing and Proletarian Ethics , Sam Badger
The Ontological Grounds of Reason: Psychologism, Logicism, and Hermeneutic Phenomenology , Stanford L. Howdyshell
Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022
Interdisciplinary Communication by Plausible Analogies: the Case of Buddhism and Artificial Intelligence , Michael Cooper
Heidegger and the Origin of Authenticity , John J. Preston
Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021
Hegel and Schelling: The Emptiness of Emptiness and the Love of the Divine , Sean B. Gleason
Nietzsche on Criminality , Laura N. McAllister
Learning to be Human: Ren 仁, Modernity, and the Philosophers of China's Hundred Days' Reform , Lucien Mathot Monson
Nietzsche and Eternal Recurrence: Methods, Archives, History, and Genesis , William A. B. Parkhurst
Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020
Orders of Normativity: Nietzsche, Science and Agency , Shane C. Callahan
Humanistic Climate Philosophy: Erich Fromm Revisited , Nicholas Dovellos
This, or Something like It: Socrates and the Problem of Authority , Simon Dutton
Climate Change and Liberation in Latin America , Ernesto O. Hernández
Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa as Expressions of Shame in a Post-Feminist , Emily Kearns
Nostalgia and (In)authentic Community: A Bataillean Answer to the Heidegger Controversy , Patrick Miller
Cultivating Virtue: A Thomistic Perspective on the Relationship Between Moral Motivation and Skill , Ashley Potts
Identity, Breakdown, and the Production of Knowledge: Intersectionality, Phenomenology, and the Project of Post-Marxist Standpoint Theory , Zachary James Purdue
Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019
The Efficacy of Comedy , Mark Anthony Castricone
William of Ockham's Divine Command Theory , Matthew Dee
Heidegger's Will to Power and the Problem of Nietzsche's Nihilism , Megan Flocken
Abelard's Affective Intentionalism , Lillian M. King
Anton Wilhelm Amo's Philosophy and Reception: from the Origins through the Encyclopédie , Dwight Kenneth Lewis Jr.
"The Thought that we Hate": Regulating Race-Related Speech on College Campuses , Michael McGowan
A Historical Approach to Understanding Explanatory Proofs Based on Mathematical Practices , Erika Oshiro
From Meaningful Work to Good Work: Reexamining the Moral Foundation of the Calling Orientation , Garrett W. Potts
Reasoning of the Highest Leibniz and the Moral Quality of Reason , Ryan Quandt
Fear, Death, and Being-a-problem: Understanding and Critiquing Racial Discourse with Heidegger’s Being and Time , Jesús H. Ramírez
The Role of Skepticism in Early Modern Philosophy: A Critique of Popkin's "Sceptical Crisis" and a Study of Descartes and Hume , Raman Sachdev
How the Heart Became Muscle: From René Descartes to Nicholas Steno , Alex Benjamin Shillito
Autonomy, Suffering, and the Practice of Medicine: A Relational Approach , Michael A. Stanfield
The Case for the Green Kant: A Defense and Application of a Kantian Approach to Environmental Ethics , Zachary T. Vereb
Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018
Augustine's Confessiones : The Battle between Two Conversions , Robert Hunter Craig
The Strategic Naturalism of Sandra Harding's Feminist Standpoint Epistemology: A Path Toward Epistemic Progress , Dahlia Guzman
Hume on the Doctrine of Infinite Divisibility: A Matter of Clarity and Absurdity , Wilson H. Underkuffler
Climate Change: Aristotelian Virtue Theory, the Aidōs Response and Proper Primility , John W. Voelpel
The Fate of Kantian Freedom: the Kant-Reinhold Controversy , John Walsh
Time, Tense, and Ontology: Prolegomena to the Metaphysics of Tense, the Phenomenology of Temporality, and the Ontology of Time , Justin Brandt Wisniewski
Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017
A Phenomenological Approach to Clinical Empathy: Rethinking Empathy Within its Intersubjective and Affective Contexts , Carter Hardy
From Object to Other: Models of Sociality after Idealism in Gadamer, Levinas, Rosenzweig, and Bonhoeffer , Christopher J. King
Humanitarian Military Intervention: A Failed Paradigm , Faruk Rahmanovic
Active Suffering: An Examination of Spinoza's Approach to Tristita , Kathleen Ketring Schenk
Cartesian Method and Experiment , Aaron Spink
An Examination of John Burton’s Method of Conflict Resolution and Its Applicability to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict , John Kenneth Steinmeyer
Speaking of the Self: Theorizing the Dialogical Dimensions of Ethical Agency , Bradley S. Warfield
Changing Changelessness: On the Genesis and Development of the Doctrine of Divine Immutability in the Ancient and Hellenic Period , Milton Wilcox
Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016
The Statue that Houses the Temple: A Phenomenological Investigation of Western Embodiment Towards the Making of Heidegger's Missing Connection with the Greeks , Michael Arvanitopoulos
An Exploratory Analysis of Media Reporting of Police Involved Shootings in Florida , John L. Brown
Divine Temporality: Bonhoeffer's Theological Appropriation of Heidegger's Existential Analytic of Dasein , Nicholas Byle
Stoicism in Descartes, Pascal, and Spinoza: Examining Neostoicism’s Influence in the Seventeenth Century , Daniel Collette
Phenomenology and the Crisis of Contemporary Psychiatry: Contingency, Naturalism, and Classification , Anthony Vincent Fernandez
A Critique of Charitable Consciousness , Chioke Ianson
writing/trauma , Natasha Noel Liebig
Leibniz's More Fundamental Ontology: from Overshadowed Individuals to Metaphysical Atoms , Marin Lucio Mare
Violence and Disagreement: From the Commonsense View to Political Kinds of Violence and Violent Nonviolence , Gregory Richard Mccreery
Kant's Just War Theory , Steven Charles Starke
A Feminist Contestation of Ableist Assumptions: Implications for Biomedical Ethics, Disability Theory, and Phenomenology , Christine Marie Wieseler
Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015
Heidegger and the Problem of Modern Moral Philosophy , Megan Emily Altman
The Encultured Mind: From Cognitive Science to Social Epistemology , David Alexander Eck
Weakness of Will: An Inquiry on Value , Michael Funke
Cogs in a Cosmic Machine: A Defense of Free Will Skepticism and its Ethical Implications , Sacha Greer
Thinking Nature, "Pierre Maupertuis and the Charge of Error Against Fermat and Leibniz" , Richard Samuel Lamborn
John Duns Scotus’s Metaphysics of Goodness: Adventures in 13th-Century Metaethics , Jeffrey W. Steele
A Gadamerian Analysis of Roman Catholic Hermeneutics: A Diachronic Analysis of Interpretations of Romans 1:17-2:17 , Steven Floyd Surrency
A Natural Case for Realism: Processes, Structures, and Laws , Andrew Michael Winters
Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014
Leibniz's Theodicies , Joseph Michael Anderson
Aeschynē in Aristotle's Conception of Human Nature , Melissa Marie Coakley
Ressentiment, Violence, and Colonialism , Jose A. Haro
It's About Time: Dynamics of Inflationary Cosmology as the Source of the Asymmetry of Time , Emre Keskin
Time Wounds All Heels: Human Nature and the Rationality of Just Behavior , Timothy Glenn Slattery
Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013
Nietzsche and Heidegger on the Cartesian Atomism of Thought , Steven Burgess
Embodying Social Practice: Dynamically Co-Constituting Social Agency , Brian W. Dunst
Subject of Conscience: On the Relation between Freedom and Discrimination in the Thought of Heidegger, Foucault, and Butler , Aret Karademir
Climate, Neo-Spinozism, and the Ecological Worldview , Nancy M. Kettle
Eschatology in a Secular Age: An Examination of the Use of Eschatology in the Philosophies of Heidegger, Berdyaev and Blumenberg , John R. Lup, Jr.
Navigation and Immersion of the American Identity in a Foreign Culture to Emergence as a Culturally Relative Ambassador , Lee H. Rosen
Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012
A Philosophical Analysis of Intellectual Property: In Defense of Instrumentalism , Michael A. Kanning
A Commentary On Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's Discourse on Metaphysics #19 , Richard Lamborn Samuel Lamborn
Sellars in Context: An Analysis of Wilfrid Sellars's Early Works , Peter Jackson Olen
The New Materialism: Althusser, Badiou, and Zizek , Geoffrey Dennis Pfeifer
Structure and Agency: An Analysis of the Impact of Structure on Group Agents , Elizabeth Kaye Victor
Moral Friction, Moral Phenomenology, and the Improviser , Benjamin Scott Young
Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011
The Virtuoso Human: A Virtue Ethics Model Based on Care , Frederick Joseph Bennett
The Existential Compromise in the History of the Philosophy of Death , Adam Buben
Philosophical Precursors to the Radical Enlightenment: Vignettes on the Struggle Between Philosophy and Theology From the Greeks to Leibniz With Special Emphasis on Spinoza , Anthony John Desantis
The Problem of Evil in Augustine's Confessions , Edward Matusek
The Persistence of Casuistry: a Neo-premodernist Approach to Moral Reasoning , Richard Arthur Mercadante
Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010
Dewey's Pragmatism and the Great Community , Philip Schuyler Bishop
Unamuno's Concept of the Tragic , Ernesto O. Hernandez
Rethinking Ethical Naturalism: The Implications of Developmental Systems Theory , Jared J.. Kinggard
From Husserl and the Neo-Kantians to Art: Heidegger's Realist Historicist Answer to the Problem of the Origin of Meaning , William H. Koch
Queering Cognition: Extended Minds and Sociotechnologically Hybridized Gender , Michele Merritt
Hydric Life: A Nietzschean Reading of Postcolonial Communication , Elena F. Ruiz-Aho
Descartes' Bête Machine, the Leibnizian Correction and Religious Influence , John Voelpel
Aretē and Physics: The Lesson of Plato's Timaeus , John R. Wolfe
Theses/Dissertations from 2009 2009
Praxis and Theōria : Heidegger’s “Violent” Interpretation , Megan E. Altman
On the Concept of Evil: An Analysis of Genocide and State Sovereignty , Jason J. Campbell
The Role of Trust in Judgment , Christophe Sage Hudspeth
Truth And Judgment , Jeremy J. Kelly
The concept of action and responsibility in Heidegger's early thought , Christian Hans Pedersen
Roots and Role of the Imagination in Kant: Imagination at the Core , Michael Thompson
Theses/Dissertations from 2008 2008
Peirce on the Passions: The Role of Instinct, Emotion, and Sentiment in Inquiry and Action , Robert J. Beeson
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Last Name | First Name | Date | Thesis Title | Thesis Supervisor(s) | Real Date |
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Brooke-Wilson | Tyler | Sep 2023 | Green | 09/01/23 | |
Watkins | Eliot | Sep 2023 | Khoo | 09/01/23 | |
Grant | Lyndal | Feb 2023 | Setiya | 02/01/23 | |
Balin | Allison | Sep 2022 | White | 09/01/22 | |
Ravanpak | Ryan | Sep 2022 | Hare, Skow | 09/01/22 | |
Schilling | Haley | Sep 2022 | White | 09/01/22 | |
Webber | Mallory | Sep 2022 | Yablo | 09/01/22 | |
Wu | Xinhe | Sep 2022 | McGee | 09/01/22 | |
Räty | Anni | May 2022 | Schapiro | 05/01/22 | |
Atherton | Emma | Sep 2021 | Haslanger | 09/01/21 | |
Boulicault | Marion | Sep 2021 | Haslanger | 09/01/21 | |
Byrne | Thomas | Jun 2021 | Hare | 06/01/21 | |
Balcarras | David | Sep 2020 | Byrne | 09/01/20 | |
Baron-Schmitt | Nathaniel | Sep 2020 | Skow | 09/01/20 | |
Hodges | Jerome | Sep 2020 | Haslanger | 09/01/20 | |
Koslow | Allison | Sep 2020 | Byrne | 09/01/20 | |
Builes | David | May 2020 | Skow | 05/01/20 | |
Dorst | Kevin | Sep 2019 | White | 09/01/19 | |
Grant | Cosmo | Sep 2019 | Stalnaker | 09/01/19 | |
Lenehan | Rose | Sep 2019 | Haslanger | 09/01/19 | |
Phillips-Brown | Milo | Sep 2019 | Yablo | 09/01/19 | |
White | Patrick Quinn | Sep 2019 | Setiya | 09/01/19 | |
Hesni | Samia | Jun 2019 | Haslanger | 06/01/19 | |
Muñoz | Daniel | Jun 2019 | Schapiro, Setiya | 06/01/19 | |
Boylan | David | Sep 2018 | Stalnaker | 09/01/18 | |
Gray | David | Sep 2018 | Byrne | 09/01/18 | |
Jaques | Abby | Sep 2018 | Setiya | 09/01/18 | |
Schultheis | Virginia | Sep 2018 | White | 09/01/18 | |
Saillant | Said | Sep 2017 | White | 09/01/17 | |
Wells | Ian | Sep 2017 | White | 09/01/17 | |
Richardson | Kevin | Sep 2017 | Yablo | 09/01/17 | |
Jenny | Mathias | Sep 2017 | McGee | 09/01/17 | |
de Kenessey | Brendan | Sep 2017 | Setiya | 09/01/17 | |
Bianchi | Dylan | Sep 2017 | Byrne | 09/01/17 | |
Mandelkern | Matthew | Jun 2017 | Stalnaker and von Fintel | 06/01/17 | |
Ortiz-Hinojosa | Sofia | Sep 2016 | Byrne | 09/01/16 | |
Millsop | Rebecca | Sep 2016 | Haslanger | 09/01/16 | |
Marley-Payne | Jack | Sep 2016 | Stalnaker | 09/01/16 | |
Doody | Ryan | Sep 2016 | Rayo | 09/01/16 | |
Das | Nilanjan | Sep 2016 | White | 09/01/16 | |
Botchkina | Ekaterina | Sep 2016 | Haslanger and Yablo | 09/01/16 | |
Ali | Arden | Sep 2016 | Setiya | 09/01/16 | |
Schumacher | Melissa | Sep 2015 | Skow | 09/01/15 | |
Salow | Bernhard | Sep 2015 | White | 09/01/15 | |
Lenehan | Rose | Sep 2015 | Haslanger | 09/01/15 | |
Evans | Owain | Sep 2015 | Bayesian Computational Models for Inferring Preferences | White | 09/01/15 |
Horowitz | Sophie | Jun 2014 | White | 06/01/14 | |
Rochford | Damien | Sep 2013 | Stalnaker | 09/01/13 | |
Hagen | Daniel | Sep 2013 | Haslanger | 09/01/13 | |
Carr | Jennifer | Sep 2013 | Holton | 09/01/13 | |
Sliwa | Pauline | Sep 2012 | Holton | 09/01/12 | |
Hedden | Brian | Sep 2012 | Hare | 09/01/12 | |
Schoenfield | Miriam | Jun 2012 | White | 06/01/12 | |
Greco | Daniel | Jun 2012 | White | 06/01/12 | |
Emery | Nina | Jun 2012 | Skow | 06/01/12 | |
Walden | Kenneth | Sep 2011 | Holton and Langton | 09/01/11 | |
Santorio | Paolo | Sep 2011 | Stalnaker | 09/01/11 | |
Rinard | Susanna | Sep 2011 | White | 09/01/11 | |
Pérez Carballo | Alejandro | Sep 2011 | Stalnaker and Yablo | 09/01/11 | |
Manne | Kate | Sep 2011 | Holton | 09/01/11 | |
Graham | Andrew | Sep 2011 | Yablo | 09/01/11 | |
Almotahari | Mahrad | Sep 2011 | Stalnaker | 09/01/11 | |
Robichaud | Christopher | Feb 2011 | Langton | 02/01/11 | |
Vavova | Ekaterina | Sep 2010 | White | 09/01/10 | |
Urbanek | Valentina | Sep 2010 | Hare | 09/01/10 | |
Kwon | Hongwoo | Sep 2010 | Stalnaker | 09/01/10 | |
Krupnick | Ari | Sep 2010 | Stalnaker | 09/01/10 | |
Henderson | Leah | Sep 2010 | Stalnaker | 09/01/10 | |
Dougherty | Thomas | Sep 2010 | Holton and Langton | 09/01/10 | |
Logue | Heather | Sep 2009 | Byrne | 09/01/09 | |
Hosein | Adam | Sep 2009 | Langton | 09/01/09 | |
Holland | Sean | Sep 2009 | Haslanger | 09/01/09 | |
Hoffman | Ginger | Sep 2009 | Holton | 09/01/09 | |
Glick | Ephraim | Sep 2009 | Stalnaker | 09/01/09 | |
Ashwell | Lauren | Sep 2009 | Byrne, Holton & Langton | 09/01/09 | |
Moss | Sarah | Jun 2009 | Stalnaker | 06/01/09 | |
Briggs | Rachel | Feb 2009 | Stalnaker | 02/01/09 | |
Yalcin | Seth | Sep 2008 | Stalnaker & Yablo | 09/01/08 | |
Ninan | Dilip | Sep 2008 | Stalnaker | 09/01/08 | |
Etlin | David | Sep 2008 | Stalnaker | 09/01/08 | |
Kurtz | Roxanne | Feb 2008 | Cohen & Haslanger | 02/01/08 | |
Sin | Jessica | Sep 2007 | Holton | 09/01/07 | |
Finegan | Johanna | Sep 2007 | Thomson | 09/01/07 | |
de Bres | Helena | Sep 2007 | Cohen | 09/01/07 | |
Berker | Selim | Sep 2007 | Thomson | 09/01/07 | |
Batty | Clare | Sep 2007 | Byrne | 09/01/07 | |
Decker | Jason | Feb 2007 | Yablo | 02/01/07 | |
Swanson | Eric | Sep 2006 | Stalnaker | 09/01/06 | |
Bach-y-Rita | Peter | Sep 2006 | Thomson | 09/01/06 | |
Abdul-Matin | Ishmawil | Sep 2006 | Cohen | 09/01/06 | |
Nickel | Bernhard | Sep 2005 | Hall, Stalnaker, Yablo | 09/01/05 | |
Sveinsdottir | Asta | Sep 2004 | Siding with Euthyphro: Response-Dependence, Essentiality, and the Individuation of Ordinary Objects | Haslanger | 09/01/04 |
Roskies | Adina | Sep 2004 | Hall | 09/01/04 | |
John | James | Sep 2004 | Byrne | 09/01/04 | |
Doggett | Tyler | Sep 2004 | Byrne | 09/01/04 | |
Sofaer | Neema | Jun 2004 | Cohen | 06/01/04 | |
Egan | Andrew | Feb 2004 | Yablo | 02/01/04 | |
Hawley | Patrick | Sep 2003 | Stalnaker | 09/01/03 | |
Harman | Elizabeth | Sep 2003 | Cohen | 09/01/03 | |
Flaherty | Joshua | Sep 2003 | Cohen | 09/01/03 | |
Einheuser | Iris | Sep 2003 | Yablo | 09/01/03 | |
Sartorio | Carolina | Jun 2003 | Yablo | 06/01/03 | |
Koellner | Peter | Jun 2003 | McGee | 06/01/03 | |
Newman | Anthony | Sep 2002 | Byrne | 09/01/02 | |
McGrath | Sarah | Sep 2002 | Hall | 09/01/02 | |
Maitra | Ishani | Sep 2002 | Haslanger | 09/01/02 | |
Hoffmann | Aviv | Sep 2002 | Stalnaker | 09/01/02 | |
Simon | Steven | Jun 2002 | Stalnaker | 06/01/02 | |
Friedman | Alexander | Jun 2002 | Thomson | 06/01/02 | |
Pettit | Dean | Sep 2001 | Stalnaker | 09/01/01 | |
Meyer | Ulrich | Sep 2001 | Stalnaker | 09/01/01 | |
Elga | Adam | Sep 2001 | Hall | 09/01/01 | |
Jónsson | Ólafur | Jun 2001 | Thomson | 06/01/01 | |
Rayo | Agustin | Feb 2001 | McGee | 02/01/01 | |
Hernando | Miguel | Feb 2001 | Stalnaker | 02/01/01 | |
Gray | Anthony | Feb 2001 | Stalnaker | 02/01/01 | |
White | Roger | Sep 2000 | Stalnaker | 09/01/00 | |
Eklund | Matti | Sep 2000 | Yablo | 09/01/00 | |
Uzquiano | Gabriel | Sep 1999 | McGee | 09/01/99 | |
Streiffer | Robert | Sep 1999 | Thomson | 09/01/99 | |
McKitrick | Jennifer | Sep 1999 | Byrne | 09/01/99 | |
Brown | Rachel | Sep 1999 | Cohen | 09/01/99 | |
Sereno | Lisa | Feb 1999 | Stalnaker | 02/01/99 | |
Spencer | Cara | Sep 1998 | Stalnaker | 09/01/98 | |
Botterell | Andrew | Sep 1998 | Stalnaker | 09/01/98 | |
Graff | Delia | Sep 1997 | Stalnaker | 09/01/97 | |
Maciá Fábrega | Josep | Jun 1997 | Stalnaker | 06/01/97 | |
Feldmann | Judith | Feb 1997 | Stalnaker | 02/01/97 | |
Kermode | Robert | Jun 1996 | Byrne | 06/01/96 | |
Hinton | Timothy | Jun 1996 | Cohen | 06/01/96 | |
Stoljar | Daniel | Sep 1995 | Block | 09/01/95 | |
Szabó | Zoltán | Jun 1995 | Boolos | 06/01/95 | |
Stanley | Jason | Jun 1995 | Stalnaker | 06/01/95 | |
Koslicki | Kathrin | Jun 1995 | Thomson | 06/01/95 | |
Bumpus | Ann | Jun 1995 | Thomson | 06/01/95 | |
Jung | Darryl | Feb 1995 | Boolos | 02/01/95 | |
Lau | Yen-fong | Sep 1994 | Stalnaker | 09/01/94 | |
Hunter | David | Sep 1994 | Stalnaker | 09/01/94 | |
McConnell | Jeffrey | May 1994 | Block | 05/01/94 | |
Clapp | Leonard | May 1994 | Bromberger | 05/01/94 | |
Stainton | Robert | Sep 1993 | Bromberger | 09/01/93 | |
Picard | J.R.W. Michael | Sep 1993 | Cartwright | 09/01/93 | |
Womack | Catherine | Jun 1993 | Higginbotham | 06/01/93 | |
Ulicny | Brian | Jun 1993 | Higginbotham | 06/01/93 | |
Jeske | Diane | Sep 1992 | Brink | 09/01/92 | |
Reimer | Margaret | Jun 1992 | Cartwright | 06/01/92 | |
Isaacs | Tracy | Jun 1992 | Thomson | 06/01/92 | |
Stein | Edward | Feb 1992 | Block | 02/01/92 | |
Heck Jr. | Richard | Jun 1991 | Boolos | 06/01/91 | |
Galloway | David | Jun 1991 | Boolos | 06/01/91 | |
Dwyer | Susan | Jun 1991 | Higginbotham | 06/01/91 | |
Antony | Michael | Oct 1990 | Block | 10/01/90 | |
Ruesga | Albert | Jun 1990 | Higginbotham | 06/01/90 | |
Prevett | Elizabeth | May 1990 | Brink | 05/01/90 | |
Pietrowski | Paul | May 1990 | Stalnaker | 05/01/90 | |
Page | James | May 1990 | Boolos | 05/01/90 | |
Lormand | Eric | May 1990 | Block | 05/01/90 | |
Kaye | Larry | May 1990 | Stalnaker | 05/01/90 | |
Rodriguez | Jorge | Sep 1989 | Cartwright | 09/01/89 | |
Uebel | Thomas | Jun 1989 | Bromberger | 06/01/89 | |
Patterson | Sarah | Jun 1988 | Block | 06/01/88 | |
Lebed | Jay Aaron | Jun 1988 | Block | 06/01/88 | |
Lind | Marcia | Feb 1988 | Cohen | 02/01/88 | |
Segal | Gabriel | Jun 1987 | Block | 06/01/87 | |
Satz | Debra | Feb 1987 | Cohen | 02/01/87 | |
Cobetto | Jack Bernard | May 1985 | Cartwright | 05/01/85 | |
Akhtar Kazmi | Ali | Feb 1985 | Boolos | 02/01/85 | |
Gillon | Brendan | Sep 1984 | Higginbotham | 09/01/84 | |
McClamrock | Ronald | Jun 1984 | Block | 06/01/84 | |
Wetzel | Linda | Feb 1984 | Cartwright | 02/01/84 | |
Appelt | Timothy | Feb 1984 | Cartwright | 02/01/84 | |
Antognini | Thomas | Feb 1984 | Boolos | 02/01/84 | |
Pressler | Jonathan | Sep 1983 | Cohen | 09/01/83 | |
Russinoff | Ilene | May 1983 | Boolos | 05/01/83 | |
Poland | Jeffrey | May 1983 | Fodor | 05/01/83 | |
Christie | Andrew | May 1983 | Higginbotham | 05/01/83 | |
Berk | Lon | Sep 1982 | Boolos | 09/01/82 | |
Cannon | Douglas | Jun 1982 | Boolos | 06/01/82 | |
Krakowski | Israel | Jun 1981 | Block | 06/01/81 | |
Katz | Fredric M. | Jun 1981 | Boolos | 06/01/81 | |
Stabler, Jr. | Edward Palmer | Feb 1981 | Fodor | 02/01/81 | |
Levin | Janet Marchel | Sep 1980 | Block | 09/01/80 | |
Kamm | Frances Myrna | Feb 1980 | Herman | 02/01/80 | |
Smith | George | Jun 1979 | Cartwright | 06/01/79 | |
Rabinowitz | Joshua | Sep 1978 | Judith Thomson | 09/01/78 | |
Auerbach | David | Jun 1978 | Boolos | 06/01/78 | |
Prior | Stephen | Jun 1977 | Block | 06/01/77 | |
Mendelsohn | Richard | Feb 1977 | Cartwright | 02/01/77 | |
Foster | Susan | Feb 1977 | Herman | 02/01/77 | |
Levin | Harold | Sep 1976 | Boolos | 09/01/76 | |
Horowitz | Tamara | Jun 1976 | Apriority and Necessity. | Boolos | 06/01/76 |
Sparer | Alan | Feb 1976 | Political Obligation and the Just State. | Judith Thomson | 02/01/76 |
Soames | Scott | Feb 1976 | Bromberger | 02/01/76 | |
Siegel | Kenneth | Sep 1975 | Identity Across Possible Worlds. | Boolos | 09/01/75 |
Karp | David | Jun 1975 | General Ontology. | Brody | 06/01/75 |
Stecker | Robert | Feb 1975 | Moral Sense Theories. | Brody | 02/01/75 |
Lipton | Michael | Sep 1974 | Quine’s Criterion of Ontological Commitment. | Cartwright | 09/01/74 |
Weston | Thomas | Jun 1974 | Cartwright | 06/01/74 | |
Nishiyama | Yuji | Jun 1974 | The Structure of Propositions. | Katz | 06/01/74 |
Zaitchik | Alan | Sep 1973 | The Limits of Hypothetical Contractualism. | Judith Thomson | 09/01/73 |
Siemens | Warren | Sep 1973 | Theories of Scientific Change: Their Nature and Structure. | Bromberger | 09/01/73 |
Shelley | Karan | Sep 1973 | Theories of Scientific Change: Their Nature and Structure. | Bromberger | 09/01/73 |
Mellema | Paul | Jun 1973 | Bromberger | 06/01/73 | |
Harnish | Robert | Sep 1972 | Studies in Logic and Language. | Katz | 09/01/72 |
Kirk | Robert | Jun 1972 | Intermediate Logics and the Equational Classes of Brouwerian Algebras. | James Thomson | 06/01/72 |
Friedman | Kenneth | Jun 1972 | Foundation and Probability Theory and Statistical Thermodynamics. | Bromberger | 06/01/72 |
McEvoy | Paul | Sep 1971 | The Philosophy of Niels Bohr. | Graves | 09/01/71 |
Whitbeck | Caroline | Jun 1970 | The Concepts of Space and Time in the General Theory of Relativity. | Graves | 06/01/70 |
Boyd | Richard | Feb 1970 | A Recursion-Theoretic Characterization of the Ramified Analytical Hierarchy. | Cartwright | 02/01/70 |
Teller | Paul | Sep 1969 | Problems in Confirmation Theory. | James Thomson | 09/01/69 |
Leeds | Stephen | Jun 1969 | Arithmetical Degrees in the Hierarchy of Constructible Sets of Integers. | James Thomson | 06/01/69 |
Thomas | Stephen | Sep 1968 | Philosophical Model-Building and the Philosophy of Mind. | Judith Thomson | 09/01/68 |
Davis | Bernard | Sep 1968 | The Notion of Protomeaning. | Bromberger | 09/01/68 |
Martin | Edwin | Jun 1968 | Quantifying into Opaque Contexts: May We or May We Not? | Cartwright | 06/01/68 |
Boolos | George | Jun 1966 | The Hierarchy of Constructible Sets of Integers. | Putnam | 06/01/66 |
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The Department of Philosophy Dissertations and Theses Series is comprised of dissertations and theses authored by Marquette University's Department of Philosophy doctoral and master's students.
Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023
Place, Attachment, and Feeling: Indigenous Dispossession and Settler Belonging , Sarah Kizuk
Nepantla and Mestizaje: A Phenomenological Analysis of the Mestizx Historical Consciousness , Jorge Alfredo Montiel
The Categories Argument for the Real Distinction Between Being and Essence: Avicenna, Aquinas, and Their Greek Sources , Nathaniel Taylor
Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022
Modeling, Describing, and Explaining Subjective Consciousness- A Guide to (and for) the Perplexed , Peter Burgess
Looking Through Whiteness: Objectivity, Racism, Method, and Responsibility , Philip Mack
Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Maritain on the Student-Teacher Relationship in Catholic Higher Education , Timothy Rothhaar
Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021
The Empathetic Autistic: A Phenomenological Look at the Feminine Experience , Dana Fritz
Concerning Aristotelian Animal Essences , Damon Andrew Watson
When to Trust Authoritative Testimony: Generation and Transmission of Knowledge in Saadya Gaon, Al-Ghazālī and Thomas Aquinas , Brett A. Yardley
Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020
The Status of Irrationality: Karl Jaspers' Response to Davidson and Searle , Daniel Adsett
Cosmic City - Cosmic Teleology: A Reading of Metaphysics Λ 10 and Politics I 2 , Brandon Henrigillis
Phenomenal Consciousness: An Husserlian Approach , John Jered Janes
Al-Fārābī Metaphysics, and the Construction of Social Knowledge: Is Deception Warranted if it Leads to Happiness? , Nicholas Andrew Oschman
The Epistemology of Disagreement: Hume, Kant, and the Current Debate , Robert Kyle Whitaker
Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019
'Our Feet are Mired In the Same Soil': Deepening Democracy with the Political Virtue of Sympathetic Inquiry , Jennifer Lynn Kiefer Fenton
Towards a Philosophy of the Musical Experience: Phenomenology, Culture, and Ethnomusicology in Conversation , J. Tyler Friedman
Humor, Power and Culture: A New Theory on the Experience and Ethics of Humor , Jennifer Marra
Care of the Sexual Self: Askesis As a Route to Sex Education , Shaun Douglas Miller
Re-Evaluating Augustinian Fatalism through the Eastern and Western Distinction between God's Essence and Energies , Stephen John Plecnik
The Fantastic Structure of Freedom: Sartre, Freud, and Lacan , Gregory A. Trotter
The Province of Conceptual Reason: Hegel's Post-Kantian Rationalism , William Clark Wolf
Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018
Hume on Thick and Thin Causation , Alexander Bozzo
Evolution, Naturalism, and Theism: An Inconsistent Triad? , David H. Gordon
The Parable As Mirror: An Examination of the Use of Parables in the Works of Kierkegaard , Russell Hamer
Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017
Contextualizing Aquinas's Ontology of Soul: An Analysis of His Arabic and Neoplatonic Sources , Nathan McLain Blackerby
The Social and Historical Subject in Sartre and Foucault and Its Implications for Healthcare Ethics , Kimberly Siobhan Engels
Investigations of Worth: Towards a Phenomenology of Values , Dale Hobbs Jr.
Developing Capabilities: A Feminist Discourse Ethics Approach , Chad Kleist
Hegel and the Problem of the Multiplicity of Conflicting Philosophies , Matthew M. Peters
Aquinas, Averroes, and the Human Will , Traci Ann Phillipson
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Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016
Nature, Feminism, and Flourishing: Human Nature and the Feminist Ethics of Flourishing , Celeste D. Harvey
Kierkegaard in Light of the East: A Critical Comparison of the Philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard with Orthodox Christian Philosophy and Thought , Agust Magnusson
The Secular Transformation of Pride and Humility in the Moral Philosophy of David Hume , Kirstin April Carlson McPherson
Living within the Sacred Tension: Paradox and Its Significance for Christian Existence in the Thought of Søren Kierkegaard , Matthew Thomas Nowachek
Moral Imagination and Adorno: Before and After Auschwitz , Catlyn Origitano
Essence and Necessity, and the Aristotelian Modal Syllogistic: A Historical and Analytical Study , Daniel James Vecchio
Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015
Subversive Humor , Chris A. Kramer
Virtue, Oppression, and Resistance Struggles , Trevor William Smith
Health As Embodied Authenticity , Margaret Steele
Recognition and Political Ontology: Fichte, Hegel, and Honneth , Velimir Stojkovski
The Conceptual Priority of the Perfect , Matthew Peter Zdon
Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014
Dangerous Knowledge? Morality And Moral Progress After Naturalism , Daniel Diederich Farmer
Nietzsche's Revaluation of All Values , Joseph Anthony Kranak
Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013
Re-Enchanting The World: An Examination Of Ethics, Religion, And Their Relationship In The Work Of Charles Taylor , David McPherson
Thomas Aquinas on the Apprehension of Being: The Role of Judgement in Light of Thirteenth-Century Semantics , Rosa Vargas Della Casa
Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012
Naturalized Panpsychism: An Alternative to Fundamentalist Physicalism and Supernaturalism , Earl R. Cookson
The Concept of Personhood in the Phenomenology of Edmund Husserl , Colin J. Hahn
The Humanistic, Fideistic Philosophy of Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560) , Charles William Peterson
Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011
Knowledge and Thought in Heidegger and Foucault: Towards an Epistemology of Ruptures , Arun Anantheeswaran Iyer
William James's Undivided Self and the Possibility of Immortality , Anthony Karlin
The Poetics of Remembrance: Communal Memory and Identity in Heidegger and Ricoeur , David Leichter
The Ontological Foundations for Natural Law Theory and Contemporary Ethical Naturalism , Bernard Mauser
Sexualized Violence, Moral Disintegration and Ethical Advocacy , Melissa Mosko
Spinoza on Individuals and Individuation: Metaphysics, Morals, and Politics , Matthew David Wion
Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010
The Paradox of Nature: Merleau-Ponty's Semi-Naturalistic Critique of Husserlian Phenomenology , Shazad Akhtar
Hume's Conception of Time and its Implications for his Theories of Causation and Induction , Daniel Esposito
Arabic Influences in Aquinas's Doctrine of Intelligible Species , Max Herrera
The Attestation of the Self as a Bridge Between Hermeneutics and Ontology in the Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur , Sebastian Kaufmann
Love's Lack: The Relationship between Poverty and Eros in Plato's Symposium , Lorelle D. Lamascus
Friendship and Fidelity: An Historical and Critical Examination , Joshua Walter Schulz
Natural Law Theory and the "Is"--"Ought" Problem: A Critique of Four Solutions , Shalina Stilley
Attending to Presence: A Study of John Duns Scotus' Account of Sense Cognition , Amy F. Whitworth
Theses/Dissertations from 2009 2009
Friendship and Self-Identity in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur , Cristina Bucur
The Finality of Religion in Aquinas' Theory of Human Acts , Francisco José Romero Carrasquillo
The finality of religion in Aquinas' theory of human acts , Francisco J Romero
Theses/Dissertations from 2008 2008
Self-Identity in Comparative Theology: The Functional lmportance of Charles Taylor's Concept of the Self for a Theology of Religions , Richard Joseph Hanson
Theses/Dissertations from 2007 2007
Husserl's Noema: A Critical Assessment of the Gestalt and Analytic Interpretations , Peter M. Chukwu
A Social Contract Analysis of Rawls and Rousseau: Supplanting the Original Position As Philosophically Most Favored , Paul Neiman
To Validate a Feeling: the Role of the Mood of Angst in Human Being , Gregory P. Schulz
The Conception and Attributes of God: A Comparison of Charles Sanders Peirce and Alfred North Whitehead , Scott W. Sinclair
John Rawls, Public Reason, and Natural Law: A Study of the Principles of Public Justification , Christopher Ward
Submissions from 2006 2006
Hans Jonas's ethic of responsibility applied to anti-aging technologies and the indefinite extension of the human life span , Jeffrey P Goins
David Hume and the Principle of Sufficient Reason , Ginger Lee
Virtue Theory in Plato's Republic , Griffin T. Nelson
The Principle of Alternate Possibilities: Finding Freedom after Frankfurt , Matthew F. Pierlott
Theses/Dissertations from 2005 2005
Is There a Future for Marxist Humanism? , Jacob M. Held
Self-Love and Morality: Beyond Egoism and Altruism , Li Jing
Eikos Logos and Eikos Muthos: A Study of the Nature of the Likely Story in Plato's Timaeus , Ryan Kenneth McBride
Hume's Conclusions on the Existence and Nature of God , Timothy S. Yoder
Submissions from 2004 2004
The foundations of the politics of difference , Peter Nathaniel Bwanali
The Foundations of the Politics of Difference , Peter Nathaniel Bwanali
The Place of Justice in the Thinking of Emmanuel Levinas , Michael H. Gillick
New Waves in Metaethics: Naturalist Realism, Naturalist Antirealism and Divine Commands , Daniel R. Kern
Reason in Hume's Moral System , John Muenzberg
Conceiving Mind: A Critique of Descartes' Dualism and Contemporary Immaterialist Views of Consciousness , Kristin P. Schaupp
Respecting Plurality in Times of Change: Hannah Arendt's Conceptions of Political, Personal, and Ethical Responsibility , Stephen Schulman
Francis Suárez on the Ontological Status of Individual Unity vis-à-vis the Aristotelian Doctrine of Primary Substance , John W. Simmons
Through a Glass Darkly: Bernard Lonergan and Richard Rorty on the Possibility of Knowing Without a God's-Eye-View , Russell Snell
Theses/Dissertations from 2003 2003
Building a Heideggerian Ethic , Kelly A. Burns
St. Thomas Aquinas and the Self-Evident Proposition: A Study of the Manifold Senses of a Medieval Concept , Michael V. Dougherty
Ricoeur's Narrative Development of Gadamer's Hermeneutics: Continuity and Discontinuity , Keith D'Souza
Beauty's Resting Place: Unity in St. Augustine's Sensible Aesthetic , Matthew J. Hayes
Empathy and Knowledge: Husserl's Introductions to Phenomenology , Kevin Hermberg
The Transactional Model: A Critical Examination of John Dewey's Philosophy of Freedom , Mark N. Lenker III
Reflection on the "good" As a Source of Freedom in Virtue Theory , John D. Morse
Theses/Dissertations from 2002 2002
An Evaluation of Alvin Plantinga's Religious Epistemology Does It Function Properly? , James Beilby
Merleau-Ponty: Embodied Subjectivity and the Foundation of Ethics , Sarah A. Fischer
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undergraduate Y4
I supervise at least one undergraduate a year. Many of the same questions come up each year. I have prepared below a set of guidelines to help when starting out on a dissertation.
Please note that this is personal advice and not to be taken as a substitute for the undergraduate handbook and marking scheme.
Do’s and Don’t’s for a dissertation
- Have a claim. You should be able to state your claim clearly in 1–2 sentences.
- Have claim of the right size – viz. a size you can defend (be careful not to be too ambitious here)
- Have a rigorous argument for your claim. Your argument should be able to convince a rational person who does not already believe your claim
- Make your dissertation clearly understandable to a philosopher who is not an expert in this area
- Explain why your claim is important
- Be honest if you do not conclusively establish your claim – e.g. clarify that your claim follows conditional on certain stated assumptions, list unresolved objections
- Make clear your original contribution
- Make use of your supervisor for feedback on drafts
Don’t:
- Aim for this to be your magnum opus or last word on the topic
- Try to solve a major problem (e.g. the mind-body problem, external world scepticism)
- Cover every possible view in the field
- Include extra material unless it advances your argument
- Have one massive 6,000 word chapter
- Leave it until Semester 2 to start work
How to write a dissertation
The points above give you an idea of what to aim for but they don’t provide a method for how to get there. There are many ways to write a dissertation. It may be reassuring to know that there are simple methods that can reliably produce an excellent dissertation. The algorithm below is one method:
- Find the general area you like (e.g. phenomenal consciousness)
- Select one article/book chapter in that area that you find fascinating (e.g. Smith (2009))
- Summarise Smith (2009) carefully in your own words, paying attention to whether each step in the argument follows from the previous
- Look for weaknesses in Smith (2009)’s argument
- Which new resources do you need to draw on?
- Which alternative conclusions follow?
- Which objections can be raised to your proposal?
- Draw on relevant bits of surrounding literature to support (5)
You have a first class dissertation!
Filling the dissertation with enough words
A common worry among students is whether they are able to write enough words. The longest piece of philosophical writing they may have done so far is 3,000 words. How can you write a sustained argument that lasts for 8,000 words? This turns out to be easier than you might think. Indeed, the difficulty often turns out to be not going over the word limit.
For the sake of argument, let us see how following the algorithm above might work out in terms of word count.
- Introduction (500 words): What is your claim, the outline of your argument?
- Chapter 1 (1,000 words): Why is your claim important? What are the pay-offs?
- Chapter 2 (2,000 words): Careful and charitable summary of X in your own words
- Chapter 3 (2,000 words): Your rigorous criticism of X
- Chapter 4 (2,000 words): How X should be corrected, associated costs, consequences for views that use X, possible objections
- Conclusion (500 words): Summary and next steps for future work
And we are done!
Milestones to aim for
Milestones depend on the specific project and you should talk to your supervisor about your workload and what would be a reasonable plan for finishing the dissertation in the year. Below is a rough plan that one might aim for.
- End Y3: meet supervisor & agree on general topic
- Summer vacation: background reading on topic
- Start Y4: find 1 article/chapter to focus
Year 4, Semester 1:
- Start: meet with supervisor & agree plan for year
- Middle: first draft of 2 chapters
- End: polished draft of 2 chapters
Year 4, Semester 2:
- Start: first draft of entire dissertation
- Middle: polished draft of entire dissertation
- End: revisit, revise, and submit dissertation
Background reading
A dissertation in philosophy is a story … like all good stories, it only includes what is essential to the story — Robert Paul Wolff’s astute advice that applies just as well to UG dissertations as well as PhD theses
Be concise, but explain yourself fully — Jim Pryor with an excellent 3-stage plan for writing philosophy
Style is the feather in the arrow, not the feather in the cap — Peter Lipton has some wonderful and concise writing advice
Read your work aloud. … Be firm: take your prose to the gym, and keep working at it until the bones and sinews show through! — Peter Smith, previously editor of Analysis , with some fantastic advice
What is an argument? — Jim Pryor’s guide is essential reading for anyone writing philosophy; it contains a lexicon of philosophical terms and a taxonomy of good and bad arguments, which is useful for classifying the arguments you consider
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