Recent Dissertations

Dissertations

Name	Year	Advisor
Brian Collins John Dewey, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and the Emergence of Agency	2010
David Blankfein-Tabachnick Rawlsian Justice, Pre-Institutional Concepts and the Private Law	2006	A. John Simmons
Edward Song The Bounds of Justice: Rawls on Global Justice and International Obligation	2005	A. John Simmons
Kristina Meshelski The Structure of Injustice: A New Approach to Nonideal Theory	2011	A. John Simmons
Nicolas Frank A Limited Political Obligation	2015	A. John Simmons
Luke William Hunt The Liberal Limits of Policing	2016	A. John Simmons
Matthew Adams A Contractualist Theory of Nonideal Justice	2018	A. John Simmons
Lucan Gregory The State, Authority, and Legitimacy	2007	A. John Simmons
Clinton Jones A Lockean Account of State Justification, Legitimacy, and Optimality	2007	A. John Simmons
Jesse Newton Locke, Language, and Meta-Philosophy: An Interpretation of Book III of John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding	2012	Antonia LoLordo
Galen Barry An Account of Power and Possibility in Spinoza	2015	Antonia LoLordo
Andrei Marasoiu What is it to understand?	2019	Brie Gertler
Sam Nicholson Transparency and Intrinsic Intentionality	2011	Brie Gertler
Andrew Moser Toward a Categorical Conception of Cognitive Normativity	2006	Cora Diamond
Jennifer Flynn The Relevance of Method: Moral Theory and Its Impact Upon Moral Philosophical Thought	2007	Cora Diamond
Evan Keeling Aristotle on Perception, Phantasia, and Skepticism	2011	Daniel Devereux
Douglass Reed The Ethics and Moral Psychology of Plato's 'Phaedo'	2015	Daniel Devereux
John Mahlan Parts of Universals: An Essay on Aristotle's Categories	2017	Daniel Devereux
Stacie Thyrion Plato De Magistro	2018	Daniel Devereux
Edith Gwendolyn Nally Good Beliefs, Bad Arguments: Pragmatic Reasons in Plato's Dialogues	2014	Dominic Scott
Mathew Andler The Social Ontology of Sexuality	2020	Elizabeth Barnes
Torrance Fung Perceptual and Cognitive Qualia	2020	Harold Langsam
Charles Arinder Impractical Naturalism	2004	Harold Langsam
Jason Megill Essays on the Mind-Body Problem	2008	Harold Langsam
Jonathan Stoltz Belief, Truth, and Indicative Conditional Propositions	2005	James Cargile
Ayca Boylu Morality as Understanding Human Beings	2011	James Cargile
Corin Fox Quasi-nihilism: An Epistemic Response to Sorites Paradox	2016	James Cargile
Elizabeth Fenton Overlapping Consensus and Human Rights	2008	John Arras
Samuel Duncan Kant on Freedom, Reason, and Moral Evil	2011	Jorge Secada
Brian Pinkston Francisco Suárez on Efficient Causation	2012	Jorge Secada
Stewart Braun Ensuring Social Respect and Political Equality: The Case for Taxing Gratuitous Transfers of Wealth	2012	Loren Lomasky
Bryan Cwik On the Very Idea of Owning Ideas: Philosophical Reflections on Intellectual Property	2013	Loren Lomasky
Jacob Pease On Living a More Meaningful Life	2012	Loren Lomasky
Christopher Mayer Committed Service in the Military: Bringing Together Selflessness and Self-Fulfillment	2010	Loren Lomasky
Daniel Moseley The Virtues of Integrity	2010	Loren Lomasky
Harry Howard Jones On Character and Creativity: Philosophical Reflections on Moral Education in the United States Military	2016	Loren Lomasky
Shaikha Binjasim Non-Existent Objects as Patterns of Properties	2006	Mitchell Green
Manuel Barrantes Mathematical Explanations of Physical Phenomena	2017	Paul Humphreys
Chunling Yan Scientific Realism and Quantum Theories	2020	Paul Humphreys
Charles Rathkopf Complex Systems & The New Norms of Scientific Explanation	2013	Paul Humphreys
Ashley Kennedy Models and Idealization in Scientific Explanation	2012	Paul Humphreys
Andrew Garland Conscience: An Essay in Moral Epistemology	2020	Rebecca Stangl
Adam Blincoe Flourishing Together	2017	Rebecca Stangl
Derek Lam Magnitudes: A Descriptive Metaphysics of Quantity	2018	Ross Cameron
Brian Powell A Critique of Practical Reason Foundationalism	2005	Talbot Brewer
Amy Gilbert 'Beyond Reason and Beyond Merit': Practical Wisdom and the Second-Person	2011	Talbot Brewer
Ty Landrum The Idea of Humanity	2011	Talbot Brewer
Benjamin Richards "Learning How to See Again": Recovering a Place for Intellectual Vision in Philosophy	2015	Talbot Brewer
William Hasselberger The Ideals of Agency: Autonomy, Sociality, Individuality	2012	Talbot Brewer
Logan Sisson Morally Empowering Combatants	2016	Talbot Brewer
Adam Kadlac The Value of Persons	2007	Talbot Brewer
Hannah Phelps Love Why Moral Excellence Requires Appropriate Emotion: Attention, Construals, and Evaluations	2007	Talbot Brewer
Andrew Morgan How to do Things with Norms: A Speech Act Aproach to Metanormative Theory	2017	Talbot Brewer
Peter Tan Counternomics	2019	Trenton Merricks
Jonathan Barker Grounding and Its Limits	2018	Trenton Merricks
Jim Darcy Grounding, Hierarchy, and Haecceities	2020	Trenton Merricks
Patrick Toner Existence and Emergence	2005	Trenton Merricks
Paul Nedelisky A World Full of Threats and Promises: The Primitiveness of Modality	2013	Trenton Merricks
Joung Bin Lim Bodies and Persons: An Essay on Animalism	2011	Trenton Merricks
S. Matthew Duncan Thinkers	2015	Trenton Merricks
Charles Tanksley Masses	2009	Trenton Merricks
Brannon McDaniel Relations, Truth, and Existence: A Defense of Presentism	2009	Trenton Merricks
Adam Tiller On What Follows	2016	Trenton Merricks
Catherine Sutton Objects and Their Parts: A Colocationist Metaphysics of Composition	2007	Trenton Merricks
Nick Rimell Repreentational Content and the Objects of Thought	2018	Trenton Merricks