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Recent Dissertations

Name Year Dissertation Title  Advisor
Samuel Lundquist 2023 Love, Freedom, and Resentment Tal Brewer

Stephen Marrone

2023

Beyond Reasons 

Tal Brewer
Elyse Oakley 2023 Conceptual Distress: The constitutive problem for accounts of mental disorder Elizabeth Barnes

Jeff Carroll

2021

Dynamic Ideal Theory

A. John Simmons

Ambrose Little

2021

Aristotelian Change and Scala Naturae

Ian McCready-Flora

Mathew Andler

2020

The Social Ontology of Sexuality

Elizabeth Barnes

Torrance Fung

2020

Perceptual and Cognitive Qualia

Harold Langsam

Chunling Yan

2020

Scientific Realism and Quantum Theories

Paul Humphreys

Andrew Garland

2020

Conscience: An Essay in Moral Epistemology

Rebecca Stangl

Jim Darcy

2020

Grounding, Hierarchy, and Haecceities

Trenton Merricks

Andrei Marasoiu

2019

What is it to understand?

Brie Gertler

Peter Tan

2019

Counternomics

Trenton Merricks

Matthew Adams

2018

A Contractualist Theory of Nonideal Justice

A. John Simmons

Stacie Thyrion

2018

Plato De Magistro

Daniel Devereux

Derek Lam

2018

Magnitudes: A Descriptive Metaphysics of Quantity

Ross Cameron

Jonathan Barker

2018

Grounding and Its Limits

Trenton Merricks

Nick Rimell

2018

Representational Content and the Objects of Thought

Trenton Merricks

John Mahlan

2017

Parts of Universals: An Essay on Aristotle's Categories

Daniel Devereux

Manuel Barrantes

2017

Mathematical Explanations of Physical Phenomena

Paul Humphreys

Adam Blincoe

2017

Flourishing Together

Rebecca Stangl

Andrew Morgan

2017

How to do Things with Norms: A Speech Act Aproach to Metanormative Theory

Talbot Brewer

Luke William Hunt

2016

The Liberal Limits of Policing

A. John Simmons

Corin Fox

2016

Quasi-nihilism: An Epistemic Response to Sorites Paradox

James Cargile

Harry Howard Jones

2016

On Character and Creativity: Philosophical Reflections on Moral Education in the United States Military

Loren Lomasky

Logan Sisson

2016

Morally Empowering Combatants

Talbot Brewer

Adam Tiller

2016

On What Follows

Trenton Merricks

Nicolas Frank

2015

A Limited Political Obligation

A. John Simmons

Galen Barry

2015

An Account of Power and Possibility in Spinoza

Antonia LoLordo

Douglass Reed

2015

The Ethics and Moral Psychology of Plato's 'Phaedo'

Daniel Devereux

Benjamin Richards

2015

"Learning How to See Again": Recovering a Place for Intellectual Vision in Philosophy

Talbot Brewer

S. Matthew Duncan

2015

Thinkers

Trenton Merricks

Edith Gwendolyn Nally

2014

Good Beliefs, Bad Arguments: Pragmatic Reasons in Plato's Dialogues

Dominic Scott

Bryan Cwik

2013

On the Very Idea of Owning Ideas: Philosophical Reflections on Intellectual Property

Loren Lomasky

Charles Rathkopf

2013

Complex Systems & The New Norms of Scientific Explanation

Paul Humphreys

Paul Nedelisky

2013

A World Full of Threats and Promises: The Primitiveness of Modality

Trenton Merricks

Jesse Newton

2012

Locke, Language, and Meta-Philosophy: An Interpretation of Book III of John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Antonia LoLordo

Brian Pinkston

2012

Francisco Suárez on Efficient Causation

Jorge Secada

Stewart Braun

2012

Ensuring Social Respect and Political Equality: The Case for Taxing Gratuitous Transfers of Wealth

Loren Lomasky

Jacob Pease

2012

On Living a More Meaningful Life

Loren Lomasky

Ashley Kennedy

2012

Models and Idealization in Scientific Explanation

Paul Humphreys

William Hasselberger

2012

The Ideals of Agency: Autonomy, Sociality, Individuality

Talbot Brewer

Kristina Meshelski

2011

The Structure of Injustice: A New Approach to Nonideal Theory

A. John Simmons

Sam Nicholson

2011

Transparency and Intrinsic Intentionality

Brie Gertler

Evan Keeling

2011

Aristotle on Perception, Phantasia, and Skepticism

Daniel Devereux

Ayca Boylu

2011

Morality as Understanding Human Beings

James Cargile

Samuel Duncan

2011

Kant on Freedom, Reason, and Moral Evil

Jorge Secada

Amy Gilbert

2011

'Beyond Reason and Beyond Merit': Practical Wisdom and the Second-Person

Talbot Brewer

Ty Landrum

2011

The Idea of Humanity

Talbot Brewer

Joung Bin Lim

2011

Bodies and Persons: An Essay on Animalism

Trenton Merricks

Brian Collins

2010

John Dewey, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and the Emergence of Agency

 

Christopher Mayer

2010

Committed Service in the Military: Bringing Together Selflessness and Self-Fulfillment

Loren Lomasky

Daniel Moseley

2010

The Virtues of Integrity

Loren Lomasky

Brannon McDaniel

2009

Relations, Truth, and Existence: A Defense of Presentism

Trenton Merricks

Charles Tanksley

2009

Masses

Trenton Merricks

Jason Megill

2008

Essays on the Mind-Body Problem

Harold Langsam

Elizabeth Fenton

2008

Overlapping Consensus and Human Rights

John Arras

Lucan Gregory

2007

The State, Authority, and Legitimacy

A. John Simmons

Clinton Jones

2007

A Lockean Account of State Justification, Legitimacy, and Optimality

A. John Simmons

Jennifer Flynn

2007

The Relevance of Method: Moral Theory and Its Impact Upon Moral Philosophical Thought

Cora Diamond

Adam Kadlac

2007

The Value of Persons

Talbot Brewer

Hannah Phelps Love

2007

Why Moral Excellence Requires Appropriate Emotion: Attention, Construals, and Evaluations

Talbot Brewer

Catherine Sutton

2007

Objects and Their Parts: A Colocationist Metaphysics of Composition

Trenton Merricks

David Blankfein-Tabachnick

2006

Rawlsian Justice, Pre-Institutional Concepts and the Private Law

A. John Simmons

Andrew Moser

2006

Toward a Categorical Conception of Cognitive Normativity

Cora Diamond

Shaikha Binjasim

2006

Non-Existent Objects as Patterns of Properties

Mitchell Green

Edward Song

2005

The Bounds of Justice: Rawls on Global Justice and International Obligation

A. John Simmons

Jonathan Stoltz

2005

Belief, Truth, and Indicative Conditional Propositions

James Cargile

Brian Powell

2005

A Critique of Practical Reason Foundationalism

Talbot Brewer

Patrick Toner

2005

Existence and Emergence

Trenton Merricks

Charles Arinder

2004

Impractical Naturalism

Harold Langsam