Recent Dissertations
| Name | Year | Dissertation Title | Advisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| William Vincent | 2024 | The Definitional Conception of Essence | Trenton Merricks |
| Zach Puetz | 2024 | Arguments About Phenomenal Character | Harold Langsam |
| Travis Tanner | 2024 | Descartes on the Road to Elea: Essence and Formal Causation in Cartesian Physics and Corporeal Metaphysics | Walter Ott |
| Samuel Lundquist | 2023 | Love, Freedom, and Resentment | Tal Brewer |
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Stephen Marrone |
2023 |
Beyond Reasons |
Tal Brewer |
| Elyse Oakley | 2023 | Conceptual Distress: The constitutive problem for accounts of mental disorder | Elizabeth Barnes |
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Jeff Carroll |
2021 |
Dynamic Ideal Theory |
A. John Simmons |
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Ambrose Little |
2021 |
Aristotelian Change and Scala Naturae |
Ian McCready-Flora |
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Mathew Andler |
2020 |
The Social Ontology of Sexuality |
Elizabeth Barnes |
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Torrance Fung |
2020 |
Perceptual and Cognitive Qualia |
Harold Langsam |
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Chunling Yan |
2020 |
Scientific Realism and Quantum Theories |
Paul Humphreys |
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Andrew Garland |
2020 |
Conscience: An Essay in Moral Epistemology |
Rebecca Stangl |
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Jim Darcy |
2020 |
Grounding, Hierarchy, and Haecceities |
Trenton Merricks |
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Andrei Marasoiu |
2019 |
What is it to understand? |
Brie Gertler |
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Peter Tan |
2019 |
Counternomics |
Trenton Merricks |
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Matthew Adams |
2018 |
A Contractualist Theory of Nonideal Justice |
A. John Simmons |
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Stacie Thyrion |
2018 |
Plato De Magistro |
Daniel Devereux |
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Derek Lam |
2018 |
Magnitudes: A Descriptive Metaphysics of Quantity |
Ross Cameron |
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Jonathan Barker |
2018 |
Grounding and Its Limits |
Trenton Merricks |
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Nick Rimell |
2018 |
Representational Content and the Objects of Thought |
Trenton Merricks |
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John Mahlan |
2017 |
Parts of Universals: An Essay on Aristotle's Categories |
Daniel Devereux |
|
Manuel Barrantes |
2017 |
Mathematical Explanations of Physical Phenomena |
Paul Humphreys |
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Adam Blincoe |
2017 |
Flourishing Together |
Rebecca Stangl |
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Andrew Morgan |
2017 |
How to do Things with Norms: A Speech Act Approach to Metanormative Theory |
Talbot Brewer |
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Luke William Hunt |
2016 |
The Liberal Limits of Policing |
A. John Simmons |
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Corin Fox |
2016 |
Quasi-nihilism: An Epistemic Response to Sorites Paradox |
James Cargile |
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Harry Howard Jones |
2016 |
On Character and Creativity: Philosophical Reflections on Moral Education in the United States Military |
Loren Lomasky |
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Logan Sisson |
2016 |
Morally Empowering Combatants |
Talbot Brewer |
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Adam Tiller |
2016 |
On What Follows |
Trenton Merricks |
|
Nicolas Frank |
2015 |
A Limited Political Obligation |
A. John Simmons |
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Galen Barry |
2015 |
An Account of Power and Possibility in Spinoza |
Antonia LoLordo |
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Douglass Reed |
2015 |
The Ethics and Moral Psychology of Plato's 'Phaedo' |
Daniel Devereux |
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Benjamin Richards |
2015 |
"Learning How to See Again": Recovering a Place for Intellectual Vision in Philosophy |
Talbot Brewer |
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S. Matthew Duncan |
2015 |
Thinkers |
Trenton Merricks |
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Edith Gwendolyn Nally |
2014 |
Good Beliefs, Bad Arguments: Pragmatic Reasons in Plato's Dialogues |
Dominic Scott |
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Bryan Cwik |
2013 |
On the Very Idea of Owning Ideas: Philosophical Reflections on Intellectual Property |
Loren Lomasky |
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Charles Rathkopf |
2013 |
Complex Systems & The New Norms of Scientific Explanation |
Paul Humphreys |
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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 |
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Brian Pinkston |
2012 |
Francisco Suárez on Efficient Causation |
Jorge Secada |
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Stewart Braun |
2012 |
Ensuring Social Respect and Political Equality: The Case for Taxing Gratuitous Transfers of Wealth |
Loren Lomasky |
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Jacob Pease |
2012 |
On Living a More Meaningful Life |
Loren Lomasky |
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Ashley Kennedy |
2012 |
Models and Idealization in Scientific Explanation |
Paul Humphreys |
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William Hasselberger |
2012 |
The Ideals of Agency: Autonomy, Sociality, Individuality |
Talbot Brewer |
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Kristina Meshelski |
2011 |
The Structure of Injustice: A New Approach to Nonideal Theory |
A. John Simmons |
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Sam Nicholson |
2011 |
Transparency and Intrinsic Intentionality |
Brie Gertler |
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Evan Keeling |
2011 |
Aristotle on Perception, Phantasia, and Skepticism |
Daniel Devereux |
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Ayca Boylu |
2011 |
Morality as Understanding Human Beings |
James Cargile |
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Samuel Duncan |
2011 |
Kant on Freedom, Reason, and Moral Evil |
Jorge Secada |
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Amy Gilbert |
2011 |
'Beyond Reason and Beyond Merit': Practical Wisdom and the Second-Person |
Talbot Brewer |
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Ty Landrum |
2011 |
The Idea of Humanity |
Talbot Brewer |
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Joung Bin Lim |
2011 |
Bodies and Persons: An Essay on Animalism |
Trenton Merricks |
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Brian Collins |
2010 |
John Dewey, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and the Emergence of Agency |
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Christopher Mayer |
2010 |
Committed Service in the Military: Bringing Together Selflessness and Self-Fulfillment |
Loren Lomasky |
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Daniel Moseley |
2010 |
The Virtues of Integrity |
Loren Lomasky |
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Brannon McDaniel |
2009 |
Relations, Truth, and Existence: A Defense of Presentism |
Trenton Merricks |
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Charles Tanksley |
2009 |
Masses |
Trenton Merricks |
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Jason Megill |
2008 |
Essays on the Mind-Body Problem |
Harold Langsam |
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Elizabeth Fenton |
2008 |
Overlapping Consensus and Human Rights |
John Arras |
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Lucan Gregory |
2007 |
The State, Authority, and Legitimacy |
A. John Simmons |
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Clinton Jones |
2007 |
A Lockean Account of State Justification, Legitimacy, and Optimality |
A. John Simmons |
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Jennifer Flynn |
2007 |
The Relevance of Method: Moral Theory and Its Impact Upon Moral Philosophical Thought |
Cora Diamond |
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Adam Kadlac |
2007 |
The Value of Persons |
Talbot Brewer |
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Hannah Phelps Love |
2007 |
Why Moral Excellence Requires Appropriate Emotion: Attention, Construals, and Evaluations |
Talbot Brewer |
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Catherine Sutton |
2007 |
Objects and Their Parts: A Colocationist Metaphysics of Composition |
Trenton Merricks |
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David Blankfein-Tabachnick |
2006 |
Rawlsian Justice, Pre-Institutional Concepts and the Private Law |
A. John Simmons |
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Andrew Moser |
2006 |
Toward a Categorical Conception of Cognitive Normativity |
Cora Diamond |
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Shaikha Binjasim |
2006 |
Non-Existent Objects as Patterns of Properties |
Mitchell Green |
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Edward Song |
2005 |
The Bounds of Justice: Rawls on Global Justice and International Obligation |
A. John Simmons |
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Jonathan Stoltz |
2005 |
Belief, Truth, and Indicative Conditional Propositions |
James Cargile |
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Brian Powell |
2005 |
A Critique of Practical Reason Foundationalism |
Talbot Brewer |
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Patrick Toner |
2005 |
Existence and Emergence |
Trenton Merricks |
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Charles Arinder |
2004 |
Impractical Naturalism |
Harold Langsam |