Recent Dissertations

2023

Christopher Nagel

"Subjectivism About Artistic Value"

Justin Ivory

"Essays on Well-Being’’

Nicole Thompson

"The Voice of the Voiceless: Addressing Various Forms of Injustice in the Civil Commitment Process for Those with Eating Disorders’’

Qiannan Li

"Shame, Respect and Well-Being: What Can We Learn from Early Chinese Philosophy?’’

Yoshinari Yoshida

"Philosophy of science, philosophy of biology Generalizations in Practice: Investigating Generality and Specificity in Developmental Biology’’

2021

Max Dresow

"Time, Life, and Environment: Practices of Geohistory at the Intersection of the Earth and Life Sciences."

Advisor: Alan Love

Brian Tebbitt (MA Plan A)

"Demarcation and Definition: The Metaphysics of Project Management Considered."

Advisor: Peter Hanks

2019

Justin Kuster

"A Critique of Reductive Accounts of the Source of Necessity"

Advisor: Peter Hanks

2018

Melanie Bowman

"An Epistemology of Solidarity: Coalition in the Face of Ignorance"

Advisor: Naomi Scheman

2017

Haidar Al-Dhalimy

"On Order Types of Space-Time Dimensions"

Advisors: Roy T Cook, Geoffrey Hellman

Kathryn Swanson

"Non-Ideal Autonomy in the Relationship of Care"

Co-advisors: Sarah Holtman and Joan Tronto (POSC)

2016

William Bausman

"From Biological Practice to Scientific Metaphysics"

Advisor: C. Kenneth Waters

Patrick Laine

"The Living Mind"

Advisors: Peter Hanks, Naomi Scheman

John "Jack" Powers

"Descriptive Practices and Values in Endocrine Disruption Research"

Advisor: Alan Love

Jason Steffen

"A Kantian Theory of Criminal Law"

Advisor: Sarah Holtman

Yi Tong

"Conceptual Analysis in Jurisprudence: An Essay in Methodology"

Advisor: Brian Bix

Brian Wilson Baer

"A Theory of Moral Obligation"

Advisors: Sarah Holtman, Roy T Cook

2015

Marisol Brito

"Why Friendship?"

Advisors: Sarah Holtman, Naomi Scheman

Kirsten Kringle

"The Decision to Know"

Advisor: Naomi Scheman

Shay Logan

"Categories and Constructs"

Advisors: Geoffrey Hellman, Roy T Cook

2014

Thomas Doyle

"Philosophy and the Professional Image of Philosophy"

Advisors: Alan Love, Douglas Lewis

Mark Herr

"Human Defect"

Advisor: Valerie Tiberius

2013

Stephen Nelson

"Committing Ourselves to Nothing: An Anti-Orthodox View of Existential Quantifier Expressions"

Advisors: Peter Hanks, Geoffrey Hellman

Jason Swartwood

"Cultivating Practical Wisdom"

Advisor: Valerie Tiberius

2012

Yi Deng

"Toward 'Free Trade' from Kant's Cosmopolitan Ideal"

Advisors: Sarah Holtman, Joseph Owens

Loree Kalliainen

"The Application of Evidence-Based Medicine to the Field of Surgery"

Advisor: Michael Root

Anastasia Panagopoulos

"Knowing What It's Like and Mind-Reading"

Advisor: Peter Hanks

Hyun Joo Shin

"Individualism and the Aesthetic"

Advisors: Joseph Owens, Geoffrey Hellman

2011

Monica Berrier

"Rethinking Aesthetic Concepts: Lessons from the Art of Classical Dressage"

Advisor: Keith Gunderson

Jovana Davidovic

"International Law and Global Justice: Why Institutional Features of International Law Matter to Discussions of Global Justice"

Advisor: Michelle Mason

Joseph Martin (MA)

"Contingency, Predication, and Counterfactuals in the History and Philosophy of Science"

Advisor: C. Kenneth Waters

Ian Stoner

"The Reward of Virtue: An Essay on the Relationship Between Character and Well-Being"

Advisors: Valerie Tiberius, Michelle Mason

2010

Deepanwita Dasgupta

"On the Peripheries of Western Science: Indian Science from 1910-1930, a Cognitive-Philosophical Analysis"

Advisor: Ronald Giere