Recent Dissertations
2025
Taylor Smith
"A Schematization, Defense, and Application of Strawson’s Inescapability Argument”
Lauren Wilson
"The Scope and Limits of Reasoning Practices in Behavioral Genetics"
2024
Kylie Shahar
“Emerging Themes in Early Modern Philosophy: Locke, Cockburn, and Kant on Moral Knowledge and Development”
Nathan Lackey
"The Moral Psychology of Implicit Bias: Interpretations, Obligations, and Responsibilities”
Michael Calasso
"Ontological Methodology and the Philosophy of Arithmetic: A Critique of Abstractionism’’
Sara Parhizgari
"Abstraction, Objects, and Existence’’
2023
Tucker Marks
“From Well-Being to Citizen Well-Being in Jean-Jacques Rousseau”
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