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Dissertations.
Last Name | First Name | Date | Thesis Title | Thesis Supervisor(s) | Real Date |
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Heine | Jessica | May 2024 | How Things Seem: Arbitrariness, Transparency, and Representation | Byrne | 06/26/24 |
Pearson | Joshua | May 2024 | Belief is Messy | White | 06/26/24 |
Thwaites | Abigail | May 2024 | Knowing How, Knowing Who, Knowing What to Do | Hare | 06/26/24 |
Hintikka | Kathleen | Feb 2024 | Speech Therapy | Haslanger | 06/26/24 |
Brooke-Wilson | Tyler | Sep 2023 | Green | 09/01/23 | |
Watkins | Eliot | Sep 2023 | Khoo | 09/01/23 | |
Grant | Lyndal | Feb 2023 | Setiya | 02/01/23 | |
Balin | Allison | Sep 2022 | White | 09/01/22 | |
Ravanpak | Ryan | Sep 2022 | Hare, Skow | 09/01/22 | |
Schilling | Haley | Sep 2022 | White | 09/01/22 | |
Webber | Mallory | Sep 2022 | Yablo | 09/01/22 | |
Wu | Xinhe | Sep 2022 | McGee | 09/01/22 | |
Räty | Anni | May 2022 | Schapiro | 05/01/22 | |
Atherton | Emma | Sep 2021 | Haslanger | 09/01/21 | |
Boulicault | Marion | Sep 2021 | Haslanger | 09/01/21 | |
Byrne | Thomas | Jun 2021 | Hare | 06/01/21 | |
Balcarras | David | Sep 2020 | Byrne | 09/01/20 | |
Baron-Schmitt | Nathaniel | Sep 2020 | Skow | 09/01/20 | |
Hodges | Jerome | Sep 2020 | Haslanger | 09/01/20 | |
Koslow | Allison | Sep 2020 | Byrne | 09/01/20 | |
Builes | David | May 2020 | Skow | 05/01/20 | |
Dorst | Kevin | Sep 2019 | White | 09/01/19 | |
Grant | Cosmo | Sep 2019 | Stalnaker | 09/01/19 | |
Lenehan | Rose | Sep 2019 | Haslanger | 09/01/19 | |
Phillips-Brown | Milo | Sep 2019 | Yablo | 09/01/19 | |
White | Patrick Quinn | Sep 2019 | Setiya | 09/01/19 | |
Hesni | Samia | Jun 2019 | Haslanger | 06/01/19 | |
Muñoz | Daniel | Jun 2019 | Schapiro, Setiya | 06/01/19 | |
Boylan | David | Sep 2018 | Stalnaker | 09/01/18 | |
Gray | David | Sep 2018 | Byrne | 09/01/18 | |
Jaques | Abby | Sep 2018 | Setiya | 09/01/18 | |
Schultheis | Virginia | Sep 2018 | White | 09/01/18 | |
Saillant | Said | Sep 2017 | White | 09/01/17 | |
Wells | Ian | Sep 2017 | White | 09/01/17 | |
Richardson | Kevin | Sep 2017 | Yablo | 09/01/17 | |
Jenny | Mathias | Sep 2017 | McGee | 09/01/17 | |
de Kenessey | Brendan | Sep 2017 | Setiya | 09/01/17 | |
Bianchi | Dylan | Sep 2017 | Byrne | 09/01/17 | |
Mandelkern | Matthew | Jun 2017 | Stalnaker and von Fintel | 06/01/17 | |
Ortiz-Hinojosa | Sofia | Sep 2016 | Byrne | 09/01/16 | |
Millsop | Rebecca | Sep 2016 | Haslanger | 09/01/16 | |
Marley-Payne | Jack | Sep 2016 | Stalnaker | 09/01/16 | |
Doody | Ryan | Sep 2016 | Rayo | 09/01/16 | |
Das | Nilanjan | Sep 2016 | White | 09/01/16 | |
Botchkina | Ekaterina | Sep 2016 | Haslanger and Yablo | 09/01/16 | |
Ali | Arden | Sep 2016 | Setiya | 09/01/16 | |
Schumacher | Melissa | Sep 2015 | Skow | 09/01/15 | |
Salow | Bernhard | Sep 2015 | White | 09/01/15 | |
Lenehan | Rose | Sep 2015 | Haslanger | 09/01/15 | |
Evans | Owain | Sep 2015 | Bayesian Computational Models for Inferring Preferences | White | 09/01/15 |
Horowitz | Sophie | Jun 2014 | White | 06/01/14 | |
Rochford | Damien | Sep 2013 | Stalnaker | 09/01/13 | |
Hagen | Daniel | Sep 2013 | Haslanger | 09/01/13 | |
Carr | Jennifer | Sep 2013 | Holton | 09/01/13 | |
Sliwa | Pauline | Sep 2012 | Holton | 09/01/12 | |
Hedden | Brian | Sep 2012 | Hare | 09/01/12 | |
Schoenfield | Miriam | Jun 2012 | White | 06/01/12 | |
Greco | Daniel | Jun 2012 | White | 06/01/12 | |
Emery | Nina | Jun 2012 | Skow | 06/01/12 | |
Walden | Kenneth | Sep 2011 | Holton and Langton | 09/01/11 | |
Santorio | Paolo | Sep 2011 | Stalnaker | 09/01/11 | |
Rinard | Susanna | Sep 2011 | White | 09/01/11 | |
Pérez Carballo | Alejandro | Sep 2011 | Stalnaker and Yablo | 09/01/11 | |
Manne | Kate | Sep 2011 | Holton | 09/01/11 | |
Graham | Andrew | Sep 2011 | Yablo | 09/01/11 | |
Almotahari | Mahrad | Sep 2011 | Stalnaker | 09/01/11 | |
Robichaud | Christopher | Feb 2011 | Langton | 02/01/11 | |
Vavova | Ekaterina | Sep 2010 | White | 09/01/10 | |
Urbanek | Valentina | Sep 2010 | Hare | 09/01/10 | |
Kwon | Hongwoo | Sep 2010 | Stalnaker | 09/01/10 | |
Krupnick | Ari | Sep 2010 | Stalnaker | 09/01/10 | |
Henderson | Leah | Sep 2010 | Stalnaker | 09/01/10 | |
Dougherty | Thomas | Sep 2010 | Holton and Langton | 09/01/10 | |
Logue | Heather | Sep 2009 | Byrne | 09/01/09 | |
Hosein | Adam | Sep 2009 | Langton | 09/01/09 | |
Holland | Sean | Sep 2009 | Haslanger | 09/01/09 | |
Hoffman | Ginger | Sep 2009 | Holton | 09/01/09 | |
Glick | Ephraim | Sep 2009 | Stalnaker | 09/01/09 | |
Ashwell | Lauren | Sep 2009 | Byrne, Holton & Langton | 09/01/09 | |
Moss | Sarah | Jun 2009 | Stalnaker | 06/01/09 | |
Briggs | Rachel | Feb 2009 | Stalnaker | 02/01/09 | |
Yalcin | Seth | Sep 2008 | Stalnaker & Yablo | 09/01/08 | |
Ninan | Dilip | Sep 2008 | Stalnaker | 09/01/08 | |
Etlin | David | Sep 2008 | Stalnaker | 09/01/08 | |
Kurtz | Roxanne | Feb 2008 | Cohen & Haslanger | 02/01/08 | |
Sin | Jessica | Sep 2007 | Holton | 09/01/07 | |
Finegan | Johanna | Sep 2007 | Thomson | 09/01/07 | |
de Bres | Helena | Sep 2007 | Cohen | 09/01/07 | |
Berker | Selim | Sep 2007 | Thomson | 09/01/07 | |
Batty | Clare | Sep 2007 | Byrne | 09/01/07 | |
Decker | Jason | Feb 2007 | Yablo | 02/01/07 | |
Swanson | Eric | Sep 2006 | Stalnaker | 09/01/06 | |
Bach-y-Rita | Peter | Sep 2006 | Thomson | 09/01/06 | |
Abdul-Matin | Ishmawil | Sep 2006 | Cohen | 09/01/06 | |
Nickel | Bernhard | Sep 2005 | Hall, Stalnaker, Yablo | 09/01/05 | |
Sveinsdottir | Asta | Sep 2004 | Siding with Euthyphro: Response-Dependence, Essentiality, and the Individuation of Ordinary Objects | Haslanger | 09/01/04 |
Roskies | Adina | Sep 2004 | Hall | 09/01/04 | |
John | James | Sep 2004 | Byrne | 09/01/04 | |
Doggett | Tyler | Sep 2004 | Byrne | 09/01/04 | |
Sofaer | Neema | Jun 2004 | Cohen | 06/01/04 | |
Egan | Andrew | Feb 2004 | Yablo | 02/01/04 | |
Hawley | Patrick | Sep 2003 | Stalnaker | 09/01/03 | |
Harman | Elizabeth | Sep 2003 | Cohen | 09/01/03 | |
Flaherty | Joshua | Sep 2003 | Cohen | 09/01/03 | |
Einheuser | Iris | Sep 2003 | Yablo | 09/01/03 | |
Sartorio | Carolina | Jun 2003 | Yablo | 06/01/03 | |
Koellner | Peter | Jun 2003 | McGee | 06/01/03 | |
Newman | Anthony | Sep 2002 | Byrne | 09/01/02 | |
McGrath | Sarah | Sep 2002 | Hall | 09/01/02 | |
Maitra | Ishani | Sep 2002 | Haslanger | 09/01/02 | |
Hoffmann | Aviv | Sep 2002 | Stalnaker | 09/01/02 | |
Simon | Steven | Jun 2002 | Stalnaker | 06/01/02 | |
Friedman | Alexander | Jun 2002 | Thomson | 06/01/02 | |
Pettit | Dean | Sep 2001 | Stalnaker | 09/01/01 | |
Meyer | Ulrich | Sep 2001 | Stalnaker | 09/01/01 | |
Elga | Adam | Sep 2001 | Hall | 09/01/01 | |
Jónsson | Ólafur | Jun 2001 | Thomson | 06/01/01 | |
Rayo | Agustin | Feb 2001 | McGee | 02/01/01 | |
Hernando | Miguel | Feb 2001 | Stalnaker | 02/01/01 | |
Gray | Anthony | Feb 2001 | Stalnaker | 02/01/01 | |
White | Roger | Sep 2000 | Stalnaker | 09/01/00 | |
Eklund | Matti | Sep 2000 | Yablo | 09/01/00 | |
Uzquiano | Gabriel | Sep 1999 | McGee | 09/01/99 | |
Streiffer | Robert | Sep 1999 | Thomson | 09/01/99 | |
McKitrick | Jennifer | Sep 1999 | Byrne | 09/01/99 | |
Brown | Rachel | Sep 1999 | Cohen | 09/01/99 | |
Sereno | Lisa | Feb 1999 | Stalnaker | 02/01/99 | |
Spencer | Cara | Sep 1998 | Stalnaker | 09/01/98 | |
Botterell | Andrew | Sep 1998 | Stalnaker | 09/01/98 | |
Graff | Delia | Sep 1997 | Stalnaker | 09/01/97 | |
Maciá Fábrega | Josep | Jun 1997 | Stalnaker | 06/01/97 | |
Feldmann | Judith | Feb 1997 | Stalnaker | 02/01/97 | |
Kermode | Robert | Jun 1996 | Byrne | 06/01/96 | |
Hinton | Timothy | Jun 1996 | Cohen | 06/01/96 | |
Stoljar | Daniel | Sep 1995 | Block | 09/01/95 | |
Szabó | Zoltán | Jun 1995 | Boolos | 06/01/95 | |
Stanley | Jason | Jun 1995 | Stalnaker | 06/01/95 | |
Koslicki | Kathrin | Jun 1995 | Thomson | 06/01/95 | |
Bumpus | Ann | Jun 1995 | Thomson | 06/01/95 | |
Jung | Darryl | Feb 1995 | Boolos | 02/01/95 | |
Lau | Yen-fong | Sep 1994 | Stalnaker | 09/01/94 | |
Hunter | David | Sep 1994 | Stalnaker | 09/01/94 | |
McConnell | Jeffrey | May 1994 | Block | 05/01/94 | |
Clapp | Leonard | May 1994 | Bromberger | 05/01/94 | |
Stainton | Robert | Sep 1993 | Bromberger | 09/01/93 | |
Picard | J.R.W. Michael | Sep 1993 | Cartwright | 09/01/93 | |
Womack | Catherine | Jun 1993 | Higginbotham | 06/01/93 | |
Ulicny | Brian | Jun 1993 | Higginbotham | 06/01/93 | |
Jeske | Diane | Sep 1992 | Brink | 09/01/92 | |
Reimer | Margaret | Jun 1992 | Cartwright | 06/01/92 | |
Isaacs | Tracy | Jun 1992 | Thomson | 06/01/92 | |
Stein | Edward | Feb 1992 | Block | 02/01/92 | |
Heck Jr. | Richard | Jun 1991 | Boolos | 06/01/91 | |
Galloway | David | Jun 1991 | Boolos | 06/01/91 | |
Dwyer | Susan | Jun 1991 | Higginbotham | 06/01/91 | |
Antony | Michael | Oct 1990 | Block | 10/01/90 | |
Ruesga | Albert | Jun 1990 | Higginbotham | 06/01/90 | |
Prevett | Elizabeth | May 1990 | Brink | 05/01/90 | |
Pietrowski | Paul | May 1990 | Stalnaker | 05/01/90 | |
Page | James | May 1990 | Boolos | 05/01/90 | |
Lormand | Eric | May 1990 | Block | 05/01/90 | |
Kaye | Larry | May 1990 | Stalnaker | 05/01/90 | |
Rodriguez | Jorge | Sep 1989 | Cartwright | 09/01/89 | |
Uebel | Thomas | Jun 1989 | Bromberger | 06/01/89 | |
Patterson | Sarah | Jun 1988 | Block | 06/01/88 | |
Lebed | Jay Aaron | Jun 1988 | Block | 06/01/88 | |
Lind | Marcia | Feb 1988 | Cohen | 02/01/88 | |
Segal | Gabriel | Jun 1987 | Block | 06/01/87 | |
Satz | Debra | Feb 1987 | Cohen | 02/01/87 | |
Cobetto | Jack Bernard | May 1985 | Cartwright | 05/01/85 | |
Akhtar Kazmi | Ali | Feb 1985 | Boolos | 02/01/85 | |
Gillon | Brendan | Sep 1984 | Higginbotham | 09/01/84 | |
McClamrock | Ronald | Jun 1984 | Block | 06/01/84 | |
Wetzel | Linda | Feb 1984 | Cartwright | 02/01/84 | |
Appelt | Timothy | Feb 1984 | Cartwright | 02/01/84 | |
Antognini | Thomas | Feb 1984 | Boolos | 02/01/84 | |
Pressler | Jonathan | Sep 1983 | Cohen | 09/01/83 | |
Russinoff | Ilene | May 1983 | Boolos | 05/01/83 | |
Poland | Jeffrey | May 1983 | Fodor | 05/01/83 | |
Christie | Andrew | May 1983 | Higginbotham | 05/01/83 | |
Berk | Lon | Sep 1982 | Boolos | 09/01/82 | |
Cannon | Douglas | Jun 1982 | Boolos | 06/01/82 | |
Krakowski | Israel | Jun 1981 | Block | 06/01/81 | |
Katz | Fredric M. | Jun 1981 | Boolos | 06/01/81 | |
Stabler, Jr. | Edward Palmer | Feb 1981 | Fodor | 02/01/81 | |
Levin | Janet Marchel | Sep 1980 | Block | 09/01/80 | |
Kamm | Frances Myrna | Feb 1980 | Herman | 02/01/80 | |
Smith | George | Jun 1979 | Cartwright | 06/01/79 | |
Rabinowitz | Joshua | Sep 1978 | Judith Thomson | 09/01/78 | |
Auerbach | David | Jun 1978 | Boolos | 06/01/78 | |
Prior | Stephen | Jun 1977 | Block | 06/01/77 | |
Mendelsohn | Richard | Feb 1977 | Cartwright | 02/01/77 | |
Foster | Susan | Feb 1977 | Herman | 02/01/77 | |
Levin | Harold | Sep 1976 | Boolos | 09/01/76 | |
Horowitz | Tamara | Jun 1976 | Apriority and Necessity. | Boolos | 06/01/76 |
Sparer | Alan | Feb 1976 | Political Obligation and the Just State. | Judith Thomson | 02/01/76 |
Soames | Scott | Feb 1976 | Bromberger | 02/01/76 | |
Siegel | Kenneth | Sep 1975 | Identity Across Possible Worlds. | Boolos | 09/01/75 |
Karp | David | Jun 1975 | General Ontology. | Brody | 06/01/75 |
Stecker | Robert | Feb 1975 | Moral Sense Theories. | Brody | 02/01/75 |
Lipton | Michael | Sep 1974 | Quine’s Criterion of Ontological Commitment. | Cartwright | 09/01/74 |
Weston | Thomas | Jun 1974 | Cartwright | 06/01/74 | |
Nishiyama | Yuji | Jun 1974 | The Structure of Propositions. | Katz | 06/01/74 |
Zaitchik | Alan | Sep 1973 | The Limits of Hypothetical Contractualism. | Judith Thomson | 09/01/73 |
Siemens | Warren | Sep 1973 | Theories of Scientific Change: Their Nature and Structure. | Bromberger | 09/01/73 |
Shelley | Karan | Sep 1973 | Theories of Scientific Change: Their Nature and Structure. | Bromberger | 09/01/73 |
Mellema | Paul | Jun 1973 | Bromberger | 06/01/73 | |
Harnish | Robert | Sep 1972 | Studies in Logic and Language. | Katz | 09/01/72 |
Kirk | Robert | Jun 1972 | Intermediate Logics and the Equational Classes of Brouwerian Algebras. | James Thomson | 06/01/72 |
Friedman | Kenneth | Jun 1972 | Foundation and Probability Theory and Statistical Thermodynamics. | Bromberger | 06/01/72 |
McEvoy | Paul | Sep 1971 | The Philosophy of Niels Bohr. | Graves | 09/01/71 |
Whitbeck | Caroline | Jun 1970 | The Concepts of Space and Time in the General Theory of Relativity. | Graves | 06/01/70 |
Boyd | Richard | Feb 1970 | A Recursion-Theoretic Characterization of the Ramified Analytical Hierarchy. | Cartwright | 02/01/70 |
Teller | Paul | Sep 1969 | Problems in Confirmation Theory. | James Thomson | 09/01/69 |
Leeds | Stephen | Jun 1969 | Arithmetical Degrees in the Hierarchy of Constructible Sets of Integers. | James Thomson | 06/01/69 |
Thomas | Stephen | Sep 1968 | Philosophical Model-Building and the Philosophy of Mind. | Judith Thomson | 09/01/68 |
Davis | Bernard | Sep 1968 | The Notion of Protomeaning. | Bromberger | 09/01/68 |
Martin | Edwin | Jun 1968 | Quantifying into Opaque Contexts: May We or May We Not? | Cartwright | 06/01/68 |
Boolos | George | Jun 1966 | The Hierarchy of Constructible Sets of Integers. | Putnam | 06/01/66 |
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Theses/dissertations from 2024 2024.
On the Possibility of Secular Morality , Zachary R. Alonso
An Ecofeminist Ontological Turn: Preparing the Field for a New Ecofeminist Project , M. Laurel-Leigh Meierdiercks
Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023
Karl Marx on Human Flourishing and Proletarian Ethics , Sam Badger
The Ontological Grounds of Reason: Psychologism, Logicism, and Hermeneutic Phenomenology , Stanford L. Howdyshell
Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022
Interdisciplinary Communication by Plausible Analogies: the Case of Buddhism and Artificial Intelligence , Michael Cooper
Heidegger and the Origin of Authenticity , John J. Preston
Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021
Hegel and Schelling: The Emptiness of Emptiness and the Love of the Divine , Sean B. Gleason
Nietzsche on Criminality , Laura N. McAllister
Learning to be Human: Ren 仁, Modernity, and the Philosophers of China's Hundred Days' Reform , Lucien Mathot Monson
Nietzsche and Eternal Recurrence: Methods, Archives, History, and Genesis , William A. B. Parkhurst
Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020
Orders of Normativity: Nietzsche, Science and Agency , Shane C. Callahan
Humanistic Climate Philosophy: Erich Fromm Revisited , Nicholas Dovellos
This, or Something like It: Socrates and the Problem of Authority , Simon Dutton
Climate Change and Liberation in Latin America , Ernesto O. Hernández
Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa as Expressions of Shame in a Post-Feminist , Emily Kearns
Nostalgia and (In)authentic Community: A Bataillean Answer to the Heidegger Controversy , Patrick Miller
Cultivating Virtue: A Thomistic Perspective on the Relationship Between Moral Motivation and Skill , Ashley Potts
Identity, Breakdown, and the Production of Knowledge: Intersectionality, Phenomenology, and the Project of Post-Marxist Standpoint Theory , Zachary James Purdue
Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019
The Efficacy of Comedy , Mark Anthony Castricone
William of Ockham's Divine Command Theory , Matthew Dee
Heidegger's Will to Power and the Problem of Nietzsche's Nihilism , Megan Flocken
Abelard's Affective Intentionalism , Lillian M. King
Anton Wilhelm Amo's Philosophy and Reception: from the Origins through the Encyclopédie , Dwight Kenneth Lewis Jr.
"The Thought that we Hate": Regulating Race-Related Speech on College Campuses , Michael McGowan
A Historical Approach to Understanding Explanatory Proofs Based on Mathematical Practices , Erika Oshiro
From Meaningful Work to Good Work: Reexamining the Moral Foundation of the Calling Orientation , Garrett W. Potts
Reasoning of the Highest Leibniz and the Moral Quality of Reason , Ryan Quandt
Fear, Death, and Being-a-problem: Understanding and Critiquing Racial Discourse with Heidegger’s Being and Time , Jesús H. Ramírez
The Role of Skepticism in Early Modern Philosophy: A Critique of Popkin's "Sceptical Crisis" and a Study of Descartes and Hume , Raman Sachdev
How the Heart Became Muscle: From René Descartes to Nicholas Steno , Alex Benjamin Shillito
Autonomy, Suffering, and the Practice of Medicine: A Relational Approach , Michael A. Stanfield
The Case for the Green Kant: A Defense and Application of a Kantian Approach to Environmental Ethics , Zachary T. Vereb
Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018
Augustine's Confessiones : The Battle between Two Conversions , Robert Hunter Craig
The Strategic Naturalism of Sandra Harding's Feminist Standpoint Epistemology: A Path Toward Epistemic Progress , Dahlia Guzman
Hume on the Doctrine of Infinite Divisibility: A Matter of Clarity and Absurdity , Wilson H. Underkuffler
Climate Change: Aristotelian Virtue Theory, the Aidōs Response and Proper Primility , John W. Voelpel
The Fate of Kantian Freedom: the Kant-Reinhold Controversy , John Walsh
Time, Tense, and Ontology: Prolegomena to the Metaphysics of Tense, the Phenomenology of Temporality, and the Ontology of Time , Justin Brandt Wisniewski
Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017
A Phenomenological Approach to Clinical Empathy: Rethinking Empathy Within its Intersubjective and Affective Contexts , Carter Hardy
From Object to Other: Models of Sociality after Idealism in Gadamer, Levinas, Rosenzweig, and Bonhoeffer , Christopher J. King
Humanitarian Military Intervention: A Failed Paradigm , Faruk Rahmanovic
Active Suffering: An Examination of Spinoza's Approach to Tristita , Kathleen Ketring Schenk
Cartesian Method and Experiment , Aaron Spink
An Examination of John Burton’s Method of Conflict Resolution and Its Applicability to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict , John Kenneth Steinmeyer
Speaking of the Self: Theorizing the Dialogical Dimensions of Ethical Agency , Bradley S. Warfield
Changing Changelessness: On the Genesis and Development of the Doctrine of Divine Immutability in the Ancient and Hellenic Period , Milton Wilcox
Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016
The Statue that Houses the Temple: A Phenomenological Investigation of Western Embodiment Towards the Making of Heidegger's Missing Connection with the Greeks , Michael Arvanitopoulos
An Exploratory Analysis of Media Reporting of Police Involved Shootings in Florida , John L. Brown
Divine Temporality: Bonhoeffer's Theological Appropriation of Heidegger's Existential Analytic of Dasein , Nicholas Byle
Stoicism in Descartes, Pascal, and Spinoza: Examining Neostoicism’s Influence in the Seventeenth Century , Daniel Collette
Phenomenology and the Crisis of Contemporary Psychiatry: Contingency, Naturalism, and Classification , Anthony Vincent Fernandez
A Critique of Charitable Consciousness , Chioke Ianson
writing/trauma , Natasha Noel Liebig
Leibniz's More Fundamental Ontology: from Overshadowed Individuals to Metaphysical Atoms , Marin Lucio Mare
Violence and Disagreement: From the Commonsense View to Political Kinds of Violence and Violent Nonviolence , Gregory Richard Mccreery
Kant's Just War Theory , Steven Charles Starke
A Feminist Contestation of Ableist Assumptions: Implications for Biomedical Ethics, Disability Theory, and Phenomenology , Christine Marie Wieseler
Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015
Heidegger and the Problem of Modern Moral Philosophy , Megan Emily Altman
The Encultured Mind: From Cognitive Science to Social Epistemology , David Alexander Eck
Weakness of Will: An Inquiry on Value , Michael Funke
Cogs in a Cosmic Machine: A Defense of Free Will Skepticism and its Ethical Implications , Sacha Greer
Thinking Nature, "Pierre Maupertuis and the Charge of Error Against Fermat and Leibniz" , Richard Samuel Lamborn
John Duns Scotus’s Metaphysics of Goodness: Adventures in 13th-Century Metaethics , Jeffrey W. Steele
A Gadamerian Analysis of Roman Catholic Hermeneutics: A Diachronic Analysis of Interpretations of Romans 1:17-2:17 , Steven Floyd Surrency
A Natural Case for Realism: Processes, Structures, and Laws , Andrew Michael Winters
Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014
Leibniz's Theodicies , Joseph Michael Anderson
Aeschynē in Aristotle's Conception of Human Nature , Melissa Marie Coakley
Ressentiment, Violence, and Colonialism , Jose A. Haro
It's About Time: Dynamics of Inflationary Cosmology as the Source of the Asymmetry of Time , Emre Keskin
Time Wounds All Heels: Human Nature and the Rationality of Just Behavior , Timothy Glenn Slattery
Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013
Nietzsche and Heidegger on the Cartesian Atomism of Thought , Steven Burgess
Embodying Social Practice: Dynamically Co-Constituting Social Agency , Brian W. Dunst
Subject of Conscience: On the Relation between Freedom and Discrimination in the Thought of Heidegger, Foucault, and Butler , Aret Karademir
Climate, Neo-Spinozism, and the Ecological Worldview , Nancy M. Kettle
Eschatology in a Secular Age: An Examination of the Use of Eschatology in the Philosophies of Heidegger, Berdyaev and Blumenberg , John R. Lup, Jr.
Navigation and Immersion of the American Identity in a Foreign Culture to Emergence as a Culturally Relative Ambassador , Lee H. Rosen
Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012
A Philosophical Analysis of Intellectual Property: In Defense of Instrumentalism , Michael A. Kanning
A Commentary On Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's Discourse on Metaphysics #19 , Richard Lamborn Samuel Lamborn
Sellars in Context: An Analysis of Wilfrid Sellars's Early Works , Peter Jackson Olen
The New Materialism: Althusser, Badiou, and Zizek , Geoffrey Dennis Pfeifer
Structure and Agency: An Analysis of the Impact of Structure on Group Agents , Elizabeth Kaye Victor
Moral Friction, Moral Phenomenology, and the Improviser , Benjamin Scott Young
Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011
The Virtuoso Human: A Virtue Ethics Model Based on Care , Frederick Joseph Bennett
The Existential Compromise in the History of the Philosophy of Death , Adam Buben
Philosophical Precursors to the Radical Enlightenment: Vignettes on the Struggle Between Philosophy and Theology From the Greeks to Leibniz With Special Emphasis on Spinoza , Anthony John Desantis
The Problem of Evil in Augustine's Confessions , Edward Matusek
The Persistence of Casuistry: a Neo-premodernist Approach to Moral Reasoning , Richard Arthur Mercadante
Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010
Dewey's Pragmatism and the Great Community , Philip Schuyler Bishop
Unamuno's Concept of the Tragic , Ernesto O. Hernandez
Rethinking Ethical Naturalism: The Implications of Developmental Systems Theory , Jared J.. Kinggard
From Husserl and the Neo-Kantians to Art: Heidegger's Realist Historicist Answer to the Problem of the Origin of Meaning , William H. Koch
Queering Cognition: Extended Minds and Sociotechnologically Hybridized Gender , Michele Merritt
Hydric Life: A Nietzschean Reading of Postcolonial Communication , Elena F. Ruiz-Aho
Descartes' Bête Machine, the Leibnizian Correction and Religious Influence , John Voelpel
Aretē and Physics: The Lesson of Plato's Timaeus , John R. Wolfe
Theses/Dissertations from 2009 2009
Praxis and Theōria : Heidegger’s “Violent” Interpretation , Megan E. Altman
On the Concept of Evil: An Analysis of Genocide and State Sovereignty , Jason J. Campbell
The Role of Trust in Judgment , Christophe Sage Hudspeth
Truth And Judgment , Jeremy J. Kelly
The concept of action and responsibility in Heidegger's early thought , Christian Hans Pedersen
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The Department of Philosophy Dissertations and Theses Series is comprised of dissertations and theses authored by Marquette University's Department of Philosophy doctoral and master's students.
Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023
Place, Attachment, and Feeling: Indigenous Dispossession and Settler Belonging , Sarah Kizuk
Nepantla and Mestizaje: A Phenomenological Analysis of the Mestizx Historical Consciousness , Jorge Alfredo Montiel
The Categories Argument for the Real Distinction Between Being and Essence: Avicenna, Aquinas, and Their Greek Sources , Nathaniel Taylor
Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022
Modeling, Describing, and Explaining Subjective Consciousness- A Guide to (and for) the Perplexed , Peter Burgess
Looking Through Whiteness: Objectivity, Racism, Method, and Responsibility , Philip Mack
Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Maritain on the Student-Teacher Relationship in Catholic Higher Education , Timothy Rothhaar
Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021
The Empathetic Autistic: A Phenomenological Look at the Feminine Experience , Dana Fritz
Concerning Aristotelian Animal Essences , Damon Andrew Watson
When to Trust Authoritative Testimony: Generation and Transmission of Knowledge in Saadya Gaon, Al-Ghazālī and Thomas Aquinas , Brett A. Yardley
Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020
The Status of Irrationality: Karl Jaspers' Response to Davidson and Searle , Daniel Adsett
Cosmic City - Cosmic Teleology: A Reading of Metaphysics Λ 10 and Politics I 2 , Brandon Henrigillis
Phenomenal Consciousness: An Husserlian Approach , John Jered Janes
Al-Fārābī Metaphysics, and the Construction of Social Knowledge: Is Deception Warranted if it Leads to Happiness? , Nicholas Andrew Oschman
The Epistemology of Disagreement: Hume, Kant, and the Current Debate , Robert Kyle Whitaker
Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019
'Our Feet are Mired In the Same Soil': Deepening Democracy with the Political Virtue of Sympathetic Inquiry , Jennifer Lynn Kiefer Fenton
Towards a Philosophy of the Musical Experience: Phenomenology, Culture, and Ethnomusicology in Conversation , J. Tyler Friedman
Humor, Power and Culture: A New Theory on the Experience and Ethics of Humor , Jennifer Marra
Care of the Sexual Self: Askesis As a Route to Sex Education , Shaun Douglas Miller
Re-Evaluating Augustinian Fatalism through the Eastern and Western Distinction between God's Essence and Energies , Stephen John Plecnik
The Fantastic Structure of Freedom: Sartre, Freud, and Lacan , Gregory A. Trotter
The Province of Conceptual Reason: Hegel's Post-Kantian Rationalism , William Clark Wolf
Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018
Hume on Thick and Thin Causation , Alexander Bozzo
Evolution, Naturalism, and Theism: An Inconsistent Triad? , David H. Gordon
The Parable As Mirror: An Examination of the Use of Parables in the Works of Kierkegaard , Russell Hamer
Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017
Contextualizing Aquinas's Ontology of Soul: An Analysis of His Arabic and Neoplatonic Sources , Nathan McLain Blackerby
The Social and Historical Subject in Sartre and Foucault and Its Implications for Healthcare Ethics , Kimberly Siobhan Engels
Investigations of Worth: Towards a Phenomenology of Values , Dale Hobbs Jr.
Hegel and the Problem of the Multiplicity of Conflicting Philosophies , Matthew M. Peters
Aquinas, Averroes, and the Human Will , Traci Ann Phillipson
Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016
Nature, Feminism, and Flourishing: Human Nature and the Feminist Ethics of Flourishing , Celeste D. Harvey
Developing Capabilities: A Feminist Discourse Ethics Approach , Chad Kleist
Kierkegaard in Light of the East: A Critical Comparison of the Philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard with Orthodox Christian Philosophy and Thought , Agust Magnusson
The Secular Transformation of Pride and Humility in the Moral Philosophy of David Hume , Kirstin April Carlson McPherson
Living within the Sacred Tension: Paradox and Its Significance for Christian Existence in the Thought of Søren Kierkegaard , Matthew Thomas Nowachek
Moral Imagination and Adorno: Before and After Auschwitz , Catlyn Origitano
Essence and Necessity, and the Aristotelian Modal Syllogistic: A Historical and Analytical Study , Daniel James Vecchio
Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015
Subversive Humor , Chris A. Kramer
Virtue, Oppression, and Resistance Struggles , Trevor William Smith
Health As Embodied Authenticity , Margaret Steele
Recognition and Political Ontology: Fichte, Hegel, and Honneth , Velimir Stojkovski
The Conceptual Priority of the Perfect , Matthew Peter Zdon
Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014
Dangerous Knowledge? Morality And Moral Progress After Naturalism , Daniel Diederich Farmer
Nietzsche's Revaluation of All Values , Joseph Anthony Kranak
Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013
Re-Enchanting The World: An Examination Of Ethics, Religion, And Their Relationship In The Work Of Charles Taylor , David McPherson
Thomas Aquinas on the Apprehension of Being: The Role of Judgement in Light of Thirteenth-Century Semantics , Rosa Vargas Della Casa
Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012
Naturalized Panpsychism: An Alternative to Fundamentalist Physicalism and Supernaturalism , Earl R. Cookson
The Concept of Personhood in the Phenomenology of Edmund Husserl , Colin J. Hahn
The Humanistic, Fideistic Philosophy of Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560) , Charles William Peterson
Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011
Knowledge and Thought in Heidegger and Foucault: Towards an Epistemology of Ruptures , Arun Anantheeswaran Iyer
William James's Undivided Self and the Possibility of Immortality , Anthony Karlin
The Poetics of Remembrance: Communal Memory and Identity in Heidegger and Ricoeur , David Leichter
The Ontological Foundations for Natural Law Theory and Contemporary Ethical Naturalism , Bernard Mauser
Sexualized Violence, Moral Disintegration and Ethical Advocacy , Melissa Mosko
Spinoza on Individuals and Individuation: Metaphysics, Morals, and Politics , Matthew David Wion
Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010
The Paradox of Nature: Merleau-Ponty's Semi-Naturalistic Critique of Husserlian Phenomenology , Shazad Akhtar
Hume's Conception of Time and its Implications for his Theories of Causation and Induction , Daniel Esposito
Arabic Influences in Aquinas's Doctrine of Intelligible Species , Max Herrera
The Attestation of the Self as a Bridge Between Hermeneutics and Ontology in the Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur , Sebastian Kaufmann
Love's Lack: The Relationship between Poverty and Eros in Plato's Symposium , Lorelle D. Lamascus
Friendship and Fidelity: An Historical and Critical Examination , Joshua Walter Schulz
Natural Law Theory and the "Is"--"Ought" Problem: A Critique of Four Solutions , Shalina Stilley
Attending to Presence: A Study of John Duns Scotus' Account of Sense Cognition , Amy F. Whitworth
Theses/Dissertations from 2009 2009
Friendship and Self-Identity in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur , Cristina Bucur
The Finality of Religion in Aquinas' Theory of Human Acts , Francisco José Romero Carrasquillo
The finality of religion in Aquinas' theory of human acts , Francisco J Romero
Theses/Dissertations from 2008 2008
Self-Identity in Comparative Theology: The Functional lmportance of Charles Taylor's Concept of the Self for a Theology of Religions , Richard Joseph Hanson
Theses/Dissertations from 2007 2007
Husserl's Noema: A Critical Assessment of the Gestalt and Analytic Interpretations , Peter M. Chukwu
A Social Contract Analysis of Rawls and Rousseau: Supplanting the Original Position As Philosophically Most Favored , Paul Neiman
To Validate a Feeling: the Role of the Mood of Angst in Human Being , Gregory P. Schulz
The Conception and Attributes of God: A Comparison of Charles Sanders Peirce and Alfred North Whitehead , Scott W. Sinclair
John Rawls, Public Reason, and Natural Law: A Study of the Principles of Public Justification , Christopher Ward
Submissions from 2006 2006
Hans Jonas's ethic of responsibility applied to anti-aging technologies and the indefinite extension of the human life span , Jeffrey P Goins
David Hume and the Principle of Sufficient Reason , Ginger Lee
Virtue Theory in Plato's Republic , Griffin T. Nelson
The Principle of Alternate Possibilities: Finding Freedom after Frankfurt , Matthew F. Pierlott
Theses/Dissertations from 2005 2005
Is There a Future for Marxist Humanism? , Jacob M. Held
Self-Love and Morality: Beyond Egoism and Altruism , Li Jing
Eikos Logos and Eikos Muthos: A Study of the Nature of the Likely Story in Plato's Timaeus , Ryan Kenneth McBride
Hume's Conclusions on the Existence and Nature of God , Timothy S. Yoder
Theses/Dissertations from 2004 2004
The Foundations of the Politics of Difference , Peter Nathaniel Bwanali
The foundations of the politics of difference , Peter Nathaniel Bwanali
The Place of Justice in the Thinking of Emmanuel Levinas , Michael H. Gillick
New Waves in Metaethics: Naturalist Realism, Naturalist Antirealism and Divine Commands , Daniel R. Kern
Reason in Hume's Moral System , John Muenzberg
Conceiving Mind: A Critique of Descartes' Dualism and Contemporary Immaterialist Views of Consciousness , Kristin P. Schaupp
Respecting Plurality in Times of Change: Hannah Arendt's Conceptions of Political, Personal, and Ethical Responsibility , Stephen Schulman
Francis Suárez on the Ontological Status of Individual Unity vis-à-vis the Aristotelian Doctrine of Primary Substance , John W. Simmons
Through a Glass Darkly: Bernard Lonergan and Richard Rorty on the Possibility of Knowing Without a God's-Eye-View , Russell Snell
Theses/Dissertations from 2003 2003
Building a Heideggerian Ethic , Kelly A. Burns
St. Thomas Aquinas and the Self-Evident Proposition: A Study of the Manifold Senses of a Medieval Concept , Michael V. Dougherty
Ricoeur's Narrative Development of Gadamer's Hermeneutics: Continuity and Discontinuity , Keith D'Souza
Beauty's Resting Place: Unity in St. Augustine's Sensible Aesthetic , Matthew J. Hayes
Empathy and Knowledge: Husserl's Introductions to Phenomenology , Kevin Hermberg
The Transactional Model: A Critical Examination of John Dewey's Philosophy of Freedom , Mark N. Lenker III
Reflection on the "good" As a Source of Freedom in Virtue Theory , John D. Morse
Theses/Dissertations from 2002 2002
An Evaluation of Alvin Plantinga's Religious Epistemology Does It Function Properly? , James Beilby
Merleau-Ponty: Embodied Subjectivity and the Foundation of Ethics , Sarah A. Fischer
Kant on Love for Oneself: Why Respect for the Moral Law, But not the Desire for Happiness, is a moral incentive , Lawrence Masek
Essence, Individuation, and Artifact: An Aristotelian Model for Familiar Concrete Particulars , Chad V. Meister
Normative Strategies for Resolving Human Rights Conflicts , Eugene T. Rice
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Past Dissertations
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Name | Year | Title | Mentor |
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2024 | John Greco | ||
2023 | Bryce Huebner | ||
2023 | David Luban | ||
2022 | Karen Stohr | ||
2022 | David Luban | ||
2022 | Quill R. Kukla | ||
2022 | Quill R. Kukla | ||
2022 | Bryce Huebner | ||
2021 | William Blattner | ||
2021 | Henry Richardson | ||
2021 | Maggie Little | ||
2021 | Mark Lance | ||
2021 | Bryce Huebner | ||
2021 | Quill R. Kukla |
Name | Year | Title | Mentor |
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Karen Rice | 2020 | Karen Stohr | |
Hailey Huget | 2020 | Margaret Little | |
Michael Barnes | 2019 | Rebecca Kukla | |
Matthew Shields | 2019 | Mark Lance | |
Quentin Fisher | 2019 | Mark Lance | |
Megan Dean | 2019 | Rebecca Kukla | |
Daniel Threet | 2019 | Henry Richardson | |
Joseph Rees | 2018 | Rebecca Kukla | |
Paul Cudney | 2018 | Nancy Sherman | |
Gordon Shannon | 2017 | Mark Murphy | |
Nabina Liebow | 2017 | Rebecca Kukla | |
Colin Hickey | 2017 | Madison Powers & Maggie Litte | |
Cassie Herbert | 2017 | Rebecca Kukla | |
Jacob Earl | 2017 | Maggie Little | |
Francisco Gallegos | 2017 | William Blattner | |
Laura Guidry-Grimes | 2017 | Alisa Carse | |
Chong Un Choe-Smith | 2016 | Mark Murphy | |
Trip Glazer | 2016 | Rebecca Kukla | |
Patricia McShane | 2015 | Mark Murphy | |
Torsten Menge | 2015 | Rebecca Kukla | |
Anne Jeffrey | 2015 | Mark Murphy | |
Oren Magid | 2015 | William Blattner | |
Anthony Manela | 2014 | Maggie Little | |
Travis Rieder | 2014 | Henry Richardson | |
Kyle Fruh | 2014 | Judith Lichtenberg | |
Emily Evans | 2014 | Tom Beauchamp | |
Diana Puglisi | 2014 | Wayne Davis | |
Ann Lloyd Breeden | 2014 | Henry Richardson | |
Richard Fry | 2014 | Tom Beauchamp | |
James Olsen | 2014 | William Blattner | |
Kelly Heuer | 2013 | Maggie Little | |
Marcus Hedahl | 2013 | Maggie Little | |
Yashar Saghai | 2013 | Maggie Little | |
Tony Pfaff | 2013 | Nancy Sherman | |
Nate Olson | 2012 | Henry Richardson | |
Luke Maring | 2012 | Henry Richardson | |
Christian Golden | 2012 | Gerald Mara, Mark Lance | |
Karim Sadek | 2012 | Terry Pinkard | |
Daniel Quattrone | 2011 | Steven Kuhn | |
Amy Sepinwall | 2011 | David Luban | |
Lee Okster | 2011 | Alisa Carse | |
Jeffrey Engelhardt | 2011 | Wayne Davis | |
David Bachyrycz | 2010 | John Brough | |
Justyna Japola | 2010 | Wayne Davis |
Name | Year | Title | Mentor |
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Lauren Fleming | 2009 | Maggie Little | |
Robert Leider | 2009 | Henry Richardson | |
Billy Lauinger | 2009 | Mark Murphy | |
Tea Logar | 2009 | Maggie Little | |
Kari Esbensen | 2008 | Madison Powers | |
Ashley Fernandes | 2008 | Edmund Pellegrino | |
Chauncey Maher | 2007 | Mark Lance | |
Michael Ferry | 2007 | Mark Murphy | |
Matthew McAdam | 2007 | Wayne Davis, Maggie Little | |
Jeremy Snyder | 2007 | Margaret Little | |
Matthew Rellihan | 2006 | Wayne Davis | |
Katherine Taylor | 2006 | Alisa Carse | |
Patricia Flynn | 2006 | Henry Richardson | |
Elisa A. Hurley | 2006 | Margaret Little & Nancy Sherman | |
Colleen MacNamara | 2006 | Margaret Little | |
Daniel H. Levine | 2005 | Henry Richardson | |
Michelle Strauss | 2005 | Margaret Little | |
Jennifer K. Walter | 2005 | Alisa Carse | |
Justin Weinberg | 2004 | Henry Richardson | |
Matthew Burstein | 2004 | Mark Lance | |
Todd Janke | 2004 | William Blattner | |
Thane M. Naberhaus | 2004 | John Brough | |
Nathaniel Goldberg | 2004 | Linda Wetzel | |
Sven G. Sherman-Peterson | 2003 | G. Madison Powers | |
Eran Patrick Klein | 2002 | Edmund Pellegrino | |
Harrison Keller | 2002 | Henry Richardson | |
Thaddeus Pope | 2002 | Tom Beauchamp | |
William H. White | 2002 | Mark Lance & Margaret Little | |
Stephen Scott Hanson | 2002 | Tom Beauchamp | |
Cynthia Foster Chance | 2000 | Terry Pinkard | |
Lauren Christine Deichman | 2000 | Alisa Carse | |
Kevin Fitzgerald, SJ | 2000 | LeRoy Walters | |
Jeffrey C. Jennings | 2000 | Edmund Pellegrino |
Name | Year | Title | Mentor |
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Frank Chessa | 1999 | Tom Beauchamp | |
Elizabeth Hill Emmett-Mattox | 1999 | G. Madison Powers | |
John J. Gunkel | 1999 | William Blattner | |
Michael P. Wolf | 1999 | Mark Lance | |
Laura Jane Bishop | 1998 | LeRoy Walters | |
Whitley Robert Peters Kaufman | 1998 | Henry Richardson | |
Jeremy Randel Koons | 1998 | Mark Lance | |
Sharon Ruth Livingston | 1998 | Steve Kuhn | |
Lester Aaron Myers | 1998 | Wilfried Ver Eecke | |
Randall K. O’Bannon | 1998 | John Langan | |
Julia Pedroni | 1998 | LeRoy Walters | |
Carol Mason Spicer | 1998 | LeRoy Walters | |
Susan Allison Stark | 1998 | Margaret Little | |
Carol R. Taylor | 1997 | Edmund Pellegrino | |
Andrew Cohen | 1997 | G. Madison Powers | |
Suzanne Shevlin Edwards | 1997 | G. Madison Powers | |
Robin Fiore | 1997 | G. Madison Powers | |
Kimberly Mattingly | 1997 | G. Madison Powers | |
Wilhelmine Davis Miller | 1997 | Alisa Carse | |
Frank Daniel Davis | 1996 | Edmund Pellegrino | |
Judith Lee Kissell | 1996 | Edmund Pellegrino | |
Ronald Alan Lindsay | 1996 | Self-Determination, Suicide, and Euthanasia: The Implications of Autonomy for the Morality and Legality of Assisted Suicide and Voluntary Active Euthanasia (Volumes 1 & 2) | Tom Beauchamp |
Robert S. Olick | 1996 | Deciding for Incompetent Patients: The Nature and Limit of Prospective Autonomy and Advance Directives | Robert Veatch |
William Edward Stempsey | 1996 | Fact and Value in Disease and Diagnosis: A Proposal for Value-Dependent Realism | Robert Veatch |
John J. DeGioia | 1995 | The Moral Theories of Charles Taylor and Alasdair MacIntyre and the Objective Moral Order | Terry Pinkard |
Susan Beth Rubin | 1995 | Futility: An Insufficient Justification for Physician Unilateral Decision Making | Robert Veatch |
Daniel Patrick Sulmasy | 1995 | Killing and Allowing to Die, Volumes 1 & 2 | Edmund Pellegrino |
Paul Fein | 1994 | We Have Ways: The Law and Morality of the Interrogation of Prisoners of War (Volumes 1, 2 & 3) | John Langan |
Catherine Myser | 1994 | A Philosophical Critique of the ‘Best Interests’ Criterion and an Exploration of Balancing the Interests of Infants or Fetuses, Family Members, and Society in the United States, India, and Sweden | LeRoy Walters |
Laura Shanner | 1994 | Phenomenology of the Child-Wish: New Reproductive Technologies and Ethical Responses to Infertility | LeRoy Walters |
Christine Grady | 1993 | Ethical Issues in the Development and Testing of a Preventative HIV Vaccine | LeRoy Walters |
Kevin Arthur Kraus | 1993 | Hoping in the Healing Process: An Integral Condition to the Ethics of Care | Edmund Pellegrino |
Patricia Von Gaertner Mazzarella | 1993 | Can Eternal Objects Be the Foundation for a Process Theory of Morality? | Edmund Pellegrino |
Cynthia Anderson | 1992 | Kant’s Theory of Measurement | Jay Reuscher |
Carol Jean Bayley | 1992 | Values and Worldview in Clinical Research and the Practice of Medicine | Robert Veatch |
Leonard Ferenz | 1992 | Social and Ethical Impacts of Life-Extending Technologies and Interventions into the Aging Process | Robert Veatch |
Aaron Leonard Mackler | 1992 | Cases and Considered Judgments: A Critical Appraisal of Casuistic Approaches in Ethics | Tom Beauchamp |
Dennis E. Boyle | 1991 | Geometry, Place Relations and the Illusion of Physical Space | Wayne Davis |
Dianne Nutwell Irving | 1991 | Philosophical and Scientific Analysis of the Nature of the Early Human Embryo | Edmund Pellegrino |
Robert A. Mayhew | 1991 | Aristotle’s Criticism of Plato’s Republic: A Philosophical Commentary | Alfonso Gomez-Lobo |
Cecilia Regina Ortiz-Mena | 1991 | From Existence to the Ideal: Continuity and Development in Kant’s Theology | Jay Reuscher |
Minerva San Juan | 1991 | Being Moved by Reasons: The Superiority of Kant’s Internalism | Henry Richardson |
Christopher Francis Schiavone | 1991 | The Contemplative Dimension of Rationality in the Thought of Karl Rahner: A Condition of Possibility for Revelation (Volumes 1 & 2) | Frank Ambrosio |
Virginia Ashby Sharpe | 1991 | How the Liberal Idea Fails as a Foundation for Medical Ethics, or, Medical Ethics “In a Different Voice” | Edmund Pellegrino |
Mary Louise Wessell | 1991 | Health Care for the Poor: A Critical Examination of the Views of Edmund A. Pellegrino and H. Tristram Engelhardt | Edmund Pellegrino |
Patrick Sven Arvidson | 1990 | Limits in the Field of Consciousness | John Brough |
Sigrid Fry-Revere | 1990 | The Social Accountability of Bioethics Committees and Consultants | LeRoy Walters |
Marilee R. Howard | 1990 | The Relevance of Catholic Social Teachings for Determining Priorities for Rationing Health Care | John Langan |
Jeffrey Paul Kahn | 1990 | The Principle of Nonmaleficence and the Problems of Reproductive Decision Making | Tom Beauchamp |
Mark Steven Mitsock | 1990 | Husserl on Modern Philosophy: A Study of Erste Philosophie | John Brough |
Maura Ann O’Brien | 1990 | Moral Voice in Public Policy: Responding to the AIDS Pandemic | LeRoy Walters |
William Charles Soderberg | 1990 | Genetic Obligations to Future Generations | LeRoy Walters |
Susan Sylar Stocker | 1990 | Husserl and Gadamer on Historicity of Understanding: Can Historicism Be Avoided? | John Brough |
Cornelia Tsakiridou | 1990 | The Death of Form: Artistic Being and Artistic Culture in Hegel | Wilfried Ver Eecke |
Bruce David Weinstein | 1990 | Moral Voice in Public Policy: Responding to the AIDS Pandemic | Robert Veatch |
Name | Year | Title | Mentor |
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Fatin Khalil Ismail Al-Bustany | 1989 | Scientific Change as an Evolutionary, Information Process: Its Structural, Conceptual, and Cultural Elements | George Farre |
David Dion DeGrazia | 1989 | Interests, Intuition, and Moral Status (Vol. 1) | Tom Beauchamp |
Jacqueline Jean Glover | 1989 | The Role of Physicians in Cost Containment: An Ethical Analysis | LeRoy Walters |
John Lawrence Hill | 1989 | In Defense of Surrogate Parenting Arrangements: An Ethical and Legal Analysis | LeRoy Walters |
Eric Mark Meslin | 1989 | Protecting Human Subjects from Harm in Medical Research: A Proposal for Improving Risk Judgments by Institutional Review Boards | LeRoy Walters |
Albdelkader Aoudjit | 1988 | A Critique of Existential Marxism | George Farre |
Mary Ann Gardell Cutter | 1988 | Explanation in Clinical Medicine: Analysis and Critique | Tom Beauchamp |
Marcella Fausta Tarozzi Goldsmith | 1988 | Nonrepresentational Forms of the Comic: Humor, Irony, and Jokes | Wilfried Ver Eecke |
Margaret McKenna Houck | 1988 | Derek Parfit and Obligations to Future Generations | LeRoy Walters |
Erna Joy Kroeger Mappes | 1988 | The Ethics of Care and the Ethic of Rights: A Problem for Contemporary Moral Theory | Tom Beauchamp |
Rolland William Pack | 1988 | Case Studies and Moral Conclusions: The Philosophical Use of Case Studies in Biomedical Ethics | Edmund Pellegrino |
Joseph Francis Rautenberg | 1988 | Grisez, Finnis and the Proportionalists: Disputes over Commensurability and Moral Judgment in Natural Law | Richard McCormick |
Najla Abri Hamadeh Osman | 1987 | Freud’s Theory of the Death Instinct and Lacan’s Interpretation | Wilfried Ver Eecke |
Devra Beck Simiu | 1987 | Disorder and Early Alienation: Lacan’s Original Theory of the Mirror Stage | Wilfried Ver Eecke |
Barry Kerlin Smith | 1987 | The Problem of Truth in Literature | John Brough |
James Winslow Anderson | 1986 | Three Abortion Theorists: A Critical Appreciation | LeRoy Walters |
Angela Rose Ricciardelli | 1986 | A Comparison of Wilfred Desan’s and Pierre Teihard de Chardin’s Thinking With Regard to the Nature of Man’s Survival in a United World | Sr. Virginia Gelger & Thomas McTighe |
Gladys Benson White | 1986 | A Philosophical Analysis of the Normative Status of the Family | LeRoy Walters |
Timothy Owen Davis | 1985 | The Problem of Intersubjectivity in Husserlian Phenomenology | John Brough |
Eric Thomas Juengst | 1985 | The Concept of Genetic Disease and Theories of Medical Progress | Tom Beauchamp |
Jameson Kurasha | 1985 | The Importance of Philosophy of Mind in Educational Theory | Wayne Davis |
Deborah Ruth Mathieu | 1985 | Preventing Harm and Respecting Liberty: Ethical and Legal Implications of New Prenatal Therapies | Henry Veatch |
John Marcus Rose | 1985 | Plotinus and Heiddeger on Anxiety and the Nothing | Thomas McTighe |
Dorothy E. Vawter | 1985 | The Truth and Objectivity of Practical Propositions: Contemporary Arguments in Moral Epistemology | Alfonso Gomez-Lobo |
Abigail Rian Evans | 1984 | Health, Healing and Healer: A Theological and Philosophical Inquiry | William May |
Sara Thompson Fry | 1984 | Protecting Privacy: Judicial Decision-Making in Search of a Principle | LeRoy Walters |
Michael Patrick Malloy | 1984 | Civil Authority in Medieval Philosophy: Selected Commentaries of Aquinas and Bonaventure | Thomas McTighe |
Ray Edward Moseley | 1984 | Animal Rights: An Analysis of the Major Arguments for Animal Rights | LeRoy Walters |
Jody Palmour | 1984 | The Ancient Virtues and Vices: Philosophical Foundations for the Psychology, Ethics, and Politics of Human Development (Volume 1) | Wilfried Ver Eecke |
Marcia Winfred Sichol | 1984 | The Application of Just War Principles to Nuclear War and Deterrence in Three Contemporary Theorists: Michael Walzer, Paul Ramsey, and William V. O’Brien | John Langan |
Donald Clare Bogie | 1983 | For an Ethical Individualism | Henry Veatch |
Katheryn A. Cabrey | 1982 | An Ethical Perspective on the Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources as Exemplified in the Federal Financing of Care to Renal Patients | LeRoy Walters |
Alan Lawrence Udoff | 1982 | Evil, History and Faith | Thomas McTighe |
William R. Casement | 1981 | Indoctrination and Contemporary Approaches to Moral Education | Jesse Mann |
John Francis Donovan | 1981 | Church-State Relations in Hegel’s Philosophy of Right | Thomas McTighe |
Fr. Thomas Joseph Joyce | 1981 | Dewey’s Process of Inquiry as the Basis of His Educational Model | Jesse Mann |
Josef Kadlec | 1981 | Aging – A New Problem of Modern Medicine | H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr. |
James Joseph McCartney | 1981 | The Relationship Between Karol Wojtyla’s Personalism and the Contemporary Debate Over the Ontological Status of Human Embryological Life | Richard McCormick |
Nina Virginia Mikhalevsky | 1981 | The Concept of Rational Being in Kant’sMetaphysics of the Groundwork of Morals | H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr. |
John MacMillan Simons | 1981 | Spirit and Time: Plotinus’s Doctrine of the Two Matters | Thomas McTighe |
Carol Ann Tauer | 1981 | The Moral Status of the Prenatal Human Subject of Research | Tom Beauchamp |
Charlotte Elizabeth Witt | 1981 | Essentialism: Aristotle and the Contemporary Approach | Alfonso Gomez-Lobo |
Emmanuel Damascus Akpan | 1980 | The Pseudo Deontology of John Rawls: In Defense of the Principle of Utility | Tom Beauchamp |
Johanna Maria Bantjes | 1980 | Kripke’s Interpretation of Wittgenstein’s Theory of Proper Names | George Farre |
Gary Martin Seay | 1980 | Prescriptivism and Moral Weakness | Tom Beauchamp |
Name | Year | Title | Mentor |
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Peter McLaren Black | 1979 | Killing and Letting Die | Tom Beauchamp |
Ileana Jacoubovitch Grams | 1979 | The Logic of Insanity Defense | Tom Beauchamp |
Sander H. Lee | 1979 | Does Moral Freedom Imply Anarchism? | Henry Veatch |
Francine Michele Rainone | 1979 | Marx and the Classical Tradition in Moral Philosophy | Henry Veatch |
Francis Joseph Kelly | 1978 | Structural and Developmental Aspects of the Formulation of Categoral Judgments in the Philosophy of Edmund Husserl | John Brough |
Richard Norman Stichler | 1978 | Ideals of Freedom | Tom Beauchamp |
Charles Coulter Verharen | 1978 | The Demarcation of Philosophy from Science and Art in the Methodology of Wittgenstein | George Farre |
Harold Bleich | 1977 | Herbert Marcuse’s Philosophy: A Critical Analysis | Wilfried Ver Eecke |
Andrea Beryl King | 1977 | Benevolent Dictatorship in Plato’s Republic | n.a. |
Emil James Piscitelli | 1977 | Language and Method in the Philosophy of Religion: A Critical Study of the Philosophy of Bernard Lonegan | Thomas McTighe |
Jane S. Zembaty | 1977 | The Essentialism of Kripke and Madden and Metaphysical Necessity | Tom Beauchamp |
Michael Jan Fuksa | 1976 | Logic, Language and the Free Will Defense | Henry Veatch |
Ann Neale | 1976 | The Concept of Health in Medicine: A Philosophical Analysis | Leroy Walters & Tom Beauchamp |
Richard Chibikodo Onwuanibe | 1976 | An Ethical Inquiry on Franz Fanon’s Revolutionary Humanism: A Critique of the Use of Violence | Henry Veatch & Jesse Mann |
Sue Ellen Sloca | 1976 | An Examination and Evaluation of Criticism Directed Against the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis | Wilfried Ver Eecke |
Michael Eugene Downey | 1975 | Language About God: Analytic, Synthetic, or Synthetic a priori? | Henry Veatch |
John Joseph Drummond | 1975 | Presenting and Kinaesthetic Sensations in Husserl’s Phenomenology of Perception | John Brough |
Thomas James Hickey | 1975 | Systems Approach to the Logic of Justification in Ordinary Language | George Farre |
Francis Ignatius Kane | 1975 | Heidegger’s Sein and Linguistic Analytic Objections | Thomas McTighe |
George John Marshall | 1975 | Can Human Nature Change?: A Tentative Answer in the Light of the Positions of Dewey, Sarte, and Their Critics | Wilfred Desan & Jesse Mann |
Michael Christopher Normile | 1975 | Individual and Society: Dewey’s Reconstruction and Resolution | Jesse Mann |
Kathleen Louise Usher | 1975 | A Clarification of Edmund Husserl’s Distinction Between Phenomenological Psychology and Transcendental Phenomenology | John Brough |
Debra Beth Bergoffen | 1974 | The Crisis of Western Consciousness: An Interpretation of Its Meaning Through an Analysis of the Temporal Symbols of Western Culture | Wilfried Ver Eecke |
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James George Fisher | 1974 | The Distinction Between Substances and Principal Attribute in Descartes | Thomas McTighe |
Sister Patricia Hayes | 1974 | An Analysis of Kant’s Use of the Term ‘Metaphysics’ | John Reuscher |
Thomas Albin Mappes | 1974 | Inductive Reasoning and Moral Reasoning: Parallel Patterns of Justification | Tom Beauchamp |
Joseph Edmund Martire | 1974 | The Logic of Depiction and the Logic of Description: An Analysis of ‘The Picture Theory’ of the Tractatus and Its Criticisms in the Philosophical Investigations | George Farre |
John Patrick Mohr | 1974 | Self-Referential Language and the Existence of God in the Philosophy of Hegel | Wilfried Ver Eecke |
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Sister Mary-Rita Grady | 1973 | Time, The Form of the Will: An Essay on Josiah Royce’s Philosophy of Time | Jesse Mann |
Jerome Aloysius Miller | 1973 | The Irrefutability of Metaphysical Truths | Thomas McTighe |
Anne Rogers Devereux | 1973 | Der Vorgriff (The Pre-Apprehension of Being) and the Religious Act in Karl Rahner | Louis Dupré |
Thomas Toyoshi Tominaga | 1973 | A Wittgensteinian Inquiry into the Confusions Generated by the Question ‘What is the Meaning of a Word?’ | George Farre |
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David Novak | 1971 | Suicide and Morality in Plato, Aquinas, and Kant | Germain Grisez |
William M. Richards | 1971 | A New Interpretation of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus | George Farre |
Joseph Michael Boyle | 1970 | The Argument from Self-Referential Consistency: The Current Discussion | Germain Grisez |
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Rev. Martin Joseph Lonergan | 1970 | Gabriel Marcel’s Phenomenology of Incarnation | Wilfred Desan |
John Patrick Minahan | 1970 | The Metaphysical Misunderstanding of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus | George Farre |
George Francis Sefler | 1970 | The Structure of Language and its Relation to the World: A Methodological Study of the Writings of Martin Heidegger and Ludwig Wittgenstein | Wilfred Desan |
Thomas Joseph Shalvey | 1970 | The Philosophical Foundations of the Role of the Collective in the Work of Levi-Strauss | Wilfred Desan |
Olaf Philip Tollefsen | 1970 | Verification Procedures in Dialectical Metaphysics | Germain Grisez |
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Michael Didoha | 1969 | Conceptual Distortion and Intuitive Creativity: A Study of the Role of Knowledge in the Thought of Nicholas Berdyaev | Wilfred Desan |
Joel Celedonio Ramirez | 1969 | The Personalist Metaphysics of Xavier Zubiri | Jesse Mann |
Raymond Michael Herbenick | 1968 | C.S. Peirce and Contemporary Theories of the Systems Concept and Systems Approach to Problem-Solving and Decision-Making: An Introductory Essay on Systems Theory in Philosophical Analysis | Jesse Mann |
Rev. Walter John Stohrer | 1968 | The Role of Martin Heidegger’s Doctrine of Dasein in Karl Rahner’s Metaphysics of Man | Wilfred Desan |
John H. Walsh | 1968 | A Fundamental Ontology of Play and Leisure | Wilfred Desan |
Loretta Therese Zderad | 1968 | A Concept of Empathy | Wilfred Desan |
Mary-Angela Harper | 1967 | A Study of the Metaphysical Problem of Intersubjectivity | Louis Dupré |
Elena Lugo | 1967 | Jose Ortega y Gasset’s Sportive Sense of Life: His Philosophy of Man | Wilfred Desan |
Carl Herman Pfuntner | 1967 | An Examination of the Extent of Philosophical Dependence, Methodological and Metaphysical, of John Dewey on Charles Peirce | Jesse Mann |
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Magda Munoz-Colberg | 1965 | An Evaluation of Auguste Comte’s Theory of Inequality | Wilfred Desan |
William A. Owen | 1964 | Whitehead’s Philosophy of Science the Concept of Substance | Jesse Mann |
Thomas E. Schaefer | 1963 | The Meaning of Chun Tzu in the Thought of Mencius | n.a. |
Eulalio R. Baltazar | 1962 | A Critical Examination of the Methodology of | Wilfred Desan |
Pierre Emile Nys | 1961 | Body and Soul: The Center of Metaphysics? | Thomas McTighe |
Paul R. Sullivan | 1961 | Ontic Aspects of Cognition in Poetry | Rudolph Allers |
Forrest H. Peterson | 1960 | The Study of Power in the Philosophies of Hegel and Marx | H. A. Rommen |
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Rev. Robert R. Kline | 1959 | The Present Status of Value Theory in the United States | Rudolph Allers |
Joseph G. Connor | 1958 | The Jesuit College and Electivism: A Study in the Philosophy of American Education | John Daley |
Robert P. Goodwin | 1958 | The Metaphysical Pragmatism of Charles Sanders Peirce | Rudolph Allers |
John Paul W. Fitzgibbon | 1958 | The Philosophy of Poetic Symbolism, Medieval and Modern | Rudolph Allers |
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I supervise at least one undergraduate a year. Many of the same questions come up each year. I have prepared below a set of guidelines to help when starting out on a dissertation.
Please note that this is personal advice and not to be taken as a substitute for the undergraduate handbook and marking scheme.
Do’s and Don’t’s for a dissertation
- Have a claim. You should be able to state your claim clearly in 1–2 sentences.
- Have claim of the right size – viz. a size you can defend (be careful not to be too ambitious here)
- Have a rigorous argument for your claim. Your argument should be able to convince a rational person who does not already believe your claim
- Make your dissertation clearly understandable to a philosopher who is not an expert in this area
- Explain why your claim is important
- Be honest if you do not conclusively establish your claim – e.g. clarify that your claim follows conditional on certain stated assumptions, list unresolved objections
- Make clear your original contribution
- Make use of your supervisor for feedback on drafts
Don’t:
- Aim for this to be your magnum opus or last word on the topic
- Try to solve a major problem (e.g. the mind-body problem, external world scepticism)
- Cover every possible view in the field
- Include extra material unless it advances your argument
- Have one massive 6,000 word chapter
- Leave it until Semester 2 to start work
How to write a dissertation
The points above give you an idea of what to aim for but they don’t provide a method for how to get there. There are many ways to write a dissertation. It may be reassuring to know that there are simple methods that can reliably produce an excellent dissertation. The algorithm below is one method:
- Find the general area you like (e.g. phenomenal consciousness)
- Select one article/book chapter in that area that you find fascinating (e.g. Smith (2009))
- Summarise Smith (2009) carefully in your own words, paying attention to whether each step in the argument follows from the previous
- Look for weaknesses in Smith (2009)’s argument
- Which new resources do you need to draw on?
- Which alternative conclusions follow?
- Which objections can be raised to your proposal?
- Draw on relevant bits of surrounding literature to support (5)
You have a first class dissertation!
Filling the dissertation with enough words
A common worry among students is whether they are able to write enough words. The longest piece of philosophical writing they may have done so far is 3,000 words. How can you write a sustained argument that lasts for 8,000 words? This turns out to be easier than you might think. Indeed, the difficulty often turns out to be not going over the word limit.
For the sake of argument, let us see how following the algorithm above might work out in terms of word count.
- Introduction (500 words): What is your claim, the outline of your argument?
- Chapter 1 (1,000 words): Why is your claim important? What are the pay-offs?
- Chapter 2 (2,000 words): Careful and charitable summary of X in your own words
- Chapter 3 (2,000 words): Your rigorous criticism of X
- Chapter 4 (2,000 words): How X should be corrected, associated costs, consequences for views that use X, possible objections
- Conclusion (500 words): Summary and next steps for future work
And we are done!
Milestones to aim for
Milestones depend on the specific project and you should talk to your supervisor about your workload and what would be a reasonable plan for finishing the dissertation in the year. Below is a rough plan that one might aim for.
- End Y3: meet supervisor & agree on general topic
- Summer vacation: background reading on topic
- Start Y4: find 1 article/chapter to focus
Year 4, Semester 1:
- Start: meet with supervisor & agree plan for year
- Middle: first draft of 2 chapters
- End: polished draft of 2 chapters
Year 4, Semester 2:
- Start: first draft of entire dissertation
- Middle: polished draft of entire dissertation
- End: revisit, revise, and submit dissertation
Background reading
A dissertation in philosophy is a story … like all good stories, it only includes what is essential to the story — Robert Paul Wolff’s astute advice that applies just as well to UG dissertations as well as PhD theses
Be concise, but explain yourself fully — Jim Pryor with an excellent 3-stage plan for writing philosophy
Style is the feather in the arrow, not the feather in the cap — Peter Lipton has some wonderful and concise writing advice
Read your work aloud. … Be firm: take your prose to the gym, and keep working at it until the bones and sinews show through! — Peter Smith, previously editor of Analysis , with some fantastic advice
What is an argument? — Jim Pryor’s guide is essential reading for anyone writing philosophy; it contains a lexicon of philosophical terms and a taxonomy of good and bad arguments, which is useful for classifying the arguments you consider
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Sujet de la dissertation de philosophie : « Le travail n’est-il qu’une contrainte ? ».
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Sujet de la dissertation de philosophie : « Etre libre, est-ce faire ce que l’on veut ? ».
Cette dissertation de philosophie sur la liberté interroge la nature de l’Homme. La problématique de la dissertation est « l’’Homme est-il un être libre capable de faire des choix rationnels ou est-il esclave de lui-même et de ses désirs ? ».
Sujet de la dissertation de philosophie : « En quoi peut-on dire que l’objet ordinaire diffère de l’oeuvre d’art ? ».
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General exam format, for students in the standard program, the logic & philosophy of science track, or the interdepartmental program in political philosophy.
October General Exam Schedule ( General Exam in October of the Third Year) :
- Provide the name of your General Exam adviser to the DGS by March 15 th of your second year of regular enrollment. Once your General Exam adviser is approved, the DGS will set up your General Exam committee.
- Submit all papers, take all exams, complete all distribution requirements and units by May 31 st of your second year of regular enrollment*. This includes your first and second oral units.
- At the latest, two weeks before the oral exam, students will have received the approval of two examiners for an examination proposal, which must include a description of the unit’s field of study, six to ten sample questions, and a bibliography. This document, after approval by the examiners, must be forwarded to the DGS. The written part of the unit can be a paper or a 48-hour take-home exam on questions formulated by the examiners. Both written and oral parts of the exam must combine a survey of the field with creative philosophical work.
- Your undergraduate lecture, observed and confirmed in writing by a Princeton PHI faculty member, must be completed by May 31 st of your second year of regular enrollment.
- Part 2 of the General Exam is the qualifying exam (the oral portion; preceded a few days before by submission of a draft chapter of your dissertation). This due date is based on the University academic calendar for October General Exams. (See below for a complete description of the qualifying exam.)
- Teaching in your second year at Princeton is optional.
January General Exam Schedule (General Exam in January of the Third Year):
- Provide the name of your General Exam adviser to the DGS by March 15 th of your second year of regular enrollment. Once your General Exam adviser is approved, the DGS will set up your General Exam committee.
- Submit all papers, take all exams, complete all distribution requirements and units (including your first oral unit) by May 31 st of your second year of regular enrollment*.
- Your undergraduate lecture, observed and confirmed in writing by a Princeton PHI faculty member, must be completed by December 15 th of your third year of regular enrollment.
- Part 2 of your General Exam is the qualifying exam (the oral portion; preceded a few days before by submission of a draft chapter of your dissertation). This due date is based on the University academic calendar for January General Exams. (See below for a complete description of the qualifying exam.)
*Failure to meet this deadline results in loss of entitlement to staying enrolled in the program and in the deferral of the department’s re-enrollment recommendation. In that case, a new timeline for completion of the ten units is agreed upon with the student by June 15, and continued enrollment is conditional on implementation of the new timeline.
If any of the above dates occur on a weekend or during recess, the due date will be on the following Monday.
- Provide the name of your General Exam adviser to the DGS by March 15 th of your second year of regular enrollment. Once your General Exam adviser is approved, the DGS will set up your General Exam committee.
- At the latest, two weeks before the oral exam, students will have received the approval of two examiners for an examination proposal, which must include a description of the unit’s field of study, six to ten sample questions, and a bibliography. The written part of the unit can be a paper or a 48-hour take-home exam on questions formulated by the examiners. Both written and oral parts of the exam must combine a survey of the field with creative philosophical work.
- Your undergraduate lecture, observed and confirmed in writing by a Princeton PHI faculty member, must be completed anytime prior to your General Exam.
- Part 2 of your General Exam is the qualifying exam (the oral portion; preceded a few days before by submission of a draft chapter of your dissertation). This can be completed in October, January, or as late as May of your third year of regular enrollment, following the schedule based on the University academic calendar. (See below for a complete description of the qualifying exam.)
Part 2 of the General Exam is the qualifying exam. The written part of this exam is constituted by (1) a draft dissertation chapter of between 7500 – 8500 words, and (2) a dissertation prospectus of 2 – 4 pages. If you feel the need to exceed these limits (with quotations, for example), consult with the DGS. The oral part of the exam is conducted by the student’s General Exam committee, which is composed of four faculty members, under the direction of the exam committee chair. It is preferred that students enrolled in the regular program take this oral exam in the General Exam period in October of their third year of enrollment. However, students may also take the exam in the January exam period of their third year of enrollment.
All students who are allowed to retake their General Examination after a failed attempt are required to do so by following the format of the qualifying exam (Part 2 of the new General Exam format).
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If you can complete pre-Generals requirements and pass Generals, then we take it that you are able to write some dissertation or other, but not necessarily the dissertation of your choice. To do justice to some topics, you may need preparation and qualifications that go beyond those required of everyone as part of our pre-Generals requirements, and beyond what you could reasonably expect to pick up while working on the dissertation. You might need to know a considerable amount of logic, or linguistics, or physics, or history, or econometrics, or something else. In particular, you might need a level of proficiency in some foreign language which is substantially higher than that needed to pass the language requirement. That might be because there are important untranslated scholarly works relevant to your topic. Or it might be because your topic requires you to figure out what someone meant by something written in a foreign language. Note the department's requirement that "if a student's dissertation is devoted to any considerable extent to an author, the student must be able to read the author's works in the original language." (But note also the delicate, yet real, distinction between writing about an author and writing about philosophical ideas that come from that author.) Don't take chances. The standards that apply are the generally accepted standards of sound scholarship, not the standards of doing the best you can with what preparation you have. If you can't do sound scholarship on a topic because you aren't good enough at a language (or something) that doesn't excuse or justify bad scholarship – it means that you should have chosen a different topic.
If in doubt about what qualifications are needed for a topic, and whether you have them, seek advice! Your adviser cannot determine by an exercise of authority what standards of scholarship will suffice – the adviser is only an adviser, there is no such authority – but the adviser can give you good advice on what will be needed to meet generally accepted standards of scholarship, and the adviser (with your help) can try to measure your level of proficiency. If you can't do a topic justice, you'd rather find out now than after you've submitted a dissertation.
Choose a Reasonably-Sized Project
In choosing a dissertation topic and General Examination field, beware of overambition. Students sometimes attempt enormous projects which later have to be abandoned, others are completed many years later. Either way is a disaster for the student's academic career. It is hard to write a dissertation while starting to teach, hard to remain employed without the Ph.D., hard to publish articles that would support promotion to tenure while still struggling with the dissertation. It is extremely advantageous to finish the Ph.D. before leaving Princeton. Your dissertation does not need to be a magnum opus; it does not need to contain every thought you have about the topic; the end of the dissertation need not be the end of your research and writing on the topic. Choose a project you can soon finish!
Some dissertations consist of several significant philosophical essays on different topics. Each essay in such a dissertation must be a substantial full-length philosophical article, not just a discussion note.
Your dissertation should have a useful title that gives some indication of the philosophical content of the dissertation. Specifically ruled out are titles like "Philosophical Essays" or "Three Philosophical Essays."
Although a good dissertation might be significantly shorter or longer, the department recommends a target length of 30,000-50,000 words. Besides this recommendation, we also have established a length limit. Dissertations will normally be limited to 100,000 words (about 400 standard pages); exceptions must be approved by the Graduate Committee.
The following links will provide information on preparing your dissertation for submission:
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Philosophy Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations from the Department of Philosophy, collected from the Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023
The Phenomenology and Intentionality of Normative-Evaluative Experience , Shawn K. Bartlett
Causal Variable Choice, Interventions, and Pragmatism , Zili Dong
What Do We Owe The Other Animals In Health-Related Research? , Jessica A. du Toit
Using Formal Epistemology to Model Epistemic Injustice Against Neurodivergent People , Mackenzie Marcotte
Conceptual Engineering & Contextualism , Madhavi Mohan
Human Extinction in the Pessimist Tradition , Ignacio L. Moya
The Exclusion of Religious Reasons , Jaclyn Rekis
Kant's Concept of Freedom in the Metaphysics Lectures , Alin Paul Varciu
Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022
Effective Field Theories: A Philosophical Appraisal , Dimitrios Athanasiou
Essays on Privilege and its Implications for Relational Autonomy and Vaccine Hesitancy , Nicole Fice
A Critical Examination of Informed Consent Approaches in Pragmatic Cluster-Randomized Trials , Cory E. Goldstein
Craft and Virtue in Plato's Early Dialogues , Cecilia Z. Li
On Powerful Qualities , Dean J. Morales
Dissolving Nature/Nurture: Development as Coupled Interaction , Derek E. Oswick
Imagination as Thought in Aristotle's De Anima , Matthew Small
Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021
Thomas Reid on Language and Mind , Alastair L.V. Crosby
Back to the Beginning: An Empiricist Defense of Scientific Stories About the Past , Craig William Fox
Autonomy, Paternalism, and the Moral Foundations of the Fiduciary Relationship , Austin Horn
Vindicating Evans: A Defence Of Evans' Theory Of Singular Thought , Dylan A. Hurry
Theories: Reconsidering Ramsey in the Philosophy of Science , John D. Lehmann
The Moral and Political Status of Microaggressions , Heather Stewart
Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020
Aristotle's Account of Time: A Moderate Realism , Pierre-Luc Boudreault
On Polysemy: A Philosophical, Psycholinguistic, and Computational Study , Jiangtian Li
Apology and Reconciliation in Settler States , Nicholas B. Murphy
Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019
On Separating the Wheat from the Chaff: Surplus Structure and Artifacts in Scientific Theories , Marie Gueguen
Theory construction in high-energy particle physics , Adam Koberinski
Understanding Interdisciplinary Corroboration: Lessons from a Review Paper in the Mind-Brain Sciences , Jaclyn Lanthier
Derogatory Words and Speech Acts: An Illocutionary Force Indicator Theory of Slurs , Chang Liu
Rethinking Individuality in Quantum Mechanics , Nathan Moore
Methodological Challenges for Empirical Approaches to Ethics , Christopher Shirreff
In Search of Psychiatric Kinds: Natural Kinds and Natural Classification in Psychiatry , Nicholas Slothouber
A Groundwork for A Logic of Objects , David Winters
Modes of Argumentation in Aristotle's Natural Science , Adam W. Woodcox
Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018
A Duty to Adopt? On the Ethics and Politics of Adoption , Veromi Arsiradam
A Practical and Practice-Sensitive Account of Science as Problem-Solving , Frédéric-Ismaël Banville
Empirical Evidence and the Multiple Realization of Mental Kinds , Danny Booth
Kant and Tetens on Transcendental Philosophy , Richard D. Creek
Computing, Modelling, and Scientific Practice: Foundational Analyses and Limitations , Filippos A. Papagiannopoulos
A Pluralism Worth Having: Feyerabend's Well-Ordered Science , Jamie Shaw
Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017
A Complete Special Goods Theory of Filial Obligations , Cameron Fenton
The Goal of Habituation in Aristotle: A Neo-Mechanical Account , Dioné Harley
Foreknowledge, Free Will, and the Divine Power Distinction in Thomas Bradwardine's De futuris contingentibus , Sarah Hogarth Rossiter
A New Framework for Enactivism: Understanding the enactive body through structural flexibility and Merleau-Ponty’s ontology of flesh , John Jenkinson
The Foundations of Revealed Religion 100 Years before David Hume: The Contribution of Anthony Collins , Nicholas Bryant Nash
Virtue Ethics for Relational Beings , Mathieu Roy
Fiduciary Duties and Commercial Surrogacy , Emma A. Ryman
Evidence in Neuroimaging: Towards a Philosophy of Data Analysis , Jessey Wright
Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016
On the Role of Mathematics in Scientific Representation , Saad Anis
Species Pluralism: Conceptual, Ontological, and Practical Dimensions , Justin Bzovy
Tesitmony as Significance Negotiation , Jennifer F. Epp
The Moral Status and Welfare of Patients Diagnosed as Vegetative With Covert Awareness , Mackenzie S. Graham
Similarity, Adequacy, and Purpose: Understanding the Success of Scientific Models , Melissa Jacquart
Varieties of Objectivity: What's Worth Keeping? , Lori Kantymir
Evaluating the Quantum Postulate in the Context of Pursuit , Molly M. Kao
A Pure Representationalist Account of Belief and Desire , Stephen Pearce
The Constellations of Empiricism, New Science, and Mind in Hobbes, Locke, and Hume , Lisa Pelot
Assessing Decision-Making Capacity After Severe Brain Injury , Andrew Peterson
Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015
Probabilistic Reasoning in Cosmology , Yann Benétreau-Dupin
Civil Interests, The Social Contract, and The Conditions of Political Legitimacy , Michael S. Borgida
Gamete Provision and Moral Responsibility , Reuven A. Brandt
Rethinking Empathy: Value and Context in Motivation and Adaptation , O'Neal Buchanan
Representationalism About Sensory Phenomenology , Matthew Ivanowich
Contesting Gender Concepts, Language and Norms: Three Critical Articles on Ethical and Political Aspects of Gender Non-conformity , Stephanie Julia Kapusta
A Biopsychological Foundation for Linguistics , Jonathan J. Life
On Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics , Joshua M. Luczak
The Debate about Time: Examining the Evidence from our Ordinary Experience of Time , Melissa MacAulay
On Philosophical Intuitions , Nicholas D. McGinnis
Weaving the Statesman: the Unity of Plato's Politicus , Ryan Middleton
Trusting to a Fault: Criminal Negligence and Faith Healing Deaths , Ken Nickel
The Modern Secularization of Just War Theory and its Lessons for Contemporary Thought , Aviva Shiller
Aggregating Evidence in Climate Science: Consilience, Robustness and the Wisdom of Multiple Models , Martin A. Vezér
Moral Sense Theory and the Development of Kant's Ethics , Michael H. Walschots
Philipp Frank: Philosophy of Science, Pragmatism, and Social Engagement , Amy N. Wuest
Phenomenal Intentionality and the Problem of Cognitive Contact , Christopher A. Young
Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014
Language, Mind, and Cognitive Science: Remarks on Theories of the Language-Cognition Relationships in Human Minds , Guillaume Beaulac
Love and Ethics in the Works of J. M. E. McTaggart , Trevor J. Bieber
A Feminist Defense of Moderate Moral Intuitionism , Bill JC Cameron
Hypothetical Necessity and the Laws of Nature: John Locke on God's Legislative Power , Elliot Rossiter
William James' Theory of Emotion , James Southworth
Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013
A Defence of Anti-Psychologism About Reasons , Alex Beldan
Aristotle on the Good of Friendship: Why the Beneficiary is Not What Matters , Kristina L. Biniek
An Ethical Justification for Research with Children , Ariella Binik
Method and Metaphor in Aristotle's Science of Nature , Sean Michael Pead Coughlin
On the Physical Explanation for Quantum Computational Speedup , Michael Cuffaro
The Methodological Roles of Tolerance and Conventionalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics: Reconsidering Carnap's Logic of Science , Emerson P. Doyle
Well-Being, Authority, and Worth , Michel Hebert
Structures in Real Theory Application: A Study in Feasible Epistemology , Robert H. C. Moir
Husserl's Transcendental Idealism and the Problem of Solipsism , Rodney Parker
Fertility Preservation Technologies for Women: A Feminist Ethical Analysis , Angel Petropanagos
Some disputed aspects of inertia, with particular reference to the equivalence principle , Ryan S. Samaroo
The Resilience of a Refined Higher-Order Thought Theory of Consciousness , Lee-Anna T. Sangster
Justice, Rights, and Capabilities , Jeffrey E. Spring
Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012
Does Empirical Moral Psychology Rest on a Mistake? Understanding Theories About the Nature of Moral Judgment as Moral Propositions , Patrick Clipsham
The Reasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences , Nicolas Fillion
Hannah Arendt and Feminist Agency , Katherine N. Fulfer
From Mirror to Mirage: The Idea of Logical Space in Kant, Wittgenstein, and van Fraassen , Lucien R. Lamoureux
Creating and Raising Humans: Essays on the Morality of Procreation and Parenting , Jason T. Marsh
Anti-Foundational Categorical Structuralism , Darren McDonald
Explanation in Science , James A. Overton
Ordinary Empirical Judgments and our Scientific Knowledge: An Extension of Reformed Empiricism to the Philosophy of Science , Nicholas M. Ray
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- Calibrating and Evaluating Simulations, Deborah Haar (Spring 2022)
- Five Aporiai on Place, Seth Christensen (Spring 2022)
- Presentism and Special Relativity , Brandon Kidd (Spring 2021)
- A Combinatorial Theory of Compossibility in Leibniz’s Metaphysics, Jun Young Kim (Fall 2021)
- Form of Intuition and Formal Intuition , Chen Liang (Fall 2020)
- Defending the Assurance View of Testimonial Justification , Michael Hurwitz (Fall 2020)
- Hegel’s Ethical Naturalism , Nicolas Garcia Mills (Fall 2019)
- Kant on Humanity and the Ground of the Innate Right to External Freedom , Robert English (Fall 2019)
- Beauty and Virtue in the Moral Theory of David Hume and Adam Smith, Zaccheus Harmon (Summer 2019)
- Logic Elaborated: An Account of the Source of the Normativity of Logic , Nader Shoaibi (Summer 2019)
- Locke’s Confusion About the Confused Idea of Substance , Tyler Hanck (Spring 2019)
- Taking Oneself As Someone At All: Trauma, Recovery, and the Self , Kei Hotoda (Fall 2018)
- The Nature and Appropriateness of Forgiveness , Myisha Cherry (Summer 2018)
- Kant’s Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Epistemic Normativity , Reza Hadisi (Summer 2018)
- On the Systemacity of Descartes’ Ethics: Generosity, Metaphysics, and Scientia, Saja Parvizian (Summer 2018)
- The Scope of Biology , Janella Baxter (Spring 2017)
- Dimensions of Mathematical Explanation , William D’Alessandro (Fall 2017)
- The Ethics of War and Friendship: The Moral Significance of Fellowship of Arms , Adam Betz (Summer 2016)
- ‘Consciousness,’ Consciousness, and Self-Consciousness , Joseph Gottlieb (Summer 2016)
- Fictional Realism , Radu Motoarca (Fall 2016)
- Common Sense Rationalism , Robert Farley (Spring 2015)
- Kant’s Response to Hume in the Second Analogy , Saniye Vatansever (Summer 2015)
- Paradox Lost and Paradox Regained: The Banach-Tarski Paradox and Ancient Paradoxes of Infinity , Ken Martin (Summer 2015)
- Quantum Ontology , Josh Norton (Summer 2015)
- The Pessimistic Induction and the Epistemic Status of Scientific Theories , Burkay Ozturk (Summer 2014)
- For The Time Being: Our Experience of Time in the Block Universe , Maria Balcells (Spring 2013)
- Kant, Hume, and the Notion of Material Substance , Cameron Brewer (Spring 2013)
- Emergent Spacetime in String Theory , Tiziana Vistarini (Spring 2013)
- Thought Experiments in Personal Identity: A Literary Model , Aleks Zarnitsyn (Spring 2013)
- Russell’s Multiple Relation Theory of Judgment: Evolution and Demise , Alexander Dolnick (Spring 2012)
- Civic Friendship, Justice, and Political Stability , Cullen Padgett Walsh (Spring 2012)
- Locke on Substance, Mode, and Personal Identity , Jessica Gordon-Roth (Fall 2012)
- Investigating the Universe: Quine, New Foundations, and the Philosophy of Set Theory , Sean Morris (Summer 2012)
- Modal Knowledge, in Theory , Robert Fischer (Fall 2011)
- Theories of Experiential Awareness , David Potts (Spring 2011)
- The Aristotelian Notions of Theoria and Praxis in Heidegger’s Early Thought and Its Reverberations in Gadamer and Arendt , Itir Gunes (Spring 2011)
- A Theory of Perceptual Entitlement , Seishu Nishimura (Fall 2010)
- Carnap’s Ideal of Philosophical Neutrality: Epistemology Between Kant and Quine , Kent Schmor (Fall 2010)
- Personal Autonomy, Oppression, and the Just Society: An Externalist Account , Melissa Kozma (Fall 2010)
- Justice with Humanity: Hugo Grotius and the Ethics of International Conflict
- Persons and Cultures
- A New Cognitive Theory of the Emotions
- Wittgenstein on Grammar and Method (from 1929 to the Philosophical Investigations )
- The Logical Interpretation and the Measurement Problem
- Theories and Reality: Five Essays on Quine and Underdetermination
- Wittgenstein and Myths of Meaning
- A Dialogical Account of Authenticity
- Progress and Preservation: Increased Unification and The Realist’s Conception of Scientific Success
- The Practice of Personhood: Understanding Individual Responsibility of Oppression
- Foundations of Arithmetical Knowledge
- Choosing To Be Harmed: Autonomy and its Limits in Living Organ Donor Transplantation
- A Federation of Peoples: An Unorthodox Liberal Approach to Minority Nationalism
- New Directions in Scientific Observation: Theories Concepts, Objectivity, and the Analogy of Discovery
- A Conceptual Analysis of Ecosystem Health
- Work Song!: Personal Autonomy and Authenticity From The Ground Up
- Equal Protection: Sex Equality In Liberal Democracies
- The Phenomenal Character of Visual Consciousness
- The Liar Paradox, Self-Understanding, and Nietzschean Perspectivalism
- Continuity, Inquiry, and the Possibility of Wisdom in John Dewey’s Pragmatism
- On the Point of What We Say: Kant, Wittgenstein, and Cavell on When Words Are Called For
- On Lengths of Lines and Reals
- Motivating the Discursive Turn in Moral Theory
- Language, Theory, and the Human Subject: Understanding Quine’s Natural Epistemology
- Tractarian Mysticism: Moral Transformation through Aesthetic Contemplation in Wittgenstein’s Early Philosophy
- On Testing for the Stage Collapse in Quantum Mechanics
- The Variety of Reasons: Justification and Requirement in Rationality and Advisability
- Local Time: Foundational Studies for a Theory of Temporality in a Relativistic Universe
- A Wittgensteinian Study of Experimental Psychology
- The Dialectical Theory of Progress: A Study of Jürgen Habermas’ Theory of Social Evolution
- St. Thomas, Molina, and Leibniz on Divine Providence and Foreknowledge
- The Best Test Theory of Extension
- The Design Inference: Eliminating Chance Through Small Probabilities
- Inequality, Vulnerability, and Morality
- Autonomy and Desire: An Essay in Moral and Philosophical Psychology
- A Deflationary Response to the Ontological Problem: In Defense of the Coherence Theory of Justification
- Justice and Health: The Cultural Politics of Medicine
- Material Girls: A Game-Theoretic Revision of the Social Contract Enterprise with Women Present
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- Unity and Uniqueness in the Early Schlick
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Philosophy Dissertation Topics
Published by Grace Graffin at January 9th, 2023 , Revised On January 9, 2023
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The choice of dissertation topic is crucial for research as it will facilitate the process and makes it an exciting and manageable process. Several dissertation ideas exist in philosophy, including metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, logic, aesthetics, deontology, absurdum, and existentialism. Philosophy dissertations can be based on either primary research or secondary research.
Primary data dissertations incorporate the collection and analysis of data obtained through questionnaires and surveys. On the other hand, secondary data dissertations make use of existing literature to test the research hypothesis . To help you get started with philosophy topic selection for your dissertation, a list is developed by our experts.
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Philosophy Dissertation Topics of Research
Topic 1: an examination of women's perspective on feminist philosophy..
Research Aim: This study aims to look into the importance of feminism in a philosophical context. It will also identify the factors that lead to postmodernism and liberal feminism from women’s perspectives and will also focus on the impact of feminist philosophy on the development of modern society.
Topic 2: Sociological Functionalism- Investigating the Development and Beliefs
Research Aim: This research study will focus on new types of functionalism and get a deeper understanding of inner and outer circumstances in which different approaches take place. This study will also investigate how the researchers use social theory to acquire a better understanding of the environment in which these concepts are used. It will also promote sociology through informing and inspiring practices and research.
Topic 3: Assessing the History and Development of Philosophical Work from the 15th to 21st Century.
Research Aim: This study aims to find the history and development of philosophical work from the 15th and 21st Centuries. It will examine the theoretical foundations of the practice, applications, and social consequences. This study will also focus on different factors of how philosophy has evolved in these centuries and what changes have occurred.
Topic 4: A Comprehensive View of Social Development of Loneliness.
Research Aim: This study will comprehend how various theoretical points of view are connected or linked r to loneliness. This study will also present an argument for an interpretative social point of view by dissembling the sense of loneliness into key components. It will also focus on the problems and different behaviours of people.
Topic 5: What does it mean to live in an Ideal Society- Discuss using Plato's Philosophies.
Research Aim: Plato is well known for his monologue known as the Republic; he was also the classical political philosopher whose views influenced future political thoughts. Plato’s ideal society was created during a time when Plato was exceedingly optimistic about human nature and its ability to absorb knowledge. This study will conduct a deep analysis of Plato’s ideologies and his views and their impact on the western political world.
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Topic 1: why we should stop capital punishment and adopt permanent solutions to help solve crimes..
Research Aim: This research aims to analyse the importance of rehabilitation and counseling of criminals to bring them back to their usual walks of life. The whole idea is to eliminate crime, and capital punishment does not provide solutions where a clean society can be developed.
Topic 2: Should people always obey the rules? A closer look at the line between breaking rules and rebellion.
Research Aim: Rules are developed to maintain a balance in society and ensure discipline, which helps an individual in every sphere of their lives. But specific rules are created only for serving a group and not for the whole society’s best interest. This research aims at finding pieces of evidence where rule-breaking is a rebellion and for the upliftment of humanity and not in personal interest.
Topic 3: Loneliness: Reconstructing its meaning
Research Aim: This research aims at finding the meaning of loneliness, what it is to feel lonely, why some people are reclusive, isolate themselves. Loneliness is not always related to sadness, and some people feel better in isolation due to their bitter experiences of life.
Topic 4: Understanding why religion is paramount above anything else for many people around the globe.
Research Aim: Religion forms the basis of life and way of living for many people around the globe. People often get confused with religion and spiritualism, and the grandeur associated with religion becomes more important. The lack of knowledge and education forces blind faith. This research aims to find the reason for dependency on religion and how it negatively affects human lives.
Topic 5: What is the best way to boost a person’s creativity?
Research Aim: This research aims at finding the best possible way to boost a person’s creativity. The most important way is to motivate, inspire, and support them in their process of exploring innovative ideas. Recognition of talent can be the most effective method, which the research will investigate.
Topic 6: Morality and religion: Why are they different, yet they talk about the same thing?
Research Aim: The fundamental essence of religion is compassion and empathy for humans and ensures morality and ethics as a way of life. This research emphasises the primary aim of a religion and how people are getting disoriented and making rituals of religion the prime concern.
Topic 7: Wealth: Is it possible to be rich without having a lot of money?
Research Aim: Wealth and money are co-related as lots of money gives the power to buy anything. But a wealth of human life lies in their moral values, love, affection, proper health and wellbeing, and money cannot accept them. This research topic will speak about becoming wealthy, even with limited monetary wealth.
Topic 8: How can the custom of dowry be eliminated from people’s minds?
Research Aim: Dowry is a social parasite, and it is now a punishable offence by the law. But rules alone cannot change society. The research aims at eradicating the practice of dowry from people’s minds in the light of education.
Topic 9: To love or to be loved: Which is more important?
Research Aim: Love is the feeling of intense desire or deep affection. The most beautiful feeling gives a sense of satisfaction and grows through exchange between two individuals. To love and be loved are two co-related aspects as human expects love in return. The research focuses on the more critical dilemma, being on the giving or receiving side of love.
Topic 10: Why social behaviour and ethics cannot be separated?
Research Aim: The research aims to evaluate the importance of ethics in social behaviour and why they cannot be separated. An ethical society is a proper place to thrive for every individual.
Topic 11: A more in-depth look at things that make human life meaningful.
Research Aim: Money, power does not always buy happiness. The research lays the foundation for the importance of care, compassion, empathy. Love and affection as the more essential aspects that make human life meaningful.
Topic 12: Is it possible to create an ideal society?
Research Aim: An ideal society is free from any crime and economic disparities where everyone is treated equally. This research will discuss whether a perfect community is attainable; it is practically possible or not.
Topic 13: A closer look at modern life values.
Research Aim: The research aims to focus on the change in values in modern times. The research’s primary purpose is to provide a comparative study of how modern people’s mindset has changed over time.
Topic 14: Euthanasia: Is it ethical?
Research Aim: A long time debate exists regarding the ethical side of euthanasia. Ending someone’s life can be considered unlawful as we do not have the right to end something we did not create. This research aims at providing evidence in favour of euthanasia and also the negative aspects.
Topic 15: What is the value of truth? Are there instances when lying is good?
Research Aim: The research aims to provide evidence where lying is not unethical. The study will give an example from Bhagwat Gita, where Lord Krishna lied to safeguard humanity.
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n philosophical writing:Avoid direct quotes. If you need to quote, quote sparingly, and follow your quotes by expla. ning what the author means in your own words. (There are times when brief direct quotes can be helpful, for example when you want to present and interpret a potential amb.
The Problem of Freedom and Universality: Marxian Philosophical Anthropology. Ralda, Oscar (University of Oregon, 2024-03-25) This dissertation has two principal aims. First, it provides a critical reconsideration of Marx's philosophical anthropology as it bears on the essential continuity of his emancipatory critique of political economy.
Aim for this to be your magnum opus or last word on the topic. Try to solve a major problem (e.g. the mind-body problem, external world scepticism) Cover every possible view in the field. Include extra material unless it advances your argument. Have one massive 6,000 word chapter. Leave it until Semester 2 to start work.
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The dissertation is expected to be a mature and competent piece of writing, embodying the results of significant original research. Physical requirements for preparing a dissertation (i.e., quality of paper, format, binding, etc.) are prescribed online in the Guide for the Electronic Submission of Theses and Dissertations; a copy is also ...
Voici des exemples complets pour une bonne dissertation de philosophie (niveau Bac). Vous pouvez les utiliser pour étudier la structure du plan d'une dissertation de philosophie, ainsi que la méthode utilisée. Avant de rendre votre dissertation de philosophie, relisez et corrigez les fautes. Elles comptent dans votre note finale.
The Qualifying Exam. Part 2 of the General Exam is the qualifying exam. The written part of this exam is constituted by (1) a draft dissertation chapter of between 7500 - 8500 words, and (2) a dissertation prospectus of 2 - 4 pages. If you feel the need to exceed these limits (with quotations, for example), consult with the DGS.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2022. PDF. Effective Field Theories: A Philosophical Appraisal, Dimitrios Athanasiou. PDF. Essays on Privilege and its Implications for Relational Autonomy and Vaccine Hesitancy, Nicole Fice. PDF. A Critical Examination of Informed Consent Approaches in Pragmatic Cluster-Randomized Trials, Cory E. Goldstein.
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Citations for Master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Most dissertations published since 1997, and some from prior years, are available for free download; others may be requested via Interlibrary Loan. Recent online theses and dissertations from selected Georgetown programs and departments.
Dissertations with graduation dates Heading link Copy link. 2022. Calibrating and Evaluating Simulations, Deborah Haar (Spring 2022) Five Aporiai on Place, Seth Christensen (Spring 2022) 2021. Presentism and Special Relativity, Brandon Kidd (Spring 2021)
Étape 1 : analyser le sujet. Étape 2 : problématiser le sujet. Étape 3 : rédiger le plan. Étape 4 : préparer l'argumentation. Étape 5 : rédiger la dissertation. Étape 6 : relire et corriger le travail. et en profondeurLire attent. ent le sujetLire le sujet avec attention. Si plusieurs sujets sont proposés, il faut choisir c.
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