Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Friends with Benefits: Other Regard in Epicurean Ethics, William P. Baird
Non-Cooperative Communication and the Origins of Human Language, Steven M. Beighley
A Problem Of Access: Autism, Other Minds, And Interpersonal Relations, Ryan Born
Nietzsche on Copernicus, Shane C. Callahan
The Promise and Limits of Natural Normativity in a Neo-Aristotelian Virtue Ethics, Timothy J. Clewell
The Many Faces of Besire Theory, Gary Edwards
Bayle's Theory of Toleration, Benjamin Eliazar Fischer
Self-Ownership, Freedom and Eudaimonia, Keith D. Fox
Considering a Human Right to Democracy, Jodi Ann Geever-Ostrowsky
The Role of Poetry and Language in Hegel's Philosophy of Art, Daniel Griffin
A Defense of Moral Error Theory, Kyle M. Hirsch Mr.
But What Kind of Badness?: An Inquiry into the Ethical Significance of Pain, Andrew L. Hookom
Secular Foundations of Liberal Multiculturalism, Mohammad O. Khan
Dignified Animals: How "Non-Kantian" is Nussbaum's Conception of Dignity?, Mary Leukam
A Fregean Response to Moore and Altman, Sean S. Martin
Rational Requirements for Moral Motivation: The Psychopath's Open Question, Maria L. Montello
Rethinking Legal Retribution, Stephen Parsley
Rescuing Inclusive Legal Positivism from the Charge of Inconsistency, Cindy L. Phillips
Consciousness, Self-Control, and Free Will in Nietzsche, Bryan T. Russell
Normative Judgments, 'Deep Self' Judgments, and Intentional Action, Jason S. Shepard
Can the Contextualist Win the Free Will Debate?, Reuben E. Stern
The Fundamental Naturalistic Impulse: Extending the Reach of Methodological Naturalism, James B. Summers
Providing Assurance on Scanlon's Account of Promises, Hunter T. Thomsen
Autonomy, de facto and de jure, Paul Tulipana
Making Robert Kane’s Libertarianism More Plausible: How James Woodward’s Interventionist Causal Theory can Give an Agent Control Over Her Undetermined Decisions, Tracy Van Wagner
Nietzsche's Causally Efficacious Account of Consciousness, Bradley Wissmueller
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Dworkinian Liberalism & Gay Rights: A Defense of Same-Sex Relations, Ngoc Quang H. Bui
Marx, Economic Sustainability, and Ideal Capital, Sean Cashel Bustard
Kant's Use of Transcendental Arguments, Thomas Wayne Cudney
Mindreading, Language and Simulation, Ryan C. DeChant
Foucauldian Genealogy as Situated Critique or Why is Sexuality So Dangerous?, Ian Douglas Dunkle
Moral Injury and the Puzzle of Immunity-Violation, Jesse Gero
The Justificatory Role of Habit in Hegel's Theory of Ethical Life, Walter Philip Glazer
Autism, Social Comprehension, and Cognitive Impenetrability, Matthew E. Hudgens-Haney
Decisions as Performatives, Dylan Murray
Pogg'es Institutional Cosmopolitanism, Scott Nees
Can Bayesianism and Inference to the Best Explanation be Friends?, Rush Tyler Stewart
Literature and the Moral Imagination: Smithean Sympathy and the Construction of Experience through Readership, Elizabeth M.K.A. Sund
Subjectivity and Fallibility in the Instrumental and Epistemic Defenses of a "Right to Do Wrong", Thomas Wright
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Teleosemantics, Externalism, and the Content of Theoretical Concepts, Daniel C. Burnston
The Proper Metric of Justice in Justice as Fairness, Charles Benjamin Carmichael
Raz and His Critics: A Defense of Razian Authority, Jason Thomas Craig
Can Consciousness be Taken Seriously When it Comes to Personal Identity?, Stephen Matthew Duncan
An Incompatibility between Intentionalism and Multiple Authorship in Film, Steven Christopher Hager
The Role of Afterlife Myths in Plato's Moral Arguments, Daniel William Issler
Defending Noe's Enactive Theory of Perception, Lucas Allen Keefer
Kantian Conceptualism and Apperception, Raleigh S. Miller
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Seeking Natural Kinds in a Controversial Diagnosis, Paul Kenneth Pfeilschiefter
Drug Addiction and Personal Responsibility, Andrew Shawn Reagan
Motivating Emotional Content, Benjamin Sheredos
Epicurean Friendship: How are Friends Pleasurable?, Melissa Marie Strahm
The Moral Reality of War: Defensive Force and Just War Theory, Maj Robert E. Underwood III
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Retribution Requires Rehabilitation, Joseph Q. Adams
Sextus was no Eudaimonist, Joseph B. Bullock
Against Pyrrhonian Equipollence, John Everett Button
Freedom and the Ideal Republican State: Kant, Jefferson, and the Place of Individual Freedom in the Republican Constitutional State, Theresa A. Creighton
The Concept of "Woman": Feminism after the Essentialism Critique, Katherine Nicole Fulfer
The Aesthetic Idea and the Unity of Cognitive Faculties in Kant's Aesthetics, Maria Andreevna Gourova
Freedom and Forfeiture: Responding to Galen Strawson's Basic Argument, Eli Benjamin Kelsey
Is Core Affect a Natural Kind?, Brandie Martinez Bedard
Facing the Problems of Feminism: Working Toward Resolution, Joy Alicia Salvatore
Aristotelian Liberal Virtues, Joseph W. Slade, IV
The Non-moral Basis of Cognitive Biases of Moral Intuitions, Bradley Charles Thomas
Child Abuse, Racism and the State, Chase Parker Turner
Kim's Pairing Problem and the Viability of Substance Dualism, Jimmy Ray Vaught
A Description of the Natural Place of Magic in Philosophy and Religious Studies, Damien P. Williams
A Comparative Study of the Ethics of Christine M. Korsgaard and Jean-Paul Sartre, Michael Christopher Zander
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Resting in the Court of Reason: Kant's Resolution to the Antinomy of Pure Reason, Sarah Ann Alexander
In Defense of Rawlsian Constructivism, William St. Michael Allen
Virtue Ethics and Moore's Criticisms of Naturalism, Brandon Thomas Byrd
Irony, Finitude and the Good Life, Nicole Marie Cecconi
Apriority in Naturalized Epistemology: Investigation into a Modern Defense, Jesse Giles Christiansen
Manipulation and Hard Compatibilism, Daniel Justin Coates
Contextualist Responses to Skepticism, Luanne Gutherie
Perspectives on Perspectivism: Nietzsche and His Commentators, Jennifer L. Hudgens
Between Being and Nothingness: The Metaphysical Foundations Underlying Augustine's Solution to the Problem of Evil, Brian Keith Kooy
Dual-Process Theories and the Rationality Debate: Contributions from Cognitive Neuroscience, Trevor Hannesson Kvaran
Defending Lucretius' Symmetry Argument against the Fear of Death, Kun Lei
Under Pressure from the Empirical Data: Does Externalism Rest on a Mistaken Psychological Theory?, Bryan Temples Miller
Carlo Michelstaedter: Persuasion and Rhetoric, Massimiliano Moschetta
Nietzsche on Naturalism, Egoism and Altruism, Derrick Phillip Nantz
Property without Government, Knox Ridley III
Father Knows Best: A Critique of Joel Feinberg's Soft Paternalism, James Cullen Sacha
Naturalism and Moral Realism, James Sias
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Bonjour's Positions on Empirical Knowledge: From Coherentism to Foundationalism, Soo Young Byun
Ways to Skin the Zombie Cat: A Look at the Problems Associated with Chalmers's Zombie-Argument, Walter Scott Clifton
On the Stephen Macedo and John Finnis Exchange: Natural Law, Liberalism, and Homosexuality: A Critical Assessment, Brian B. Coleman
Wittgenstein and Religion, Daniel Patrick Corrigan
The Impossibility of Evil Qua Evil: Kantian Limitations on Human Immorality, Timothy Alan Crews-Anderson
Liberalism and the Worst-Result Principle: Preventing Tyranny, Protecting Civil Liberty, Candice Delmas
Rossian Moral Pluralism: A (Partial) Defense, Angela J. Desaulniers
A Defense of Soft Positivism: Justice and Principle Processes, Keith William Diener
Correct Ethical Traditions: Towards a Defense of Christian Ethical Relativism, Jason Paul Head
The Female Voices of Islam, Kacie Sherry LeCompte
A Defense of Moral Realism, Jason Lesandrini
Kripke, Chalmers and the Immediate Phenomenal Quality of Pain, Jessica Rae Owensby-Sandifer
Marriage as Unconstitutional: How Not Allowing Homosexual Marriage Violates the First Amendment, Brian M. Payne
Nietzsche on the Future and Value, John Ranta
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Basic Economic Rights, Harry Sutton Edlich