Past Dissertations

2018

• Timothy J. Houk
  The Nature and Ethics of Manipulation
  Supervised by: David Copp

2017

• Christopher Healow
  Name and Object: The Semantic Role of Plato's Forms
  Supervised by: Jan Szaif
• Edward Shear
  Belief Revision Beyond AGM
  Supervised by: Hanti Lin

2016

• W. Brandon Biggerstaff
  The Need for a Bi-level Account for Reporting Beliefs
  Supervised by: Robert May
• Danilo Fraga Dantas
  Almost Ideal: Computational Epistemology and the Limits of Rationality for Finite Reasoners
  Supervised by: Bernard Molyneux

2015

• T. Scott Dixon
  Grounding, Regresses, and Universals
  Supervised by: Cody Gilmore

2014

• Brian Coffey
  In Defense of an End-Relational Theory of Goodness
  Supervised by: David Copp
• Emily Barranco Earlenbaugh
  Pluralities of Happiness: An Instrumentalist Argument in Support of Positive Psychology
  Supervised by: Elaine Landry
• Joshua Earlenbaugh
  Philosophy as Virtuous Rhetoric
  Supervised by: Bernard Molyneux
• Johnnie Pedersen
  A Defense of Evidentialism about Moral Intuitions
  Supervised by: David Copp
• Jun Keat (Jared) Poon
  Against an Evolutionary Debunking of Morality
  Supervised by: David Copp
• Sarah Roe
  The Salmon-Roe Approach to Mechanistic Explanation
  Supervised by: Roberta Millstein

2013

• Bert Baumgaertner
  Vagueness Judgments: An Information Theoretic Approach
  Supervised by: Bernard Molyneux
• Christopher Buckels
  Plato's Theory of Sensible Particulars
  Supervised by: Jan Szaif

2012

• Vadim Keyser
  The Stabilization View of Measurement
  Supervised by: James Griesemer
• Huaping Lu-Adler
  Kant's Conception of Logical Extension and Its Implications
  Supervised by: Henry Allison

2011

• Greg Damico
  On Definitional Unity in Aristotle
  Supervised by: John Malcolm
• Jonathan Dorsey
  Cutting The Problem Of Consciousness Down To Size
  Supervised by: Bernard Molyneux
• Lucas Halpin
  Meta-Philosophy: Contra-Quine
  Supervised by: G. Aldo Antonelli
• Nate Smith
  Essentialist Heuristics in Biology
  Supervised by: James Griesemer

2010

• Gina Marie Calderone
  The Indeterminacy of Meaning
  Supervised by: Michael Jubien and Paul Teller
• Nicholas Jeremiah Diehl
  Narration in Literature and Film
  Supervised by: George Wilson and James Griesemer
• Michael Trestman
  Goal-Directedness, Behavior and Cognition
  Supervised by: James Griesemer

2009

• Dana Lynne Goswick
  An Artifactual World
  Supervised by: L.A. Paul and Cody Gilmore
• David Ian Spencer
  Time, Tense, and Mind: A Case Study in Metaphysics and Perspectival Representation
  Supervised by: Paul Teller

2008

• Brooke S. Roberts
  A Reactive Attitudes Account of Desert
  Supervised by: Gerald Dworkin and Pekka Väyrynen

2007

• James Craig Blackmon
  Computationalism and the Putnam-Searle Thesis
  Supervised by: Paul Teller and Robert C. Cummins

2006

• Christian Lang Coons
  The Value of Individuals and the Value of States of Affairs
  Supervised by: Pekka Väyrynen and Connie S. Rosati
• David James Freelove
  The Axioms and Substance in Aristotle's Science of Metaphysics
  Supervised by: Michael V. Wedin
• Alexa Heidi Lee
  A Defense of Descriptivism
  Supervised by: Michael Glanzberg and Robert C. Cummins

2005

• Matthew Horace Haber
  The Centrality of Phylogenetic Thinking
  Supervised by: James Griesemer

2004

• Lynne O'Neil Fox
  Equality in Meeting Basic Needs: Reasons for, and Challenges to, a Theory of Distributive Justice that Focuses on Basic Needs
  Supervised by: Gerald Dworkin and David Copp

2003

• James David Byrd Jr.
  Is a Unified Account of Concepts Possible?
  Supervised by: Robert C. Cummins
• Martin Anthony Anderson Roth
  The Role of Programs in Connectionist Explanations of Cognition
  Supervised by: Robert C. Cummins

2002

• Todd Harris
  The Construction and Evaluation of Data Models in Cell Biology
  Supervised by: James Griesemer
• William Russell Payne
  On the Nature of Dispositions
  Supervised by: Michael Jubien

2001

• Patrick John Findler
  Moral Properties, Secondary Qualities, and Moral Motivation
  Supervised by: David Copp
• Robert Scofield
  Skepticism and Analogical Reasoning in Law
  Supervised by: David Copp
• Christina Waters
  Sartre on the Magical
  Supervised by: William H. Bossart

2000

• Sherry Lynn Deveaux
  The Essence of Spinoza's God
  Supervised by: Joel I. Friedman and Don Garrett

1999

• Judith Worth Cross
  The Nature of Events
  Supervised by: Michael Jubien
• Richard Constanz Schubert
  Moral Judgments, Normative Reasons, and the Motivation of the Practically Rational
  Supervised by: David Copp

1998

• Elizabeth Volk Forrester
  Emergent Properties
  Supervised by: Paul Teller

1997

• Scott Andrew Merlino
  Are Biological Species Individuals?
  Supervised by: James Griesemer
• Robert Wilson Mutti
  The Semantic Content of Proper Names
  Supervised by: Jeffrey C. King
• David Eric Nachmanoff
  A Moral Justification for the Right to National Self-Determination
  Supervised by: David Copp
• Howard Mark Pressman
  Hume on Geometry and Infinite Divisibility
  Supervised by: George J. Mattey II
• Leslie Elizabeth Stapp
  A Revision of David Lewis's "Golden Card": The Classification of Relations Via a New Intrinsic/Extrinsic Property Relation
  Supervised by: Michael Jubien

1996

• Nancy Elizabeth Shaffer
  Understanding Bias in Scientific Practice
  Supervised by: Paul Teller

1995

• Jordi Cat
  Maxwell's Interpretation of the Electric and Magnetic Potentials: The Methods of Illustration, Analogy and Scientific Metaphor
  Supervised by: Paul Teller

1994

• Leonard David Olson
  Hegel and the Doctrine of the Trinity
  Supervised by: William H. Bossart

1993

• Melinda Lou Campbell
  The Reality of Color: The Case for Subjective Realism
  Supervised by: Richard Wollheim
• William Stafford Hirstein
  The Problem of Self-Belief
  Supervised by: Richard Wollheim
• Marina Alexandra Lise Oshana
  Autonomy as a Social Phenomenon
  Supervised by: John Martin Fischer

1992

• David Lopez
  The Question of a Sartrean Ethics
  Supervised by: William H. Bossart

1991

• Tony Daniel Roy
  On Possibility and Possible Worlds
  Supervised by: Michael Jubien

1988

• Jay Wallis Gallagher
  Staking a Claim to Knowledge in an Alien Framework: From Foucault's Critique of the Confessional to Mae West on Men
  Supervised by: George J. Mattey II and Mary Anne Warren

1987

• Dirk Meier Leben (deceased)
  On the Possible, the Impossible and God: The Medieval Latin Philosophical Development of New Testament Sources

1985

• Katarina Elsbeth Helene Dulckheit
  Hegel on Meaning and Reference
  Supervised by: George J. Mattey II

1984

• Theodore Ambrose Gracyk
  Epistemological Sources of Kant's Aesthetic Theory
  Supervised by: George J. Mattey II
• Alistair Moles
  The Metaphysical Principles of Nietzsche's Cosmology
  Supervised by: Joel I. Friedman
• Timothy Dean Roche
  Aristotle on the Good of Man
  Supervised by: Michael V. Wedin

1983

• Linda Kay Bomstad
  The Corpuscular Theory and the Semantics of Natural Kind Terms in Locke's Essay
  Supervised by: Ronald A. Arbini

1981

• Burke Hilden
  Excluded-Opposite Arguments
  Supervised by: Ronald A. Arbini
• Paula Hunter Manchester
  Architectonic and Critical Philosophy
  Supervised by: George J. Mattey II

1979

• Jerald Lee Mosley
  A Posteriori Necessity: Some Recent Views
  Supervised by: Michael V. Wedin

1978

• Stephen Richard Hibbard
  Particular Identity and Particular Reality in Plato's Middle Dialogues
  Supervised by: John F. Malcolm

1977

• Bruce Alan Russell
  Rawls and Utilitarianism: A Comparison and Critique
  Supervised by: Fred R. Berger

1974

• John Michael King
  Functionalist Explanations of Behavior
• Judy Carol Williams
  The Philosophical Significance of the Notion of Seeing-as
  Supervised by: Ronald A. Arbini

1972

• Frederick Joseph O'Toole
  Qualities and Powers in the Corpuscular Philosophy of Robert Boyle
  Supervised by: Ronald A. Arbini

1971

• George Daniel Gale, Jr.
  Leibniz: the Physicist and the Philosopher
  Supervised by: Marjorie Grene