Senior Theses Titles
2014
85. Bates, Sarah Ruth: Which Life to Live? The Best Way of Life According to Aristotle
86. Gadomski, Michael: Global Justice and State Sovereignty: In Defense of an Autonomy-Based Account
87. Macrone, Julian: Aspects of Intention
88. Netland, Edward R.: Hedonism, Consequentialism and Moral Judgment
89. Risinger, Devin: Interpretive Monism: An Investigation of Intentional State
2013
81. Cole, Robert: After Reference
82. Matunas, Adrienne C.: God, Evolution, and Morality's Foundation
83. Marlette, Zachary Michael: Approaching Contemporary Medical Ethical Issues with Virtue Ethics
84. Munoz Rivera, Juan Sebastian: Intersubjective Redescription: A sphere of meaning in a liberal community
2012
78. Smith, Taylor: Inside Meaning: A Critique of Semantic and Content Externalism
79. Taylor, Josh: On the Hart-Dworkin Debate: An Examination of Legal Positivism
80. Udell, Jacob: Heidegger's Transcendental Ontology: A study of Heidegger's Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics
2011
72. Andrews, Salen: The Shifting Sands of Morality: The Role of Changing Moral Perceptions in Warfare in Developing a Legitimate Structure for the Moral Rules of War
73. De Golia, Peter: Towards a Phenomenology of Value in Wittgenstein's Philosophical Project
74. Irie, Mitsuteru Terry: How Things Exist: Nāgārjuna's Two Truths for Unenlightened Minds
75. Krahn, Martin: An End to the End of Philosophy: Badiou's Response to Derrida and Postmodernity
76. Mulligan, Lark: Like a Gun Without Sights How the Juridical-Psychiatric Construction of the Sexual Predator Coercively Structures our Knowledge and Legitimates State Epistemic Authority
77. Seira, Rodrigo: Thus Spoke Heraclitus: an Aesthetic Solution to the Crisis of Modernity
2009
66. Gaewsky, Emily: Exploring Madness in Descartes’ Cogito
67. Jawin, Alixandra: A Contemporary Analysis of Aristotelian Ethics
68. Krivitzky, Aaron: The Philosophy of Character Vertigo: An Essay on Choice, Anxiety, Freedom, and the Self
69. McKay, Robert: Green Christian Theology and The Environmental Crisis
70. Sardi, John-Paul: Normative Principles in Explanation
71. Schaller, Konstantin: Individualism from Hobbes to Hegel
2008
62. Cho, H. Jin: Toward a Russian Philosophy: Three Essays by N.A. Berdiaev
63. Lister, Jacob: Nietzsche and Metaphysical Thought
64. Owens, Brendan: Not Human, All Too Human
65. Smyser, Claire: You are my Sunshine: Why Living with Others Makes us Happy and Living in Others Doesn't
2007
57. Bailey, Olivia: War Technology and the 'Saving Power'
58. Bergesen, Kevin: Moral and Legal Limits of Individual Liberty
59. Klein, Ricky: All Things Being Equal? Two Arguments for God and the Implications for Religious Proof
60. Mudd, Marina Ryabtseva: Strange Bedfellows: Redefining Objectivity and Historical Interpretation
61. Strauss, Lewis: A Van der Pol Circuit and a Theory of Explanation
2006
55. Brito, Joseph: An Evolution of Form: Ernst Cassirer and the Warburg Library
56. Rundberg, Julina: The Ethics of Self-Love a feminist reading of freedom, power and the individual in Spinoza's metaphysics.
2005
52. Ott, Cicely: Moral Duty in the Face of Extreme Poverty
53. Sikri, Rohan: An Inquiry concerning Skepticism/ On the Similarities and Differences of Wittgensteinian and Heideggerian Responses to Skepticism
54. Vito, Brian: Meaning and Logic/ Gongsun Long, John Locke and Ludwig Wittgenstein
2004
48. Feldmann, Mary Clare: Removing Magic and Forgetting Spells: An Ending for Hannah Arendt
49. Siegel, Jena: Reconceptualizing Autonomy: Negotiating Women's Agency and Domestic Violence
50. Smith, Hunter: Nietzsche, Saussure and Derrida: Metaphysics and Signification
51. Webb, Peter: Language and Thought: Social and Natural Perspectives
2003
45. Glynn, Edward: A Study in Weakness of the Will
46. Kurkovsky, Diana: The "Death of Art," Danto's Postmodern Hegelianism, and Nietzsche's Aesthetic Solution
47. Morris, Benjamin: The Minimization of Econo-Moral Conflict in Corporate Theory
2002
42. Coffin, Jaed: Grounding Language In Ordinary Life: A Reading of The Early Part of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations
43. Frank, Jeff: Re-Turning Philosophy and Art: An examination of the nature of Art and Thought in Heidegger, Nietzsche and Tolstoy
44. Walters, Khalilah: Wittgenstein and the Language of the Polis
2001
37. Boarini, Timothy William: Justice as Fairness Inside Out: An Investigation and Defense of Rawlsian Theory
38. Cohen, David: A Commentary on Locke's Letter Concerning Toleration
39. Dungan, Jason: Phantom Limbs, Perception, and Reality: Finding the Self in the World
40. Engelstein, Lisa: A Feminist Approach to Bioethics
41. Robert, Zachariah: Questioning the Enlightenment: Max Horkheimer and Carl Schmitt. A Study in Contemporary German Thought
2000
33. Field, Meghan: Perspectives on Bioethical Issues
34. Tisne, Phil: Portrait of the Philosopher: A Series of Essays
35. Wiser, Michael: The Realism of a Realistic Utopia: An Analysis of John Rawls' The Law of Peoples
36. Wool, Matthew: Staring into the Abyss: The Dangers of Technology and the Power of Art in Heidegger's Thought
1999
29. Dentsoras, Dimitrios: From the Doctrine of Creation to the Deification of Man: An Analysis of John Damascene's De fide orthodoxa
30. Obdrzalek, Alice: Catharine MacKinnon's Theory of Pornography as an Illocutionary Action
31. Padgett, Katie: The Birth of Bildung
32. Schnee, Ian: Perspectivism: truth and error
1998
28. Hortas, Carlos: The conceptualization of Persons
1997
26. Foster, Marshall: Beliefs, Desires, and other Everyday Tools: An Argument against Meaning in the Mind
27. Higuera, Mike: An Analysis of Aristotelian Ethics: An inquiry in three parts
1996
23. Budyonny, Lenny: Nietzsche and Foucault on the Philosophy of History: An Analysis
24. Shannon, David: Explanation, Confirmation, and Skepticism. Three Essays on the Purpose and Practice of Science
25. Trager, Robert: Minds, Worlds, and Cultures: An Exploration into the Wittgensteinian Framework
1995
18. Freiberg, Benjamin: HIV Infected Health Care Workers: A Duty to Disclose?
19. Oberdieck, John: Legal Interpetation: The Problems of Determinacy in Legal Reasoning
20. Okin, Gregory: The Hypothesis of the Formal Physical Universe
21. Paxton, Benjamin: Kantian Rationalism and the Idea of God
22. Safar, Claudine: Exposing Ecofeminism, A Critical Analysis of Ecofeminist Theory
1994
16. Bryant, Rachel: Darwin, Whales and the Philosophy of Science
17. Coe, Cindy: Something Unstilled, Unstillable is Within Me: Fragmentation in Self, Woman and Madness
1993
14. Beecher, Jonathan: A Revision of the Metaphysics of Spinoza
15. Weiner, Randy: In Puris Naturalibus- Montaigne's Inquest of Human Reason
1991
12. McMahan, Jeff: Rights and Goods. A Comparative Study of John Rawls and Robert Nozick
13. Prohm, Alan: Yeats and Nietzsche, Affirmative Dialogue
1990
11. Lindert, Jessica: The Private Power of Patriarchy- Male Domination of the Family and Motherhood
1989
6. Aquilino, Chris: An Analysis of John Rawls' A Theory of Justice
7. Cunningham, Sarah: Pascal-Nietzsche-Christianity
8. Shipman, Kimberly: Imposing a Duty to Protect on Psychotherapists: Ethical Questions Raised by Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California
9. Sylvester, Crystal: An Explanation of Dance and its Creation
10. Watts, Pamela: Nietzsche's Philosophy as seen in the Context of "Life"
1988
3. Grayer, James: Aristotle and Confucius- Two Systems of Virtue Ethics Considered
4. Greenberg, Loria: John Stuart Mills' Marketplace of Ideas and the Quest for Truth
5. Scannell, Tim: From the Life of a Private Man to the Categorical Imperative: The Moral Theories of Plato, Aristotle and Kant
1987
1. Carmichael, Lisa Marie: On Language and Belief
2. Miles, John: From the Objective to the Subjective: The Ethics of Kant and Kierkegaard
1985
Wimberly, John D. Jr.: Intelligence Within Formality: An Inquiry
1984
Maxwell, Bruce: Characteristics of Natural and Social Man: Hobbes, Rousseau and Freud
Pierson, Christopher J.: Bell's Theorem and Its Implications for Scientific World Views
1983
Ashford, Douglas: Animal Rights and Human Morality
1982
Boxer, Stephen J.: On the Relationship Between Biography and Philosophical Thought
Hubbard, Tatiana: Towards an Understanding of Literature: Essays on Twentieth Century Novels and Criticism
Hutton, Catherine Lewis: The Role of Sense Perception in Buddhist Epistemology
McGee, John David: The Sociobiology Question
Murphy, Dale D.: Two Essays in Morality and International Politics
1979
Boulay, Arthur L.: Justice as Fairness/Justice as Action
Lee, Mary A.: The Distinction and Relationship Between the Ethical and the Religious in Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript
1978
MacCrellish, Bruce: Intentionality and Science: The Views of R.M. Chicholm, W.V. Quine, D.C. Dennett
1977
Crane, David: Sympathy and the Possibility of Morality in the Philosophy of David Hume
Gabriel, Bertram III: Hegel's Criticism of Kant
Sterngold, James S: The Meaning of the Subject for Social Science
1973
Hulswit, Cornelia: John Dewey's Educational Philosophy: An Approach
1972
Buchheit, Lee: Benedict de Spinoza -- Intoxicated or Intemperate?
1971
Charlesworth, Nancy: Lucretius
1969
Kirby, John: Aristotle's Defense of Substance in Books Zeta and Eta of the Metaphysics
1968
Alexander, Edwin Michael: A Translation of Martin Heidegger's Essay "Nietzsche's Metaphysics"
1967
Flint, Robin J.: An Explanation of George Berkeley's Theory of Vision
1965
Riker, John: The Problem of Freedom and Determinism in the Metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead
1962
Scott, Earl: Ideas in Contemporary Metaethics
1961
Radin, Paul Martin: Spinoza's Universe and the Status of Man