Theses/Dissertations from 2024
On the Possibility of Secular Morality, Zachary R. Alonso
Exploring the Enlightenment Function of Thought Experiments: Unveiling an Underdeveloped Dimension Absent in Typologies, Dominique Greene-Sanders
An Ecofeminist Ontological Turn: Preparing the Field for a New Ecofeminist Project, M. Laurel-Leigh Meierdiercks
The Dialectics of Faith: Kierkegaard, Irony, and Conversion, Douglas Zimmerman
Theses/Dissertations from 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
