Recent MA Theses and Dissertations

Masters Theses: Student, Year, Title
Celene Abramson (1987): Ethics in Wittgenstein
C. Adair-Toteff (1993): Kant and Berkeley: The Gottinger Rezension
Kirby Arinder (2001): The Antiphysicalist Perspective
Mary Bachman (1991): Augustine and Divine Illumination
Leslie Batchelor (1990): Pragmatism: A Philosophy of Law for Democracy
Kevin Bedell (1990): The Role of Mathematics in Plato's Republic
Nicholas Biniaris (1991): Plato's Theory of Anamnesis
Allen Bishop (1988): A Defense of Kant's Autonomy
Edward Blatnick (1988): Metaphysical Realism versus Internal Realism
Richard Bondi (1994): Walzer and Nonintervention
Juliette Christie (1988): An Ethic of Respect for Entities Having Inherent Worth
Kerrie Covell (1990): Legal Interpretation as Creation: Giving Up the Search for Metaphysical Foundations for Law and Legal Theory
Patrick Crawford (1992): Horkheimer's Critique of Positivism
David Curry (1985): A Reconsideration of Plato's Middle Period Theory of Forms: The Nature of Participation and the Range of Forms
Russell Daw (1991): Strawson's Compatibilism
Peter Dlugos (1992): Cognitive Architecture and Explanation
Douglas Drabkin (1989): Aristotle and the Artist's Life
Matt Elkin (1995): Internalist and Contextualist Concepts of Responsibility
David Farmer (1986): Aristotle: Persistence of Matter
Steven Garmon (1991): Reweavability: A Deweyan Look at Jurisprudence via the Fish-Dworkin Exchange
Patricia Goolsby (1991): Realism, but no Yardsticks: What Austin and the Ethical Man Know
Renee Hill (1990): Conditions of Personhood
Stephen Houser (1989): Recollection in Plato's Phaedo
Amy Karofsky (1992): Spinoza's Monism
Adele Kimmel (1986) Theories of Punishment and Their Relation to Sentencing Reform
Charles Klein (1996): Considerations on the Possibility of Knowledge Based on Non-entailing Evidence
Arthur Lambert (1992): Philosophical Meaning in Music
Jeffrey Leach (1992): Between the Human and the Divine: Contemplation and Moral Activity in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Grace Ledbetter (1989): Sensible Imperfection in the Phaedo: A Defense of the Approximation View
Floyd Light (1995): Mill and Walzer on Non-Intervention
Michael McKenna (1989): Can Action Explanation Be Causal Explanation?
Eugene Mills (1985) Translation and Belief
Dawn Nunziato (1989): Wittgenstein's Sign-Post
Anne O'Bryne (1993): Historical Respect and the Historiagraphy of Philosophy
Michael Papazian (1991): Realism in Mathematics and Modality
Oliver Pollard (1988): Law and Lust: The Legitimacy of Governmental Control of Pornography and Public Nudity
Kalynne Pudner (1990): Rights in the Family
Peter Resciniti (1991): First Philosophy and the Problem of Eternal Substance
John Rowan (1994): Quasi-Lockean Rights of Punishment
Edward Rutledge (1985) The Theory of Knowledge in Plato's Theaetetus
Jeanne Salmon (1990): The Role of Love in Bioethical Theory
Nancy Schauber (1987): Parfit, Persons and Morality
Joel Smith (1990): Analogical Reasoning
Eric Steed (1993): The Goal of the Socratic Elenchus
Jonathan Stoltz (2002): Objects and Identity in Mathematical Structures
Jean Suplizio (1994): An Examination of John Rawls' Ideal Theory
Caleb Thompson (1990): Philosophy and the Corruption of Language
Victoria Voytko (1986) Aristotle's Topics and the Doctrine of Categories
Elizabeth Walden (1989): On the Possibility of Relations Among Forms in Plato's Middle Theory
Patricia Williams (1985) Aspects of Biological Taxonomy
Sarah Williams (1986): Liberty, Welfare and the Constitution
Nathan Wollstein (1992): Socrates and Weakness of the Will
Dissertations: Student, Year, Title
Kirby Arinder (2005): Impractical Naturalism
John Anderson (2000): Ethics in Linguistic Space and the Challenge of Morality
Shaikha Binjasim (2006): Non-existent Objects as Patterns of Properties
Ed Blatnick (1993): The Refutation of Anti-Realism
Justus Cooke (1986): Wittgenstein and the Theoretic Spirit in Philosophy
David Curry (1990): Flux and Forms: An Examination of Plato's Notion of Change in the Middle Dialogues
Russell Daw (1995): Free Will and Determinism: An Assessment of the Traditional Approach to the Compatibility Issue
David Demoss (1987): Compatibilism, Practical Wisdom, and the Narrative Self, or, If I Had My Act Together, I Could Have Done Otherwise
Peter Dlugos (1996): Explaining Action: A Functionalist Approach
Garry Dobbins (1991): The Meaning of Life in the Work of Nietzsche and Wittgenstein
James Doyle (1993): Freedom, Altruism and the State: A Rousseauian Conception
James Downey (1988): Rationalist Theistic Metaphysics: A Defense
Douglas Drabkin (1993): Perfect Goodness Imperfectly Known
Rodney Evans (1987): The Case for Good Samaritan Laws
David Farmer (1989): Time and McTaggart's Paradox
Elizabeth Fenton (2008): Overlapping Consensus and Human Rights
Jennifer Flynn (2007): The Relevance of Method: Moral Theory and Moral Thought
Steven Garmon (1992): Pragmatist Critiques of Jurisprudence
Lucan Gregory (2007): The State, Authority, and Legitimacy
Renee Hill (1995): Compensatory Justice: A Rawlsian Perspective
Stephen Houser (1990): Substantial Form as a Universal in the Central Books of Aristotle's Metaphysics
Clinton Jones (2007): A Lockean Account of State Justification, Legitimacy, and Optimality
Charles Klein (1999): Temporal Passage, Continuity, and Existence
Arcibald Laud-Hammond (1988): Legal and Moral Problems in Criminal Attempts
Scott Lowe (1986): Principles of Reciprocity and Debts to Our Neighbors
Nathan May (1995): Rehabilitating Universals: A Defense of a Form of Platonic Realism
Michael McKenna (1993): Responsibility Without Free Will: A Cognitivist Approach
Joseph Miller (2001): John Stuart Mill on Quality and Competence
Chris Naticchia (1995): An Examination and Critique of Strategies for Defending Liberalism
John Nickles (1993): A Question of Method: Dworkin, CLS, and Rorty
Michael Papazian (1995): Truth, Intuition, and Rationality
Albert Piacente (1993): The Naturalization of Philosophy: A Critical Examination of the Philosophy of Hilary Putnam
Duncan Richter (1995): Ethics After Anscombe
Mary Robinette (1986): John Locke on Personal Identity
John Rowan (1997): Moral Rights as Policy Instruments
Crispin Sartwell (1989): Art and Articulation
Deborah Slicer (1989): Your Daughter or Your Dog: Against the Singer-Reagan Approach to Deciding our Moral Obligations to Animals
Edward Song (2005): The Bounds of Justice: Rawls on Global Justice and International Obligation
Jonathan Stoltz (2005): Belief, Truth, and Indicative Conditional Propositions
Catherine Sutton (2007): Objects and Their Parts: A Colocationist Metaphysics of Composition
David Tabachnick (2007): Rawlsian Justice, Pre-Institutional Concepts, and the Private Law
Charlie Tanksley (2009): Masses
Caleb Thompson (1994): Wittgenstein's Confessions: A Study of the Influence of Augustine's and Tolstoy's Confessions on the Philosophy of Wittgenstein
Clark Thompson (1991): Hume's Views on Moral Judgment
Patrick Toner (2005): Existence and Emergence
Victoria Voytko (1993): Recurrence and Teleology in Stoic Physics
James White (1985): Knowledge, Skepticism, and Externalist Epistemologies
Nathan Wollstein (1995): Self-Deception