Recent Dissertations

Anthony Hejduk
The World As It Is and As It Commands : The Structures of Reality in Stoicism
Advisor: Katja Vogt

Michael Anthony Holmes
The Autonomy of the Oppressed: A Pragmatics-First Account of Discursive Injustice
Advisor: Karen Lewis

Amogha Sahu
The Significance of Ethical Foundationalism
Advisor: Justin Clarke-Doane 

Lufie Yau
Five-Dimensionalism
Advisor: Achille Varzi 

Ellen Burns
Rescuing Experience from the Hard Problem of Consciousness
Advisor: Akeel Bilgrami

Qian Cao
Plato and the Psychological Difficulties of Inquiry
Advisor: Katja Vogt

Ethan Jacobs
Rational Belief as Moral Orientation and the Conditions for Hope in Kant's Practical Philosophy
Advisor: Frederick Neuhouser

Chuyu Tian
The Measure of All Things: Foundations of Aristotle's Ethics
Advisor: Wolfgang Mann

Connie Wang
Hegel of the Psyche and Psychic Illness in the 'Anthropology'
Advisor: Frederick Neuhouser

Martina Botti
Parthood without Mereology
Advisor: Achille Varzi

Anthony Garruzzo
The Strategies of the System: Collective Agency and System Power
Advisor: Taylor Carman and Frederick Neuhouser

Molly Gurdon
Neo-Aristotelian Absolute Prohibitions
Advisor: Katja Vogt

Adam Blazej
Kant's Pedagogy of Hope: A Reading of 'The Doctrine of Method' in The Critique of Practical Reason
Advisor: Patricia Kitcher

AJ Marsh
Misery and Its Escape: Thomas Aquinas and Theresa of Ávila on the Bad Life
Advisor: Christia Mercer

Billy McCarthy
Higher-Order Logical Pluralism as Metaphysics
Advisor: Justin Clarke-Doane

Shivani Radhakrishnan
What's False about False Consciousness
Advisor: Frederick Neuhouser

Helen Zhao
Science in a Sexist Society
Advisor: Philip Kitcher

Natalia Alexander
Taking Education Seriously: Dewey and his Interlocutors
Advisor: Philip Kitcher

Richard Booth
Underspecificity in Modal Contexts
Advisor: Karen Lewis

Olivia Branscum
Recovering Matter's 'Most Noble Attribute:' Panpsychist-Materialist Monism in Margaret Cavendish, Anne Conway, and 17th-Century English Thought
Advisor: Christia Mercer

Andrew Richmond
Methods in Mind: Explanation in Cognitive Science
Advisor: John Morrison 

Conor Cullen
'Only a God Can Save Us:' A Reconstruction and Defense of Durkheim’s Account of Religious Life, with Continual Reference to Heidegger and Kierkegaard
Advisor: Frederick Neuhouser

Natalie Hannan
The Socratic Paradoxes and Plato's Epistemology
Advisor: Katja Vogt

Yarran Hominh
The Problem of Unfreedom
Advisor: Akeel Bilgrami 

Brittany Koffer 
Political Pity: A Sentimental Account of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Moral and Political System
Advisor: Michele Moody-Adams

Usha Nathan
Aristotle's Path: Why They Matter
Advisor: Wolfgang Mann

Sabina Vaccarino Bremner  
The Reflective Dimension of Practical Judgment: Kant, Critique, and the Revision of Moral Universals
Advisor: Patricia Kitcher