Philosophy Ph.D. Dissertations

 

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Dissertations from 2022

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Normativity and Rationality – Analyzing the Norms for Disagreements and Judgment Suspension, Yuzhou Wang

Dissertations from 2021

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Issue Individuation in Public Reason Liberalism, Colin Manning

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Alienation and Identification, Austin J. McGrath

Dissertations from 2020

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A Structured Principlist Framework for Decision Making in Healthcare, Tatiana Athena Gracyk

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Scientific Facts in the Space of Public Reason: Moderate Idealization, Public Justification, and Vaccine Policy Under Conditions of Widespread Misinformation and Conspiracism, Amitabha Palmer

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Nihilism and Argumentation: A Weakly Pragmatic Defense of Itatively Normative Reasons, Scott M. Simmons

Dissertations from 2019

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Subjective Moral Biases & Fallacies: Developing Scientifically & Practically Adequate Moral Analogues of Cognitive Heuristics & Biases, Mark Howard Herman

Dissertations from 2018

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Non-natural Moral Properties: Sui Generis or Supernatural?, Jessica Mefford Katz

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Inference and Justification in Ethics, Jacob Sparks

Dissertations from 2017

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Autonomy and Informed Consent, Eileen F. Baker

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Animal Rights in a Diverse Society, Marcus Ryan Schultz-Bergin

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The Nature and Morality of Empathy, David T. Schwan

Dissertations from 2016

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Right-Libertarianism and the Destitution Objection, Peter Bornschein

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Natural Rights and Convention, Benjamin Bryan

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Pragmatism, Growth, and Democratic Citizenship, Wesley Dempster

Dissertations from 2015

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Resentment and Morality, Elijah Weber

Dissertations from 2014

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Seduction, Coercion, and an Exploration of Embodied Freedom, Jeanne Kusina

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Value, Well-Being, and the Meaning of Life, Mark Wells

Dissertations from 2013

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The Role of Death in The Moral Permissibility of Solid Organ Procurement After Cardiac Death and Its Implications, Noah Levin

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The Character of Character: New Directions for a Dispositional Theory, Nicole Smith

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Against Natural Teleology and its Application in Ethical Theory, Arthur Ward

Dissertations from 2012

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How to Be (and How Not to Be) a Normative Realist, David Faraci

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Why the Law matters to you: Citizenship, Agency, and Public Identity, Christoph Hanisch

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Me, Myself & Mine: The Scope of Ownership, Peter Jaworski

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Biological Functionalism and Mental Disorder, Hong Lee

Dissertations from 2011

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Honoring Their Services: Why Blacks in the United States Should Be Paid Reparations, Carolyn Council

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Neo-Aristotelian Flourishing and Tragic Dilemmas, Sangeeta Sangha

Dissertations from 2010

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Quasi-Unconditionality: Higher Call to the Virtue of Forgiveness, Fred Olwendo

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John Dewey's Theory of Growth and Amy Allen's Feminist Theory of Power Applied to the Work of Domestic Violence Shelters, Robyn Peabody

Dissertations from 2009

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Desert in Context, Peter Celello

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A Perfectionist Defense of Free Speech, Jonathan Miles

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Autonomy and the Utilitarian State, Steven Weimer

Dissertations from 2008

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Liberal Cosmopolitanism and Economic Justice, Katherine Erbeznik

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A Practical Distinction in Value Theory: Qualitative and Quantitative Accounts, Galen Foresman

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Tragic Dilemmas, Virtue Ethics and Moral Luck, Leanne Kent

Dissertations from 2007

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Motivation Matters: A Critical Analysis and Refutation of Evolutionary Arguments for Psychological Altruism, Fred Curry

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Experience and the World of the Living: A Critique of John McDowell's Conception of Experience and Nature, Gregory Hakos

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Individual Sovereignty and Political Legitimacy, Nicolas Maloberti

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Mystical Experiences, Neuroscience, and the Nature of Reality, Jonathan Miller

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The Authority of Morality, John Milliken

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The Skill of Virtue, Matthew Stichter

Dissertations from 2006

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Capacities and Moral Status, Russell DiSilvestro

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Terrorism and Just War Tradition: Issues of Compatibility, Jason Gatliff

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Biology, Policy, and the Racial Contract, Jason Grinnell

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In Defense of an Animal’s Right to Life, Aaron Simmons

Dissertations from 2005

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Beyond Subjective Well-Being, Pamela Phillips