Philosophy Ph.D. Dissertations
Dissertations from 2024
Ethics of Enhancement: Enhancing for Everyone Else, Ezekeal Desmond Bacans-Grounds
Dissertations from 2023
Junctione Ramorum: Meletama Philosophicum de Problematibus Intersectione de Ethica Metaphysica Epistemologiaque, Nathan Manning Mulch
What Is "Living as Equals": An Account of Relational Egalitarianism, Xuanpu Zhuang
Dissertations from 2022
Multiple Personhood in Dissociative Identity Disorder: The Lives and Deaths of Invisible People, Erica E. Nichols
Normativity and Rationality – Analyzing the Norms for Disagreements and Judgment Suspension, Yuzhou Wang
Dissertations from 2021
Issue Individuation in Public Reason Liberalism, Colin Manning
Alienation and Identification, Austin J. McGrath
Dissertations from 2020
A Structured Principlist Framework for Decision Making in Healthcare, Tatiana Athena Gracyk
Nihilism and Argumentation: A Weakly Pragmatic Defense of Itatively Normative Reasons, Scott M. Simmons
Dissertations from 2019
Subjective Moral Biases & Fallacies: Developing Scientifically & Practically Adequate Moral Analogues of Cognitive Heuristics & Biases, Mark Howard Herman
Dissertations from 2018
Non-natural Moral Properties: Sui Generis or Supernatural?, Jessica Mefford Katz
Inference and Justification in Ethics, Jacob Sparks
Dissertations from 2017
Autonomy and Informed Consent, Eileen F. Baker
Animal Rights in a Diverse Society, Marcus Ryan Schultz-Bergin
The Nature and Morality of Empathy, David T. Schwan
Dissertations from 2016
Right-Libertarianism and the Destitution Objection, Peter Bornschein
Natural Rights and Convention, Benjamin Bryan
Pragmatism, Growth, and Democratic Citizenship, Wesley Dempster
Dissertations from 2015
Resentment and Morality, Elijah Weber
Dissertations from 2014
Seduction, Coercion, and an Exploration of Embodied Freedom, Jeanne Kusina
Value, Well-Being, and the Meaning of Life, Mark Wells
Dissertations from 2013
The Character of Character: New Directions for a Dispositional Theory, Nicole Smith
Against Natural Teleology and its Application in Ethical Theory, Arthur Ward
Dissertations from 2012
How to Be (and How Not to Be) a Normative Realist, David Faraci
Why the Law matters to you: Citizenship, Agency, and Public Identity, Christoph Hanisch
Me, Myself & Mine: The Scope of Ownership, Peter Jaworski
Biological Functionalism and Mental Disorder, Hong Lee
Dissertations from 2011
Honoring Their Services: Why Blacks in the United States Should Be Paid Reparations, Carolyn Council
Neo-Aristotelian Flourishing and Tragic Dilemmas, Sangeeta Sangha
Dissertations from 2010
Quasi-Unconditionality: Higher Call to the Virtue of Forgiveness, Fred Olwendo
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
Desert in Context, Peter Celello
A Perfectionist Defense of Free Speech, Jonathan Miles
Autonomy and the Utilitarian State, Steven Weimer
Dissertations from 2008
Liberal Cosmopolitanism and Economic Justice, Katherine Erbeznik
A Practical Distinction in Value Theory: Qualitative and Quantitative Accounts, Galen Foresman
Tragic Dilemmas, Virtue Ethics and Moral Luck, Leanne Kent
Dissertations from 2007
Motivation Matters: A Critical Analysis and Refutation of Evolutionary Arguments for Psychological Altruism, Fred Curry
Experience and the World of the Living: A Critique of John McDowell's Conception of Experience and Nature, Gregory Hakos
Individual Sovereignty and Political Legitimacy, Nicolas Maloberti
Mystical Experiences, Neuroscience, and the Nature of Reality, Jonathan Miller
The Authority of Morality, John Milliken
The Skill of Virtue, Matthew Stichter
Dissertations from 2006
Capacities and Moral Status, Russell DiSilvestro
Terrorism and Just War Tradition: Issues of Compatibility, Jason Gatliff
Biology, Policy, and the Racial Contract, Jason Grinnell
In Defense of an Animal’s Right to Life, Aaron Simmons
Dissertations from 2005
Beyond Subjective Well-Being, Pamela Phillips