Recent Degrees & Theses

• A Study of Belief / by Elka Shortsleeve, Ph.D. 2009.
• The Connection Principle: An Exegesis and Defense / by David Tostenson, Ph.D. 2009.
• Intuitive A Priori Knowledge: Reliability and Rationality / by Ivana Simic, Ph.D. 2009.
• Clearing a Path for Conventionalist Modal Semantics / by Jesse Butler, Ph.D. 2009.
• Homosexual poets and successful gangsters: an examination of Aristotelian Naturalism, and the skeptical worries confronting it / by Ching-E Nobel Ang, Ph.D. 2009.
• A Defense of John Rawls / by Catherine Galko, Ph.D. 2008.
• Grounding Explanations: The Role of “In Virtue of” in Philosophical Inquiry / by Bill Butchard, Ph.D. 2008.
• The Moral Facts: An Empirical Investigation / by Cathy Sartin, M.A. 2008.
• Conceiving-of and Conceiving-that / by Kevin Savage, M.A. 2007.
• The Role of the Pathê in Aristotle’s Conception of Virtue / by Cyrena Sullivan, M.A. 2007.
• On Propositional Memory / by Shin Sakuragi, Ph.D. 2007.
• The Inexpressibility of Truth / by Emil Badici, Ph.D. 2007.
• The Cost of Going Nowhere / by Theodore Randles, M.A. 2007.
• Wittgenstein, Kripkenstein, and the Skeptical Paradox / by Jon Hendrix, M.A. 2007.
• Crucial Topics in the Debate about the Existence of External Reasons / by Marantha Hayes, M.A. 2007.
• Necessity and Aprioricity / by Shawn Burtoft, M.A. 2007.
• Zombies and Active Imagination / by Casey Woodling, M.A. 2006.
• A Dilemma for Frankfurt-Style Cases, and the Definition of 'Robustness' / by Jaclyn Genchi, M.A. 2006.
• Development and Defense of a Desire-Satisfaction Conception of Well-Being . / by Anton Tupa, Ph.D. 2006.
• Are There Contingent, A Priori Truths? / by Carter McCain, M.A. 2006.
• Circularity and Infinite Liar-Like Paradoxes / by Jesse Butler, M.A. 2005.
• Wanting the bad and doing bad things: an essay in moral psychology / by Peter Barry, Ph.D. 2005.
• A defense of conceptual analysis and thought experiments / by Katherine Kanuck-Lammens, Ph.D. 2005.
• Was Descartes a trialist? / by Eugenio Zaldivar, M.A. 2005.
• Respect as awareness of rational nature: a modified intellectuallist interpretation of Kant's moral psychology / by Ching-E Nobel Ang, M.A. 2004.
• Impartiality: its nature and application / by Ellen Maccarone, Ph.D. 2004.
• Self knowledge and narrow content / by Huiming Ren, Ph.D. 2004.
• The problem of higher-order vagueness / by Ivana Simic, M.A. 2004.
• Expressive-assertivism : a dual-use solution to the moral problem / by Daniel R. Boisvert, Ph.D. 2003.
• Are social laws possible? / by William A. Butchard, M.A. 2003.
• The ideality of sensibility in Kant's transcendental philosophy / by Stefan Cojocaru, M.A. 2003.
• Bernard Gert's theory of moral rules and American professional military ethics / by Matthew W. Hallgarth, Ph.D. 2003.
• Theories of probabilistic causality / by Steven Brian Hood, M.A. 2003.
• The intentionality debate in aesthetics / by Eric William Kem, M.A. 2003.
• Sadistic pornography as a speech act / by Charles B. Poole, Jr, M.A. 2003.
• Unbound anaphora and pragmatics / by Ana Maria Andrei, M.A. 2002.
• Logical truth and extralogical dependence / by Emil Badici, M.A. 2002.
• The original position and the argument interpretation / by Catherine M. Galko, M.A. 2002.
• Four central issues in Popper's theory of science / by Carlos Garcia-Duque, Ph.D. 2002.
• Anti-realism about the past / by James M. Van Houten, M.A. 2002.
• Substance, sorts, and consciousness : Locke's empiricism and his account of personal identity in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding / by Eva Deane Kort, Ph.D. 2001.
• Psycho-physical overdetermination / by Kelly G. Trogdon, M.A. 2001.
• Personal identity : the signficance of the fission thought experiment / by Kathryn T. Kanuck, M.A. 2000.
• A new theory of counterfactural conditionals / by John Peoples, Ph.D. 2000.
• Pragmatics and semantics of mixed sentential mood sentences / by Daniel R. Boisvert, M.A. 1999.
• Skepticism, externalism and the nature of the mind-world relation / by Gayle Brown, Ph.D. 1999.
• Russell's Gray's Elegy argument in "On Denoting" / by Christopher M. Lubbers, M.A. 1999.
• Holism, naturalism and dogma in Quine's "Two dogmas of epiricism" / by A. Eugene Pennisi, M.A. 1997.
• Skepticism reexamined / by Marin Smillov, Ph.D. 1997.
• In the service of life : three readings of Nietzsche on the relationship between art and life / by Kym Bergendahl, M.A. 1996.
• Aristotle's justification of his ethical theory / by Kent Johnson, M.A. 1996.
• Tarski, Etchemendy, and logical truth and consequence / by John W. J. Peoples, M.A. 1996.
• David Armstrong's combinatorial theory of possibility / by Joseph Windham, M.A. 1996.
• The two arguments of Kant's B-deduction / by Wayne Wright, M.A. 1996.
• On meaning what one says and saying what one means / by Gayle Brown, M.A. 1995.
• A refutation of internal realism / by Michael Buchholtz. 1995.
• Probability, determinism, and causality / by Daniel Steel, M.A. 1995.

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