Theses from 2024
Towards Erasing the Distinction Between the Computational and Syntactic Accounts of Scientific Theories, Timothy Luft (Available for download on Tuesday, April 22, 2025)
In Defense of Metaethical Agnosticism: An Approach from Intellectual Humility, Tashmia Sabera (Available for download on Friday, March 12, 2224)
Theses from 2023
Intentional Passing and Closeted Agency, Logan Bohlinger
Can You Escape Agency by Falling Asleep? Killing Two Constitutivists’ Problems With One Stone, Henrique Cassol Leal
Combating Systemic Racism With Truth Commissions, Katherine E. Miles
Theses from 2022
Preservation of Autonomy in Pediatric Decision-Making, Crystal Brown
A Relational Account of Resolutions: Resolution as Reacquaintance, Daniel Grasso
Are Numerical Symbols Fundamental to Neural Computation?, Mirinda James
What is Assertiveness?, Mirjana Trifunovic
Theses from 2021
Self-Determination as Historical Justice, Zanyar Ahmadi (Available for download on Friday, March 30, 2221)
Medical Expertise, Patient Expertise, and Surrogate Decision Making: The Importance of Co-deliberation in Medical Decision-Making, Lindsey Grossheim
Warrant and Non-function: A Critique of the Sensus Divinitatis in Plantinga's Reformed Epistemology, Lukas Merrell
Loose Connections in the Just Society, Benjamin Parviz
Those Thrice Marked By Time: The Significance of the Last Known Survivor, Their Death, and Our Remembrance, Michael Tofte
Representational Enactivism, Zhexi Zhang
Theses from 2020
Telling and Testimony, Sam Filby
Probability of Naturalism and Metanormative Realism, Curtis Howd
Supererogation and Moral Reasons, Justin B. Yee
Theses from 2019
On Unifying Declarative Memory, Thomas Ames
The Limits of Sociality, Johnna B. McGovern
A Means to an End: Adding Value to the Preference Debate, Laura Miller
How to Distinguish Qualities and Dispositions, Seth Reed
The Epistemic and Psychological Mechanisms Perpetuating Racism Within the Criminal Justice System, Danielle Walker
Theses from 2018
A Conferralist Account of Individuality, Zachary Auwerda
Constraints and Explanation, Alexander Bolano
Knock-Knock! Whose Peer? The Epistemic Significance of Humor, Kaci Harrison
For the Sake of the Intellect, Let Them Have Art: A Possible Reconciliation for the Value of Mimetic Arts in the 'Republic', BreAnna Liddell
Social Media: On Tech-Caves, Virtual Panopticism, and the Science Fiction-Like State In Which We Unwittingly Find Ourselves, Michael Major
Looking Past the Images: Art and Film as Propaganda Apparatuses, Alexander Schumm
Theses from 2017
The Epistemic Status of Moral Conceptual Truths, Kara D. Boschert
Public Artifacts, Empirical Vulnerability and Descriptive Metaphysics, Blake Davenport
Justify This! The Roles of Epistemic Justification, Tamala L. Endriss
Degrees of Altruism as Dependent Upon Degrees of Relations, Bobbi Jackson
The Nature of God & Predestination in John Davenant's Dissertatio De Praedestinatione et Reprobatione, Jonathan Roberts
Realist Nonideal Theory: The Intuition Critique, Reflective Equilibrium and the Role of Morality in Politics, Danny R. Underwood II
Soldier, Officer, Citizen: Applying Just War Theory to Police Use of Force, Benjamin N. Wisniewski
Theses from 2016
Horrendous Evils and the Problem of Representation, William Bell
It’s All in Your Head: A Solution to the Problem of Object Coincidence, Graham Louis Renz
Urmson's Art, Tyler Ryan
Heteronormativity and the Ideal Family, Ashton R. Snider
Theses from 2015
Hate Speech and the Status of Prisoners, Logan Richard Baseley
Adaptive Preferences Are Not Irrational, Sarah Beach
Is Natural Normativity True Normativity?, Amy Lawson Broadway
Uncomfortable Bedfellows: Locke and the Libertarian Theory of Property, Garrett Dimond
The Scientific and Theological Superiority of Divine Timelessness, David Christian Justice
The Instability of "The Law of Peoples" and a Suggested Remedy, Lavender McKittrick-Sweitzer
Four Domains of Knowledge in Education, Justin Tyler Ormsby
Psychology's Ontology as Antinomy, Kevin Rice
Tense and Truthmaking: Addressing the Problem of Tense After the Ontological Turn, Elliott Risch
Two Indexical Theories of Names, Costigan Thomas
Theses from 2014
Comparing Perspectives on Cause and Reason in Intentional Action: Elizabeth Anscombe's Intention and Donald Davidson's "Actions, Reasons and Causes", Victoria White Berger
Rules and Habits, Andrew Ross Bramman
Recasting the Darwinian Dilemma, Abram L. Brummett
The Reliability and Nature of Philosophical Intuitions, Matthew Allen DeStefano
Purloined Sperm, Victim-Blaming, and Procreative Asymmetry: A Critique of Christine Overall’s Analysis of Prospective Parent Disagreement, Jordan Gabriel Potter
On The Necessary Connection Between Law and Ethics: The Ethical Content of Law, Michael D. Sigler
The Sages and Philosophers: Reevaluating the Interaction Between Ancient Israel and Greece, Mike Tolliver
Theses from 2013
The Rational Authority of Morality: Reason Internalism and Negative Duties, Kyle Stewart Barrett
Akrasia and the Elusive Self, Frank R. Faries
Is Theoretical Rationality Derivatively Normative?, Kevin Charles Kifer
Toward a General Account of Improvisation, Kevin Thomas Lepore
Concepts, Universals, and the Abstract, David Keith McGraw
A Defense of the Kalam Cosmological Argument and the B-Theory of Time, Curtis John Metcalfe
Sustainability and Our Current Food Production System, Jennifer Nott
A Physicalist Account of Consciousness and the Conceivability Argument, Christopher John Owen
The Explanatory Indispensability of Mathematics: Why Structure is 'What There Is', Nils Richards
A Dilemma for Non-descriptive Cognitivism, Ayoob Shahmoradi
Environmental Virtue, Callicott and the Land Ethic, John Charles Simpson
Aristotle’s Conception of Equity in Context, Andrew Sucre
Philosophical Disagreement and Skepticism, Eric Thomas Wilcox
Reconsidering the Battered Woman Syndrome Defense for Women Who Kill, Krista J. Wiley
Epistemic Uniqueness, Permissiveness, and Peer Disagreement, Tung-Ying Wu
Accommodating Species Evolution: Aristotle’s Essentialism Revisited, Yin Zhang
Theses from 2012
Temporal Operators and (Metaphysical) Presentism, Matthew J. Bell
Defending the Role of Unconscious Intentions: A Response to Wegner, Hannah Bondurant
Knowing For: A New Path in Testimonial Justification, John Allan Scott Camacho
The Emotions and Two Aesthetic Paradoxes, Nicholas James Curry
Thomas Aquinas: Soul-Body Connection and the Afterlife, Hyde Dawn Krista
Why We Have An Intrinsic Reason To Be Rational, Michael Lorenza Neal
Meeting Resistance to a Policy of Cadaveric Organ Conscription: A Discussion of the Important Issues and Arguments, Daniel Ryan Sahr
Shooing the Euthyphro Gadfly in Theistic Ethics: Rethinking the “Arbitrary” Objection Presented to Theological Voluntarism, Daniel Ryan Weed
Man Alone: An Examination of Animal Rights, Heather M. Werner
Theses from 2011
A Simple Question: Does Friedrich Nietzsche have a Political Philosophy?, Jordan Tyler Brodzinski
Mourning, Melancholia, and the Possibility of Transformation: Comparing Julia Kristeva's Black Sun and Judith Butler's The Psychic Life of Power, Kristina Marie Darling
Alien Attributions and the Possibility of Missing the Mark: A Critique of Velleman's Account of Autonomy and the Constitutive Aim of Action, Matthew Todd Flummer
Galileo's Philosophy of Science, Jason Eugene Gavin
Against Normative Nationalism, Ashish George
Unfree and Equal: Challenging G.A. Cohen on the Compatibility between Freedom of Occupational Choice and Equality, Richard Lee Lauer
The "Human Mental State Multiple Realizability in Silicon Thesis" is False: An Argument Against Computational Theories of Consciousness, Matthew Stuart Piper
Does Foot Have a Leg to Stand On?: A Dilemma for an Attempt to Ground Evaluative Judgment in Biological Teleology, Emalee Popoff
"An Insanity Defense Should Be Available to Psychopaths", Christian Francis Richeson
Explaining Volition in the Ta'aliqat: Avicenna's View of Free Will, Anthony Ruffus
Illuminating Anti-Luminosity, Tudor Alexandru Seserman
The Virtue of Happiness as Affective State and its Centrality to Well-Being, Christopher Ross Summers
On Thomson's Normativity, Michael James Vossen
Theses from 2010
The Universalizability Criterion of Reason and the Final Value of Knowledge: A Response to Pritchard’s Analysis of the Value of Knowledge, Lisa Lynette Cagle
Evaluating Libertarian Paternalism, Michelle Elizabeth Catalano
Verbal Disputes and the Internalism/Externalism Debate in Epistemology, John M. Fraiser
An Analysis of the Motto Adduced by Wittgenstein for the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Thomas Patrick Knoten