Philosophy

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Ph.D.s Awarded

2024

  • Conrad Damstra

    Dissertation Kant’s Theory of Moral Reform
    Dissertation Advisor Paul Guyer

  • Leonard Feldblyum

    Dissertation Kant’s Ethics of Necessity
    Dissertation Advisor Paul Guyer

  • Louis Gularte

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    Dissertation Nothing is bad, and so is suffering: A gentle critique of moral thinking
    Dissertation Advisor James Dreier

  • Ying Huang

    Dissertation Explanation: Distance, Gaps, Regress, and Circularity”
    Dissertation Advisor Elizabeth Miller and Joshua Schechter

  • Matthew Schrepfer

    Dissertation Democracy as Deciding Together
    Dissertation Advisor David Estlund

  • Stavros Orfeas Zormpalas

    Dissertation Moral Beliefs and Moral Theories: The Interplay
    Dissertation Advisors David Christensen and James Dreier

2023

  • Mark Christman

    Dissertation Defanging the v-Curry Paradox
    Dissertation Advisor Richard Kimberly Heck

  • Mary Renaud

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    Dissertation "Ought" and Deliberation: Exploring the Deliberative Reading of the Practical "Ought"
    Dissertation Advisor James Dreier

2022

  • Arianna Falbo

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    Dissertation Inquiring Minds
    Dissertation Advisor David Christensen

  • Yongming Han

    Dissertation Subjectivism about Love and Moral Concern
    Dissertation Advisor Nomy Arpaly

  • Emily Hodges

    Dissertation Kant on the Intertwining of Individual Moral Development and Ethical Community
    Dissertation Advisor Paul Guyer

  • Rachel Leadon

    Dissertation Authoring Sex: Agency, Equality, and Respect within Sexual Interaction
    Dissertation Advisor Riki Heck

2021

  • Anna Brinkerhoff

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    Dissertation Evidence and the Rationality of Belief
    Thesis Advisor David Christensen

  • Chad Marxen

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    Dissertation Truth-Aimed Epistemology
    Thesis Advisor David Christensen

2020

  • Tobias Fuchs

    Dissertation Well-being, Compassion, and Core-Desire
    Thesis Advisor Nomy Arpaly

  • Samuel Meister

    Dissertation Aristotle's Pure Forms: A Study of Some Chapters in Metaphysics Z-H
    Thesis Advisor Mary Louise Gill

  • Thomas E. Moore

    Dissertation Kant and the Problem of Regulative
    Thesis Advisor Paul Guyer

  • Kirun Sankaran

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    Dissertation Essays on Justice and Social Structure
    Thesis Advisor Charles Larmore

2019

  • Harrison Chalmers

    Dissertation Moral Authority, Normative Totality
    Thesis Advisor James Dreier

  • Thomas Fisher

    Dissertation How Much Blameworthiness Do We Share? All of Nothing Principles of Proportionality in Accounts of Individual Blameworthiness for Collective Harms
    Thesis Advisor David Estlund

  • Geoffrey Grossman

    Dissertation From Reference to Content: Semantic Intuitions and the Theoretical Basis for Externalism
    Thesis Advisor Richard Kimberly Heck

  • Leo Yan

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    Dissertation Making Sense of Seeming Incomparability
    Thesis Advisor James Dreier

2018

  • Zachary Barnett

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    Dissertation The Opinions of Others and the Role of Rational Belief
    Thesis Advisor David Christensen

  • Iain Laidley

    Dissertation Forms and Physics in Plato's Timeaus
    Thesis Advisor Mary Louise Gill

  • Brett Topey

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    Dissertation Apriority for Empiricists: Making Sense of Truth by Convention
    Thesis Advisor Christopher Hill

2017

  • Jakob Reckhenrich

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    Dissertation Questions of Partiality: What May and Must We Do for Friends and Strangers
    Thesis Advisor David Estlund

  • Ho Kin Siu

    Dissertation Intuition and Semantic Explanation
    Thesis Advisor Richard Kimberly Heck

  • Nicholas Smyth

    Dissertation Making Sense of Moral Progress
    Thesis Advisor Bernard Reginster

  • Steven Yamamoto

    Dissertation Perceptual Content and Perceptual Justification
    Thesis Advisor Christopher Hill

2016

  • Phillip Galligan

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    Dissertation How to Explain Remarkable Features of Evaluative Epistemology
    Thesis Advisor James Dreier

2015

  • Timothy Syme

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    Dissertation Everyday Life and the Demands of Justice
    Thesis Advisor David Estlund

2014

  • Nicolas Bommarito

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    Dissertation Inner Virtue
    Thesis Advisor Nomy Arpaly

  • Alexandra King

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    Dissertation Practical Reason and the Limit of Ability
    Thesis Advisor James Dreier

  • Antonio Ramirez

    Dissertation Righteous Villainy: A Defense of 'Offence'
    Thesis Advisor Felicia Nimue Ackerman

  • Sun Hyung Rhee

    Dissertation Agent Causation and Reduction
    Thesis Advisor Jaegwon Kim

2013

  • Derek Bowman

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    Dissertation Utopian Models and the Ideal Theory Debate
    Thesis Advisor David Estlund

  • Dana Howard

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    Dissertation On Behalf of Another
    Thesis Advisor David Estlund

  • Paul Klumpe

    Dissertation Addiction and Responsibility
    Thesis Advisor Nomy Arpaly

  • Matthew Konig

    Dissertation Taking Seriously the Metaphysics of Mental Causation: A Nonreductivist Account
    Thesis Advisor Jaegwon Kim

  • Eoin Ryan

    Dissertation Unifying the Pluralism of Introspection
    Thesis Advisor Nomy Arpaly

  • Kateryna Samoilova

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    Dissertation The Case for Pluralism About Introspection
    Thesis Advisor Joshua Schechter

  • Vladimir Vlaovic

    Dissertation Normative Reality: Heavy-Duty Realism and the Expressivist Challenge
    Thesis Advisor James Dreier

2012

  • Sean Aas

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    Dissertation Understanding Global Injustice
    Thesis Advisor David Estlund

  • Andrew Rotondo

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    Dissertation Standing Your Ground: Epistemic Justification in the Face of Disagreement
    Thesis Advisor David Christensen

  • Jed Silverstein

    Dissertation 'Not the Boss of Me': Reviving the Relationship Between Political and Parental Authority
    Thesis Advisor David Estlund

  • Chiwook Won

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    Dissertation Reasons, Actions, and Causes
    Thesis Advisor Jaegwon Kim

2011

  • Katherine Jarvis

    Dissertation Towards an Anti-Permissive Epistemology
    Thesis Advisor David Christensen

  • Maxwell Pines

    Dissertation Understanding Actions
    Thesis Advisor James Dreier

2010

  • Ali Eslami

    Dissertation The Feeling of Justification: A Phenomenological Amendment to Virtue Epistemology
    Thesis Advisor Ernest Sosa

  • Kevin Morris

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    Dissertation Physicalism and A Priori Connections, Realization, and Reduction: Two Issues in the Metaphysics of Mind
    Thesis Advisor Jaegwon Kim

2009

  • Jason D'Cruz

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    Dissertation Imagination and Emotion in Action
    Thesis Advisor Nomy Arpaly

  • Benjamin Jarvis

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    Dissertation Teleology and Intentionality: A Challenge to the Deflationary View
    Thesis Advisor Richard Kimberly Heck

  • James Taggart

    Dissertation Humean Theory of Motivation
    Thesis Advisor James Dreier

  • Nick Treanor

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    Dissertation The World in Mind
    Thesis Advisor Jaegwon Kim

2008

  • Aaron-Dirk Boyden

    Dissertation Reducing Realism
    Thesis Advisor Jaegwon Kim

  • Benjamin Fiedor

    Dissertation Doxastic Involuntarism and Epistemic Deontology
    Thesis Advisor Ernest Sosa

  • Paul Neufeld

    Dissertation The Fitting and the Virtuous in Stoic Ethics
    Thesis Advisor Victor Caston

  • Rebekah Rice

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    Dissertation A Causal Approach to the Nature of Human Action
    Thesis Advisor Jaegwon Kim

  • Jerry Steinhofer

    Dissertation Epistemic Desert and the Value of Knowledge
    Thesis Advisor Ernest Sosa

2007

  • Teresa Celada

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    Dissertation Procreative Liberty and its Critics
    Thesis Advisor James Dreier

  • Simon Feldman

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    Dissertation Reason and the Limits of Morality
    Thesis Advisor James Dreier

2006

  • John Turri

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    Dissertation Epistemic Reasons
    Thesis Advisor Ernest Sosa

2005

  • Derek Ettinger

    Dissertation Making Sense of Things
    Thesis Advisor Ernest Sosa

  • Allan Hazlett

    Dissertation Grice's Razor and Moore's Gambit
    Thesis Advisor Ernest Sosa

  • Alyssa Ney

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    Dissertation The Metaphysics of Unified Science
    Thesis Advisor Jaegwon Kim

  • Lilian O'Brien

    Dissertation A Non-Causalist Theory of Rationalization
    Thesis Advisor Jaegwon Kim

2004

  • Michael Pace

    Dissertation Perceptual Consciousness and Epistemic Justification
    Thesis Advisor Ernest Sosa

2003

  • Juan Comesaña

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    Dissertation The Ways of Reason
    Thesis Advisor Ernest Sosa

  • Jordi Fernandez

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    Dissertation Externalism and Self-Knowledge
    Thesis Advisor Jaegwon Kim

2002

  • John Abruzzese

    Dissertation True and Immutable Natures in Descartes' Ontological Proof
    Thesis Advisor James Van Cleve

  • Robert Howell

    Dissertation Self-Knowledge and Self-Reference
    Thesis Advisor Jaegwon Kim and Ernest Sosa

  • Uriah Kriegel

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    Dissertation Conscious Content
    Thesis Advisor Jaegwon Kim

  • David Matheson

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    Dissertation Understanding, Validation and the Everyday in Epistemology
    Thesis Advisor Ernest Sosa

  • David Prentiss

    Dissertation Doing What a Good Person Would Do: An Exploration of Pure Virtue Theory
    Thesis Advisor John Ladd

  • Baron Reed

    Dissertation Knowledge, Agency, and Personhood
    Thesis Advisor Ernest Sosa

  • Joseph Shieber

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    Dissertation The Reasons Others Give Us: The Norms of Assertion Account of the Epistemic Status of Testimony
    Thesis Advisor Ernest Sosa

2001

  • Patrick Durning

    Dissertation Philosophical Anarchism and the Duty to Obey
    Thesis Advisor David Estlund

  • Douglas Webb

    Dissertation On the Libertarian Approach to Freedom and Responsibility
    Thesis Advisor James Van Cleve

Current Graduate Students