Philosophy

Ph.D.s Awarded, 1939-1969

1969

  • Richard Arnaud

    Dissertation Some metaphysical questions concerning individual things
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm
  • Fred Feldman

    Dissertation Some problems concerning identity
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm
  • Michael Goldman

    Dissertation A consideration of some theories of ontological commitment
    Thesis Advisor Jaegwon Kim
  • Robinson Grover

    Dissertation The concept of political control
    Thesis Advisor John Ladd
  • Leonard Lyons

    Dissertation Counterfactuals and "truth conditions"
    Thesis Advisor Ernest Sosa
  • Jerome Simon

    Dissertation An examination of certain aspects of the coherence theory of truth
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

1968

  • Richard Blackstone

    Dissertation An examination of the philosophical methods of G. E. Moore
    Thesis Advisor John Lenz
  • Burton Leiser

    Dissertation Custom and its relations to law
    Thesis Advisor John Ladd

1967

  • Joseph Camp

    Dissertation Intentionality: two studies
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm
  • James Mish'alani

    Dissertation Objects, names, and variables: an investigation in the theory of designation
    Thesis Advisor Wesley C. Salmon
  • Charles Raff

    Dissertation Knowledge and memory
    Thesis Advisor Herbert Heidelberger
  • John Walker

    Dissertation Aesthetic theory and the concept of expression
    Thesis Advisor Vincent Tomas

1966

  • Charles Dyke

    Dissertation Political duties and their limits
    Thesis Advisor John Ladd

1965

  • Robert Cohen

    Dissertation Some theories of categories
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm
  • Ann Ferguson

    Dissertation Some philosophical problems concerning action and desire
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm
  • Robert Jewell

    Dissertation The problem of justifying deduction
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

1964

  • Bernard Rosen

    Dissertation Ethical intuitionism: A Defense of Philosophy
    Thesis Advisor Vincent Tomas
  • Haywood Shuford

    Dissertation A behavioristic theory of signs
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

1963

  • James Graff

    Dissertation Moral agency
    Thesis Advisor John Lenz
  • Robert Sleigh

    Dissertation An examination of Thomas Reid's account of our knowledge of the external world and other minds
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

1962

  • William Beckett

    Dissertation Probability, reasonable behavior, and reasonable belief
    Thesis Advisor Wesley C. Salmon
  • John Canfield

    Dissertation The compatibility of free will and determinism
    Thesis Advisor Richard Schmitt
  • Rosalind Ekman

    Dissertation The problem of Akrasia: a test for the adequacy of metatethical theories
    Thesis Advisor Joel Feinberg

1961

  • George Jones

    Dissertation A critical examination of the religious and moral thought of Reinhold Niebuhr
    Thesis Advisor Curt J. Ducasse
  • Mary Miller

    Dissertation The logic of indeterminacy in quantum mechanics
    Thesis Advisor Wesley C. Salmon
  • James Pratt

    Dissertation Standards of criticism in the visual arts
    Thesis Advisor Vincent Tomas

1960

  • Peter Coffin

    Dissertation Philosophy, education, and value: a philosophic study
    Thesis Advisor Curt J. Ducasse
  • James Cornman

    Dissertation Linguistic reference and the mind-body problem
    Thesis Advisor John Lenz
  • Thomas Howell

    Dissertation Indices in perception and indices in logic
    Thesis Advisor Wesley C. Salmon
  • Keith Lehrer

    Dissertation Ifs, cans and causes
    Thesis Advisor Richard Taylor
  • James Smith

    Dissertation Punishment: its nature and justification
    Thesis Advisor Joel Feinberg

1959

  • Myron Anderson

    Dissertation Language and ontology
    Thesis Advisor Wesley C. Salmon
  • Carlton Gregory

    Dissertation The problem of descriptive religious statements with special reference to the thought of Paul Tillich
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

1958

  • James Ross

    Dissertation A critical analysis of the theory of analogy of St. Thomas Aquinas
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

1957

  • Timothy Duggan

    Dissertation Thomas Reid's theory of empirical evidence
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

1956

  • Robert Ammerman

    Dissertation The natures of concepts and images
    Thesis Advisor Richard Taylor
  • William Eastman

    Dissertation A critical discussion of Russell's neutral monism
    Thesis Advisor Wesley C. Salmon

1954

  • Richard Cartwright

    Dissertation Logical constructions
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm
  • Gerald Myers

    Dissertation An analysis of propositional attitudes: a linguistic approach
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

1951

  • Richard Taylor

    Dissertation The analysis of judgment situations
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

1947

  • Ian McGreal

    Dissertation The meaning of moral obligation
    Thesis Advisor Charles A. Baylis

1946

  • Joseph Ledden

    Dissertation The nature of philosophical problems
    Thesis Advisor Curt J. Ducasse

1943

  • William Sibley

    Dissertation An examination of Dewey's theory of knowledge
    Thesis Advisor Curt J. Ducasse

1941

  • Vincent Tomas

    Dissertation The criticism of literature
    Thesis Advisor Curt J. Ducasse

1940

  • Joseph Jackson

    Dissertation A philosophical analysis of individual ethical opinions
    Thesis Advisor Curt J. Ducasse
  • Frances Murphy

    Dissertation The place of moral responsibility in the philosophies of Whitehead and Peirce
    Thesis Advisor Ralph M. Blake

1939

  • Maylon Hepp

    Dissertation A critical examination of G.E. Moore's theory of knowledge and philosophic method
    Thesis Advisor Arthur E. Murphy