Philosophy

Ph.D.s Awarded, 1970-2000

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Ph.D.s Awarded, 1970-2000

2000

  • Jeffrey Auker

    Dissertation Eidolons: An Argument Against Explanatory Exclusion
    Thesis Advisor Gary Gates

  • Jason Kawall

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    Dissertation Virtues, Ideal Observers, and the Foundations of Normativity
    Thesis Advisor Ernest Sosa

  • Jennifer Lackey

    Dissertation Rationality, Defeaters, and Testimony
    Thesis Advisor Ernest Sosa

  • Peter Marton

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    Dissertation Skeptical Games
    Thesis Advisor Ernest Sosa

  • John Stone

    Dissertation Disadvantage and the Allocation of Health-Care Resources
    Thesis Advisor Dan Brock

  • Dale Tuggy

    Dissertation Agent Causation
    Thesis Advisor James Van Cleve

  • Katherine Witzig

    Dissertation Racial Concepts: An Epistemological and Ethical Critique
    Thesis Advisor Richard Schmitt

1999

  • Jeremy Fantl

    Dissertation Revisability and the A Prior
    Thesis Advisor Ernest Sosa

  • Chang-Seong Hong

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    Dissertation Mental Causation: Realization and Reduction
    Thesis Advisor Jaegwon Kim

1998

  • Insoo Hyun

    Dissertation Individual Autonomy and the Authentic Self: Toward a Coherence Conception of Authenticity
    Thesis Advisor Dan Brock

  • Douglas McDermid

    Dissertation Is Pragmatism Coherent?
    Thesis Advisor Ernest Sosa

  • Matthew McGrath

    Dissertation Between Deflationism and the Correspondence Theory
    Thesis Advisor Ernest Sosa

  • Lewis Yelin

    Dissertation On What Can We Reasonably Agree? Political Liberalism and the Idea of Political Justification
    Thesis Advisor David Estlund

1997

  • John Bellwoar

    Dissertation A Realist Theory of Understanding
    Thesis Advisor Jaegwon Kim

  • Shannon French

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    Dissertation The Problem of Motivating Ethical Behavior
    Thesis Advisor Dan Brock

  • Brie Gertler

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    Dissertation Introspectivist View of the Mental
    Thesis Advisor Ernest Sosa

1996

  • Jean Chambers

    Dissertation Temptation and Commitment: Evolved Preferences and Moral Norms
    Thesis Advisor Dan Brock

  • Marcelo Sabates

    Dissertation Mental Causation
    Thesis Advisor Jaegwon Kim

1994

  • Stephen Beck

    Dissertation Towards a contractualist account of moral considerability
    Thesis Advisor Dan Brock

1993

  • John Gibbons

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    Dissertation Issues in externalism
    Thesis Advisor Jaegwon Kim

  • Amy Scammell

    Dissertation Anomalous Monism and the Causal Efficacy of the Mental
    Thesis Advisor Jaegwon Kim

  • George Strander

    Dissertation The Pragmatics of Epistemology
    Thesis Advisor Ernest Sosa

  • Robert Welshon

    Dissertation Mental events
    Thesis Advisor Ernest Sosa

1992

  • Steven Hales

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    Dissertation On the possibility of epistemic certainty a posteriori
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

  • Dean Zimmerman

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    Dissertation Could Extended Objects Be Made Out of Simple Parts?
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

1991

  • Heather Gert

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    Dissertation The role of resemblance
    Thesis Advisor Felicia Nimue Ackerman

  • Bindu Madhok

    Dissertation The onotological status of ethics
    Thesis Advisor Ernest Sosa

  • David Thomasson

    Dissertation Permission and Justification: Two requirements for Conceptual Adeqauacy in a Moral Theory
    Thesis Advisor Dan Brock

  • Jeffrey Whitman

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    Dissertation The power and value of philosophical skepticism
    Thesis Advisor Ernest Sosa

1990

  • Michael Gillette

    Dissertation Paternalism in psychiatric medicine: a philosophical perspective
    Thesis Advisor Gregory L. Murphy

  • David Martens

    Dissertation Some descriptional theories of first-person thoughts
    Thesis Advisor Ernest Sosa

1989

  • David Bennett

    Dissertation Psychophysical Laws: A Framework
    Thesis Advisor Ernest Sosa

  • Sung Ho Chung

    Dissertation Objective reference: a study of its background, nature, and recent controversies
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

  • John Greco

    Dissertation The foundationalism-coherentism debate in epistemology
    Thesis Advisor Ernest Sosa

  • Bryan Neilson

    Dissertation The foundations of moral theory
    Thesis Advisor Richard Schmitt

  • Peter Wakefield

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    Dissertation On the separation of the forms
    Thesis Advisor Martha Nussbaum

1988

  • Linda Alcoff

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    Dissertation New versions of the coherence theory: Gadamer, Davidson, Foucault, and Putnam
    Thesis Advisor Ernest Sosa

  • Vrinda Dalmiya

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    Dissertation Epistemological arguments against the external world
    Thesis Advisor Ernest Sosa

  • Steven Emmanuel

    Dissertation The logic of Christian revelation in the works of Kierkegaard
    Thesis Advisor Richard Schmitt

  • Jong-Ho Ha

    Dissertation A direct attribution theory of perceptual knowledge
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

  • Richard Olsen

    Dissertation Logical necessity
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

  • Douglas Oro

    Dissertation The liar paradox and bivalence
    Thesis Advisor Ernest Sosa

  • Allen Renear

    Dissertation The paradoxes of doxastic implications: an essay on the logic of belief
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

  • Ill-Hwan Rim

    Dissertation Foundationalisms and epistemic supervenience: a study of the foundationalist theory of epistemic justification
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

1987

  • Deborah Berlyne

    Dissertation The role of integrity in an adequate moral theory
    Thesis Advisor Dan Brock

  • Selmer Bringsjord

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    Dissertation The failure of computationalism
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

  • Jeffrey Cobb

    Dissertation The paradox of analysis
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

  • Juan Depascuale

    Dissertation Kierkegaard's Socratic philosophy
    Thesis Advisor Richard Schmitt

  • Jesus Diaz

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    Dissertation Toward an intentional nonlogical interpretation of Cartesian epistemology
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

  • Salvatore Fratantaro

    Dissertation The methodology of G.E. Moore: an exegetical and critical exposition
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

  • Matthew Kapstein

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    Dissertation (1) Self and personal identity in Indian Buddhist scholasticism: aphilosophical investigation, (2) Pragmatism: the Copernican revolution continued
    Thesis Advisor (1) James Van Cleve and James Moeller, (2) Ernest Sosa

  • Constance Mui

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    Dissertation Sartrean ontology: a dialectical reconstruction
    Thesis Advisor Richard Schmitt

1986

  • Charles Newman

    Dissertation Serving a nation
    Thesis Advisor John Lenz

  • David Rosner

    Dissertation A defense of negative events
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

1985

  • Bradford Art

    Dissertation The Mysterious abyss of existence: groundwork for the life of the virtuous sage
    Thesis Advisor Richard Schmitt

  • Judith Carson

    Dissertation Egoism and the structure of practical reasoning
    Thesis Advisor Dan Brock

  • Patrick Goold

    Dissertation The faith of hidden inwardness: theses possibly or actually attributable to Kierkegaard
    Thesis Advisor Philip L. Quinn

  • Young-Jung Kim

    Dissertation A defense of the no event theory of events: an inquiry intoevent-reduction methodology and its application
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

  • Lynn Pasquerella

    Dissertation Brentano's theory of intristic value
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

  • Matthias Steup

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    Dissertation The direct and indirectly evident
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

1984

  • Robert Frederick

    Dissertation Mereology and identity
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

  • Charles Taliaferro

    Dissertation Cartesian dualism
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

  • Craig Vasey

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    Dissertation Brentano's Theory of Intentional Objects
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

1983

  • Michael DePaul

    Dissertation Intuitionism, reliability and reflective equilibrium
    Thesis Advisor Dan Brock

  • Dale Jacquette

    Dissertation The object theory logic of intention
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

1982

  • Susan Levine

    Dissertation A critical analysis of some of the limitations on the scope of moral prohibitions suggested by two quasi-absolutist moral theorists
    Thesis Advisor Dan Brock

1981

  • Carol Cleland

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    Dissertation Causation: an irreducible physical relation
    Thesis Advisor Ernest Sosa

  • Neil Gallagher

    Dissertation The concept of blame
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

  • James Gorrell

    Dissertation The explanatory, heuristic and meaning-constituting functions of theoretical models
    Thesis Advisor Philip L. Quinn

  • George Miller

    Dissertation The Problems of Paternalism
    Thesis Advisor Dan Brock

  • William Throop

    Dissertation Worlds and paradigms: an essay on Kuhnian relativism
    Thesis Advisor Philip L. Quinn

1980

  • Onesimo Almeida

    Dissertation The concept of ideology: a critical analysis
    Thesis Advisor Philip L. Quinn

  • Susan Krantz

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    Dissertation Brentano's theodicy
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

  • Richard Potter

    Dissertation Intentionality and the paradox of the liar
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

  • Richard Rose

    Dissertation Belief and the reference of proper names
    Thesis Advisor Ernest Sosa

  • Theodore Schick

    Dissertation Meaning, truth, and belief: an inquiry into the natures of propositions and states of affairs
    Thesis Advisor Ernest Sosa

1979

  • Timothy Colburn

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    Dissertation A foundationalist theory of empirical justification
    Thesis Advisor Ernest Sosa

  • Blanche Radford Curry

    Dissertation An unconventional theory of progress
    Thesis Advisor Richard Schmitt

  • Nancy Gifford

    Dissertation "Taking" as perceptual evidence
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

  • Eric Kraemer

    Dissertation Function, intentionality and organism
    Thesis Advisor Ernest Sosa

1978

  • David Henderson

    Dissertation Relativsm and the concept of empirical knowledge
    Thesis Advisor Ernest Sosa

  • Scott Hestevold

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    Dissertation A metaphysical study of aggregates and continuous wholes
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

  • Walter Horn

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    Dissertation Substance and mode: a Spinozistic study
    Thesis Advisor James Van Cleve

  • Margaret Rooney

    Dissertation Temporal relations and the concept of the present
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

  • David Zaret

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    Dissertation Absolute space and space-time ontologies
    Thesis Advisor Philip L. Quinn

1977

  • Thomas Carson

    Dissertation Happiness...
    Thesis Advisor Dan Brock

  • Elliot Cohen

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    Dissertation Supervenience: a study in the theory of value
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

  • Arnold Cusmariu

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    Dissertation A platonist theory of properties
    Thesis Advisor Ernest Sosa

  • Stephen Scher

    Dissertation Persons and Practical Reason: The Relation Between Kant's Theory of Action and Ethical Reasoning
    Thesis Advisor John Lenz

1976

  • Charles McLean

    Dissertation Understanding counterfactuals
    Thesis Advisor Philip L. Quinn

  • Gary Rosenkrantz

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    Dissertation Individual essences
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

1975

  • Richard Foley

    Dissertation The desire theory and metaethics
    Thesis Advisor Dan Brock

  • Michael Gorr

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    Dissertation The structure of human action
    Thesis Advisor Ernest Sosa

  • Bruce Hunter

    Dissertation Empiricism and the foundations of empirical knowledge
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

  • Selton Peters

    Dissertation A dualistic materialist theory of mind
    Thesis Advisor Vincent Tomas

  • Agnes Ring

    Dissertation Explicability and determinism
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

  • Josiah Strandberg

    Dissertation Some metaphysical questions about parts and wholes
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

1974

  • Samuel Fry

    Dissertation An examination of some ontological problems from the point of view of the philosophy of Franz Brentano - an application of some of the basic principles of his philosophy
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

  • Richard Fumerton

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    Dissertation Phenomenalism
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

  • Gerald Ingham

    Dissertation Sellars' theory of Universals and Particulars (Philip L. Quinn) Myung Lee, The later Wittgenstein's reflection on Meaning, Language, and Forms of Life
    Thesis Advisor Richard Schmitt

  • Andrew Schoedinger

    Dissertation F.R. Tennants Pscyhogenetic Account of Perceptual Consciousness and Teleological Argument
    Thesis Advisor Vincent Tomas

1973

  • David Benfield

    Dissertation The problem of defining knowledge
    Thesis Advisor Ernest Sosa

  • Frederick Bohl

    Dissertation Davidson and Chisholm on events
    Thesis Advisor Ernest Sosa

  • Alan Burk

    Dissertation Intentional propositions de dicto and de re and nonpropositional seeing
    Thesis Advisor Robert J. Swartz

  • Peter DeVos

    Dissertation Metaphysics, science, and certainty: a study of some keyCartesian notions
    Thesis Advisor John Lenz

  • Michael Feld

    Dissertation The derivation of "ought" from "is"
    Thesis Advisor John Ladd

  • William Friffith

    Dissertation G. E. Moore's concept of analysis and its relation tometaphysics
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

  • Thomas Lockridge

    Dissertation Philosophical problems of historical explanation
    Thesis Advisor John Lenz

  • Thomas Steel

    Dissertation Some definitions concerning knowing how
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

  • Deborah Thomas

    Dissertation The individuation of minds
    Thesis Advisor Robert J. Swartz

  • Herbert Yarvin

    Dissertation Some Cartesian questions
    Thesis Advisor Ernest Sosa

1972

  • Marlene Fried

    Dissertation Marx's historical materialism and the problem of explanation in history
    Thesis Advisor Ernest Sosa

  • Carolyn Korsemeyer

    Dissertation Aesthetic form: Formal beauty and the problem of relativism in the theories of Hutcheson and Kant
    Thesis Advisor John Ladd

  • James Lamb

    Dissertation Fundamental concepts in the theory ofrule-sets
    Thesis Advisor Ernest Sosa

  • Stuart Rosenbaum

    Dissertation Properties and categories
    Thesis Advisor Ernest Sosa

1971

  • Richard Brockhaus

    Dissertation The relational theory of space: Some metaphysical epistemologicaland scientific considerations
    Thesis Advisor Philip L. Quinn

  • Duane Cady

    Dissertation Knowledge in Plato's Theaetetus
    Thesis Advisor John Lenz

  • David DeLange

    Dissertation Three theories of free action
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

  • Peter Hess

    Dissertation Certain questions related to the freedom-determinism problem
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

  • Gary Hochberg

    Dissertation Kant's theory of obligation
    Thesis Advisor John Ladd

  • Lanius Johnson

    Dissertation A contribution toward a non-substantial theory oftime
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

  • Robert Keim

    Dissertation An investigation of epistemic preference
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

  • Henning Meyn

    Dissertation Husserl's trascendental logic and the problem of itsjustification
    Thesis Advisor Richard Schmitt

  • Frederick Mulder

    Dissertation The concept of miracles
    Thesis Advisor John Lenz

  • Dion Schaff

    Dissertation Aristotle's Categories
    Thesis Advisor John Lenz

  • Sheri Wiersma

    Dissertation Intentionality and the emotions
    Thesis Advisor Robert J. Swartz

1970

  • Michael Corrado

    Dissertation Modality de re and the problem of essentialism
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

  • Stephen Croddy

    Dissertation Meeting in oral communication
    Thesis Advisor Robert J. Swartz

  • Thomas Feehan

    Dissertation An analysis of lying and some thoughts on its moralevaluation
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

  • James Fulton

    Dissertation The elements of causation
    Thesis Advisor Roderick M. Chisholm

  • William Parent

    Dissertation Mill's conception of the Summum Bonum
    Thesis Advisor John Ladd