The dissertation represents the culmination of several years of hard but rewarding work as a graduate student. Below are some of the ambitious and original projects pursued by our recent and not-so recent graduates. Click on the titles for a copy of the work hosted on our digital library.

 

 

Wilson, Jesse (2023). Cognitive Boundaries for Rational Coherence Requirements

Jalloh, Mahmoud (2023). Dimensional Analysis: Essays on the Metaphysics and Epistemology of Quantities

Goodsell, Zachary (2023). Unbounded Utility

Clark, David (2023). Responding to Harm

Wadle, Douglas (2023). Minimal Sensory Modalities and Spatial Perception

Ward, Shane (2023). Extending Credit

Gunkel, Jasmine (2023). On Intimacy: A Philosophical Account

Gordon, Noah (2023). Theism and Secular Modality

Hong, Frank (2023). Uncertain Knowledge

Lee, Junhyo (2022). What “Ought” Ought to Mean

Donahue, Sean (2022). Public justification beyond legitimacy.

Pallies, Daniel (2022). Feeling good and living well: on the nature of pleasure and its role in well-being.

Sridharan, Vishnu (2022). Getting our act(s) together: the normativity of diachronic choice.

Ashfield, Michael (2021). The virtue of reasonableness: on the normative epistemic implications of public reason liberalism.

Kostochka, Tatyana (2021). Capturing moods: a philosophical exploration.

Blessenohl, Simon (2021). Political decision-making in an uncertain world.

Wright, Jonathan (2020). Conceptually permissive attitudes.

Leonard, Matt (2019). What it is to be located.

Pressman, Michael (2018). Aggregating Happiness: Seeking and Identifying a Single Plausible Unifying Theory.

Basu, Rima (2018). Beliefs that wrong.

Dietz, Alexander (2018). Units of agency in ethics.

Fairchild, Maegan (2018). Unlimited ontology and its limits.

Fairchild, Maegan (2018). Unlimited ontology and its limits.

Gorman, August (2018). The minimal approval view of attributional-responsibility.

Hall, Keith (2018). Instantial terms, donkey anaphora, and individual concepts.

Horton, Joe (2018). Aggregating complaints.

Lee, Woo Ram (2018). Rationality and the primacy of the occurrent.

Astourian, Ara (2017). A new defense of public reason.

Bero, Stephen (2017). Responsibility and the emotional structure of relationships.

Bolinger, Renee (2017). Mistaken defense and normative conventions.

Hatcher, Michael (2017). A deontological explanation of accessibilism.

Laskowski, Nicholas (2017). Rethinking reductive realism in ethics.

Pearl, Caleb (2017). Positivist realism.

Silver, Kenneth (2017). The constitution of action.

Ackerman, Greg (2016). Representation, truth, and the metaphysics of propositions.

Babb, Matthew (2016). Telling each other what to do: on imperative language.

Encarnacion, Erik (2016). Contract, from promise to commodity.

Milona, Michael (2016). A perceptual model of evaluative knowledge.

Podgorski, Abelard (2016). Process-oriented rationality.

Webster, Aness (2016). Responsibility and rights: a search for a principled distinction between criminal law and tort law.

Crabill, Joshua (2015). Describing authority.

Dallmann, Justin (2015). Belief as credal plan.

Liberman, Alida (2015). The mental states first theory of promising.

Lutz, Matthew (2015). The case for moral skepticism.

Chang, Tiffany (2014). Distributive equality and labor burdens.

Lennertz, Benjamin (2014). Reasoning with uncertainty and epistemic modals.

Nair, Shyam (2014). Reasons, obligations, and the structure of good reasoning.

Pearce, Kenneth (2014). Language and the structure of Berkeley’s world.

Reiland, Indrek (2014). Meaningfulness, rules, and use-conditional semantics.

Tang, Yingying (2014). Intrinsic and extrinsic values of distributional equality.

Folescu, Marina (2013). Thomas Reid on singular thought.

Snedegar, Justin (2013). Contrastive reasons.

Staffel, Julia (2013). Reasoning with degrees of belief.

Yovetich, Luka (2013). Merely verbal disputes in philosophy.

Bowman, Brian (2012). Linguistic understanding and semantic theory.

Asgeirsson, Hrafn (2012). Vagueness, legal content, and legal interpretation.

DeClark, Kory (2012). On being bound: law, authority, and the politics of obligation.

Johns, Brandon (2012). The boundaries of the intentional.

Schmitt, Johannes (2012). Iffy confidence.

Villanueva, Eduardo (2012). Constraining assertion: an account of context-sensitivity.

Wei, Xiao (2012). Defending Rawls’s Law of Peoples against cosmopolitan critiques.

Lee, Hsin-Wen (2011). National identity and the right to self-government.

Powell, Lewis (2011). Just imagining things: Hume’s conception-based account of cognition.

Shpall, Samuel (2011). Enkrasia, rationality, and commitment.

Weil, Jonathan (2011). Dispositions: properties of powers.

Kwon, Daniel (2010). Lesson’s from Frege’s Puzzle.

Secchi, Luigi (2010). A critical examination of the three main interpretations of probability.

German, David (2009). Cause and consequence: confronting ethical challenges in models of morally informed legal practice.

Pryor, Francis (2009). Thick concepts, reflection, and the loss of ethical knowledge.

Talbot, Brian (2009). How to use intuitions in philosophy.

Zhu, Xiaoyu (2009). Defending compatibilism: a paradigm case argument.

Considine, Daniel (2008). Descartes creation doctrine and modality.

Erwin, Keith (2008). Morality with Humean foundations: a proposal for a solution to the accommodation problem.

Qudrat, Maryam (2008). Hobbes, education and the long run stability of nations: toward a Hobbesian model for contemporary religious theocratic societies.

Sadagopan, Shoba (2008). Negotiating pluralism and tribalism in liberal democratic societies.