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Dissertations from 2023
The Dialectical Virtue of Ideological Reduction, Keehyuk Nahm, Philosophy
Dissertations from 2022
A Metaphysics of Artifacts: Essence and Mind-Dependence, Tim Juvshik, Philosophy
Higher-Order Evidence and Human Evolution, Justis Koon, Philosophy
All Sortals are Phase Sortals, Justin Mooney, Philosophy
Naturalized Human Epistemology is Social Epistemology, Molly O'Rourke-Friel, Philosophy
Quantitative Character and the Composite Account of Phenomenal Content, Kimberly Soland, Philosophy
Dissertations from 2021
Defending Philosophical Knowledge, Jonathan Dixon, Philosophy
Worlds without End: A Platonist Theory of Fiction, Patrick Grafton-Cardwell, Philosophy
MOVING FORWARD ON THE PROBLEM OF CONSCIOUSNESS?, Haoying Liu, Philosophy
Dissertations from 2020
Continua, Lu Chen, Philosophy
Socratic Piety, Reciprocity, and the Last Elenchos of Plato's Euthyphro, Donovan Cox, Philosophy
Autonomy, Oppression, and Respect, Andrea Wilson, Philosophy
Dissertations from 2019
A Defense of Hume's Dictum, Cameron Gibbs, Philosophy
The Epistemic Dimensions of Moral Responsibility and Respect, John Robison, Philosophy
Self-Knowledge, Choice Blindness, and Confabulation, Hayley F. Webster, Philosophy
Dissertations from 2018
Quantification and Paradox, Edward Ferrier, Philosophy
Meaning and Modality, Jesse Fitts, Philosophy
The Mismatch Problem for Act Consequentialism, Robert Gruber, Philosophy
EXPLORING THE EASY ROAD TO NOMINALISM, Jordan Kroll, Philosophy
THE FIRST PERSON PERSPECTIVE: LANGUAGE, THOUGHT, AND ACTION, Pengbo Liu, Philosophy
The Philosophical Value of Reflective Endorsement, Rachel Robison, Philosophy
Dissertations from 2017
Norms for Bayesians, Lisa Cassell, Philosophy
Applications and Extensions of Counterpart Theory, Bridgette Peterson, Philosophy
Me, Myself and I: Reflections on Self-Consciousness and Authority, jonathan rosen, Philosophy
The Concept of Intrinsic Goodness: Essays in Moorean Moral Philosophy, Miles Tucker, Philosophy
Dissertations from 2016
Physical Geometry, James P. Binkoski, Philosophy
Fallibility and Normativity, Joshua DiPaolo, Philosophy
Structuring Thought: Concepts, Computational Syntax, and Cognitive Explanation, Matthew B. Gifford, Philosophy
The Path To Supersubstantivalism, Joshua D. Moulton, Philosophy
Agency and Reasons in Epistemology, Luis R.G. Oliveira, Philosophy
Understanding and Its Role in Inquiry, Benjamin T. Rancourt, Philosophy
Dissertations from 2014
Taste Disagreements and Predicates of Personal Taste, Heidi Teres Buetow, Philosophy
Synthetic Reductionism in Moral Philosophy, Scott Hill, Philosophy
A Defense of Russellian Descriptivism, Brandt H. van der Gaast, Philosophy
Dissertations from 2013
The Structure of Consciousness, Lowell Keith Friesen, Philosophy
The Plausibility of Moral Error Theories, Casey Alton Knight, Philosophy
Dissertations from 2012
Self-Knowledge in a Natural World, Jeremy Cushing, Philosophy
Counterpossibles, Barak Krakauer, Philosophy
Dissertations from 2011
Pyrrhonian and Naturalistic Themes in the Final Writings of Wittgenstein, Indrani Bhattacharjee, Philosophy
Identity and the Limits of Possibility, Sam Cowling, Philosophy
Dissertations from 2010
On Epistemic Agency, Kristoffer Hans Ahlstrom, Philosophy
Bayesian Epistemology and Having Evidence, Jeffrey Dunn, Philosophy
Sleeping Beauty and De Nunc Updating, Namjoong Kim, Philosophy
Human Freedom in a World Full of Providence: An Ockhamist-Molinist Account of the Compatibility of Divine Foreknowledge and Creaturely Free Will, Christopher J. Kosciuk, Philosophy
The rise of Cartesian occasionalism, Andrew Russell Platt
The Rise Of Cartesian Occasionalism, Andrew Russell Platt, Philosophy
Dissertations from 2009
Composition as Identity: a Study in Ontology and Philosophical Logic, Einar Bohn, Philosophy
Being good, doing right, faring well., Daniel, Doviak, Philosophy
On the Measurability of Pleasure and Pain, Justin Allen Klocksiem, Philosophy
Knowledge, questions and answers, Meghan B Masto
Knowledge, questions and answers., Meghan B. Masto, Philosophy
On memory and testimony, Kirk Michaelian, Philosophy
Synthetic Ethical Naturalism, Michael Rubin, Philosophy
On the Objectivity of Welfare, Alexander F. Sarch, Philosophy
Phenomenal Acquaintance, Kelly Trogdon, Philosophy
Dissertations from 2008
'Can' and consequentialism : an account of options., Edward Lee Abrams, Philosophy
A defense of a particularist research program., Uri D. Leibowitz, Philosophy
A tenseless account of tensed sentences and tensed belief., Stephan V. Torre, Philosophy
Dissertations from 2007
Emotional rationality and the fear of death., Kristen A. Hine, Philosophy
Achievement, enjoyment, and the things we care about : a theory of personal well-being., Jason R. Raibley, Philosophy
Dissertations from 2006
Vagueness, Thomas J. Bell
Leibniz and Locke on the ultimate origination of things., Marcy P. Lascano, Philosophy
Dissertations from 2005
Desire-satisfaction theories of welfare., Christopher C. Heathwood, Philosophy
Well-being and actual desires., Mark E. Lukas, Philosophy
Brains and barns : the role of context in epistemic attribution., Julie M. Petty, Philosophy
Dissertations from 2004
Simples and gunk., Kris, McDaniel, Philosophy
Brains and barns: The role of *context in epistemic attribution, Julie M Petty
The reconciliation of faith and reason in Thomas Aquinas., Creighton J. Rosental, Philosophy
Forms of goodness : the nature and value of virtue in Socratic ethics., Scott J. Senn, Philosophy
Dissertations from 2003
Advancing the counterfactual analysis of causation., Ethan R. Colton, Philosophy
Freedom and responsibility : an agent-causal view., Meghan E. Griffith, Philosophy
Adopted knowing : claiming self-knowledge in the age of identity., Kimberly J. Leighton, Philosophy
A priori arguments for reductionism., Jennifer Rea Susse, Philosophy
Open questions and consequentialist conditionals : central puzzles in Moorean moral philosophy., Jean-Paul, Vessel, Philosophy
Dissertations from 2002
Autonomous machine agency., Don, Berkich, Philosophy
The ontology of film., Julie N. Books, Philosophy
Dissertations from 2000
The creation of the eternal truths and the nature of God in Descartes., Daniel P. Kaufman, Philosophy
Art and psychoanalysis : a topographical, structural, and object-relational analysis illustrated by a study of Shakespeare's Hamlet., Patricia E. Scarbrough, Philosophy
The nature of moral virtue., Erik J. Wielenberg, Philosophy
Dissertations from 1999
Transcendental arguments and Kant's Refutation of Idealism., Adrian, Bardon, Philosophy
Species of goodness., William Benjamin Bradley, Philosophy
Nothing personal : a defense on non-libertarian incompatibilism., Bruce C. Galbreath, Philosophy
The speculum and the scalpel : the politics of impotent representation and non-representational terrorism., David, Mertz, Philosophy
Pleasure, falsity, and the good in Plato's Philebus., Ciriaco M. Sayson, Philosophy
Criteria in crisis : modernist, postmodernist, and feminist critical practices., Mary Ann Sushinsky, Philosophy
The nation and nationalism., Henry C. Theriault, Philosophy
Dissertations from 1998
A defense of materialism against attacks based on qualia., J. C. Beall, Philosophy
Natural-kind term reference and the discovery of essence., Joseph F. LaPorte, Philosophy
Desert, virtue, and justice., Eric F. Moore, Philosophy
The incompatibility of determinism and moral obligation., Neil Schaefer, Philosophy
Hume's skepticism., Dennis F. Thompson, Philosophy
The ethnicities of philosophy and the limits of culture., Joseph S. Yeh, Philosophy
Dissertations from 1997
Metaphysical theories of modality : properties, relations and possibilities., David A. Denby, Philosophy
Religious belief, social establishment and autonomy., Christopher J. Eberle, Philosophy
The state of nature and the genesis of commonwealths in Hobbes's political philosophy., Thomas J. Fryc, Philosophy
The logic of contingent existence., Daniel M. Kervick, Philosophy
A critique of academic nationalism., Amie A. Macdonald, Philosophy
Richard Rorty's liberalism : a Marxist perspective., Markar. Melkonian, Philosophy