Students in the Department of Philosophy combine deep intellectual analyses of important philosophers with a robust and comprehensive survey of important ideas, reflecting an understanding of both thinker and thought. Their research and writing, under the
guidance of our renowned faculty, influence the field and reshape the modern understanding of ideas.
Recent Philosophy DissertationsÂ
2024
Lucas Ballestin
Illusion Terminable and Interminable: Truth, Defense, and Ideology
Jeremy Gauger
Finding Space for Time: History at the Nexus of Nature and Society
Eva Perez de Vega Steele
The Architecture of HuMan Exceptionalism: Redrawing our Relationship with other Species
Marianna Poyares
Data Solidarity: Communities, Territories, Data Anomalies, and the Coalition for a New Commons
2023
Alexander Christoff Altonji
Moral Distance: The Significance of Acknowledgment
Jonathan Hausler Berk
Kant’s Copernican Experiment: An Interpretation of the "Critique of Pure Reason"
Teresa Casas Hernández
Mimetic Resistance: From Ancient Greek Theater to Contemporary Greek Theater
Kelly Joan Gawel
The Contradictions of Care: Violence and Revolution in Caring Relations
Pedro Mauricio Garcia Dotto
Plato, Persuasion, and Psychagogy: An Interpretation of the "Phaedrus"
Tomás Lima Pimenta
The Eclipse of the Political: On Liberal Distrust and Authoritarianism
Philip Schauss
Backgrounds in Architecture: Besides Aesthetics and Function
2022
Carlos de la Puente
The Unconscious, Drive and Desire in Anglo-Saxon Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
Ryan Anders Gustafson
Institutions in Deconstruction: A New Reading of Jacques Derrida’s Social and Political
Philosophy
Lisa Michelle McKeown
The Art of Acknowledgment: Rethinking How Speech Acts
Miguel José Paley De Greiff
The Concept of Affect in the Philosophy of Henri Bergson
Daniel John Christian Wagnon
The Logic of Common Sense and the Refutation of Global Skepticism: A Parallax Study
of Ordinary Language Philosophy and Phenomenology
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Absolute Realism: Schelling and the Vortex of Spinozism
2021
Daniel Boscov-Ellen
Pablo Bustinduy AmadorÂ
Teresa Casas Herná²Ô»å±ð³úÌý
On theatrical practice and philosophy: an exploration in Ancient and Modern Greek theater
Carolyn ColsantÂ
Joel Thomas Paxton de Lara
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Spirit and the Concept: On the Relationship between Hegel’s "Phenomenology of Spirit" and "Science of Logic"
John Noras
Here and Now: A Phenomenological Account
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Absolute Realism: Schelling and the Vortex of Spinozism
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Daniel Wagnon
Phenomenology, Ordinary Language Philosophy, and Common Sense Realism
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Freedom and Error
2020
David Bak Geler
Hannes Charen
Joshua Nicholas Pineda
Angelica Maria Blomberg Stathopoulos
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Emilio Andres Vicuna Zauschkevich
2019
Juniper Alcorn
Michael Becker
Jacob Blumenfeld
The Property Relation: Freedom, Right and Recognition in Kant, Fichte and Hegel
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2018
Jacob Browning
Jeremy Butman
Robert Grimwade
Edward Guetti
Marianne Aimee Le Nabat
Collective Action
Joseph Lemelin
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On Conceptualism - An Inquiry into Language and Thought
Luis Recoder
Mark Thorsby
Maxwell Tremblay
Yi Wu
2017
Carlo Alvaro
Lawrence Berger
Alexis Dianda
Daniel Fernandez
Jordi Graupera
Krista Johansson
Daniel Vicente Jove Rosales
David Kaye
Krystal Dawn Kreye
On Counterrevolution
Scott Shushan
On Agency as Responsibility
Kevin Alistair Temple
Mark Robrecht Theunissen
Alina Vaisfeld
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