Follow

Theses from 2023

PDF

The Time of Life and the Life of Time: An Articulation of the Problem of Time and Eternity in Hegel and Two Attempts to Resolve it, Nicholas Bergen

PDF

Equal Respect, Accountability, and Democracy, James C. Delegal

PDF

Social Kind Generics and the Dichotomizing Perspective, William Fraker

PDF

Credal Encroachment in a Two-stage Model, Pengbo Hu

PDF

A Moral-Epistemic Argument Against Capitalistic Labor Contracts, Mert Karaca

PDF

Closing a Road to Immanence in Plato's Phaedo, Bilal A. Khan

PDF

The Model Minority Stereotype as a Systematic Hermeneutical Injustice, Ashley Lindsley-Kim

PDF

The Politics of Anger, Qinyi Luo

PDF

Choice Paralysis: A Challenge from the Indeterminacy of Intentional Content, Ryne Smith MacBride

PDF

Together After All: Competition and Joint Action, Antonio Monaco

PDF

Believing rationally given your actual beliefs: on Susanna Rinard’s pragmatism, Marlon Rivas Tinoco

PDF

The Overcoming of the Idea of Life in Hegel's Science of Logic, Carlos Schoof

PDF

Adam Smith, Virtue, and Sympathy for Animals, Phoenix Thompson

PDF

In Defense of Emotion-Based Approach to Moral Motivation, Yifan Wang

Theses from 2022

PDF

Nietzsche's Metaethics, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Appropriation, Keegan Callerame

PDF

Nature, Spirit, and the Question of Subjectivism in Hegel: Two Key Aspects of Hegel’s Treatment of Nature, Theodore Craig

PDF

Does Anti-Imperialism Entail Anti-Paternalism?, Thomas A. Crean

PDF

The Moralization of Nietzsche, Barry Farmer

PDF

Being Moved: Heideggerian Authenticity and Wolf's Nameless Virtue, David Gray

PDF

Moral Solidarity, Relationships and Relational Egalitarianism, Sabrina Ruby Green

PDF

Infinite Monkeys: Nietzsche and the Cruel Optimism of Personal Immortality, Robert Johnson

PDF

A Practical Conception of the Kantian Bifurcation, Nikolaus Kennelly

PDF

A Defense of Algorithmic Homuncularism, Spencer Kinsey

PDF

Innocent Preferences in Hume's Morality, Shaharyar Masood

PDF

Nietzsche's Scala Amoris: Nietzsche and Diotima on Eros and Philosophy, Paul R. Murphy

PDF

Kantian Assent in a Practical Relation, Matt Osborne

PDF

Self-identification, Maximiliana Jewett Rifkin

PDF

Should Private Property Rights Have Term Limits?, Isaac Shur

PDF

An Explanation of the Formal-Substantive Freedom Distinction (and Why it Matters), Jake Sweet

Theses from 2021

PDF

Philosophy as Bad Poetry: Schopenhauer and Nietzsche on the Ancient Quarrel, Bridget Berdit

PDF

Habituation, Transformation, and Conflict: Hegel and Transformative Theories of Rationality, Alexander Drusda

PDF

Moved by Sad Music: Pleasure and Emotion in Sad Music Listening Experiences, Matthew Dunaway

PDF

In Defense of Sex Work Decriminalization: A Case Against the Nordic Model, Allison Escobar

PDF

Religion and Two-Level Utilitarianism in Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Steven O. Falco

PDF

Aristotle on the Role of Practical Intellect in Determining the Ends, Kerong Gao

PDF

Reincarnation and Rehabilitation: the Theodicy of Plato's Timaeus, John Garrett

PDF

Non-Propositional Attitudes Supervene on Disjunctive Propositional Attitude Complexes, Steven Guillemette

PDF

Vivisection and Moral Introspection in Nietzsche, Jacob Hogan

PDF

What Is Wrong With Self-effacing Ethical Theories?, Austin Keefe

PDF

Protections without Rights: A Liberal Indictment of Factory Farming, Connor Kianpour

PDF

Moral Attitudes: Why Attitude Matters in Characterizing The Psychology of Moral Judgements, Tate Anders Krogstad

PDF

Til Death (or Divorce) Do Us Part: A Defense of Divorce as a Morally Permissible Instance of Promise-Breaking, Katherine Landers

PDF

Challenges to Causal Classification in Psychiatry, Richard Link

PDF

What Can an Evolutionary Explanation Bring to The Demarcation of The Normal from The Pathological in Psychiatry' Nesse's Case of Depression, Chrysi Malouchou Kanellopoulou

PDF

Why Ralph Waldo Emerson Is A Virtue Ethicist, Christopher Julian Porzenheim

PDF

Adam Smith and the Problem of Parochialism: Can the Impartial Spectator Engage in Social Critique?, Aaron D. Richardson

PDF

The Dual-Process Model and Moral Dilemmas: Reflection Does Not Drive Self-Sacrifice, David Simpson

PDF

What Is Wrong with Statistical Discrimination?, Ziyue Sun

PDF

Nietzsche's Critique of "Absolute" Music, David Swigart

PDF

Masked Abilities and Manipulation Arguments, Matthew Turyn

PDF

Ingroup Attitude: A Reliance-Based Analysis, Xin Zhang

Theses from 2020

PDF

Thinking Beyond Democracy for a Future Cosmopolitan Legal Order, Thomas Briggs

PDF

Experience without Memory: Optogenetics, the Self, and the Ethics of Forgetting, David Kendall Casey

PDF

Delusions as Hetero-Dynamic Property Clusters, Shelby Clipp

PDF

Educational Adequacy, Capability, And Basic Educational Justice: A Revision Of Anderson and Satz, Jared Corbett

PDF

Politics and Products: An Arendtian Analysis of Modern Humans' Concern for Immortality, Gunnar Footh

PDF

Opting-In: A Further Justification of Robin Zheng's Role-Ideal Model, Meagan D. Fraser

PDF

Free Will Experiences and Higher-Order Thoughts, Kyle Alan Hale

PDF

Public Reason and Moral Repair, Luke Larson

PDF

What We Can't and Won't Believe: Rethinking Belief Polarization as Political Acceptance, Rachel E. Lehmann

PDF

Implicit Biases and Byrne's Epistemic Rule for Self-knowledge of Beliefs, Hanyu Liu

PDF

Historical Injustices and the State Endurance Thesis, Yuchen Li

PDF

Sex Work and Empowerment, Marisa E. Maccaro

PDF

Towards a Distinction between Gender Identity and Gender Orientation, Avery Newman

PDF

Empirical Information and Kant's Moral Laws, Joseph Payne

PDF

A Critique of Practice-Based Directives for Personal Relationship Law, Robert Stanton

PDF

Joseph Butler on Self-Reverence as a Moral Duty, Ruby Tamariz

Theses from 2019

PDF

Understanding Other Conscious Minds, Nicholas Alonso

PDF

Arguments for Banning Autonomous Weapon Systems: A Critique, Hunter B. Cantrell

PDF

A (Partial) Rehabilitation of Euthyphro, Andrew Gilley

PDF

Dismantling Rape Culture: The Need for a Comprehensive Educational Approach, Chase Halsne

PDF

Niche Construction Theory: Difficulties for a Practice Approach to Theoretical Pluralism, Caleb Hazelwood

PDF

The Limits of Rationality: Aristotle on the Possibility of Practical Reason, Russell Helder

PDF

Hegel's Empty Formalism Critique, Auj Kausar

PDF

The Body of Ideas: Nietzsche, Embodiment, and the Genealogical Method, Matthew Kelley

PDF

Finding Prejudice in Unexpected Places: Racially Biased Perception, Spencer Knafelc

PDF

The Problem of Coercion in State Apologies, Jackson Kushner

PDF

Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Religion and his Critique of German Idealism, Nicholas R. Linhares

PDF

Butler and Kant on Human Nature and Morality, Botian Liu

PDF

Children Of Genius: Affirmation Of Will In Schopenhauer's Aesthetics, Clare Mauney

PDF

Kant and Joseph Butler on Autonomy, Moral Obligation, and Stoic Virtue, Samuel Munroe

PDF

Marxism, Racism, & Capitalism: A Critical Examination of Nancy Fraser, Joseph Murphy

PDF

Assymetric Epistemic Labor as Hermeneutical Injustice, Margaret F. Owens

PDF

Convergence Liberalism and the Limits of State Coercive Power: A Case Against the Public Justification Principle, Sean R. Rice

PDF

Respecting an Incompetent Person's Autonomy, Erica Ronning

PDF

Naturalized Metaphysics and Scientific Constraint: A Model-Building Approach, Jake Spinella

PDF

Epistemic Injustice in Sexual Assault Trials, Emily Tilton

PDF

Experience-Based Intuitions, Tiffany Zhu

Theses from 2018

PDF

The Cost of Integration: Grounding the Integration Debate in Black Experience, Hansen Breitling

PDF

Seeing Past Causes: Causation and Covariation in Informational Teleosemantics, Asa Collier

PDF

Machine Automation and the Critique of Abstract Labor in Hegel's Mature Social Theory, Matthew J. Delhey

PDF

Epistemic Injustice in White Academic Feminism, Mary Donnelly

PDF

Need Evolutionary Debunking Arguments Rely on a Particular Metaphysical Construal of Evaluative Facts?, Christopher Foster

PDF

The Fragility of Convergence: Public Reason, Political Liberalism and Stability, Paul Fryfogle

PDF

Aristotle on Virtuous Disharmony: Mixed Actions and the Virtue/Continence Distinction, James Gillard

PDF

Feminist Aims and A Trans-Inclusive Definition of "Woman", Katie L. Kirkland

PDF

Metaethical Contextualism and the Problem of Disagreement: When Somebody Must Be Wrong, Bradley Loveall

PDF

Rawls's Political Liberalism: Historicist Or Kantian?, Linh Mac

PDF

The Problems of Impartiality: Attention, Deliberation, and Having "One Thought Too Many", Stephen Marrone

PDF

Nietzsche's Art of Interpretation: The Role of the Epigraph in GM III, Ryan McCoy