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Theses from 2013

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Smith on Self-Command and Moral Judgment, Lauren Papiernik

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Do Political Liberals Need the Truth?, Pierce Randall

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Can Adam Smith Answer the Normative Question?, Samuel Richards

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Stoic Moral Psychology: The Implications Of Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Damage, Nicholas G. Roberson

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Willpower and Ego-Depletion: How I Do What I Don't Want to Do, and Why It's Not (Completely) My Fault When I Don't, Samuel C. Sims

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How The Cognitive Penetrability Of Emotions Undermines Rational Sentimentalism, Benjamin Stanford

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Causal Compatibilism: A Nonreductive Physicalist Solution to the Exclusion Problem, Morgan Thompson

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The Practical Impossibility of Cohen's Rescuing Justice & Equality, Kevin Stanley Wallace

Theses from 2012

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Content and Contrastive Self-Knowledge, Vincent G. Abruzzo

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Extending Tomas Kulka's Aesthetic Dualism: Value, Not Meaning, in the Case of Absolute Music, Tyson J. Bittrich

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Why Do People Seek Negative Emotions' A Solution to Hume's Puzzle, William J. Brady

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The Effects of Learning on Moral Education for Rousseau, Patrick A. Cox

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Against Collective Consequentialism, James J. DiGiovanni

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How Music Makes Us Feel, Alexander Economides

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Science and Faith in Kant's First Critique, Everett C. Fulmer

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Resolving Conflicts within the Mind: Internal Warfare in Non-Human Primates, Michael Huddleson

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Adam Smith: A Relational Egalitarian Interpretation, Kathryn E. Joyce

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Hans Kelsen and the Bindingness of Supra-National Legal Norms, Richard D. Latta

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Hume on the Nature of Moral Freedom, Getty L. Lustila

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Against the Linguistic Analogy, Noel B. Martin

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The Expanded Cluster Account of Art, Eric Murphy

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Betrayal of Love and Volitional Necessity, Shawn M. Murphy

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The Abstract/Concrete Paradox in Moral Psychology, Shane Reuter

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International Luck Egalitarianism: A Legislative Approach, Gabriel Rogasner

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The Pernicious Influence of the Ideal/Nonideal Distinction in Political Philosophy, Shanna K. Slank

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A Test of Prinz's Air Theory: Is Attention Sufficient for Conscious Emotion?, Anais F. Stenson

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Utility, Character, and Mill's Argument for Representative Government, Paul Vickery

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Moral Responsibility "Expressivism," Luck, and Revision, Kyle Walker

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Hegel's Critique of Ancient Skepticism, John Wood

Theses from 2011

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Patient-Relativity and the Efficacy of Epicurean Therapy, Michael J. Augustin

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Friends with Benefits: Other Regard in Epicurean Ethics, William P. Baird

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Non-Cooperative Communication and the Origins of Human Language, Steven M. Beighley

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A Problem Of Access: Autism, Other Minds, And Interpersonal Relations, Ryan Born

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Nietzsche on Copernicus, Shane C. Callahan

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The Promise and Limits of Natural Normativity in a Neo-Aristotelian Virtue Ethics, Timothy J. Clewell

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The Many Faces of Besire Theory, Gary Edwards

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Bayle's Theory of Toleration, Benjamin Eliazar Fischer

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Self-Ownership, Freedom and Eudaimonia, Keith D. Fox

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Considering a Human Right to Democracy, Jodi Ann Geever-Ostrowsky

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The Role of Poetry and Language in Hegel's Philosophy of Art, Daniel Griffin

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Why Not Penal Torture?, Cleo Grimaldi

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A Defense of Moral Error Theory, Kyle M. Hirsch Mr.

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But What Kind of Badness?: An Inquiry into the Ethical Significance of Pain, Andrew L. Hookom

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Secular Foundations of Liberal Multiculturalism, Mohammad O. Khan

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Dignified Animals: How "Non-Kantian" is Nussbaum's Conception of Dignity?, Mary Leukam

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A Fregean Response to Moore and Altman, Sean S. Martin

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Rational Requirements for Moral Motivation: The Psychopath's Open Question, Maria L. Montello

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Rethinking Legal Retribution, Stephen Parsley

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Rescuing Inclusive Legal Positivism from the Charge of Inconsistency, Cindy L. Phillips

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Consciousness, Self-Control, and Free Will in Nietzsche, Bryan T. Russell

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Normative Judgments, 'Deep Self' Judgments, and Intentional Action, Jason S. Shepard

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Can the Contextualist Win the Free Will Debate?, Reuben E. Stern

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The Fundamental Naturalistic Impulse: Extending the Reach of Methodological Naturalism, James B. Summers

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Providing Assurance on Scanlon's Account of Promises, Hunter T. Thomsen

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Autonomy, De Facto And De Jure, Paul Tulipana

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Making Robert Kane's Libertarianism More Plausible: How James Woodward's Interventionist Causal Theory can Give an Agent Control Over Her Undetermined Decisions, Tracy Van Wagner

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Nietzsche's Causally Efficacious Account of Consciousness, Bradley Wissmueller

Theses from 2010

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Special Problems for Democratic Government in Leveraging Cognitive Bias: Ethical, Political, and Policy Considerations for Implementing Libertarian Paternalism, J. Aaron Brown

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Dworkinian Liberalism & Gay Rights: A Defense of Same-Sex Relations, Ngoc Quang H. Bui

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Marx, Economic Sustainability, and Ideal Capital, Sean Cashel Bustard

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Kant's Use of Transcendental Arguments, Thomas Wayne Cudney

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Mindreading, Language and Simulation, Ryan C. DeChant

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Foucauldian Genealogy as Situated Critique or Why is Sexuality So Dangerous?, Ian Douglas Dunkle

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Moral Injury and the Puzzle of Immunity-Violation, Jesse Gero

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The Justificatory Role of Habit in Hegel's Theory of Ethical Life, Walter Philip Glazer

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Autism, Social Comprehension, and Cognitive Impenetrability, Matthew E. Hudgens-Haney

Decisions as Performatives, Dylan Murray

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Pogg'es Institutional Cosmopolitanism, Scott Nees

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Can Bayesianism and Inference to the Best Explanation be Friends?, Rush Tyler Stewart

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Literature and the Moral Imagination: Smithean Sympathy and the Construction of Experience through Readership, Elizabeth M.K.A. Sund

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Subjectivity and Fallibility in the Instrumental and Epistemic Defenses of a "Right to Do Wrong", Thomas Wright

Theses from 2009

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Teleosemantics, Externalism, and the Content of Theoretical Concepts, Daniel C. Burnston

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The Proper Metric of Justice in Justice as Fairness, Charles Benjamin Carmichael

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Raz and His Critics: A Defense of Razian Authority, Jason Thomas Craig

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Can Consciousness be Taken Seriously When it Comes to Personal Identity?, Stephen Matthew Duncan

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An Incompatibility between Intentionalism and Multiple Authorship in Film, Steven Christopher Hager

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The Role of Afterlife Myths in Plato's Moral Arguments, Daniel William Issler

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Defending Noe's Enactive Theory of Perception, Lucas Allen Keefer

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Kantian Conceptualism and Apperception, Raleigh S. Miller

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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Seeking Natural Kinds in a Controversial Diagnosis, Paul Kenneth Pfeilschiefter

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Drug Addiction and Personal Responsibility, Andrew Shawn Reagan

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Motivating Emotional Content, Benjamin Sheredos

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Epicurean Friendship: How are Friends Pleasurable?, Melissa Marie Strahm

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The Moral Reality of War: Defensive Force and Just War Theory, Maj Robert E. Underwood III

Theses from 2008

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Retribution Requires Rehabilitation, Joseph Q. Adams

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Sextus was no Eudaimonist, Joseph B. Bullock

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Against Pyrrhonian Equipollence, John Everett Button

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Freedom and the Ideal Republican State: Kant, Jefferson, and the Place of Individual Freedom in the Republican Constitutional State, Theresa A. Creighton

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The Concept of "Woman": Feminism after the Essentialism Critique, Katherine Nicole Fulfer

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The Aesthetic Idea and the Unity of Cognitive Faculties in Kant's Aesthetics, Maria Andreevna Gourova

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Freedom and Forfeiture: Responding to Galen Strawson's Basic Argument, Eli Benjamin Kelsey

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Is Core Affect a Natural Kind?, Brandie Martinez Bedard

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Facing the Problems of Feminism: Working Toward Resolution, Joy Alicia Salvatore

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Aristotelian Liberal Virtues, Joseph W. Slade, IV

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The Non-moral Basis of Cognitive Biases of Moral Intuitions, Bradley Charles Thomas

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Child Abuse, Racism and the State, Chase Parker Turner

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Kim's Pairing Problem and the Viability of Substance Dualism, Jimmy Ray Vaught

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A Description of the Natural Place of Magic in Philosophy and Religious Studies, Damien P. Williams

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A Comparative Study of the Ethics of Christine M. Korsgaard and Jean-Paul Sartre, Michael Christopher Zander

Theses from 2007

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Resting in the Court of Reason: Kant's Resolution to the Antinomy of Pure Reason, Sarah Ann Alexander