Theses from 2013
Smith on Self-Command and Moral Judgment, Lauren Papiernik
Do Political Liberals Need the Truth?, Pierce Randall
Can Adam Smith Answer the Normative Question?, Samuel Richards
Stoic Moral Psychology: The Implications Of Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Damage, Nicholas G. Roberson
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
How The Cognitive Penetrability Of Emotions Undermines Rational Sentimentalism, Benjamin Stanford
Causal Compatibilism: A Nonreductive Physicalist Solution to the Exclusion Problem, Morgan Thompson
The Practical Impossibility of Cohen's Rescuing Justice & Equality, Kevin Stanley Wallace
Theses from 2012
Content and Contrastive Self-Knowledge, Vincent G. Abruzzo
Extending Tomas Kulka's Aesthetic Dualism: Value, Not Meaning, in the Case of Absolute Music, Tyson J. Bittrich
Why Do People Seek Negative Emotions' A Solution to Hume's Puzzle, William J. Brady
The Effects of Learning on Moral Education for Rousseau, Patrick A. Cox
Against Collective Consequentialism, James J. DiGiovanni
How Music Makes Us Feel, Alexander Economides
Science and Faith in Kant's First Critique, Everett C. Fulmer
Resolving Conflicts within the Mind: Internal Warfare in Non-Human Primates, Michael Huddleson
Adam Smith: A Relational Egalitarian Interpretation, Kathryn E. Joyce
Hans Kelsen and the Bindingness of Supra-National Legal Norms, Richard D. Latta
Hume on the Nature of Moral Freedom, Getty L. Lustila
Against the Linguistic Analogy, Noel B. Martin
The Expanded Cluster Account of Art, Eric Murphy
Betrayal of Love and Volitional Necessity, Shawn M. Murphy
The Abstract/Concrete Paradox in Moral Psychology, Shane Reuter
International Luck Egalitarianism: A Legislative Approach, Gabriel Rogasner
The Pernicious Influence of the Ideal/Nonideal Distinction in Political Philosophy, Shanna K. Slank
A Test of Prinz's Air Theory: Is Attention Sufficient for Conscious Emotion?, Anais F. Stenson
Utility, Character, and Mill's Argument for Representative Government, Paul Vickery
Moral Responsibility "Expressivism," Luck, and Revision, Kyle Walker
Hegel's Critique of Ancient Skepticism, John Wood
Theses from 2011
Patient-Relativity and the Efficacy of Epicurean Therapy, Michael J. Augustin
Friends with Benefits: Other Regard in Epicurean Ethics, William P. Baird
Non-Cooperative Communication and the Origins of Human Language, Steven M. Beighley
A Problem Of Access: Autism, Other Minds, And Interpersonal Relations, Ryan Born
Nietzsche on Copernicus, Shane C. Callahan
The Promise and Limits of Natural Normativity in a Neo-Aristotelian Virtue Ethics, Timothy J. Clewell
The Many Faces of Besire Theory, Gary Edwards
Bayle's Theory of Toleration, Benjamin Eliazar Fischer
Self-Ownership, Freedom and Eudaimonia, Keith D. Fox
Considering a Human Right to Democracy, Jodi Ann Geever-Ostrowsky
The Role of Poetry and Language in Hegel's Philosophy of Art, Daniel Griffin
Why Not Penal Torture?, Cleo Grimaldi
A Defense of Moral Error Theory, Kyle M. Hirsch Mr.
But What Kind of Badness?: An Inquiry into the Ethical Significance of Pain, Andrew L. Hookom
Secular Foundations of Liberal Multiculturalism, Mohammad O. Khan
Dignified Animals: How "Non-Kantian" is Nussbaum's Conception of Dignity?, Mary Leukam
A Fregean Response to Moore and Altman, Sean S. Martin
Rational Requirements for Moral Motivation: The Psychopath's Open Question, Maria L. Montello
Rethinking Legal Retribution, Stephen Parsley
Rescuing Inclusive Legal Positivism from the Charge of Inconsistency, Cindy L. Phillips
Consciousness, Self-Control, and Free Will in Nietzsche, Bryan T. Russell
Normative Judgments, 'Deep Self' Judgments, and Intentional Action, Jason S. Shepard
Can the Contextualist Win the Free Will Debate?, Reuben E. Stern
The Fundamental Naturalistic Impulse: Extending the Reach of Methodological Naturalism, James B. Summers
Providing Assurance on Scanlon's Account of Promises, Hunter T. Thomsen
Autonomy, De Facto And De Jure, Paul Tulipana
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
Nietzsche's Causally Efficacious Account of Consciousness, Bradley Wissmueller
Theses from 2010
Dworkinian Liberalism & Gay Rights: A Defense of Same-Sex Relations, Ngoc Quang H. Bui
Marx, Economic Sustainability, and Ideal Capital, Sean Cashel Bustard
Kant's Use of Transcendental Arguments, Thomas Wayne Cudney
Mindreading, Language and Simulation, Ryan C. DeChant
Foucauldian Genealogy as Situated Critique or Why is Sexuality So Dangerous?, Ian Douglas Dunkle
Moral Injury and the Puzzle of Immunity-Violation, Jesse Gero
The Justificatory Role of Habit in Hegel's Theory of Ethical Life, Walter Philip Glazer
Autism, Social Comprehension, and Cognitive Impenetrability, Matthew E. Hudgens-Haney
Decisions as Performatives, Dylan Murray
Pogg'es Institutional Cosmopolitanism, Scott Nees
Can Bayesianism and Inference to the Best Explanation be Friends?, Rush Tyler Stewart
Literature and the Moral Imagination: Smithean Sympathy and the Construction of Experience through Readership, Elizabeth M.K.A. Sund
Subjectivity and Fallibility in the Instrumental and Epistemic Defenses of a "Right to Do Wrong", Thomas Wright
Theses from 2009
Teleosemantics, Externalism, and the Content of Theoretical Concepts, Daniel C. Burnston
The Proper Metric of Justice in Justice as Fairness, Charles Benjamin Carmichael
Raz and His Critics: A Defense of Razian Authority, Jason Thomas Craig
Can Consciousness be Taken Seriously When it Comes to Personal Identity?, Stephen Matthew Duncan
An Incompatibility between Intentionalism and Multiple Authorship in Film, Steven Christopher Hager
The Role of Afterlife Myths in Plato's Moral Arguments, Daniel William Issler
Defending Noe's Enactive Theory of Perception, Lucas Allen Keefer
Kantian Conceptualism and Apperception, Raleigh S. Miller
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Seeking Natural Kinds in a Controversial Diagnosis, Paul Kenneth Pfeilschiefter
Drug Addiction and Personal Responsibility, Andrew Shawn Reagan
Motivating Emotional Content, Benjamin Sheredos
Epicurean Friendship: How are Friends Pleasurable?, Melissa Marie Strahm
The Moral Reality of War: Defensive Force and Just War Theory, Maj Robert E. Underwood III
Theses from 2008
Retribution Requires Rehabilitation, Joseph Q. Adams
Sextus was no Eudaimonist, Joseph B. Bullock
Against Pyrrhonian Equipollence, John Everett Button
Freedom and the Ideal Republican State: Kant, Jefferson, and the Place of Individual Freedom in the Republican Constitutional State, Theresa A. Creighton
The Concept of "Woman": Feminism after the Essentialism Critique, Katherine Nicole Fulfer
The Aesthetic Idea and the Unity of Cognitive Faculties in Kant's Aesthetics, Maria Andreevna Gourova
Freedom and Forfeiture: Responding to Galen Strawson's Basic Argument, Eli Benjamin Kelsey
Is Core Affect a Natural Kind?, Brandie Martinez Bedard
Facing the Problems of Feminism: Working Toward Resolution, Joy Alicia Salvatore
Aristotelian Liberal Virtues, Joseph W. Slade, IV
The Non-moral Basis of Cognitive Biases of Moral Intuitions, Bradley Charles Thomas
Child Abuse, Racism and the State, Chase Parker Turner
Kim's Pairing Problem and the Viability of Substance Dualism, Jimmy Ray Vaught
A Description of the Natural Place of Magic in Philosophy and Religious Studies, Damien P. Williams
A Comparative Study of the Ethics of Christine M. Korsgaard and Jean-Paul Sartre, Michael Christopher Zander
Theses from 2007
Resting in the Court of Reason: Kant's Resolution to the Antinomy of Pure Reason, Sarah Ann Alexander