Theses from 2024
On Essentially Intentional Actions, Armand Babakhanian
The Philosopher and the Beetle: Attention, Self-Representation, and the Fate of Predictive Processing, Frank Wotton
Theses from 2023
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
Equal Respect, Accountability, and Democracy, James C. Delegal
Social Kind Generics and the Dichotomizing Perspective, William Fraker
Credal Encroachment in a Two-stage Model, Pengbo Hu
A Moral-Epistemic Argument Against Capitalistic Labor Contracts, Mert Karaca
Closing a Road to Immanence in Plato's Phaedo, Bilal A. Khan
The Model Minority Stereotype as a Systematic Hermeneutical Injustice, Ashley Lindsley-Kim
The Politics of Anger, Qinyi Luo
Choice Paralysis: A Challenge from the Indeterminacy of Intentional Content, Ryne Smith MacBride
Together After All: Competition and Joint Action, Antonio Monaco
Believing rationally given your actual beliefs: on Susanna Rinard’s pragmatism, Marlon Rivas Tinoco
The Overcoming of the Idea of Life in Hegel's Science of Logic, Carlos Schoof
Adam Smith, Virtue, and Sympathy for Animals, Phoenix Thompson
In Defense of Emotion-Based Approach to Moral Motivation, Yifan Wang
Theses from 2022
Nietzsche's Metaethics, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Appropriation, Keegan Callerame
Nature, Spirit, and the Question of Subjectivism in Hegel: Two Key Aspects of Hegel’s Treatment of Nature, Theodore Craig
Does Anti-Imperialism Entail Anti-Paternalism?, Thomas A. Crean
The Moralization of Nietzsche, Barry Farmer
Being Moved: Heideggerian Authenticity and Wolf's Nameless Virtue, David Gray
Moral Solidarity, Relationships and Relational Egalitarianism, Sabrina Ruby Green
Infinite Monkeys: Nietzsche and the Cruel Optimism of Personal Immortality, Robert Johnson
A Practical Conception of the Kantian Bifurcation, Nikolaus Kennelly
A Defense of Algorithmic Homuncularism, Spencer Kinsey
Innocent Preferences in Hume's Morality, Shaharyar Masood
Nietzsche's Scala Amoris: Nietzsche and Diotima on Eros and Philosophy, Paul R. Murphy
Kantian Assent in a Practical Relation, Matt Osborne
Self-identification, Maximiliana Jewett Rifkin
Should Private Property Rights Have Term Limits?, Isaac Shur
An Explanation of the Formal-Substantive Freedom Distinction (and Why it Matters), Jake Sweet
Theses from 2021
Philosophy as Bad Poetry: Schopenhauer and Nietzsche on the Ancient Quarrel, Bridget Berdit
Habituation, Transformation, and Conflict: Hegel and Transformative Theories of Rationality, Alexander Drusda
Moved by Sad Music: Pleasure and Emotion in Sad Music Listening Experiences, Matthew Dunaway
In Defense of Sex Work Decriminalization: A Case Against the Nordic Model, Allison Escobar
Religion and Two-Level Utilitarianism in Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Steven O. Falco
Aristotle on the Role of Practical Intellect in Determining the Ends, Kerong Gao
Reincarnation and Rehabilitation: the Theodicy of Plato's Timaeus, John Garrett
Non-Propositional Attitudes Supervene on Disjunctive Propositional Attitude Complexes, Steven Guillemette
Vivisection and Moral Introspection in Nietzsche, Jacob Hogan
What Is Wrong With Self-effacing Ethical Theories?, Austin Keefe
Protections without Rights: A Liberal Indictment of Factory Farming, Connor Kianpour
Moral Attitudes: Why Attitude Matters in Characterizing The Psychology of Moral Judgements, Tate Anders Krogstad
Til Death (or Divorce) Do Us Part: A Defense of Divorce as a Morally Permissible Instance of Promise-Breaking, Katherine Landers
Challenges to Causal Classification in Psychiatry, Richard Link
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
Why Ralph Waldo Emerson Is A Virtue Ethicist, Christopher Julian Porzenheim
Adam Smith and the Problem of Parochialism: Can the Impartial Spectator Engage in Social Critique?, Aaron D. Richardson
The Dual-Process Model and Moral Dilemmas: Reflection Does Not Drive Self-Sacrifice, David Simpson
What Is Wrong with Statistical Discrimination?, Ziyue Sun
Nietzsche's Critique of "Absolute" Music, David Swigart
Masked Abilities and Manipulation Arguments, Matthew Turyn
Ingroup Attitude: A Reliance-Based Analysis, Xin Zhang
Theses from 2020
Thinking Beyond Democracy for a Future Cosmopolitan Legal Order, Thomas Briggs
Experience without Memory: Optogenetics, the Self, and the Ethics of Forgetting, David Kendall Casey
Delusions as Hetero-Dynamic Property Clusters, Shelby Clipp
Educational Adequacy, Capability, And Basic Educational Justice: A Revision Of Anderson and Satz, Jared Corbett
Politics and Products: An Arendtian Analysis of Modern Humans' Concern for Immortality, Gunnar Footh
Opting-In: A Further Justification of Robin Zheng's Role-Ideal Model, Meagan D. Fraser
Free Will Experiences and Higher-Order Thoughts, Kyle Alan Hale
Public Reason and Moral Repair, Luke Larson
What We Can't and Won't Believe: Rethinking Belief Polarization as Political Acceptance, Rachel E. Lehmann
Implicit Biases and Byrne's Epistemic Rule for Self-knowledge of Beliefs, Hanyu Liu
Historical Injustices and the State Endurance Thesis, Yuchen Li
Sex Work and Empowerment, Marisa E. Maccaro
Towards a Distinction between Gender Identity and Gender Orientation, Avery Newman
Empirical Information and Kant's Moral Laws, Joseph Payne
A Critique of Practice-Based Directives for Personal Relationship Law, Robert Stanton
Joseph Butler on Self-Reverence as a Moral Duty, Ruby Tamariz
Theses from 2019
Understanding Other Conscious Minds, Nicholas Alonso
Arguments for Banning Autonomous Weapon Systems: A Critique, Hunter B. Cantrell
A (Partial) Rehabilitation of Euthyphro, Andrew Gilley
Dismantling Rape Culture: The Need for a Comprehensive Educational Approach, Chase Halsne
Niche Construction Theory: Difficulties for a Practice Approach to Theoretical Pluralism, Caleb Hazelwood
The Limits of Rationality: Aristotle on the Possibility of Practical Reason, Russell Helder
Hegel's Empty Formalism Critique, Auj Kausar
The Body of Ideas: Nietzsche, Embodiment, and the Genealogical Method, Matthew Kelley
Finding Prejudice in Unexpected Places: Racially Biased Perception, Spencer Knafelc
The Problem of Coercion in State Apologies, Jackson Kushner
Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Religion and his Critique of German Idealism, Nicholas R. Linhares
Butler and Kant on Human Nature and Morality, Botian Liu
Children Of Genius: Affirmation Of Will In Schopenhauer's Aesthetics, Clare Mauney
Kant and Joseph Butler on Autonomy, Moral Obligation, and Stoic Virtue, Samuel Munroe
Marxism, Racism, & Capitalism: A Critical Examination of Nancy Fraser, Joseph Murphy
Assymetric Epistemic Labor as Hermeneutical Injustice, Margaret F. Owens
Convergence Liberalism and the Limits of State Coercive Power: A Case Against the Public Justification Principle, Sean R. Rice
Respecting an Incompetent Person's Autonomy, Erica Ronning
Naturalized Metaphysics and Scientific Constraint: A Model-Building Approach, Jake Spinella
Epistemic Injustice in Sexual Assault Trials, Emily Tilton
Experience-Based Intuitions, Tiffany Zhu
Theses from 2018
The Cost of Integration: Grounding the Integration Debate in Black Experience, Hansen Breitling
Seeing Past Causes: Causation and Covariation in Informational Teleosemantics, Asa Collier
Machine Automation and the Critique of Abstract Labor in Hegel's Mature Social Theory, Matthew J. Delhey
Epistemic Injustice in White Academic Feminism, Mary Donnelly
Need Evolutionary Debunking Arguments Rely on a Particular Metaphysical Construal of Evaluative Facts?, Christopher Foster
The Fragility of Convergence: Public Reason, Political Liberalism and Stability, Paul Fryfogle
Aristotle on Virtuous Disharmony: Mixed Actions and the Virtue/Continence Distinction, James Gillard
Feminist Aims and A Trans-Inclusive Definition of "Woman", Katie L. Kirkland
Metaethical Contextualism and the Problem of Disagreement: When Somebody Must Be Wrong, Bradley Loveall
Rawls's Political Liberalism: Historicist Or Kantian?, Linh Mac