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Thesis Title |
Research Interests |
Applied to Ph.D. Programs? |
Program Placement |
| "Rational Capacities and the Practice of Blame: A Skeptical Argument" Hugh McCann (chair) | Action Theory, Metaethics, Practical Reasoning | yes | University of California, Riverside (Philosophy) |
| "A People's History of Philosophy: The Development and Ideological Segregation of Black Nationalism" Claire Katz and Tommy Curry (co-chairs) | Critical Race Theory, Feminist Philosophy | no | Wayne State University (Law School) |
| "Stubborn Systems: Two New Multiple Coherent Systems Objections for Coherentist Moral Realism" Gary Varner (chair) | Political Philosophy | yes | CUNY Graduate Center (Philosophy) |
| "M-Combinatorialism and the Semantics of SQML" Chris Menzel (chair) | Metaphysics | yes | University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (Philosophy) |
| "The Varieties of Self-Knowledge" Robert Burch (chair) | Kant, German Idealism, Philosophy of Science, Moral Psychology, Ancient Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy | yes | Johns Hopkins University (Philosophy) |
| "Aristotle's Moral Absolutes: A Preliminary Look" Robin Smith (chair) | Ancient Philosophy | yes | Rice University (Philosophy) |
| "Mental Agency and Attributionist (or 'Real Self') Accounts of Moral Responsibility" Hugh McCann (chair) | Epistemology, Action Theory, Ethics | yes | University of Notre Dame (Philosophy) |
Thesis Title |
Research Interests |
Applied to Ph.D. Programs? |
Program Placement |
| “Freedom in Kant’s Critical Philosophy: The Keystone of Pure Reason” Stephen Daniel (chair) |
Kant, early modern (especially Leibnitz, Descartes, Spinoza), ancient (especially Plato and Presocratics) | yes | University of Wisconsin-Madison (Philosophy) |
| “The Method of Division and Aristotle’s Criticism of Platonic Philosophy” Robin Smith (chair) |
Ancient, history of philosophy, logic | yes | University of Toronto (Philosophy) |
| “Kojeve and Levinas: Universality Without Totality” Theodore George (chair) |
German idealism, the hermeneutics of suspicion, and contemporary continental philosophy | yes | did not pursue an academic career |
| "The Case for Legitimacy: Reconsidering the Role of Theoretical Authority in the Work of Joseph Raz" Colleen Murphy (chair) | Joseph Raz, legal positivism, and philosophy of testimony | No | applying to law schools |
Thesis Title |
Research Interests |
Applied to Ph.D. Programs? |
Program Placement |
| "The Idea of Person in Kant's Practical Philosophy" Stephen Daniel (chair) | Epistemology, Ethics, Philosophy of Law, Modern Philosophy | yes | University of Notre Dame (Philosophy) |
| "What in the World are Possible Worlds?" Chris Menzel (chair) | Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics | yes | University of Southern California (Philosophy) |
| "Immanuel Kant and T.H. Green on Emotion, Sympathy and Morality" Michael LeBuffe (chair) | Moral Philosophy, Pain and Consciousness (especially the relationship between pain and morality) | yes | University of Kentucky (Philosophy) |
| "Contemporary Terrorist Organizations and the Threat to Michael Walzer's Defense of a Supreme Emergency Exemption from Jus in Bello" John J. McDermott (chair) | Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion | no | working at Texas A&M University as Senior Systems Administrator for the Dept. of Philosophy |
"The Relation Between Human and Divine Intellection in Aristotle's Theoria and Thomas Aquinas's Contemplation" Hugh McCann (chair) |
Medieval Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysics | yes | University of Notre Dame (Philosophy) |
| "Tensions in Moral Sensibilities that Form the Platonic Grid; Making Modern Day Dogs of War" John J. McDermott (chair) | Ancient Philosophy, Aesthetics/Hermeneutics, Political Philosophy (Military Ethics), American Philosophy | no | instructor at the United States Military Academy at West Point |
| "Perceptual Disanalogy: On the Alstonian Analogy Argument from Religious Experience" Hugh McCann (chair) | Epistemology, Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysics, Logic | yes | Instructor of Philosophy at Moberly Area Community College in Hannibal, MO |
Thesis Title |
Research Interests |
Applied to Ph.D. Programs? |
Program Placement |
| "Toward an Understanding of the Conditions of a Religious Leap in Kierkegaard's A Literary Review" Daniel Conway (chair) | 19th Century Philosophy, History of 20th Century Analytic Philosophy, Wittgenstein, Philosophy of Mind | yes | University of Minnesota (Counseling Psychology) |
| "From the Schematic to the Symbolic: The Radical Possibilities of the Imagination in Kant's Third Critique" Theodore George (chair) | German Idealism, Post-Kantian Continental Philosophy, Philosophical Hermeneutics, Philosophy of Religion | yes | University of Kentucky (Philosophy) |
| "The Aesthetic Turn in the Face of Nihilism" Theodore George (chair) | Aesthetics, Nihilism, Dewey, Heidegger | yes | Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (Philosophy) |
| "On Expressive Punishment and Holistic Desert" Linda Radzik (chair) | Social and Political Philosophy, Issues Related to Liberal Egalitarianism, Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Law | yes | Syracuse University (Philosophy) |
| "Eternal Recurrence and Nature" Daniel Conway (chair) | History of Modern Philosophy, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche | no | working for the state of Tennessee |
| "Plato's Lysis and Its Influence on Kant and Aristotle" Scott Austin (chair) | History of Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Business Ethics, Latin American Philosophy, Chinease Philosophy, Normative Ethics | yes | teaching English at Xiamen University, Xiamen, China |
| "The Absurd and the Comical" John J. McDermott | Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Religion | no | did no pursue an academic career |
| "Ante Rem Structuralism and the Myth of Identity Criteria" Christoper Menzel (chair) | Philosophy of Mathematics, Logic, Metaphysics | yes | Brown University (Philosophy) |
| "Toward a Normative Theory of Rationality"Robert Burch (chair) | Philosophy of Language, German Idealism, American Pragmatism | yes | University of Pittsburg (Philosophy) |
Thesis Title |
Research Interests |
Applied to Ph.D. Programs? |
Program Placement |
| "Why Tropes cannot be Metaphysically Simple" Christopher Menzel (chair) | Metaphysics, Logic | yes | University of California, Riverside (Philosophy) |
| "Nietzsche on Truth in the Contexts of Nihilism and Health" Theodore George (chair) | Nietzsche, Nihilism | yes | University of South Florida (Philosophy) |
Thesis Title |
Research Interests |
Applied to Ph.D. Programs? |
Program Placement |
| "On How the Debate about What is Law should Proceed in the Face of the Methodology Conflict in Jurisprudence" Colleen Murphy (chair) | Philosophy of Law, Ethics | no | did not pursue an academic career |
| "Leibniz: A Metaphysic of Substances" Stephen Daniel (chair) | Metaphysics, Modern Philosophy | yes | University of California, Irvine (Philosophy) |
| "Phenomenal Well-Being" Gary Varner (chair) | Ethics, Metaethics, Applied Ethics, Modern Philosophy | yes | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Philosophy) |
| "John Dewey's Theory of Inquiry: An Interpretation of a Classical American Approach to Logic" John J. McDermott (chair) | American Philosophy, Logic | yes | Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (Philosophy) |
| "Rediscovering the Philosophical Importance of Jose Ingenieros" Gregory Pappas (chair) | Latin American Philosophy, Pragmatism, Social/Political Philosophy, Existentialism | no | teaching at El Paso Community College, El Paso, TX |
| "Descartes and the Creation of the Eternal Truths" Stephen Daniel (chair) | Metaphysics | yes | did not pursue an academic career |
| "Science and Religion: A Search for Synergism" John J. McDermott (chair) | n/a | yes | did not pursue an academic career |
| "The Problem of Love from Sartre and Beauvoir to Irigaray" Michael Hand (chair) | n/a | yes | did not pursue academic career |
| "Embracing the Half: Aristotle's Revision of Platonic Eros and Philia" Robin Smith (chair) | Ancient Philosophy | yes | University of Arizona (Philosophy) |
| "The Question Concerning Heidegger: Technology and Being, A Deeper Understanding" Theodore George (chair) | Metaphysics, Heidegger | yes | Duquesne University |
| "A State of Freedom: A Defense of Perfectionist Liberalism" Derrick Darby (chair) | Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Social Science, Game Theory | yes | University of Michigan (Philosophy) |
Thesis Title |
Research Interests |
Applied to Ph.D. Programs? |
Program Placement |
| "The Possibility of Free Will: John Duns Scotus and William James on the Will" John J. McDermott (chair) | Free Will, American Philosophy | no | teaching at Regis Jesuit High School–Girls Division in Aurora, CO |
| "Divine Simplicity as Actus Purus" Hugh McCann (chair) | Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysics | yes | Indiana University, Bloomington (Philosophy) |
| "The Existential and Postmodern Individual" John J. McDermott (chair) | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| "Confucius and Dewey on Community" John J. McDermott (chair) | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| "What's Wrong with Pain?" Gary Varner (chair) | Ethics, Applied Ethics, Philosophy of Cognative Science, Philosophy of Mind, Empirically-Informed Moral Psychology | yes | Washington University, St. Louis (Philosophy) |
| "A Thomistic Account of Divine Providence and Human Freedom" Hugh McCann (chair) | Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, History of Philosophy (Ancient, Medieval, Modern) | yes | University of Virginia |
Thesis Title |
Research Interests |
Applied to Ph.D. Programs? |
Program Placement |
| "Divine Sustenance and Human Freedom" Hugh McCann (chair) | Philosophy of Religion, Medieval Philosophy, Metaphysics, Epistemology | yes | Indiana University, Bloomington (Philosophy) |
| "Rethinking U.S. Drug Policy: An Integrity Preserving Compromise Position" C.E. Harris (chair) | Ethics, Political Philosophy, International Ethics, Philosophy of Logic, Philosophy of Education | yes | Associate Professor at Austin Community College, Austin, TX |
| "Two Responses to a Moment in the Question of Transcendence: A Study of First Boundaries in Plotinean and Kabbalistic Cosmogonical Metaphysics" Scott Austin (chair) | n/a | yes | University of Kentucky (Philosophy) |
| n/a | n/a | yes | Texas A&M University, College Station, TX (Computer Science) |
| "William James and the Rationality of Possibility" John J. McDermott (chair) | American Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Philosophy of Death | yes | ABD, University of Oregon (Philosophy); accepted position at United International College in Zhahai, China |
| "Absurd Limits: Camus, Dewey, and Metaphysics" John J. McDermott (chair) | n/a | no | did not pursue an academic career |
| "What has Chihara's Mathematical Nominalism Gained over Mathematical Realism?" Christopher Menzel (chair) | Logic, Formal Epistemology, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Logic | yes | Stanford University (Philosophy) |
| "An Assessment of Presentism" Christopher Menzel (chair) | Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion | yes | University of Virginia (Philosophy) |
| "Divine Voluntarism: Moral Obligation Supervenes on God's Antecedent Will" Hugh McCann (chair) | Ethics, Philosophy of Religion | no | did not pursue an academic career |
| "The Failure of Storytelling to Ground a Casual Theory of Reference" Christopher Menzel (chair) | Philosophy of Language | yes | University of Virginia |
Thesis Title |
Research Interests |
Applied to Ph.D. Programs? |
Program Placement |
| "Heidegger, Art and Politics: Exploring the Notion of Truth that can be Revealed through a Work of Art in Relation to the Political Sphere" Theodore George (chair) | n/a | no | Law School; working as a lawyer in Houston, TX |
