| May 2007 |
| Casey J. Rentmeester |
"Two Ways of Social Practice Theory: Wittgensteinian and Heideggerian" |
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Advisor: Kwang-sae Lee |
| Joseph G. Sacco |
"The Responsible Corporation: Stockholders, Stakeholders and Aristotelian Teleology" |
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Advisor: Daniel Palmer |
| May 2006 |
| Alexander P. Cox |
"The Equivalence of First and Second Order Knowledge: A New Perspective on Hintikka's Proof" |
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Advisor: Frank Ryan |
| Caemeron C. Crain |
"Knowledge and the De-Centered Subject: Perspectivism in Nietzsche and Deleuze" |
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Advisor: Gene Pendleton |
| David R. Schrappe |
"Absolute Nothingness: Some Reflections on Keiji Nishitani's Place in the Tradition of the Kyoto School" |
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Advisor: Kwang-sae Lee |
| December 2005 |
| Richard A. Romano |
"Constitution and Genesis in Husserl's Phenomenology of Perception" |
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Advisor: Gina Zavota |
| May 2005 |
| Jeremy A. Fisher |
"Dao and the Self: An Interdependent World" |
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Advisor: Kwang-Sae Lee |
| August 2004 |
| Joseph T. Palencik |
"The Clear Crystal Nature: A Reading of Walter Pater" |
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Advisor: David Odell-Scott |
| May 2004 |
| Charles Comer |
"The Development of Sartrean Social Theory" |
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Advisor: Jeffrey Wattles |
| Maria Hollendonner |
"Whitehead on Understanding" |
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Advisor: David Odell-Scott |
| December 2003 |
| Frank Scalambrino |
"Psychotherapy: Speaking Philosophically" |
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Advisor: Michael Byron |
| May 2002 |
| Kevin Fink |
"On the Problem of Persisting Through Change: Endurance vs. Perdurance" |
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Advisor: Deborah Smith |
| James Kuhn |
"Quine and Davidson: Two Antifoundationalist Responses to Global Skepticism" |
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Advisor: Gene Pendleton |
| Jody Price |
"Is Quantum Theory Compatible with Scientific Realism? An Inquiry into the
Philosophical Consequence of the Indeterminate Nature of the Quanta" |
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Advisor: Gene Pendleton |
| Nathan Rish |
"Laozi, Zhuangzi, and Heidegger: An investigation into Compassion Beyond
Humanism" |
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Advisor: Jeffrey Wattles |
| May 2001 |
| Joshua A. Crites |
"The Constitution of A Self: Authenticity in the Faces of Others" |
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Advisor: Jeffrey Wattles |
| Jillian Newland |
"Nihilism's Legacy:? The Malaise of Modernity" |
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Advisor: Linda Williams |
| Michael Skrajner |
"Why We Should Be Vegetarians: A Critical Appropriation of Singer and Regan" |
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Advisor: Michael Byron |
| May 2000 |
| Christopher A. Crull |
"In Defense of Aletheia: A Realist Concern for Truth" |
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Advisor: Deborah C. Smith |
| Elizabeth J. Rager |
"Moral Objectivity Without Rules: An Exploration of Moral Cognitivism and Moral Particularism" |
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Advisor: Michael Byron |
| August 1999 |
| Matthew J. Waldschlagel |
"Heidegger's Interpretation of Destruktion and Historicity" |
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Advisor: David Odell-Scott |
| May 1999 |
| Jerry De John |
"Evolutionary Qualia: Ritual, Religion, Symbolic Communication, and the Origin of Conscious Experience" |
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Advisor: Brian Rosmaita |
| Robyn K. Reed |
"Davidson, Truth, and Reality" |
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Advisor: Deborah C. Smith |
| Arnold A. Smith II |
"Sellars and Rorty on the Language of Theories" |
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Advisor: Kwang-sae Lee |
| May 1998 |
| Shaun Michael Beauchesne |
"Davidson, Meaning, and Metaphor: On the Supposed Dichotomy of Literal and Figurative Language" |
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Advisor: Gene Pendleton |
| James Thomas Bednar |
"Schelling and Rorty: Absolute Identity and Rational Reconstruction" |
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Advisor: Gayle L. Ormiston |
| Dontriette Broadwater |
"Philosophy in Secondary Public Education:? Prospects for Character Development" |
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Advisor: Gayle L. Ormiston |
| Luke E. Hannah |
"The Role of Information in Explaining Consciousness: An Inquiry Into David Chalmers' Proto-Theory of Consciousness" |
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Advisor: Brian Rosmaita |
| James Donovan Madden II |
"Privileged Access, Behaviorism, and the Concept of Thinking: A Wittgensteinian Cum Sellarsian Response to Ryle's Logical Behaviorism" |
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Advisor: Kwang-sae Lee |
| May 1997 |
| Allan S. Hlebovy |
"A Phenomenology of Atypical Body" |
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Advisor: Linda Williams |
| Jennifer Ann Janesko |
"Paul Churchland's Connectionist Morality and Moral Realism" |
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Advisor: Brian Rosmaita |
| Randall Alan Lennox |
"Violence: A Philosophical Inquiry" |
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Advisor: David Odell-Scott |
| Rebecca Joanne Murchland |
"The Role of Narrative in Self-Understanding, Dialogue, and Ethical Action" |
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Advisor: Jeffrey Wattles |
| May 1996 |
| Mark L. McCann |
"Beyond Only War: The Roles of Loyalty in the Practice of Military Ethics" |
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Advisor: Patricia James |
| Michael Joseph Monaco |
"'They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Anymore': Nietzsche's Historicization of Jesus, Christ, and Christianity" |
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Advisor: Linda Williams |
| Martina Marie Ropog |
"An Ethic of Caring for Business Managers" |
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Advisor: Jeffrey Wattles |
| August 1995 |
| Philip Martin Adamek |
"Foucault's This is Not a Pipe: Similitude in Archeology" |
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Advisor: Jeffrey Wattles |
| May 1995 |
| James Brian Coleman |
"Purpose and Purposiveness in Kant's Critique of Judgment: Reading Lyotard's Clues for the Rediscovery of the Cognitive Faculties" |
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Advisor: Gayle L. Ormiston |
| Timothy Goodwin |
"The Paradox of Special Creation: A Corporeal Encounter with Wilfrid Sellars' Epistemological Holism" |
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Advisor: Gene Pendleton |
| Gregory A. Kelly |
"A Question of Black Identity: An Analysis of Shelby Steele's The Content of Our Character" |
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Advisor: David Odell-Scott |
| Colleen A. Sweeney |
"A Maternal Moment: A Creative Conceptual Reconstruction" |
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Advisor: Patricia James |
| May 1994 |
| Roger John Magyar |
"Into the Light: Violent, Enfolded, and Delicate Tensions in the Work of Art for Hegel and Motherwell" |
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Advisor: Patricia James and Gayle L. Ormiston |
| Donald Morse |
"Dewey's Reconstruction of Philosophy" |
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Advisor: James Dickoff and Kwang-sae Lee |
| Griffin Thomas Nelson |
"A Solid Reality Among Shadows: Socratic Ignorance, Socratic Love, Socratic Teaching" |
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Advisor: Charles E. Burlingame |
| Jonathan M. Reuter |
"Not So Quiet on the Western Front: Operation Rescue and Civil Disobedience" |
| |
Advisor: Linda Williams |
| Kimberly van Orman |
"A Pragmatic and Comparative Perspective on the Experience of Faith: A Study of William James and Wilfrid Cantwell Smith" |
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Advisor: David Odell-Scott and Jeffrey Wattles |
| Taze Yanick |
"Hermeneutics of the Self and Aesthetics of Existence: Inquiring by Way of Codes" |
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Advisor: Patricia James and Gayle L. Ormiston |