Titles of Recent Philosophy MA Theses

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