Students in the Department of Philosophy combine deep intellectual analyses of important philosophers with a robust and comprehensive survey of important ideas, reflecting an understanding of both thinker and thought. Their research and writing, under the
guidance of our renowned faculty, influence the field and reshape the modern understanding of ideas.
Recent Philosophy Dissertations
2023
Alexander Christoff Altonji
Moral Distance: The Significance of Acknowledgment
Jonathan Hausler Berk
Kant’s Copernican Experiment: An Interpretation of the "Critique of Pure Reason"
Teresa Casas Hernández
Mimetic Resistance: From Ancient Greek Theater to Contemporary Greek Theater
Kelly Joan Gawel
The Contradictions of Care: Violence and Revolution in Caring Relations
Pedro Mauricio Garcia Dotto
Plato, Persuasion, and Psychagogy: An Interpretation of the "Phaedrus"
Tomás Lima Pimenta
The Eclipse of the Political: On Liberal Distrust and Authoritarianism
Philip Schauss
Backgrounds in Architecture: Besides Aesthetics and Function
2022
Carlos de la Puente
The Unconscious, Drive and Desire in Anglo-Saxon Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
Ryan Anders Gustafson
Institutions in Deconstruction: A New Reading of Jacques Derrida’s Social and Political
Philosophy
Lisa Michelle McKeown
The Art of Acknowledgment: Rethinking How Speech Acts
Miguel José Paley De Greiff
The Concept of Affect in the Philosophy of Henri Bergson
Daniel John Christian Wagnon
The Logic of Common Sense and the Refutation of Global Skepticism: A Parallax Study
of Ordinary Language Philosophy and Phenomenology
Benjamin Norris
Absolute Realism: Schelling and the Vortex of Spinozism
2021
Daniel Boscov-Ellen
After the Flood: Political Philosophy in the Capitalocene
Pablo Bustinduy Amador
The Empty Space of Modern Politics. Metaphysics of Space and Political Universalism at the Advent of the Modern Age
Teresa Casas Hernández
On theatrical practice and philosophy: an exploration in Ancient and Modern Greek theater
Carolyn Colsant
Irony: Both Dangerous and Necessary
Joel Thomas Paxton de Lara
How Should I Know? Talking of Knowledge with Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell
Thomas Hughes
The Epistemological Implications of Dedekindian Set Theory in the Formation of Mathematical and Scientific Concepts in the Thought of Ernst Cassirer
Anna Katsman
Spirit and the Concept: On the Relationship between Hegel’s "Phenomenology of Spirit" and "Science of Logic"
John Noras
Here and Now: A Phenomenological Account
Benjamin Norris
Absolute Realism: Schelling and the Vortex of Spinozism
Daniel Richmond
Countervailing Possibility: Metaphysical, Epistemic, and Practical Issues of Possibility in Aristotle, Martin Heidegger, and Ernst Bloch
Caecilie Varslev-Pedersen
Violent Sacrifices and Ambiguous Reconciliations: Critiques of Modernity in Schiller, Hegel, and Kierkegaard
Daniel Wagnon
Phenomenology, Ordinary Language Philosophy, and Common Sense Realism
Nikolay Tugushev
Freedom and Error
2020
David Bak Geler
Practical Improvisation: Rule-Following, Spontaneity and Democracy
Hannes Charen
Family Portraits Political Theology of Kinship
Joshua Nicholas Pineda
Sheep in Wolves’ Clothing: Theory and Critique in the Marxist and Post-Marxist Traditions
Angelica Maria Blomberg Stathopoulos
Passivity: Essays in Ontology and Ethics
Brandyn Heppard
The Revolution Must Be Funny: The Liberatory and Revolutionary Power of Comedy
Marcus Michelsen
A Genealogical Reading of Wittgenstein
Emilio Andres Vicuna Zauschkevich
HORIZON AND FINITUDE. HUSSERLIAN PERSPECTIVES ON THE FRAGILITY OF EXPERIENCE
2019
Juniper Alcorn
Pregnancy Beyond the Natural
Michael Becker
In the Spirit of Critique: Critical Theory in Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Jacob Blumenfeld
The Property Relation: Freedom, Right and Recognition in Kant, Fichte and Hegel
Kathleen Kelley
Automatism is a Humanism: Cavell, Medium, and Modernism
2018
Jacob Browning
Inventing Perceptual Content: The Given from Kant to McDowell
Jeremy Butman
Terrestriality: The Critique of Metaphysics and the Concept of the Planet
Robert Grimwade
Excess and Reflection: Beauty, Sublimity, and the Sensuous in the Aesthetics of Kant, Schopenhauer, and the Early Nietzsche
Edward Guetti
Conspicuous Absences and Formative Losses
Marianne Aimee Le Nabat
Collective Action
Joseph Lemelin
Nature's Form in Aristotle: An Essay on the Artificial and the Natural
Roxanne Magee
On Conceptualism - An Inquiry into Language and Thought
Luis Recoder
ZWANGSANALYSE: Adorno and the Compulsion of the Dialectic
Mark Thorsby
Intersubjectivity & Moral Failure
Maxwell Tremblay
Frantz Fanon's Philosophy of Race: Self, World, and Revolution
Yi Wu
The Sea and the Mirror: Essayings in De-territorialization and Mimesis
2017
Carlo Alvaro
Veganism As A Virtue
Lawrence Berger
Dasein as Attention: The Metaphysics of the Effort of Presence
Alexis Dianda
The Depths of Experience: William James after the Linguistic Turn
Daniel Fernandez
The Amoralist and the Internalism-Externalism Debate
Jordi Graupera
Metaphysics of Neutrality in Contemporary Liberalism
Krista Johansson
THUS SPOKE THE BODY: The Problem of Affirmation in Nietzsche's Philosophy
Daniel Vicente Jove Rosales
The Bequest of Language: Aspects of Inheritance in Stanley Cavell
David Kaye
The Philosopher and the Art of Holy Lying: Nietzsche on Truth, Deception, and Modernity
Krystal Dawn Kreye
On Counterrevolution
Scott Shushan
On Agency as Responsibility
Kevin Alistair Temple
ANSWERING DREYFUS’S CHALLENGE: Toward a Theory of Concepts Without Intellectualism
Mark Robrecht Theunissen
Rationality, Naturalism and Critique in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Alina Vaisfeld
Madness as a Problem of Transcendence: A phenomenological study of hallucinations and delusions
William Walsh
It Goes Without Saying: Derrida, Freud, and the "Fort/Da" of Language