| 2024 |
No Honors Students |
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| 2023 |
Jingyi (Emily) Zhang |
Critical Interests and Advance Directives of People with Dementia |
Professor Ann Bumpus |
| 2023 |
Zachary Lang |
Towards a New Theory of Ideological Epistemic Defects |
Professor David Plunkett |
| 2023 |
Blake Whitmer |
The Univocity of Being and Expressive Power: Ontological Pluralism's Effect on Formal Languages |
Professors Amie Thomasson and Peter Lewis |
| 2022 |
No Honors Students |
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| 2021 |
No Honors Students |
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| 2020 |
Samantha Koreman |
The Limits and Constitutive Obligations of Political Authority |
Professors David Plunkett and Kenny Walden |
| 2020 |
Jeffrey Thomas Poomkudy |
Natural-Historical Judgments and the Grounds of Normativity: A Development of Michael Thompson's Metaethical Naturalism |
Professor Timothy Rosenkoetter |
| 2020 |
Gavriel Steinmetz-Silber |
Moral-Epistemic Dilemmas |
Professor John Kulvicki |
| 2019 |
Jessica Anne Heine |
Vagueness and Representation: A Unifying Account |
Professor Samuel Levey |
| 2019 |
Cynthia Shin |
The Ontology of Video Games: An Ingardenian Analysis of the Polyphonic Structure of Video Games |
Professor Amie Thomasson |
| 2019 |
Henry Tracey |
The Persistence of Fatalism Under Metaphysical Theories |
Professor Christine Thomas |
| 2018 |
Claire Feuille |
Creating a Fated Self: Agency and Artistry in Nietzsche |
Professor Kenneth Walden |
| 2018 |
Matthew Goldstein |
The Ethics of Engagement: Negotiating the Normative Moral Status of Combatants in War |
Professor Timothy Rosenkoetter |
| 2018 |
Daniel J. Widawsky |
Moral Motivation Meets Metarepresentationalism: Do Patients with Ventromedial Frontal Damage Have First-Order Moral Beliefs? |
Professor Adina Roskies |
| 2017 |
Christian Nakazawa |
To Have Other Eyes: Metaphor, Meaning, and Imagination |
Professor John Kulvicki |
| 2017 |
JP Olinski |
Finding a Peer Disagreement Norm for Political Disagreement and Other Ambiguous Cases |
Professor Sam Levey |
| 2017 |
Joshua Tseng-Tham |
Defending a NeoAristotelian Position in Metaethical Naturalism |
Professor Kenneth Walden |
| 2016 |
Alexander Kane |
False Selves: Truth in Narrative Constitution |
Professor Sam Levey |
| 2016 |
Tierra Victoria Lynch |
Akrasia, Rationality & Autonomy: Understanding the Moral Responsibilities of the Addict |
Professor Adina Roskies |
| 2016 |
Lea Aurelia Schroeder |
Material Composition in Plato's Timaeus |
Professor Christine Thomas |
| 2015 |
Paul W. Frazel |
Responsible Blaming: Personality Disorder and Moral Responsibility Within the Clinic and Without |
Professors Adina Roskies and James Moor |
| 2015 |
Joonsuh Jo |
Foucault and the Freedom of the Modern Subject |
Professor Amy Allen |
| 2014 |
Lingxi Chenyang |
Kripke's Wittgenstein: Meaning, Normativity, and Rule-Following |
Professor David Plunkett |
| 2014 |
Christopher Hauser |
Grounding, Metaphysical Explanation, and the Analogy of Existing |
Professor Christine Thomas |
| 2014 |
Brendan Mooney |
Etiquette and the Escapability of Morality |
Professor Susan Brison |
| 2014 |
Gabriel Redel-Traub |
Value at the Intersection |
Professor John Kulvicki |
| 2014 |
Rebecca Rothfeld |
Being a Bat in a Vat on Twin Earth: A Guidebook for Thought Experimenters & Other Epistemic Adventurers |
Professor Sam Levey |
| 2013 |
Bailey Pratt Hoar |
Drones, Ethics, and 21st Century Warfare Understanding and Mitigating the Ethical Tensions of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Through Just War Theory |
Professor James Moor |
| 2013 |
James Craig Smyser |
Metaethics, Toleration, and the Burdens of Democratic Justice in John Rawls' Political Constructivism |
Professor Kenny Walden |
| 2012 |
Nathan Gusdorf |
Adornian Marxism: The Concept of Critique |
Professor Amy Allen |
| 2011 |
Benjamin H. Feintzeig |
Understanding Through Causation: A Four-Factor Approach to Scientific Explanation |
Professor Adina Roskies |
| 2011 |
David B. Kinney |
The Ontology of Chance |
Professor Christine Thomas |
| 2010 |
Anfin S. Erickson |
Sextus Empiricus and the Unlivability of Skepticism: A Proposed Solution |
Professor Christine Thomas |
| 2010 |
Benjamin A. Gifford |
Making Sense of our Modal Discourse |
Professor James Moor |
| 2009 |
Robert W. Forster |
Desert, Child Rape, and Capital Punishment: Applying the Deontological Significance of Childhood |
Professor John L. Crocker |
| 2009 |
Emily E. Smith |
Just War Theory and Terrorism: A Case for the Just and Exceptional Use of Torture |
Professor Eugene Marshall |
| 2009 |
Jane V. Tucker |
The Self-Concept Notion of Self-Deception: A Non-Deflationary, Non-Intentionalist Account |
Professor Amy Allen |
| 2008 |
Haley A. Bolin |
Justice After Genocide: The Expressive Theory of Punishment in Defense of Truth Commissions |
Professor John L. Crocker |
| 2008 |
Kevin J. Decker |
The Rebirth of Critique: Michel Foucault's Archaeological Method and Project |
Professor Amy Allen |
| 2008 |
David M. Lamb |
A Response to Theism and Nihilism: The Basis and Truth of Moral Claims |
Professor Walter Sinnott-Armstrong |
| 2008 |
Katharine M. McIntyre |
Genealogy and Practices of Self-Overcoming |
Professor Amy Allen |
| 2008 |
Michael P. Milne |
Reasons, Rationality, and Motivation: A Second Look at Michael Smith's The Moral Problem |
Professor Julia Driver |
| 2008 |
Jared S. Westheim |
Dialectics Beyond Destruction: Adorno, Deleuze, and the Search for a New Subjectivity |
Professor Amy Allen |
| 2007 |
Peter D. Anderson, jr. |
Freedom and Inter-Subjectivity: Ethical Implications of Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness |
Professor Amy Allen |
| 2007 |
Kirsten E. Grauer |
Plato on Punishment |
Professors Christine Thomas and John L. Crocker |
| 2007 |
Mark F. Hoipkemier |
Rights, Flourishing, Freedom: Good Work and the Ethics of International Development |
Professor Julia Driver |
| 2006 |
Christopher E. Biermann |
The Absence of a Meaningful Meaning to Life |
Professor Roy Sorenson |
| 2006 |
Haley Bolin |
Justice After Genocide: The Expressive Theory of Punishment in Defense of Truth Commissions |
Professor John L. Crocker |
| 2005 |
Brian Burgess |
Moral Responsibility and Conscious Will: The Impact of Contemporary Research in Neuro-Physiology and Weak-Reason Responsiveness |
Professor Amy Allen |
| 2005 |
Eva Vivalt |
What People Minimally Require: A Capabilities Approach With Applications in Development |
Professor Susan Brison |
| 2005 |
Andrew Verstein |
Begging the Question and the Burden of Proof |
Professor Walter Sinnott-Armstrong |
| 2004 |
Claire Chandler |
The Future of Idaho Wilderness: Applying John Broome's Ethical Theory to the Boulder and White Cloud Mountains Land Use Debate |
Professor Julia Driver |
| 2004 |
Noah Flower |
Understanding Character: Virtue Ethics and the Situationist Challenge |
Professor Walter Sinnott-Armstrong |
| 2004 |
Ognian Kassabov |
Poetry in Plato's Republic |
Professor Christine Thomas |
| 2004 |
Sam Valverde |
Interests and Desires in Peter Singer's Ethics |
Professor Bernard Gert |
| 2003 |
Kristen A. Johnson |
Morality: Not Just a Myth |
Professor Walter Sinnott-Armstrong |
| 2003 |
Sam Means |
Defining Art Intentionally: Complex Intentionalism as a Definition of Artworks |
Professor Julia Driver |
| 2003 |
Michael Shaw Perry |
Wittgenstein on Foundational Propositions |
Professor Sally Sedgwick |
| 2003 |
Esther Warshauer-Baker |
Patient Competence for Medical Decision Making: A Critique of Buchanan and Brock |
Professor Bernard Gert |
| 2003 |
J. Jordyne Wu |
Functionalism vs. Dynamical Systems Theory: A Theoretical and Empirical Examination into Dueling Philosophies of the Mind |
Professor James Moor |
| 2002 |
Christopher R. Moore |
The Emotion of Awe: An Evolutionary Psychology Account |
Professor Roy Sorenson |
| 2002 |
William Whitney |
Stich's Eliminative Materialism and Theories of Reference |
Professor James Moor |
| 2001 |
Jay Bregman |
Code and Other Flaws of Cyberspace: A Philosophical Critique of Lawrence Lessig's Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace |
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| 2001 |
Jackson Childs |
I Am, I Am, I Am: David Hume's Theory of Personal Identity |
Professor Sally Sedgwick |
| 2001 |
Taylor Clark |
Facing Time's Scythe: Why Death is an Evil We Ought Not Fear |
Professor Julia Driver |
| 2001 |
Elizabeth D. Keller |
Realism and the Consistent Histories Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics |
Professor Christine Thomas |
| 2001 |
Christopher La Barbera |
Same-Sex Marriage and the Right to Equal Protection |
Professor Susan Brison |
| 2001 |
Jonathan O. Mingle |
A Dream of our Language: Interpretations of Wittgenstein on "Private Language" |
Professor Bernard Gert |
| 2001 |
David W. Sparrow |
The Unreality of Color in Objects |
Professor Walter Sinnott-Armstrong |
| 2001 |
Andrew B. Warren |
The Force of Thought, the Fold of the Outside: Aesthetic Existence in Foucault and Deleuze |
Professor Amy Allen |
| 2000 |
Daniel Bush |
Abortion and Dworkin's Argument from Religion: Why is it Worth a Look and How it Stands Up |
Professor Walter Sinnott-Armstrong |
| 2000 |
Matthew H. Slater |
On the Possibility of Worldly Vague Identity |
Professor Sam Levey |
| 2000 |
Karen Marie Soares |
Speaking Silence: Women's Voices in the Novels of William Faulkner |
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| 1999 |
Ryan Calo |
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Professor Christine Thomas |
| 1999 |
Dan Epstein |
A Philosophical Investigation into Intellectual Property |
Professor James Moor |
| 1999 |
Seth Graham |
The Panoptic "Con": Foucault's Genealogy of Power and Critique of Bentham's Justification for Punishment |
Professor Amy Allen |
| 1999 |
Jennifer Parkinson |
Punishment |
Professors Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Bernard Gert |
| 1999 |
Josh Zemel |
Would Plato Like the Beatles? An Essay on the Philosophy of Music |
Professor Sam Levey |
| 1998 |
Deidre d'Entremont |
Feminist Obscenities: Pornography, Choice, and Free Speech |
Professor Robert Fogelin |
| 1998 |
Jesse Sweet |
Cutting Hume's Mind in Half: A Bundle Approach to Split-Brain Patients |
Professor Ann Bumpus |
| 1998 |
Alexaner Vogel |
Philosophical Interpretations: Nietzsche and Derrida, Trouble with Truth |
Professor Amy Allen |
| 1997 |
Penn Dodson |
Paternalistic Interference: Perspectives Based on the Philosophy of J. S. Mill and Applied to the 92-96 American Intervention in Haiti |
Professor Walter Sinnott-Armstrong |
| 1997 |
Ted Jones |
Descriptions and Norms in Coherence Theories and Contextualism |
Professor Robert Fogelin |
| 1997 |
Matthew Weiss |
To Be or Not to Be: An Examination of the Views of Jonathan Glover and David Heyd Concerning When it Might be Better Not to Continue to Live, Not to be Born, or Not to Exist |
Professor Bernard Gert |
| 1996 |
Lynda Ann Cowin |
A New Approach to Coherentism |
Professor Walter Sinnott-Armstrong |
| 1996 |
Ethan Sawyer |
The Morality of the Lawyer |
Professor Bernard Gert |
| 1995 |
John Beery |
Intuitionism: The Mathematics or a Fool's Errand? |
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| 1994 |
Jennifer Heyong Kim |
Affirmative Action for Speech: An Alternative Response to Hate Speech |
Professor Susan Brison |
| 1994 |
Lai Heng Foong |
Contrary-To-Fact Conditionals: From Metalinguists to Possible Worlds |
Professor Robert Fogelin |
| 1994 |
Shelley Branam |
The "Doctrine" of Double Effect: A Comparative Study of a Complex but Credible Statement |
Professor Bernard Gert |
| 1992 |
Carl J. Nichols |
Bad Semaritanism: An Inquiry Into the Causal and Moral Status of Omissions to Save |
Professor Bernard Gert |
| 1992 |
Matthew Henken |
The Conclusion of This Thesis Is "Not True" : The Liar's Paradox, Analysis and Resolution |
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| 1992 |
Jason Cillo |
McTaggart and the Refutation of Presentism |
Professor John Konkle |
| 1991 |
Laura Donohue |
Hume's Conception of Free Will: Necessity, Compulsion, Liberty and Chance |
Professor Robert Fogelin |
| 1991 |
Lindsey Goldberg |
Impartiality Through Neutrality: An Examination of Robert Bork's Theory of Adjudication (1-term thesis) |
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| 1990 |
William Keane |
Pain (1-term thesis) |
Professor Bernard Gert |
| 1989 |
Patrick Shin |
The Abortion Controversy: Disagreement About the Scope of the Moral Rule Against Killing |
Professor Bernard Gert |
| 1988 |
Joan Pepin |
Resolving the Paradox of Nuclear Deterrence |
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| 1988 |
Robert Victor |
Moral Luck! So, Where's the Paradox? |
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| 1987 |
Robert Saunders |
Of The Influencing Motives Of The Will: An Attempt to Understand David Hume's Discussion of the Principles that Determine Action in a Treatise of Human Nature |
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| 1987 |
William Woolley |
Moral Responsibility |
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| 1985 |
Karen McGaffey |
Rawls' Theory of Justice : Implausible Assumptions and Questionable Conclusions |
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| 1985 |
Fred Meyer |
Max Stirner : The Impact of Egoism as a Personal Philosophy |
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| 1984 |
George Strander |
Donald Davidson's "Anomalous Monism" |
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| 1984 |
Marc Koehler |
The Ethical Theory of John Leslie Mackie |
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| 1983 |
John Alger |
Sherlock Holmes Meets Philip Marlowe : An Investigation of Fictional Objects |
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| 1983 |
Jeffrey Silberman |
A Definition of Punishment |
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| 1982 |
David Silbersweig |
A Critique of Fodor's Arguments for the Irreducibility of Psychology to Neurobiology |
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| 1982 |
Mark Cormier |
Problems With Popper's Falsifiability and A Solution |
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| 1981 |
Jeffrey Levine |
Suicide: A Defense |
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| 1981 |
Joan Danziger |
Dostoevsky and the Meaning of Life: A Study in the Brothers Karamazov |
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| 1981 |
Daniel Wyner |
The Generalization Argument : What Would Happen If Everyone Were To Use It To Make Moral Judgements? |
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| 1980 |
Daniel Gerhan |
An Examination of the Philosophical Justifications for Legal Punishment |
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| 1980 |
Dale Schwindaman |
Humans and Other Animals: Establishing A Moral Basis For Humans' Treatment Of Animals |
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| 1979 |
Etta Pisano |
An Ethical Policy for Obtaining Valid Informed Consent to Medical Procedures, Overriding Consent Decisions and Making Proxy Consent Decisions |
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| 1978 |
Barbara Moses |
Dream On |
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| 1977 |
Rufus King |
A Critique of Thomas Nagel's Account of Rationality in the Possibility of Altruism |
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| 1977 |
John Collen |
Anamnesis: An Investigation of the 'Meno' and Other Dialogues |
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| 1976 |
Kenneth Wright |
Some Ethical Considerations on Killing Animals |
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| 1974 |
Robert Spitzfaden |
Freud's Pleasure Principle |
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| 1972 |
John Raymond Sharp |
Dr. Szasz's Argument Against the Incompetence Plea |
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| 1972 |
James Behnke |
Dreaming |
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| 1971 |
John Hinderaker |
An Interpretation and Defense of the Private Language Argument |
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| 1970 |
John Perry |
Pleasure |
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| 1968 |
Richard Gass |
On Punishment |
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| 1968 |
Hugh Boss |
William James on Truth |
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| 1964 |
Steven Caldwell |
An Introduction to the Study of Models |
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