Past Honors Theses
Year | Student Name | Thesis Title | Advisor(s) |
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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 | ||
2021 | No Honors Students | ||
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 Metaethicl 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 | |
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 | |
1999 | Ryan Calo | 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 |