• Jadyn Malone, Magicicada and Mathematics: What the Parochiality of Our Explanations Means for the Indispensability Argument (Advisor: Professor Kenny Walden)

No Honors Students

• Jingyi (Emily) Zhang, Critical Interests and Advance Directives of People with Dementia (Advisor: Professor Ann Bumpus)
   
• Zachary Lang, Towards a New Theory of Ideological Epistemic Defects (Advisor: Professor David Plunkett)
   
• Blake Whitmer, The Univocity of Being and Expressive Power: Ontological Pluralism's Effect on Formal Languages (Advisors: Professors Amie Thomasson and Peter Lewis)

No Honors Students

No Honors Students

• Samantha Koreman, The Limits and Constitutive Obligations of Political Authority (Advisors: Professors David Plunkett and Kenny Walden)
   
• Jeffrey Thomas Poomkudy, Natural-Historical Judgments and the Grounds of Normativity: A Development of Michael Thompson's Metaethical Naturalism (Advisors: Professor Timothy Rosenkoetter)
   
• Gavriel Steinmetz-Silber, Moral-Epistemic Dilemmas (Advisors: Professor John Kulvicki)

• Jessica Anne Heine, Vagueness and Representation: A Unifying Account (Advisors: Professor Samuel Levey)
   
• Cynthia Shin, The Ontology of Video Games: An Ingardenian Analysis of the Polyphonic Structure of Video Games (Advisors: Professor Amie Thomasson)
   
• Henry Tracey, The Persistence of Fatalism Under Metaphysical Theories (Advisors: Professor Christine Thomas)

• Claire Feuille, Creating a Fated Self: Agency and Artistry in Nietzsche (Advisors: Professor Kenneth Walden)
   
• Matthew Goldstein, The Ethics of Engagement: Negotiating the Normative Moral Status of Combatants in War (Advisors: Professor Timothy Rosenkoetter)
   
• Daniel J. Widawsky, Moral Motivation Meets Metarepresentationalism: Do Patients with Ventromedial Frontal Damage Have First-Order Moral Beliefs? (Advisors: Professor Adina Roskies)

• Christian Nakazawa, To Have Other Eyes: Metaphor, Meaning, and Imagination (Advisor(s): Professor John Kulvicki)
   
• JP Olinski, Finding a Peer Disagreement Norm for Political Disagreement and Other Ambiguous Cases (Advisor(s): Professor Sam Levey)
   
• Joshua Tseng-Tham, Defending a NeoAristotelian Position in Metaethical Naturalism (Advisor(s): Professor Kenneth Walden)

• Alexander Kane, False Selves: Truth in Narrative Constitution (Advisor(s): Professor Sam Levey)
   
• Tierra Victoria Lynch, Akrasia, Rationality & Autonomy: Understanding the Moral Responsibilities of the Addict (Advisor(s): Professor Adina Roskies)
   
• Lea Aurelia Schroeder, Material Composition in Plato's Timaeus (Advisor(s): Professor Christine Thomas)

• Paul W. Frazel, Responsible Blaming: Personality Disorder and Moral Responsibility Within the Clinic and Without (Advisor(s): Professors Adina Roskies and James Moor)
   
• Joonsuh Jo, Foucault and the Freedom of the Modern Subject (Advisor(s): Professor Amy Allen)

• Lingxi Chenyang, Kripke's Wittgenstein: Meaning, Normativity, and Rule-Following (Advisor(s): Professor David Plunkett)
   
• Christopher Hauser, Grounding, Metaphysical Explanation, and the Analogy of Existing (Advisor(s): Professor Christine Thomas)
   
• Brendan Mooney, Etiquette and the Escapability of Morality (Advisor(s): Professor Susan Brison)
   
• Gabriel Redel-Traub, Value at the Intersection (Advisor(s): Professor John Kulvicki)
   
• Rebecca Rothfeld, Being a Bat in a Vat on Twin Earth: A Guidebook for Thought Experimenters & Other Epistemic Adventurers (Advisor(s): Professor Sam Levey)

• Bailey Pratt Hoar, Drones, Ethics, and 21st Century Warfare Understanding and Mitigating the Ethical Tensions of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Through Just War Theory (Advisor(s): Professor James Moor)
   
• James Craig Smyser, Metaethics, Toleration, and the Burdens of Democratic Justice in John Rawls' Political Constructivism (Advisor(s): Professor Kenny Walden)

• Nathan Gusdorf, Adornian Marxism: The Concept of Critique (Advisor(s): Professor Amy Allen)

• Benjamin H. Feintzeig, Understanding Through Causation: A Four-Factor Approach to Scientific Explanation (Advisor(s): Professor Adina Roskies)
   
• David B. Kinney, The Ontology of Chance (Advisor(s): Professor Christine Thomas)

• Anfin S. Erickson, Sextus Empiricus and the Unlivability of Skepticism: A Proposed Solution (Advisor(s): Professor Christine Thomas)
   
• Benjamin A. Gifford, Making Sense of our Modal Discourse (Advisor(s): Professor James Moor)

• Robert W. Forster, Desert, Child Rape, and Capital Punishment: Applying the Deontological Significance of Childhood (Advisor(s): Professor John L. Crocker)
   
• Emily E. Smith, Just War Theory and Terrorism: A Case for the Just and Exceptional Use of Torture (Advisor(s): Professor Eugene Marshall)
   
• Jane V. Tucker, The Self-Concept Notion of Self-Deception: A Non-Deflationary, Non-Intentionalist Account (Advisor(s):Professor Amy Allen)

• Haley A. Bolin, Justice After Genocide: The Expressive Theory of Punishment in Defense of Truth Commissions (Advisor(s): Professor John L. Crocker)
   
• Kevin J. Decker, The Rebirth of Critique: Michel Foucault's Archaeological Method and Project (Advisor(s): Professor Amy Allen)
   
• David M. Lamb, A Response to Theism and Nihilism: The Basis and Truth of Moral Claims (Advisor(s): Professor Walter Sinnott-Armstrong)
   
• Katharine M. McIntyre, Genealogy and Practices of Self-Overcoming (Advisor(s): Professor Amy Allen)
   
• Michael P. Milne, Reasons, Rationality, and Motivation: A Second Look at Michael Smith's The Moral Problem (Advisor(s): Professor Julia Driver)
   
• Jared S. Westheim, Dialectics Beyond Destruction: Adorno, Deleuze, and the Search for a New Subjectivity (Advisor(s): Professor Amy Allen)

• Peter D. Anderson, jr., Freedom and Inter-Subjectivity: Ethical Implications of Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness (Advisor(s): Professor Amy Allen)
   
• Kirsten E. Grauer, Plato on Punishment  (Advisor(s): Professors Christine Thomas and John L. Crocker)
   
• Mark F. Hoipkemier, Rights, Flourishing, Freedom: Good Work and the Ethics of International Development (Advisor(s): Professor Julia Driver)

• Christopher E. Biermann, The Absence of a Meaningful Meaning to Life (Advisor(s): Professor Roy Sorenson)
   
• Haley Bolin, Justice After Genocide: The Expressive Theory of Punishment in Defense of Truth Commissions (Professor John L. Crocker)

• Brian Burgess, Moral Responsibility and Conscious Will: The Impact of Contemporary Research in Neuro-Physiology and Weak-Reason Responsiveness (Advisor(s): Professor Amy Allen)
   
• Eva Vivalt, What People Minimally Require: A Capabilities Approach With Applications in Development (Advisor(s): Professor Susan Brison)
   
• Andrew Verstein, Begging the Question and the Burden of Proof (Advisor(s): Professor Walter Sinnott-Armstrong)

• Claire Chandler, The Future of Idaho Wilderness: Applying John Broome's Ethical Theory to the Boulder and White Cloud Mountains Land Use Debate (Advisor(s): Professor Julia Driver)
   
• Noah Flower, Understanding Character: Virtue Ethics and the Situationist Challenge (Advisor(s): Professor Walter Sinnott-Armstrong)
   
• Ognian Kassabov, Poetry in Plato's Republic (Advisor(s): Professor Christine Thomas)
   
• Sam Valverde, Interests and Desires in Peter Singer's Ethics (Advisor(s): Professor Bernard Gert)

• Kristen A. Johnson, Morality: Not Just a Myth (Advisor(s): Professor Walter Sinnott-Armstrong)
   
• Sam Means, Defining Art Intentionally: Complex Intentionalism as a Definition of Artworks (Advisor(s): Professor Julia Driver)
   
• Michael Shaw Perry, Wittgenstein on Foundational Propositions (Advisor(s): Professor Sally Sedgwick)
   
• Esther Warshauer-Baker, Patient Competence for Medical Decision Making: A Critique of Buchanan and Brock (Advisor(s): Professor Bernard Gert)
   
• J. Jordyne Wu, Functionalism vs. Dynamical Systems Theory: A Theoretical and Empirical Examination into Dueling Philosophies of the Mind (Advisor(s):Professor James Moor)

• Christopher R. Moore, The Emotion of Awe: An Evolutionary Psychology Account (Advisor(s): Professor Roy Sorenson)
   
• William Whitney, Stich's Eliminative Materialism and Theories of Reference (Advisor(s): Professor James Moor)

• Jay Bregman, Code and Other Flaws of Cyberspace: A Philosophical Critique of Lawrence Lessig's Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
   
• Jackson Childs, I Am, I Am, I Am: David Hume's Theory of Personal Identity (Advisor(s): Professor Sally Sedgwick)
   
• Taylor Clark, Facing Time's Scythe: Why Death is an Evil We Ought Not Fear (Advisor(s): Professor Julia Driver)
   
• Elizabeth D. Keller, Realism and the Consistent Histories Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (Advisor(s): Professor Christine Thomas)
   
• Christopher La Barbera, Same-Sex Marriage and the Right to Equal Protection (Advisor(s): Professor Susan Brison)
   
• David W. Sparrow, The Unreality of Color in Objects (Advisor(s): Professor Walter Sinnott-Armstrong)
   
• Andrew B. Warren, The Force of Thought, the Fold of the Outside: Aesthetic Existence in Foucault and Deleuze (Advisor(s): Professor Amy Allen)

• Daniel Bush, Abortion and Dworkin's Argument from Religion: Why is it Worth a Look and How it Stands Up (Advisor(s): Professor Walter Sinnott-Armstrong)
   
• Matthew H. Slater, On the Possibility of Worldly Vague Identity (Advisor(s): Professor Sam Levey)
   
• Karen Marie Soares, Speaking Silence: Women's Voices in the Novels of William Faulkner

• Ryan Calo (Advisor(s): Professor Christine Thomas)
   
•  Dan Epstein, A Philosophical Investigation into Intellectual Property (Advisor(s): Professor James Moor)
   
• Seth Graham, The Panoptic "Con": Foucault's Genealogy of Power and Critique of Bentham's Justification for Punishment (Advisor(s): Professor Amy Allen)
   
• Jennifer Parkinson, Punishment (Advisor(s): Professors Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Bernard Gert)
   
• Josh Zemel, Would Plato Like the Beatles? An Essay on the Philosophy of Music (Advisor(s): Professor Sam Levey)

• Deidre d'Entremont, Feminist Obscenities: Pornography, Choice, and Free Speech (Advisor(s): Professor Robert Fogelin)
   
• Jesse Sweet, Cutting Hume's Mind in Half: A Bundle Approach to Split-Brain Patients (Advisor(s): Professor Ann Bumpus)
   
• Alexaner Vogel, Philosophical Interpretations: Nietzsche and Derrida, Trouble with Truth (Advisor(s): Professor Amy Allen)

• Penn Dodson, Paternalistic Interference: Perspectives Based on the Philosophy of J. S. Mill and Applied to the 92-96 American Intervention in Haiti (Advisor(s): Professor Walter Sinnott-Armstrong)
   
• Ted Jones, Descriptions and Norms in Coherence Theories and Contextualism (Advisor(s): Professor Robert Fogelin)
   
• 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 (Advisor(s): Professor Bernard Gert)

• Lynda Ann Cowin, A New Approach to Coherentism (Advisor(s): Professor Walter Sinnott-Armstrong)
   
• Ethan Sawyer, The Morality of the Lawyer (Advisor(s): Professor Bernard Gert)

• John Beery, Intuitionism: The Mathematics or a Fool's Errand? 

• Jennifer Heyong Kim, Affirmative Action for Speech: An Alternative Response to Hate Speech (Advisor(s): Professor Susan Brison)
   
• Lai Heng Foong, Contrary-To-Fact Conditionals: From Metalinguists to Possible Worlds (Advisor(s): Professor Robert Fogelin)
   
• Shelley Branam, The "Doctrine" of Double Effect: A Comparative Study of a Complex but Credible Statement (Advisor(s): Professor Bernard Gert)

• Carl J. Nichols, Bad Semaritanism: An Inquiry Into the Causal and Moral Status of Omissions to Save (Advisor(s):Professor Bernard Gert)
   
• Matthew Henken, The Conclusion of This Thesis Is "Not True" : The Liar's Paradox, Analysis and Resolution
   
• Jason Cillo, McTaggart and the Refutation of Presentism (Advisor(s): Professor John Konkle)

• Laura Donohue, Hume's Conception of Free Will: Necessity, Compulsion, Liberty and Chance (Advisor(s):Professor Robert Fogelin)
   
• Lindsey Goldberg, Impartiality Through Neutrality: An Examination of Robert Bork's Theory of Adjudication (1-term thesis)

• William Keane, Pain (1-term thesis) (Advisor(s): Professor Bernard Gert)

• Patrick Shin, The Abortion Controversy: Disagreement About the Scope of the Moral Rule Against Killing (Advisor(s): Professor Bernard Gert)

• Joan Pepin, Resolving the Paradox of Nuclear Deterrence
   
• Robert Victor, Moral Luck! So, Where's the Paradox?

• 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
   
• William Woolley, Moral Responsibility

• Karen McGaffey, Rawls' Theory of Justice : Implausible Assumptions and Questionable Conclusions
   
• Fred Meyer, Max Stirner : The Impact of Egoism as a Personal Philosophy

• George Strander, Donald Davidson's "Anomalous Monism" 
   
• Marc Koehler, The Ethical Theory of John Leslie Mackie 

• John Alger, Sherlock Holmes Meets Philip Marlowe : An Investigation of Fictional Objects
   
• Jeffrey Silberman, A Definition of Punishment

• David Silbersweig, A Critique of Fodor's Arguments for the Irreducibility of Psychology to Neurobiology 
   
• Mark Cormier, Problems With Popper's Falsifiability and A Solution

• Jeffrey Levine, Suicide: A Defense
   
• Joan Danziger, Dostoevsky and the Meaning of Life: A Study in the Brothers Karamazov
   
• Daniel Wyner, The Generalization Argument : What Would Happen If Everyone Were To Use It To Make Moral Judgements?

• Daniel Gerhan, An Examination of the Philosophical Justifications for Legal Punishment
   
• Dale Schwindaman, Humans and Other Animals: Establishing A Moral Basis For Humans' Treatment Of Animals

• Etta Pisano, An Ethical Policy for Obtaining Valid Informed Consent to Medical Procedures, Overriding Consent Decisions and Making Proxy Consent Decisions
   

• Barbara Moses, Dream On

• Rufus King, A Critique of Thomas Nagel's Account of Rationality in the Possibility of Altruism
   
• John Collen, Anamnesis: An Investigation of the 'Meno' and Other Dialogues

• Kenneth Wright, Some Ethical Considerations on Killing Animals

• Robert Spitzfaden, Freud's Pleasure Principle

• John Raymond Sharp, Dr. Szasz's Argument Against the Incompetence Plea
   
• James Behnke, Dreaming

• John Hinderaker, An Interpretation and Defense of the Private Language Argument

• John Perry, Pleasure

• Richard Gass, On Punishment 
   
• Hugh Boss, William James on Truth

• Steven Caldwell, An Introduction to the Study of Models