Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Naturalized Panpsychism: An Alternative to Fundamentalist Physicalism and Supernaturalism, Earl R. Cookson
The Concept of Personhood in the Phenomenology of Edmund Husserl, Colin J. Hahn
The Humanistic, Fideistic Philosophy of Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560), Charles William Peterson
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Knowledge and Thought in Heidegger and Foucault: Towards an Epistemology of Ruptures, Arun Anantheeswaran Iyer
William James's Undivided Self and the Possibility of Immortality, Anthony Karlin
The Poetics of Remembrance: Communal Memory and Identity in Heidegger and Ricoeur, David Leichter
The Ontological Foundations for Natural Law Theory and Contemporary Ethical Naturalism, Bernard Mauser
Sexualized Violence, Moral Disintegration and Ethical Advocacy, Melissa Mosko
Spinoza on Individuals and Individuation: Metaphysics, Morals, and Politics, Matthew David Wion
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
The Paradox of Nature: Merleau-Ponty's Semi-Naturalistic Critique of Husserlian Phenomenology, Shazad Akhtar
Hume's Conception of Time and its Implications for his Theories of Causation and Induction, Daniel Esposito
Arabic Influences in Aquinas's Doctrine of Intelligible Species, Max Herrera
The Attestation of the Self as a Bridge Between Hermeneutics and Ontology in the Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur, Sebastian Kaufmann
Love's Lack: The Relationship between Poverty and Eros in Plato's Symposium, Lorelle D. Lamascus
Friendship and Fidelity: An Historical and Critical Examination, Joshua Walter Schulz
Natural Law Theory and the "Is"--"Ought" Problem: A Critique of Four Solutions, Shalina Stilley
Attending to Presence: A Study of John Duns Scotus' Account of Sense Cognition, Amy F. Whitworth
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Friendship and Self-Identity in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur, Cristina Bucur
The Finality of Religion in Aquinas' Theory of Human Acts, Francisco José Romero Carrasquillo
The finality of religion in Aquinas' theory of human acts, Francisco J Romero
Submissions from 2007
A social contract analysis of Rawls and Rousseau: Supplanting the original position as philosophically most favored, Paul Neiman
The conception and attributes of God: A comparison of Charles Sanders Peirce and Alfred North Whitehead, Scott W Sinclair
Submissions from 2006
Hans Jonas's ethic of responsibility applied to anti-aging technologies and the indefinite extension of the human life span, Jeffrey P Goins
David Hume and the principle of sufficient reason, Ginger Lee
Virtue theory in Plato's "Republic", Griffin T Nelson
The principle of alternate possibilities: Finding freedom after Frankfurt, Matthew F Pierlott
Submissions from 2005
Is there a future for Marxist humanism?, Jacob M Held
Self-love and morality: Beyond egoism and altruism, Li Jing
New waves in metaethics: Naturalist realism, naturalist antirealism and divine commands, Daniel R Kern
Eikos logos and eikos muthos: A study of the nature of the likely story in Plato's "Timaeus", Ryan Kenneth McBride
Hume's conclusions on the existence and nature of God, Timothy S Yoder
Submissions from 2004
The foundations of the politics of difference, Peter Nathaniel Bwanali
The place of justice in the thinking of Emmanuel Levinas, Michael H Gillick
Conceiving mind: A critique of Descartes' dualism and contemporary immaterialist views of consciousness, Kristin P Schaupp
Respecting plurality in times of change: Hannah Arendt's conceptions of political, personal, and ethical responsibility, Stephen Schulman
Francis Suarez on the ontological status of individual unity vis-a-vis the Aristotelian doctrine of primary substance, John W Simmons
Through a glass darkly: Bernard Lonergan and Richard Rorty on the possibility of knowing without a God's-Eye-View, Russell Snell
Submissions from 2003
Building a Heideggerian ethic, Kelly Ann Burns
St. Thomas Aquinas and the self-evident proposition: A study of the manifold senses of a medieval concept, Michael Vincent Dougherty
Ricoeur's narrative development of Gadamer's hermeneutics: Continuity and discontinuity, Keith D'Souza
Beauty's resting place: Unity in St. Augustine's sensible aesthetic, Matthew Joseph Hayes
Empathy and knowledge: Husserl's introductions to phenomenology, Kevin Hermberg
The transactional model: A critical examination of John Dewey's philosophy of freedom, Mark N. Lenker
Reflection on the "good" as a source of freedom in virtue theory, John DiBenedetto Morse
Submissions from 2002
Merleau-Ponty: Embodied subjectivity and the foundation of ethics, Sarah Ann Fischer
Kant on love for oneself: Why respect for the moral law, but not the desire for happiness, is a moral incentive, Lawrence Joseph Masek
Essence, individuation, and artifact: An Aristotelian model for familiar concrete particulars, Chad Vernon Meister
Normative strategies for resolving human rights conflicts, Eugene Thomas Rice
Descartes' theory against artificial intelligence and the micro-world, John Robert Visintainer
Submissions from 2001
Avicebron (Solomon ibn Gabirol) and Aquinas on primary and secondary causality, John A Laumakis
The Kehre and Heidegger's "Beitraege zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis)", Louis Joseph Schiano
Faith and reason in the philosophy of Edith Stein, Karl Christian Schudt
Richard A. McCormick's proportionalism: A consequentialist ethical theory, Patrick Andrew Tully
Submissions from 2000
The moral dimensions of Michael Martin's atheology: A critical assessment, Paul Harold Copan
Charles S. Peirce: Truth, reality and objective semiotic idealism, Michael J Forest
Ricoeur's theory of narrative as a reformulation of Husserl's notion of intentionality, Paul R Gyllenhammer
Is God a "what"? Aquinas, Neoplatonism, and the divine essence, John Paul Rosheger
Submissions from 1999
Kant's conception of the self: Applying the dual-aspect reading of the phenomena/noumena distinction to the self, Theodore Di Maria
Transformation and community, Russell W Dumke
Aristotle's theory of substance in "Metaphysics Zeta-Eta", Hye-Kyung Kim
Freedom, God, and empiricism in Locke, Eric Andrew Manchester
The problem of love: The relationship between the love of self and the love of others, self-fulfillment and self-denial, Alan Roy Vincelette
Submissions from 1998
Berkeley: Perception, conception, and indexical thought, Theodore Michael Daniel Cooke
The relationship of materiality to religious consciousness in the Protestant Reformed tradition, Larry David Harwood
Submissions from 1997
Spinoza on community, affectivity, and life values, Steven L Barbone
The role of matter in Aristotle's metaphysics, Beverly Katherine Hinton
Whether a creature is more perfect in itself or in God's knowledge according to Saint Thomas Aquinas, Joseph Anthony Mordente
Augustine's doctrine of weakness of the will after 411, Ann Ann Pang-White
A critical analysis of technology transfer, ideology, and development in the context of communication technology in the Philippines, Pablito Martinez Tagura
Naming God: A study in semantics, David Alan White
Submissions from 1996
Perspectives in jurisprudence: An analysis of H. L. A. Hart's legal theory, Eric Joseph Boos
Hegel's assimilation of Aristotelian teleology: Hegel after Darwin, Anthony Robert Catenazzo
The corpse of faith and reason: Hegel's early critique of the philosophy of subjectivity, Kipton Eugene Jensen
The nature of commitment and its relationship to freedom, Mary Jo Klein
Out of a Kantian chrysalis? A Maritainian critique of Marechal, Ronald Dean McCamy
Giambattista Vico and the emergence of historical consciousness, Bradley Nelson Seidel
Submissions from 1995
When ethics meets politics: Concerning the possibility of fighting a justified war in the late twentieth century, Robert Paul Abele
Malebranche and the Cartesian problem of the unconscious, Frederick Richard Ablondi
The real distinction in creatures between being and essence according to William of Auvergne, Kevin Joseph Caster
Philosophy and incarnation, Steven A Long
The development of the relation between authority and freedom in the political philosophy of Yves R. Simon, Patricia Pallasch Radzin
The metaphysics of human freedom in Schopenhauer and Saint Augustine, Lance Byron Richey
Submissions from 1994
Divine simplicity: Aquinas and the current debate, Vincent Michael Dever
Kant and the matter of cognition, William Harold Lentz
Submissions from 1993
Heteronomy as condition for freedom in Levinas' and Sartre's ethics, Mylene Botbol-Baum
Essentially human: Democracy in the thought of Yves R. Simon, Diane M Caplin
The right to dissent: Hannah Arendt's defense of civil disobedience, Donna Hogans Engelmann
Martin Heidegger's notion of repetition and the problem of historical meaning, Janette Marie Hodge
The informal socialization of Catholic elementary school principals: Implications for administrative staff development, Julie Ann Stoffels
Submissions from 1992
The value of human life and bioethics: A philosophical assessment, Liselotte A Chamberlain
Reconnoitering the role of essence in light of esse: The existential thesis of Phelan, Clarke, and Carlo, Chris Earl Curry
The grammar of subjecthood: Wittgenstein, deconstruction and Dennett's intentional stance, Wendy Lynne Lee-Lampshire
Submissions from 1991
Finality and marriage, Margaret Monahan Hogan
Capital as organic unity: The role of Hegel's "Science of Logic" in Marx's "Grundrisse", Mark Edward Meaney
An ethical analysis of alcoholism in light of Aristotle's virtue ethics, Maureen Ann Milligan
The drama of Cartesian morality, Vance Gregory Morgan
On the nature of psychological knowledge: An analysis of the models of behaviorism, cognitivism, and phenomenology, George Leroy Raine
The meaning of subjectivity in a technological society: Jacques Ellul's view of man as dialogic agent, Daryl James Wennemann
Submissions from 1990
The principle of double effect: Conditions and applications, Mark William Barber
The metaphysics of affectivity and ethical responsibility, Anthony Francis Beavers