The Department of Philosophy Dissertations and Theses Series is comprised of dissertations and theses authored by Marquette University's Department of Philosophy doctoral and master's students.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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Place, Attachment, and Feeling: Indigenous Dispossession and Settler Belonging, Sarah Kizuk

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Nepantla and Mestizaje: A Phenomenological Analysis of the Mestizx Historical Consciousness, Jorge Alfredo Montiel

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The Categories Argument for the Real Distinction Between Being and Essence: Avicenna, Aquinas, and Their Greek Sources, Nathaniel Taylor

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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Modeling, Describing, and Explaining Subjective Consciousness- A Guide to (and for) the Perplexed, Peter Burgess

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Looking Through Whiteness: Objectivity, Racism, Method, and Responsibility, Philip Mack

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Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Maritain on the Student-Teacher Relationship in Catholic Higher Education, Timothy Rothhaar

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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The Empathetic Autistic: A Phenomenological Look at the Feminine Experience, Dana Fritz

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Concerning Aristotelian Animal Essences, Damon Andrew Watson

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When to Trust Authoritative Testimony: Generation and Transmission of Knowledge in Saadya Gaon, Al-Ghazālī and Thomas Aquinas, Brett A. Yardley

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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The Status of Irrationality: Karl Jaspers' Response to Davidson and Searle, Daniel Adsett

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Cosmic City - Cosmic Teleology: A Reading of Metaphysics Λ 10 and Politics I 2, Brandon Henrigillis

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Phenomenal Consciousness: An Husserlian Approach, John Jered Janes

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Al-Fārābī Metaphysics, and the Construction of Social Knowledge: Is Deception Warranted if it Leads to Happiness?, Nicholas Andrew Oschman

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The Epistemology of Disagreement: Hume, Kant, and the Current Debate, Robert Kyle Whitaker

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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'Our Feet are Mired In the Same Soil': Deepening Democracy with the Political Virtue of Sympathetic Inquiry, Jennifer Lynn Kiefer Fenton

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Towards a Philosophy of the Musical Experience: Phenomenology, Culture, and Ethnomusicology in Conversation, J. Tyler Friedman

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Humor, Power and Culture: A New Theory on the Experience and Ethics of Humor, Jennifer Marra

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Care of the Sexual Self: Askesis As a Route to Sex Education, Shaun Douglas Miller

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Re-Evaluating Augustinian Fatalism through the Eastern and Western Distinction between God's Essence and Energies, Stephen John Plecnik

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The Fantastic Structure of Freedom: Sartre, Freud, and Lacan, Gregory A. Trotter

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The Province of Conceptual Reason: Hegel's Post-Kantian Rationalism, William Clark Wolf

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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Hume on Thick and Thin Causation, Alexander Bozzo

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Evolution, Naturalism, and Theism: An Inconsistent Triad?, David H. Gordon

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The Parable As Mirror: An Examination of the Use of Parables in the Works of Kierkegaard, Russell Hamer

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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Contextualizing Aquinas's Ontology of Soul: An Analysis of His Arabic and Neoplatonic Sources, Nathan McLain Blackerby

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The Social and Historical Subject in Sartre and Foucault and Its Implications for Healthcare Ethics, Kimberly Siobhan Engels

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Investigations of Worth: Towards a Phenomenology of Values, Dale Hobbs Jr.

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Hegel and the Problem of the Multiplicity of Conflicting Philosophies, Matthew M. Peters

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Aquinas, Averroes, and the Human Will, Traci Ann Phillipson

Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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Nature, Feminism, and Flourishing: Human Nature and the Feminist Ethics of Flourishing, Celeste D. Harvey

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Developing Capabilities: A Feminist Discourse Ethics Approach, Chad Kleist

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Kierkegaard in Light of the East: A Critical Comparison of the Philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard with Orthodox Christian Philosophy and Thought, Agust Magnusson

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The Secular Transformation of Pride and Humility in the Moral Philosophy of David Hume, Kirstin April Carlson McPherson

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Living within the Sacred Tension: Paradox and Its Significance for Christian Existence in the Thought of Søren Kierkegaard, Matthew Thomas Nowachek

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Moral Imagination and Adorno: Before and After Auschwitz, Catlyn Origitano

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Essence and Necessity, and the Aristotelian Modal Syllogistic: A Historical and Analytical Study, Daniel James Vecchio

Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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Subversive Humor, Chris A. Kramer

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Virtue, Oppression, and Resistance Struggles, Trevor William Smith

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Health As Embodied Authenticity, Margaret Steele

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Recognition and Political Ontology: Fichte, Hegel, and Honneth, Velimir Stojkovski

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The Conceptual Priority of the Perfect, Matthew Peter Zdon

Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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Dangerous Knowledge? Morality And Moral Progress After Naturalism, Daniel Diederich Farmer

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Nietzsche's Revaluation of All Values, Joseph Anthony Kranak

Theses/Dissertations from 2013

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Re-Enchanting The World: An Examination Of Ethics, Religion, And Their Relationship In The Work Of Charles Taylor, David McPherson

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Thomas Aquinas on the Apprehension of Being: The Role of Judgement in Light of Thirteenth-Century Semantics, Rosa Vargas Della Casa

Theses/Dissertations from 2012

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Naturalized Panpsychism: An Alternative to Fundamentalist Physicalism and Supernaturalism, Earl R. Cookson

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The Concept of Personhood in the Phenomenology of Edmund Husserl, Colin J. Hahn

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The Humanistic, Fideistic Philosophy of Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560), Charles William Peterson

Theses/Dissertations from 2011

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Knowledge and Thought in Heidegger and Foucault: Towards an Epistemology of Ruptures, Arun Anantheeswaran Iyer

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William James's Undivided Self and the Possibility of Immortality, Anthony Karlin

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The Poetics of Remembrance: Communal Memory and Identity in Heidegger and Ricoeur, David Leichter

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The Ontological Foundations for Natural Law Theory and Contemporary Ethical Naturalism, Bernard Mauser

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Sexualized Violence, Moral Disintegration and Ethical Advocacy, Melissa Mosko

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Spinoza on Individuals and Individuation: Metaphysics, Morals, and Politics, Matthew David Wion

Theses/Dissertations from 2010

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The Paradox of Nature: Merleau-Ponty's Semi-Naturalistic Critique of Husserlian Phenomenology, Shazad Akhtar

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Hume's Conception of Time and its Implications for his Theories of Causation and Induction, Daniel Esposito

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Arabic Influences in Aquinas's Doctrine of Intelligible Species, Max Herrera

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The Attestation of the Self as a Bridge Between Hermeneutics and Ontology in the Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur, Sebastian Kaufmann

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Love's Lack: The Relationship between Poverty and Eros in Plato's Symposium, Lorelle D. Lamascus

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Friendship and Fidelity: An Historical and Critical Examination, Joshua Walter Schulz

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Natural Law Theory and the "Is"--"Ought" Problem: A Critique of Four Solutions, Shalina Stilley

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Attending to Presence: A Study of John Duns Scotus' Account of Sense Cognition, Amy F. Whitworth

Theses/Dissertations from 2009

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Friendship and Self-Identity in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur, Cristina Bucur

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The Finality of Religion in Aquinas' Theory of Human Acts, Francisco José Romero Carrasquillo

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The finality of religion in Aquinas' theory of human acts, Francisco J Romero

Theses/Dissertations from 2008

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Self-Identity in Comparative Theology: The Functional lmportance of Charles Taylor's Concept of the Self for a Theology of Religions, Richard Joseph Hanson

Theses/Dissertations from 2007

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Husserl's Noema: A Critical Assessment of the Gestalt and Analytic Interpretations, Peter M. Chukwu

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A Social Contract Analysis of Rawls and Rousseau: Supplanting the Original Position As Philosophically Most Favored, Paul Neiman

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To Validate a Feeling: the Role of the Mood of Angst in Human Being, Gregory P. Schulz

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The Conception and Attributes of God: A Comparison of Charles Sanders Peirce and Alfred North Whitehead, Scott W. Sinclair

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John Rawls, Public Reason, and Natural Law: A Study of the Principles of Public Justification, Christopher Ward

Submissions from 2006

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Hans Jonas's ethic of responsibility applied to anti-aging technologies and the indefinite extension of the human life span, Jeffrey P Goins

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David Hume and the Principle of Sufficient Reason, Ginger Lee

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Virtue Theory in Plato's Republic, Griffin T. Nelson

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The Principle of Alternate Possibilities: Finding Freedom after Frankfurt, Matthew F. Pierlott

Theses/Dissertations from 2005

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Is There a Future for Marxist Humanism?, Jacob M. Held

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Self-Love and Morality: Beyond Egoism and Altruism, Li Jing

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Eikos Logos and Eikos Muthos: A Study of the Nature of the Likely Story in Plato's Timaeus, Ryan Kenneth McBride

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Hume's Conclusions on the Existence and Nature of God, Timothy S. Yoder

Theses/Dissertations from 2004

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The Foundations of the Politics of Difference, Peter Nathaniel Bwanali

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The foundations of the politics of difference, Peter Nathaniel Bwanali

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The Place of Justice in the Thinking of Emmanuel Levinas, Michael H. Gillick

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New Waves in Metaethics: Naturalist Realism, Naturalist Antirealism and Divine Commands, Daniel R. Kern

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Reason in Hume's Moral System, John Muenzberg

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Conceiving Mind: A Critique of Descartes' Dualism and Contemporary Immaterialist Views of Consciousness, Kristin P. Schaupp

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Respecting Plurality in Times of Change: Hannah Arendt's Conceptions of Political, Personal, and Ethical Responsibility, Stephen Schulman

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Francis Suárez on the Ontological Status of Individual Unity vis-à-vis the Aristotelian Doctrine of Primary Substance, John W. Simmons

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Through a Glass Darkly: Bernard Lonergan and Richard Rorty on the Possibility of Knowing Without a God's-Eye-View, Russell Snell

Theses/Dissertations from 2003

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Building a Heideggerian Ethic, Kelly A. Burns

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St. Thomas Aquinas and the Self-Evident Proposition: A Study of the Manifold Senses of a Medieval Concept, Michael V. Dougherty

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Ricoeur's Narrative Development of Gadamer's Hermeneutics: Continuity and Discontinuity, Keith D'Souza

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Beauty's Resting Place: Unity in St. Augustine's Sensible Aesthetic, Matthew J. Hayes

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Empathy and Knowledge: Husserl's Introductions to Phenomenology, Kevin Hermberg

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The Transactional Model: A Critical Examination of John Dewey's Philosophy of Freedom, Mark N. Lenker III

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Reflection on the "good" As a Source of Freedom in Virtue Theory, John D. Morse

Theses/Dissertations from 2002

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An Evaluation of Alvin Plantinga's Religious Epistemology Does It Function Properly?, James Beilby

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Merleau-Ponty: Embodied Subjectivity and the Foundation of Ethics, Sarah A. Fischer

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Kant on Love for Oneself: Why Respect for the Moral Law, But not the Desire for Happiness, is a moral incentive, Lawrence Masek

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Essence, Individuation, and Artifact: An Aristotelian Model for Familiar Concrete Particulars, Chad V. Meister

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Normative Strategies for Resolving Human Rights Conflicts, Eugene T. Rice