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.
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Concerning Aristotelian Animal Essences, Damon Andrew Watson
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
The Status of Irrationality: Karl Jaspers' Response to Davidson and Searle, Daniel Adsett
Cosmic City - Cosmic Teleology: A Reading of Metaphysics Λ 10 and Politics I 2, Brandon Henrigillis
Phenomenal Consciousness: An Husserlian Approach, John Jered Janes
Al-Fārābī Metaphysics, and the Construction of Social Knowledge: Is Deception Warranted if it Leads to Happiness?, Nicholas Andrew Oschman
The Epistemology of Disagreement: Hume, Kant, and the Current Debate, Robert Kyle Whitaker
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
'Our Feet are Mired In the Same Soil': Deepening Democracy with the Political Virtue of Sympathetic Inquiry, Jennifer Lynn Kiefer Fenton
Towards a Philosophy of the Musical Experience: Phenomenology, Culture, and Ethnomusicology in Conversation, J. Tyler Friedman
Humor, Power and Culture: A New Theory on the Experience and Ethics of Humor, Jennifer Marra
Care of the Sexual Self: Askesis As a Route to Sex Education, Shaun Douglas Miller
Re-Evaluating Augustinian Fatalism through the Eastern and Western Distinction between God's Essence and Energies, Stephen John Plecnik
The Fantastic Structure of Freedom: Sartre, Freud, and Lacan, Gregory A. Trotter
The Province of Conceptual Reason: Hegel's Post-Kantian Rationalism, William Clark Wolf
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Hume on Thick and Thin Causation, Alexander Bozzo
Evolution, Naturalism, and Theism: An Inconsistent Triad?, David H. Gordon
The Parable As Mirror: An Examination of the Use of Parables in the Works of Kierkegaard, Russell Hamer
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Contextualizing Aquinas's Ontology of Soul: An Analysis of His Arabic and Neoplatonic Sources, Nathan McLain Blackerby
The Social and Historical Subject in Sartre and Foucault and Its Implications for Healthcare Ethics, Kimberly Siobhan Engels
Investigations of Worth: Towards a Phenomenology of Values, Dale Hobbs Jr.
Developing Capabilities: A Feminist Discourse Ethics Approach, Chad Kleist
Hegel and the Problem of the Multiplicity of Conflicting Philosophies, Matthew M. Peters
Aquinas, Averroes, and the Human Will, Traci Ann Phillipson
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Nature, Feminism, and Flourishing: Human Nature and the Feminist Ethics of Flourishing, Celeste D. Harvey
Developing Capabilities: A Feminist Discourse Ethics Approach, Chad Kleist
Kierkegaard in Light of the East: A Critical Comparison of the Philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard with Orthodox Christian Philosophy and Thought, Agust Magnusson
The Secular Transformation of Pride and Humility in the Moral Philosophy of David Hume, Kirstin April Carlson McPherson
Living within the Sacred Tension: Paradox and Its Significance for Christian Existence in the Thought of Søren Kierkegaard, Matthew Thomas Nowachek
Moral Imagination and Adorno: Before and After Auschwitz, Catlyn Origitano
Essence and Necessity, and the Aristotelian Modal Syllogistic: A Historical and Analytical Study, Daniel James Vecchio
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Subversive Humor, Chris A. Kramer
Virtue, Oppression, and Resistance Struggles, Trevor William Smith
Health As Embodied Authenticity, Margaret Steele
Recognition and Political Ontology: Fichte, Hegel, and Honneth, Velimir Stojkovski
The Conceptual Priority of the Perfect, Matthew Peter Zdon
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Dangerous Knowledge? Morality And Moral Progress After Naturalism, Daniel Diederich Farmer
Nietzsche's Revaluation of All Values, Joseph Anthony Kranak
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Re-Enchanting The World: An Examination Of Ethics, Religion, And Their Relationship In The Work Of Charles Taylor, David McPherson
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
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
To Validate a Feeling: the Role of the Mood of Angst in Human Being, Gregory P. Schulz
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
Reason in Hume's Moral System, John Muenzberg
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 J. Schiano
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
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