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 2002
Descartes' Theory Against Artificial Intelligence and the Micro-World, John R. Visintainer
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
The Aesthetic Hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Hans Urs von Balthasar: A Comparative Analysis, Jason Paul Bourgeois
Mill's View of Moral Sentiments, with Application to Advertising Ethics, Andrew Benjamin Gustafson
A vicebron (Solomon lbn 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 Beiträge zur Philosophie (vom Ereignis), Louis J. Schiano Jr.
Faith and Reason in the Philosophy of Edith Stein, Karl Christian Schudt
Richard A. McCormick's Proportionalism: A Consequentialist Ethical Theory, Patrick A. Tully
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
The Moral Dimensions of Michael Martin's Atheology: A Critical Assessment, Paul H. Copan
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 P. Rosheger
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
The Trinitarian Nature of Hegel's Ontological Argument, Patricia Marie Calton
Kant's Conception of the Self: Applying the Dual-Aspect Reading of the Phenomena/noumena Distinction to the Self, Theodore Di Maria Jr.
Transformation and community, Russell W Dumke
Transformation and Community, Russell W. Dumke
Aristotle's theory of substance in "Metaphysics Zeta-Eta", Hye-Kyung Kim
Aristotle's Theory of Substance in Metaphysics Zeta-Eta, Hye-Kyung Kim
Freedom, God, and Empiricism in Locke, Eric A. 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
Theses/Dissertations 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 D. Harwood
Theses/Dissertations 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 A. Mordente
Augustine's Doctrine of Weakness of the Will After 411, Ann Ann Pang White
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
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Perspectives in Jurisprudence: An Analysis of H.L.A. Hart's Legal Theory, Eric J. Boos
Hegel's Assimilation of Aristotelian Teleology: Hegel After Darwin, Anthony R. Catenazzo
The Corpse of Faith and Reason: Hegel's Early Critique of the Philosophy of Subjectivity, Kipton E. Jensen
Knowledge By Connaturality in St. Thomas Aquinas, Helen Virginia Keane
The Nature of Commitment and Its Relationship to Freedom, Mary Jo Klein
Existence as Dialectical Tension: A Study of the Philosophy of W. E. Hocking, Arthur R. Luther
Possibility as a Principle in Leibniz's Thought, Peter J. Maxwell
Out of a Kantian Chrysalis?: A Maritainian Critique of Maréchal, Ronald Dean McCamy
Giambattista Vico and the Emergence of Historical Consciousness, Bradley Nelson Seidel
Naming God: A Study in Semantics, David Alan White
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
When Ethics Meets Politics: An Essay 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 Jr.
The Real Distinction in Creatures Between Being and Essence According to William of Auvergne, Kevin J. Caster
The real distinction in creatures between being and essence according to William of Auvergne, Kevin Joseph Caster
Philosophy and Incarnation, Steven A. Long
Aquinas on the Unity of Perfect Moral Virtue and Its Significance for the Nature-Grace Question, Renée Mirkes
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
Community and normality in Husserl, Lara M. Trout
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
Divine Simplicity : Aquinas and the Current Debate, Vincent M. Dever
"Kant and the Matter of Cognition", William Harold Lentz
Theses/Dissertations from 1993
Heteronomy As Condition for Freedom in Levinas' and Sartre's Ethics, Mylène 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 M. Hodge
The Informal Socialization of Catholic Elementary School Principals: Implications for Administrative Staff Development, Julie A. Stoffels
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
The Value of Human Life and Bioethics: A Philosophical Assessment, Liselotte Chamberlain
Reconnoitering the Role of Essence in Light of Esse: The Existential Thesis of Phelan, Clarke, and Carlo, Chris E. Curry
The Grammar of Subjecthood: Wittgenstein, Deconstruction and Dennett's Intentional Stance, Wendy Lee-Lampshire
Theses/Dissertations from 1991
Finality and Marriage, Margaret Monahan Hogan
Capital as Organic Unity: The Role of Hegel's "Science of Logic" in Marx's "Gundrisse", Mark Edward Meaney
An Ethical Analysis of Alcoholism in Light of Aristotle's Virtue Ethics, Maureen Milligan
The Drama of Cartesian Morality, Vance G. Morgan
On the Nature of Psychological Knowledge: An Analysis of the Models of Behaviorism, Cognitivism, and Phenomenology, George L. Raine
The Meaning of Subjectivity in a Technological Society: Jacues Ellul's View of man as Dialogic Agent, Daryl J. Wennemann
Theses/Dissertations from 1990
The Principle of Double Effect: Conditions and Applications, Mark William Barber
The Metaphysics of Affectivity and Ethical Responsibility, Anthony F. Beavers
The metaphysics of affectivity and ethical responsibility, Anthony Francis Beavers
The Development of the Concept of Liberty in British Philosophy from 1640 to 1863: Hobbes, Locke and Mill, Paul Chamberlain
Heidegger and the principle of contradiction, Marianne Lucia Fulop
Computerizing Aristotle's Categories, Christopher E. Lewis
The distinction between phenomena and noumena and Kant's attempt to retain freedom, David J. Meinholz
Meditations on the Will: A Critical Exposition and Analysis of Rene Descartes' Theory of the Will, James Petrik
Theses/Dissertations from 1989
The First Principles of Natural Law: A Study of the Moral Theories of Aristotle and Saint Thomas Aquinas, Maria T. Carl
The priority of responsibility in the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, Robert Dennis Walsh
The Priority of Responsibility in the Ethical Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, Robert Dennis Walsh
Theses/Dissertations from 1988
Kierkegaard on Anxiety and Despair: An Analysis of "The Concept of Anxiety" and "The Sickness Unto Death", Gregory R. Beabout
The Concept of the Unity of the Person in the Thought of Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II), Stephen J. Heaney
The concept of the unity of the person in the thought of Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II), Stephen John Heaney
Gabriel Marcel's Critique of the Thomist Proofs for God's Existence, Anne Mercedes Maloney
Law as An Interpretive Concept: A Study of the Legal Philosophy of Ronald Dworkin, Kevin Sullivan
Freedom and volition in St. Thomas Aquinas, Mike Wolfkiel
Poetry and its victim : reflections on Republic X, Bradley Paul Wronski
Theses/Dissertations from 1987
Human Nature and Eudaimonia in Aristotle, Don T. Asselin
Theses/Dissertations from 1986
Mysticism and Cognitional Theory: A Presentation and Critique of the Work of Joseph Marechal, Jeannette Martin
Happiness as self-appreciation in Aristotle'[s] Ethics, Valerie J. Petropoulos
Deconstruction, Praxis and The Concept of Self, Keith C. Pheby
Theses/Dissertations from 1985
'Experience' in William James as a Starting Point for Theology, James Michael Bergin
Hegel's Concept of Property, Richard A. Davis
GOODMAN AND THE SEMIOTIC THEORY OF ART (AESTHETICS, SYMBOLISM), LOWELL EMERSON HERR
THE IMPERFECTION OF WOMAN IN THOMAS'S DOCTRINE OF WOMAN (ARISTOTLE, AUGUSTINE), RICHARD J MCGOWAN
Simone Weil: Contributions Toward a Critique of Science, Jane Marie Pratt
Human eternity in sensory and intellectual operations and the meaning of time according to the philosophical principles of St. Thomas Aquinas and his Aristotelian inheritance, Michael J. Sweeney
Theses/Dissertations from 1984
Empirical Science and the Foundations of Clinical Psychology, Ronald J. Bombardi
The Definition of the Human Soul in the Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard by Peter of Tarantasia, O.P., Emanuel Carmel Buttigieg
Sartre's Theory of Human Relations in Being and Nothingness and the Critique of Dialectical Reason, Lisa A. Hermes
The Correctness of Names: Plato's Own "Nature" Thesis in the "Cratylus", Michael D. Palmer
Freedom and Necessity in the Metaphysics of Leibniz, Mark Schersten
Theses/Dissertations from 1983
The Ontological Connection Between Nietzsche's Will to Power and Eternal Return, Thomas Anthony Baker
PEIRCE'S SEMIOTIC APPROACH TO MIND, VINCENT MICHAEL COLAPIETRO
Peirce's Semiotic Approach to Mind, Vincent Michael Colapietro