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 1969
An Idealistic Pragmatism: The Development of the Pragmatic Element in the Philosophy of Josiah Royce, M Broid
An Idealistic Pragmatism the Development of the Pragmatic Element in the Philosophy of Josiah Royce, Mary L. Broidy
The moment of evidence: an inquiry into the alleged vicious circle in the works of René Descartes, Donald A. Cress
Towards an ordinary meaning of Truth, Willard F. Diehl
An Evaluation of W.T Stace's Views on Explanation and Their Role in His Interpretation of Mystical Experience, James P. Godar
What Philosophy is for Gabriel Marcel, Stephen T. Jolin
AN ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION OF HENRI POINCARE'S COSMOLOGY, EPISTEMOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE, JOHN PHILIP PAUL
An Analysis and Evaluation of Henri Poincare's Cosmology, Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, John Phillip Paul
The influence of Berkeley's study of vision and spatial perception on his immaterialism, Blanche Lillie Kolar Premo
Karl Kautsky, a study in non-communist Marxism, Elizabeth J. Roberts
A study of Saint Augustine's notion of war, Judith Chelius Stark
The rational in the Leibnizian universe, Eugene M. Underwood
Theses/Dissertations from 1968
Pascal's objection to Descartes' use of reason, Barbara Ann DeMartino
Koinonia-Communio in Orthodox Christian Literature from A.D. 200 to 325: A Theological-Philological Study, Edmund Joseph Hartmann
Jean Leclerc "Eloge de feu Jean Locke": focal point of seventeenth century philosophy, St. Timothy Keyes
The Reality of Matter in the Philosophy of Henri Bergson, William E. May
THE REALITY OF MATTER IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF HENRI BERGSON, WILLIAM EUGENE MAY
The aesthetic/ethical dialect of either/or, Maureen O'Sullivan
An analysis of the cognitive experience as understood by Ralph Barton Terry, Joann M. Schaetzl
To einai and ousia in Plotinus, Michael G. Vater
Theses/Dissertations from 1967
The doctrine of love in the works of Martin Buber, Donald J. Barbeau
A study of love as transcending autonomy in the philosophy of Gabriel Marcel, Maryanne Josephine Bertram
The Early Theory of Human Choice in the Philosophy of Francisco Suarez, Josephine Burns
An analysis of the meaning of guilt and freedom in the thought of Saint Augustine, Eileen Cantin
Soren Kierkegaard's doctrine of love as the mode and means to the development of man as "conscious spirit", Sister Mary Louann Doering
The notion of progress in the thought of Jacques Maritain, Sister Bernard Dolores Farley
Irony and humor in Kierkegaard., Susan M. Fitzer
The Nature and Content of First Philosophy in the Text of Ibn Ruschd's Great Commentary on Book Twelve of Aristotle's Metaphysics, George E. Geyer
The dialectical relationship between consciousness and facticity in the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Susan J. Gruenheck
Analysis of Space Charge Domain Motion in A Bulk Effect Semiconductor, Stanley V. Jaskolski
Gabriel Marcel's theater: experimental stage for his philosophical reflections on hope, Stephen Towne Jolin
The fundamental principles of Jacques Maritain's integral humanism, Thomas A. Kerns
The Meaning of Person in George Holmes Howison's Philosophy, Robert Lauder
The role of the dialectic of existence in Kierkegaard's thought, Robert L. Tatalovich
CREATION AND METAPHYSICS: A GENETIC APPROACH TO EXISTENTIAL ACT, HERVE J THIBAULT
Philosophical Roots of the Finite God Theories of William James and Edgar Sheffield Brightman, Robert J. Vanden Burgt
The Broad-Keynes-Russell theory for the explanation and justification of induction, Thomas E. Wallenmaier
Bertrand Russell, nominalist or realist?, Thomas Wedmore
I and Thou: An Analysis of the Ontological Foundations of Martin Buber's Thought, Robert E. Wood
I AND THOU: AN ANALYSIS OF THE ONTOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF MARTIN BUBER'STHOUGHT, ROBERT EARL WOOD
Theses/Dissertations from 1966
The Common Good as the Key to Hobbes's Civil Philosophy, Keith W. Algozin
The Object and Nature of Mathematical Science in Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas: A Comparison, Thomas C. Anderson
THE OBJECT AND NATURE OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCE IN ARISTOTLE AND ST. THOMASAQUINAS: A COMPARISON, THOMAS CHARLES ANDERSON
The notion of obedience in Saint Augustine, Paul Briody
The Role of the Cogito in the Philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Thomas W. Busch
An Exposition and Analysis of William James's Views on the Nature of Man, William C. Charron
Work and the objectification of freedom in the philosophy of Hegel, James J. Fletcher
Kant's speculative agnosticism, John Arthur Giguere
Intersubjectivity and community in the philosophy of Gabriel Marcel, Mary Ella Giovannini
Intuition: Basis of certitude in James McCosh, realist, Mary Jude Graham
Ernest Nagel's philosophy of science: a study in contextualistic naturalism, Raymond Earl Harlan
The Role of Metaphysics in John Dewey's Conception of Philosophy, John G. Jardine
St. Augustine's refutation of scepticism in Contra Academicos, Sister Doris Koenig
Man's Natural Knowledge of the Eternal Law, John U. Lewis
The notion of philosophy in the philosophic writings of William James, William H. Powaser
The meaning of the formula omne esse ex forma est in the De Processione Mundi of Dominicus Gundissalinus, Eugene Edward Selk
Dionysius the Areopagite On the Divine Names, John William Stergiades
The Dropout Factor in the Cost of Ministerial Training in the Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod, Walter W. Stuenkel
Meontic freedom in the personalism of Nicholas Berdyaev, Helen Marie Wilhelm
Theses/Dissertations from 1965
Efficient causality and al-Islam in al-Ghazzali, Robert Barford
The Political Good in the Philosophy of John Locke, Ida J. Critelli
Method in Paul Ricoeur: a study of an evolving hermeneutic phenomenology, Mary Jo Harsy
The Doctrine of the Demiurge in the Timaeus, Albert G. Jacobbe
The Nature of pleasure in the Philebus and in the ethics (7:11-14 and 10:1-5), Robert P. Mueller
Material Being and Scientific Knowledge According to Pierre Duhem, Joseph J. O'Malley
Paul Weiss's theory of art, Mary Brian Overfield
The Personalistic Theism of Borden Parker Bowne, Mary S. Puls
THE PERSONALISTIC THEISM OF BORDEN PARKER BOWNE, MARY SARTO PULS
The pseudo-Aristotelian De Pomo sive de Morte Aristotilis -- an introduction and translation, Mary F. Rousseau
A confrontation between H.J. Paton's and Martin Heidegger's interpretations of the Kantian doctrine of the transcendental object, James R. Zeller
Theses/Dissertations from 1964
The notion of the common good in Richard Hooker's Of the laws of ecclesiastical polity, Thomas J. Audley
St. Augustine's treatment of the problem of evil in the De Natura Boni, Mary Arden Hauer
The subject in the philosophy of Gabriel Marcel, Arthur Richard Luther
The conquest of freedom: a translation and analysis of "Le doute de Cézanne" by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Gary B. Madison
Communicability and incommunicability in St. Thomas' notion of person, Sister M. Francis McMillan
On the nature and understanding of first moral principles, Maurice W. Rudiselle
Intuition in Bergson, Robert E. Wood
Theses/Dissertations from 1963
St. Augustine's notion of wisdom in the De Beata Vita and the De Trinitate, Ida JoAnn Critelli
The Jus Gentium in Aquinas and Vitoria, Thomas G. Dolan
Socrates as source of Kierkegaard's philosophy, Linda Shaw Finlay
The Ethics of Plato: The Search for a Metaphysical Foundation, James F. Foster
Moral Obligation in the Philosophy of Henri Bergson, Idella J. Gallagher
Guilt in the Plotinian Procession, George Edwin Geyer
Adam Smith's Theory of the Ultimate Foundations of Commercial Society, John Ralph Lindgren
Jonathan Edwards' Doctrine of the Will in the Light of His Principal Sources, Mary Sarto Puls
First and second act in the philosophy of St. Thomas, Gerald A. Wahmhoff
The mathematical method in the philosophy of Proclus, Mary Edmund Zawadzki
Theses/Dissertations from 1962
An historical interpretation of Sartre's denial of God from the absolute freedom of man, Thomas W. Busch
The Notion of Agency in the Prima Pars of the Summa Theologiae of Saint Thomas Aquinas, James A. Ebben
Neoplatonic and Christian influences in the conversion of St. Augustine : comparative study of a controversy, Julian A. Gervasi
Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton: Two Interpreters of John Locke?, Robert D. Jones
Prudence and justice as architectonic in society, Mary Magdalen Martin
Leibniz on the nature of corporeal substance, Peter J. Maxwell
Pietro Pomponazzi's De Immortalitate Animae : A study of his doctrine of the soul, Aldo G. Tassi
God in the Philosophy of William James, Robert J. Vanden Burgt
Theses/Dissertations from 1961
St. Thomas Aquinas on mathematical knowledge, Daniel J. Guilfoil
The meaning of dominion in Saint Thomas Aquinas, John Ralph Lindgren
The order of Charity according to Saint Thomas Aquinas, Michael J. Murphy
The Practical Syllogism Reexamined, Leonard O'Hanley
George Santayana's Doctrine of Matter and Spirit in Man, Alan R. Perreiah