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Theses/dissertations from 2023 2023.

Karl Marx on Human Flourishing and Proletarian Ethics , Sam Badger

The Ontological Grounds of Reason: Psychologism, Logicism, and Hermeneutic Phenomenology , Stanford L. Howdyshell

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Interdisciplinary Communication by Plausible Analogies: the Case of Buddhism and Artificial Intelligence , Michael Cooper

Heidegger and the Origin of Authenticity , John J. Preston

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Hegel and Schelling: The Emptiness of Emptiness and the Love of the Divine , Sean B. Gleason

Nietzsche on Criminality , Laura N. McAllister

Learning to be Human: Ren 仁, Modernity, and the Philosophers of China's Hundred Days' Reform , Lucien Mathot Monson

Nietzsche and Eternal Recurrence: Methods, Archives, History, and Genesis , William A. B. Parkhurst

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Orders of Normativity: Nietzsche, Science and Agency , Shane C. Callahan

Humanistic Climate Philosophy: Erich Fromm Revisited , Nicholas Dovellos

This, or Something like It: Socrates and the Problem of Authority , Simon Dutton

Climate Change and Liberation in Latin America , Ernesto O. Hernández

Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa as Expressions of Shame in a Post-Feminist , Emily Kearns

Nostalgia and (In)authentic Community: A Bataillean Answer to the Heidegger Controversy , Patrick Miller

Cultivating Virtue: A Thomistic Perspective on the Relationship Between Moral Motivation and Skill , Ashley Potts

Identity, Breakdown, and the Production of Knowledge: Intersectionality, Phenomenology, and the Project of Post-Marxist Standpoint Theory , Zachary James Purdue

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

The Efficacy of Comedy , Mark Anthony Castricone

William of Ockham's Divine Command Theory , Matthew Dee

Heidegger's Will to Power and the Problem of Nietzsche's Nihilism , Megan Flocken

Abelard's Affective Intentionalism , Lillian M. King

Anton Wilhelm Amo's Philosophy and Reception: from the Origins through the Encyclopédie , Dwight Kenneth Lewis Jr.

"The Thought that we Hate": Regulating Race-Related Speech on College Campuses , Michael McGowan

A Historical Approach to Understanding Explanatory Proofs Based on Mathematical Practices , Erika Oshiro

From Meaningful Work to Good Work: Reexamining the Moral Foundation of the Calling Orientation , Garrett W. Potts

Reasoning of the Highest Leibniz and the Moral Quality of Reason , Ryan Quandt

Fear, Death, and Being-a-problem: Understanding and Critiquing Racial Discourse with Heidegger’s Being and Time , Jesús H. Ramírez

The Role of Skepticism in Early Modern Philosophy: A Critique of Popkin's "Sceptical Crisis" and a Study of Descartes and Hume , Raman Sachdev

How the Heart Became Muscle: From René Descartes to Nicholas Steno , Alex Benjamin Shillito

Autonomy, Suffering, and the Practice of Medicine: A Relational Approach , Michael A. Stanfield

The Case for the Green Kant: A Defense and Application of a Kantian Approach to Environmental Ethics , Zachary T. Vereb

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Augustine's Confessiones : The Battle between Two Conversions , Robert Hunter Craig

The Strategic Naturalism of Sandra Harding's Feminist Standpoint Epistemology: A Path Toward Epistemic Progress , Dahlia Guzman

Hume on the Doctrine of Infinite Divisibility: A Matter of Clarity and Absurdity , Wilson H. Underkuffler

Climate Change: Aristotelian Virtue Theory, the Aidōs Response and Proper Primility , John W. Voelpel

The Fate of Kantian Freedom: the Kant-Reinhold Controversy , John Walsh

Time, Tense, and Ontology: Prolegomena to the Metaphysics of Tense, the Phenomenology of Temporality, and the Ontology of Time , Justin Brandt Wisniewski

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

A Phenomenological Approach to Clinical Empathy: Rethinking Empathy Within its Intersubjective and Affective Contexts , Carter Hardy

From Object to Other: Models of Sociality after Idealism in Gadamer, Levinas, Rosenzweig, and Bonhoeffer , Christopher J. King

Humanitarian Military Intervention: A Failed Paradigm , Faruk Rahmanovic

Active Suffering: An Examination of Spinoza's Approach to Tristita , Kathleen Ketring Schenk

Cartesian Method and Experiment , Aaron Spink

An Examination of John Burton’s Method of Conflict Resolution and Its Applicability to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict , John Kenneth Steinmeyer

Speaking of the Self: Theorizing the Dialogical Dimensions of Ethical Agency , Bradley S. Warfield

Changing Changelessness: On the Genesis and Development of the Doctrine of Divine Immutability in the Ancient and Hellenic Period , Milton Wilcox

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

The Statue that Houses the Temple: A Phenomenological Investigation of Western Embodiment Towards the Making of Heidegger's Missing Connection with the Greeks , Michael Arvanitopoulos

An Exploratory Analysis of Media Reporting of Police Involved Shootings in Florida , John L. Brown

Divine Temporality: Bonhoeffer's Theological Appropriation of Heidegger's Existential Analytic of Dasein , Nicholas Byle

Stoicism in Descartes, Pascal, and Spinoza: Examining Neostoicism’s Influence in the Seventeenth Century , Daniel Collette

Phenomenology and the Crisis of Contemporary Psychiatry: Contingency, Naturalism, and Classification , Anthony Vincent Fernandez

A Critique of Charitable Consciousness , Chioke Ianson

writing/trauma , Natasha Noel Liebig

Leibniz's More Fundamental Ontology: from Overshadowed Individuals to Metaphysical Atoms , Marin Lucio Mare

Violence and Disagreement: From the Commonsense View to Political Kinds of Violence and Violent Nonviolence , Gregory Richard Mccreery

Kant's Just War Theory , Steven Charles Starke

A Feminist Contestation of Ableist Assumptions: Implications for Biomedical Ethics, Disability Theory, and Phenomenology , Christine Marie Wieseler

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Heidegger and the Problem of Modern Moral Philosophy , Megan Emily Altman

The Encultured Mind: From Cognitive Science to Social Epistemology , David Alexander Eck

Weakness of Will: An Inquiry on Value , Michael Funke

Cogs in a Cosmic Machine: A Defense of Free Will Skepticism and its Ethical Implications , Sacha Greer

Thinking Nature, "Pierre Maupertuis and the Charge of Error Against Fermat and Leibniz" , Richard Samuel Lamborn

John Duns Scotus’s Metaphysics of Goodness: Adventures in 13th-Century Metaethics , Jeffrey W. Steele

A Gadamerian Analysis of Roman Catholic Hermeneutics: A Diachronic Analysis of Interpretations of Romans 1:17-2:17 , Steven Floyd Surrency

A Natural Case for Realism: Processes, Structures, and Laws , Andrew Michael Winters

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

Leibniz's Theodicies , Joseph Michael Anderson

Aeschynē in Aristotle's Conception of Human Nature , Melissa Marie Coakley

Ressentiment, Violence, and Colonialism , Jose A. Haro

It's About Time: Dynamics of Inflationary Cosmology as the Source of the Asymmetry of Time , Emre Keskin

Time Wounds All Heels: Human Nature and the Rationality of Just Behavior , Timothy Glenn Slattery

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

Nietzsche and Heidegger on the Cartesian Atomism of Thought , Steven Burgess

Embodying Social Practice: Dynamically Co-Constituting Social Agency , Brian W. Dunst

Subject of Conscience: On the Relation between Freedom and Discrimination in the Thought of Heidegger, Foucault, and Butler , Aret Karademir

Climate, Neo-Spinozism, and the Ecological Worldview , Nancy M. Kettle

Eschatology in a Secular Age: An Examination of the Use of Eschatology in the Philosophies of Heidegger, Berdyaev and Blumenberg , John R. Lup, Jr.

Navigation and Immersion of the American Identity in a Foreign Culture to Emergence as a Culturally Relative Ambassador , Lee H. Rosen

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

A Philosophical Analysis of Intellectual Property: In Defense of Instrumentalism , Michael A. Kanning

A Commentary On Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's Discourse on Metaphysics #19 , Richard Lamborn Samuel Lamborn

Sellars in Context: An Analysis of Wilfrid Sellars's Early Works , Peter Jackson Olen

The New Materialism: Althusser, Badiou, and Zizek , Geoffrey Dennis Pfeifer

Structure and Agency: An Analysis of the Impact of Structure on Group Agents , Elizabeth Kaye Victor

Moral Friction, Moral Phenomenology, and the Improviser , Benjamin Scott Young

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

The Virtuoso Human: A Virtue Ethics Model Based on Care , Frederick Joseph Bennett

The Existential Compromise in the History of the Philosophy of Death , Adam Buben

Philosophical Precursors to the Radical Enlightenment: Vignettes on the Struggle Between Philosophy and Theology From the Greeks to Leibniz With Special Emphasis on Spinoza , Anthony John Desantis

The Problem of Evil in Augustine's Confessions , Edward Matusek

The Persistence of Casuistry: a Neo-premodernist Approach to Moral Reasoning , Richard Arthur Mercadante

Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010

Dewey's Pragmatism and the Great Community , Philip Schuyler Bishop

Unamuno's Concept of the Tragic , Ernesto O. Hernandez

Rethinking Ethical Naturalism: The Implications of Developmental Systems Theory , Jared J.. Kinggard

From Husserl and the Neo-Kantians to Art: Heidegger's Realist Historicist Answer to the Problem of the Origin of Meaning , William H. Koch

Queering Cognition: Extended Minds and Sociotechnologically Hybridized Gender , Michele Merritt

Hydric Life: A Nietzschean Reading of Postcolonial Communication , Elena F. Ruiz-Aho

Descartes' Bête Machine, the Leibnizian Correction and Religious Influence , John Voelpel

Aretē and Physics: The Lesson of Plato's Timaeus , John R. Wolfe

Theses/Dissertations from 2009 2009

Praxis and Theōria : Heidegger’s “Violent” Interpretation , Megan E. Altman

On the Concept of Evil: An Analysis of Genocide and State Sovereignty , Jason J. Campbell

The Role of Trust in Judgment , Christophe Sage Hudspeth

Truth And Judgment , Jeremy J. Kelly

The concept of action and responsibility in Heidegger's early thought , Christian Hans Pedersen

Roots and Role of the Imagination in Kant: Imagination at the Core , Michael Thompson

Theses/Dissertations from 2008 2008

Peirce on the Passions: The Role of Instinct, Emotion, and Sentiment in Inquiry and Action , Robert J. Beeson

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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 2023 2023

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

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

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

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

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

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

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

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

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

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 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 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 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 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 2016

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

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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

Theses/Dissertations from 2008 2008

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 2007

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

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

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

Submissions from 2006 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

Theses/Dissertations from 2005 2005

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

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

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 2004

The foundations of the politics of difference , Peter Nathaniel Bwanali

The Foundations of the Politics of Difference , Peter Nathaniel Bwanali

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

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

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 Suárez on the Ontological Status of Individual Unity vis-à-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

Theses/Dissertations from 2003 2003

Building a Heideggerian Ethic , Kelly A. Burns

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

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

Theses/Dissertations from 2002 2002

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

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

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undergraduate Y4

I supervise at least one undergraduate a year. Many of the same questions come up each year. I have prepared below a set of guidelines to help when starting out on a dissertation.

Please note that this is personal advice and not to be taken as a substitute for the undergraduate handbook and marking scheme.

Do’s and Don’t’s for a dissertation

Have a claim. You should be able to state your claim clearly in 1–2 sentences.
Have claim of the right size – viz. a size you can defend (be careful not to be too ambitious here)
Have a rigorous argument for your claim. Your argument should be able to convince a rational person who does not already believe your claim
Make your dissertation clearly understandable to a philosopher who is not an expert in this area
Explain why your claim is important
Be honest if you do not conclusively establish your claim – e.g. clarify that your claim follows conditional on certain stated assumptions, list unresolved objections
Make clear your original contribution
Make use of your supervisor for feedback on drafts

Don’t:

Aim for this to be your magnum opus or last word on the topic
Try to solve a major problem (e.g. the mind-body problem, external world scepticism)
Cover every possible view in the field
Include extra material unless it advances your argument
Have one massive 6,000 word chapter
Leave it until Semester 2 to start work

How to write a dissertation

The points above give you an idea of what to aim for but they don’t provide a method for how to get there. There are many ways to write a dissertation. It may be reassuring to know that there are simple methods that can reliably produce an excellent dissertation. The algorithm below is one method:

Find the general area you like (e.g. phenomenal consciousness)
Select one article/book chapter in that area that you find fascinating (e.g. Smith (2009))
Summarise Smith (2009) carefully in your own words, paying attention to whether each step in the argument follows from the previous
Look for weaknesses in Smith (2009)’s argument
Which new resources do you need to draw on?
Which alternative conclusions follow?
Which objections can be raised to your proposal?
Draw on relevant bits of surrounding literature to support (5)

You have a first class dissertation!

Filling the dissertation with enough words

A common worry among students is whether they are able to write enough words. The longest piece of philosophical writing they may have done so far is 3,000 words. How can you write a sustained argument that lasts for 8,000 words? This turns out to be easier than you might think. Indeed, the difficulty often turns out to be not going over the word limit.

For the sake of argument, let us see how following the algorithm above might work out in terms of word count.

Introduction (500 words): What is your claim, the outline of your argument?
Chapter 1 (1,000 words): Why is your claim important? What are the pay-offs?
Chapter 2 (2,000 words): Careful and charitable summary of X in your own words
Chapter 3 (2,000 words): Your rigorous criticism of X
Chapter 4 (2,000 words): How X should be corrected, associated costs, consequences for views that use X, possible objections
Conclusion (500 words): Summary and next steps for future work

And we are done!

Milestones to aim for

Milestones depend on the specific project and you should talk to your supervisor about your workload and what would be a reasonable plan for finishing the dissertation in the year. Below is a rough plan that one might aim for.

End Y3: meet supervisor & agree on general topic
Summer vacation: background reading on topic
Start Y4: find 1 article/chapter to focus

Year 4, Semester 1:

Start: meet with supervisor & agree plan for year
Middle: first draft of 2 chapters
End: polished draft of 2 chapters

Year 4, Semester 2:

Start: first draft of entire dissertation
Middle: polished draft of entire dissertation
End: revisit, revise, and submit dissertation

Background reading

A dissertation in philosophy is a story … like all good stories, it only includes what is essential to the story — Robert Paul Wolff’s astute advice that applies just as well to UG dissertations as well as PhD theses

Be concise, but explain yourself fully — Jim Pryor with an excellent 3-stage plan for writing philosophy

Style is the feather in the arrow, not the feather in the cap — Peter Lipton has some wonderful and concise writing advice

Read your work aloud. … Be firm: take your prose to the gym, and keep working at it until the bones and sinews show through! — Peter Smith, previously editor of Analysis , with some fantastic advice

What is an argument? — Jim Pryor’s guide is essential reading for anyone writing philosophy; it contains a lexicon of philosophical terms and a taxonomy of good and bad arguments, which is useful for classifying the arguments you consider

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Dissertations from 2024 2024.

Fragmentation and Some Applications , Joseph Bendana

Law's Legitimacy: Lon Fuller in a Consequentialist Frame , Daniel L. Feldman

Language, Legitimacy, and the Law: The Social Roots of Legal Obligation , Joshua Keton

Demarcating Psychopathologies: Nosology, Validity, and the Taxonomic Problem in Psychiatric Medicine , Julia Zentz Kolak

Equality, Solidarity, and Exploitation: An Essay on the Philosophical Foundations of Socialism , Callum Zavos MacRae

Extractivism and the Defense of Life and Territories: An Account of Latin American Environmental Thought , Pedro Monque

Dissertations from 2023 2023

Theorizing Racial Democracy , Teófilo de Souza Carmo Reis

Etiology of Injustice , Susan Erck

Speakers and Addressees as Creative Interpreters , Svitlana Novikova

Three Essays on Substructural Approaches to Semantic Paradoxes , Brian C. Porter

Dissertations from 2022 2022

Decolonizing Genderqueer: An Inquiry into the Gender Binary, Resistance, and Imperialistic Social Categories , Lauren E. Abruzzo

Recovering Authenticity: Care, Conversation and Value , Shannon M. Brick

Epistemic Priors, Social Justice, and the Ethics of Humor , Paul Butterfield

Tell Me A Story: The Normative Power of Storytelling , Zoe Cunliffe

Facing the Fringe , Laura Gradowski

Necessity, Essence and Analyticity: Toward an Analytic Essentialist Account of Necessity , Dongwoo Kim

Actual Causation: Apt Causal Models and Causal Relativism , Jennifer R. McDonald

Pervasive Nonarbitrariness: Meaning from Form in Natural Language , David J. Neely

Marx, Race, Black Radicalism, and Racial Justice , Gregory Slack

Dissertations from 2021 2021

Rethinking Thinking About Thinking: Against a Pedagogical Imperative to Cultivate Metacognitive Skills , Lauren R. Alpert

Collective Intention and Class Consciousness , Aaron T. Bentley

Climbing The Mountain When There Is No Mountain To Climb: Pragmatism and the Reconstruction of Moral Philosophy , Ryan Marshall Felder

Pictorial Communication , Nada Gatalo

Legal Purgatory: Why Some Animals are Neither Persons nor Property , Sharisse Kanet

Desire, Culture, and the Body , Zoey Lavallee

Cooperation: The Ethics of Shared Agency , Jules F. Salomone-Sehr

Perceiving the Body: On the Bodily Senses and the Nature of Perception , Fiona C. Schick

Essays on Communication , Shawn M. Simpson

Informed Consent: Foundations and Applications , Joanna Smolenski

Fighting Words: Slurs, Semantics, and the Law , Richard Stillman

What We Owe to Our Audience: The Hermeneutical Responsibility of Fiction Creators , Kathryn Wojtkiewicz

The Emotional Illusion of Music: Contemporary Western Musical Aesthetics in Dialogue with Ancient Eastern Philosophy , Yin Zhang

Dissertations from 2020 2020

Production, not Dependence: The Metaphysics of Causation and its Role in Explanation, Responsibility, and the Law , Yuval Abrams

Identity and Counterparthood in a Many Worlds Universe , Sophia A.M. Bishop

Logical Pluralism and Vicious Regresses , Daniel Boyd

The Police and the State , Brandon del Pozo

In and Out of Character: Socratic Mimēsis , Mateo Duque

Metaethical Intentionalism and the Intersubjectivity of Morals , Kyle Ferguson

An Eco-Political Theory of Territory , Jonathan Kwan

Ethical Validity: An Ethical Validity Claim for Discourse Ethics , Jamie B. Lindsay

Emotion in Mind , Kathryn E. Pendoley

Environmental Transformative Justice: Responding to Ecocide , Manuel Rodeiro

Continuity as Crisis: Two Traditions of Theorizing about Animal Minds , Adam See

A Modelist Proposal , Jian Shen

The Coherence of Left-Libertarianism: A New Approach to Reconciling Libertarianism and Socialism , Jesse E. Spafford

Epistemic Injustice and Sexual Violence Intervention Advocacy , Jennifer Ware

Freedom, Markets, and Equality in Eighteenth Century Philosophy , Nicole Whalen

Dissertations from 2019 2019

How Racial Injustice Causes Ignorance , Eric Bayruns

Mentality and Fundamentality , Christopher D. Brown

A Volitional Theory of Aesthetic Value , John Dyck

Who Needs Blame?: Answerability Without Expressed Blame , Sarah Gokhale

A Defense of Pure Connectionism , Alex B. Kiefer

The Origin of Power in the Need to Cooperate: Parallels Between Political and Economic Power , David Nagy

Quantum Uncertainty Reduction (QUR) Theory of Attended Access and Phenomenal Consciousness , Anatoly V. Nichvoloda

Some Non-Human Languages of Thought , Nicolas J. Porot

How We Act Together , Matthew Rachar

Intention and Interpretation in Law , Cosim J. Sayid

Frontiers of Conditional Logic , Yale Weiss

Basic-Acceptance Teleosemantics , Esteban Withrington

Dissertations from 2018 2018

Toward a Science of Morals , Ross Taylor Colebrook

A Philosophical Defense of Judicial Minimalism , Cory A. Evans

On A and B Theories of Time , Edward Freeman

Demystifying the Placebo Effect , Phoebe Friesen

The Fragmented Mind: Working Memory Cannot Implement Consciousness , Javier Gomez-Lavin

Experimental Philosophy and Feminist Epistemology: Conflicts and Complements , Amanda Huminski

The Philosophical Foundations of PLEN: A Protocol-theoretic Logic of Epistemic Norms , Ralph E. Jenkins

Morality as Social Software , Jongjin Kim

The Psychology of Plato's Republic: Taking Book 10 into Account , Daniel Mailick

Essence, Explanation, and Modal Knowledge , Antonella Mallozzi

The Syndrome of Romantic Love , Arina Pismenny

Unarticulated Constituents and Theories of Meaning , Jesse Rappaport

The Two Inexical Uses Theory of Proper Names and Frege's Puzzle , Daniel S. Shabasson

Infodynamics: A Naturalistic Psychosemantics , Daniel E. Weissglass

Scanlon's Contractualism and Its Critics , Kenneth R. Weisshaar

Theories of Perception and Recent Empirical Work , Philip Zigman

Dissertations from 2017 2017

W.E.B. Du Bois: Freedom, Race, and American Modernity , Elvira Basevich

Evil and the Ontological Disproof , Carl J. Brownson III

Scientifically Responsible Metaphysics: A Program for the Naturalization of Metaphysics , Amanda Bryant

A Normative Account of Political Representation , Kenneth R. Courtney

The Proscriptive Principle and Logics of Analytic Implication , Thomas M. Ferguson

Meaning Through Things , Marilynn Johnson

Toward a Social Ontology of the Family , Laura W. Kane

Grounding, Causation and the Unity of Ontological Structure , Thomas Kivatinos

Syntax and Semantics of Perceptual Representation , James K. Quilty-Dunn

The Nature of Introspection , Adriana Renero

Aspects of Biological Explanation , Derek J. Skillings

For Narrativity: How Creating Narratives Structures Experience and Self , Natallia Stelmak Schabner

Dissertations from 2016 2016

Art as Display , Frank M. Boardman

Virtue’s Web: The Virtue of Empathic Attunement and the Need for a Relational Foundation , Georgina D. Campelia

Darwinian Debunking Reconsidered , Amanda J. Favia

Toward a Kripkean Concept of Number , Oliver R. Marshall

Seeing and Perceptual Content , Ben S. Phillips

Actions, Reasons and Self-Expression: A Defense of Subjectivist-Internalism about Reasons , Carolyn P. Plunkett

Three Essays in Intuitionistic Epistemology , Tudor Protopopescu

Consciousness, Perception, and Short-Term Memory , Henry F. Shevlin

Construing Character: Virtue as a Cognitive-Affective Processing System , Denise Vigani

The C3 Conditional: A Variably Strict Ordinary-Language Conditional , Monique L. Whitaker

Semantic Holism Revisited , Chun-Ping Yen

Moral Dilemmas and Moral Theories , Jihwan Yu

Dissertations from 2015 2015

Persons as Self-consciously Concerned Beings , Benjamin Abelson

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Theses/dissertations from 2024 2024.

Artistic Organizations. Joseph Beuys' Claim: An Expanded Concept of Argument , Rose Marie Barrientos Galindo

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

Beyond Argument? Addressing the Matter of Trust in Vaccine Hesitancy , Nicholas Kinnish

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Animals in Science: Ethical Justifications, Regulatory Frameworks, and Political Recommendations in the Canadian Context , Garett Grittner

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Adorno’s Animal Philosophy , Jonathan Hollingsworth

Mental Health and Arab Canadian Immigrants: Risks, Protective Factors, and Resilience , Ruby (Rawa) Jamil

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Coherent Inclusivity Through Accessibility: Exploring the Application of Life-Value Ethics to Disability , Emily Dobson

Against Vogel: A Defence of Aristotle’s Account of Nature , Mitchell Witteveen

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Situating Feminist Standpoint Theory: Toward a Critical Ontology of Knowledge , Matthew Steckle

An Ethical Argument for In Vitro Meat , Christian Vido

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

Tripartite Poetics: A Reexamination of Plato's Aesthetics , Michael J. Regier

Unifying the Modes of Existence , Erin Gayle Ward

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Informal Logic and the Concept of 'Argument' , Matthew John Pezzaniti

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

bell hooks on Critical Thinking: The Successes and Limitations of Practical Wisdom , Jamie Sewell

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

Emergence and How One Might Live. , Anthony Machum

Scientific Explanation and the Philosophy of Persuasion: Understanding Rhetoric through Scientific Principles and Mechanisms , Catalin Constantin Mitelut

The Source of Morality for Virgil's "Aeneid" , Tamilyn H. Mulvaney

Evaluating Premise Relations , Matthew Alexander Stevens

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

Adorno's "Addendum" to Practical Reason , Michael Walschots

Theses/Dissertations from 2008 2008

Moral reasoning ability in Canadian interuniversity athletes. , Shannon Hogarth

Weighing the balance: An examination of and possible justification for euthanasia , Neil Alexander Langshaw

This body, this civilization, this repression: An inquiry into Freud and Marcuse , Jeff Renaud

Theses/Dissertations from 2007 2007

Moral perception and pornography , Lauri Daitchman

Freedom, aesthetics, and technological rationality. , El-Mokadem Ali

Character and concept : how conceptual blending constrains situationism , Brandon D.C. Fenton

On deductivism : a critical survey of deductivism in informal logic , Paul L. Simard Smith

Theses/Dissertations from 2006 2006

Perfect duties in the face of human imperfection: A critical examination of Kant's ethic of suicide (Immanuel Kant). , Ryan S. Tonkens

Theses/Dissertations from 2005 2005

Latent memory: An extrapolation of the structures of memory at work in Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" (Immanuel Kant). , Michael Bruder

The problem of relevance. , John W. Davie

The mystification of Hume's compatibilism (David Hume). , Panteha Yektaeian

Theses/Dissertations from 2003 2003

The poverty of pedagogy: From a liberal university to a liberating university , Joshua Paul

Theses/Dissertations from 2002 2002

Traditional argumentation broadened. , Linda. Carozza

Woman, not womb: A feminist examination of in vitro fertilization. , Janice Hemani. Perera

Theses/Dissertations from 2001 2001

Liberalism: An insufficient medium for our relational need. , Viola-Cleo. Bradshaw

Theses/Dissertations from 2000 2000

Morality, law, and the needs of future persons: A study in environmental philosophy. , Anthony Italo. Fabiano

Stasis theory and arguers' dialectical obligations. , Takuzo. Konishi

The application of feminist insights in communication and argumentation to the practice of argument. , Jessica Lee. Shumake

Theses/Dissertations from 1999 1999

Human perfectibility and social communication: A study of William Godwin's "Political Justice". , Mark Alan. Barrett

Theses/Dissertations from 1998 1998

Jus Bellum: The classical just war doctrine today? , Kenneth Ronald. Webb

Theses/Dissertations from 1997 1997

Berkeley's theory of vision: Optical origins and ontological consequences (George Berkeley). , Giovanni Battista. Grandi

A criticism of Popper's argument against induction and justificationism in science (Karl Popper). , Salim. Murad

Nietzche, George Grant and the response to modernity (Friedrich Nietzsche). , Dominique J. Poulin

Nietzche, George Grant and the response to modernity. , Dominique J. Poulin

Caring, virtue theory, and the nurse-client relationship. , Marilyn Ann. Sutton

An examination of A. J. Ayer's phenomenalist solution to the problem of perception. , Yinlai. Yang

Theses/Dissertations from 1996 1996

Being-in-the-world and technology: An exposition of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. , Ted. Inkmann

Religion and morality in the philosophy of David Hume. , Terry Walker. Myers

Feminist ethics and David Hume's concept of sympathy: Moving towards a new morality (Virginia Held). , P. Tamara. Sugunasiri

Theses/Dissertations from 1994 1994

Parmenides' conception of being (Pythagoreanism). , Geoff Scott. Bowe

A framework for conflict resolution within the theory of Critical Thinking. , Allan W. Kidd

Hume, miracle reports, and credibility (David Hume). , Hendrik. van der Breggen

Ojibwa world view and environmental ethic: An investigative study. , Peter H. Woboditsch

Theses/Dissertations from 1993 1993

The effect of Wittgenstein's criticisms on Russell's theory of knowledge. , Raymond E. Boggs

Premise relevance: Informal logic and legal theory compared. , Michael Douglas. Kasurak

The role of emotion in rationality: Limiting the search for evidence. , John Stewart. McKay

The purity of Kant's ethics in light of his doctrine of the summum bonum. , Sandra. Orsini

The absence of Aristotelian teleology in some modern European philosophers of nature. , Darko. Piknjac

Theses/Dissertations from 1992 1992

A fresh approach to analyzing John McPeck's conception of critical thinking. , Debra Anne Boussey

Theses/Dissertations from 1990 1990

Dialectical inquiry: Rescher, Toulmin, van Eemeren and Grootendorst and a model for rational argumentation. , Charles W. B. Jones

Encountering the being of other in Sartre. , Leona Helen. Williams

Theses/Dissertations from 1989 1989

A cognitively oriented examination of belief perseverance. , Michael David. Kurak

Theses/Dissertations from 1988 1988

John Locke's moral person. , Darryl George. Fanick

Theses/Dissertations from 1987 1987

Carl Wellman's challenge to deductivism. , Bradley Eugene. Bowen

The informal logic of John Locke. , Kevin Gregory. Fanick

Type A Behavior, hostility and race in hospitalized patients with and without coronary heart disease , Jeffrey Wayne Hyde

Theses/Dissertations from 1986 1986

Environmental ethics and the search for an ecological ethic. , Pamela Courtenay. Hall

Theses/Dissertations from 1985 1985

A hermeneutical study of the existenzials in Martin Heidegger's Being and time. , Raymond Anthony. Couture

Theses/Dissertations from 1984 1984

The use of musement in C. S. Peirce's "A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God". , Julie Irma La France

Purely penal law a Suarezian defence. , Mauro Rafaele. Mavrinac

Theses/Dissertations from 1983 1983

Wittgenstein's critique of Moore's epistemology , Wayne Thomas Ashley

Theses/Dissertations from 1982 1982

Wittgenstein on the grammar of knowledge-claims. , Branko. Bilcar

Dreaming an investigation into the grammar of traditional and contemporary problems associated with dreaming. , Kevin Worr Bittle

Simplicity and falsifiability a critical examination of Karl Popper's stipulative definition of simplicity. , Brian Paul. MacPherson

Theses/Dissertations from 1981 1981

Popper and rationality a Wittgensteinian critique. , William Burns. Hutchinson

Phenomenalism in Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and nothingness. , Robert Wylie. Johnson

The indirect communication of the ethical. , Katharine Elizabeth. Parr

Human life and the sexuate condition as disjunctive. , Paul E. Anthony. Zancanaro

Theses/Dissertations from 1980 1980

The effects of relaxation, emotionality of target stimuli, attitude, and mood on ESP performance. , Shawn Stewart Steggles

Theses/Dissertations from 1978 1978

Role of the intact contralateral homologue in the recovery of intracranial self-stimulation behaviour. , Jerrel E. Del Dotto

The peculiarity of essential truth. , Arthur. Froese

Theses/Dissertations from 1977 1977

Human selfhood in Heidegger's Being and time. , Adib. Aburukin

Theses/Dissertations from 1976 1976

Stimulus control in pigeons following varied lengths of discrimination training with compound stimuli. , Giselle G. M Tubaro

Theses/Dissertations from 1975 1975

Two refutations of idealism in light of the linguistic turn. , Richard Eric. Fournie

The foundations of legal obligation. , Robert A. Kominar

Theses/Dissertations from 1974 1974

Mimesis as communication in the work of art. , M. Patricia. Ricciatti

Theses/Dissertations from 1972 1972

A multivariate analysis of social and persronal desisrability ratings , Robert James Konopasky

The effect of constant and intermittent punishment on cyclic FR-15 performance in the albino rat. , Brian Michael H Quirt

Theses/Dissertations from 1970 1970

A selected glance at how Kierkegaard stages the problem of what it is to become a Christian in his initial aesthetic authorship. , Frank Schloegel

Theses/Dissertations from 1965 1965

Facts and Values , David W. Ardagh

Theses/Dissertations from 1964 1964

The distinction of the powers of the soul from the essence of the soul. , John M. Kiss

Nothing is reduced from potency to act except by some being in act. , K. L. McGovern

Theses/Dissertations from 1963 1963

A critical analysis of Jean Paul Sartre's existential humanism with particular emphasis upon his concept of freedom and its moral implications. , Joseph P. Leddy

Theses/Dissertations from 1961 1961

Spiritual substance in the philosophy of George Berkeley. , Edward G. King

Theses/Dissertations from 1959 1959

The soul exceeds the proportion of matter. , Norman J. Langlois

Theses/Dissertations from 1957 1957

The basic elements of the philosophy of Alfred J. Ayer. , Robert M. Montague

Theses/Dissertations from 1955 1955

The distinction between philosophy and the experimental sciences. , Charles William Leonhardt

Theses/Dissertations from 1954 1954

Essence in the philosophy of George Santayana. , William F. P. Dollar

Mill's concept of liberty. , Lorne Giles Fox

The philosophical basis of aesthetic criticism. , Ambrose G. P. McInnes

Theses/Dissertations from 1945 1945

The natural law , Joseph Fleming Gualderoni

Theses/Dissertations from 1942 1942

Training the adolescent , James W. Embser

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Topic 1: an examination of women's perspective on feminist philosophy..

Research Aim: This study aims to look into the importance of feminism in a philosophical context. It will also identify the factors that lead to postmodernism and liberal feminism from women’s perspectives and will also focus on the impact of feminist philosophy on the development of modern society.

Topic 2: Sociological Functionalism- Investigating the Development and Beliefs

Research Aim: This research study will focus on new types of functionalism and get a deeper understanding of inner and outer circumstances in which different approaches take place. This study will also investigate how the researchers use social theory to acquire a better understanding of the environment in which these concepts are used. It will also promote sociology through informing and inspiring practices and research.

Topic 3: Assessing the History and Development of Philosophical Work from the 15th to 21st Century.

Research Aim: This study aims to find the history and development of philosophical work from the 15th and 21st Centuries. It will examine the theoretical foundations of the practice, applications, and social consequences. This study will also focus on different factors of how philosophy has evolved in these centuries and what changes have occurred.

Topic 4: A Comprehensive View of Social Development of Loneliness.

Research Aim: This study will comprehend how various theoretical points of view are connected or linked r to loneliness. This study will also present an argument for an interpretative social point of view by dissembling the sense of loneliness into key components. It will also focus on the problems and different behaviours of people.

Topic 5: What does it mean to live in an Ideal Society- Discuss using Plato's Philosophies.

Research Aim: Plato is well known for his monologue known as the Republic; he was also the classical political philosopher whose views influenced future political thoughts. Plato’s ideal society was created during a time when Plato was exceedingly optimistic about human nature and its ability to absorb knowledge. This study will conduct a deep analysis of Plato’s ideologies and his views and their impact on the western political world.

Topic 2: Should people always obey the rules? A closer look at the line between breaking rules and rebellion.

Research Aim: Rules are developed to maintain a balance in society and ensure discipline, which helps an individual in every sphere of their lives. But specific rules are created only for serving a group and not for the whole society’s best interest. This research aims at finding pieces of evidence where rule-breaking is a rebellion and for the upliftment of humanity and not in personal interest.

Topic 3: Loneliness: Reconstructing its meaning

Research Aim: This research aims at finding the meaning of loneliness, what it is to feel lonely, why some people are reclusive, isolate themselves. Loneliness is not always related to sadness, and some people feel better in isolation due to their bitter experiences of life.

Topic 4: Understanding why religion is paramount above anything else for many people around the globe.

Research Aim: Religion forms the basis of life and way of living for many people around the globe. People often get confused with religion and spiritualism, and the grandeur associated with religion becomes more important. The lack of knowledge and education forces blind faith. This research aims to find the reason for dependency on religion and how it negatively affects human lives.

Topic 5: What is the best way to boost a person’s creativity?

Research Aim: This research aims at finding the best possible way to boost a person’s creativity. The most important way is to motivate, inspire, and support them in their process of exploring innovative ideas. Recognition of talent can be the most effective method, which the research will investigate.

Topic 6: Morality and religion: Why are they different, yet they talk about the same thing?

Research Aim: The fundamental essence of religion is compassion and empathy for humans and ensures morality and ethics as a way of life. This research emphasises the primary aim of a religion and how people are getting disoriented and making rituals of religion the prime concern.

Topic 7: Wealth: Is it possible to be rich without having a lot of money?

Research Aim: Wealth and money are co-related as lots of money gives the power to buy anything. But a wealth of human life lies in their moral values, love, affection, proper health and wellbeing, and money cannot accept them. This research topic will speak about becoming wealthy, even with limited monetary wealth.

Topic 8: How can the custom of dowry be eliminated from people’s minds?

Research Aim: Dowry is a social parasite, and it is now a punishable offence by the law. But rules alone cannot change society. The research aims at eradicating the practice of dowry from people’s minds in the light of education.

Topic 9: To love or to be loved: Which is more important?

Research Aim: Love is the feeling of intense desire or deep affection. The most beautiful feeling gives a sense of satisfaction and grows through exchange between two individuals. To love and be loved are two co-related aspects as human expects love in return. The research focuses on the more critical dilemma, being on the giving or receiving side of love.

Topic 10: Why social behaviour and ethics cannot be separated?

Research Aim: The research aims to evaluate the importance of ethics in social behaviour and why they cannot be separated. An ethical society is a proper place to thrive for every individual.

Topic 11: A more in-depth look at things that make human life meaningful.

Research Aim: Money, power does not always buy happiness. The research lays the foundation for the importance of care, compassion, empathy. Love and affection as the more essential aspects that make human life meaningful.

Topic 12: Is it possible to create an ideal society?

Research Aim: An ideal society is free from any crime and economic disparities where everyone is treated equally. This research will discuss whether a perfect community is attainable; it is practically possible or not.

Topic 13: A closer look at modern life values.

Research Aim: The research aims to focus on the change in values in modern times. The research’s primary purpose is to provide a comparative study of how modern people’s mindset has changed over time.

Topic 14: Euthanasia: Is it ethical?

Research Aim: A long time debate exists regarding the ethical side of euthanasia. Ending someone’s life can be considered unlawful as we do not have the right to end something we did not create. This research aims at providing evidence in favour of euthanasia and also the negative aspects.

Topic 15: What is the value of truth? Are there instances when lying is good?

Research Aim: The research aims to provide evidence where lying is not unethical. The study will give an example from Bhagwat Gita, where Lord Krishna lied to safeguard humanity.

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The Preliminary Research proposal

The preliminary research proposal is for the department’s postgraduate committee, who will use it in the course of assessing your application. The aim of the assessment is to consider whether you have the necessary philosophical background and abilities to facilitate successful studies with us, and whether we have sufficient expertise in your area of interest to be able to supervise your research. The preliminary research proposal is a critical aid in helping us make that decision, and no application for a research-based degree will be considered without such a proposal.

We are aware that producing this proposal takes time. Further, we are also aware that many people do not have a clearly defined research project at the outset of their studies, and that typically the first few months of research aims to clarify just that. We thus do not hold you to following this preliminary research proposal. We ask you to provide one nonetheless, for three reasons. First, it allows us to assess your ability to conceive of a research project. Second, it provides us with a clear sense of your research interests. Third, the proposal will provide the basis for initial discussions with your research supervisor if you are accepted.

The preliminary research proposal is usually between 1-2 typed pages, and should include the following sections:

1. A title that gives a clear idea of what your thesis may be about.

2. A statement of the research problem you have identified and wish to explore in the thesis.

3. A rationale that explains why the research problem arises or is of interest.

4. A sample bibliography that provides a sense of other thinkers who have written in this area and you take to be relevant to your project.

Before applying, check out the research interests of staff members listed in the Postgraduate Handbook. If there is no one listing interests in your area, then there is little point in applying. If there are, then please do not contact them directly at the outset. Rather, complete the preliminary research proposal along with your application. This will be assessed by a suitable staff member with expertise in this area, who will only contact you should they require further clarification.

The Full Research proposal

Within six months of registration you will be asked to produce a full research proposal. This gets submitted to the Faculty Office and the title gets officially registered by the University. The Faculty have produced a formal guide for such proposals. Their guide is reproduced below, modified so that it is suitable for philosophical research.

A research proposal is a plan of action; it sets out the aims of your research project and how you intend to achieve these aims. The proposal for a Master’s thesis is usually between 3 and 6 typed pages; that for a Doctoral thesis, between 6 and 12 pages. The following headings are intended to assist you in writing a proposal. You may find that in writing your proposal, you want to use different headings, and order your account differently. This is perfectly in order, as long as the basic issues set out here are covered.

1. TITLE : As indicated above, the title of your thesis will be registered, so the title needs to be brief and descriptive. It should provide a fairly clear idea of what your thesis is about.

2. RESEARCH QUESTION : A thesis or dissertation is the investigation of a problem. This research problem or question provides the focus for the entire project. What is it that you wish to investigate? Can you specify crisply the question (or problem) that your thesis sets out to address? You should aim to state a single research question, which you may then choose to flesh out through a number of sub-questions. Bear in mind that a dissertation (PhD, Masters, mini or full) should be a well-contained, tightly-focused and coherent piece of work that examines an issue in some depth.

3. RATIONALE : Having identified the question or problem you wish to address through your research project, you need to say something about how/why this question has arisen. For some students, the research project emerges out of a theoretical interest, for others it emerges out of issues of practice. Whatever the case, you should signal briefly why you have chosen the question that you have, and what contribution you think the completed research project might make to our understanding of the field.

4. LITERATURE REVIEW : When you have registered your proposal and got into the swing of the research project, you will need to undertake a thorough review of the literature pertaining to your research question. For the purposes of the research proposal, you need to have read sufficiently in the field to justify your research question (Why is it important? Have other academics taken up this question in the same or similar ways? How do current debates in your own field of study bear on your research question? Your literature review must assist you in addressing these issues. It will provide information on how your own, or related, research questions have been investigated by other academics in your own (and other, related) fields. It will also provide you with resources to build your own conceptual framework. The literature review thus has two broad aims, to familiarise you with both the theoretical and empirical work which can inform your study.

5. TIME LINE : Try and develop a plan of work for the completion of your thesis, so that you set aside time for conducting a literature review and writing up the report. This will assist you in pacing your progress through the thesis, and also in planning a manageable project.

6. SAMPLE BIBLIOGRAPHY : The last part of your research proposal should contain a sample bibliography. This provides a guide to reading you have already done, or plan to do, in developing your research project. Put down the key theoretical and methodological texts you have drawn on, or intend to draw on, as well as that literature, both theoretical and empirical, which bears on your own study. The sample bibliography should not be longer than a page.

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The Problem of Freedom and Universality: Marxian Philosophical Anthropology Ralda, Oscar ( University of Oregon , 2024-03-25 ) This dissertation has two principal aims. First, it provides a critical reconsideration of Marx’s philosophical anthropology as it bears on the essential continuity of his emancipatory critique of political economy. Second, ...
Living Legality: Law and Dussel's Philosophy of Liberation Ospina Martinez, Juan Sebastián ( University of Oregon , 2024-01-10 ) In this dissertation I examine the theoretical underpinnings necessary for a philosophy of liberationaccount of law and suggest an alternative conceptualization of the function of law and political institutions, following ...
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An Argument for a Cartographic Approach to Technology McLevey, Mare ( University of Oregon , 2024-01-09 ) This dissertation develops a way to study technology and politics that is an alternative to dominant approaches particular to contemporary philosophy of technology’s empirical and ethical turns. Dominant models fix ...
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Demystifying Racial Monopoly Haller, Reese ( University of Oregon , 2022-10-04 ) Through analysis of private, public, and state reactions to the Great Depression and northward black migration, this thesis demystifies four key functions of race constitutive of capitalist racial monopoly: historical ...
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Ethics for the Depressed: A Value Ethics of Engagement Fitzpatrick, Devin ( University of Oregon , 2022-10-04 ) I argue that depressed persons suffer from “existential guilt,” which amounts to a two-part compulsion: 1) the compulsive assertion or sense of a vague and all-encompassing or absolute threat that disrupts action and ...
Soul and Polis: On Arete in Plato's Meno Smith III, Ansel ( University of Oregon , 2022-10-04 ) In “Soul and Polis: On Arete in Plato’s Meno,” I interpret Meno as a dialogue in which the pursuit of individual arete appears intertwined with political arete. While the differentiation of these two arete is itself ...
Place-in-Being: A Decolonial Phenomenology of Place in Conversation with Philosophies of the Americas Newton, Margaret ( University of Oregon , 2022-05-10 ) Our experiences of place and emplacement are so fundamental to our everyday existence that most of us rarely dedicate much time to thinking about how place and emplacement impact the various aspects of our daily lives. In ...
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Decolonizing Silences: Toward a Critical Phenomenology of Deep Silences with Gloria E. Anzaldúa and Maurice Merleau-Ponty Ferrari, Martina ( University of Oregon , 2021-11-23 ) Motivating this dissertation is a concern for how Western philosophical, cultural, and political practices tend to privilege speech and voice as emancipatory tools and reduce silence to silencing. To locate power in silence ...
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Exploring the concepts of logic and metaphysics.

Studying the crossing boundaries in the life sciences.

Exploring the importance of philosophy of mind and language.

To examine the history and aim of science.

A literature review on the prediction of behaviour and phenomenology.

Identifying the ethics of cultural heritage.

Studying the impact of the state of mind on the life choices and decisions.

Exploring the epistemology knowledge theory and solipsism theory.

Comparing and contrasting the concepts of educational freedom.

Exploring humanity in the womb of history.

Analysing the ideas of Plato in the philosophy of the 21st century.

Reclaiming the power of thought and its related theories.

Exploring the quality indicators of life.

Studying the concept of positivism and its impact on human life and nature.

To explore the balancing of efficacy and effectiveness with philosophy and history.

Investigating the legal philosophy as a practical philosophy.

A philosophical argument on the models versus theories as for the primary carrier of nursing knowledge.

Explanation and comparison of the idealised theories.

Agent-based modelling in social science, history, and philosophy.

Philosophy for finance – theory and practice.

A philosophical comparison of the multidimensional model of black identity and nigrescence theory.

Studying the use of history as evidence in the philosophy of science.

Exploring the advancement in the philosophy of medicine.

To study the philosophy of psychology and cognitive science.

Exploring the philosophy of language and philosophy of mind.

Studying the concept of semantic externalism.

Comparing the ancient philosophy with modern philosophy.

Exploring the dynamicist approach to cognition.

Differences and similarities in extended and distributed cognition.

To study the Bayesian epistemology, decision theory and confirmation theory.

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Dissertations from 2023 2023

The Dialectical Virtue of Ideological Reduction , Keehyuk Nahm, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2022 2022

A Metaphysics of Artifacts: Essence and Mind-Dependence , Tim Juvshik, Philosophy

Higher-Order Evidence and Human Evolution , Justis Koon, Philosophy

All Sortals are Phase Sortals , Justin Mooney, Philosophy

Naturalized Human Epistemology is Social Epistemology , Molly O'Rourke-Friel, Philosophy

Quantitative Character and the Composite Account of Phenomenal Content , Kimberly Soland, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2021 2021

Defending Philosophical Knowledge , Jonathan Dixon, Philosophy

Worlds without End: A Platonist Theory of Fiction , Patrick Grafton-Cardwell, Philosophy

MOVING FORWARD ON THE PROBLEM OF CONSCIOUSNESS? , Haoying Liu, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2020 2020

Continua , Lu Chen, Philosophy

Socratic Piety, Reciprocity, and the Last Elenchos of Plato's Euthyphro , Donovan Cox, Philosophy

Autonomy, Oppression, and Respect , Andrea Wilson, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2019 2019

A Defense of Hume's Dictum , Cameron Gibbs, Philosophy

The Epistemic Dimensions of Moral Responsibility and Respect , John Robison, Philosophy

Self-Knowledge, Choice Blindness, and Confabulation , Hayley F. Webster, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2018 2018

Quantification and Paradox , Edward Ferrier, Philosophy

Meaning and Modality , Jesse Fitts, Philosophy

The Mismatch Problem for Act Consequentialism , Robert Gruber, Philosophy

EXPLORING THE EASY ROAD TO NOMINALISM , Jordan Kroll, Philosophy

THE FIRST PERSON PERSPECTIVE: LANGUAGE, THOUGHT, AND ACTION , Pengbo Liu, Philosophy

The Philosophical Value of Reflective Endorsement , Rachel Robison, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2017 2017

Norms for Bayesians , Lisa Cassell, Philosophy

Applications and Extensions of Counterpart Theory , Bridgette Peterson, Philosophy

Me, Myself and I: Reflections on Self-Consciousness and Authority , jonathan rosen, Philosophy

The Concept of Intrinsic Goodness: Essays in Moorean Moral Philosophy , Miles Tucker, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2016 2016

Physical Geometry , James P. Binkoski, Philosophy

Fallibility and Normativity , Joshua DiPaolo, Philosophy

Structuring Thought: Concepts, Computational Syntax, and Cognitive Explanation , Matthew B. Gifford, Philosophy

The Path To Supersubstantivalism , Joshua D. Moulton, Philosophy

Agency and Reasons in Epistemology , Luis R.G. Oliveira, Philosophy

Understanding and Its Role in Inquiry , Benjamin T. Rancourt, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2015 2015

Variations on Some Rossian Themes , Kristian Olsen, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2014 2014

Taste Disagreements and Predicates of Personal Taste , Heidi Teres Buetow, Philosophy

Synthetic Reductionism in Moral Philosophy , Scott Hill, Philosophy

A Defense of Russellian Descriptivism , Brandt H. van der Gaast, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2013 2013

The Structure of Consciousness , Lowell Keith Friesen, Philosophy

The Plausibility of Moral Error Theories , Casey Alton Knight, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2012 2012

Self-Knowledge in a Natural World , Jeremy Cushing, Philosophy

Counterpossibles , Barak Krakauer, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2011 2011

Pyrrhonian and Naturalistic Themes in the Final Writings of Wittgenstein , Indrani Bhattacharjee, Philosophy

Identity and the Limits of Possibility , Sam Cowling, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2010 2010

On Epistemic Agency , Kristoffer Hans Ahlstrom, Philosophy

Bayesian Epistemology and Having Evidence , Jeffrey Dunn, Philosophy

Sleeping Beauty and De Nunc Updating , Namjoong Kim, Philosophy

Human Freedom in a World Full of Providence: An Ockhamist-Molinist Account of the Compatibility of Divine Foreknowledge and Creaturely Free Will , Christopher J. Kosciuk, Philosophy

The rise of Cartesian occasionalism , Andrew Russell Platt

The Rise Of Cartesian Occasionalism , Andrew Russell Platt, Philosophy

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Composition as Identity: a Study in Ontology and Philosophical Logic , Einar Bohn, Philosophy

Being good, doing right, faring well. , Daniel, Doviak, Philosophy

On the Measurability of Pleasure and Pain , Justin Allen Klocksiem, Philosophy

Knowledge, questions and answers , Meghan B Masto

Knowledge, questions and answers. , Meghan B. Masto, Philosophy

On memory and testimony , Kirk Michaelian, Philosophy

Synthetic Ethical Naturalism , Michael Rubin, Philosophy

On the Objectivity of Welfare , Alexander F. Sarch, Philosophy

Phenomenal Acquaintance , Kelly Trogdon, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2008 2008

'Can' and consequentialism : an account of options. , Edward Lee Abrams, Philosophy

A defense of a particularist research program. , Uri D. Leibowitz, Philosophy

A tenseless account of tensed sentences and tensed belief. , Stephan V. Torre, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2007 2007

Emotional rationality and the fear of death. , Kristen A. Hine, Philosophy

Achievement, enjoyment, and the things we care about : a theory of personal well-being. , Jason R. Raibley, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2006 2006

Vagueness , Thomas J. Bell

Leibniz and Locke on the ultimate origination of things. , Marcy P. Lascano, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2005 2005

Desire-satisfaction theories of welfare. , Christopher C. Heathwood, Philosophy

Well-being and actual desires. , Mark E. Lukas, Philosophy

Brains and barns : the role of context in epistemic attribution. , Julie M. Petty, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2004 2004

Simples and gunk. , Kris, McDaniel, Philosophy

Brains and barns: The role of *context in epistemic attribution , Julie M Petty

The reconciliation of faith and reason in Thomas Aquinas. , Creighton J. Rosental, Philosophy

Forms of goodness : the nature and value of virtue in Socratic ethics. , Scott J. Senn, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2003 2003

Advancing the counterfactual analysis of causation. , Ethan R. Colton, Philosophy

Freedom and responsibility : an agent-causal view. , Meghan E. Griffith, Philosophy

Adopted knowing : claiming self-knowledge in the age of identity. , Kimberly J. Leighton, Philosophy

A priori arguments for reductionism. , Jennifer Rea Susse, Philosophy

Open questions and consequentialist conditionals : central puzzles in Moorean moral philosophy. , Jean-Paul, Vessel, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2002 2002

Autonomous machine agency. , Don, Berkich, Philosophy

The ontology of film. , Julie N. Books, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2001 2001

Ethical theory and population problems. , Kevin E. Moon, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2000 2000

The creation of the eternal truths and the nature of God in Descartes. , Daniel P. Kaufman, Philosophy

Art and psychoanalysis : a topographical, structural, and object-relational analysis illustrated by a study of Shakespeare's Hamlet. , Patricia E. Scarbrough, Philosophy

The nature of moral virtue. , Erik J. Wielenberg, Philosophy

Dissertations from 1999 1999

Transcendental arguments and Kant's Refutation of Idealism. , Adrian, Bardon, Philosophy

Species of goodness. , William Benjamin Bradley, Philosophy

Nothing personal : a defense on non-libertarian incompatibilism. , Bruce C. Galbreath, Philosophy

The speculum and the scalpel : the politics of impotent representation and non-representational terrorism. , David, Mertz, Philosophy

Pleasure, falsity, and the good in Plato's Philebus. , Ciriaco M. Sayson, Philosophy

Criteria in crisis : modernist, postmodernist, and feminist critical practices. , Mary Ann Sushinsky, Philosophy

The nation and nationalism. , Henry C. Theriault, Philosophy

Dissertations from 1998 1998

A defense of materialism against attacks based on qualia. , J. C. Beall, Philosophy

Natural-kind term reference and the discovery of essence. , Joseph F. LaPorte, Philosophy

Desert, virtue, and justice. , Eric F. Moore, Philosophy

The incompatibility of determinism and moral obligation. , Neil Schaefer, Philosophy

Hume's skepticism. , Dennis F. Thompson, Philosophy

The ethnicities of philosophy and the limits of culture. , Joseph S. Yeh, Philosophy

Dissertations from 1997 1997

Metaphysical theories of modality : properties, relations and possibilities. , David A. Denby, Philosophy

Religious belief, social establishment and autonomy. , Christopher J. Eberle, Philosophy

The state of nature and the genesis of commonwealths in Hobbes's political philosophy. , Thomas J. Fryc, Philosophy

The logic of contingent existence. , Daniel M. Kervick, Philosophy

A critique of academic nationalism. , Amie A. Macdonald, Philosophy

Richard Rorty's liberalism : a Marxist perspective. , Markar. Melkonian, Philosophy

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