Ph.D.s Awarded

• 2006-2007

  Maya Goldenberg, Advancing an Ethics of Evidence: A Critical Appraisal of Evidence Based Medicine and Feminist Theories of Evidence

  University of Guelph
  Department of Philosophy
  Guelph, Ontario, Canada
  Assistant Professor, Tenure Track

  Anna Gotlib, Identity, Illness and the Normativity of Stories

  Binghamton University (SUNY)
  Department of Philosophy
  Binghamton, New York
  Assistant Professor, Tenure Track

• 2005-2006

  Jennifer Benson, Towards a New Radical Feminist Vision: Navigating the Passage From Oppression to Freedom

  Washington College 2005
  Department of Philosophy
  Chestertown, Maryland
  Assistant Professor, Tenure Track

  Sonya Charles, The Limits of 'Autonomy' for Feminist Theory

  Central Michigan University 2006
  Department of Philosophy & Religion
  Mt. Pleasant, Michigan
  Visiting Assistant Professor

  Barry DeCoster, Towards a Pragmatic Theory of Medical Explanations of Disease

  Vassar College and Marist College 2005
  New York, NY
  Adjunct Associate Professor

  Rory E. Kraft, Jr., Virtuous Particularism

  York College of Pennsylvania 2006
  Dept. of English & Humanities
  York, Pennsylvania
  Assistant Professor, Tenure Track

  Zahra Meghani, Are Medical Theories Objective?

• 2004-2005

  Christy A. Rentmeester, Jaded: Institutional Oppression and Moral Damage in Healthcare

  Creighton University Medical Center
  Center for Health Policy and Ethics
  Omaha, Nebraska
  Assistant Professor

• 2003-2004

  Robert G. Brice, Wittgenstein's New Kind of Foundationalism

  Marlboro College
  Department of Philosophy
  Marlboro, Vermont
  Visiting Assistant Professor

  Kyungsuk Choi, Moral Reasoning and Justification in Medical Ethics

  Heather Fieldhouse, Reconsidering the Status of Animals in Kant's Ethics

  Central Michigan University
  Department of Philosophy & Religion
  Mt. Pleasant, Michigan
  Visiting Assistant Professor

  Kenneth A. Parsons, An Alternative Account of Structural Violence

  Central Michigan University
  Department of Philosophy & Religion
  Mt. Pleasant, Michigan
  Visiting Assistant Professor

  Allison B. Wolf, Beyond Just Health Care

  Simpson College
  Department of Philosophy & Religion
  Indianola, Iowa
  Assistant Professor, Tenure Track

• 2002-2003

  Julie M. Aultman, Framing the Clinical Philosophical Dimensions of Mental Disease

  Jason P. Matzke, A Pluralistic Humean Environmental Ethic: Dealing with the Holistic-Individualistic Problem

  Stevens Wandmacher, The Social Contract Tradition: Patriarchy, Artifice, and Reason

• 2001-2002

  Heather Johnson, Structural Semantics: A New Picture Theory of Representation

• 2000-2001

  John A. Holmes, Species Pluralism

  Crista Lebens, Multiplicity in Identity: Beyond the Metaphysics of Substance

  Hope E. May, A Developmentalist Interpretation of Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics"

  Christopher A. Thompson, Ethics in International Politics? The Contradictions and Ethical Implications of Foreign Aid in Africa

• 1999-2000

  Jordy Rocheleau, Universalism and its Critics: A Defense of Discourse Ethics

  Roger Vajda, A Defense of a Pragmatist View of Scientific Laws

• 1998-1999

  Betina Bostick Henig, Beyond Being and Nothingness: a Description of an Existential Freedom Ethic

  Rich Sharp, Research on Genetic Hypersensitivities to Environmental Exposures: Moral and Social Issues

  Joseph C. Totherow, Mental Causation and the Pragmatics of Explanation

  Scot D. Yoder, Pragmatism and Practical Philosophy

• 1997-1998

  H. Skott Brill, Nagel on Absurdity

  Amber Katherine, Radical White Western Feminism: Toward a Reconstruction of Mary Daly's "Gyn/Ecology"

  Larry Ort, Wittgenstein's Kierkegaardian Heritage

  Vasile Pirau, Rationality and Cross Cultural Understanding

• 1996-1997

  Mohamed Hassabelnabi, Concepts of Freedom in Locke & Marx with Relation to Sudan

  David Howell, Aristotle's and Hegel's Contextual Approaches to Justice and the Distribution of Knowledge

  Charles R. Johnson, Doxastic Voluntarism and Epistemic Responsibility: the Ethics of Belief Revisited

  C. Michael Liberato, Rethinking the Meaning of Political Stability and Democratic Participation

  Dai Young Yun, Quine's Criterion of Ontological Reduction

• 1995-1996

  Rodger L. Jackson, A Philosophical Exploration of Trust

  David J. Zacker, A Study in Temporal Ontology and the Tense Logic Systems of A.N. Prior and Nino Cocchiarella 

• 1994-1995

  Grace Louise Blackledge, Ph.D. awarded a posthumously

  Michael A. Squillace, Taking Free Speech Seriously: Equality, Harm, and the Electronic Media

  Edwin N. Teall, A Dutiful Reading of Kant's Political Philosophy

  1993-1994

  Gregory M. Browne, Four Dichotomies of Truth 

  KiChang Nam, A Defense of Wittgenstein's Private Language Argument

• 1992-1993

  Larry S. Hauser, Searle's Chinese Box: The Chinese Room Argument and Artificial Intelligence

  Michael W. Jankoviak, Environmental Philosophy: A Pragmatic Reconstruction

  Bernard J. Mulvey, Satre and Foucault on Knowledge and Practical Commitment

  James S. Spiegel, The Apologetics of George Berkeley

• 1991-1992

  Cynthia J. Bolton, Necessary A Posteriori Truth

  Bruce K. Omundson, Moral Pluralism, Nonsentient Nature, and Sustainable Ways of Life

  Paul J. Reitemeier, Physician Integrity and the Role of Gatekeeper

• 1990-1991

  Nancy R. Crocker, Ethical Agency in Modernity

• 1989-1990

  Steven Nofsinger, John Dewey's Lectures on the Theory of Logic: Delivered at the University of Chicago, Fall and Winter Quarters (1899-1900)

  Tamayo Okamoto, Democracy and Informed Consent

  Carol W. Slater, Naturalizing Semantics: Fodor and Dretske on the Content of Psychological States

• 1988-1989

  Thomas J. Burke, Plantinga and the Rationalism of Theism

• 1987-1988

  Stanley C. Mortel, Folk Psychology and Eliminative Materialism

  Philip R. West, Agency, Consequence and Mortality

• 1986-1987

  Michael Goodman, The Moral and the Metaphysical Aspects of Personhood

• 1985-1986

  Jorg Baumgartner, Subjectivity, Objectivity and Intersubjectivity in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

  Nicholas Dixon, Compatibilism Without Utilitarianism: Moral Responsibility in a Deterministic World

  Stuart D. Warner, Law and Social Order in Lon L. Fuller and F.A. Hayek

  Stanley J. Werne, Toward a Radical Humanism of Work and Leisure

• 1984-1985

  David B. Boersema, Constructivism and Reference

  Kenneth R. Howe, Evaluating Medical Ethics Teaching

• 1981-1982

  Sidney W. Chapman, An Examination of Jeremy Bentham's, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

  Roy Sorensen, Moore's Problem and the Prediction Paradox: New Limits for Epistemology

• 1980-1981

  Henry E. Cline, Anger: A Philosophical Discussion

  Allan M. Hart, Aboutness: A Logico-Philosophical Analysis

  Robert Steinman, Proper Names: Rigid Designation and the Casual Theory

  Michael Tsado, On Resolving the Dilemma of the Native Versus Non-Native Account of Social Reality

• 1979-1980

  Stephen R. Dickerson, A Comparison of Aristotle and Strawson on the Concept of a Person

  Thomas S. Tomlinson, The Use of Principles in Moral Reasoning

  Jungsik Um, The Mystic Notion of The Self in the Dilemma of Freedom & Determinism

• 1978-1979

  Judith Andre, Sidgwick and Ethical Intuitionalism

  Bongkil Chung, The Ethics of Won Buddhism: A Conceptual Analysis of the Moral System of Won Buddhism

  William S. Dibrell, Convention and Intention in Speech Acts: A Reconciliation of Austin and Grice

  John P. Kavanagh, Environmentalism and Economic Development: Some Axiological Conflicts and an Attempt at Reconciliation

• 1976-1977

  Howard Brody, Persons and Placebos: Philosophical Dimensions of the Placebo Effect

• 1975-1976

  Dale Kent, The Analytic-Synthetic Distinction

  John L . Treloar, Francis Suarez: A Metaphysics for Body and Soul

•  1974-1975

  Charles Bruce, An Investigation of Self-Deception

  Thomas Callahan, William Ockham and Natural Law

  James G. Hanink, Person's, Rights, and the Problem of Abortion

  Sanaullah Kirmani, A Section from the Logic of Avicenna's Danish Nameha Alai text with Translation, Analysis and Notes: A Contribution of the History of Logic

  Sister Kathryn Lindemann, A Clarification of the Meaning of ‘Social Philosophy' Through an Examination and Clarification of the Extension of the Domain of Social Philosophy

  Arthur R. Miller, Intentions and Consequences: Toward a Theory of Act-Description

  Shukla Sinha, A Critical Evaluation of G.E. Moore's Theory of Empirical Knowledge

  Bess Stamatakos, Plato's Theory of Number

  Eugene Valentine, Two Concepts of Humans Acting in History in the Writings of Karl Marx

• 1973-1974

  Harold J. Rood, Metaphor: A Study of Various Theories and the Place of Metaphor in Philosophy

• 1972-1973

  William Richard Connolly, The Given and the A Priori: Some Issues in the Epistemology of C.I. Lewis
  Mary Wrynn Smith, Scientific Laws and Necessity
  Tom Wallenmaier, An Explication of the Physiological Concept of Function

1971-1972

Lorin Browning, The Open Question Argument in Moore and Hare

• 1970-1971

  Clyde Evans, Quantum Theory and the Independent Existence of Physical Objects

  Peter Facione, The Theory of Meaning as Intention

  Charles Johnson, Formal Aspects of Neural Modeling

•  1968-1969

  Hsiu Howard Ho, Some Semantical Problems in Deontic Logic and Imperative Logic

  Peter List, The Theory of Sense-Data in the Twentieth-Century British Philosophy

  Martin O'Keefe, The Search for Control: A Study of the Origins of the Thought of Empedocles and Heraclitus

  Allan Phillips, The Theory of Intuition in Plato's Republic

  Jan Smucker, A Study of the Problem of Determining Ontological Commitments in Wittgenstein's Tractatus

• 1967-1968

  John Morris, Cartesian Certainty

•  1965-1966

  Bruce Buchanan, Logics of Scientific Discovery

  Waneed Farooqi, A Spiritual Interpretation of Reality in the Light of Berkeley's Immaterialism

  Lloyd Hays, The Ethical Institution of Richard Price

  Herbert Hendry, Expressive Completeness

  James VanEvra, A History of Some Aspects of the Theory of Logic, 1850-present

  1964-1965

  David Burke, An Examination of Jean-Paul Sartre's Conception of Freedom

  Owen Finnegan, An Historical and Metaphysical Study of Natural Law Theory Applied to Questions of Freedom of Expression in the United States

  James Leach, Historical Explanation and Value-Neutrality

  1962-1963

  Alfred Stenner, Paradox, Prediction and Self-vitiating Hypothesis

• 1960-1961

  Rolf George, The Problems of Infinite and the Continuum in Some Major Philosophical Systems of the Enlightenment

• 1959-1960

  Robert Ackerman, Simplicity and the Acceptability of Scientific Theories

  Randolph Muska, Antithetical Religious Conceptions in Kierkegaard and Spinoza

• 1956-1957

  Joseph Lambert, A Logical Analysis of Tolman's Theory of Learning