Graduate Students
Past Ph.D. Recipients
1919 DR RAYMOND GREGORY
"A Study of Locke's Theory of Knowledge"
Advisor: Unknown
1923 DR DANIEL LUTHER EVANS
"The Status of Values in New Realism"
Advisor: J.A. Leighton
1924 DR OLIVER L REISER
"Creative Monism"
Advisors: J.A. Leighton & Albert Weiss
1930 DR DONALD H DAUGHERTY
"Truth in Art"
Advisor: Albert Chandler
1930 DR RALPH J SLATTERY
"The Coherence Theory of Logic and the Idealist Theory of the State"
Advisor: George Sabine
1931 DR WILLIAM H REITHER
"The Ethics of Joseph Butler"
Advisor: George H. Sabine
1933 DR QUINTER M LYON
"Three Typical Views of Progess"
Advisor: J. A. Leighton
1935 DR FLOYD FAUST
"The Ethical Significance of the Abnormal in Human Experience
Advisor: A. E. Avey
1935 DR T BRUCE WATERS
"Physical and Psycho-Physical Causation in the Light of Recent Philosophical Discussion"
Advisor: A. E. Avey
1936 DR RAYMOND M GONSO
"The Science of Ethics and Theory of Personality of Charles Bernard Renouvier"
Advisor: A. E. Avey
1937 REV J RAYMOND COPE
"Religion and the Dialectical Materialism of Karl Marx"
Advisor: A. E. Avey
1940 DR GEORGE ESTES BARTON JR
"The General Aims of Education Determined by a Method Involving Reflection, Postulation,
and Synthesis"
Advisor: A. E. Avey
1942 DR SARAH WATSON EMERY
"James's Pragmatism and Its Relations to Fascism"
Advisor: A. E. Avey
1942 DR ALVIN NELSON
"The Nature and Significance of Moral Feelings"
Advisor: Albert Chandler
1944 REV CHARLES A CURRAN
"An Analysis of a Process Through Counseling and Its Implications for a Philosophy of Personality"
Advisor: A. E. Avey
1949 DR MILDRED BLYNN BAKAN
"An Inquiry into the Factuality of Philosophical Propositions"
Advisor: A. E. Avey
1949 DR THEODORE G LINDNER
"The Psychological Necessity of St. Paul's Conversion"
Advisor: A. E. Avey
1950 REV JOSEPH B SHELLHAAS
"Fouillee's Ethics of Idees-Forces"
Advisor: A. E. Avey
1952 DR JOHN L MC KENNEY
"The Problem of a Science of Ethics in the Philosophies of John Dewey and Bertrand Russell"
Advisor: A. E. Avey
1953 DR JOHN GEORGE KRAMER
"A Critical Analysis of the Major Arguments Against the Teaching of Religion in the Public Schools"
Advisor: A. E. Avey
1955 DR JOHN DE LUCCA
"Immediacy and Immutability"
Advisor: Marvin Fox
1957 DR DONALD R KEYWORTH
"The Status of Theological First Principles According to Hume and Kant"
Advisor: D. Luther Evans
1958 DR GEORGE TARRENCE MC CLURE JR
"An Inquiry into the Meaning of 'Presuppose'"
Advisor: Virgil Hinshaw
1962 DR ANDREW G OLDENQUIST JR
"Moral Rules"
Advisor: Morris Weitz
1963 DR GWENDOLYN DUELL BOWNE
"The Development of the Philosophy of Logic"
Advisor: Everett Nelson
1963 DR DAVID BROILES
"An Analysis of Hume's Arguments Concerning the Role of Reason in Moral Decisions"
Advisor: Stephen Barker
1964 DR JAN JOSEPH WILBANKS
"Hume's Theory of Imagination"
Advisor: Marvin Fox
1965 DR MILTON B GOLDINGER
"The Moral Justification of Punishment"
Advisor: Marvin Fox
1965 DR THEODORE EDWARD UEHLING JR
"The Notion of Form in Kant's 'Critique of Aesthetic Judgment'"
Advisor: Morris Weitz
1966 DR WILLIAM RAYMOND ABBOTT
"Sense Experience in the Philosophy of Spinoza"
Advisor: Richard Severens
1966 DR STANLEY B KAY
"Kant on the Existence of God"
Advisor: Marvin Fox
1966 DR JOHN MC LELLAN TITCHENER
"The Concept of the Sense-Datum in the Perceptual Essays of G.E. Moore
Advisors: Robert Turnbull & E. J. Nelson
1966 DR KEITH E YANDELL
"Metaphysical Systems and Decision Procedures"
Advisor: Richard Severens
1967 DR HENRY JOHN HECKMAN
"A Critical Examination of R.M. Hare's Prescriptive Universalism"
Advisor: Marvin Fox
1968 DR JACK HERMAN BERTSCH
"An Inquiry into the Asymmetry and Direction of Time"
Advisor: Virgil Hinshaw
1968 DR TOM CLIFTON KEEN
"George Herbert Mead's Social Theory of Meaning and Experience"
Advisor: Virgil Hinshaw
1968 DR THOMAS MICHAEL LENNON
"The Problem of Intentionality in Recent Analytic Philosophy"
Advisor: Robert Turnbull
1968 DR ROBERT EDWARD MYERS
"Studies in Method and Religion in Hume's 'Science of Human Nature'".
Advisor: Marvin Fox
1968 DR PATRICIA HANDWERK NORAGON
"An Investigation of the Concept of Action"
Advisor: Morris Weitz
1969 DR ROBERT JAMES BAUM
"George Berkeley's Philosophy of Mathematics"
Advisor: Paul Olscamp
1969 DR CHARLES G ECHELBARGER
"Wilfrid Sellars' Philosophy of Mind"
Advisor: Robert Turnbull
1969 DR MICHAEL FRED SCHMIDT
"Explanation"
Advisor: Virgil Hinshaw
1969 DR ROBERT ELIAS,ABU SHANAB
"Logical Positivism, Operationalism, and Behaviorism"
Advisor: Virgil Hinshaw
1969 KENT C SIMMONDS
"Philosophical Comments on 'Symposium 201d-7a'.
Advisor: Marvin Fox
1970 DR PAUL DENNIS GRAY
"A Defense of P.F. Strawson's Theory of Self"
Advisor: Bernard Rosen
1970 DR RONALD FREDRICK HOUGH
"The Cognitive Status of Scientific Theories"
Advisor: Virgil Hinshaw
1970 DR FREDERICK ALFSEN JOHNSON
"Non-Linguistic Theories of Truth"
Advisor: Robert Turnbull
1970 DR ERNEST CLARE MARSHALL
"An Explication of William James'Neutral Monism and Some Applications to his Pragmatism"
Advisor: Bernard Rosen
1970 DR JAMES D MC CARTHY
"Duty and Interest in Butler's Moral Theory"
Advisor: Marvin Fox
1970 R DAVID PALMER
"Locke's Doctrine of Representative Perception"
Advisor: Charles Kielkopf
1970 DR ROBERT HERMAN VORSTEG
"Philosophical Explication of Meaning"
Advisor: Virgil Hinshaw
1971 DR SAMUEL ISRAEL KANTER
"The Nuremberg Trials: A Test Case for Jurisprudence"
Advisor: Bernard Rosen
1971 DR JACQUELINE AGNEW KLEINMAN
"Public/Private: The Education of Soren Kierkegard"
Advisor: Lee Brown
1971 DR ANTHONY JOSEPH LISSKA
"Role of Phantasms in Aquinian Perceptual Theory"
Advisor: Robert Turnbull
1971 DR NELSON POLE
"The Meaning of Terms Employed in Scientific Languages and the Problem of Induction"
Advisor: Charles Kielkopf
1971 DR STEPHEN EUGENE TAYLOR
"Free Will and Determinism: A Defense of Libertarianism"
Advisor: Andrew Oldenquist
1972 DR DONALD JAMES BEELICK
"Context and Human Actions"
Advisor: Andrew Oldenquist
1972 DR RONALD JOHNSON GLASS
"Leibnitz and Perception"
Advisor: Robert Turnbull
1972 DR WILLIAM ARTHUR MILLER
"Kant's Realism"
Advisor: Robert Turnbull
1972 DR MARY JEANNETTE SIRRIDGE
"Problems of Truth and Reference in Fiction"
Advisors: Alan Hausman & Lee Brown
1972 DR DAVID M W TRAVERS
"On Brentano's 'Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint'".
Advisor: Robert Turnbull
1973 DR JAMES RICHARD BODE
"A Logic for Conditional Statements"
Advisor: Charles Kielkopf
1973 DR CHARLES EDWARD EAKER
"A Defense of Monadic Deontic Logic
Advisor: Charles Kielkopf
1973 DR KATHLEEN ANN EMMETT
"Talk About Seeing"
Advisor: Alan Hausman
1973 MICHAEL T JONES
"Intentionalist and Conventionalist Solutions to Problems of Reference in the Philosophy of Language"
Advisor: Richard Garner
1973 DR DAVID CHESTER MELLICK
"The Metaphysics of Behavior"
Advisor: William Lycan
1974 DR ALBERT WILLIAM FLORES
"Materialism: a critical evaluation of the various attempts to defend this thesis from the problem presented by the phenomenal properties of sensations"
Advisor: Marshall Swain
1974 DR THOMAS ROWLAND FOSTER
"The Russell-Leibnitz Definition of Identity: Some Problems"
Advisor: Alan Hausman
1974 DR WILLIAM SAMUEL JACOBS
"Einai and Existence in Aristotle"
Advisor: Robert Turnbull
1974 DR BRENDAN PATRICK MINOGUE
"Cartesian Optics : A Test Case for the Partial Iinterpretationist's Account of Models"
Advisor: Ronald Laymon
1974 DR MARSHA ROCKEY SCHERMER
"On Nietzsche's purported contradictoriness : a reinterpretation of the works of Friedrich Nietzsche with an emphasis on non-assertional linguistic acts"
Advisor: Lee Brown
1974 DR JOHN A SUTULA
"Fatalism"
Advisor: William Lycan
1975 DR HENRY ROBERT FRANKEL
"Examination of Harr's analysis of models, powers and natures, and their role in scientific explanation"
Advisor: Peter Machamer
1975 DR RONALD ELLIOT NUSENOFF
"A neoFregean theory of the informative functioning of singular terms"
Advisor: William Lycan
1975 DR MELVIN STEPHENSON ULM
"Indeterminancy of Translation and Theories of Truth"
Advisor: William Lycan
1976 DR WAYNE EDWARD ALT
"A study of Descartes' Cogito Certainty and its Place in Cartesian Metaphysics"
Advisor: Richard Garner
1976 DR ROBERT EVANS BRUMETT
"Scientific explanation and the philosophy of language"
Advisor: Richard Garner
1976 DR DOUGLAS NEIL HUSAK
"Paternalistic Legislation"
Advisors: James Scanlan & Daniel Farrell
1976 DR DALE EDWARD LICHTBLAU
"Tenses and Logic"
Advisor: George Schumm
1977 DR PETER ABRAHAM HORN
"Moral Rights to Live and Decisions About Death"
Advisor: Bernard Rosen
1977 DR CHARLES DAVID SCHWEICKART
"Captitalism: A Utilitarian Analysis."
Advisor: James Scanlan
1978 DR JEFFREY BRUCE GOLD
"Names, concepts, and abilities: Plato on naming and knowing"
Advisor: Robert Turnbull
1978 DR JOHN ERIC NOLT
"The Language of Set Theory"
Advisor: Robert Kraut
1978 DR KENNETH HERBERT WENKER
"The Morality of Obedience to Military Authority"
Advisors: Andrew Oldenquist & Daniel Farrell
1979 DR PATRICE KOELSCH LOOSE
"Roger Bacon on perception: a reconstruction and critical analysis of the theory of visual perception expounded in the Opus majus"
Advisor: Ivan Boh
1979 DR JONATHAN CARL SCHONSHECK
"A Theory of Justified Reflective Noncompliance."
Advisor: James Scanlan
1979 DR MARK ALLEN SHEROUSE
"Memory and knowledge: an examination of the Epistemic Theory of Memory"
Advisor: Charles Kielkopf
1979 DR JOSEPH THOMAS TOLLIVER
"Reasons, perceptions, and information : an outline of an information-theoretic epistemology"
Advisor: Marshall Swain
1979 DR MICHAEL FRANK WAGNER
"Concepts and causes: the structure of Plotinus' universe"
Advisor: Robert Turnbull
1980 DR JAMES ROLAND CARTER
"The sources of a priori knowledge : a commentary on Kant's notions of sensibility, understanding, and reason"
Advisor: Virgil Hinshaw
1980 DR UTE SHEPHERD ST CLAIR
"A problem in explicating the problem of memory"
Advisor: George Pappas
1981 DR BAT-AMI BAR ON
"Violence and Morality"
Advisor: Daniel Farrell
1981 DR MICHAEL JOHN COSTA
"Seeing and Other Complex Events"
Advisor: Marshall Swain
1981 DR STEVEN FREDERICK HUMPHREY
"An anti-realist conception of theories of mathematical physics"
Advisor: Ronald Laymon
1981 DR SUSAN GOODMAN JOSEPHSON
"The Dual Nature of Time"
Advisor: William Lycan
1981 DR JAMES HENRY PARSONS
"The logic of concepts : case studies in engineering and Law"
Advisor: Ronald Laymon
1981 DR DANIEL CHARLES SHAW
"Nihilism and Resoluteness : The Tragic Context"
Advisors: Lee Brown & Alan Hausman
1982 DR JOHN RICHARD JOSEPHSON
"Explanation and Induction:
Advisor: Ronald Laymon
1982 DR GUY O'GORMAN KING
"Pyrrhonism Sextusian : A Development"
Advisor: Richard Garner
1982 DR EDWARD REED TURNBULL
"The Political Philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau."
Advisor: James Scanlan
1982 DR DAN WILLIAM TURNER
"A Theory of Causal Determinism"
Advisor: Marshall Swain
1983 DR KRISTIN JANINA ARONSON
"The Ranking of Multiattribute Alternatives : Moral Dilemmas from the Agent's Point of View"
Advisor: Andrew Oldenquist
1983 DR DOUGLAS EUGENE CHISMAR
"Empathy : Its Nature, Determinants, and Importance for Moral Decision-Making"
Advisor: Andrew Oldenquist
1983 DR DAVID CURTIS GLEBE
"Holmes' Theory of Law"
Advisor: Bernard Rosen
1983 DR JAMES STEWART KELLY
"Functionalism : Materialist Theory of Mind or Mentalist Theory of the Brain?"
Advisor: William Lycan
1983 DR DONNA CECELIA KLINE
"Dominion and Wealth: A Critical Analysis of Karl Marx's Theory of Commercial Law."
Advisor: James Scanlan
1983 DR WILLIAM MICHAEL PERKINS
"Moral Evaluation and the Moral Sentiments in Hume's Treatise"
Advisor: Daniel Farrell
1983 DR JAMES ANTHONY RUBINO
"The Relevance of Artists' Intentions to the Description and Interpretation of Works of Art"
Advisor: Lee Brown
1984 DR IRWIN LARRY UDELL
"Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy: A New Appraisal"
Advisor: Alan Hausman
1986 DR. HARRY MITCHELL FLOWER
"The structuralist enterprise and Aristotle's Poetics"
Advisors: Alan Hausman & Lee Brown
1987 DR. MARY ELIZABETH COHEN
"Vagueness, logic and truth "
Advisor: Robert Kraut
1987 DR. DAVID W. DREBUSHENKO
"Abstraction and the Esse Is Percipi Thesis"
Advisor: George Pappas
1987 DR. THEODORE METZLER
"A Model of Interacting Visual and Verbal Components in Human Thought"
Advisor: Richard Garner
1987 DR. MARTIN ALBERT RICE
"Reference and Relativism"
Advisor: Alan Hausman
1987 DR. PAMELA J. SALSBERRY
"The distribution of health care in a just society"
Advisor: Donald C. Hubin
1988 DR. WAYNE DEWITT
"Vagueness, Logic and the Computational View of Mind"
Advisor: George Schumm
1988 DR. JINSUN PARK
"Bayesian Decision Theory and the Justification of the Admissibility Requirement on Degrees"
Advisor: Don Hubin
1988 DR. BAMBI ROBINSON
"Confidentiality in the Professions of Law, Medicine, Psychotherapy, and in the Roman Catholic Church"
Advisor: Bernard Rosen
1988 DR. MICHAEL ALMEIDA
"The Impossibility of Moral Conflicts"
Advisor: Charles Kielkopf
1989 DR. DAVID GILBOA
"The Economic Conditions of Political Liberty"
Advisor: Richard Garner
1990 DR. CHAMU NAMASIVAYAM
"On Some Aspects of Simplicity"
Advisor: George Pappas
1990 DR. BARBARA SCHOLZ
"Kripke's Wittgensteinian Paradox"
Advisor: Stewart Shapiro
1990 DR. ANDREW SWIFT
"Hobbes's Secular Command Theory of Obligation"
Advisor: Bernard Rosen
1990 DR. HEIDI STORL
"An Analysis of Personhood and Its Implications for Humans, Identity, and Morality"
Advisor: Donald Hubin
1991 DR. STEVEN NUTTALL
"An Essay on the Criminal Law Justification Defense"
Advisor: Donald Hubin
1991 DR. JOSEPH OSEI
"Contemporary African Philosophy and Development: An Asset or a Liability?"
Advisor: Andrew Oldenquist
1992 DR. DIRK BALTZLY
"Plato's Argument From Relatives: The Role of the Distinction Between Kath hauto and pros ti"
Advisor: Tamar Rudavsky
1992 DR. STEVEN BAYNE
"Events as Objects of Representations in Kant's Second Analogy of Experience"
Advisor: Lee Brown
1992 DR. NORMAN MOORADIAN
"Pleasure and Illusion: False Pleasure in Plato's Philebus"
Advisor: Allan Silverman
1993 DR. LAURA KEATING
"The Primary-Secondary Quality Distinction in Descartes, Boyle, and Locke"
Advisor: Alan Hausman
1993 DR. MICHAEL LABOSSIERE
"A World of Particulars: A Trope Solution to the Problem of Universals"
Advisor: George Pappas
1993 DR. JODY GRAHAM
"Berkeley's Notion of 'Suggestion'"
Advisor: George Pappas
1993 DR. GEORGE WATKINS
"A subjectivist's guide to objectivism about colors"
Advisors: Diana Raffman and Robert Kraut
1994 DR. JILL DIETERELE
"Structure and Object"
Advisors: Robert Kraut & Stewart Shapiro
1994 DR. ERDINC SAYAN
"Idealizations, approximations and confirmation in science"
Advisor: Ronald Laymon
1994 DR. BYUNGOK KWON
"A Semantic Analysis of Conditionals"
Advisor: George Schumm
1994 DR. EDWARD SLOWIK
"Newton's "De gravitatione" argument: Cartesian relationalist dynamics and the structure of space and time"
Advisor: Mark Wilson
1995 DR. JOAN PRYOR-MCCANN
"The Concept of Generic Personal Responsibility"
Advisor: George Pappas
1996 DR. KENNETH SIEVERS
"F.H. Bradley and the Coherence Theory of Truth"
Advisor: Lee Brown
1996 DR. KEITH KORCZ
"The Epistemic Basing Relation"
Advisor: Marshall Swain
1996 DR. DAVID LIGHTNER
"Hume on Possibility and Necessity"
Advisor: George Pappas
1996 DR. PIERLUIGI MIRAGLIA
"Can We Intend an Interpretation?"
Advisor: Stewart Shapiro
1997 DR. JEFFREY KOPERSKI
"Defending Chaos: An Examination and Defense of the Models Used in Chaos Theory"
Advisor: Robert Batterman
1997 DR. ADAM MOORE
"A Lockean Theory of Intellectual Property"
Advisor: Donald Hubin
1997 DR. JAMES SUMMERFORD
"Reconfiguring the Problem of Universals"
Advisor: Robert Kraut
1998 DR. HAHN HSU
"Liberalism, Political Pluralism, and International Justice"
Advisor: Daniel Farrell
1998 DR. SHELDON SMITH
"Laws and Causation: A Defense of a Modified Covering-Law Conception of Causation"
Advisor: Mark Wilson
1998 DR. LINCOLN STEVENS
"The epistemic impact of mystical perception on interfacie disputes over religious belief"
Advisor: Charles Kielkopf
1999 DR. JON COGBURN
"Slouching Towards Vienna: Michael Dummett and the Epistemology of Language"
Advisor: Neil Tennant
1999 DR. JON CURTIS
"Towards a Fully Resolute Reading of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico Philosophicus"
Advisor: William Taschek
1999 DR. JOSEPH SALERNO
"The Metaphysics of Classical Logic: Semantic Anti-Realism, Quasi-Realism and Logical Revisionism"
Advisors: Robert Kraut & Neil Tennant
2000 DR. LAWRENCE SANGER
"Epistemic Circularity: An Essay on the Problem of Meta-Justication
Advisor: George Pappas
2000 DR. ROY COOK
"Logic-As-Modeling: A New Perspective on Formalization"
Advisor: Stewart Shapiro
2000 DR. SARAH PESSIN
"Solomon Ibn Gabirol: Universal Hylomorphism and the Psychic Imagination"
Advisor: Tamar Rudavsky
2000 DR. EDGAR VELEZ
"Revisionist Moral Theology: Recovering the Theological Character of Christian Ethics"
Advisor: Charles Kielkopf
2000 DR. DAVID ENG
"An Account of the Justification of Testimonial Beliefs: A Reliablist Approach"
Advisor: Marshall Swain
2001 DR. ALFRED LENT
"Surviving in a Different Body : An Examination and Rejection of the Lockean Thesis That Consciousness Alone Makes Personal Identity"
Advisor: William Taschek
2001 DR. LEE FRANKLIN
"The Role of Language in Plato's Theory of Knowledge and Learning"
Advisor: Allan Silverman
2002 DR. SONDRA BACHARACH
"Definitions of Art: Narratives, History and Essentialism"
Advisor: Lee Brown
2002 DR. HAEWAN LEE
"An Account of Epistemic Goodness: An Alternative to Warrant and Justification"
Advisor: Marshall Swain
2002 DR. DEBORAH TOLLEFSEN
"Interpreting Organizations"
Advisor: William Taschek
2002 DR. MARK SILCOX
"A Prolegomenon to Radical Interpretation"
Advisor: William Taschek
2002 DR. RYAN NICHOLS
"Reid's Philosophy of Mind"
Advisor: George Pappas
2003 DR. DAVID MERLI
"Moral Disagreement and Shared Meaning"
Advisors: Justin D'Arms & Donald Hubin
2003 DR. KAREN CORDRICK HAELY
"Objectivity in the Feminist Philosophy of Science"
Advisor: Donald Hubin
2004 DR. ROBERT CATHAL WOODS
"The Virtuous Polity: Aristotle on Justice, Self-Interest, and Citizenship"
Advisor: Allan Silverman
2005 DR. ANDREW ARLIG
"A Study in Early Medieval Mereology: Boethius, Abelard, and pseudo-Joscelin"
Adviser: Tamar Rudavsky
2005 DR. YIMIN KUI
"The Reference and Content of Proper Names: A Social and Pragmatic Approach"
Adviser: Joseph Levine
2005 DR. HENRY PRATT
"Comparing Artworks"
Advisor: Lee Brown
2005 DR. JULIAN COLE
"Practice-Dependent Realism and Mathematics"
Advisor: Stewart Shapiro
2006 DR. WILLIAM MELANSON
"Justified Existential Belief: An Investigation of the Justifiability of Believing in the Existence of Abstract Mathematical Objects"
Advisor: Stewart Shapiro
2006 DR. ADAM PODLASKOWSKI
"Rule-following and Recursion: Rethinking Projection and Normativity"
Advisor: Neil Tennant
2006 DR. WILLIAM ROCHE
"The Structure and Grounding of Epistemic Justification"
Advisor: George Pappas
2006 DR. JOSHUA SMITH
"A Relevant Alternative Analysis of Knowledge"
Advisor: George Pappas
2006 DR. NICHOLAOS JONES
"Ineliminable Idealizations, Phase Transitions, and Irreversibility"
Advisor: Neil Tennant.
2006 DR. SCOTT ANDERSON
"Legal Indeterminacy in Context"
Advisor: Dan Farrell and Stewart Shapiro
2007 DR. MAKOTO SUZUKI
"The Best Imperative Approach to Deontic Discourse"
Advisor: Justin D'Arms
2007 DR. ABIGAIL AGUILAR
"Virtue Nationalism: An Aristotelian Defense of the Nation"
Advisor: Daniel Farrell
2007 DR. REGAN REITSMA
"Personal Ideals and Rationally Importent Desires"
Advisor: Donald Hubin
