Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Nietzsche and Expressionism: The Neue Mensch in Kafka, Kaiser, and Strauss, Marion Stoll Adams
The Open Boat, Nanda Jean Vashti Fogle
A Holiday from the Facts: Utopia, Pain, and Creativity, Carmen C. Hatchell
After Translation, Sofia Koukia
An Inquiry on Meaning: From Plato to Sartre, Theresa Mendez
Imaginary Borders: A phenomenological Memoir on my Immigrant Journey, Edgar O. Najera
Becoming Biophilic Beasts, Nat Tereshchenko
It Will Depend on Where the Question is Used: Freud on Dreams in the Light of Wittgenstein on Images, Matteo Waldinger-White
Environmental Philosophy: From Theory to Practice, Chase D. Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Understanding Mental Illness: A Philosophical Perspective, Isha Aggarwal
"The Brain - is wider than the Sky -" Notes of Life, On Learning and Language, Anne M. Burnett
The Logic of Internal Relations, Jake S. Cardillo
Everyone and No One: Freedom, Politics and God in Hegel's Philosophy of Freedom, Samuel J. Copeland
“Oh, Phaedrus, if I don’t know my Phaedrus I must be forgetting who I am myself”: Glimpses of Self in Divine Erotic Madness, Jared de Uriarte
Wonder, Aesthetics, and Ethics: A Meditation on Technological Thinking, Psychical Distance, and the Moral Imagination, Callen Beck Gordon
Two Concepts of Education, Vikramaditya H. Joshi
Being and Itself, Chi Fung Lok
The Connected Society: Reflections From Digitalized Life, Miles Stone Lundquist
Philosophy by the Pint, Kyle Robert Quinn
Haha, Get it? A Therapeutic Model for Exploring Context in Humor Research, Patricia Nicole Rice
What's the Problem with Noumenal Affection?, Leonardo Mugi Santoso
Everybody's Happy Nowadays: A Depth Analysis of the Consumer Paradigm, Yonah Sichrovsky
The Shady Persecution of Doping: Performance Enhancement Drugs and Meaning in Sport, Tyrin Antwan Stevenson
The Creation of Power: Leaving the Closed Space of Voluntary Servitude, Isabel Mae Torgove
The Objectivity of Subjectivity: The Dialectics of Marx, Lenin, and Brecht, Timothy Wells
The Similarity of Division, Gedalia Zemel
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Poetic Possibilities: Poetry and Experience in Emerson, Nietzsche, and Freud, Amalia Astin
Three Takes on the Antigone: Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Heidegger, Eugene Bata
Truth in the abstract and in the particular, Eric Anderson Bleys
The Alchemy of Brand, Walker Bockley
Pericles Revived: Proposing Citizen Payments for Social Media Usage, Alexander Jason Breindel
The Legitimate State: Pride, Compassion, and Self-Representation, Miles Davidson MacNaughton Cree
Seeing as Ceaseless Seeings: Methodology in Artworks of Dinh Q. Lê and Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries and the Rhetoric of the Kyoto-School Thinkers, Tyuki Bhati Imamura
Death, Love Duty: A Therepeutic Triptych - written by Mouna Krupardini, Mouna Krupardini
Between Fanon and I, Danté J.C. Patrick
The Rebus of the Self: A Post-Hegelian Approach to Work, Language, and Representation, Sean Pozzi Popermhem
The Art of Suffering: Suffering as an aesthetic phenomenon in Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy, Samuel Rotter Bechar
Here, Thinking, Nicolas Ocean Shannon
Problems With Using Statistics to Justify Institutional Policies, Justin Shin
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
On Euthanasia, Maxwell Charles Babigian
You Are Who You Choose To Be: Neuroscience and Freedom, Silas Edward Busch
Beginning to Start: Zupancic and Hegel on Comedy, Antonio Ferraz
Beginning in Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Mallarmé, Austen H. Hinkley
Dismantling the Novelty and Mystery in Implicit Bias: A New Perspective, Ying Huang
Becoming Horizon: The Creative Politics of Difference in Poststructuralist Theory, John Patrick Jeworski
Richard Rorty and the Epistemological Tradition, Sean Joyce
Yearning for the Unhistorical: Nietzsche on Triumph and Coronation, Travis Brock Kennedy
Stanza my Stone: On the Death of God and the Nature of Poetry, Ariella JoAnn Kust
Being Honest: Understanding the Death of God in the "Gay Science", Theodore Frank Laport
Reduction Ad Absurdum (or About Freedom), David Leonard Mamukelashvili
Heidegger's Attentiveness to Language: A Question of Translation and "Original Contents", Alexander M. Moore
Paralinguistic Speech Recognition: Classifying Emotion in Speech with Deep Learning Neural Networks, Eli Ridley Segal
On Sense (or Lack Thereof): An Exploration of Absurdity and Metaphor, Hannah Mackenzie Smith
What is Love? Plato Don't Hurt Me, Samantha Lee Smith
The Curation of Worldviews, Jason Toney
No One Man Should Have All That Power: Rhetoric and Its Reception in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Philip Adam Torphy
An Outsider's Perspective: Walter Benjamin's Vision of Philosophy, Bethany Alden Zulick
Projects from 2015
Aesthetic Phenomenology Through Kant and Schopenhauer, Josh A. Abramovici
A Quest for Justice: Hannah Arendt and the Redeeming Power of Judgement, Angel Arias
The Mind, the Brain, and the Self: The Limits of Sense and Nonsense in Neurology and Psychology, Max Boris Baird
‘As Truth Arises Most Readily’: Interpreting Kuhn’s Discursive Model as Prescriptive to the Curiosities of the Modern Researcher, Noah Street Dickerman
Extraordinary Language: Apprehending Wonder in Woolf and Wittgenstein, Sorrel Hannah Dunn
Taking the Long Way Home: On Becoming Oneself through Others in Montaigne’s Essays, Michael Anton Golub
The Masks of Heidegger: National Socialism and Anti-Semitism, Julia Lauren Haerr
The Adventures of a Lost Soc & Playing with Piety: An Analysis of Ancestral Anatomy, Haley Lauren Nikodem
Nietzsche's Rhetorical Aestheticism: The Gay Science and the Work of Art, Antonia Machado Oliver
Forsake Your Moneymaker: Defining and Defending the True Value of Music, Preston RW Ossman
In Search of the Implicit: An Exploration of Relevance Theory as a Framework for Communication, Aaron M. Schine
Siddhartha's Smile: Schopenhauer, Hesse, Nietzsche, Benjamin Dillon Schluter
The Lens of Language, Eli Ridley Segal
The World Through Your Eyes: An Analysis of Spike Jonze's Her, Thatcher Kupple Snyder
Movement and Temporality: An Exploration of the Self-Conscious Viewing Experience of Slacker and Waking Life, Dalia Toth
“For He will Light Up what is Hidden in Darkness”: Resurrection in Kierkegaard and Augustine, Dorothy Ann Trowbridge
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
A Critique of Representationalism Through the Application of Artificial Intelligence, Dai Cao
The Vise of Certainty: An Acknowledgement of the Unrelenting Logic in Language in an Age of Idiosyncrasy, Kaitlyn Jun-Young Chang
The Philosopher's Diagnosis: Sickness in Plato, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and Heidegger, Anna Menaker Daniszewski
Hacking into the Soul: An Existentialist Account of Man in Ray Kurzweil's Singularity, Defne Gencler
Evolutionary Trait: Altruism?, Shana Tylor Joseph
Private Irony and Public Performativity: The Feminist Politics of Richard Rorty, Judith Butler, and Andrea Fraser, Kyla Bay Mathis-Angress
The Nation-State as Historian: A Philosophical Reading of Monumentalization, Dana Francisco Miranda
Deep Disquietudes: Methodology and Word Meaning in Wittgenstein and Foucault, Lucas Lindon Opgenorth
Terms of Eternity: World and Reason in the Ghazali-Averroes Polemic, Daniel S. Perlman
Does He Not Walk Like a Dancer? Nietzsche's Primordial Text, Samuel Asa Pratt
Narrating Corporeal Subjectivities: Sartre, Foucault, and Transgender Embodiment, Christopher J Qualiano
The Human Condition in the Age of Big Data, Jared Rankin
Ecological Realism and the Sense of the Earth in Merleau-Ponty's Psychoanalysis of Nature, Joe Salvo
Kierkegaard's Dialectic of Communication and the Fullness of Time in Repetition and Fear and Trembling, Jeremiah William Tillman
To Give Birth to a Dancing Star: Three Russian Writers Respond to Nietszche's Morality, Elena Rose Watson
Philosophic Tensions: William James Pragmatic Method, Josephine Louise Williams
On Responsibility and Freedom: The Descriptive Ethics of Aristotle and J. L. Austin, Dean Sage Woodhouse-Weil
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Truth In Language: An Epistemological Analysis of Contemporary Views of Truth in the Philosophy of Language, Jonah Amster
Zarathustra's Labyrinth: Exploring the Creation and Destruction of God in Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra, Kathleen Yvonne Anderson
The Role of Faith in the Justification of Knowledge, Cyrgue Pierre Dessauce
How to Have Fun With Words: An Exploration of Wordplay and its Punintended Consequences (Or: Why Society Walked Into A Bar), Jenna Mae Galka
A Body Of Evidence: Exploring the Philosophical Landscape of Modern Dance, Marta Cristina Garibaldi
Stranger in the Fatherland: Ambivalence, Inheritance, and Tradition in Sigmund Freud’s Moses and Monotheism, Samuel Jaffe Goldstein
Songs of the Last Philosopher: Early Nietzsche and the Spirit of Hölderlin, Sylvia Mae Gorelick
Developments of Style: Inside Fashion as an Institution and its Effects on our Consciousness, Yvonna S. Groom