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Current Dissertations

This page lists the titles of dissertations being written by students in residence at Purdue.

Dissertations in Progress

  • David Anderson, "Knowledge and Second-Order Defeat."
  • Erik Baldwin, "Reasonable Deep Disagreement and Rationality as Tradition-Based Inquiry." 
  • Samantha Bankston, "Becoming vs. Becomings in the Ontology of Gilles Deleuze." (Philosophy and Literature Program)
  • Damon Boria, "The Dialectic of Individual and Social Construction: A Study of Existentialist Social Philosophy." (Philosophy and Literature Program)
  • Alex Carmical, "A Defense of Space-Time Substantivalism."
  • Vern Cisney, "Toward a Philosophy of Difference: From Derrida to Deleuze." 
  • Somaieh Emamjomeh, "Intentional Silence and Its Intersubjective Implications."
  • Gregory Esplin, "Heidegger and Deleuze on the Problem of Thought."
  • Aaron Fehir, "Postmetaphysical Investigations: Kierkegaard." 
  • Octavian Gabor, "Aristotelian Forms: Form, Soul, and Mind." (Philosophy and Literature Program)
  • Paul Gould, "A Defense of Platonic Theism."
  • Erik Hanson, "Kant and Kierkegaard on Radical Evil and the Ethics of Love." 
  • John Houston, "Friendship and the Human Good in Aristotle."
  • Brian Kanouse, "Pathology, Diagnosis and Transgendering: A Theory of Existential Performativity Within the Bio-Medical Domain." (Philosophy and Communication Program)
  • Erin Kealey, "The Cinematic World: Heideggerian Existentialism and Film." (Philosophy and Literature Program)
  • BonnieJean Kurle, "Reasonable Language: An Integrative Study in Grice's Theories of Meaning and Reasoning."
  • Kurt Liebegott, "A Defense of Abortion."
  • Mickey Lorkowski, "Causal Realism and Hume's Philosophy of Religion."
  •  Cory McCormick, "The Metaphysica and Explanation of Species and Speciation: A Hermeneutical Phenomenological Approach to the Species Problem."
  • Netty Provost, "A Time For Religion:  A Phenomenology of Sacred Time in Eastern and Western Philosophy."
  • Ashley Puzzo, "Identity, Distinctness, and Explanation: A Thesis on Identify of Indiscernibles."
  • Bob Robinson, "Concepts, Practices, and Truth:  The Kantian Foundations of Michel Foucault's Epistemology"
  • John Alden Stout, "Freedom and Solidarity: The Modern Republicanism of Hegel and Rousseau."
  • David Turpin, "The Ontological Basis of Ethical Intuitionism in the Early Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre."
  • Winship Varner, "In Defense of a Hylomorphic Analysis of Material Objects."
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