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."
