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Current Dissertations

Avicenna Persian PhysicianThis page lists the titles of dissertations being written by students in residence at Purdue.

Dissertations in Progress

  • Marco Altamirano, "The Reality of Nature." Director, William McBride.  Philosophy and Literature Program.
  • Alex Anderson, "Pragmatism and Value Creation in Environmental Ethics."  Director, Charlene Seigfried.
  • Yubraj Aryal, "Cultural Studies' Affective Politics: A Sovereign way of Caring of the Self."  Co-Directors, Daniel Smith, William McBride.  Philosophy and Literature Program.
  • Erik Baldwin, "Reasonable Deep Disagreement and Rationality as Tradition-Based Inquiry."  Director, Paul Draper.
  • Jonathan Beever, " On the Moral Relevance of Peircean Signification."  Director, Mark Bernstein. 
  • Damon Boria, "The Dialectic of Social and Individual Construction: A Study of Existentialist Social Philosophy." Director, William McBride.  Philosophy and Literature Program.
  • Vern Cisney, "Toward a Philosophy of Difference: From Derrida to Deleuze."  Director, Daniel Smith.
  • Gregory Esplin, "Heidegger and Deleuze on the Problem of Thought."  Director, Daniel Smith.
  • John Houston, "Friendship and the Human Good in Aristotle."  Director, Patricia Curd.
  • BonnieJean Kurle, "Reasonable Language: An Integrative Study in Grice's Theories of Meaning and Reasoning."  Director, Rod Bertolet.
  • Harrison Kleiner, "Ethics and the Other: Recovering Genuine Encounter through a Reinterpretation of Heidegger."  Director, Daniel Smith.
  • Olga Lyanda-Geller, "Lekta and Inner Form as Loci of Sense in Metaphysics of Language."  Director, Daniel Smith.
  • David Midtvedt, "Philosophical Fictions: Essays on Philosophy, Literature, and Language in the Fifth Century BCE."  Director,  William McBride.  Philosophy and Literature Program.
  • Philip Osborne, "Justification, Truth, and the Philosopher's Armchair: A Defense of the Subject Matter and Methods of Analytic Epistemology."  Director, Michael Bergmann.
  • Netty Provost, "A Time For Religion: A Phenomenology of Sacred Time in Eastern and Western Philosophy."  Director, Daniel Smith.
  • Ashley Puzzo, "Identity, Distinctness, and Explanation: A Thesis on Identify of Indiscernibles." 
  • Jacob Tuttle, "Francisco Suarez's Metaphysics of Efficient Causation."  Director, Jeffrey Brower.
  • David Turpin, "The Ontological Basis of Ethical Intuitionism in the Early Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre." Director, William McBride.
  • Winship Varner, "In Defense of a Hylomorphic Analysis of Material Objects."  Director, Jan Cover.
  • Richmond West, "Hostility toward the Unattractive: A Critique of "Sexual Harassment Law." Director, William McBride. Philosophy and Literature Program.