Current Dissertations
This page lists the titles of dissertations being written by students in residence at Purdue.
Dissertations in Progress
Erik Baldwin, "Reasonable Deep Disagreement and Rationality as Tradition-Based Inquiry."
Tully Borland, "The Ethics of Duns Scotus."
Andy Brei, "Our Right to Health and Our Duty to Nature."
Alex Carmical, "A Defense of Space-Time Substantivalism."
Somaieh Emamjomeh, "Intentional Silence and It's Intersubjective Implications."
Aaron Fehir, "Postmetaphysical Investigations: Kierkegaard."
Octavian Gabor, "Aristotelian Forms: Form, Soul, and Mind." (Philosophy and Literature Program)
Erik Hanson, "Kant and Kierkegaard on Radical Evil and the Ethics of Love."
Brian Kanouse, "Pathology, Diagnosis and Transgendering: A Theory of Existential Performativity Within the Bio-Medical Domain."
BonnieJean Kurle, "Reasonable Language: An Integrative Study in Grice's Theories of Meaning and Reasoning."
Mickey Lorkowski, "Causal Realism and Hume's Philosophy of Religion."
Rebecca Lloyd, "Descartes on Time: A Historical Approach."
Shannon Nason, "Motion, Change, and Activity in the Thought of Soren Kierkegaard."
Cory McCormick, "The Metaphysica and Explanation of Species and Speciation: A Hermeneutical Phenomenological Approach to the Species Problem."
Ashley Puzzo, "Identity, Distinctness, and Explanation: A Thesis on Identify of Indiscernibles."
Robert Robinson, "Transcendental Idealism and Realism in Michel Foucault's Critical History of Thought."
Ron Rowe, "Philosophical Hermeneutics and Contemporary Legal Interpretation."
Winship Varner, "In Defense of a Hylomorphic Analysis of Material Objects."
Wahl, Shane, "Nietzsche's Contestatory Agon: Advancing Democratic Theory by Overcoming Liberalism."
Jason Waller, "Spinoza on the Persistence of Bodies."