Graduates and Their Dissertations
This page lists the graduates of Brown's PhD program from 1939 until 2006 along with the titles of their dissertations and the names of their thesis advisors. For information on our more recent graduates, see the placement page.
- 2006
- John Turri , Epistemic Reasons (Ernest Sosa)
- Derek Ettinger, Making Sense of Things (Ernest Sosa)
- Allan Hazlett , Grice's Razoe and Moore's Gambit (Ernest Sosa)
- Michael Pace , Perceptual Consciousness and Epistemic Justification (Ernest Sosa)
- Juan Comesaña , The Ways of Reason (Ernest Sosa)
- John Abruzzese , True and Immutable Natures in Descartes' Ontological Proof (James Van Cleve)
- Patrick Durning, Philosophical Anarchism and the Duty to Obey (David Estlund)
- Douglas Webb , On the Libertarian Approach to Freedom and Responsibility (James Van Cleve)
- Jeffrey Auker, Eidolons: An Argument Against Explanatory Exclusion (Gary Gates)
- Jason Kawall , Virtues, Ideal Observers, and the Foundations of Normativity (Ernest Sosa)
- Jeremy Fantl , Revisability and the A Prior (Ernest Sosa)
- Insoo Hyun , Individual Autonomy and the Authentic Self: Toward a Coherence Conception of Authenticity (Dan Brock)
- John Bellwoar, A Realist Theory of Understanding (Jaegown Kim)
- Shannon French , The Problem of Motivating Ethical Behavior (Dan Brock)
- Jean Chambers , Temptation and Commitment: Evolved Preferences and Moral Norms (Dan Brock)
- Stephen Beck , Towards a contractualist account of moral considerability (Dan Brock)
- John Gibbons , Issues in externalism (Jaegwon Kim)
Now known as "Amy Friesen", she is a lecturer at Ohio State University at Marion.
- Steven Hales , On the possibility of epistemic certainty a posteriori (Roderick M. Chisholm)
- Heather Gert , The role of resemblance (Diana Ackerman)
- Michael Gillette , Paternalism in psychiatric medicine: a philosophical perspective (Gregory L. Murphy)
- David Bennett, Psychophysical Laws: A Framework (Ernest Sosa)
- Sung Ho Chung, Objective reference: a study of its background, nature, and recent controversies (Roderick M. Chisholm)
- John Greco , The foundationalism-coherentism debate in epistemology (Ernest Sosa)
- Linda Alcoff , New versions of the coherence theory: Gadamer, Davidson,Foucault, and Putnam (Ernest Sosa)
- Deborah Berlyne , The role of integrity in an adequate moral theory (Dan W. Brock)
- Charles Newman, Serving a nation (John W. Lenz)
- David Rosner, A defense of negative events (Roderick M. Chisholm)
- Bradford Art, The Mysterious abyss of existence: groundwork for the life of the virtuous sage (Richard Schmitt)
- Judith Carson, Egoism and the structure of practical reasoning (Dan W. Brock)
- Patrick Goold , The faith of hidden inwardness: theses possibly or actuallyattributable to Kierkegaard (Philip L. Quinn)
- Robert Frederick , Mereology and identity (Roderick M. Chisholm)
- Michael DePaul , Intuitionism, reliability and reflective equilibrium (Dan W. Brock)
- Susan Levine, A critical analysis of some of the limitations on the scope of moral prohibitions suggested by two quasi-absolutist moral theorists (Dan W. Brock)
- Carol Cleland , Causation: an irreducible physical relation (Ernest Sosa)
- Onesimo Almeida , The concept of ideology: a critical analysis (Philip L. Quinn)
Now known as "Susan Krantz Gabriel".
- Timothy Colburn , A foundationalist theory of empirical justification (Ernest Sosa)
Now at Fayetteville State University, in North Carolina.
- David Henderson, Relativsm and the concept of empirical knowledge (Ernest Sosa)
- Scott Hestevold , A metaphysical study of aggregates and continuous wholes (Roderick M. Chisholm)
- Thomas Carson , Happiness... (Dan Brock)
- Charles McLean, Understanding counterfactuals (Philip L. Quinn)
- Gary Rosenkrantz , Individual essences (Roderick M. Chisholm)
- Richard Foley , The desire theory and metaethics (Dan W. Brock)
- Samuel Fry, An examination of some ontological problems from the point of viewof the philosophy of Franz Brentano - an application of some of the basicprinciples of his philosophy (Roderick M. Chisholm)
- Richard Fumerton , Phenomenalism (Roderick M. Chisholm)
- David Benfield, The problem of defining knowledge (Ernest Sosa)
- Frederick Bohl, Davidson and Chisholm on events (Ernest Sosa)
- Alan Burk, Intentional propositions de dicto and de re and nonpropositional seeing (Robert J. Swartz)
- Peter DeVos, Metaphysics, science, and certainty: a study of some keyCartesian notions (John W. Lenz)
- Michael Feld, The derivation of "ought" from "is" (John Ladd)
- William Friffith, G. E. Moore's concept of analysis and its relation tometaphysics (Roderick Chisholm)
- Thomas Lockridge, Philosophical problems of historical explanation (John Lenz)
- Thomas Steel, Some definitions concerning knowing how (Roderick Chisholm)
- Deborah Thomas, The individuation of minds (Robert J. Swartz)
- Herbert Yarvin, Some Cartesian questions (Ernest Sosa)
- Marlene Fried, Marx's historical materialism and the problem of explanation in history (Ernest Sosa)
- Carolyn Korsemeyer, Aesthetic form: Formal beauty and the problem of relativism in the theories of Hutcheson and Kant (John Ladd)
- James Lamb, Fundamental concepts in the theory ofrule-sets (Ernest Sosa)
- Stuart Rosenbaum, Properties and categories (Ernest Sosa)
- Richard Brockhaus, The relational theory of space: Some metaphysical epistemologicaland scientific considerations (Philip L. Quinn)
- Duane Cady, Knowledge in Plato's Theaetetus (John Lenz)
- David DeLange, Three theories of free action (Roderick Chisholm)
- Peter Hess, Certain questions related to the freedom-determinism problem (Roderick Chisholm)
- Gary Hochberg, Kant's theory of obligation (John Ladd)
- Lanius Johnson, A contribution toward a non-substantial theory oftime (Roderick Chisholm)
- Robert Keim, An investigation of epistemic preference (Roderick Chisholm)
- Henning Meyn, Husserl's trascendental logic and the problem of itsjustification (Richard Schmitt)
- Frederick Mulder, The concept of miracles (John Lenz)
- Dion Schaff, Aristotle's Categories (John Lenz)
- Sheri Wiersma, Intentionality and the emotions (Robert Swartz)
- Michael Corrado, Modality de re and the problem of essentialism (Roderick Chisholm)
- Stephen Croddy, Meeting in oral communication (Robert Swartz)
- Thomas Feehan, An analysis of lying and some thoughts on its moralevaluation (Roderick Chisholm)
- James Fulton, The elements of causation (Roderick Chisholm)
- William Parent, Mill's conception of the Summum Bonum (John Ladd)
- Richard Arnaud, Some metaphysical questions concerning individualthings (Roderick Chisholm)
- Fred Feldman, Some problems concerning identity (Roderick Chisholm)
- Michael Goldman, A consideration of some theories of ontological commitment (Jaegwon Kim)
- Robinson Grover, The concept of political control (John Ladd)
- Leonard Lyons, Counterfactuals and "truth conditions" (Ernest Sosa)
- Jerome Simon, An examination of certain aspects of the coherence theory of truth (Roderick Chisholm)
- Richard Blackstone, An examination of the philosophical methods of G. E. Moore (John Lenz)
- Burton Leiser, Custom and its relations to law (John Ladd)
- Joseph Camp, Intentionality: two studies (Roderick Chisholm)
- James Mish'alani, Objects, names, and variables: an investigation in the theory of designation (Wesley C. Salmon)
- Charles Raff, Knowledge and memory (Herbert Heidelberger)
- John Walker, Aesthetic theory and the concept of expression (Vincent Tomas)
- Charles Dyke, Political duties and their limits (John Ladd)
- Robert Cohen, Some theories of categories (Roderick Chisholm)
- Ann Ferguson, Some philosophical problems concerning action and desire (Roderick M. Chisholm)
- Robert Jewell, The problem of justifying deduction (Roderick M. Chisholm)
- Bernard Rosen, Ethical intuitionism: A Defense of Philosophy (Vincent Tomas)
- Haywood Shuford, A behavioristic theory of signs (Roderick M. Chisholm)
- James Graff, Moral agency (John W. Lenz)
- Robert Sleigh, An examination of Thomas Reid's account of our knowledge of the external world and other minds (Roderick M. Chisholm)
- William Beckett, Probability, reasonable behavior, and reasonablebelief (Wesley C. Salmon)
- John Canfield, The compatibility of free will and determinism (Richard Schmitt)
- Rosalind Ekman, The problem of Akrasia: a test for the adequacy of metatethical theories (Joel Feinberg)
- George Jones, A critical examination of the religious and moral thoughtof Reinhold Niebuhr (Curt J. Ducasse)
- Mary Miller, The logic of indeterminacy in quantum mechanics (Wesley C. Salmon)
- James Pratt, Standards of criticism in the visual arts (Vincent Tomas)
- Peter Coffin, Philosophy, education, and value: a philosophicstudy (Curt J. Ducasse)
- James Cornman, Linguistic reference and the mind-bodyproblem (John W. Lenz)
- Thomas Howell, Indices in perception and indices in logic (Wesley C. Salmon)
- Keith Lehrer, Ifs, cans and causes (Richard Taylor)
- James Smith, Punishment: its nature and justification (Joel Feinberg)
- Myron Anderson, Language and ontology (Wesley C. Salmon)
- Carlton Gregory, The problem of descriptive religious statements with special reference to the thought of Paul Tillich (Roderick M. Chisholm)
- James Ross, A critical analysis of the theory of analogy of St. Thomas Aquinas (Roderick M. Chisholm)
- Timothy Duggan, Thomas Reid's theory of empirical evidence (Roderick M. Chisholm)
- Robert Ammerman, The natures of concepts and images (Richard Taylor)
- William Eastman, A critical discussion of Russell's neutral monism (Wesley C. Salmon)
- Richard Cartwright, Logical constructions (Roderick M. Chisholm)
- Gerald Myers, An analysis of propositional attitudes: a linguistic approach (Roderick M. Chisholm)
- Richard Taylor, The analysis of judgment situations (Roderick M. Chisholm)
- Ian McGreal, The meaning of moral obligation (Charles A. Baylis)
- Joseph Ledden, The nature of philosophical problems (Curt J. Ducasse)
- William Sibley, An examination of Dewey's theory of knowledge (Curt J. Ducasse)
- Vincent Tomas, The criticism of literature (Curt J. Ducasse)
- Joseph Jackson, A philosophical analysis of individual ethical opinions (Curt J. Ducasse)
- Frances Murphy, The place of moral responsibility in the philosophies of Whitehead and Peirce (Ralph M. Blake)
- Maylon Hepp, A critical examination of G.E. Moore's theory of knowledge and philosophic method (Arthur E. Murphy)