Brown University, Department of Philosophy: Records from 1939-2007

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1939

Author: Hepp, Maylon Harold
Title: A critical examination of G.E. Moore's theory of knowledge and philosophic method
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Murphy, Arthur E.

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1940

Author: Jackson, Joseph Hollister
Title: A philosophical analysis of individual ethical opinions
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Ducasse, Curt J.

Author: Murphy, Frances Harder
Title: The place of moral responsibility in the philosophies of Whitehead and Peirce
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Blake, Ralph M.

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1941

Author: Tomas, Vincent Anthony
Title: The criticism of literature
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Ducasse, Curt J.

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1943

Author: Sibley, William Maurice
Title: An examination of Dewey's theory of knowledge
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Ducasse, Curt J.

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1946

Author: Ledden, Joseph Earl
Title: The nature of philosophical problems
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Ducasse, Curt J.

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1947

Author: McGreal, Ian Philip
Title: The meaning of moral obligation
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Baylis, Charles A.

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1951

Author: Taylor, Richard Clyde
Title: The analysis of judgment situations
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick M.

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1954

Author: Cartwright, Richard Lee
Title: Logical constructions
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick M.

Author: Myers, Gerald Eugene
Title: An analysis of propositional attitudes : a linguisticapproach
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick M.

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1956

Author: Ammerman, Robert Ray
Title: The natures of concepts and images
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Taylor, Richard

Author: Eastman, William
Title: A critical discussion of Russell's neutral monism
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Salmon, Wesley C.

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1957

Author: Duggan, Timothy John
Title: Thomas Reid's theory of empirical evidence
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick M.

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1958

Author: Ross, James Francis
Title: A critical analysis of the theory of analogy of St. Thomas Aquinas
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick M.

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1959

Author: Anderson, Myron George
Title: Language and ontology
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Salmon, Wesley C.

Author: Gregory, Carlton Herbert
Title: The problem of descriptive religious statements withspecial reference to the thought of Paul Tillich
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick M.

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1960

Author: Coffin, Peter Robinson
Title: Philosophy, education, and value : a philosophic study
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Ducasse, Curt J.

Author: Cornman, James Welton
Title: Linguistic reference and the mind-bodyproblem
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Lenz, John W.

Author: Howell, Thomas Joseph
Title: Indices in perception and indices in logic
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Salmon, Wesley C.

Author: Lehrer, Keith Edward
Title: Ifs, cans and causes
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Taylor, Richard

Author: Smith, James Marvin
Title: Punishment : its nature and justification
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Feinberg, Joel

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1961

Author: Jones, George
Title: A critical examination of the religious and moral thoughtof Reinhold Niebuhr
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Ducasse, Curt J.

Author: Miller, Mary Boat
Title: The logic of indeterminacy in quantum mechanics
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Salmon, Wesley C.

Author: Mish'alani, James Karam
Title: Objects, names, and variables : an investigation in the theory of designation
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Salmon, Wesley C.

Author: Pratt, James Richard
Title: Standards of criticism in the visual arts
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Tomas, Vincent

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1962

Author: Beckett, William John
Title: Probability, reasonable behavior, and reasonable belief
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Salmon, Wesley C.

Author: Canfield, John Vincent
Title: The compatibility of free will and determinism
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Schmitt, Richard

Author: Ekman, Rosalind
Title: The problem of Akrasia : a test for the adequacy of meta-ethical theories
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Feinberg, Joel

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1963

Author: Graff, James Allen
Title: Moral agency
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Lenz, John W.

Author: Sleigh, Robert Collins
Title: An examination of Thomas Reid's account of our knowledge of the external world and other minds
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick M.

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1964

Author: Rosen, Bernard
Title: Ethical intuitionism : A Defense of Philosophy
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Tomas, Vincent

Author: Shuford, Haywood Rhyne
Title: A behavioristic theory of signs
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick M.

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1965

Author: Ferguson, Ann
Title: Some philosophical problems concerning action and desire
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick M.
Philosophy, Ph.D. 1965

Author: Jewell, Robert Dean
Title: The problem of justifying deduction
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick M.
Philosophy, Ph.D. 1965

Author: Cohen, Robert
Title: Some Theories of Categories
Advisor: Chisholm, R. M.
Philosophy, Ph.D. 1965

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1966

Author: Dyke, Charles Eugene
Title: Political duties and their limits
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Ladd, John
Philosophy, Ph.D. 19656

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1967

Author: Camp, Joseph Lee, Jr.
Title: Intentionality : two studies
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick
Philosophy, Ph.D. 1967

Author:Raff, Charles
Title: Knowledge and memory
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Heidelberger, Herbert
Philosophy, Ph.D. 1967

Author: Walker, John Mark
Title: Aesthetic theory and the concept of expression
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Tomas, Vincent
Philosophy, Ph.D. 1967

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1968

Author: Blackstone, Richard Macartney
Title: An examination of the philosophical methods of G. E. Moore
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Lenz, John
Philosophy, Ph.D. 1968

Author: Leiser, Burton Myron
Title: Custom and its relations to law
Department: Philsophy
Advisor: Ladd, John
Philosophy, Ph.D. 1968

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1969

Author: Arnaud, Richard Barry
Title: Some metaphysical questions concerning individual things
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick
Philosophy, Ph.D. 1969

Author: Feldman, Fred Albert
Title: Some problems concerning identity
Department: Philsophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick
Philosophy, Ph.D. 1969

Author: Goldman, Michael
Title: A consideration of some theories of ontological commitment
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Kim, Jaegwon
Philosophy, Ph.D. 1969

Author: Grover, Robinson Allen
Title: The concept of political control
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Ladd, John
Philosophy, Ph.D. 1969

Author: Lyons, Leonard Stephen
Title: Counterfactuals and "truth conditions"
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Sosa, Ernest
Philosophy, Ph.D. 1969

Author: Simon, Jerome Stephen
Title: An examination of certain aspects of the coherence theory of truth
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick
Philosophy, Ph.D. 1969

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1970

Author: Corrado, Michael Louis
Title: Modality de re and the problem of essentialism
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick
Philosophy, Ph.D. 1970

Author: Croddy, Stephen
Title: Meeting in oral communication
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Swartz, Robert
Philosophy, Ph.D. 1970

Author: Donnelly, John Joseph Patrick
Title: Soren Kierkegaard's "Teleological suspension of the ethical :" A reinterpretation
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Schmitt, Richard
Philosophy, Ph.D. 1970

Author: Feehan, Thomas David
Title: An analysis of lying and some thoughts on its moralevaluation
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick
Philosophy, Ph.D. 1970

Author: Fulton, James Andrew
Title: The elements of causation
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick
Philosophy, Ph.D. 1970

Author: Parent, William Allan
Title: Mill's conception of the Summum Bonum
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Ladd, John
Philosophy, Ph.D. 1970

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1971

Author: Brockhaus, Richard Roy
Title: The relational theory of space : Some metaphysical, epistemological, and scientific considerations
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Quinn, Philip L.
Philosophy, Ph.D. 1971

Author: Cady, Duane Lynn
Title: Knowledge in Plato's Theaetetus
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Lenz, John
Philosophy, Ph.D. 1971

Author: DeLange, David Leroy
Title: Three theories of free action
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick
Philosophy, Ph.D. 1971

Author: Hess, Peter Hans
Title: Certain questions related to the freedom-determinism problem
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick
Philosophy, Ph.D. 1971

Author: Hochberg, Gary Mitchell
Title: Kant's theory of obligation
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Ladd, John
Philosophy, Ph.D. 1971

Author: Johnson, Major Lanius Jr.
Title: A contribution toward a non-substantial theory of time
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick
Philosophy, Ph.D. 1971

Author: Keim, Robert Gordon
Title: An investigation of epistemic preference
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick
Philosophy, Ph.D. 1971

Author: Meyn, Henning Ludwig
Title: Husserl's trascendental logic and the problem of its justification
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Schmitt, Richard
Philosophy, Ph.D. 1971

Author: Mulder, Frederick
Title: The concept of miracles
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Lenz, John
Philosophy, Ph.D. 1971

Author: Schaff, Dion
Title: Aristotle's Categories
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Lenz, John
Philosophy, Ph.D. 1971

Author: Wiersma, Sheri
Title: Intentionality and the emotions
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Swartz, Robert
Philosophy, Ph.D. 1971

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1972

Author: Fried, Marlene Gerber
Title: Marx's historical materialism and the problem of explanation in history .... Ph.D. 1972
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Sosa, Ernest

Author: Korsemeyer, Carolyn Wilker
Title: Aesthetic form : Formal beauty and the problem of relativism in the theories of Hutcheson and Kant .... Ph.D. 1972
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Ladd, John

Author: Lamb, James Walter
Title: Fundamental concepts in the theory ofrule-sets .... Ph.D. 1972
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Sosa, Ernest

Author: Rosenbaum, Stuart Evan
Title: Properties and categories .... Ph.D. 1972
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Sosa, Ernest

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1973

Author: Benfield, David William
Title: The problem of defining knowledge .... Ph.D. 1973
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Sosa, Ernest

Author: Bohl, Frederick Robert Jr.
Title: Davidson and Chisholm on events .... Ph.D. 1973
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Sosa, Ernest

Author: Burk, Alan Caden
Title: Intentional propositions de dicto and de re and nonpropositional seeing .... Ph.D. 1973
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Swartz, Robert J.

Author: DeVos, Peter Allen
Title: Metaphysics, science, and certainty : a study of some keyCartesian notions .... Ph.D. 1973
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Lenz, John W.

Author: Feld, Michael Edward
Title: The derivation of "ought" from "is" .... Ph.D. 1973
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Ladd, John

Author: Friffith, William James
Title: G. E. Moore's concept of analysis and its relation tometaphysics .... Ph.D. 1973
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick

Author: Lockridge, Thomas Francis
Title: Philosophical problems of historical explanation .... Ph.D. 1973
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Lenz, John

Author: Steel, Thomas Jamison
Title: Some definitions concerning knowing how .... Ph.D. 1973
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick

Author: Thomas, Deborah
Title: The individuation of minds .... Ph.D. 1973
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Swartz, Robert J.

Author: Yarvin, Herbert
Title: Some Cartesian questions .... Ph.D. 1973
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Sosa, Ernest

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1974

Author: Fry, Samuel Thomas
Title: 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 .... Ph.D. 1974
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick M.

Author: Fumerton, Richard Anthony
Title: Phenomenalism .... Ph.D. 1974
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick M.

Author: Ingham, Gerald
Title: Sellars' theory of Universals and Particulars .... Ph.D. 1974
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Quinn, Philip L.

Author: Lee, Myung Hyun
Title: The later Wittgenstein's reflection on Meaning, Language, and Forms of Life .... Ph.D. 1974
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Schmitt, Richard

Author: Schoedinger, Andrew Barr
Title: F.R. Tennants Pscyhogenetic Account of Perceptual Consciousness and Teleological Argument .... Ph.D. 1974
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Tomas, Vincent

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1975

Author: Foley, Richard F.
Title: The desire theory and metaethics .... Ph.D. 1975
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Brock, Dan W.

Author: Gorr, Michael
Title: The structure of human action .... Ph.D. 1975
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Sosa, Ernest

Author: Hunter, Bruce A.
Title: Empiricism and the foundations of empirical knowledge .... Ph.D.1975
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick M.

Author: Peters, Selton Luke
Title: A dualistic materialist theory of mind .... Ph.D. 1975
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Tomas, Vincent

Author: Ring, Agnes Elizabeth Muir
Title: Explicability and determinism .... Ph.D. 1975
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick M.

Author: Strandberg, Josiah R. W.
Title: Some metaphysical questions about parts and wholes .... Ph.D. 1975
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick M.

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1976

Author: McLean, Charles Jeffrey
Title: Understanding counterfactuals .... Ph.D. 1976
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Quinn, Philip L.

Author: Rosenkrantz, Gary Sol
Title: Individual essences .... Ph.D. 1976
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick M.

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1977

Author: Cohen, Elliot David
Title: Supervenience : a study in the theory of value .... Ph.D. 1977
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick M.

Author: Cusmariu, Arnold
Title: A platonist theory of properties .... Ph.D. 1977
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Sosa, Ernest

Author: Scher, Stephen Roland
Title: Persons and Practical Reason: The Relation Between Kant's Theory of Action and Ethical Reasoning.... Ph.D. 1977
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Lenz, John W.

Author: Carson, Thomas L.
Title: Happiness...Ph.D. 1977
Advisor: Dan Brock
Philosophy, Ph.D. 1977

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1978

Author: Henderson, Z. David
Title: Relativsm and the concept of empirical knowledge .... Ph.D. 1978
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Sosa, Ernest

Author: Hestevold, H. Scott
Title: A metaphysical study of aggregates and continuous wholes .... Ph.D. 1978
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick M.

Author: Horn, Walter Mark
Title: Substance and mode : a Spinozistic study .... Ph.D. 1978
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Van Cleve, James

Author: Rooney, Margaret Maureen
Title: Temporal relations and the concept of the present .... Ph.D. 1978
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick M.

Author: Zaret, David Richard
Title: Absolute space and space-time ontologies .... Ph.D. 1978
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Quinn, Philip L.

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1979

Author: Colburn, Timothy Robert
Title: A foundationalist theory of empirical justification .... Ph.D. 1979
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Sosa, Ernest

Author: Curry, Blanche Radford
Title: An unconventional theory of progress .... Ph.D. 1979
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Schmitt, Richard

Author: Gifford, Nancy Louise
Title: "Taking" as perceptual evidence .... Ph.D. 1979
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick M.

Author: Kraemer, Eric Russert
Title: Function, intentionality and organism .... Ph.D. 1979
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Sosa, Ernest

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1980

Author: Almeida, Onesimo Teotonio
Title: The concept of ideology : a critical analysis .... Ph.D. 1980
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Quinn, Philip L.

Author: De Rose, Richard Jeffrey
Title: Belief and the reference of proper names .... Ph.D. 1980
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Sosa, Ernest

Author: Krantz, Susan Lufkin
Title: Brentano's theodicy .... Ph.D. 1980
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick M.

Author: Potter, Richard Charles
Title: Intentionality and the paradox of the liar .... Ph.D. 1980
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick M.

Author: Schick, Theodore William
Title: Meaning, truth, and belief : an inquiry into the natures of propositions and states of affairs .... Ph.D. 1980
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Sosa, Ernest

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1981

Author: Cleland, Carol Edith
Title: Causation : an irreducible physical relation .... Ph.D. 1981
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Sosa, Ernest

Author: Gallagher, Neil
Title: The concept of blame .... Ph.D. 1981
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick M.

Author: Gorrell, James Mickey
Title: The explanatory, heuristic and meaning-constituting functions of theoretical models .... Ph.D. 1981
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Quinn, Philip L.

Author: Miller, George John
Title: The problem of paternalism .... Ph.D. 1981
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Brock, Dan W.

Author: Throop, William MacIntosh
Title: Worlds and paradigms : an essay on Kuhnian relativism .... Ph.D. 1981
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Quinn, Philip L.

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1982

Author: Levine, Susan
Title: A critical analysis of some of the limitations on the scope of moral prohibitions suggested by two quasi-absolutist moral theorists .... Ph.D. 1982
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Brock, Dan W.

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1983

Author: DePaul, Michael R.
Title: Intuitionism, reliability and reflective equilibrium .... Ph.D. 1983
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Brock, Dan W.

Author: Jacquette, Dale
Title: The object theory logic of intention .... Ph.D. 1983
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick M.

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1984

Author: Frederick, Robert E.
Title: Mereology and identity .... Ph.D. 1984
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick M.

Author: Taliaferro, Charles
Title: Cartesian dualism .... Ph.D. 1984
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick M.

Author: Vasey, Craig
Title: Brentano's Theory of Intentional Objects.... Ph.D. 1984
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick M.

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1985

Author: Art, Bradford Lee
Title: The Mysterious abyss of existence: groundwork for the life of the virtuous sage .... Ph.D. 1985
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Schmitt, Richard

Author: Carson, Judith Ann Covey
Title: Egoism and the structure of practical reasoning .... Ph.D. 1985
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Brock, Dan W.

Author: Goold, Patrick Allen
Title: The faith of hidden inwardness: theses possibly or actuallyattributable to Kierkegaard .... Ph.D. 1985
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Quinn, Philip L.

Author: Kim, Young-Jung
Title: A defense of the no event theory of events: an inquiry intoevent-reduction methodology and its application .... Ph.D. 1985
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick M.

Author: Pasquerella, Lynn Cheryl
Title: Brentano's theory of intristic value .... Ph.D. 1985
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick M.

Author: Steup, Matthias Peter
Title: The directly and the indirectly evident .... Ph.D. 1985
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick M.

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1986

Author: Newman, Charles
Title: Serving a nation .... Ph.D. 1986
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Lenz, John W.

Author: Rosner, David Joshua
Title: A defense of negative events .... Ph.D. 1986
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick M.

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1987

Author: Alicea-Rodriguez, Dennis
Title: John Dewey on theory and practice: theory of knowledge and theory of teaching and learning .... Ph.D 1987
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Sosa, Ernest

Author: Berlyne, Deborah Joyce
Title: The role of integrity in an adequate moral theory .... Ph.D. 1987
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Brock, Dan W.

Author: Bringsjord, Selmer Conrad
Title: The failure of computationalism .... Ph.D. 1987
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick M.

Author: Cobb, Jeffrey Lamont
Title: The paradox of analysis .... Ph.D. 1987
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick M.

Author: Depascuale, Juan Edgardo
Title: Kierkegaard's Socratic philosophy .... Ph.D. 1987
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Schmitt, Richard

Author: Diaz, Jesus Adolfo
Title: Toward an intentional nonlogical interpretation of Cartesian epistemology .... Ph.D. 1987
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick M.

Author: Fratantaro, Salvatore
Title: The methodology of G.E. Moore: an exegetical and critical exposition .... Ph.D. 1987
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick M.

Author: Kapstein, Matthew T.
Title: Self and personal identity in Indian Buddhist scholasticism: aphilosophical investigation .... Ph.D. 1987
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Van Cleve, James

Author: Moeller, Arthur F.
Title: Pragmatism: the Copernican revolution continued .... Ph.D. 1987
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Sosa, Ernest

Author: Mui, Constance Lorraine
Title: Sartrean ontology: a dialectical reconstruction .... Ph.D. 1987
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Schmitt, Richard

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1988

Author: Alcoff, Linda
Title: New versions of the coherence theory: Gadamer, Davidson,Foucault, and Putnam .... Ph.D. 1988
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Sosa, Ernest

Author: Dalmiya, Vrinda
Title: Epistemological arguments against the external world .... Ph.D. 1988
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Sosa, Ernest

Author: Emmanuel, Steven Michael
Title: The logic of Christian revelation in the works ofKierkegaard .... Ph.D. 1988
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Schmitt, Richard

Author: Ha, Jong-Ho
Title: A direct attribution theory of perceptual knowledge .... Ph.D. 1988
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick M.

Author: Oro, Douglas S.
Title: The liar paradox and bivalence .... Ph.D. 1988
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Sosa, Ernest

Author: Renear, Allen Hume
Title: The paradoxes of doxastic implications : an essay on the logic of belief .... Ph.D. 1988
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick M.

Author: Rim, Ill-Hwan
Title: Foundationalisms and epistemic supervenience : a study of the foundationalist theory of epistemic justification .... Ph.D. 1988
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick M.

Author: Saltzstein, Peter A.
Title: Autonomy of Motivation and the Process of Self-definition .... Ph.D. 1988
Department: Philosophy

Author: Olsen, Richard Ellison
Title: Logical necessity .... Ph.D. 1988
Department: Philosophy
Advisor:Chisholm, Roderick M.

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1989

Author: Chung, Sung Ho
Title: Objective reference : a study of its background, nature, andrecent controversies .... Ph.D. 1989
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick M.

Author: Greco, John Thomas
Title: The foundationalism-coherentism debate in epistemology .... Ph.D. 1989
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Sosa, Ernest

Author: Neilson, Bryan James
Title: The foundations of moral theory .... Ph.D. 1989
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Schmitt, Richard

Author: Wakefield, Peter W.
Title: On the separation of the forms .... Ph.D. 1989
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Nussbaum, Martha C.

Author: Bennett, David
Title: Psychophysical Laws: A Framework...Ph.D. 1989
Advisor: Sosa, Ernest
Philosophy, Ph.D. 1990

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1990

Author: Gillette, Michael A.
Title: Paternalism in psychiatric medicine : a philosophicalperspective .... Ph.D. 1990
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Murphy, Gregory L.

Author: Martens, David B.
Title: Some descriptional theories of first-person thoughts .... Ph.D. 1990
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Sosa, Ernest

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1991

Author: Gert, Heather J.
Title: The role of resemblance .... Ph.D. 1991
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Ackerman, D. Felicia

Author: Madhok, Bindu
Title: The ontological status of ethics .... Ph.D. 1991
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Sosa, Ernest

Author: Thomasson, David Knight
Title: Permission and Justification: Two requirements for Conceptual Adeqauacy in a Moral Theory .... Ph.D. 1991
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Brock, Dan W.

Author: Whitman, Jeffrey Paul
Title: The power and value of philosophical skepticism .... Ph.D. 1991
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Sosa, Ernest

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1992

Author: Hales, Steven Douglas
Title: On the possibility of epistemic certainty a posteriori .... Ph.D. 1992
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick M.

Author: Zimmerman, Dean Wallace
Title: Could Extended Objects Be Made Out of Simple Parts?.... Ph.D. 1992
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Chisholm, Roderick M.

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1993

Author: Gibbons, John Santercole
Title: Issues in externalism .... Ph.D. 1993
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Kim, Jaegwon

Author: Scammell, Amy
Title: Anomalous Monism and the Causal Efficacy of the Mental ...Ph.D. 1993
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Kim, Jaegwon

Author: Strander, George Murray
Title: The Pragmatics of Epistemology ....Ph.D. 1993
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Sosa, Ernest

Author: Welshon, Robert C.
Title: Mental events .... Ph.D. 1993
Department: Philosophy
Advisor: Sosa, Ernest

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1994

Author: Beck, Stephen Lea
Title: Towards a contractualist account of moral considerability ....Ph.D. 1994
Advisor: Dan Brock
Department: Philosophy

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1996

Author: Chambers, Jean
Title: Temptation and Commitment: Evolved Preferences and Moral Norms...Ph.D. 1996
Advisor: Brock, D.
Philosophy, Ph.D. 1996

Author: Sabates, Marcelo H.
Title: Mental Causation...Ph.D. 1996
Advisor: Kim, Jaegwon
Philosophy, Ph.D. 1996

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1997

Author: Bellwoar, John
Title: A Realist Theory of Understanding
Advisor: Kim, Jaegown
Philosophy, Ph.D. 1997

Author: French, Shannon Elizabeth
Title: The Problem of Motivating Ethical Behavior
Advisor: Brock, Dan
Philosophy, Ph.D. 1997

Author: Gertler, Brie
Title: Introspectivist View of the Mental
Advisor: Sosa, Ernest
Philosophy, Ph.D. 1997

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1998

Author: McDermid, Douglas
Title: Is Pragmatism Coherent?
Advisor: Sosa, Ernest
Philosophy, Ph.D. 1998

Author: Hyun, Insoo
Title: Individual Autonomy and the Authentic Self: Toward a Coherence Conception of Authenticity
Advisor: Brock, Dan
Philosophy, Ph.D. 1998

Author: Yelin, Lewis Stanley
Title: On What Can We Reasonably Agree? Political Liberalism and the Idea of Political Justification
Advisor: Dave Estlund
Philosophy, Ph.D. 1998

Author: Matthew McGrath
Title: Between Deflationism and the Correspondence Theory
Advisor: Ernest Sosa
Philosophy, Ph.D. 1998
Winner of Brown's 1998 Joukowsky Prize for best dissertation in the humanities.

Philosophy, Ph.D. 1999

Author: Hong, Chang-Seong
Title: Mental Causation: Realization and Reduction
Advisor: Kim, Jaegwon
Philosophy, Ph.D.

Author: Fantl, Jeremy
Title: Revisability and the A Priori
Advisor: Sosa, Ernest
Philosophy, Ph.D. 1999

Philosophy, Ph.D. 2000

Author: Kawall, Jason
Title: Virtues, Ideal Observers, and the Foundations of Normativity
Advisor: Sosa, Ernest
Philosophy, Ph.D. 2000

Author: Lackey Reed, Jennifer
Title:Rationality, Defeaters, and Testimony
Advisor: Sosa, Ernest
Philosophy, Ph.D. 2000

Author: Marton, Peter
Title: Skeptical Games
Advisor: Sosa, Ernest
Philosophy, Ph.D. 2000

Author: Auker, Jeffrey
Title:Eidolons: An Argument Against Explanatory Exclusion
Advisor: Gates, Gary
Philosophy, Ph.D. 2000

Author: Stone, John
Title:Disadvantage and the Allocation of Health-Care Resources
Advisor: Brock, Dan
Philosophy, Ph.D. 2000

Author:Tuggy, Dale Arthur
Title:
Advisor: Van Cleve, James
Philosophy, Ph.D. 2000

Author:Witzig, Katherine D.
Title:Racial Concepts: An Epistemological and Ethical Critique
Advisor: Schmitt, Richard
Philosophy, Ph.D. 2000

Philosophy, Ph.D. 2001

Author: Durning, Patrick
Title: Philosophical Anarchism and the Duty to Obey the Law
Advisor: Estlund, David
Philosophy, Ph.D. 2001

Author: Taggart, James C.
Title: Motivation as a Way of Thinking
Advisor: Dreier, James
Philosophy, Ph.D. 2001

Author: Webb, Douglas Joseph
Title: On the Libertarian Approach to Freedom and Responsibility
Advisor: Van Cleve, James
Philosophy, Ph.D. 2001

Philosophy, Ph.D. 2002

Author: Matheson, David
Title: Understanding, Validation and the Everyday in Epistemology
Advisor: Sosa, Ernest
Philosophy, Ph.D.

Author: Howell, Robert
Title: Self-Knowledge and Self-Reference
Advisor: Sosa, Ernest
Philosophy, Ph.D. 2002

Author: Abbruzzese, John
Title: True and Immutable Natures in Descartes' Ontological Proof
Advisor: Van Cleve, James
Philosophy, Ph.D. 2002

Author: Kriegel, Uriah
Title: Conscious Content
Advisor: Kim, Jaegwon
Philosophy, Ph.D. 2002

Author: Reed, Baron
Title: Knowledge, Agency, and Personhood
Advisor: Sosa, Ernest
Philosophy, Ph.D. 2002

Author: Shieber, Joseph
Title: The Reasons Others Give Us: The Norms of Assertion Account of the Epistemic Status of Testimony
Advisor: Sosa, Ernest
Philosophy, Ph.D. 2002

Author: Prentiss, David
Title: Doing What a Good Person Would Do - An Exploration of Pure Virtue Theory
Advisor: Ladd, John
Philosophy, Ph.D. 2002

Philosophy, Ph.D. 2003

Author: Comesaña, Juan Manuel
Title: The Ways of Reason
Advisor: Sosa, Ernest
Philosophy, Ph.D. 2003

Author: Fernandez, Jorge
Title: Externalism and Self-Knowledge
Advisor: Kim, Jaegwon
Philosophy, Ph.D. 2003

Philosophy, Ph.D. 2004

Author: Pace, Michael
Title: Perceptual Consciousness and Epistemic Justification
Advisor: Sosa, Ernest
Philosophy, Ph.D. 2004
Winner of Brown's 2004 Joukowsky Prize for best dissertation in the humanities.

Philosophy, Ph.D. 2005

Author: Ney, Alyssa
Title: The Metaphysics of Unified Science
Advisor: Kim, Jaegwon
Philosophy, Ph.D. 2005

Author: Hazlett, Allan
Title: Grice's Razor and Moore's Gambit
Advisor: Sosa, Ernest
Philosophy, Ph.D. 2005

Author: O'Brien, Lilian
Title: A Non-Causalist Theory of Rationalization
Advisor: Kim, Jaegwon
Philosophy, Ph.D. 2005

Author: Ettinger, Derek
Title: Making Sense of Things
Advisor: Sosa, Ernest
Philosophy, Ph.D. 2005

Philosophy, Ph.D. 2006

Author: Feldman, Simon
Title: Reason and the Limits of Morality
Advisor: Dreier, James
Philosophy, Ph.D. 2006

Author: Turri, John
Title: Epistemic Reasons
Advisor: Sosa, Ernest
Philosophy, Ph.D. 2006

Philosophy, Ph.D. 2007

Author: Celada, Teresa M.
Title: Procreative Liberty and Its Critics
Advisor: Dreier, James
Philosophy, Ph.D. 2007

Author: Fiedor, Benjamin
Title: Doxastic Involuntarism and Epistemic Deontology
Advisor: Sosa, Ernest
Philosophy, Ph.D. 2007

Author: Boyden, Aaron-Dirk
Title: Reducing Realism
Advisor: Kim, Jaegwon
Philosophy, Ph.D. 2007

Author: Rice, Rebekah
Title: A Causal Approach to the Nature of Human Action
Advisor: Kim, Jaegwon
Philosophy, Ph.D. 2007

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