Senior Independent Study Theses from 2011
Korsgaardian Agency and Lived Agency: Some Concerns, Sophia Derugen-Toomey
Department: Philosophy
Irish Political Society: a Normative Democratic Evaluation, Andrew Dirgo
Department: Philosophy; Political Science
Engineering New Life in a Utilitarian World: Creating a Social Policy For Synthetic Life, Benjamin Gartin
Department: Philosophy
A Crash Course in Riding Philosophy: Why Zen & Motorcycles Really Do Go Together, Alexandra Gioiella
Department: Philosophy; History
The Importance of Being Earnest: Virtue Ethics and the Environment, William Hiatt
Department: Philosophy
Determining the Goal of An Education, Jacob Hill
Department: Philosophy
Caring For Justice: When Liberalism Is Not Enough, Meghan Hough
Department: Philosophy; Sociology and Anthropology
The Language of Totalitarianism: Newspeak, Freedom, and Orwellian Dystopia, Thomas Irvin
Department: English; Philosophy
Stuck at the Fork in the Middle of the Road?: Towards the Rational Discretion of Microfinance Institutions, Christopher Miller
Department: Economics; Philosophy
Establishing Good Will- Its Not Just About the Criminal: An Analysis of Punishment Theory, Laura Munro
Department: Philosophy
The Poetics of Metaphor: How It Means, Conceptualizes, and Creates, Lindsay Neff
Department: English; Philosophy
Create, Think, Be, Sarah Pardee
Department: Philosophy
Ethical Weapon: Just War in the Gulf, Abbas Ali Sabur
Department: Philosophy
Procedural Justice in Game Theoretical Systems, Halden Reid Schwallie
Department: Philosophy
Understanding Sense: Word Sense Disambiguation, David Small
Breaking the Law: Justified Civil Disobedience, Dylan Takores
Department: Philosophy
What Is It Like to Be a Shark?, Michael Allan Walton
Department: Philosophy
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2010
Explanation, Relation, and Meaning in Scientific Realism and Anti-Realism, Christopher J. Andrews
Department: Philosophy
Ancient Virtue Theory Verses Contemporary Virtue Theory: Why/How Macintyre's Virtue Theory Is Better Perceived Than Aristotle's Virtue Theory, Ramses Saladin Clements
Department: Philosophy
Presence of Mentality in a Phenomenon: the Work of William James on Consciousness and Free Will, Barnaby Simon Katz
Department: Philosophy
We Are How We Eat: Industrial v. Agrarian Agricultural Ethics, John Officer
Department: Philosophy
Destruction of Identity and Citizenship Through Loneliness & Totalitarianism, Sarah Palagyi
Department: Political Science; Philosophy
Relationship Between Personal Morality and Professional Ethics: a Critical Assessment of the FBI and the Ideal Conduct For Interrogation Practice, Shane Swearingen
Department: Philosophy
Why Should I Care?: A Comparative Discussion on Service, Altruism, and Personal Identity, Samuel Addison VanFleet
Department: Philosophy
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2009
Consistent Histories Interpretation As a Solution to the Quantum Measurement Problem, Matthew T. Gorski
Department: Philosophy; Physics
Why Neoclassical Economics Must Eliminate the Assumption of Utility Maximization, Ceteris Paribus, Jonathan Shaw Howden
Department: Economics; Philosophy
Investigation Into Human Rights: the Case of Female Genital Cutting in the Gambia, Amihan Jones
Department: Philosophy; Religious Studies
Pan-Handlers, Deserted Islands, and Philosophers: Solving Problems of Charity, Katelyn M. Kiley
Department: Philosophy
Faith as Coherence: An Alternative Justification For Religious Belief, Matthew Kirk
Department: Philosophy
Free Will and Animals: Rethinking the Traditional View, Emmett Mckay Lodge
Department: Philosophy
Moral Responsibility and the Insanity Defense: Implications For the Mentally Ill, Katharine McCarthy
Department: Philosophy
My Friends, There Are No Friends: Friendship, Egoism, and Altruism in Ancient Greek and Christian Thought, Tiffany E. Speegle
Department: Philosophy
The Case For Consideration of Animal Rights and Ethics to Reform the Commercial Dog Breeding Industry, Nicholas Ian Waychoff
Department: Philosophy
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2008
Environmental Ethics in the Arctic: Investigating the Source of Moral Obligations to Wilderness, David Albrechta
Department: Philosophy
Recovery of Philosophy Through Pragmatism, Matthew E. Jensen
Department: Philosophy
There Is No Theory, Only a Strategy: Speculation to Death, Jeff Kaatz
Department: Philosophy; Political Science
Don't Be Deceived, This Is Not a Lie: An Examination of the Role of Truth (Or Lack Thereof) in Our Adversary System, Abigail Adams Kline
Department: Philosophy
Philosophy of Development: Towards a Normative Theory, Erik Russell Larson
Department: Economics; Philosophy
Thinking Outside the Belief-Box: Problems With Mental Representations in Cognitive Science, Jonathan Martin
Department: Philosophy
Moral Foundations of Truth Commissions in Theory and Practice, Lara Anne Pfaff
Department: Philosophy
Philosophy or Social Science: Determining and Assessing the Factors That Underpin Moral and Profitable Worker Productivity, Jolene Poynter
Department: Philosophy
Dirty Little Secret: Photography's Relationship With Harm, Christina Marie Shiroma
Department: Philosophy
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2007
Melodious Decree of the Passions: Defining Melody's Role in Opera, Theater, and Life, Kyle McRee Beliczky
Department: Philosophy
Resurrecting the Dead Canvas: Aesthetic Post-Essentialism and the Reevaluation of the Traditional Theories of Justifying Art Restoration, Stewart William Campbell
Department: Philosophy
Role Morality Vs. Moral Right: An Examination of Legal Ethics, Dan Fleszar
Department: Philosophy
Concerns of An Anti-Skeptic: Traditional Epistemology: Why It Should Be Naturalized and Taken Back to Common Sense, Andrew Russo
Department: Philosophy
Concept of Epistemic Responsibility, Michael von Ansbach-Young
Department: Philosophy
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2006
For the Love of Wilderness: Conceptual Analysis of Contemporary Wilderness, Laura Eileen Barnhart
Department: Philosophy
Repairing Perception, Timothy Scott Bowersox
Department: Philosophy
Ontological Conflict and Moral Discourse, Daniel Cohen
Department: Philosophy
Mp3: Laws, Ethics, and Metaphysics, James Richard Lauwers
Department: Philosophy
On Meaning and Life, Colin Turner
Department: Philosophy
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2005
What's Personhood Got to Do, Got to Do With It? Questioning the Relevance of Personhood Within the Context of Abortion and Other Related Issues, Abigail Perry Adams
Department: Philosophy
Live and Let Die: the Moral Permissibility of Euthanasia, Donald Cornelius Caughlan
Department: Philosophy
Is There a Difference Between a Work of Literature and An Instruction Manual?, John Evans
Department: English; Philosophy
Four Moral Criteria: Reconciling Kantian Moral Theory and Utilitarianism, Roderick F. Ganiard III
Department: Philosophy
Michel Foucault: Power, Ethics, and Their Prescription For An Adequate Model of the Physician/Patient Relationship, Andrew Woodburn Hillyer
Department: Philosophy
Starvin' Marvin Versus the Fatcats: An Examination of the Duty to Give Aid, Miles Holding
Department: Philosophy
What Business Ethics Should Not Overlook: a Re-Examination of the Scope of Business Ethics, Jameson David Rehm
Department: Philosophy
Buddhist Paradox of No-Self: Can It Be Resolved in Today's Terms?, Bethany Lynne Reiner
Department: Philosophy
Searching For and Authentic Moral Attitude Toward the Environment: An Investigation Into the Development of Human Morality and the Resulting Implications on the Role of Humans in the Environment, Christine Ellen VanderWyden
Department: Philosophy
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2003
Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics: Instructions in Life, Thomas Fowkes
Department: Classical Studies; Philosophy
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2002
He, Arlyn E. Keith
Department: English; Philosophy
"Sex": A Comparison on the Place of Sex in the Buddhist, Tantric, and Platonic Traditions, Sarah Sobel-Poage
Department: Religious Studies; Philosophy
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2001
Politics of Rationality?: Habermas and Foucault on Contemporary Political Reason, Kevin D. Egan
Department: Political Science; Philosophy
Journalism Ethics and the Outing of Oliver Sipple A Discussion About the Importance of Incorporating Feminine Ethics into the Practice of Journalism, Amelia Kays
Department: English; Philosophy
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1999
Kierkegaard's Philosophical Fragments, James F. Cubie
Department: Religious Studies; Philosophy
Nazi Germany on Trial: a Historical and Philosophical Analysis of the Nuremberg Trial, Aaron Veith
Department: History; Philosophy
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1998
Affliction and Attention: a Study of the Philosophy of Simone WeilAnd Its Connections to Theology of Gustavo Gutierrez, Shannon R. Vance
Department: Philosophy; Religious Studies
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
The Application of Intergenerational Justice in Modern America and its Practical Application, Michael L. Dawson II
Upon Distinguishing the Public and the Private: The Application of Hannah Arendt Towards a Participatory Politics of Feminism, Jennifer L. Novak
Department: Philosophy; Political Science