Honors Theses from 2024
In the Fabric of Experience: Exploring Time and Self, Juntong Gu
Philosophy of 'As If': Contemporary Applications and Defense, Ryan Kopelman
A Comparison of Neo-Hobbesian Social Contract Theory and Anthropological Accounts of Socio-Political Complexity, Benjamin Lee
A New Metaphysical Approach to Intersectionality, Kia Morawetz
The Self in the Mirror of Despair: Søren Kierkegaard on the Authentic Christian Life, Yi Shao
Honors Theses from 2023
On Conditional Reasons, Preston Budd
Exploring Moral Saints, Ruyu (Evelyn) Wang
Honors Theses from 2022
Cultural Evolution and the Intuitionist Paradigm in Ethics: Ethics as Creation, Nickolas J. Boylan
Free Speech and Its Limits: An Exploration of Tolerance in the Digital Age, Jamie Forte
Negation & Acosmism: Hegel's Acosmist Reading of Spinoza, Jared Jones
On Certain Antinomies of Freedom: Divine Foreknowledge and Immutability, Tanja T. Rounds
Indeterminacy, Disagreement, and Reasonable Reference Magnetism, Jaocb (Hengyun) Yang
Honors Theses from 2021
Gender in Time, Jake Beardsley
A Neopragmatist Understanding of Mathematics, Yuan Dong
Weight of Words: Moral Responsibility and Freedom of Speech, Sihan Feng
The Metaphysics of Sexual Orientation: A Pluralist Account, Neal J. Going
Addressing Systemic Harms Through Restorative Justice Principles, Elissa Gosling
Theories of Responsibility and Punishment in a Causally Determined World, Brett Restrick
Honors Theses from 2020
Euthyphro, Non-Conditional Valuing, and the Possibility for Evaluative Error: A Humean Approach to Animal Ethics, Elisabeth Holmes
Honors Theses from 2019
Egoism and the Repugnant Conclusion, Nathaniel Anderson
Ghosts of the Anthropocene, Riley Covert
On the Divergence of Schopenhauerian and Schweitzerian Ethics-of-Will, Bryce Herndon
The Methodological Puzzle of Phenomenal Consciousness: What it is, and Why it is Still Unsolved, Qiuyang Shen
Individual Responsibility for Structural Injustice, Taro Shirakawa
Difference without Deference: An Individualistic Theory of Group Accommodation, Will Siegmund
Honors Theses from 2018
Perceptual Experiences Cannot Be an Inference’s Conclusion, Yuanchen Lu
Towards an Interactionist Dualism, Yonghao Wang
Citizenship and Partiality: Group Membership and the Bounds of Morality, Hannah Winckler-Olick
Honors Theses from 2017
A Threefold Defense of Perceptual Dogmatism, Hunter R. Gentry
A Defense of Retributivism as a Theory of Punishment, Samantha Kim
Honors Theses from 2016
On Animal Rights, Speciesism, and the Nature of Social Change, Delaney Berman
A Psychological Approach to the Special Composition Question, Connor Drake Dantzler
Addressing the Problems in American Drug Policy: A Case for the Legalization of Drugs, Jackson A. Eskay
Political Liberalism and a Theory of Justice: Recasting Justice as Fairness as a Political Conception of Liberal Justice, George Eric Rudebusch
Honors Theses from 2015
A Battle for Rights Justification: Millian Utilitarianism vs. Scanlonian Contractualism, Jose A. Lopez Jr.
Honors Theses from 2013
Mozi: the Man, the Consequentialist, and the Utilitarian, Grace H. Mendenhall
Honors Theses from 2012
Rehabilitating the Consequentialist View of Moral Responsibility, Adam Jared Lerner
Honors Theses from 2011
All Heads Gently Nodding: How Naturalism Dissolves the Problem of Other Minds, Devin Sanchez Curry
Honors Theses from 2010
Clarifying Intuitions about Moral Responsibility and the Self, Daniel Carl Homer
Honors Theses from 2009
"Turning the Fly Around" The Relationship between Wittgenstein's Discussion of Meaning and the Self: An Exegesis and Defense, Sean W. Dalby
Honors Theses from 2008
Harmful Offense to Others: A New Liberty-Limiting Principle and the 'New' Child Pornography, Devin DeBacker
