Recent MA & PhD Defenses
PhD in Philosophy 2023
Ciaran Folliard Rhys, PhD
- Dissertation Title: The Ethics of Advance Care Planning
- Dissertation Director: Dr. Jennifer A. Parks
Abram Capone, PhD
- Dissertation Title: Play On; Give Me Excess of It: Intercorporeality and Musical Definitions
- Dissertation Director: Dr. Joseph Vukov
Anthony Gudwien, PhD
- Dissertation Title: Reconstructing the Kantian Ends of Reason: Holiness Analytically Entailing Beatitude in an Eternal Highest Good
- Dissertation Director: Dr. Andrew Cutrofello
Philip William Bauchan, PhD
- Dissertation Title: A Social Ontological Account of Alienation and Its Place in the History of Alienation Theory
- Dissertation Director: Dr. David Ingram
PhD in Philosophy 2022
Alec Stubbs, PhD
- Dissertation Title: The Political Economy of Capitalism in the Digital Age, Economic Democracy, and the Case for the Digital Commons
- Dissertation Director: Dr. David Ingram
Claire Abbott Lockard, PhD
- Dissertation Title: On the Uses and Misuses of Interpretive Charity in Philosophy
- Dissertation Director: Dr. Jacqueline Scott
PhD in Philosophy 2021
Philipa Friedman, PhD
- Dissertation Title: Knowledge and Political Interest: Politico-Epistemic Injustice in the United States Under Capitalist Democracy
- Dissertation Director: Dr. David Ingram
Clinton Neptune, PhD
- Dissertation Title: God as Rescuer
- Dissertation Director: Dr. Paul K. Moser
Katherine Brichacek, PhD
- Dissertation Title: Refuting the Single Story of Political Action in Hannah Arendt: Navigating Arendt's Eurocentrism and anti-Black Racism
- Dissertation Director: Dr. Jacqueline Scott
Jacob Joseph Andrews, PhD
- Dissertation Title: William of Auxerre and Thomas Aquinas on Simultaneous Faith and Knowledge
- Dissertation Director: Dr. Blake Dutton
Randolph Jay Carlson, PhD
- Dissertation Title: Political Justificationism: A More Realistic Epistemology of Political Disagreement
- Dissertation Director: Dr. David Ingram
MA in Philosophy
- Kirt Broesche, 2023
- Rebecca Caithamer, 2022
- Rutger Hakkenberg, 2022
- Joshua Hinchie, 2021
MA in Social Philosophy
- Michael Petro, 2023
- Travis Crowe, 2023
- Alex Hale, 2023
- Justin Prom, 2023
- Alexander Phan, 2023
- Phil Cooley, 2023
- Andrew Milewski, 2023
- Michael Wedwick, 2022
- Nicholas Blair, 2022
- Nicholas Russel, 2022
- Michael Pederson, 2022
- Matthew Zurcher, 2022
- Myles Kelley, 2022
- Danilo Mendoza Rugama, 2022
- Chi Nhan Nguyen, 2021
- Mark Blancke, 2021
- Paul Phillipino, 2021
- An Vu, 2021
- Marco Machado, 2021
- Chris Nguyen, 2021
- Bryan Galligan, 2021
BA/MA
- Daniel Blough, 2023