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PhDs Since 1992
(Dissertation title; year of degree and supervisor) Lanier Anderson. The influence of perspective: An interpretation and defense of Nietzsche's epistemology (1993, Alexander Nehamas). Todd Bates. Duns Scotus and the problem of universals (2003, Ross). Vadim Batitsky. Theories, theorizers and the world: A category-theoretic approach (1996, Domotor). N. Melina Bell. Socializing Children for Autonomy: Expanding the Legal Institution of Family and Mandating Autonomy-Enabling Education (2005, Freeman). Curtis Bowman. Kant, Jacobi, and the transition to post-Kantian idealism (1993, Guyer). Johannes Bulhof. The truth about possibility and necessity (1995, Domotor). Patricia Carroll. Interests and autonomy (1992, Jay Wallace). Marc Cohen. Self-interpretation and emotion (2002, Hatfield). Allison Crapo. Making it external: Continu'd and distinct body in Hume's Treatise of Human Nature (2003, Hatfield). Peter Dillard. Truth, disquotation, and deflationism (1994, Ricketts). Edward Diver, JD/PhD. Institutions and social justice (2004, Freeman). Jennifer Dobe. Nature's amenability to the ideals of the human subject in the aesthetics of Kant and Schelling (2007, Guyer). Shane Duarte. The metaphysical foundations of natural science in the thought of Aristotle, Descartes and Leibniz (2004, Ross). Joseph Farber, JD/PhD. Liberal constitutionalism and democratic reason (2003, Freeman). Autumn Fiester. Mistakes we make: Perceptual failure and the moral agent (2002, Meyer). Myrna Gabbe. Aristotle's theory of cognition: The agent intellect revisited (2005, Meyer). Rory Goggins. Stoic theology (2005, Meyer). Elizabeth Hackett. Catharine Mackinnon's "feminist epistemology" (1996, Sally Haslanger). Helen Hattab. The origins of a modern view of causation: Descartes and his predecessors on efficient causes (1998, Lisa Downing). Elisabeth Herschbach. Staying alive: Personal identity without psychological continuity (2005, Ross). Yumiko Inukai. The bundling of the self: The empirical basis for the unity of the self in Hume and James (2005, Hatfield). Mary Hannah Jones. Moral education and moral degeneration in Plato's Republic (1997, Kahn). Scott Kimbrough. Anti-individualism, dubitability and responsibility (1996, Gary Ebbs). Mark Koontz. Schopenhauer's critique of Kant's foundation for morals (1993, Guyer). Paul Litton, JD/PhD. Conditions of responsibility: An examination of first-person and interpersonal approaches (2003, Meyer). Jon McGinnis. Time and time again: A study of Aristotle's and Ibn Sina's temporal theories (2000, Ross). Michael McShane. Plotinus on the limits of discursive rationality (2000, Kahn). Carol Mele. Contemporary conceptions of liberalism (1998, Freeman). Thomas Meyer. Rule: A study in indeterminacy (1998, Gary Ebbs). Maria Morales. Equality as reciprocity: John Stuart Mill's The subjection of women (1992, Freeman). Josefine Nauckhoff. The role of the emotions in the moral life according to Immanuel Kant (1994, Guyer). John Oberdiek, JD/PhD. The morality of risking: On the normative foundations of risk regulation (2003, Freeman). Satoshi Ogihara. Plato's inquiry into the good life and "the Good" in the Philebus (2002, Kahn). Susan Peppers. Reconciling Malebranche's occasionalist metaphysics and human freedom (2000, Lisa Downing). Anya Plutynski. Modeling evolution (2002, Hatfield). Claire Pouncey, MD/PhD. The validity of psychiatric nosology (2001, Domotor). Toomas Puhvel. Reflective judgement and the unity of Kant's Critique of Judgement (1997, Guyer). Gary Purpura. Comparing animals: How to investigate the uniqueness of the human mind (1999, Hatfield). Fred Rauscher. Kant's other Metaphysics: Transcendental idealism and the metaphysics of morality (1993, Guyer). Bernard Reginster. Nietzsche on the nature and necessity of a psychological critique of metaphysics (1992, Nehamas). Michael Rohlf. Kant on the unity of reason (2004, Guyer). Eric Rosen. Finite model theory and finite variable logics (1995, Weinstein). Jeffrey Scarborough. Perception in action (2005, Hatfield). Cynthia Schossberger. Moral agency in the system of Kant's realm of ends (2003, Guyer). Peter Schwartz, MD/PhD. Function, dysfunction, and disease in biology and medicine (1999, Hatfield). Lisa Shabel. Mathematics in Kant's critical philosophy: Reflections on mathematical practice (1998, Hatfield). Lawrence Shapiro. Representational content in cognitive psychology (1992, Hatfield). Alison Simmons. Making sense: The problem of phenomenal qualities in late scholastic Aristotelianism and Descartes (1994, Hatfield). Thomas Sullivan, JD/PhD. The value of privacy in a deliberative democracy (2003, Freeman). Mark Talbot. Hume and the problem of empirical knowledge: A study of Hume's epistemology concerning matters of fact (1993, Ross). Lucas Thorpe. Kant's moral idealism: The logical basis and metaphysical origin of the ideas of community and autonomy (2003, Guyer). Jennifer Uleman. Kant and the value of free rational activity (1995, Guyer). Morgan Wallhagen. Attention to consciousness (2004, Hatfield). Julian Wuerth. Kant's account of the self (2000, Guyer).
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