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Class of 2015Senior Thesis Title Academic Prizes

Reflective attiitudes & moral judgment Warbeke Prize in Aesthetics

The body & the politic

Responsibility & resentment

Is commercial surrogacy morally problematic?

The reliability of moral intiutions Class of 1869 Prize in Ethics

Plato on punishment and vice

Are virtual media a threat to friendship?

A contemporary theory of responsibility: what Aristotle can teach us

Class of 1869 Prize in EthicsUniversity Center for Human Values Prize

A defense of Quinian epistemology Warbeke Prize in Metaphysics & Epistemology

Why call him God? The problem of evil & the best of all possible worlds defense

Structuring a system of distributive justice

Subsidiarity: a philosophical history & argument McCosh Prize

Playing hockey with the Greeks

The undefinable soul: Aristotle De Anima II.1-3

Hume and the hedonist

Why be a structuralist? Dickinson Prize

Love as a source of reasons Tomb Prize

Experimental science and certainty in Descartes

Berkeley's principles of idealism

Positivism, ends, order: a contemporary theory of law

A pprobabilistic approach to the surprise examination problem

Dickinson Prize

Nietzsche find dharma blossom: redeeming God from the clutches of the Übermensch

Woman: A structural account of feminity in Nietzsche's philosophy

Class of 1869 Prize in Ethics

Philosophy of humor

Defining art: the case for an institutional definition

Respecting the distinctness of persons in life-saving cases Class of 1869 Prize in Ethics

The menu thoery: personal and social responsibility for health.

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Aesthetiocs of immersion Warbeke Prize in Aesthetics

A defense of punishment

On the problem of moral supervenience for moral non-naturalism


Platonic and Aristotelian influences on al-Farabi

Searching for the Ghazalian soul

What is Utopia?

Speaking and trusting well on the internet

The conceptual development of political liberty: ancient republicanism to modern liberalism

Plato, poetry, and the problem of mechanical reproduction

Warbeke Prize in Aesthetics

The notion of knowledge in Plato's middle-period works

Numerous things Dickinson Prize

Harming future people: a de dicto approach to the non-identity problem

The dogma of reasons fundamentalism: a critique of Scanlon's metaethics


Epistemological boundaries of the Kantian infinite Warbeke Prize in Metaphysics & Epistemology

Civic friendship: a lost Aristotelian ideal

Episteme and explanation in Plato's Meno and Phaedo

The modality of freedomMcCosh PrizeClass of 1869 Prize in Ethics

Owning the intangible

The normal nihilist

The viability of the strong artificial life hypothesis

Why personal identity matters first and foremost caring about survival

Tomb Prize

Deontic modals and normative realism Class of 1869 Prize in Ethics

Fools and philosophy on the fringe of war

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Desire, rationality, and the forsaken imagination

“It's just a game": Emotions and rational decision-making

And irreducible diversity of plays: Wittgensteinian language games in theater

A "formal" affair: discourse representation theory Warbeke Prize in Metaphysics & Epistemology

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The Happy Life & the Virtuous Man in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Social Justice & Access to Health Care: The Opportunity Account

Conduct, Harm, & Legislation

Aristotle's Virtue Ethics & Natural LawClass of 1869 Prize in EthicsUniversity Center for Human Values Prize

Energy & Einstein: Metaphysical Implications of Special Relativity

Liberty through the Lot: Using Sortition to Motivate Republican Politics

In the Driver's Seat: Rethinking the Control Principle in Response to the Problem of Moral Luck

Enhancing the Game: An Ethical Examination of Physical Enhancement in Sports

Artifact Personhood: A Computational Argument for Persons being Ontological Trash

A Defense of Consequentialism Against James Lenman’s Epistemic Objection

Just Drones

Alienation as Cognitive Dissonance: Reconciling the Normative Agnosticism of Marx’s Mature Writings with the 1844 Manuscripts

The Meaning of Life: Using Value to Explain Meaning & How to Live

The Cautious Moralizer: An Argument for Taking Evolutionary Ethics Seriously

A New Approach to Rationing Cases: Meaningful Consequentialism with Fairness


Language Identity as Social Identity: A Theoretical Approach to the Role Language and Languages Play in Making a Life

An Exploration of the Attribute Omnipotent

Temperament: A Study

Status Quo Bias, Rationality, & Conservatism about ValueDickinson PrizeMcCosh Prize

Facts & Fallibility: Establishing a Fallibilist Public Sphere

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Error Theory & the Origins of Morality

The Wrongness of Rights: A Critique of Modern Moral Language

Whelan Prize for Constitutional Law & Political Thought

Techne and Phronesis in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

On the Feasibility of Intergenerational Equality: An Analysis of Dworkin's Theory

Realist Enough? Not Quine: On the Metaphysics & Epistemology of Reasons Fundamentalism

On the Justification of DeductionWarbeke Prize in Metaphysics & Epistemology

Time, Consciousness, & InformationTomb PrizeWarbeke Prize in Metaphysics & EpistemologyMiller Prize in Cognitive Science

Three Interpretations of the General Will

Through the Gate of Emptiness: Nagarjuna's MetaphysicsWarbeke Prize in Metaphysics & Epistemology

Blame: A Guide for the Perplexed


Preserving Subjective Freedom in the Market: A Re-evaluation of Hegel's Korporation

Class of 1869 Prize

Puinishment: An Alterantive Retributivist Account

Living the Good Life: Comparing the Philosopher and the Philanthropist Using Aristotle's Notion of Virtue

Freedom, Responsibility, and Our Obligations to Children

Concerning Intrinsic Value and Biodiversity

Diagreement and Democracy: An Epistemological Approach

Warbeke Prize in Metaphysics

The Importance of Being Ernest: How to Think about Higher-Order Persons

Persistence over Time Tomb Prize

Judging Others: Was Aristotle a Moral Isolationist? Class of 1869 Prize

Kant & Nietzsche: Self-Legislation vs Self-Creation Warbeke Prize in Aesthetics

Safe Mode: Guidelines for the Ethical Assessment of Unmanned Weapons Systems

The Moral Obligation of Self-Love

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Choices with Substance: How Education Can Inculcate Meaningful Individuality in Its Students

Entitlement to Basic Logical Inference: The Implicit Definition Argument

Dickinson Medal

Causal Decision Theory: An Examination of the Probabilities, Ratifiability, and Deliberation

On the Privacy of Spacetime

I Would Believe Only in a God Who Could Dance: An Introduction to Nietzsche's Aesthetics

After the Wager: Pascal, James, and Pragmatic Belief

A Group Agency Theory of Corporate Governance

The Ethics of Climate Change Legislation

The New Navya-Nyaya

Just War Considerations in the War on Terror: A Reformulation of Walzer's Paradigm to Accommodate Non-state Actors

States' Obligations of Foreign Aid

Naturalism, Relativism, and Moral Deliberation

How Quantum Mechanics Causes Consciousness: An Exploration of Consciousness, Quantum Mechanics, Free Will, and Neuroscience

The Word of the Soul: On Herder's Treatise on the Origin of Language


Principles on Trial: Reconciling Legal and Moral Values at Nuremberg

A Theory of Moral Responsibility McCosh PrizeClass of 1869 Prize

The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

An Exposition and Defense of a Human Account of Reasons for Action

The Metaphysics of the 'Finite Modes' in Spinoza's Non-Teleological Ethics

How Important Is It to Reduce the Risks of Human Extinction?

McCosh PrizeClass of 1869 Prize

Consumption as Recognition: An Extension of Alex Honneth's Critical Theory

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On Libertarian Coherence and Quantum Neurobiology

A Comparative Analysis of Ancient & Modern Virtue Ethics

Four Theories of Metaphor

Credo and Cogito: A Critical Examination of Some Arguments for the Existence of God

In Praise of Selfishness: An Attempt to Explicate the Meaning of "Selfishness" in Nietzsche

Class of 1869 Prize

J. L. Mackie's Arguments for a Moral Error Theory

Renouncing Moral Responsibility: A Defense of the Pessimistic View


Oracular Vision: On the Use of Expert Judgment McCosh PrizeDickinson Medal

The Character of Agency: Narratives, Self-Knowledge, and the Perception of Time

I Am Not What I Am Class of 1869 Prize

A Theory of Suboptimal Investment Warbeke Prize in Metaphysics

Sustainable Attention Warbeke Prize in Metaphysics

Punishment & Justice in Nietzsche

Realism, Anti-Realism, and Evolutionary Debunking Arguments

On the Characterization and Justification of Moral Intuitions

Class of 1869 Prize

Losing Your Moorings; Kripke's Dogmatism Paradox and Moorean Responses

Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité: Republicanism and Levinasian Justice in Contemporary France

Class of 1869 Prize

The Nature of Moral Judgments and the Province of Moral Intuitions

Class of 1869 Prize

The Existence of Freedom and Moral Responsibility

A Pericean Revision of Scientific Beliefs

The Paradox of Emotion and the Paradox of Fiction

The Ontological Commitments of Ordinary

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Predicational and Relational Statements

Please, Consider My Interest! A Criticism of Peter Singer's Argument for Equality of Income

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Are We Experienced: Coherentism & the Isolation Objection

Where the Colored Things Are

Relational Holism in Quantum Mechanics

A Personal Relationship with Jesus Christ & the Necessary Objectivity Involved: Søren Kierkegaard & Subjective Faith

Kant's Chimerical Idea Class of 1869 Prize

The Concepts of "The Political" and "The Religious": An Essay on the Compatibility of Politics & Religion

Coming to Terms with the Problem of the Criterion Warbeke Prize in Metaphysics

"Man Is Born Free": On Rousseau's Comprehensive Theory of Liberty

Normative Reasons Class of 1869 Prize

Reasons and Realism: An Evaluation of T. M. Scanlon's Reasons Fundamentalism

Frankfurt-style Cases & the Problems They Face

Are We Free to Change the Past? A Philosophical Approach to Time Travel

Citizen Character, Constitutional Character, and the Constitution's Success

Revising Anscombe's Pronouncement & the Aristotelian "Ought"

Consensus on Justice in Rawls & Aristotle Class of 1869 Prize

Justice & Equality in Healthcare Resource Allocation: the Bi-QALY Method

Government Limitations of Privacy

The Role of the Individual in Nietzsche's Philosophy: Self-Determination & Agency


Perception: An Adverbial ApproachMcCosh Prize,Dickinson Medal

A Defense of Plato: Recollection, Affinity and Attunement in the Phædo

Hegel's Critique of Nietzsche: The Vanishing Way of the Vanishing Creator

Class of 1869 Prize

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Switching Codes: A Framework for Understanding Language Evolution & Quality

Disagreement: Avoiding Spinelessness

Determinism, Race, & Criminal Justice

Probabilistic Models & Inductive Cognition

Epistemic Implications of Moral Disagreement

Modern Subjectivity & Confucian Responses

Eureka? Real Abilities, False Impressions, & Republican Freedom's Heuristic Problem

The Puzzle of Evidence: Reformed Epistemology & the Role of Evidence in Belief in God

Rational Intuition & Its Role in Philosophical Discourse

The Inherent Ambiguity of the Dream Argument

Explaining the Temporal Asymmetry in Knowledge: Using Counterfactuals & the Past Hypothesis

Arguing for a Holistic Morality

What Consciousness Brings to Mind: Pure Consciousness Experience & the Intentionality Thesis

Naive Realism All Grown Up: Sensory Awareness, Immediate Perceptual Judgment, & the Pitfalls of Representationalism


Sonic Mechanisms of Transformation: Music's Pedagogical Powers in Plato's Republic

An Unrestrainable Offense: A Philosophical Exploration of the Morality of Abortion

Meaning through Computation: The Machine Response to Kripke's Skeptical Conclusion

Space, Time, & Causality: Rational Thoughts on Kant's Idealism

Warbeke Prize in Metaphysics,Tomb Prize

Full of Hot Air: An Argument against "Higher-Order Thought" Theories of Consciousness

Respecting Value: A Defense of Non-Consequentialism

Class of 1869 Prize

On the Value of Collective Identities

Anti-Realism & the Limits of Meta-Ethics

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Class of 2009

Senior Thesis Title Academic Prizes

Defining & Regulating New Forms of Property: Issues Raised by Terms of Service

Responsibility & Desert: The Significance of Incompatibilist Free Will

Seeing PicturesMcCosh PrizeWarbeke Prize in Æsthetics

Regret & the Limits of Human Control: Whether a Lack of Full Control Undermines Regret

Two Ways of Avoiding a Repugnant Conclusion

Righting an Environmental Wrong: Intranational Justice and the Ethics of Domestic Climate Change Policies

Operations Invariant under Arbitrary Bijections

The Chinese Room Has a Mind: A Defense of the Turing Test

McCosh PrizeWarbeke Prize in MetaphysicsDickinson Medal

Duties & Doubt: The Non-Identity Problem in Theory and Practice


Space, Space-Time, and GeometryMcCosh PrizeWarbeke Prize in MetaphysicsTomb Prize

The Persistence of Inductive Skepticism

Action, Rational Norms, and the Principle of Double Effect


On Determining the Objective Validity of Singer's Altruistic Principle and Its Notable Alternatives

Understanding the Unprecedented: Hannah Arendt and the European Union

An Ancient Solution to a Modern Problem

Justifying Revolution

A Functionalist Theory of Interests

Aristotle on Polity as the Best Practical Constitution

A Theory of Freedom and Its Impact on Speech

The Epistemic Function of Validity Criteria: An Analysis of Inclusive/Exclusive Positivism

The Skeptic and the Nature of Belief: An Examination of Skepticism as a Logical and Acceptable Way of Life

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The Special Role of Family Obligations and the Case Against Agent-Neutral Reasoning in Ethics

Initiation in Conflict: Arendt on Little Rock Class of 1869 Prize in Ethics

How Could the Numbers Count?

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A Divine Foreknowledge Counterexample to the Principle of Alternative Possibilities

Intuitive Mereological Composition

From "The Only Possible Argument" to the Impossibility of Argument: God's Existence in Immanuel Kant's Philosophy

McCosh PrizeWarbeke Prize in Metaphysics

From Desires and Implicit Social Contracts to What we Ought to do

A Novel Approach to Directed Donation in Support of the Current UNOS Policy

The Conception of First Philosophy, theology, Being & Substance in the Aristotelian Metaphysics

Perceiving Free Will: Why Free Will is an Illusion

Lessons from Agent Causation's Failures

Three Similar Philosophers

Why Bad Sex is Like Torture: The Ethics and metaphysics of Embodiment

McCosh PrizeClass of 1869 Prize in Ethics

Just Revolution

Judgment and Action in Arendt’s “Reflections on the Little Rock”

The Predicational View of Material Constitution

On the Epistemic Significance of Fundamental Disagreement

Moral Constructivism in Rawls and Scanlon

A Brief Analysis of Causation in History

The Cunning of Dialectic: The Refutation of Protagoras in the Theaetetus

The Best Explanation of The Riddle of Induction

Death as Deprivation and the Epicurean Dilemma

A Dark Matter: The Problem of Evil in Plotinus and Proclus

Responding to the Hard Incompatibilist: A Critical Look at Two Compatibilist Arguments


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Squashed Tomatoes: Revisiting the Paradoxes of Time Travel

Tomb Prize

Connoisseur of Chaos: An Essay on Spinoza's Politics

The Ethics of Simulation McCosh PrizeClass of 1869 Prize in Ethics

Losing the Illusion of Free Will

Multiplicity and the Problem of the Many Warbeke Prize in Metaphysics

On The Possibility of Anti-Realist Objectivism in Morality

Dickinson Medal

A Return to Duration Henry Bergson's Work on Time McCosh PrizeWarbeke Prize in Æsthetics

Appealing Intuition

Why Equality of Resources? A Discussion of Ronald Dworkin's Sovereign Virtue

Giving Space a Hand: Kant's Use of Incongruent Counterparts to Determine the Nature of Space

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Man & Machine: Reasons & Functional Explanation


The Neurology of Morality: A debunking examination of Josh Green’s moral recommendations

Free Will, Evil and Obligations to Creation

Spirit, Spectator, Spectacle: Thumos & the Psychology of the Spectator in Plato’s Republic

Choosing between God’s Agency & God’s Existence: An Argument for an Impersonal Deity

Pro Contextu Rationem

Plato’s Commitment to Virtue in the Laws

Protecting Immoral Choices: Moral Rights & a Right to Do Wrong

Absurdity & Value

The Evolution of Metaphoric Meaning & Conceptualization

Abortion & Right to Life: The Partial Rights Thesis

On Aristotle’s Conception of Happiness Warbeke Prize in Metaphysics

No Middle Ground: Why Potentiality Cannot Justify the Intermediate Moral Status of Embryos

McCosh Prize

Coming to Believe: The Possibility & Rationality of Basing Beliefs on the Will

John Duns Scotus on the Problem of Future Continents: An Introduction

Saucers of Mud & Other Problems with Scanlon’s Value Analysis

Character Counts: Moral Luck & Responsibility Class of 1869 Prize in Ethics

Socrates & Achilles on Justice and Death: The Crito Dialogue of Plato Compared to Book 9 of Homer’s Iliad

God, or Nature: Exploring Spinoza’s Conceptions of God & the Argument for Theism

Agent Control & the Davidsonian Picture of Action Explanation


On the Externality of Desires Warbeke Prize in Metaphysics

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Self-Defense: National Defense & Just War: A Comparison of Individualist & Collectivist Approaches


On Middle Knowledge & Counterfactuals of Freedom

Spacetime and Natural Law Tomb Prize

Politics & Moral Judgment

Some Remarks on Carnap’s Ontology Dickinson Medal

Representative Democracy: An Examination of Its Merit & Reasonableness by the Mid-Eighteenth Century

How Do We Experience Memory? A Phenomenological Investigation of Memory

On the New Riddle of Induction

The Problem of Style Warbeke Prize in Aesthetics

Desire, Preference and Acceptance: A Discussion of Non-Cognitivism

The Place of Infallibility in Knowledge

Autonomy & the Sanctity of Life: A Critique of American Medical Ethics

The Ethics of the Insanity Defense: Mental Illness, Moral Responsibility, & the Law


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On the Morality of Promising

Nietzsche and the Question of Genealogy Class of 1869 Prize in Ethics

Life's Ethical Challenge: A Discussion of Ronald Dworkin's "Challenge Model"

Tracing the origins of of the Transcendental Æsthetic

Disagreement and the Equal Weight View McCosh PrizeWarbeke Prize in MetaphysicsDickinson Medal

Competing Accounts of Voluntary Action. Responsibility, and Akrasia


The Philosophy of Intelligent Design

Properties, Propositions, and Possible Worlds: A Case Against Lewis' Genuine Modal Realism


Caught in Moral Conflict: Reasons, Responsibility and Remorse in Delemmatic Circumstances


Explanation by Embodiment: The Role of Corrective Justice in Tort Law

Uniqueness, Permissivism, and the Possibility of Reasonable Disagreements

Taking Matter Seriously

The Concept of Moral Obligation and the Overridingness Thesis


Roles, Responsibility. and Resignation: Analysis of Individual Responsibility for Corporate Action

Genealogy. Interpretation, and Nietzsche's Problem of Adjudication

Warbeke Prize in Æsthetics

Nietzsche the Creator: The Creative Process in Nietzsche's Works

For What It's Worth: A Justification of Blame

Individuality, Equality, and Rights: Creating a Culture of Moral Autonomy

A Practical Utilitarianism: Finding a Moral Theory that is Utilitarian in Consequence but Affective in Method

Imitation and Poetry in Plato's Republic

Paging Dr. Darwin: A Non-Normative Biological McCosh Prize

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Analysis of DiseaseWarbeke Prize in Metaphysics

Against Speciesism: The Case for the Consideration of Animals

Nietzsche's Socrates

Sock It To Me: The Relationship between Respect and Rationality

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Class of 2005Senior Thesis Title Academic PrizesDo You Love Me? The Relationship Between Friendship and Romantic Love

I Am Not that Hard Up for Categories:Perspectivism, with Nietzsche and Wittgenstein

TheProblem of Hell, The Problem of Evil:Arguments Against Eternal Punishment

Epistemic Justification, Proper Basicality and Religious Belief

Quantum Mechanics, Everett, and Probability

Treaties & Unjust Incorporation: The Case for Native American Nations’ Moral Right to Greater Sovreignty

The Possible Past: It’s not real, not necessary, not actual — There is no past…MAN!

Warbeke Prize in MetaphysicsTomb Prize

Irreconcilable Differences: Socratic Intellectualism versus Sophistic Relativism

Philosophy’s Pragmatic Utility: Thoughts on a New Method

Richard Rorty on Truth, Justification, and the Goal of Inquiry

The Ontology of Source Code Based Art

Reasons and Passions: Can Intrinsic Desires be Rationally Criticized?


Intuitions About Identity and Survival Warbeke Prize in Metaphysics

Holding Corporations Minimally Responsible

Living in One of the Many Worlds: The Moral Implications of Modal Realism

Critical Theory and Perfectionism: “Why This One Book Makes This Other Book Look Good”

Sadism, Masochism, Pedophilia, Incest: What Do They Have in Common?

On Culpability: Novel Excuses and the New Skepticism about Moral Responsibility


Reasoning-Utilitarianism Class of 1869 Prize in Ethics

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Class of 2004 Senior Thesis Title Academic Prizes

Let’s Get Physical: An Original Physicalist Account of Mental States

The Analytic Theory of the A Priori McCosh Prize Warbeke Prize in Metaphysics & EpistemologyDickinson Medal

I? Notes on Three Lectures on Kant’s Political Philosophy by Hannah Arendt

An Either/Or: The Choice Between the Aesthetic or the Abstracted Moral Ways of Life

Finding HOPE in Death

Friendship and Epicurean Happiness: An Examination of Instrumentally Valuable Friendship, Altruism, and Self-Sufficiency in Epicureanism


Phenomenology of Self-Consciousness Warbeke Prize in Metaphysics & Epistemology

COGNITIVE SCIENCE AND THE MORAL FACULTY: The Relation of Universal Moral Grammar and Heuristics and Biases to Trolley Problems

An Inquiry Concerning Human Misunderstanding

About Seven Months: Reflections on Living Well

Blame and Values Class of 1869 Prize in Ethics

The Public Puzzle of Civil Disobedience Class of 1869 Prize in Ethics

Kantian Utilitarianism Class of 1869 Prize in Ethics

Dr. Strangelogic or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Liar

Exploring Moral Intuitions: A Contribution to the Trolley Literature and Its Relevance to Morality

Power Beyond Possibility: The Philosophical and McCosh PrizeClass of 1869 Prize in Ethics

Political Implications of Re-thinking God’s Omnipotence

Special Relations And Associative Duties: Does Non-Reductionism Get Them Right?

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The Non-Identity Problem

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Compensatory Justice, Race, and Democracy

Culpability and Immoral Transactions

DOLLY IS THE DEVIL A Critical Analysis of Four Philosophical Accounts of Metaphor

Games With No Rules: The Wittgensteinian Conception of Language

McCosh PrizeWarbeke Prize in Metaphysics & Epistemology

Revisiting the Principal Principle: An Analysis of Lewis’ Principal Principle

Clark, Nietzsche, Truth

Philosophy, Fiction, and Imagination:The Importance of Possible Worlds

McCosh PrizeClass of 1869 Prize in EthicsWarbeke Prize in Aesthetics

Religious Conviction and Liberal Democracy: The Necessity of a Public Justification

Baptizing the Meter Stick: Kripke’s Account of the Contingent A Priori

Warbeke Prize in Metaphysics & EpistemologyDickinson Medal

Some Remarks on the Knowledge Argument

Duties to Oneself: An Inquiry into the Moral Aspects of Self-Regarding Actions

Why Can’t We Be Friends: Evaluating True Friendship

Being, Nothingness, and Freedom: A Comparison of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Nausea and Being and Nothingness

Class of 1869 Prize in EthicsMcCosh PrizeWarbeke Prize in Aesthetics

IDENTITY CRISIS: Political Identity Theory and the Justification of Terrorism

The Measurement of Happiness

Principles and Method in Aristotle’s Philosophy of Human Affairs

McCosh Prize

Moral Determinations and War

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What a Wonderful World: An Introduction to Possible Worlds

Warbeke Prize in Metaphysics & Epistemology

Law as Moral Integrity

Moral, Reasoning, and Personal Integrity Class of 1869 Prize in EthicsCHV Senior Thesis Prize

Time-Related Synthesis

Escape from Modal Realism

Reconciling Rhetoric and Truth: The Art of Communication in Plato’s Gorgias and Phaedrus

McCosh Prize

Music Perception and Nonconceptual Content Warbeke Prize in Aesthetics

D.F. and the Content of Motor Intentional Behavior

An Account of Justice and Civic Friendship within

Sioux Tradional Culture Based on Ideas From The Republic

Morality and the Value of Art

Separating Semantics from Empiricism and Ontology Warbeke Prize in Metaphysics & Epistemology

We’ll Do Nothing Seinfield’s Neverending Circles of Stagnation

Moral Luck Class of 1869 Prize in Ethics

The Context of Visibility and the Site of Control: Seeing Plato’s Republic

Issues of Control and Self-Formation as Applied to the Topics of Free Will and Determinism

Jumping Out of One’s Own Skin Dickinson Medal

Freedom of the Will, Knowledge of the Self, And the Ability to Do That Which is not Morally Right

The Clumsiest of All Misunderstandings Hitler’s use of Nietzsche’s aesthetics to enable and justify

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National Socialism and A short essay on Nietzsche and Albert Camus

Postmodernism, Moral Relativism, and Ethics

‘Frankfurt & the Principle of Alternate Possibilities (PAP)

Following the North Star: The Path to Distributive Justice and African-American Citizenship

The Empirical Basis of Consciousness

A Critical Look at Dworkin’s Challenge to Hart’s Legal Positivism

An Explication of Possible-world-parts: Laws and Nature and Essentialism

McCosh PrizeTomb Prize

In Defense of the Golden Rule: A Critique of Kantian Moral Philosophy


Assessing Skyrms’ Game-Theoretic Strategies Warbeke Prize in Metaphysics & Epistemology

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Class of 2001

Senior Thesis Title Academic Prizes

The Agency Centered Formation of Existence: A Brief Discussion of Lewis Gordon, Black Existentialism, and Identity

From Muskets to Howitzers: Establishing the NaturalRight to Self-Protection

Nietzsche's Perspectivism: Paving the Way for the New Philosophers

We are Living in a Material World: An Analysis of Material Objects


Frozen Embryo Disposition Applying Ethics to Policy

Theory Structure and Philosophy of Ecology

Erotic Madness: The Platonic Theory of Love

Popular Conceptions of Personal Identity

Dworkin's Theory of Obligation to Obey the Law

Xenophanes and Heraclitus: Possibilities for Knowledge after a Critique of Mythic Traditions

Program Efficacy: An Account of the Causal Efficacy of Mental Properties

The Doctrine of Double Effect and its Alternatives

Martin Heidegger and the Symphony of Being

Oh Mercy, Mercy Me: An Examination of Personal Identity in the Philosophy of Deep Ecology

Essays on Dewey and Philosophy

Out of the Question: What is Law? and Legal Philosophy

Freedom and Reason, Determinism and Responsibility in the Philosophy of Chrysippus

Horatio's Burden: A Critical Response to Arthur C. Danto's Philosophy of Art

The Descent of Moral Man: A Reading of On the Genealogy of Morality

McCosh Prize Class of 1869 Prize in Ethics

The Ties that (Un) Bind Class of 1869 Prize in Ethics

Kant's Reciprocity Thesis

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Searle's Chinese Room

Moralizing with the Giants: A Theory of the Moral Status of the Corporation

Might Pascal's Wager Offer Rational and Moral Guidance?

Class of 1869 Prize in Ethics Dickinson Medal

Understanding the Rational Fallacy: An inquiry into the problems of rationality and the value of the non-rational in human life


True Opinions as Guide and Obstacle to Knowledge

Dying the Dutch Way

Subjectivity and Objectivity in the Philosophy of Value

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