Senior Thesis Titles and Prizesin Recent Years
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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Class of 2014Senior Thesis Title Academic Prizes
Aesthetiocs of immersion Warbeke Prize in Aesthetics
A defense of punishment
On the problem of moral supervenience for moral non-naturalism
Class of 1869 Prize in Ethics
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
Class of 1869 Prize in Ethics
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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Class of 2013Senior Thesis Title Academic Prizes
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
Class of 1869 Prize in Ethics
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
Class of 2012Senior Thesis Title Academic Prizes
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
Warbeke Prize in Metaphysics
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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Class of 2011Senior Thesis Title Academic Prizes
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
Warbeke Prize in Metaphysics
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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Class of 2010Senior Thesis Title Academic Prizes
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
Warbeke Prize in Metaphysics
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
Warbeke Prize in Metaphysics
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
Class of 1869 Prize in Ethics
Space, Space-Time, and GeometryMcCosh PrizeWarbeke Prize in MetaphysicsTomb Prize
The Persistence of Inductive Skepticism
Action, Rational Norms, and the Principle of Double Effect
Class of 1869 Prize in Ethics
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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Class of 2008Senior Thesis Title Academic Prizes
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
McCosh PrizeClass of 1869 Prize in Ethics
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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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Class of 2007Senior Thesis Title Academic Prizes
Man & Machine: Reasons & Functional Explanation
Class of 1869 Prize in Ethics
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
Class of 1869 Prize in Ethics
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
Class of 1869 Prize in Ethics
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
Class of 1869 Prize in Ethics
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Class of 2006Senior Thesis Title Academic Prizes
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
Class of 1869 Prize in Ethics
The Philosophy of Intelligent Design
Properties, Propositions, and Possible Worlds: A Case Against Lewis' Genuine Modal Realism
Warbeke Prize in Metaphysics
Caught in Moral Conflict: Reasons, Responsibility and Remorse in Delemmatic Circumstances
Class of 1869 Prize in Ethics
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
Class of 1869 Prize in Ethics
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?
McCosh PrizeClass of 1869 Prize in Ethics
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
Class of 1869 Prize in Ethics
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
McCosh PrizeClass of 1869 Prize in Ethics
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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Class of 2003Senior Thesis Title Academic Prizes
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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Class of 2002Senior Thesis Title Academic Prizes
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
Class of 1869 Prize in Ethics
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
Warbeke Prize in Metaphysics & Epistemology
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
Warbeke Prize in Metaphysics & Epistemology
True Opinions as Guide and Obstacle to Knowledge
Dying the Dutch Way
Subjectivity and Objectivity in the Philosophy of Value
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