University of Maryland Department of Philosophy

Department of Philosophy: Graduate Program: Dissertations in Progress


Dissertations in Progress

  Briggs, Cory J.
  Dissertation   "Rethinking Judicial Activism: Originalism Meets Inclusive Legal Positivism" (Advisor: Judith Lichtenberg)
 
  Chan, Benedict
  Dissertation   "An East and West Debate on Human Rights" (Advisor: Christopher Morris)
 
  Ebbers, Melissa
  Dissertation   "Epistemic Two-Dimensional Semantics and the Relationship Between Conceivability and Possibility" (Advisor: Paul Pietroski)
 
  Erickson, Kent
  Dissertation   "On Metalinguistic-Semantic Competence and Utterance Interpretation"(Advisor: Paul Pietroski)
 
  Fanselow, Ryan
  Dissertation   "Moral Intuitions and the Methodology and Epistemology of Ethics" (Advisor: Samuel Kerstein)
 
  Gibson, Joel
  Dissertation   "Freud, Modularity, and the Principle of Charity" (Advisor: Georges Rey)
 
  Izumi, Yu
  Dissertation   "An Essay on the Semantics of Proper Names and the Structure of Semantics" (Advisor: Paul Pietroski)
 
  Kirilov, Dimiter
  Dissertation   "Theories of Content and Early Vision" (Advisor: Georges Rey)
 
 
  McElhoes, David
  Dissertation   "The Metaphysics of Multi-Level Explanation" (Advisor: Mathias Frisch)
 
  Millsap, Ryan
  Dissertation   "Reasons and Means-End Transmission" (Advisor: John Horty)
 
  Picciuto, Elizabeth
  Dissertation   "Emotions and Puzzles of Fictions" (Advisor: Jerrold Levinson)
 
  Picciuto, Vincent
  Dissertation   "Self-Representational Theories of Consciousness" (Advisor: Peter Carruthers)
 
  Pyne, Christopher
  Dissertation   "The Limits of Mental Imagery" (Advisor: Peter Carruthers)
 
  Runnels, Jennifer Renee
  Dissertation   "Overly-Great Expectations: Why Philosophical Anarchism is Unwarranted and How the Essence of Consent can be Salvaged" (Advisor: Christopher Morris)
 
  Russo, Michael Phillip
  Dissertation   "Aristotle on Action and Character" (Advisor: Rachel Singpurwalla)
 
  Saunders, Leland
  Dissertation   "The (Dis)Unity of Moral Judgment: Distinguishing Intuitive and Deliberative Moral Judgment as Distinct Kinds" (Advisors: Susan Dwyer)
 
  Stevens, Christopher
  Dissertation   "Aesthetic Values and Enviromental Ethics: An Enviromental Human Rights Approach to the Issue of Sustainable Development" (Advisor: Jerrold Levinson)
 
  Woo, Sungwon
  Dissertation   "Virtues of Theories and Progress" (Advisor: Michael Morreau)