University of Maryland Department of Philosophy

Department of Philosophy: Graduate Program: Dissertations in Progress


Dissertations in Progress

  Baltzly, Vaughn Bryan
  Dissertation   "Epistemic Modesty and State Neutrality"" (Advisor: William Galston)
 
  Bernard, Christopher W.
  Dissertation   "Viewing Evil: A Perspectival Approach to the Argument from Evil" (Advisor: Allen Stairs)
 
  Briggs, Cory J.
  Dissertation   "Rethinking Judicial Activism: Originalism Meets Inclusive Legal Positivism" (Advisor: Judith Lichtenberg)
 
  Cifone, Michael C.
  Dissertation   "Realism Without Stuff: Spacetime and Quantum Theory from a non-Dynamical, Geometrical Perspective" (Advisor: Jeffrey Bub)
 
  Deise, Erich Christopher
  Dissertation   "Affect and Fodor's Challenge: The Metaheuristic Anchoring of Cognition" (Advisor: Christopher Cherniak)
 
  Gibson, Joel
  Dissertation   "Freud, Modularity, and the Principle of Charity" (Advisor: Georges Rey)
 
  Hick, Darren H.
  Dissertation   "The Metaphysics and Ethics of Copyright" (Advisor: Jerrold Levinson)
 
  Kallfelz, William M.
  Dissertation   "Clifford Algebra: A Case for Geometric and Ontological Simplification" (Advisors: Jeffrey Bub & Michael Silberstein)
 
  King, Matthew David
  Dissertation   "Authoring Events: An Attributive Theory of Responsibility" (Advisor: Mark Schroeder)
 
  Parsia, Bijan
  Dissertation   "Topic Sensitive Belief Revision" (Advisor: John Horty)
 
  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: Lars Svenonius)
 
  Schechter, Elizabeth
  Dissertation   "How Many Minds?" (Advisor: Peter Carruthers)
 
  Tiedke, Heidi Erika
  Dissertation   "It's Just Semantics: Proper Names and Their Role in Fiction" (Advisor: Paul Pietroski)
 
  Van Camp, Wesley William
  Dissertation   "Investigating the Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Mechanics through Quantum Information Theory" (Advisor: Jeffrey Bub)
 
  Veillet, Benedicte
  Dissertation   "Towards a Stronger Representation: Phenomenal Consciousness and Phenomenal Content" (Advisor: Peter Carruthers)