Dissertations Defended Between 1969 and 2017
2017
Djintcharadzé, Anna
L’a priori de la connaissance au sein du statut logique et ontologique de l’argument de Dieu de
Saint Anselme: La reception médiévale de l’argument (XIIIe-XIVe siècles)
Stephen Brown
Ellis, David
Providence and Pedagogy in Plotinus
Gary Gurtler, S.J.
Marren, Marina
A Philosophical Study of Tyranny in Plato, Sophocles, and Aristophanes
John Sallis
2016
Floyd, Gregory P.
From Consciousness to Life: Phenomenology and the Religious Phenomenon in Husserl,
Heidegger, and Kierkegaard
Jeffrey Bloechl
Rothman, Hayyim
Reason’s Rebellion, or Anarchism out of the Sources of Spinozism
Jean-Luc Solère
Cain, Steven Robert
The Standing of the Soul: The Search for a Middle Being Between God and Matter in the De Statu Animae of Claudianus Mamertus
Stephen Brown
Ingiyimbere, Fidèle, S.J.
Domesticating Human Rights: A Reappraisal of their Cultural-Political Critiques and their Imperialistic Use
David Rasmussen
Oldfield, James Peter
On Guilt and Recognition
Jeffrey Bloechl
Taylor, James
The Ethics of Subjectivity: Activity and Passivity Through Phenomenology, Hermeneutics and Askesis
Richard Kearney
2015
Haggarty, Joseph M.
The Principle of Individuation According to St. Thomas Aquinas: An Interpretation In Embryo
Eileen Sweeney
Ramos, Santiago
What’s Beautiful Is Difficult: Beauty and Eros in Plato’s Hippias Major
Marina McCoy
Maughan-Brown, Frances
The Authority of the Lily and the Bird in Kierkegaard’s Lily Discourses
Richard Kearney
Fenichel, Teresa
Uncanny Belonging Schelling, Freud and the Vertigo of Freedom
Vanessa Rumble
Moka-Mubelo, S.J., Willy
Reconciling Law and Morality in Human Rights Discourse Beyond the Habermasian Account of Human Rights
David Rasmussen
Larry, Sarit
Trigger-Narratives: A Perspective on Radical Political Transformations
Richard Kearney
2014
Bueya, S.J., Emmanuel
Stability in Africa: Indeterminacy and Credence
Rasmussen/Copeland/Rumble
Connors, Colin
The Early Modern Debate on the Problem of Matter's Divisibility: A Neo-Aristotelian Solution
Solère/Stan/Byrne
Gomez Perez, Gustavo
Gesture and Art in Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty
Sallis/Kearney
Smith, Michael Jaeger
Imagination, Authority, and Community in Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise
Solère/Tacelli/Shell/Stev Lecturer
Clarke, Evan
Kant, Husseri, and Analyticity
Staiti/Stan/Robert Hanna (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Enslin, S.J., John V.
Kant on Human Dignity: A Conversation among Scholars
Tacelli/McCoy/Stan/Oliver Sensen
Britt, William G.
Seduction is Not Yet Betrayal: Trust and the Essence of Truth for Heidegger and Freud
Bloechl/Rumble/Capobianco (Stonehill)/Tony Steinbock (Illinios)
Hanly, Peter
Figuring the Between: An Essay on Heidegger and Novalis
Sallis/Rumble/Marcia Schuback (Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden)
Vanden Bout, Melissa
Thomas Aquinas and the Generation of the Embryo: Being Human Before the Rational Soul
Kreeft/Tacelli
2013
Thomas, Mark J.
Freedom and Ground: Schelling's Treatise on Human Freedom
Salllis/Rumble/Dennis Schmidt (Penn State)
Helenius, Timo
The Culture of Recognition: Another Reading of Paul Ricoeur's Work
Kearney/Blanchette/George H. Taylor (University of Pittsburgh)
Rabinoff, Sharon Eve
Perception in Aristotle's Ethics
McCoy/Madigan/Wians
Keiling, Tobias
Opened Grounds: Studies on Foundation and Truth in Phenomenology
Sallis/Figal/Bloechl
Varghese, Joshy P.
The Metaphysics of Diversity and Authenticity: A Comparative Reading of Taylor and Gandhi on Holistic Identity
Bloechl/Clooney/Kearney
Purcell, Elizabeth B.
Flourishing Bodies: Disability, Virtue, Happiness
Kearney/McCoy/Byrne
2012
Moss Brender, Noah
THE MEANING OF LIFE: A Merleau-Pontian Investigation of How Living Bodies Make Sense
Bloechl/David Morris (Concordia)/Byrne
Sentesy, Mark
Aristotle: Movement and the Structure of Being
Sallis/Roochnik/Wians
Lynch, Richard A.
The Art of Governing: The Critical Ethics of Michel Foucault
Bernauer/Rasmussen/Amy Allen (Dartmouth) P/T Instructor Dept. of Philosophy
Cioni, Joseph R.
A Breadkown in the Good of Order: An Analysis of the Subprime Mortgage Crisis Informed by Bernard Lonergan's Notion of the Human Good
Byrne/Richard Nielsen (CSOM)
Pérez-Carrasco, Andrés
Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Painting, GESTALT and Reversibility
Sallis/Bloechl
Romero, S.J., M. Ross
Without the Least Tremor: The Significance of the Sacrifice of Socrates in Plato's PHAEDO
Sallis/Gurtler/McCoy (Asst. Prof. Dept. of Philosophy)
Robinson, Matthew A.
The Early 13th Century Latin-Augustinian Reception of the Peripatetic Agent Intellect and the Historical Constitution of the Self
Solére/Sweeney/Brown/Timothy B. Noone (Catholic University)
Shmikler, Joshua A.
Confronting the Philosophers: Socrates and the Eleatic Stranger in Plato's SOPHIST
Sallis/McCoy/Gurtler
Veith, Jerome
Self and Tradition: Historical Understanding and Social Life in Gadamer
Sallis/Rumble/James Risser (Seattle University)/Figal
Witt, Jeffery C.
Between Faith and Science: Gregory of Rimini on Theological Knowledge in his 14th Century Context
Solére/Sweeney/Brown/Marrone (Tufts)
Svetelj, Tone
Rereading Modernity-Charles Taylor on its Genesis and Prospects
Madigan/Bloechl/Dominic Doyle (STM)
Ewegen, Shane M.
Playing with Words: Plato's CRATYLUS and the Comic Unfolding of Language
Sallis/McCoy/Robert Metcalf
Dissertations defended prior to 2012
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