Honors Thesis in Philosophy

A Philosophy major who meets certain GPA requirements may—and should!—decide to write an Honors Thesis in the senior year. Normally the student selects an advisor and enrolls for Honors Thesis credits with that professor in the fall and spring of the senior year. For more information, contact any Philosophy faculty member.

Bound copies of a number of recent theses may be browsed in the Department's seminar room, 104A Heger Hall. Here are some of the recent titles:

2011: Richard Tonetta, Moral Responsibility: An Analysis and a Defense (advisor: Ira Singer)

2010: Michael Manfredi, Umpire Hart vs. Umpire Dworkin: Legal Theory and Sports Officiating (advisor: Amy Baehr)

2009: Anthony Durwin, Cognitive and Evolutionary Epistemology: An Approach to Philosophy (advisors: Christopher Eliot and Mark McEvoy)

2009: Christopher Valencia, Hume: How Wisdom and Miracles Clash (advisor: Ira Singer)

2009: Brandon Walus, Authority at Dusk: Revealing the Shadows (advisor: Amy Karofsky)

2008: Heather Mercadante, Modern Skepticism: An Evaluation of Post-Cartesian Responses (advisor: Mark McEvoy) 

2008: James Meissler, Fides et Scientia: Aquinas' Religious Epistemology (advisor: Amy Karofsky)

2005: Kenneth Levin-Epstein, Vagueness (advisor: Anthony Dardis)

2005: Adam Pekor, An Alternate Interpretation of Leibniz: An Analysis of the Role of Causation in His Philosophy (advisor: Amy Karofsky)

2005: Tom Bishop, Contradiction in Libertarianism: Why Libertarian Rights Can Never Be Protected for All (advisor: Amy Baehr)

2004: Micah Liebert, Justifications for the Ascription of Agency in Kantian Philosophy (advisor: Terry Godlove)

2003: Elefteria Gomes, Hume's Social Naturalism: An Examination and a Defense (advisor: Ira Singer)

2003: Ioanna Vasiliu, Masks and Shifting Alliances: Deciphering Hume's Dialogues (advisor: Ira Singer)

2003: Bryan Vetell, The Irreducibility of Subjective Phenomena: Mary, Bats and Ideas of Sailboats (advisor: Anthony Dardis)

2002: Tim Coombs, The Anti-mimetic Landscape (advisor: Anne O'Byrne)

2002: Russell Wiener, The Origin of Spontaneity in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (advisor: Terry Godlove)

2000: Anthony Verouhis, The Constructed Individual (advisor: Anne O'Byrne)

1999: Joseph Russo, The Rationality of Theism: A Response to the Verifiability Principle (advisor: Ira Singer)

1998: Angela DiBiasi, The Right to Appropriate: Can Social Justice Coexist With Private Property? (advisor: Ira Singer)

1997: Matthew Tedesco, Suspense of Judgment in Hume's Philosophy of Religion (advisors: Terry Godlove and Ira Singer)

1997: Tamara Buziashvili, Determinism, Freedom and Morality in Spinoza's Ethics (advisor: Terry Godlove)

1995: Dave Gerardi, Kant's Theory of the Self (advisor: Terry Godlove)

1990: Nikki M. Constantine, The Problem of Self in Hindu Thought, Buddhist Thought, and in the Philosophy of David Hume