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Department of Philosophy
Senior Thesis
The senior thesis in Philosophy is an opportunity for senior majors to pursue a substantive independent research project in their own philosophical area of interest.
- 2014
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2013
"Focusing on 'What is Happening Right Now': Understanding Michel Foucault’s Writings On the Iranian Revolution Through Hannah Arendt’s Theory of Action" Soroush, Nazanin
"What is the Virtue of a Philosopher?: Plato, Nietzsche, and the Love of Wisdom" Duncan, Robin
"Platonic Metaphysics and Derridian Poststructuralism: Knowledge, Meaning, and Truth" Garfing, Daniel
"Transforming Education through Meditative Dialogue: The Literacy of Crossing Worlds" Kunen, Jason
"The Success of Skillfully Knowing" Padilla, Miguel A.
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2012
"Purity of Methods" Thorstad, David A.
"Uniting Love and Obligation: Becoming an Expert at Life" Ellman, Isaac
"Seeing Anew Through Art" Singer, Julie
"The Relational Self in Heidegger, Zhuangzi, and Derrida" Siqueiros, Benjamin
"On Meaning in Interlinguistic Translation" Naydich, Leza
"The Path Not Taken: Self-Restriction in Nietzsche, Freud, and Plato" Lowenthal, Matthew H.
"In Nature and In God: Spinoza and Blessedness" Islo, Erin
"Accessing Women through Masculine Discourse: Luce Irigaray’s Embodied Syntax" Lieberman, Alyson
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2011
"The Educational Requirements For A Good Life: Why Growing Just Modern Liberal Democracies Requires Appropriately Educating Citizens" Zoghlin, Jacob
"Interpreting Quantum Mechanics: The Subjective Object or the Objective Subject?" Breckinridge, Robert
"Living, Destroying, Creating: The Overcoming of Resentment in Nietzsche and Socrates" Chesterton, Eric
"Three Types of Scientific Revolution: A Kuhnian Analysis of Evolutionary Biology" Block, Peter
"Seeking Gender Justice in the Home" Morais, Cristina C.
"The Problem of Philosophy" Koch, Elliott
"Civic Participation, Ideal Education, and Well-being" Jiang, LinKai
- 2010