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2008

• Richard Brown
  "The Semantics of Moral Communication"
  (Advisor: Prof. Stefan Baumrin)
• James Hitt
  "Emotion: Thought and Feeling"
  (Advisor: David Rosenthal)

2007

• Vera Albrecht
  "Between Being and Not-Being: Non-Existent Objects and the Intermediary in Plato, Frege, and Meinong"
  (Advisor: Richard Mendelsohn; S. Cahn, F. Kirkland, N. Pappas, P. Simpson)
• Bana Bashour
  "Personal Identity and Responsibility"
  (Advisor: John Greenwood; M. Levin, N. Pappas, R. Sorabji, C. Wilson)
• Victor Crome
  "Zeno's Paradoxes and the Passage of Time"
  (Advisor: Richard Mendelsohn; M. Fitting, A. Koslow, M. Levin, R. Parikh)
• Keota Fields
  "Berkeley's Immaterialism: An Interpretation and Critique"
  (Advisor: Steven Cahn; J. Greenwood, F. Kirkland, B. Montero, P. Simpson)
• Nada Gligorov
  "Eliminative Materialism and the Distinction between Common Sense and Science"
  (Advisor: David Rosenthal; J. Greenwood, B. Montero, A. Orenstein, G. Strawson)
• Alan Grose
  "Rawls, Democracy and the Problem of Stability"
  (Advisor: Frank Kirkland; S. Cahn, O. Dahbour, V. Held, P. Smith)
• Len Mitchell
  "World Poverty and Moral Obligations"
  (Advisor: Steven Cahn; W. J. Earle, B. Montero, S. Ross, P. Simpson)
• Frank Pupa
  "Ambiguous Articles: An Essay on the Theory of Descriptions"
  (Advisor: Michael Devitt; A. Berger, R. Fiengo [Linguistics], S. Neale, D. Rosenthal)
• Kenneth Shouler
  "Are There Moral Obligations to Oneself?"
  (Advisor: Stefan Baumrin; W. J. Earle, J. Greenwood, D. Lackey, R. Rhodes)
• James Snyder
  "Matter and Method in Marsilio Ficino's Platonic Theology"
  (Advisor: Catherine Wilson; G. Press, E. Michael, P. Simpson, R. Sorabji)
• Chris Steinsvold
  "Topological Models of Belief Logics"
  (Advisor: R. Parikh; R. Mendelsohn, M. Levin, Kit Fine (NYU), M. Fitting)
• Andrei Zavaliy
  "The Phenomenon of Amoralism: An Investigation of the Emotive and Cognitive Roots"
  (Advisor: Douglas Lackey; S. Cahn, S. Ross, P. Simpson, C. Wilson)

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2006

• Russell Marcus
  "Numbers Without Science"
  (Advisor: David Rosenthal; M. Devitt, Jody Azzouni (Tufts), E. Mendelson, A. Cordero)
• Douglas B. Meehan
  "The Qualitative Character of Spatial Perception"
  (Advisor: David Rosenthal; M. Davies, J. Adler, G. Strawson, B. Montero)
• Fritz McDonald
  "Truth and Moral Discourse"
  (Advisor: Paul Horwich; S. Ross, M. Devitt, V. Held, C. Wilson)
• Jeffrey Stephenson
  "Mischief As a Virtue"
  (Advisor: Michael Levin; N. Pappas, P. Simpson, T. Kasachkoff, J. Kleinig)
• Christine M. Vitrano
  "The Structure of Happiness"
  (Advisor: Steven Cahn; J. Greenwood, T. Kasachkoff, F. Purnell, E. Michael)
• Josh Weisberg
  "The Problem of Consciousness: Mental Appearance and Mental Reality"
  (Advisor: David Rosenthal; M. Devitt, D. Lackey, M. Levin, B. Montero)
• Julie Zilberberg
  "The Ethics of Sex Selection"
  (Advisor: Virginia Held; J. Kleinig, P. Smith, A. Donchin, S. Schwarzenbach)

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2005

• Leonidas Bouritsas
  "A Paradox of Freedom and the Old Rivalry Between Philosophy and Politics"
  (Advisor: Steven Cahn; N. Pappas, S. Schwarzenbach, F. Kirkland, V. Held)
• Carrie Figdor
  "Externalism and the Causal Efficacy of Content"
  (Advisor: Michael Devitt; J. Greenwood, D. Rosenthal, A. Cordero, M. Davies)
• Rick Repetti
  "The Metacausal Theory of Autonomy"
  (Advisor: Michael Levin; J. Greenwood, S. Grover, G. Strawson, H. Frankfurt (Princeton))
• William Seeley
  "The Neurophysiology of Aesthetic Experience: Three Case Studies"
  (Advisor: David Rosenthal)
• Dena Shottenkirk
  "The Effects of Nelson Goodman's Nominalism on His Aesthetics"
  (Advisor: Frederick Purnell; E. Michael, F. Kirkland, V. Held, S. Grover)
• Jami Weinstein
  "Returning to the Level of the Skin and Beyond: A Techno-Zoontology"
  (Advisor: Sibyl Schwarzenbach; C. Acampora, S. Aronowitz, P. Clough, J. Stambaugh)

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2004

• Maureen Eckert
  "In Pursuit of Piety: A Translation and Interpretation of Plato's Euthyphro"
  (Advisor: Steven Cahn; N. Pappas, F. Purnell, W. Earle, P. Smith)
• William Fisk
  "Strange Mutations, A Defense of Temporal Neutrality"
  (Advisor: Douglas Lackey; S. Baumrin, W. Earle, V. Held, R. Rhodes)
• Reese Heitner
  "From a Phono-Logical Point of View"
  (Advisor: Michael Levin; H. Cairns, (Linguistics, GC), P. Horwich, J. Adler, C. Verheggen)
• Yvonne Raley
  "On Ontology"
  (Advisor: Arnold Koslow; J. Adler, M. Devitt, J. Greenwood, C. Verheggen)
• Mehul Shah
  "Why Can't There Be A Logic of Discovery"
  (Advisor: John Greenwood; J. Adler, M. Levin; C. Landesman; A. Koslow)
• Mark Sheehan
  "The Metaphysics of Judgments of Obligation"
  (Advisor: Stefan Baumrin; S. Blackburn, J. Adler, R. Rhodes, D. Rosenthal)

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2003

• Joseph Biehl
  "Immoral Psychology: The Cognitivist's Conundrum"
  (Advisor: Stefan Baumrin; S. Cahn, S. Blackburn, P. Smith, J. Greenwood)
• Dien Ho
  "Theorizing the World: How Explanations Reveal Reality"
  (Advisor: Arnold Koslow; J. Adler, J. Kim, A. Collins, J. Greenwood)
• Mark McEvoy
  "Relying on Reason: A Reliabilist Account of A Priori Mathematical Knowledge"
  (Advisor: David Rosenthal; M. Devitt, M. Levin, A. Orenstein, P. Kitcher)
• Roblin Meeks
  "Identifying the First-Person"
  (Advisor: David Rosenthal; J. Adler, J. Greenwood, S. Grover, M. Levin)
• Michael Menser
  "On the Evolutionary Significance of Developmental Constraints"
  (Advisor: Frederick Purnell; J. Greenwood, M. Levin, J. Adler, K. Schwenk)
• Nachum Turetzky
  "Establishing Democratic Welfare Standards"
  (Advisor: Stefan Baumrin; D. Rosenthal, P. Simpson, P. Smith, R. Rhodes)
• Elly Vintiadis
  "Teaching Differences: An Explication and Defense of Wittgenstein's On Certainty"
  (Advisor: Michael Levin; P. Horwich, C. Landesman, S. Grover, C. Verheggen)

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