UWM MASTERS & DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS
PHILOSOPHY
B 9999
"Philosophy" is the general category name for theses and dissertations done at UWM from this department. The base call number for all titles in this list is B 9999. This list is current as of 14 March 2008. More current titles may be searched in PantherCat, the library catalog, by a known author or title, or the base call number. The list is in call number order, which approximates an alphabetical list by author's last name. Doctoral dissertations are indicated by a (Ph.D.) at the end; all others are master's theses unless otherwise specified.
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B 9999 .A231 Ademi, Guri. Michael Oakeshott on the state and law. 1991. (Senior Honors)
B 9999 .A3767 1999 Alexander, Joshua J. Inductive-statistical and deductive-nomological models of probabilistic explanation and the problem of explaining particular explananda. 1999.
B 9999 .A4298 2003 Allen, Steven Joseph. Defense of the orthodox view that existence is not a predicate. 2003.
B 9999 .A4738 2001 Alvarez, Bertha. Theistic defense of natural evils. 2001.
B 9999 .A553 Andrade, Dean R. Jonathan Edwards' sense of the heart. 1988. (Senior Honors)
B 9999 .B1973 2004 Baltazar, Vincent. Objecting to objectifying desires. 2004.
B 9999 .B1996 2005 Bamiatzoglou, Xhenophon. Signs and generality : an examination of the Berkeleyan alternative to abstract ideas. 2005.
B 9999 .B2235 2007 Barack, David L. Systematicity and mental content. 2007.
B 9999 .B2813 1999 Barry, Peter Brian. Themes in Kantian moral psychology: humanity, needs, and autonomy. 1999.
B 9999 .B5714 2005 Bevers, Brett M. Saving the in-itself world: some responses to Putnam's internal realism. 2005.
B 9999 .B694 Bolte, Angela K. Family, empathy and "Justice as fairness": an examination of Rawls and Okin. 1995.
B 9999 .B831 2007 Bredeson, Garrett Zantow. G.E. Moore on common sense and analysis. 2007.
B 9999 .B893 Brummel, Nathan. Jonathan Edwards' incompatibility argument. 1994.
B 9999 .C332 Cary, Kathleen Kay. George Berkeley's theory of motion: a case for scientific anti-realism. 1988.
B 9999 .C498 Chaurasia, Bina. Implementing Rawlsian justice: a consideration of three economic systems. 1990.
B 9999 .C554 Christensen, Mark S. Argument against agnosticism. 1988.
B 9999 .C6354 2006 Cleavland, Luke S. Nature of mental existence in Anselm's ontological argument. 2006.
B 9999 .C6824 2000 Cokelet, Bradford Roy. Weakness of will: towards a reformed belief/desire account. 2000.
B 9999 .C771 1996 Cook, Adam Hamilton. Deflationist views on truth. 1996.
B 9999 .C9578 2000 Cruz, Rosibel. Understanding Kant's prohibition of revolution, his support of the French Revolution,and our right to revolt. 2000.
B 9999 .D1583 2005 Damian, Russell. Nature of second nature. 2005.
B 9999 .D229 Das, Ramon A. Connectionist vs. "classical" cognitive architecture: the debate between Fodor, Pylyshyn, and Smolensky. 1994.
B 9999 .D2783 2006 De, Saswata. Justifying morality: an essay on the rationality of moral actions. 2006.
B 9999 .D431 DeRemer, Grant A. Two distractions in the philosophy of mind. 1993.
B 9999 .D6215 1999 Dixon, Steven R. Reference, interpretation and charity. 1999.
B 9999 .D743 Dove, Ian J. Intuition and the foundations of Euclidean geometry. 1994.
B 9999 .E138 2002 Easton, Natalie J. Colors, values and the possibility of analogy. 2002.
B 9999 .F1979 2006 Falzetti, Ashley M. Performativity and social kinds: race, gender, and the pursuit of justice. 2006.
B 9999 .F4145 2007 Fessenbecker, Patrick F. G.E. Moore and E.M. Forster. 2007.
B 9999 .F879 1997 Freno, Michael J. Reference and identifying conceptions. 1997.
B 9999 .F9116 2002 Friend, Nathan. Analysis of Kierkegaard's notion of personhood. 2002.
B 9999 .F926 Froese, Paul Sloalie. Numinous experience. 1992.
B 9999 .G131 Gaffney, Michael K. Benjamin Libet and retroactive referral. 1993.
B 9999 .G293 1997 Gebhardt, Matthew Gene. Schweickart's economic democracy and its critics. 1997.
B 9999 .G313 Geiser, Andrew H. Dennett and Churchland: two opposite views on "filling in". 1995.
B 9999 .G3713 2002 Gerlach, Erich S. Un-blocking our access to the contents of perceptual experience. 2002.
B 9999 .G384 Gertz, William H. Same old question of biology and behavior. 1994.
B 9999 .G438 1996 Gibbens, Sabra Lynn. Inaccurate definite descriptions and the definition of truth for a natural language. 1996.
B 9999 .G6533 2004 Goodman, Seth J. Defense of Gilbert Harman's moral relativism. 2004.
B 9999 .G6924 2006 Gough, Jason. Fold in the other night: Foucault on desubjective technologies of the self. 2006.
B 9999 .H218 Hamilton, Andrew J. Rawls and Habermas: responses to relativism. 1994.
B 9999 .H2433 2004 Hanna, Matthew R. Analysis of Kant's treatment of suicide. 2004.
B 9999 .H2513 2001 Hanson, Richard J. Chardin's cycle. 2001.
B 9999 .H282 Harkins, Colleen Graham. Can the Rousseauean society include women. 1995.
B 9999 .H2964 2001 Harrell, James. Truth in projectivism. 2001.
B 9999 .H4134 2005 Hay, Ryan J. General laws and causal relations: scientific explanation. 2005.
B 9999 .H418 1996 Hayes, Patty. Disablity and the idea of equality. 1996.
B 9999 .H4522 2000 Hedahl, Marc O. Hybrid theories of justice: a new foundation based on T. M. Scanlon's ethics of reasonable rejection. 2000.
B 9999 .H4744 2000 Held, Jacob M. John Rawls, justice as fairness and the failure of property-owning democracy. 2000.
B 9999 .H5285 1999 Henwood, Benjamin F. Ducks, rabbits, and dubbits: a Wittgensteinian study of seeing. 1999.
B 9999 .H5643 2005 Herr, Mark Zimmerman. Three arguments for nonconceptual content. 2005.
B 9999 .H5725 2007 Hershey, Joshua N.
Can humean supervenience be reconciled with the principal principle? 2007.
B 9999 .H887 Huenemann, Charles. Study of two kinds of realism in regard to modal properties. 1989.
B 9999 .J35 Janssen, Gregory D. Meaning holism and the primacy of belief: a defense of Davidson and radical interpretation. 1994.
B 9999 .J546 2004 Jeon, Haewon. Defense of Marx's scientific socialism. 2004.
B 9999 .J628 2007 Jobes, Jason D. J.G.H. Feder's simultaneity objection to Kant's claim to the apriority of space. 2007.
B 9999 .K254 2004 Keating, Sean P. Real selves or bust? 2004.
B 9999 .K413 2005 Kerr, Alison Duncan. Beyond the meaning of 'meaning': rigidity and semantic externalism. 2005.
B 9999 .K55 1997 Kiniry, Brian P. Two views on the doctrine of world-bound individuals in de re modal theory. 1997.
B 9999 .K673 2003 Knachel, Matthew E. Substitutional quantification: an appraisal. 2003.
B 9999 .L1694 2005 Lafrenz, Mark T. On the nature of value properties and judgments at the intersection of aesthetics and ethics. 2005.
B 9999 .L2134 1999 Lam, Thi Quang. Assuring the fair value of the political liberties: the need for an ethos justice. 1999.
B 9999 .L6934 2000 Liang, Fan. Personal ethics of sustainable development: an application of Kant's notion of the categorical imperative. 2000.
B 9999 .M1834 2002 Madry, Alan R. Global theories, local theories, theories of adjudication and Ronald Dworkin's law as integrity. 2002.
B 9999 .M2148 2003 Mahlik, Michelle. Critical analysis of John Hick's pluralist hypothesis. 2003.
B 9999 .M2838 2001 Manninen, Tuomas W. Philosophy as therapy: an elucidation of Wittgenstein's philosophical method. 2001.
B 9999 .M4276 2005 Matheson, Jonathan D. Belief and responsibility. 2005.
B 9999 .M4455 1998 Matula, Heather Katrina. Paradox of emotion and fiction: it's only in your imagination? 1998.
B 9999 .M4684 2005 Mayer, Heatherlyn. What does the scientist see?: does it matter? 2005.
B 9999 .M648 1996 Miller, Jon Arnold. Interpreting Spinoza's concept of necessity. 1996.
B 9999 .M6855 2006 Mitterko, Matthew S. Can accounts of naturalistic virtue ethics survive? 2006.
B 9999 .M734 Monafo, Gerasim L. Cognitive and veridical status of mystical phenomena. 1979.
B 9999 .M744 Moninger, Steve F. In defense of Rawls: replies to criticisms of A theory of justice. 1984.
B 9999 .M875 2007 Morris, Courtney. Kant's idea of pure morality and Hegel's critique. 2007.
B 9999 .M9474 2006 Mueller, Scott A. Demands of incompatibilism upon libertarian theories of free will. 2006.
B 9999 .N945 Novy, Ronald A. Mind under matter: Taylorism, class and the uses of AI, by Ronald A. Novy II. 1993.
B 9999 .O45 Olenchek, Jennifer Lynn. Compulsory motherhood: psychoanalytic feminist explanations of mothering as a developed female gender identity role. 1995.
B 9999 .O766 2003 Orson, Rebecca. Study of Nietzsche's gay science. 2003
B 9999 .O89 Otteson, James Roger. Contemporary significance of Locke's arguments for the existence of natural law, by James Roger Otteson II. 1992.
B 9999 .P1233 2001 Padgett, S. Kate. Moral development and the duty of self-perfection. 2001.
B 9999 .P1547 2006 Palatnik, Nataliya. Ideas of the kingdom of ends and the highest good in Kant's moral theory. 2006.
B 9999 .P236 1996