Recent MA & PhD Defenses

PhD in Philosophy

Merritt Rehn-Debraal, PhD

• Dissertation Title: Surviving History of Sexuality: A Feminist-Foucauldian Approach to Sexual Violence and Survival
• Dissertation Director: Dr. Andrew Cutrofello

Russell Newstadt, PhD

• Dissertation Title: "Omnis Determinatio Est Negatio: Negation, Difference and the Unity of the Concept"
• Dissertation Director: Dr. Andrew Cutrofello

Asaf Bar-Tura, PhD

• Dissertation Title: “Habermas and Public Reason in the Digital Age: Technology and Deliberative Democracy”
• Dissertation Director: Dr. David Ingram

Mark Bourgeois, PhD

• Dissertation Title: "The Function Debate in Philosophy of Biology: Proper Function as the Necessary Basis for Interpreting Systemic Organization."
• Dissertation Director: Dr. James Blachowicz

Matthew Butcher, PhD

• Dissertation Title: "The Character and Role of Volitional Evidence in an Evidentialist Argument for the Existence of God."
• Dissertation Director: Dr. Paul Moser

Aaron Crowe, PhD

• Dissertation Title: International Trade: A Justice Approach
• Dissertation Director: Dr. David Schweickart

Christina Drogalis, PhD

• Dissertation Title: "Revolutionary Change: How Kant's Religion Influences His Account of Human Moral Development."
• Dissertation Director: Dr. Victoria Wike

Kristina Grob, PhD

• Dissertation Title: Moral Philosophy and the Art of Silence
• Dissertation Director: Dr. Mark Waymack

Matthew Kelsey, PhD

• Dissertation Title: "The Mother of Chaos and Night: Kant's Metaphilosophical Attack on Indifferentism."
• Dissertation Director: Dr. Andrew Cutrofello

Bryan Kibbe, PhD

• Dissertation Title: "Mindful Mending: The Repair of Thought and Action Amidst Technologies."
• Dissertation Director: Dr. Diana Meyers

Maria Kulp, PhD

• Dissertation Title: "The Limits of Rationality: Suicidality, Affectivity, and the Rational."
• Dissertation Director: Dr. Jennifer Parks

Maggie Labinski, PhD

• Dissertation Title: Augustine and Feminisms: A Dialogue about Education
• Dissertation Director: Dr. Victoria Wike

Justin Marquis, PhD

• Dissertation Title: “Nietzsche's Theory of Cognition: An Interpretation and Defense of Perspectivism."
• Dissertation Director: Dr. Jacqueline Scott

Blaine Swen, PhD

• Dissertation Title: "The Logic of Divine-Human Reconciliation: A Critical Analysis of Penal Substitution as an Explanatory Feature of Atonement."
• Dissertation Director: Dr. Paul Moser

Gisele Velarde La Rosa, PhD

• Dissertation Title: "Prolegomena to Kant's Theory of the Derangement of the Cognitive Faculties."
• Dissertation Director: Dr. Andrew Cutrofello

Timothy Weidel, PhD

• Dissertation Title: “Beyond Utility, Rights, and Care: An Alternative Approach to Global Poverty.”
• Dissertation Director: Dr. David Schweickart

MA in Philosophy

• William Dawson, MA
• Christopher Gontar, MA
• Christopher Grodecki, MA
• Thomas Hansberger, MA
• Stephanie Hare, MA
• Mariam Kennedy, MA
• Curtis Leighton, MA
• Joseph Linn, MA
• Jake Nabasny, MA
• Timothy O'rien, MA
• Saythala Phonexayphova, MA
• Leila Shooshani, MA
• Joel Stenftenagel, MA
• Jeffrey Sullivan, MA
• Gregory Trotter, MA
• Thomas Hansberger, MA
• Ashley Karcher, MA
• Anthony Cooper, MA
• Jean Clifford, MA

MA in Social Philosophy

• Robert Blasser, MA
• James Morganelli, MA
• Keith Maczkiewicz, MA
• James Morganelli, MA
• Justin Mungal, MA
• Patrick Nolan, MA
• Perry Petrich, MA
• John Roselle, MA
• Adam Rosinksi, MA
• Travis Russell, MA
• Aidan Sprague-Rice, MA