Columbia University Dissertations: Dissertations

Philosophy: Dissertations

2007 - 2006 - 2005 - 2004 - 2003 - 2002 - 2001 - 2000 - 1999 - 1998 - 1997 - 1996 - 1995 - 1994 - 1993

2007 DISSERTATIONS

Ahonen, Hanne (2007) Wittgenstein and the conditions of musical communication

Borghini, Andrea (2007) On the necessity and sufficiency of universals

Gudovitch, Rami (2007) A nominalist conception of the extent of the intentional

2006 DISSERTATIONS

Cloud, Daniel (2006) Schrödinger's crystal

Couch, Mark Bradley (2006) Functionalism in scientific practice

Crawford, Cair (2006) Sacred geography : the significance of place in the history of origins

Cresto, Eleonora (2006) Inferring to the best explanation : a decision theoric approach

Haufe, Chris (2006) Evolutionary psychology and the future of evolutionary history

Keren, Arnon (2006) Testimony, science and the social : obtaining knowledge from authorities

Krancberg, Beth (2006) Alternative conceptual schemes : cognitive differences and concept inaccessibility

Slater, Matthew (2006) The nature of kinds

Soucek, Brian (2006) The personification of art

Spohr, Paul (2006) Hegel's rationalist account of the moral will

Welty, Ivan P. (2006) Frege against Hilbert on the foundations of geometry

Wong, Sophia (2006) Rawlsian contractualism and cognitive disabilities

2005 DISSERTATIONS

Barry, Christian (2005) The contribution principle : its meaning and sign[i]ficance for allocating responsibility for addressing acute deprivation

Butler, Randall (2005) Causes in mind : causal exclusion's collapse and the powers of content

Ehrenberg, Kenneth (2005) A functional methodology for general jurisprudence

Felder, Sidney (2005) Causality and directive agency from the perspective of fundamental physical theory

Middleton, Nancy (2005) Conceptual content

Neufeld, Jonathan (2005) Listeners, critics, and judges : performance and deliberation in the musical public sphere/

Pilpel, Avital (2005) Suppositional reasoning in scientific explanations

Shainok, David (2005) Words as tools : an investigation into the normativity of meaning

Tsai, Hsing-chien (2005) The logic and metaphysics of part-whole relations

Williams, Neil (2005) The power to persist

Yudell, Zanja (2005) Scientific realism and inconsistency : a model-based approach

2004 DISSERTATIONS

Armstrong, Robert (2004) Normativity and individualism : an essay on Hume

Avital, Doron (2004) Meaning in motion : an inquiry into the logic of the Tractatus

Neumann, Vanessa (2004) The autonomy and legitimacy of states : a critical approach to foreign intervention

Ruphy, Stéphanie (2004) Philosophical implications of the unity/disunity of science debate

2003 DISSERTATIONS

Hajnal, Peter (2003) Seeing whole : old Lukàcs's philosophy of art-history

Hay, Sergia (2003) "An ethical stance despite the world" : silence in Søren Kierkegaard's second ethics

Ortiz-Millán, Gustavo (2003) The Belief-Desire Model and the nature of value judgments

2002 DISSERTATIONS

Bajakian, Mark (2002) How to count people

Hamady, Sarah (2002) Agency, authenticity and happiness

Keskin, Ferda (2002) Problematization and games of truth : Michel Foucault's analytics of the constitution of the subject in political modernity

Lubarr-Glasman (2002) The finest of dramas : knowledge and deception in Plato's aesthetics and Sophoclean tragedy

Maier, David (2002) Making space : pragmatism between skepticism and dogmatism

Ohlin, Jens (2002) Personal identity without persons

Rattan, Gurpreet (2002) Philosophical aspects of the theory of linguistic competence

Xu, Xiangdong (2002) Naturalism, normativity and practical reason

2001 DISSERTATIONS

Halvorson, Jonathan (2001) The contentious sciences : explanation, predition, and control in the social sciences

Mason, Caleb (2001) Conciliatory eclecticism and the philosophy of Kenelm Digby

Shapshay, Sandra (2001) Aesthetic and moral deliberation : a Kantian-Schopenhauerian approach to an understanding of the relations between art and morality

Shibaru, Kawkab (2001) Self-deception and the nature of mind

2000 DISSERTATIONS

Allen, Richard (2000) Reasoning about values

Hoos, Anneliese (2000) Self-preservation and love in Spinoza's Ethics

Ólafsson, Jón (2000) Conflict and method : an essay on Dewey

Smith, Justin (2000) Leibniz, microscopy, and the metaphysics of composite substance

1999 DISSERTATIONS

Adler, Yuval (1999) Identity and exception an essay in mataphysics

Day, William (1999) Philosophy and ʾThe Literary Questionʾ ; Wittgenstein, Emerson, and Strauss on the community of knowing

Gunther, York (1999) Nonconceptual content : a critique and defense

Kamooneh, Kaveh (1999) Hume's beliefs

Kim, Sejong (1999) On theories of probabilistic causation

Kosch, Michelle (1999) Choosing evil : Schelling, Kierkegaard and the legacy of Kant's conception of freedom

Nguyen, Augustine Minh Thong (1999) The rejection of first-person authority

Song, Sang-Hoon (1999) Supervenience, reduction, and mental causation : the dim prospects of nonreductive materialism

1998 DISSERTATIONS

Eades, Simon (1998) From the caloric theory of heat to Maxwell's theory of the electromagnetic field : how the history of physics mandates that realists re-think their argument from theoretical success

Gilmore, Jonathan (1998) The life of a style : beginnings and endings in the narrative history of art

Harmon, Louise (1998) THe appropriation of photographic images in works of art : legal and aesthetic issues inherent in the conflict between modernism and postmodernism

Heng, Hock-Jiuan (1998) The inward turn in Chinese painting

Hickey, Lance (1998) An interpretation and defense of social externalism

Mujica-Parodi, Lilianne (1998) Quantum nonlocality and preferred frames of reference : a return to a Lorentzian interpretation of the special theory of relativity

Nachtomy, Ohad (1998) A Leibnizian approach to possibility

Orend, Brian (1998) Kantian internationalism : war, law, peace and rights

1997 DISSERTATIONS

Arlo-Costa, Horacio Luis (1997) Belief change and suppositional reasoning : knowledge representation, defeasibility and conditionals

Kobylarz, Thaddeus (1997) A study of H.L.A. Hart's thought on the nature of language, definition and meaning in the law and its relevance for his jurisprudence

Rechter, Ofra (1997) Syntheticity, intuition and symbolic construction in Kant's philosophy of arithmetic

Renzi, Vincent Ralph (1997) Parts, elements, and the concept of mixture in Aristotle's 'De Generatione et Corruptione'

1996 DISSERTATIONS

Harrop, Cole Edmund (1996) The edification of scandal : hard sayings and text production in Rabelai's Tiers Livre

Haydar, Bashshar H. (1996) Consequentialism and the appeal to cost :

Tierney, Richard John (1996) Essence and explanation in Aristotle's philosophy of science and philosophy of nature

1995 DISSERTATIONS

Hahn, Susan (1995) Hegel and nonconceptual knowledge

1994 DISSERTATIONS

Koessel, Michael D. (1994) The shortcomings of a neutralist liberalism : locating liberal-communitarian reconciliation in a "deep" model of human agency

1993 DISSERTATIONS

Rogers, Kelly Elizabeth Rogers (1993) Altruism in Aristotle's ethics

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