This collection contains theses and dissertations from the Department of Philosophy, collected from the Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

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Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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The Phenomenology and Intentionality of Normative-Evaluative Experience, Shawn K. Bartlett

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Causal Variable Choice, Interventions, and Pragmatism, Zili Dong

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What Do We Owe The Other Animals In Health-Related Research?, Jessica A. du Toit

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Using Formal Epistemology to Model Epistemic Injustice Against Neurodivergent People, Mackenzie Marcotte

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Conceptual Engineering & Contextualism, Madhavi Mohan

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Human Extinction in the Pessimist Tradition, Ignacio L. Moya

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The Exclusion of Religious Reasons, Jaclyn Rekis

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Kant's Concept of Freedom in the Metaphysics Lectures, Alin Paul Varciu

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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Effective Field Theories: A Philosophical Appraisal, Dimitrios Athanasiou

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Essays on Privilege and its Implications for Relational Autonomy and Vaccine Hesitancy, Nicole Fice

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A Critical Examination of Informed Consent Approaches in Pragmatic Cluster-Randomized Trials, Cory E. Goldstein

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Craft and Virtue in Plato's Early Dialogues, Cecilia Z. Li

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On Powerful Qualities, Dean J. Morales

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Dissolving Nature/Nurture: Development as Coupled Interaction, Derek E. Oswick

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Imagination as Thought in Aristotle's De Anima, Matthew Small

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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Thomas Reid on Language and Mind, Alastair L.V. Crosby

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Back to the Beginning: An Empiricist Defense of Scientific Stories About the Past, Craig William Fox

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Autonomy, Paternalism, and the Moral Foundations of the Fiduciary Relationship, Austin Horn

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Vindicating Evans: A Defence Of Evans' Theory Of Singular Thought, Dylan A. Hurry

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Theories: Reconsidering Ramsey in the Philosophy of Science, John D. Lehmann

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The Moral and Political Status of Microaggressions, Heather Stewart

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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Aristotle's Account of Time: A Moderate Realism, Pierre-Luc Boudreault

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On Polysemy: A Philosophical, Psycholinguistic, and Computational Study, Jiangtian Li

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Apology and Reconciliation in Settler States, Nicholas B. Murphy

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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On Separating the Wheat from the Chaff: Surplus Structure and Artifacts in Scientific Theories, Marie Gueguen

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Theory construction in high-energy particle physics, Adam Koberinski

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Understanding Interdisciplinary Corroboration: Lessons from a Review Paper in the Mind-Brain Sciences, Jaclyn Lanthier

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Derogatory Words and Speech Acts: An Illocutionary Force Indicator Theory of Slurs, Chang Liu

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Rethinking Individuality in Quantum Mechanics, Nathan Moore

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Methodological Challenges for Empirical Approaches to Ethics, Christopher Shirreff

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In Search of Psychiatric Kinds: Natural Kinds and Natural Classification in Psychiatry, Nicholas Slothouber

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A Groundwork for A Logic of Objects, David Winters

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Modes of Argumentation in Aristotle's Natural Science, Adam W. Woodcox

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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A Duty to Adopt? On the Ethics and Politics of Adoption, Veromi Arsiradam

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A Practical and Practice-Sensitive Account of Science as Problem-Solving, Frédéric-Ismaël Banville

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Empirical Evidence and the Multiple Realization of Mental Kinds, Danny Booth

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Kant and Tetens on Transcendental Philosophy, Richard D. Creek

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Computing, Modelling, and Scientific Practice: Foundational Analyses and Limitations, Filippos A. Papagiannopoulos

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A Pluralism Worth Having: Feyerabend's Well-Ordered Science, Jamie Shaw

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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A Complete Special Goods Theory of Filial Obligations, Cameron Fenton

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The Goal of Habituation in Aristotle: A Neo-Mechanical Account, Dioné Harley

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Foreknowledge, Free Will, and the Divine Power Distinction in Thomas Bradwardine's De futuris contingentibus, Sarah Hogarth Rossiter

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A New Framework for Enactivism: Understanding the enactive body through structural flexibility and Merleau-Ponty’s ontology of flesh, John Jenkinson

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The Foundations of Revealed Religion 100 Years before David Hume: The Contribution of Anthony Collins, Nicholas Bryant Nash

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Virtue Ethics for Relational Beings, Mathieu Roy

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Fiduciary Duties and Commercial Surrogacy, Emma A. Ryman

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Evidence in Neuroimaging: Towards a Philosophy of Data Analysis, Jessey Wright

Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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On the Role of Mathematics in Scientific Representation, Saad Anis

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Species Pluralism: Conceptual, Ontological, and Practical Dimensions, Justin Bzovy

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Tesitmony as Significance Negotiation, Jennifer F. Epp

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The Moral Status and Welfare of Patients Diagnosed as Vegetative With Covert Awareness, Mackenzie S. Graham

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Similarity, Adequacy, and Purpose: Understanding the Success of Scientific Models, Melissa Jacquart

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Varieties of Objectivity: What's Worth Keeping?, Lori Kantymir

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Evaluating the Quantum Postulate in the Context of Pursuit, Molly M. Kao

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A Pure Representationalist Account of Belief and Desire, Stephen Pearce

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The Constellations of Empiricism, New Science, and Mind in Hobbes, Locke, and Hume, Lisa Pelot

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Assessing Decision-Making Capacity After Severe Brain Injury, Andrew Peterson

Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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Probabilistic Reasoning in Cosmology, Yann Benétreau-Dupin

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Civil Interests, The Social Contract, and The Conditions of Political Legitimacy, Michael S. Borgida

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Gamete Provision and Moral Responsibility, Reuven A. Brandt

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Rethinking Empathy: Value and Context in Motivation and Adaptation, O'Neal Buchanan

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Representationalism About Sensory Phenomenology, Matthew Ivanowich

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Contesting Gender Concepts, Language and Norms: Three Critical Articles on Ethical and Political Aspects of Gender Non-conformity, Stephanie Julia Kapusta

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A Biopsychological Foundation for Linguistics, Jonathan J. Life

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On Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics, Joshua M. Luczak

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The Debate about Time: Examining the Evidence from our Ordinary Experience of Time, Melissa MacAulay

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On Philosophical Intuitions, Nicholas D. McGinnis

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Weaving the Statesman: the Unity of Plato's Politicus, Ryan Middleton

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Trusting to a Fault: Criminal Negligence and Faith Healing Deaths, Ken Nickel

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The Modern Secularization of Just War Theory and its Lessons for Contemporary Thought, Aviva Shiller

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Aggregating Evidence in Climate Science: Consilience, Robustness and the Wisdom of Multiple Models, Martin A. Vezér

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Moral Sense Theory and the Development of Kant's Ethics, Michael H. Walschots

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Philipp Frank: Philosophy of Science, Pragmatism, and Social Engagement, Amy N. Wuest

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Phenomenal Intentionality and the Problem of Cognitive Contact, Christopher A. Young

Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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Language, Mind, and Cognitive Science: Remarks on Theories of the Language-Cognition Relationships in Human Minds, Guillaume Beaulac

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Love and Ethics in the Works of J. M. E. McTaggart, Trevor J. Bieber

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A Feminist Defense of Moderate Moral Intuitionism, Bill JC Cameron

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Hypothetical Necessity and the Laws of Nature: John Locke on God's Legislative Power, Elliot Rossiter

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William James' Theory of Emotion, James Southworth

Theses/Dissertations from 2013

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A Defence of Anti-Psychologism About Reasons, Alex Beldan

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Aristotle on the Good of Friendship: Why the Beneficiary is Not What Matters, Kristina L. Biniek

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An Ethical Justification for Research with Children, Ariella Binik

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Method and Metaphor in Aristotle's Science of Nature, Sean Michael Pead Coughlin

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On the Physical Explanation for Quantum Computational Speedup, Michael Cuffaro

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The Methodological Roles of Tolerance and Conventionalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics: Reconsidering Carnap's Logic of Science, Emerson P. Doyle

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Well-Being, Authority, and Worth, Michel Hebert

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Structures in Real Theory Application: A Study in Feasible Epistemology, Robert H. C. Moir

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Husserl's Transcendental Idealism and the Problem of Solipsism, Rodney Parker

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Fertility Preservation Technologies for Women: A Feminist Ethical Analysis, Angel Petropanagos

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Some disputed aspects of inertia, with particular reference to the equivalence principle, Ryan S. Samaroo

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The Resilience of a Refined Higher-Order Thought Theory of Consciousness, Lee-Anna T. Sangster

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Justice, Rights, and Capabilities, Jeffrey E. Spring

Theses/Dissertations from 2012

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Does Empirical Moral Psychology Rest on a Mistake? Understanding Theories About the Nature of Moral Judgment as Moral Propositions, Patrick Clipsham

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The Reasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences, Nicolas Fillion

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Hannah Arendt and Feminist Agency, Katherine N. Fulfer

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From Mirror to Mirage: The Idea of Logical Space in Kant, Wittgenstein, and van Fraassen, Lucien R. Lamoureux

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Creating and Raising Humans: Essays on the Morality of Procreation and Parenting, Jason T. Marsh

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Anti-Foundational Categorical Structuralism, Darren McDonald

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Explanation in Science, James A. Overton

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Ordinary Empirical Judgments and our Scientific Knowledge: An Extension of Reformed Empiricism to the Philosophy of Science, Nicholas M. Ray