This page contains all publications submitted to SURFACE written by students, faculty, and staff in the department.

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2024

Global Justice Through Poor People's Perspectives, Aatif Abbas

A RIGHT TO INDEPENDENCE: A KANTIAN ACCOUNT OF FREE EXPRESSION AND ITS LIMITS, Christopher Raleigh Bousquet

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Valent Experience: On Its Non-sensory Nature, Its Unity, and Its Place in Value Theory, Lorenza D'Angelo

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Three Studies on Chance in Post-Aristotelian Philosophy, Weiting Huang

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A New Hobbesian Constructivism, Stacy Lynn Kohls

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The Even Harder Cases: how conceptual art as a paradigm affirms the viability of a theory of art, William Galloway Osborne III

2023

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Space and Time in Kant's Inaugural Dissertation, Dante Dauksz

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Responsibility Internalism and Responsibility for AI, Huzeyfe Demirtas

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Bringing Hedonism Back: Toward a Felt-Quality Account of Well-Being, Nikki Fortier

2022

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Gender Norms and Gendered Traits, Rowan Bell

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On The Prudential Power of Beliefs and Fittingness of Attitudes, Teresa Bruno-Niño

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Powers and the Metaphysics of Fundamentality, Benjamin Cook

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Metaphysical Coherentism, Jan Swiderski

2021

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Exploring The Metaphysics Of Grief, Carolyn Garland

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Exploring the Metaphysics of Grief, Carolyn Garland

2020

Issues in the Metaphysics of Material Objects, Amir Arturo Javier Castellanos

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On the Plurality of Existences, Isaiah Lin

2019

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Heathcare's Responsibility to Care: The Call to Support Both Patients and Their Families Through Illness, Madeline Merwin

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The Nature of Being, Byron Simmons

2018

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All The Small Things: Contingent Mereological Nihilism, Naomi Dershowitz

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Seeing and Believing: Philosophical Issues in Theory of Mind Development, Joseph A. Hedger

2017

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What Counts as Desiring the Actual Good?, Sean Clancy

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Knowing Better, Reasoning Together, Nicole Dular

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Thomas Aquinas on the Metaphysical Nature of the Soul and its Union with the Body, Kendall Ann Fisher

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Spreading Structures, Li Kang

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A Metaphysician's User Guide: The Epistemology of Metaphysics, James Soo Lee

2016

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Incompatibilist Alternative Possibilities, Yishai Cohen

On What Consists in What, Stephen Steward

In Defense of Deprivationism, Travis Timmerman

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Seeing Right from Wrong: A Defense of A Posteriori Ethical Intuitionism, Preston John Werner

2015

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Perfection, History, and Harmonious Individuality: Herder's Ethical Thought, 1765-1791, Charles Richard Booher

The Sundial Tribe and the Labyrinth of Purpose, Mihnea D I Capraru

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Practical Identity and Meaninglessness, Kirsten Egerstrom

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Revision of United States Drug Law, Alexander Fernandez

Social Equality: On The Aim Of Distributive Justice, Jake Greenblum

A Defense of Formal Contractualism, Ryan Hubbard

Moral Worth and Supererogation, Amy Massoud

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Questions And Inquiry: Some Epistemological Applications, Jason Rourke

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Where the Reasons Come From, Aaron Wolf

2014

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Ground and Relative Fundamentality, Mark Graeme Barber

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Content Externalism and Privileged Access, Kevin Anthony Sadekoski

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Kant and the Neglected Alternative, Andrew F. Specht

2013

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Knowing How: An Empirical, Functionalist Approach, David Joseph Bzdak

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Towards a Revisionist Account of Moral Responsibility, Kelly Anne McCormick

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Feeling in Character: Towards an Ethics of Emotion, John Monteleone

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Centralizing Ambiguity: Simone de Beauvoir and a Twenty-First Century Ethics, Kristen Oganowski

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Putting the Ghost Back in the Machine: A Defense of Common Sense Dualism, Matthew Andrew Skene

2012

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Moral Luck, Patrick A. Beach

Kant, Derivative Influence, and the Metaphysics of Causality, Joel Nathan Brown

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An Essay on the Ontology of Reasons, Jeremy Anon Dickinson

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Meaningful Experiences: An Essay on Experiences of Understanding, Jordan Dodd

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Ideology, Truthmaking and Fundamentality, Anthony Robert James Fisher

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How Digital Media Affects the Nature of Social Interactions, Johnny Liang

On Pessimism: A Study in Normative Psychology, Paul Prescott

2011

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Grassroots Poverty and Grassroots Human Rights: Grounding Theory in Practice, Scott Collison

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Thomas Hobbes' Response to the Fool: Justice and Magnanimity, Andrew James Corsa

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In Defense of Existence Monism, Peter Finocchiaro

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Analyticity, Platonism, and A Priori Knowledge, Deke Cainas Gould

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The Flower of Human Perfection: Moses Mendelssohn's Defense of Rationalist Aesthetics, Aaron M. Koller

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A Realist Metaphysics of Race: A Context-Sensitive,Short-Term Retentionist, Long-Term Revisionist Approach, Jeremy Pierce

2010

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Speaker's meaning: An essay in the philosophy of language, Steffen Borge

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Evolutionary, developmental, and functional continuities between basic and higher-cognitive emotions: Implications for philosophical theories of emotion, Jason A. Clark

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An Argument for Moral Nihilism, Tommy Fung

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Fichte's theory of practical agency, Kien-How Goh

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Personal identity, reductionism and eliminativism, Kora Gould

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Efficient and selective multifunctional nanoporous and heterogeneous catalysts: Novel synthetic methods, characterizations and applications, Krishna Kant Sharma

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Exploring the Space of Resistance: Art as a Site of Re-Orientation, Lauren Emily Stansbury

2009

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Disarming Affirmative Action: Why the Concept as We Know It, Cannot Solve the Racial Issue, Daniel J. Cianchetta

2008

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Practicist epistemology and the social dimension, Christopher Lee Calvert-Minor

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The justifiability of punishment, Nathan Tamer Hanna

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Two-dimensionalism and semantic content, Brendan Murday

2007

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Danto’s Embodied Meanings: Artworks as Morphemes, Alexander Douglas Coon

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The meaningfulness of life, Laurence A. James

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Composition, vagueness, and persistence, Irem Kurtsal Steen

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Self-respect and family egalitarianism, Michael Thomas McFall

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The value of religious commitments in a pluralistic society, Michael McKeon

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Three-dimensionalism, Mark Scala

2006

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Addiction: Rationality and responsibility, Craig A. Hanson

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Context and anti-essentialism: A thoroughgoing approach, Jessica Wollam Logue

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The nature of assertion, Philip R. Pegan

2005

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Stuff, process, and object: An examination of substance and its alternatives, Mark Edward Steen

2004

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Caring for others: A theory of moral reasons, John David Draeger

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Conceptions and consequences of semantic underdetermination, Kari Anne Middleton

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Holding responsible without ultimate responsibility: Towards a communitarian defense of compatibilism, Seth Shabo

2003

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Moral magnetism: A study in relations of emotion, value and world, Daniel Patrick Haggerty

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Beyond comparison: Incomparability and the psychology of choice, Erik Wolfgang Schmidt

2002

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Eluding exclusion: Making room for the special sciences, Eric Matthew Funkhouser

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Speech act theories of meaning, Patricia Noga Psomas

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Reconsidering the Nazi data debate: The moral aspects of deciding whether the data should be used, Carol Viola Anne Quinn

2001

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An anti-realist account of aesthetic appreciation, Robert Stephen Fudge

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Mortal feelings: A theory of revulsion and the intimacy of agency, David Haekwon Kim

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Kant and virtue ethics, John Sheridan McAleer

2000

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Conceptual frameworks: Their uses and potential abuses, Bernard Jerold Angelo

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What are the virtues of virtue epistemology?, Heather Dawn Battaly

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A defense of the theory of appearing, Pierre Georges Le Morvan

1999

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Hume's account of causation, Sun Demirli

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Between substance and mode: The ontology of ideas among the Early Moderns, Marc A. Hight

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Deciding not to treat handicapped infants: When is life not worth living?, Barbara Anne Stock

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Understanding complex demonstratives: The ground of reference in sensory signals, Frederick P. Zammiello

1998

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Intention, teleology, and God, Bradley Gordon Beach