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2013

• Melissa Ziankoski, “Improving Ethical Performance: Why We Credit Moral Motivation and Why We Shouldn’t”
  Advisor: Lawrence Torcello. Committee: Evelyn Brister, David Suits
  
  
• Nolan R. Harris, Jr., “(Un)Thinking (Un)Freedom: Totalization, Essentialism, and Race”
  Advisor: Brian Schroeder. Committee: Silvia Benso, Richard Newman (History)
  
  
• Lindsey Johnson, “A Poem After Auschwitz: Günter Grass, Committed Art, & Post-Holocaust Literature in the Frankfurt School”
  Advisor: Katie Terezakis. Committee: Silvia Benso, Tim Engström, Ulrike Stroszeck (Modern Languages and Cultures)

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2012

• Ashley Aberg, “Is That Right?: An Argument Toward Viewing Truth Within Art”
  Advisor: John T. Sanders. Committee: Tim Engström, John Capps
  
  
• Nadia Adams, “A Phenomenology of Photography”
  Advisor: Brian Schroeder. Committee: Katie Terezakis, Tim Engström
  
  
• Christopher Boone, “Structures of Agency: Epistemic and Ontic Structure in Agential Reality”
  Advisor: John T. Sanders. Committee: John Capps, Evelyn Brister
  
  
• Alex Brown, “Avoiding Legislative Bias in a Pluralistic Society”
  Advisor: Lawrence Torcello. Committee: John T. Sanders, David Suits
  
  
• James Brown, “A Meta-Ethical Analysis of H5N1 Discourse”
  Advisor: Evan Selinger. Committee: Lawrence Torcello, Sandra Connelly (Life Sciences)
  
  
• Dana Burkhart, “Demarcating Computer Science”
  Advisor: Evelyn Brister. Committee: David Suits, Zack Butler (Computer Science)
  
  
• Will Resch, “Our Duty to Each Other’s Considerations”
  Advisor: Lawrence Torcello. Committee: John T. Sanders, Silvia Benso
  
  
• Jathan Sadowski, “Experimental Analysis of the Gap Between Moral Beliefs and Moral Actions”
  Advisor: Evan Selinger. Committee: John T. Sanders, Joshua Knobe (Yale)
  
  
• Anthony Ward, “Can Machines Have Emotions?”
  Advisor: David Suits. Committee: John Capps, Brian Schroeder
  
  
• Jeff Young, “Deflationary Truth and Truth-Aptness Illuminated by Language and Norms: Paul Horwich, Huw Price, and Michael Lynch”
  Advisor: John Capps. Committee: Wade Robison, Tim Engström

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2011

• Joseph Thomas Featherall, “Towards a Human Centered Economy”
  Advisor: Tim Engström. Committee: Brian Schroeder, Ed Hensel (Engineering)
  
  
• Max Herrera, “The Bad Faith of Eating Meat”
  Advisor: Lawrence Torcello. Committee: Tim Engström, John T. Sanders
  
  
• Alexis Page, “The Soul—Two Philosophical Views”
  Advisor: Wade Robison. Committee: Brian Schroeder
  
  
• Erika Strickland, “Reconfiguring Phenomena of Presence”
  Advisor: Tim Engström. Committee: John Capps, Katie Terezakis

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2010

• Dana Melchior, “Heideggerian Temporality and Aristotelian Time”
  Advisor: Silvia Benso. Committee: Brian Schroeder, Katie Terezakis