This page contains honors theses produced by senior Philosophy majors. For a list of all honors theses since 2011, click here.
Theses from 2023
Does the “Divine Marquis” Subordinate? Pornographic Subordination in Literary Fiction, Trijit Pico Banerjee
The Right Against Coercion: A Normative Conception Restricts Police Deception, Nathaniel J. Lewis
Theses from 2022
Metaphor, Gendered Slurs, and Epistemic Injustice, Sophie Cohen
Theses from 2021
Moral Duties Amid Legal Bias, Benjamin Klafter
Theses from 2020
Silencing, Discrediting, Dismissing: Testimonial Injustice as a Violation of Universal Moral Obligations, Ernestine B. Whitaker
Theses from 2019
Passively Black, Actively Unprofessional: Beyond a Fault-Based Conception of Black Women’s Identity and Hairstyling in Title VII Jurisprudence, Kayla K. Jackson
Theses from 2018
Communities of Power: Rawls's Liberal Society and the Legitimate Use of Force, Matthew R. Davis
ECT and DBS: Depression Treatments and their Perceived Threat to Personal Identity, Katrina A. Muñoz
Theses from 2017
Virtuous Particularism: The Case for Contextual Value and Moral Sensitivity, Amar Ojha
Theses from 2016
The Political Limits of Deep Ecology: Rawls and Naess on Intrinsic Value and Reasonable Pluralism, Britta A. Clark
Context Dependent Representations: Solving the Problem of Content, Jurgen Desmond Kritschgau
Judging Moral Evaluations: The Capabilities Approach to Female Genital Surgeries, Rachel Neckes
Theses from 2014
Control of Digital Information: Why Privacy Violations Reduce Our Freedom, Stephanie J. Wesson
Theses from 2013
Towards Global Justice: Reconciling Rawlsian Liberalism and Cosmopolitanism in an Interconnected World, Kate L. Fetrow
Theses from 2012
Objective Chances in a Deterministic World, Daniel Lambright