Philosophy majors are encouraged to conduct research, whether part of a course, an internship, or independent study. Eligible students may choose to apply to the department’s Honors Program and complete a thesis under the direction of a faculty member.
Philosophy student projects
Senior honors theses
- Autonomy and Paternalism in Medical Ethics: The Great Conflict, Alyssa Woodcock
- Nietzsche and the return to naturalism, Andrew Magnusson
- Soren Kierkegaard on Being Human, Christina Danko
- Being-toward-death: Dasein’s Optimal Ontological Priority, Christine Rojcewicz
- A new theory of man: the philosophical ideas of Walker Percy, Jacqueline Sullivan
- Foucault’s critique of modernity and the project of a therapeutic ethics, Jeffrey Bernstein
- Wittgenstein and the crisis of language, Jonathan Messinger
- Kant and Bell: Form in Modern Art, Patrick Greer
- Adherence to Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy for HIV Positive Individuals: Biological and Ethical Considerations, Sarah Koehring
- Personal identity: overcoming the Cartesian-Empiricist tradition, Timothy Nulty
- Nietzsche and the crisis of modern art, Zachary Galen
