Past Dissertations
Hyperlinked dissertations are available through Proquest Digital Dissertations.
| Name | Year | Title | Mentor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beba Cibralic | 2022 | Reframing Foreign Influence: War, Technology, and Words | David Luban |
| Madeline Ward | 2022 | With All Due Deference: Marginalized Epistemic Agents and What They’re Owed | Quill R. Kukla |
| Melayna Schiff | 2022 | Anorexia and Identity: A Philosophical Analysis | Quill R. Kukla |
| Gerald Taylor | 2022 | Strawsonian Constitutivism: A Statement and Defense | Bryce Huebner |
| Katherine Ward | 2021 | Standpoint Phenomenology | William Blattner |
| Clark Donley | 2021 | Ethics and the Social Constitution of Agency | Henry Richardson |
| Jason Farr | 2021 | Metaethics is Social | Maggie Little |
| Keyvan Shafiei | 2021 | Taking Up Space: Social Norms, Space, and Mass Incarceration | Mark Lance |
| Joseph Jebari | 2021 | Moral Structures: Scientific Reflections on Rationalist Themes | Bryce Huebner |
| Sara Kolmes | 2021 | Epistemological Hermeneutics In The Clinic | Quill R. Kukla |
| Name | Year | Title | Mentor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frank Chessa | 1999 | Coherentist Justification in Ethics | Tom Beauchamp |
| Elizabeth Hill Emmett-Mattox | 1999 | Integrity and Impartiality: Reconciling Moral Theory and Moral Life | G. Madison Powers |
| John J. Gunkel | 1999 | Truth and the Being of Dasein | William Blattner |
| Michael P. Wolf | 1999 | An Inferentialist Semantics for Natural Kind Terms | Mark Lance |
| Laura Jane Bishop | 1998 | Family Matters: The Role of the Family in Medical Decision-Making with Competent Patients | LeRoy Walters |
| Whitley Robert Peters Kaufman | 1998 | Intending Versus Foreseeing Harm: The Foundation of Deontological Constraints | Henry Richardson |
| Jeremy Randel Koons | 1998 | A Conditional Defense of Moral Realism | Mark Lance |
| Sharon Ruth Livingston | 1998 | A Framework for Deontic Reasoning in Predicate Logic | Steve Kuhn |
| Lester Aaron Myers | 1998 | Accounting for Accountability: Philosophical Foundations for Corporate Financial Disclosure | Wilfried Ver Eecke |
| Randall K. O’Bannon | 1998 | As God Commands: Reexamining Moral Theory to Find Euthphro’s Answer (Volumes 1 & 2) | John Langan |
| Julia Pedroni | 1998 | Moral Problems in the Monitoring of Clinical Trial Data and Access to Interim Results | LeRoy Walters |
| Carol Mason Spicer | 1998 | A Social Contract of “Personhood”: Adequately Accounting for the Moral Status of “Noncontractors” | LeRoy Walters |
| Susan Allison Stark | 1998 | Morality and Emotion | Margaret Little |
| Carol R. Taylor | 1997 | The Morality Internal to the Practice of Nursing | Edmund Pellegrino |
| Andrew Cohen | 1997 | The Communitarian Critique of Liberalism’s Individualism | G. Madison Powers |
| Suzanne Shevlin Edwards | 1997 | The Ethics of Rescue: An Ethical Examination and Analysis of Society’s Responsibility to Provide Aid to its Members in Need | G. Madison Powers |
| Robin Fiore | 1997 | Realizing Liberal Egalitarianism: Towards a Feminist Theory of Equality | G. Madison Powers |
| Kimberly Mattingly | 1997 | How We Do Ethics: Wide Reflective Equilibrium and the Role of Intuitions in Contemporary Moral Theorizing | G. Madison Powers |
| Wilhelmine Davis Miller | 1997 | Egalitarianism and Self-Respect | Alisa Carse |
| Frank Daniel Davis | 1996 | Phronesis and the Physician: A Defense of the Practical Paradigm of Clinical Rationality (Volumes 1 & 2) | Edmund Pellegrino |
| Judith Lee Kissell | 1996 | A Comprehensive View of Complicity As Positive Collaboration and Toleration of Evil | Edmund Pellegrino |
| Ronald Alan Lindsay | 1996 | Self-Determination, Suicide, and Euthanasia: The Implications of Autonomy for the Morality and Legality of Assisted Suicide and Voluntary Active Euthanasia (Volumes 1 & 2) | Tom Beauchamp |
| Robert S. Olick | 1996 | Deciding for Incompetent Patients: The Nature and Limit of Prospective Autonomy and Advance Directives | Robert Veatch |
| William Edward Stempsey | 1996 | Fact and Value in Disease and Diagnosis: A Proposal for Value-Dependent Realism | Robert Veatch |
| John J. DeGioia | 1995 | The Moral Theories of Charles Taylor and Alasdair MacIntyre and the Objective Moral Order | Terry Pinkard |
| Susan Beth Rubin | 1995 | Futility: An Insufficient Justification for Physician Unilateral Decision Making | Robert Veatch |
| Daniel Patrick Sulmasy | 1995 | Killing and Allowing to Die, Volumes 1 & 2 | Edmund Pellegrino |
| Paul Fein | 1994 | We Have Ways: The Law and Morality of the Interrogation of Prisoners of War (Volumes 1, 2 & 3) | John Langan |
| Catherine Myser | 1994 | A Philosophical Critique of the ‘Best Interests’ Criterion and an Exploration of Balancing the Interests of Infants or Fetuses, Family Members, and Society in the United States, India, and Sweden | LeRoy Walters |
| Laura Shanner | 1994 | Phenomenology of the Child-Wish: New Reproductive Technologies and Ethical Responses to Infertility | LeRoy Walters |
| Christine Grady | 1993 | Ethical Issues in the Development and Testing of a Preventative HIV Vaccine | LeRoy Walters |
| Kevin Arthur Kraus | 1993 | Hoping in the Healing Process: An Integral Condition to the Ethics of Care | Edmund Pellegrino |
| Patricia Von Gaertner Mazzarella | 1993 | Can Eternal Objects Be the Foundation for a Process Theory of Morality? | Edmund Pellegrino |
| Cynthia Anderson | 1992 | Kant’s Theory of Measurement | Jay Reuscher |
| Carol Jean Bayley | 1992 | Values and Worldview in Clinical Research and the Practice of Medicine | Robert Veatch |
| Leonard Ferenz | 1992 | Social and Ethical Impacts of Life-Extending Technologies and Interventions into the Aging Process | Robert Veatch |
| Aaron Leonard Mackler | 1992 | Cases and Considered Judgments: A Critical Appraisal of Casuistic Approaches in Ethics | Tom Beauchamp |
| Dennis E. Boyle | 1991 | Geometry, Place Relations and the Illusion of Physical Space | Wayne Davis |
| Dianne Nutwell Irving | 1991 | Philosophical and Scientific Analysis of the Nature of the Early Human Embryo | Edmund Pellegrino |
| Robert A. Mayhew | 1991 | Aristotle’s Criticism of Plato’s Republic: A Philosophical Commentary | Alfonso Gomez-Lobo |
| Cecilia Regina Ortiz-Mena | 1991 | From Existence to the Ideal: Continuity and Development in Kant’s Theology | Jay Reuscher |
| Minerva San Juan | 1991 | Being Moved by Reasons: The Superiority of Kant’s Internalism | Henry Richardson |
| Christopher Francis Schiavone | 1991 | The Contemplative Dimension of Rationality in the Thought of Karl Rahner: A Condition of Possibility for Revelation (Volumes 1 & 2) | Frank Ambrosio |
| Virginia Ashby Sharpe | 1991 | How the Liberal Idea Fails as a Foundation for Medical Ethics, or, Medical Ethics “In a Different Voice” | Edmund Pellegrino |
| Mary Louise Wessell | 1991 | Health Care for the Poor: A Critical Examination of the Views of Edmund A. Pellegrino and H. Tristram Engelhardt | Edmund Pellegrino |
| Patrick Sven Arvidson | 1990 | Limits in the Field of Consciousness | John Brough |
| Sigrid Fry-Revere | 1990 | The Social Accountability of Bioethics Committees and Consultants | LeRoy Walters |
| Marilee R. Howard | 1990 | The Relevance of Catholic Social Teachings for Determining Priorities for Rationing Health Care | John Langan |
| Jeffrey Paul Kahn | 1990 | The Principle of Nonmaleficence and the Problems of Reproductive Decision Making | Tom Beauchamp |
| Mark Steven Mitsock | 1990 | Husserl on Modern Philosophy: A Study of Erste Philosophie | John Brough |
| Maura Ann O’Brien | 1990 | Moral Voice in Public Policy: Responding to the AIDS Pandemic | LeRoy Walters |
| William Charles Soderberg | 1990 | Genetic Obligations to Future Generations | LeRoy Walters |
| Susan Sylar Stocker | 1990 | Husserl and Gadamer on Historicity of Understanding: Can Historicism Be Avoided? | John Brough |
| Cornelia Tsakiridou | 1990 | The Death of Form: Artistic Being and Artistic Culture in Hegel | Wilfried Ver Eecke |
| Bruce David Weinstein | 1990 | Moral Voice in Public Policy: Responding to the AIDS Pandemic | Robert Veatch |
| Name | Year | Title | Mentor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fatin Khalil Ismail Al-Bustany | 1989 | Scientific Change as an Evolutionary, Information Process: Its Structural, Conceptual, and Cultural Elements | George Farre |
| David Dion DeGrazia | 1989 | Interests, Intuition, and Moral Status (Vol. 1) | Tom Beauchamp |
| Jacqueline Jean Glover | 1989 | The Role of Physicians in Cost Containment: An Ethical Analysis | LeRoy Walters |
| John Lawrence Hill | 1989 | In Defense of Surrogate Parenting Arrangements: An Ethical and Legal Analysis | LeRoy Walters |
| Eric Mark Meslin | 1989 | Protecting Human Subjects from Harm in Medical Research: A Proposal for Improving Risk Judgments by Institutional Review Boards | LeRoy Walters |
| Albdelkader Aoudjit | 1988 | A Critique of Existential Marxism | George Farre |
| Mary Ann Gardell Cutter | 1988 | Explanation in Clinical Medicine: Analysis and Critique | Tom Beauchamp |
| Marcella Fausta Tarozzi Goldsmith | 1988 | Nonrepresentational Forms of the Comic: Humor, Irony, and Jokes | Wilfried Ver Eecke |
| Margaret McKenna Houck | 1988 | Derek Parfit and Obligations to Future Generations | LeRoy Walters |
| Erna Joy Kroeger Mappes | 1988 | The Ethics of Care and the Ethic of Rights: A Problem for Contemporary Moral Theory | Tom Beauchamp |
| Rolland William Pack | 1988 | Case Studies and Moral Conclusions: The Philosophical Use of Case Studies in Biomedical Ethics | Edmund Pellegrino |
| Joseph Francis Rautenberg | 1988 | Grisez, Finnis and the Proportionalists: Disputes over Commensurability and Moral Judgment in Natural Law | Richard McCormick |
| Najla Abri Hamadeh Osman | 1987 | Freud’s Theory of the Death Instinct and Lacan’s Interpretation | Wilfried Ver Eecke |
| Devra Beck Simiu | 1987 | Disorder and Early Alienation: Lacan’s Original Theory of the Mirror Stage | Wilfried Ver Eecke |
| Barry Kerlin Smith | 1987 | The Problem of Truth in Literature | John Brough |
| James Winslow Anderson | 1986 | Three Abortion Theorists: A Critical Appreciation | LeRoy Walters |
| Angela Rose Ricciardelli | 1986 | A Comparison of Wilfred Desan’s and Pierre Teihard de Chardin’s Thinking With Regard to the Nature of Man’s Survival in a United World | Sr. Virginia Gelger & Thomas McTighe |
| Gladys Benson White | 1986 | A Philosophical Analysis of the Normative Status of the Family | LeRoy Walters |
| Timothy Owen Davis | 1985 | The Problem of Intersubjectivity in Husserlian Phenomenology | John Brough |
| Eric Thomas Juengst | 1985 | The Concept of Genetic Disease and Theories of Medical Progress | Tom Beauchamp |
| Jameson Kurasha | 1985 | The Importance of Philosophy of Mind in Educational Theory | Wayne Davis |
| Deborah Ruth Mathieu | 1985 | Preventing Harm and Respecting Liberty: Ethical and Legal Implications of New Prenatal Therapies | Henry Veatch |
| John Marcus Rose | 1985 | Plotinus and Heiddeger on Anxiety and the Nothing | Thomas McTighe |
| Dorothy E. Vawter | 1985 | The Truth and Objectivity of Practical Propositions: Contemporary Arguments in Moral Epistemology | Alfonso Gomez-Lobo |
| Abigail Rian Evans | 1984 | Health, Healing and Healer: A Theological and Philosophical Inquiry | William May |
| Sara Thompson Fry | 1984 | Protecting Privacy: Judicial Decision-Making in Search of a Principle | LeRoy Walters |
| Michael Patrick Malloy | 1984 | Civil Authority in Medieval Philosophy: Selected Commentaries of Aquinas and Bonaventure | Thomas McTighe |
| Ray Edward Moseley | 1984 | Animal Rights: An Analysis of the Major Arguments for Animal Rights | LeRoy Walters |
| Jody Palmour | 1984 | The Ancient Virtues and Vices: Philosophical Foundations for the Psychology, Ethics, and Politics of Human Development (Volume 1) | Wilfried Ver Eecke |
| Marcia Winfred Sichol | 1984 | The Application of Just War Principles to Nuclear War and Deterrence in Three Contemporary Theorists: Michael Walzer, Paul Ramsey, and William V. O’Brien | John Langan |
| Donald Clare Bogie | 1983 | For an Ethical Individualism | Henry Veatch |
| Katheryn A. Cabrey | 1982 | An Ethical Perspective on the Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources as Exemplified in the Federal Financing of Care to Renal Patients | LeRoy Walters |
| Alan Lawrence Udoff | 1982 | Evil, History and Faith | Thomas McTighe |
| William R. Casement | 1981 | Indoctrination and Contemporary Approaches to Moral Education | Jesse Mann |
| John Francis Donovan | 1981 | Church-State Relations in Hegel’s Philosophy of Right | Thomas McTighe |
| Fr. Thomas Joseph Joyce | 1981 | Dewey’s Process of Inquiry as the Basis of His Educational Model | Jesse Mann |
| Josef Kadlec | 1981 | Aging – A New Problem of Modern Medicine | H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr. |
| James Joseph McCartney | 1981 | The Relationship Between Karol Wojtyla’s Personalism and the Contemporary Debate Over the Ontological Status of Human Embryological Life | Richard McCormick |
| Nina Virginia Mikhalevsky | 1981 | The Concept of Rational Being in Kant’sMetaphysics of the Groundwork of Morals | H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr. |
| John MacMillan Simons | 1981 | Spirit and Time: Plotinus’s Doctrine of the Two Matters | Thomas McTighe |
| Carol Ann Tauer | 1981 | The Moral Status of the Prenatal Human Subject of Research | Tom Beauchamp |
| Charlotte Elizabeth Witt | 1981 | Essentialism: Aristotle and the Contemporary Approach | Alfonso Gomez-Lobo |
| Emmanuel Damascus Akpan | 1980 | The Pseudo Deontology of John Rawls: In Defense of the Principle of Utility | Tom Beauchamp |
| Johanna Maria Bantjes | 1980 | Kripke’s Interpretation of Wittgenstein’s Theory of Proper Names | George Farre |
| Gary Martin Seay | 1980 | Prescriptivism and Moral Weakness | Tom Beauchamp |
| Name | Year | Title | Mentor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peter McLaren Black | 1979 | Killing and Letting Die | Tom Beauchamp |
| Ileana Jacoubovitch Grams | 1979 | The Logic of Insanity Defense | Tom Beauchamp |
| Sander H. Lee | 1979 | Does Moral Freedom Imply Anarchism? | Henry Veatch |
| Francine Michele Rainone | 1979 | Marx and the Classical Tradition in Moral Philosophy | Henry Veatch |
| Francis Joseph Kelly | 1978 | Structural and Developmental Aspects of the Formulation of Categoral Judgments in the Philosophy of Edmund Husserl | John Brough |
| Richard Norman Stichler | 1978 | Ideals of Freedom | Tom Beauchamp |
| Charles Coulter Verharen | 1978 | The Demarcation of Philosophy from Science and Art in the Methodology of Wittgenstein | George Farre |
| Harold Bleich | 1977 | Herbert Marcuse’s Philosophy: A Critical Analysis | Wilfried Ver Eecke |
| Andrea Beryl King | 1977 | Benevolent Dictatorship in Plato’s Republic | n.a. |
| Emil James Piscitelli | 1977 | Language and Method in the Philosophy of Religion: A Critical Study of the Philosophy of Bernard Lonegan | Thomas McTighe |
| Jane S. Zembaty | 1977 | The Essentialism of Kripke and Madden and Metaphysical Necessity | Tom Beauchamp |
| Michael Jan Fuksa | 1976 | Logic, Language and the Free Will Defense | Henry Veatch |
| Ann Neale | 1976 | The Concept of Health in Medicine: A Philosophical Analysis | Leroy Walters & Tom Beauchamp |
| Richard Chibikodo Onwuanibe | 1976 | An Ethical Inquiry on Franz Fanon’s Revolutionary Humanism: A Critique of the Use of Violence | Henry Veatch & Jesse Mann |
| Sue Ellen Sloca | 1976 | An Examination and Evaluation of Criticism Directed Against the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis | Wilfried Ver Eecke |
| Michael Eugene Downey | 1975 | Language About God: Analytic, Synthetic, or Synthetic a priori? | Henry Veatch |
| John Joseph Drummond | 1975 | Presenting and Kinaesthetic Sensations in Husserl’s Phenomenology of Perception | John Brough |
| Thomas James Hickey | 1975 | Systems Approach to the Logic of Justification in Ordinary Language | George Farre |
| Francis Ignatius Kane | 1975 | Heidegger’s Sein and Linguistic Analytic Objections | Thomas McTighe |
| George John Marshall | 1975 | Can Human Nature Change?: A Tentative Answer in the Light of the Positions of Dewey, Sarte, and Their Critics | Wilfred Desan & Jesse Mann |
| Michael Christopher Normile | 1975 | Individual and Society: Dewey’s Reconstruction and Resolution | Jesse Mann |
| Kathleen Louise Usher | 1975 | A Clarification of Edmund Husserl’s Distinction Between Phenomenological Psychology and Transcendental Phenomenology | John Brough |
| Debra Beth Bergoffen | 1974 | The Crisis of Western Consciousness: An Interpretation of Its Meaning Through an Analysis of the Temporal Symbols of Western Culture | Wilfried Ver Eecke |
| Sister Marietta Culhane | 1974 | Philosophical Clarification of the Contemporary Concept of Self-Identity | Rocco Porreco |
| James George Fisher | 1974 | The Distinction Between Substances and Principal Attribute in Descartes | Thomas McTighe |
| Sister Patricia Hayes | 1974 | An Analysis of Kant’s Use of the Term ‘Metaphysics’ | John Reuscher |
| Thomas Albin Mappes | 1974 | Inductive Reasoning and Moral Reasoning: Parallel Patterns of Justification | Tom Beauchamp |
| Joseph Edmund Martire | 1974 | The Logic of Depiction and the Logic of Description: An Analysis of ‘The Picture Theory’ of the Tractatus and Its Criticisms in the Philosophical Investigations | George Farre |
| John Patrick Mohr | 1974 | Self-Referential Language and the Existence of God in the Philosophy of Hegel | Wilfried Ver Eecke |
| Sister Marilyn Clare Thie | 1974 | Whitehead on a Rational Explanation of Religious Experience | Louis Dupré |
| Sister Mary-Rita Grady | 1973 | Time, The Form of the Will: An Essay on Josiah Royce’s Philosophy of Time | Jesse Mann |
| Jerome Aloysius Miller | 1973 | The Irrefutability of Metaphysical Truths | Thomas McTighe |
| Anne Rogers Devereux | 1973 | Der Vorgriff (The Pre-Apprehension of Being) and the Religious Act in Karl Rahner | Louis Dupré |
| Thomas Toyoshi Tominaga | 1973 | A Wittgensteinian Inquiry into the Confusions Generated by the Question ‘What is the Meaning of a Word?’ | George Farre |
| Sister Mary Elizabeth Giegengack | 1972 | Can God Be Experienced? A Study in the Philosophy of Religion of William Ernest Hocking | Louis Dupré |
| Kevin Benedict McDonnell | 1971 | Religion and Ethics in the Philosophy of William of Ockham | Germain Grisez |
| David Novak | 1971 | Suicide and Morality in Plato, Aquinas, and Kant | Germain Grisez |
| William M. Richards | 1971 | A New Interpretation of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus | George Farre |
| Joseph Michael Boyle | 1970 | The Argument from Self-Referential Consistency: The Current Discussion | Germain Grisez |
| John Barnett Brough | 1970 | A Study of the Logic and Evolution of Edmund Husserl’s Theory of the Constitution of Time-Consciousness, 1893-1917 | Louis Dupré |
| Rev. Martin Joseph Lonergan | 1970 | Gabriel Marcel’s Phenomenology of Incarnation | Wilfred Desan |
| John Patrick Minahan | 1970 | The Metaphysical Misunderstanding of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus | George Farre |
| George Francis Sefler | 1970 | The Structure of Language and its Relation to the World: A Methodological Study of the Writings of Martin Heidegger and Ludwig Wittgenstein | Wilfred Desan |
| Thomas Joseph Shalvey | 1970 | The Philosophical Foundations of the Role of the Collective in the Work of Levi-Strauss | Wilfred Desan |
| Olaf Philip Tollefsen | 1970 | Verification Procedures in Dialectical Metaphysics | Germain Grisez |
| Name | Year | Title | Mentor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Didoha | 1969 | Conceptual Distortion and Intuitive Creativity: A Study of the Role of Knowledge in the Thought of Nicholas Berdyaev | Wilfred Desan |
| Joel Celedonio Ramirez | 1969 | The Personalist Metaphysics of Xavier Zubiri | Jesse Mann |
| Raymond Michael Herbenick | 1968 | C.S. Peirce and Contemporary Theories of the Systems Concept and Systems Approach to Problem-Solving and Decision-Making: An Introductory Essay on Systems Theory in Philosophical Analysis | Jesse Mann |
| Rev. Walter John Stohrer | 1968 | The Role of Martin Heidegger’s Doctrine of Dasein in Karl Rahner’s Metaphysics of Man | Wilfred Desan |
| John H. Walsh | 1968 | A Fundamental Ontology of Play and Leisure | Wilfred Desan |
| Loretta Therese Zderad | 1968 | A Concept of Empathy | Wilfred Desan |
| Mary-Angela Harper | 1967 | A Study of the Metaphysical Problem of Intersubjectivity | Louis Dupré |
| Elena Lugo | 1967 | Jose Ortega y Gasset’s Sportive Sense of Life: His Philosophy of Man | Wilfred Desan |
| Carl Herman Pfuntner | 1967 | An Examination of the Extent of Philosophical Dependence, Methodological and Metaphysical, of John Dewey on Charles Peirce | Jesse Mann |
| Rev. Rene Firmin De Brabander | 1966 | Immanent Philosophy and Transcendent Religion: Henry Dumery’s Philosophy of Christianity | Louis Dupré |
| Joseph C. Mihalich | 1965 | The Notion of Value in the Existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre | Wilfred Desan |
| Magda Munoz-Colberg | 1965 | An Evaluation of Auguste Comte’s Theory of Inequality | Wilfred Desan |
| William A. Owen | 1964 | Whitehead’s Philosophy of Science the Concept of Substance | Jesse Mann |
| Thomas E. Schaefer | 1963 | The Meaning of Chun Tzu in the Thought of Mencius | n.a. |
| Eulalio R. Baltazar | 1962 | A Critical Examination of the Methodology of The Phenomenon of Man | Wilfred Desan |
| Pierre Emile Nys | 1961 | Body and Soul: The Center of Metaphysics? | Thomas McTighe |
| Paul R. Sullivan | 1961 | Ontic Aspects of Cognition in Poetry | Rudolph Allers |
| Forrest H. Peterson | 1960 | The Study of Power in the Philosophies of Hegel and Marx | H. A. Rommen |
| Name | Year | Title | Mentor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rev. John R. Kanda | 1959 | Certain Intellectual Operations and the Neo-Scholastic Method | Edward Hanrahan |
| Rev. Robert R. Kline | 1959 | The Present Status of Value Theory in the United States | Rudolph Allers |
| Joseph G. Connor | 1958 | The Jesuit College and Electivism: A Study in the Philosophy of American Education | John Daley |
| Robert P. Goodwin | 1958 | The Metaphysical Pragmatism of Charles Sanders Peirce | Rudolph Allers |
| John Paul W. Fitzgibbon | 1958 | The Philosophy of Poetic Symbolism, Medieval and Modern | Rudolph Allers |