Four Graduate Students Awarded PhDs

We are pleased to congratulate four members of the Department on passing the dissertation defense:

Dr. Diana Puglisi: “A Relevance Theoretic Account of Definite Descriptions” (Wayne Davis, Director)

Dr. Emily Evans: “Uncertainty and the Justification of Environmental Health Research” (Tom Beauchamp, Director)

Dr. Kyle Fruh: “Sacrifices: The Paradigmatic, the Demanding, and the Heroic” (Judith Lichtenberg, Director)

Dr. Travis Rieder: “On Reasons to Live Justifiably: In Support of a Humean Contractualist Account of Moral Reasons” (Henry Richardson, Director)