Current Dissertations

Below, you will find a list of Ph.D. students currently writing dissertations and their dissertation committees. To view a list of completed dissertations, please see our Past Dissertations page.

Dominick Cooper
Working Title: Capital and the Normativity of Political Philosophy
Director: Henry Richardson; Committee: Femi Táíwò, Stefan Eich, and Vanessa Wills

MaryKate Gaurke
Working Title: A Phenomenological Account of Being-in-the-World With Dementia
Director: Daniel Sulmasy; Committee: Kate Withy and Alisa Carse

Genevieve Hayman
Working Title: Navigating Metaphysical and Epistemic Complexity
Director: Bryce Huebner; Committee: Quill Kukla and James Mattingly

Chris Kochevar
Working Title: Psychedelic Action, Phenomenology, and Bioethics
Director: Bryce Huebner; Committee: Kate Withy and Sean Aas

Philipp Kremers
Working Title: Essays on Systems-Oriented Social Epistemology
Director: John Greco; Committee: Quill Kukla, Mark Lance, and Will Fleisher

S.P. Leeds
Director: Joel Michael Reynolds; Committee: Quill Kukla and Mark Lance

Emma Nagler
Director: Quill Kukla; Committee: Bryce Huebner and Kate Withy

Megan Ritz
Director: John Greco; Committee: Quill Kukla, Mark Lance, and Elizabeth Fricker

Andy Sullivan
Working Title: Motivating a historicist approach to reasons for action (and why a historicist approach does not entail relativism about practical rationality)
Director: Mark Murphy; Committee: Terry Pinkard and Henry Richardson

Chris Torres
Working Title: Natural Normativity without Alienation
Director: Mark Murphy; Committee: John Greco, Henry Richardson, and Nancy Sherman

Jeffrey Tsoi
Working Title: Judicial Interpretation as a Matter of Democracy: A Theory of Value-Based Jurisprudence
Director: Henry Richardson; Committee: Karen Stohr and Joshua Chafetz

Ari Watson
Working Title: The Coercive Force of Precarity: Blackness, Racial Terror, and the (Re)Production of Precarity in the United States
Director: Femi Táíwò; Committee: Quill Kukla, Alisa Carse, and Joel Michael Reynolds