The following list includes the names of Dickinsonians who have earned departmental honors, the thesis/project title, and the year of conferral. If there is no thesis or project title, the conferring department only will be listed. Each academic department (or program) has its own criteria for awarding departmental honors. Please see the Advising Guide or elsewhere on the department’s main website for details.
James David Marks (2023)
A Possibly Correct Theory of Mathematics
Charles Robert Scharf (2022)
Diminishing Blameworthiness
Alexandra Fiona Fosbury (2021)
Resisting Dehumanization through First-Person Accounts of Solitary Confinement
Jingxuan Hao (2021)
Intrinsic Value, Virtue, and Evolutionary Relativism
Maizie Jane Ober (2021)
Critiquing Hume's Common Point of View Against Moral Relativism
Austin Tate Fuller (2020)
Humor and the Absurd
Nicholas Serensits (2020)
Coherentist Theories of Epistemic Justification
Xiaoyu Su (2020)
Ascribing knowledge: An approved reliable methods account
John Walter Leibundgut (2018)
Explaining the Referent of "We": An Explanatory Answer to Olsen's Question
Zachary George Garrett (2017)
Conjoined Twinning: Answers from Animalism
Lanea Elaine Pearson (2017)
Omnipotence in a Physical World
Caitlin Marie Doak (2016)
Queer Ecology
Jessica Anne Sykes (2016)
The Akan Conception of Persons
Kirsten Rose Dedrickson (2015)
Moral Realism and Moral Disagreement
Paul Joseph Gaver (2015)
Constructivism in Meta-Ethics
Molly Kathleen Mullane (2015)
Philosophy and Advising the Sciences: Determining if Non-Human Animals Attribute Mental States
Alexandra Jenny Shapiro (2015)
Authenticity
Marguerite Stevenson (2015)
Philosophy and Literature
Adam Laufer Berman (2014)
Blameless Resentment: A Critique of Strawson
Chaney Brinkman Burlin (2013)
A Defense of Michael Williams' Theoretical Diagnosis of Skepticism
Annamaria Vicenta Santini (2013)
Reliabilism and Context
Claire Louise Pizzurro (2012)
How Kierkegaard and Dewey's Philosophical Conceptions of The Public Are Manifested through Social Media
Andrew Joseph Barron (2011)
The Empirical Untenability of Sentient Artificial Intelligence
Matthew Douglas Hartwig (2011)
A Critique of Kymlock's Liberal Multiculturalism in Philosophy
Alison Ann Springle (2011)
Wittgenstein Thesis
Wuji Zeng (2011)
Epistemology Research
Anna Catherine Pusack (2010)
The Place of the Globalized World: Nishida Kitaro and Japanese Ultra-nationalism
Amanda Ruth Lagji (2009)
The Postcolonial Feminist Nietzschean Heroism in Tsitsi Dangarembga's "Nervous Conditions"
Alexander Chester Cameron (2008)
Elevating the Discourse: There is no "I" in Team
Cara Maria Sgobba (2008)
A Virtue Situationist Approach to Business Ethics
Jeffrey Christopher Reese (2007)
Illumination in Saints Augustine and Maximus the Confessor: Differing Emphases within a Common Neoplatonic Heritage
Daniel A Polansky (2006)
The Happy Socrates
Denean Elizabeth Geer (2005)
Departmental Honors in Philosophy
John Frederick Solit (2004)
A Dialogue on Reason
Patrick James Glen (2002)
The Dissolution of Paradox: An Examination of the Internal/External Distinction and its Relation to Paradox
Michael Marion Meagher (2000)
Ambiguous Destiny: Beauvoir's Existentialist Ethics
Kathryn Louise Ralg (2000)
Ambiguous Destiny: Beauvoir's Existentialist Ethics
Mark Darrell Snider (1999)
Deconstructing Pynchon: Difference as an Approach to "Gravity's Rainbow"
Sommer Lindsay Spector (1999)
The Many Wrongs of Rape
Amy Suzanne Moeves (1996)
The Aesthetic and the Real: A Study of the Aesthetic Theories of John Dewey and Mikel Dufrenne
William Matthew Bartek (1992)
Moral Medical Decision Making for the Terminally Ill Mentally Retarded
Eric J Deitch (1986)
A Critique of Language and the Phenomenological reductions of Edmund Husserl
Andrew Giesler (1986)
The New Intentionality
Frank Chessa (1985)
Formalism and Falsity in Scientific Representation
Lawrence A Shapiro (1984)
Freedom and Determinism in Leibnizian Metaphysics
Alison Bailey (1983)
Image and Likeness: The Origins and Development of the Concept of Aesthetic Mimesis
John J Holder (1982)
Quantum Physics and Reality: Puzzles and Paradigms
Peter Palmieri (1982)
Plato's Theaetetus in the Context of Some of the Later Dialogues
Gary Sheaffer (1979)
Expectation and Ambiguity in Literature: A Phenomenology of Literary Experience
J Patrick McDonough (1976)
Time, Being and Death
Mary Devereaux (1974)
Descriptional Metaphysics --- A Look at Twentieth Century Philosophy
David M Pomerantz (1973)
First Philosophy and The Self: A Journey
Sharon T Steinberg (1973)
From Sartre to Existential Pragmatism
Sheryl Floyd (1972)
Myself and the Other
Merritt J Wallick (1972)
A Theory of Sense-Data
Stefan Don Schindler (1970)
The Finite Infinity: Foundations of Existential Psychoanalysis
James J Alvino (1969)
A Philosophical Inquiry into Magister Ludi
William F Maletz (1968)
The Thought of John Dewey and its Application to the Practice of Higher Education
Richard D Strehlau (1968)
Destiny and the Symbolic: Cassirer and Rilke
Kim Billow Armondo (1967)
A Perspective on Education
John B Exdell (1967)
Plato and Tragedy
Jeffrey P Kistler (1967)
Being Together??
Ella Bone Chatterjee (1966)
The Movements of Metaphor in Myth: An Interpretation of the Birth of Dionysus
Valerie A Mustain (1965)
How Art, Ethics and Religion are Related in Experience
John F Yeagley (1965)
Godel's Theorem