STONY BROOK PHILOSOPHY DOCTORATES

 

1970's

  
Pinkard, Terry "Foundations of Transcendental Idealism: Kant, Hegel, Husserl" Dec-75
Kemp-Pritchard, Ilona "A Critical Examination of the Role of Continuity in Peirce's Thought" May-75
Langsdorf, Leonore "Husserl on Judging: A Critique of the Theory of Ideal Objects" Aug-77
Byrne, Patrick "Einstein's Quest for the Foundations of Science"  May-78
Robinson, Hoke "A Reconstruction of Kant's Transcendental" May-78
Campbell, James  "Pragmatism and Reform: Social Reconstruction in the Thought  Dec-79
of John Dewey and George Herbert Mead"
Cohen, Richard "Time in the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas" Dec-79
Munitz, Charles "Aliveness: Sensitivity and Responsiveness in John Dewey's  Dec-79
Philosophy of Language"
1980's
Miller, Marjorie "The Concept of Identity in Aristotle, Locke and Buchler" May-80
McKenzie, Nancy "The Primacy of Practical Reason in Kant's System" Aug-80
Smith, Anthony "The Role of Values in the Social Theories of Max Weber and Aug-80
Jurgen Habermas"
Weiss, Allen "The Relation Between Ontology and Semiology in the Later  Aug-80
Writings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty"
Newton, Natika "Imagination and Logical Possibility" Dec-80
Odin, Steve "A. N. Whitehead's Process Metaphysics and Hua-yen Bud- Dec-80
dhism on Interpretation: A Critical Analysis"
Thompson, Paul  "The Concept of Risk: Risk Assessment and Nuclear Saftey" Dec-80
Bernauer, James "The Thinking of History in the Archaeology of Michel Foucault" May-81
Evans, J. Claude "The Metaphysics of Transcendental Subjectivity:  Aug-81
Descartes, Kant and Sellars"
Gold, John "Complexity, Ordinality and Logic" Aug-81
Taylor, Kriste "A Contemporary Defense of the Aristotelian Distinction May-82
Between Essential and Non-Essential Attributes"
Bordo, Susan "The Flight to Objectivity: Essays on Cartesianism and Culture" Aug-82
Chaffin, Deborah "Intentionality and Speculation: The Logic of Judge- Aug-82
ment in Brentano and Hegel"
Donaghue, Kieran "State, Markets and Politics" Aug-82
Esposito, Joan "Open Textured Terms and the Place of Discretion Aug-82
in Law and Ethics"
Ryder, John "Ordinality, Language-games and Sunyata: Their Implications  Aug-82
for Religion"
Turchetto, Gerald "Plato's Musical Imagination" Aug-82
Wallace, Kathleen "The Ontology of a Moralist: Three Systematic Trends May-83
in the Work of George Santayana"
Kitchen, Francine "The Development of Emotion: A Phenomenology of  Aug-83
Feeling and Value"
Kupers, Lawrence "A Semiotic Theory of Communication" Dec-83
Papa, Edward "The Philosophical Interest of Rawls' Theory of Justice Dec-83
Hart, Richard "Theories of Literarture: A Comparative-Metaphysical Study" May-84
Williams, James "Toward a 'Bodily Hermeneutics': A Phenomenological Investi- May-84
gation of Primordial Intentionality and Meaning"
Marsoobian, Armen "Probing the Consummatory: The Complications of  Dec-84
John Dewey's Metaphysics of Experience"
Weiss, Paul "Nietzsche's Horizon: His Renewal of Mythic Renewal" May-85
Cahoone, Lawrence "The Dynamics of Subjectivism: A Philosophy of Modernity" Aug-85
Aylesworth, Gary "From Grounds to Play: A Comparative Analysis May-86
of Wittgenstein and Heidegger"
Evans, Fred "The Psychology of the 'Last Man': Cognitive Psych- May-86
ology and Modern Nihilism"
Roy, Gretchen "The Political Thought of Simone Weil" May-86
Caldwell, Niall "The Hidden Cost of Contract Theory: Institutional Violence" Aug-86
White, Richard "Nietzsche and Kant in the Tradition of Autonomy" Dec-86
Leder, Drew "The Absent Body: A Phenomenological Anatomy" May-87
Roberts, Mark "Jean-Francois Lyotard: Toward a Libidinal Aesthetics" May-87
Kilbourne, Lawrence "Technology, Politics and the Dynamics of the  Arms Race" Aug-87
Krenz, Gary "Confessions of a Moral Physician: An Ontology of Ethics" Aug-87
Chanter, Tina "From Time to Time: Levinas to Heidegger" Dec-87
Fortunoff, David Aeschylus, Euripides and Plato: From the 'Death' of Dec-87
Tragedy to the 'Birth' of the Lebensphilosophie"
Itzkowitz, Kenneth "Economy and Difference" Dec-87
Kealey, Daniel "Ecology, Time and Contemplation: An East-West Dec-87
Approach to Environmental Ethics"
D'Angelo, Edward "The Choreography of the Soul: Recursive Patterns May-88
in Psychology, Political Anthropology and Cosmology"
Lawlor, Leonard "Event and Iterability: The Confrontation Between Paul May-88
Ricoeur and Jacques Derrida"
Slaughter, Thomas #50 "Toward Preserving the Meaning of the Term 'White Masks May-88
in the Title of Franz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks"
Wolok, Davin "Metting and Mystery: Toward a Synthesis of Buber and Heschel May-88
Barry, James "The Obscure Authority of Things: Techno-Perceptual May-88
Legacies of Early Modern Science"
McLane, Janice "Controlling Nature, Controlling Woman: The Metaphysical  Aug-88
 Project of Mastery"
Carmine, James "A Metaphor of Shame and the Myth of the Primal Scene" Dec-88
Hachamovitch, Yifat "Bound Objects" Dec-88
Marcotte, Edward "Wittgenstein and Systenatic Philosophy" Dec-88
Wachter, Ann-Mari "Ways of Seeing and Modes of Knowing" Dec-88
Baeten, Elizabeth "Nature, Myth and Culture" Aug-89
Seitz, Brian "The Production of Political Representations" Aug-89
Weiner, Scott "The Logic of 'The Inner' and 'The Outer': A Critical  Aug-89
Reinterpretation of the Umkehrung of Hegel"
Everett, Jay "Freud and Du Prel: Psychoanalysis, Magic and Meditation" Dec-89
Hatley, James "Impossible Mourning: Transcendent Loss and the  Dec-89
Memory of Disaster"
1990's
MacDonald, Kevin "Writing the Active: Nietzsche's Address to the Individual" May-90
Strong, David "To the Things Themselves: Technology, Metatechnology May-90
 and the Enviornment"
Tate, Daniel "Hermeutics and Aesthetics: Heidegger and Art" May-90
Barris, Jeremy "Lacan and Wilde: Pure Artificiality as the Two Highest Goods" Aug-90
Bell, Roger "The Theme of Originary Expression in Genetic Phenomenology" Aug-90
Remy, Marie-Helene  "Mind in Perspective: Psychology or Neuroscience" Aug-90
Schroeder, Brian "Violence and the Absolute" Aug-90
Bernis, Ursula "Other Beginnings: Heidegger's Linguistic Narcissism" Dec-90
Naas, Michael "Turning: From Persuasion to Philosophy" Dec-90
Scapp, Ron "A Question of Voice: The Search for Legitimacy" Dec-90
Meagher, Sharon "MacIntyre and Habermas in Conversation Toward May-91
a Dialogic Narrative Approach to Ethics"
Pettigrew, David "The Crisis of Reason in Modern Philosophy: The May-91
Pathological in the Case of Kant and Freud"
Ruse, Michael "Images Between Matter and Mind: The Philosophy Dec-91
of Henri Bergson"
Jacobson, David "Individual and Community in Dewey and Heidegger" May-92
Russell, Judy "On Following Heidegger: Metaphor and the Problem May-92
of Poetic Leadership"
Beakley, Brian "The Structure of Explanation in Cognitive Science" Aug-92
Gaines, Jeffrey "The Habitual Body-Subject: A Study in Descartes Aug-92
and the Biron-Bergson-Merleau-Ponty Lineage"
Tanzer, Mark "Ethics and Human Purpose: Toward a Heideggarian Ethics" Aug-92
Brockleman, Thomas "Re-Reading Modernity Through Modernism: A Psychoanalytic Dec-92
and Semiotic Interpretation of Modern Art and Architecture"
Abram, David "Inconceivable Earth: Animism, Language and the  May-93
Ecology of Sensory Experience"
Steinbock, Anthony "Homeworld/ Alienworld: Towards and Generative Phenomenology" May-93
Thorp, Thomas "Politology" May-93
Clarke, James "Hannah Arendt: Revisioning a Politics of Action Aug-93
Through a Politics of Judgment"
Naser, Curtis "Cracking Open the Inverted World: Teleology Without End" Dec-93
Caufield, James "Poetry, Rhetoric, Philosophy: The Literate Revolution in May-94
Ancient Greece and the Political Origins of Philosophy"
Luljak, David "Plato's Two Comic Apologies of Socrates: Comedy and  May-94
Laughter in the Symposium and Phaedo"
Martin, Norah "An Externalist Account of Self-Knowledge and its Implications" May-94
McClure, Mary-Ann "Thinking Like a Woman: An Epistemology of the  May-94
Practices of Women"
Michelman, Stephen "From Affect to Symbol: A Philosophical Critique of the May-94
Concept of Emotion"
MacKendrick, Karmen "Polymorphous Pleasures: A Study in Grace" Aug-94
Biro, Matthew "Art, Technology, Death: A Study in the Works of  Dec-94
Martin Heidegger and Anselm Kiefer"
De Oliveria, Nythamar "On the Genealogy of Modernity: Kant, Nietzsche, Foucault" Dec-94
Farwell, Paul "Ethics and Aristotle's Perfectionism" Dec-94
Pearce, James "The History and Significance of the Incommensurability Thesis" Dec-94
Donelan, James "Civil Disobedience, Civil Society, and the State" May-95
Hartline, Sharon "Intimate Danger: Battered Women, Care Ethics and the Law" Aug-95
Kemp, Catherine "The Role of 'Mere Conception' in David Hume's Theory of Belief" Aug-95
Mattingly, Byron #100 "Measure and Skepticism in Wittgenstein's Philosophy oF Language" Aug-95
Kirkman, Robert "Enviornmentalism Without Illusions: Redefining the  Dec-95
Roles of Philosophy and Ecology"
Melchionne, Kevin "Cultivation: Art and Aesthetics in Everyday Life" Dec-95
Nagel, Pablo "The Casting of the Self: Personality and Impersonality May-96
in Character Style" 
Steinhart, Eric "Formal Semantics for Metaphors: An Essay in the  May-96
Computational Philosophy of Language"
Klaver, Irene "Indeterminacy in Place: Body, Community, Wilderness" Aug-96
and the Question of the Implicit"
Wright, Charles "Toward and Environmentally Responsive Ethics of Communication" Aug-96
Belmonte, Jeanine "Dialectical Resistance" Dec-96
Feder, Ellen "Disciplining the Family: Feminism, Foucault and the Dec-96
Institution of Difference"
Hass, Andrew  "Manys: From the Logic of Identity and Difference to Dec-96
the Problem of Multiplicity"
Andrew, Barbara  "A Feminist Ethic of Freedom and Care" May-97
Baehr, Amy "Toward a New Feminist Liberalism" May-97
Bisticas-Cocoves, Marcos Marcos "Man and Woman in Hegel's Phenomenolgoy of Spirit" May-97
Martinez, David "The Epic of Peace: Poetry as the Foundation of Phil- May-97
osophical Reflection"
Leclerc, Barbara "Argumentation and Appropriate Resistance to Persuasion" Aug-97
Zakin, Emily "Inheriting the Law: The Birth of Sexual Difference" Aug-97
Llorente, Renzo   "The Division of Labor Revisited" 1998
MacCauley, David "Be-Wildering Order: Toward an Ecology of the Elements in  1998
 Ancient Greek Philosophy and Beyond"
Antonio, Diane "Moral Bodies: Women and the Embodiment of Caring 1999
Self-Forgiveness and Just Mercy"
Hansen, Jennifer "Remembering the Self: Gender, Melancholia and 1999
Philosophical Method"
Lipis, Leo "Beyond Foundationalism and Relativism: A Phenom- 1999
enological Critique of Truth, Knowledge and Subject-
ivity in Husserl and Hegel"
Schoenbach, Celian "The Advantages of Embodiment Thought" 1999
         2000 to Present...
Johnston, David "Lived Experience and Meaning in the Cinematic World" 2000
Schwartzman, Lisa "Normative Theory in the Context of Gender Inequality: 2000
A Feminist Critique of Liberalism"
Wright, John "Understanding and Responding: A Realists Response 2000
to Discourse Ethics"
Albers, Chad "The Specificity of Friendship" 2001
Johnston, Adrian "Time Driven: Metapsychology and the Splitting of the Drive" 2001
DiGiovanna, James "Ethics and Aesthetics of Self-Creation" 2001
Rodemeyer, Lanei "Intersubjective Temporality: The Interface of Husserl's 2001
Temporal Egos and the Other"
Mitchell, Andrew "The Fourfold and Technology: Heidegger's Thinking of the  2001
Limit"
Moazzam-Doulat,  "The Emergence of Governable Objects" 2001
Malek
Flynn, Erin "Conflict and Attonement: The Limits of Punishment in  2002
Hegel's Philosophy of Right"
Emmer, Edward "Possibilites for a Non-Ocular Aesthetics in Kant's  2002
Critique of Judgment"
Schull, Stephanie "The Delusion of Logic and the Logic of Delusion" 2002
Hughes, Michael "Kant's Theory of Moral Agency" 2002
Sadoff, Julie  "Creation and Procreation in Plato's Cosmology:  2002
A Reading of Timeaus"
Wahman, Jessica "Signs of Transcendence: A Naturalist Critique of Transcendentalism" 2002
Alfonso, Rita "Imagining Sex in Space: How Sexual Difference  2002
Acquires Ontological Import in Plato's Timeaus"
Mann, Bonnie "Postmodern Goods in Feminist Thought" 2002
Welsh, Talia "The Role of Psychology in Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology" 2002
Jansen, Julia #140 "The Wonder of Rationality and the Freedom of  2002
Phantasy: Kant and Husserl on Imagination"