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"