This page collects the digitized full text Masters theses and Doctoral dissertations of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.

The following broadly describes library holdings for UA theses and dissertations:

Category print online
Dissertations 1953-2006 in MAIN

1950s-2012 in Special Collections
1989 - present are full-text in ProQuest

2012 - present in ScholarWorks

1950s - present indexed in ProQuest
Master's theses 1910s-2006 in MAIN

1910s-2012 in Special Collections
2006 - present are full-text in ProQuest

2012 - present in ScholarWorks

Theses were not systematically indexed in ProQuest prior to 2006.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2024

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The Riddle of Religious Language, Luke Hillman

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Friendship Intimacy: A New Approach to Valuing Friendship, Benjamin Lugo

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White Guilt: An Ameliorative Proposal, William Moix

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What is a Person? How Does One Become a Morally Good Person? The Intuitive View!, Tancredo Tivane

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Moore’s Paradox, the First-Person, and Self-Knowledge, Matthew Warren

Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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On Neo-Humean Accounts for Natural Laws, Tori Helen Cotton

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The Multiverse Argument for the Existence of God, Michael Dover

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Theistic Open Futurism: A Critical Philosophical Investigation, Elijah Hess

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A Calvinistic Divine Glory Defense, Stephen Thomas Irby

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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Disharmony of the Soul: A Philosophical Analysis of Psychological Trauma and Flourishing, Adam Blehm

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The Foundation of a Grand Unified Metaphysics, Jason R. Miller

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Cognitive Tribalism: A Social Doxastic Model, Robert Ragsdale

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The Social Ontology of Psychiatry: Psychiatric Diagnosis as an Ontogenetic, Interpellative Speech Act, Ashton Sorrels

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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On the Epistemic Significance of Expert Conversion, Dax R. Bennington

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The Interconnectedness of Jonathan Edwards's Ontology and Trinitarianism, Holly Davis

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The Application of Complex Systems Science to Political Philosophy, Benjamin Nicholas House

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On Human Rights and Structural Justice, Robert Howard

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The 'I' in First-Person Thought and What is Meant by Self-Knowledge, Aaron Morris

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The Evolution of Defeaters: A Taxonomy, Erica Nicolas

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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An Interpersonal Account of Heideggerian Ethics: An Analysis of Being and Time, William Braxton Bragg

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When Down Looks Like Up: Self-Deceptive Self-Handicapping, Kyle T. Hallam

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Perceptual Characterization: On Perceptual Learning and Perspectival Sedimentation, Anthony Holdier

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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An Evaluative Framework for the Improvement of Religious Practice in the Context of Pluralism, Benjamin Ford Dardas

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Potentials, Actuals, and the Logical Problem of Evil, Stephen Thomas Irby

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Normative Pragmatic Selfhood: A Pragmatist Conception of Value for Marginal Cases, Sam Noel Johnson

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Will-Independent Mereological Trinity Monotheism: A Defense of the Logical Coherence of, A Priori Motivation for, and a Particular Model Concerning the Doctrine of the Trinity, Andrew Kirschner

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Implicit Bias and the Boundaries of Belief: A Single-Representational Dual-Attitude Account of Implicit Attitudes, Austin Dakota Synoground

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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I, Myself, and Me, The Human Being, David Manuel Cajias

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Abandoning the Dream of Omnipotence: On Autonomy and Self-Binding, Charlie Coil

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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Civic Tenderness: Love's Role in Achieving Justice, Justin Leonard Clardy

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Determinism and the Role of Moral Responsibility, Justin Edward Edens

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Friedrich Schelling: Soteriological Redemption and Ontological Renewal in the Intellectual Intuition of the Life of Life, Thomas Christopher Seay

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Toward a Legal Harm Principle: Constructing and Applying a Legal Principle from John Stuart Mill's General Harm Principle, Kathryn Alice Zawisza

Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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Contra Lewisian Naturalness, Dylan Abney

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An Inquiry into the Distinction between Belief and Imagination, Maxwell M. Gatyas

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Grounding Deliberative Contractualism, Michael Hogan

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An Investigation into Hybrid Models of Mindreading: A Dual Type Theory Account, Alexandra Jewell

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Biocentrism in Environmental Ethics: Questions of Inherent Worth, Etiology, and Teleofunctional Interests, David Lewis Rice III

Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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Impartialist Ethics and Psychic Disintegration: A Talking Cure, Roman Nakia Briggs

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Disentangling Embodied Cognition: An Examination of the State, Problems, and Possibilities of Embodied Cognition, Cody Cash

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Wittgenstein's Liberating Word: A Meditation on Philosophy and God, Joshua Timothy Kenyon Daniel

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On the Evolutionary Origins of Religious Belief, Robert Duane Howard

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The Problem of Epistemically Irrelevant Causal Factors, Derek L. McAllister

Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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Can Libertarianism or Compatibilism Capture Aquinas' View on the Will?, Kelly Gallagher

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Against Self-Defense, Stephen Blake Hereth

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Neo-Molinism: A Reappraisal and Defense, Elijah Hess

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Everyone Knew He Did It, But He Was Not Condemned! Knowledge and Knowledge Attributions in Legal Contexts, Danny Marrero Avendano

Theses/Dissertations from 2013

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Love, Reason, and Romantic Relationships, Justin Leonard Clardy

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On the Permanence of Heideggerian Authenticity, Seth Daves

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Kirschner's Modal Ontological Argument, Andrew Kirschner

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Everything is Flat: The Transcendence of the One in Neoplatonic Ontology, Joshua Packwood

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Content and Concept: An Examination of Transcendental Empiricism, Charles Macmillan Urban

Theses/Dissertations from 2012

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Defending the Multiple Realization Argument against the Identity Theory, David Barrett

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Steadfastness and the Epistemology of Disagreement, Chad Andrew Bogosian

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Divine Hiddenness and the Challenge of Inculpable Nonbelief, Matthew R. Sokoloski

Theses/Dissertations from 2011

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Cognitive Agendas and Legal Epistemology, Danny Marrero

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A Nietzschean Account of Human Flourishing: Affirming the Will to Power inside the Contours of Friendship, Christian Joshua Roos

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The Ins and Outs of Prostitution: A Moral Analysis, Kathryn Alice Zawisza