Honors Theses
Honors Theses
Philosophy Honors Theses are the written presentations of research conducted under the guidance of Colby faculty by senior Philosophy majors. A bound copy of each thesis is kept in the Department library.
- Frank (Qifan) Hu, Pluralistic Ethical Personalism
- Steve Li, Philosophy and Music: A Search for Truth
- Harry Kolb, (Senior Scholar Project): Samuel Alexander: Life and Thought
- Sarah Bash, Fertile Femininity: Ontological and Phenomenological Perspectives on Reproduction and Feminine Embodiment
- Daniel Ellison, The Transcendental Ground of Kant’s Cosmopolitanism
- Sam Sessions, The Tetralemma of Nothingness
Ronahn Clarke, Socrates and the Divine Mission of Political Friendship
Kieran Dunn, Racism: Who is Responsible?
- Ethan Ashley, The New White Moderate: Bearing Witness to the Differend of Race
- Erin Maidman, Didn’t I used to be me?” Personal Identity after Trauma and Mental Illness
- Griffen Isaac Allen, Don’t Know, Do Not Resuscitate: A Principle for the Creation of the Kingdom of Ends in the ICU
- Alex Sarappo, In Trust We Trust: An Epistemological Investigation of Ethical and Aesthetic Testimony
- Uzoma Orchingwa, Unfreedom.
- Kelsey Park, Beyond Our Conscience: A Proposal for and Improved Model of Self-Forgiveness
- Kevin P. Smith, The Metaphysics of Modality
- William A. Price, The Purely Reflected Self
- Kristen Psaty, On Perfect Friendship: An Outline and a Guide to Aristotle’s Philosophy of Friendship
- Jason Stigliano, The Conceptual Being in Contemporary Life: A Pontification
- Kris Miranda, Break the Sky: an exploration of ethics with swords and superheroes
- Carlie Minichino, Gender Specific Rules in Sport are based on an Outdated Idea of Femininity
- Elizabeth Coogan, Rawls and Health Care
- Adam Marvin, Interpretation Stops Here: Judicial Politics in a Constitutional Republic
- Allyson Rudolph, Collective Moral Responsibility
- Emily Brostek, An Impoverished Philosophy
- Gregory Lusk, Truth, Knowledge and Understanding
- Megan Burd, Mysticizing Philosophy
- Josh Kahn, Separating the Good from the Great: Toward an Objective Criterion for Value in Music
- Chris Surprenant, Cultivating the Good Will: Moral Progress and the Kantian State
- Alex Telis, Ethics and the Akeda: An Existenial Exegesis of Genesis 22
Edward F. Smith, Rationality, Warrant, and Theistic Belief
- Peter K. Osborn, Lost in the Woulds: Why I am Not a Counterpart and Other Lessons from Modal Logic
- Tracy E. Schloss, When Morality Builds: An Analysis of Art, City Planning, and The Ethics of Iris Murdoch
- Edwin Stone, Positivism in the Wasteland: An Essay on the Nature of International Law
- John S. Brownell, Ethical and Legal Issues of Informed Consent in Medicine
- Ryan M. Wepler, Boats, Bats, and Bootstraps: A Defense of American Neopragmatism
Bryan P. Kessler, The Importance of the Ontological Relationship Between Absolute Spirit and Individual Minds in G.W.F. Hegel’s Philosophy
Scott J. Bridges, Challenging the Laws of Thought
- Dennis N. D’Angelo, If I’d Known Then What I Know Now
- Katie Quackenbush, Literature, Drama, and Philosophy in Plato: The Trials and Death of Socrates
John S. Brunero III, Autonomy, Authority, and Discourse: Can Habermas and Mill Resolve Philosophical Anarchism?
- Michael S. Barber (senior scholar), Reading Nietzsche, Reading Emerson: (Con) Texts for Creative Meaning
- Andrew B. Glos, The Mystic, the Heretic, and the Dame of Norwich
- Paul J. Fontana, The Existence of Evil and the Problem of God
- Christopher McMath (senior scholar), Medical Treatment and the Good Death
- John E. Costenbader, Buddhism and the Unveiling of an Environmental Ethic
- Caleb E. Mason, The Early Genealogy of the Concept of Will