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September 2024

Smith, Victoria Brooks (2024) The sick and speaking subject and “catching” sense: a phenomenological approach to consent in health research. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

August 2024

Nwajiobi, Theophilus Chukwuemelie (2024) In search of a development philosophy for the fledgling African economies. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Saad, George (2024) The substantial subject: the logic and appearance of freedom in Hegel. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

May 2024

Hill, Elizabeth A. (2024) Prophets, poets, and philosophers: unraveling the problem of poetry in Plato - a daimonic solution. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

October 2023

Mancino, Christina (2023) Restoring the theocentrism of Descartes' meditations. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

May 2023

Feas Perez, Xoana (2023) The early Heidegger's concept of freedom. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Griffin, Sarah Emily (2023) Dante's Paradiso as an illustration of mediation in Augustine's Confessions: the role of the particular in the soul's ascent. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

January 2023

Katz, Elana (2023) “The philosophy of moving on: the benefits of therapeutic philosophy on becoming self in the face of suffering heartbreak”. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

November 2022

Deyhim, Maliheh (2022) But a piece of clothing: on the experience of wearing and removing the hijab. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

October 2022

Sabatini, J.A. (2022) The state of depression: the psychoanalysis of Hannah Arendt. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Stevens, Theresa Dawn Marie (2022) Decolonizing rationality. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Tracey, David Leo (2022) Friedrich Nietzsche and the will to meaning. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

September 2022

Fitzpatrick, Christopher (2022) Umami ethics: is kindness an acquired taste? Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

May 2022

Bruff, Kyla (2022) Schelling's political philosophy. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

November 2021

Swirski, Zach (2021) Black holes boxing: Sartre on love. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

October 2021

Cameron, Blaise W. (2021) Critique and enlightenment: Leonard Nelson on Socratic method and the shared project of Kant and Plato. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

May 2021

Gruca, Zachary (2021) The soul of the world: panpsychism and its relevance for contemporary philosophy. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

October 2020

Delikta, Dylan (2020) Hegel's aesthetics and contemporary art: home, vagabondage and (w)hole. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Pirmohammadi Pour, Hossein (2020) Wittgenstein's world-picture. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Rosenzweig, Trina Esther (2020) Between separation and encounter: Levinasian metaphysics and the question of phenomenology. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Saad, George (2020) Hegel's critique of modern presupposition and Plato's aporetic moment. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

May 2020

Ahern, Andrew (2020) Regrounding the commons: Bruno Latour, ecological democracy, and nonhuman political representation. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

August 2019

Barbour, Kyle (2019) The experience of the absolute: a defense of F.H. Bradley's philosophy of experience against William James' criticisms. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Duchemin, Peter George Alexander (2019) The art of hidden causation: magic as deep mediation. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Little, Nathan (2019) Pragmatic inclusion for a democratic society: William James' social ethics and the justification of basic income. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

May 2019

Drapac, Stefan Bogdan (2019) Psychoanalysis of nature: the mutual transference between the body and the world. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Messer, Sarah (2019) Kant's substance, ether, and moving forces of matter. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Rottenecker, Benedikt (2019) Time and succession: Plotinus' conception of time as a cosmological principle in Ennead III.7. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

April 2019

Herbert, Christopher (2019) Faith and the feminine in Levinas The Horizon of Hope. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

December 2018

Minguy, Thomas (2018) Variations of immanence: Spinoza, Deleuze and a metaphysics of immanence. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

November 2018

Page, Phoebe (2018) Evil as anthropocentricism: resolving the ambiguity of Schellingian evil in the Freiheitsschrift through an application of environmental ethics. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

May 2018

Mahdi, Ali Karbalaei (2018) The duty to enter a civil condition: Immanuel Kant's argument in the Metaphysics of Morals. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

6 November 2017

Dugger, Marlana (2017) From act to act: Gadamer and Augustine on the verbum interius. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

October 2017

Butera, Stephanie (2017) Just revolutionary violence: on the possibility of novelty in political life. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Deyhim, Maliheh (2017) The bodily experience of the "Second Sex". Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Pearce, Emma (2017) Nature and physis: highlighting the significance of understanding the ontological primacy of nature in post-metaphysical thought. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Whitelaw, Keely Elizabeth (2017) The third kind: an analysis of the receptacle in Plato's Timaeus. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

June 2017

Biehn, Parker (2017) Ecstatic temporality in Martin Heidegger's 1920s works and his Destruktion of the metaphysics of presence. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

May 2016

Sossalla, Nadja (2016) Idleness and passion: Hamlet's tragic character in the light of stoicism and medieval Christian philosophy. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

May 2015

O’Rourke, Shannon Michael (2015) Kant's pragmatic anthropology: an investigation into what the human being can make of themselves. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Renaud, Patrick (2015) Wittgenstein, philosophy and the line of reality: a study in metaphilosophy. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

May 2014

Dupuis, Christopher Craig (2014) The influence of Pyrrho of Elis and the Pyrrhonian praxis of aporetic language. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Gallant, Emily-Jean (2014) Heidegger’s primordial temporality: a hermeneutical analysis of the phenomenology of time. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Halder, Biplab Kumar (2014) Vagueness and identity in David Lewis’ account: foundation for a relaxed epistemology? Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Kizuk, Sarah (2014) Individuation and individuality: a reading of Spinoza's physical interlude. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Marshall, Jonathan Anthony Fort (2014) Inverted identities: F.W.J. Schelling’s philosophies of Nature and of Spirit. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Sheriff, Faseeja (2014) Kant and Rawls on rights and international relations. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Vásquez, Camila (2014) Plato’s philosopher-lovers and the ladder to the forms: the roles of eros and beauty in Platonic epistemology. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

2013

Jafarzadehdarzi, Vahid (2013) Kant's metaphysics of life. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

2012

Adsett, Daniel Eric Alvin (2012) Equivocal transcendence: situating Heidegger's ontology within a medieval schema. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Donegan, Lawrence Patrick (2012) Being and time: the question concerning environmentalism. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Dunne, Bradley Steven (2012) Ancient quarrel or sibling rivalry?: reconciling philosophy and poetry in Plato. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Woodward, Christopher (2012) Art as experience: gadamer's rejection of aesthetic consciousness through play, symbol and festival. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

2011

Brown-O'Byrne, Fergus (2011) Ideology and low intensity democracy. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Liepins, Alexander S. (2011) Literature and refusal: Maurice Blanchot's impossible political ontology. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

MacDonald, Stuart Joseph (2011) The ontologization of practical man: the political theories of Marx and Arendt as a response to the 'problem of freedom' in Hume and Kant. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Osmond, Justin (2011) Music and ethics: Pythagoras, Schopenhauer, and Iris Murdoch. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Seabright, Robert Glenn Gordon (2011) Recollection as dialectical learning: Plato's epistemic response to the problem of the one and many. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

2010

Carew, Joseph (2010) The role of German idealism in Žižek's transcendental materialism. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Freeman, J. W. (2010) Hume and Husserl: philosophy of the self. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Ghazineghad, Parvaneh (2010) The semantics and metaphysics of rigid designators. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Morrison, Craig (2010) Virtue & Freedom: an exploration of autonomous human agency in Aristotle. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Schaefer, Max (2010) Rethinking givenness: an assessment of Jean-Luc Marion's saturated phenomena. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Shalev, Gil (2010) The Cartesian meditator's conception of certainty: knowledge of thought and knowledge of God in the first three Meditations. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

2009

Duggan, Harold (2009) The metaphysical expositions: "strict criticism" in Kant's reconciliation of theoretical foundations. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Luzecky, Robert (2009) The creative threshold: Foucault, Agamben and representation. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

2008

Ballance, Merilyn Brooke (2008) Emanation as self-presentation: the ontological foundations of Gadamer's hermeneutics. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Critch, Raymond Glenn (2008) Paul Grice and Donald Davidson on the conditions of the possibility of communication. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Graham, Elizabeth Mary (2008) The continuity of the role of freedom in Kant's ethics. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Kary, Dan Austin (2008) Aristotle's consequentialism. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Panting, Lynn (2008) Broken world, fragmented being : Marcel and the embodied aesthetic. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Riggio, Adam Atkinson (2008) The pattern of a life: on a new concept of mind in twentieth century philosophy. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

2007

Callanan, Luke (2007) Shaping self and world: technology and the structure of space. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Doyle, Elizabeth (2007) Shadow-boxing: Humean selves and moral judgement. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Hannaford, Keith (2007) Friendship and politics: a dramatical reading of Plato's Phaedrus. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

2006

Capstick, John Martin (2006) Reconsidering the role of empathy in Hannah Arendt's concept of enlarged mentality. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Henderson, Jeremy (2006) Epistemic responsibility and the ethics of belief. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

O'Brien, Aaron (2006) A Deleuzian response to Husserl's problem of intersubjectivity. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

2005

Cumby, Jill N. (2005) Concept formation. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Dieleman, Susan (2005) A new language for feminist philosophy: feminism, postmodernism, and the linguistic turn. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Hawkins, Katie (2005) The role of interest and empathy in the formation of persons. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Kubota, Mami (2005) The quest for wholeness: Schiller's concept of alienation revisited. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Mansur, Mostofa Nazmul (2005) The paradoxes of material implication. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

2004

Breen, Jason (2004) The secret education of a wise sovereign: toward Kant's idea of perpetual peace. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Byrne, Kenneth J. (2004) Antirepresentationalism and its consequences for realism. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Irina, Nicolae (2004) Will, belief and faith: Kierkegaard's volitionalism in the context of contemporary debates. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Mudde, Anna (2004) The justice of the pieces: liberalism, democracy, and the globalization of the nation-state. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Redekopp, Brian (2004) The problem of embodiment in Heidegger's fundamental ontology. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

August 2003

Hawkins, Stephen Bernard (2003) The void in Deleuze: difference and the good. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

2003

Butler, Terry J. V. (2003) Language and consciousness: what can we learn about feral children? Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Hanlon, Sheldon (2003) The place of totality in Emmanuel Levinas' Philosophy: being, subjectivity and the text. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

2002

Gardner, Stephen Ambrose (2002) Synthetic activity and the continuum : a criticism of Russell's account of extensive magnitude. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

McCullagh, Suzanne (2002) Technological society and the prosthetic alteration of the human being. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Sweeney, Paul (2002) Tensed change and instantaneous events. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

2001

Keppler, Amy (2001) Heidegger's concept of thinking and its relation to concepts of thanking and the gift. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

MacGillivray, Jenina (2001) The darkness in the theatre : Merleau-Ponty and film. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

O'Neill, Seamus Joseph (2001) The unity of Plato's Symposium. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

2000

Chafe, Roger (2000) An examination of Rawls' neutral justification of liberalism. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Hewitt, Keith (2000) The opening movements of the Phenomenology of spirit : transcendental argument or phenomenological exposition? Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Paddock, Jeff (2000) Informed by silence. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

1999

Cramm, Craig (1999) Time, event, place : Heidegger on spatiality. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Higdon, Robert (1999) The philosophical significance of Leibniz's response to occasionalism. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

1997

Brown, Mark R. (1997) An analysis of freedom in Jean-Paul Sartre's Critique of dialectical reason : Volume 1 : theory of practical ensembles. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Cook, John R. (1997) The relation between world and language in the philosophy of Donald Davidson : the critique of conceptual relativism. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Han, Xiaoqiang (1997) An interpretation of Heidegger's dialogue with eastern thought. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Wellon, Christopher (1997) Forgetting foundationalism. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

1996

Svece, Artis (1996) An analysis of the possibility of deliberate self-deception. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

1993

Dawe, M. Wanda (Mary Wanda) (1993) The philosophy of pessimism: the relation of Schopenhauer's philosophy to Hardy's art. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Kiefte, Barend (1993) The question of ethics as the preparation for the rebirth of tragedy in Nietzsche's philosophy. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

1992

Dennis, Christopher J. (Christopher John) (1992) Adorno's Philosophy of modern music. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Peddle, David (1992) A response to M.B. Foster's critique of Hegel's political thought. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

1991

Rowe, Robert S. (1991) Freedom and the egoist : an analysis of freedom in Max Stirner's Der Einzige und sein Eigentum. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

1989

Yates, Joyce Alana (1989) Aristotle, Hegel and Mimesis. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

1985

Kearney, Gary P. (1985) Nietzsche's explanation of spirit in terms of the will to power. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Scott, David J. F. (1985) The proofs of God's existence in Descartes' Meditations. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

1984

Badcock, Gary D. (1984) The genesis of the concept of the Uebermensch in Nietzsche. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

1983

Abbott, Donald Patrick (1983) Freedom in Karl Marx's Das Kapital. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

1982

Leamon, Rosalind Luanne (1982) The concept of sovereignty and its relation to natural law in Hugo Grotius' De jure belli ac pacis. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

1978

Goodwin, Donald Fraser (1978) Husserl on the relation of self to other in the community. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

1977

Curran, Christopher Patrick. (1977) The psychological presuppostions of political philosophy : Hegel vs. Hobbes. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

1976

Horwood, Robert Earl (1976) Popper and Piaget on thought and action : a problem in evolutionary epistemology. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

1974

Glover, David (1974) The origin of language. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Lake, Calvin Lloyd (1974) The role of Vorstellung in Hegel's philosophy of religion. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

1973

Bromley, Edward Thomas (1973) Consent and character in Paul Ricoeur's Philosophy of the will. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Stafford, Antoinette Marie (1973) The life-world and the phenomenological epoche : a study of these concepts in Edmund Husserl's The crisis of European sciences and transcendental phenomenology. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

1970

Fagan, Augustine. (1970) The concept of time in empiricist philosophy. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.