Completed Dissertations and Placement by Year
The Department has maintained an excellent placement record over the past decade. Placement records are provided from 2004. All dissertations completed in the Department are included in the list below. Additions or revisions are appreciated. If your information is missing, outdated, or mistaken, please contact philo@hawaii.edu to suggest changes.
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2023
2021
Lisa Widdison
“The Epistemic Value of Aestheticized Emotions: Wonder, Pathos and Comedy in Aesthetic Experience”
Chair: Vrinda Dalmiya
Placement: Lecturer, University of Hawai’i at West O’ahu
Brandon Underwood
“A Strange Indifference: The Metaphysics and Politics of Boredom”
Chair: Franklin Perkins
Placement: Lecturer, Vanderbilt University
2020
Matthew Izor
“Nishida Kitaro and Evolution: The Experiential Ecology of Emergent Form”
Chair: Masato Ishida
Placement: Lecturer, Utah Valley University
Joshua Mandelstam
“A Case for the ‘Fractal Self’: The Scope of Moral Consideration as Influenced by Personal Identity”
Chair: Tamara Albertini
Placement: Lecturer, University of Hawai’i at West O’ahu
2019
Andrew Soh
“Weiziran and Aloha ‘Aina: Place, Identity and Ethics of the Environment”
Co-Chair: Roger T. Ames
Co-Chair: Franklin T. Perkins
Placement: Lecturer, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
2018
Jing Liu
“Nature Naturing: Ziran in Early Daoist Thinking”
Co-Chair: Roger T. Ames
Co-Chair: Franklin T. Perkins
Placement: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Sun Yat-sen University
Sydney Morrow
“A Comparative Study of ‘Existential Destitution’ in Pre-Qin Chinese Philosophy and Karl Jaspers in the Context of Homelessness in Hawai’i”
Co-Chair: Tamara Albertini
Co-Chair: Roger T. Ames
Placement: Assistant Professor (tenure track) Department of Humanities and Philosophy, University of Central Oklahoma
Amit Chaturvedi
“Concepts, Attention, and the Contents of Conscious Visual Experience”
Chair: Arindam Chakrabarti
Placement: Assistant Professor (tenure track) Department of Philosophy University of Hong Kong
Joseph Harroff
“Resolute Agency in Confucian Role Ethics”
Chair: Roger T. Ames
Placement: Lecturer Department of Religion and Philosophy Temple University
Jarrod Brown
“The Metaphysics of Similarity and Analogical Reasoning”
Chair: Arindam Chakrabarti
Placement: Assistant Professor of Philosophy (tenure track) Philosophy Department Berea College
Benjamin Zenk
“The Paradox of Philosophical Disagreement: A Study of Nagarjuna, Haribhadra, and Gadamer”
Chair: Arindam Chakrabarti
Placement: Instructor of Management College of Business and Economics and Lecturer, Department of Philosophy at the University of Hawai’i at Hilo, & Lecturer in Philosophy
Hawaii Community College
Joshua Stoll
“The You-Turn in Philosophy of Mind: On the Significance of Experiences That Are Not Mine”
Chair: Arindam Chakrabarti
Placement: Lecturer, University of Hawai‘i at West Oahu
2017
Kevin P. Maroufkhani
Being As/For Another: Selfhood and the Metaphysics of Altruistic Ethics”
Chair: Arindam Chakrabarti
Placement: Associate Faculty (tenure track) Dept. of Humanities Saddleback College
Cynthia Scheopner
“Refocusing Religious Expercise: A Philosophical Examination of the Intersection of Religion and Law in the United States”
Chair: Tamara Albertini
Placement: Director, Research Compliance and Scholarship, College of Social Sciences University of Hawai’i
2016
Rika Dunlap
“The Diversity of Hope: Philosophical Theories in East and West”
Chair: Steve Odin
Placement: Assistant Professor of Philosophy (tenure track), Department of Philosophy, Mount St. Mary’s University
Ana Laura Funes Maderey
“Philosophy of Mind as a Philosophy of Body: A Comparative Discussion on Introspective Proprioception and the Subtle Dimensions of Bodily Self-Awareness in Samkhya-Yoga, Advaita Vedanta and Kasmir Saivism”
Chair: Arindam Chakrabarti
Placement: Assistant Professor of Philosophy (tenure track) Dept. of Political Science, Philosophy, and Geography Eastern Connecticut State University
Ian Sullivan
“The Ethics of Vital Relationality”
Chair: Roger Ames
Placement: Assistant Professor of Philosophy (tenure track) Historlcal & Political Studies
Arcadia University
Kuan-Hung Chen
“Knowledge and Conduct: Zhi and Epistemic Landscape in the Xunzi”
Co-Chair: Roger T. Ames
Co-Chair: Vrinda Dalmiya
Placement: Assistant Professor (tenure track) Philosophy Department Kapiolani Community College
Karuna Joshi-Peters
“Knowing Trust: Towards an Ecology of Trust”
Co-Chair: Ron Bontekoe
Co-Chair: Vrinda Dalmiya
Placement: Psychologist, Self-Employed
Julia Morgan
“Mālama ‘Āina, Kalo, and Ho’opili: Growing a Third-Way Environmental Relationship
Chairs: Vrinda Dalmiya and Jon Osorio
Placement: Director of Environmental Studies Program and Assistant Professor (tenure-track) of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, Bradford
2015
Mei-Lin Chinn
Listening into the Distance
Chair: Roger T. Ames
Placement: Assistant Professor of Philosophy (tenure track) Santa Clara University
Amjol Shrestha
Our Knowledge of Universals: A Case for Perceiving Immanent Universals
Chair: Arindam Chakrabarti
Placement: Adjunct Professor, Penn State University
Laura Specker Sullivan
Justifying Ethical Claims Across Cultures: Global Bioethics and Informed Consent in the U.S. and Japan
Chair: Kenneth Kipnis
Placement: Assistant Professor of Philosophy (tenure track) College of Charleston
2014
Joshua Mason
Justice and Harmony as Complementary Ideals: Reconciling the Right and the Good through Comparative Philosophy
Chair: Roger T. Ames
Placement: Assistant Professor (tenure track) Loyola Marymount University
Aaron Creller
Making Space for Knowing: A Capacious Alternative to Propositional Knowledge
Chair: Roger T. Ames
Placement: Assistant Professor (tenure track) Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies University of South Florida
David Falgout
What Those Repeated Actions Tell Us: Reflections Toward a Comparative Phenomenological Hermeneutics of Religious Rituals
Chair: Tamara Albertini
Placement: Lecturer, University of Hawaii, Department of Religion & Lecturer Department of English and applied Linguistics, Hawaii Pacific University
2013
Itsuki Hayashi
Rehabilitating Momentariness: A Critical Revision of the Buddhist Doctrine of Momentariness
Chair: Steve Odin
Placement: on the academic job market
Timothy Simard
Dialogical Ethics
Chair: Steve Odin
Placement: on the academic job market
Thorian Harris
Bringing the Sage Back Home: Confucianism as Exemplar-Based Ethics
Chair: Roger Ames
Placement: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
2012
Carl M. Johnson
Watsuji Tetsuro and the Subject of Aesthetics
Chair: Steve Odin
Placement: Web Developer at The Atlantic
Richard Power
Confucian Insights for Gianni Vattimo’s Secularized Religiousness
Chair: Chung-ying Cheng
Placement: on the academic job market
Andrew Lambert
What Friendship Tells Us About Morality: A Confucian Ethics of Personal Relationships
Co-Chair: Roger T. Ames
Co-chair: Arindam Chakrabarti
Placement: CUNY Staten Island
Nick Brasovan
Person-in-the-World: A Neo-Confucian Ecological Humanism
Co-Chair: Roger T. Ames
Co-chair: Chung-ying Cheng
Placement: Assistant Professor, Univ. of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR
2011
Jeremy Henkel
The Responsibilities of Truthfulness: An Inquiry into the Ethics of Speaking
Chair: Arindam Chakrabarti
Placement: Assistant Professor, Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC
Geoffrey R. Ashton
The Theater of Agency: A Critical Comparative Approach to Indian Aesthetics of Morals
Chair: Arindam Chakrabarti
Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO
Amy Donahue
Exclusion, Violence, Reference: A Poststructuralist Reading of the Classical Nyāya and Buddhist Prāmana Debates
Co-Chair: Mary Tiles
Co-chair: Ronald Bontekoe
Placement: Assistant Professor, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA
Sarah A. Mattice
The Significance of Metaphor in Metaphilosophy: A Philosophical Activity as Combat, Play, and Aesthetic Experience
Co-chair: Roger T. Ames
Co-chair: Vrinda Dalmiya
Placement: Assistant Professor, Univ. of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL
2010
William K. Akina
Classical Confucianism as a Vision for the Exemplary Treatment of Persons: A Contribution to the East-West Discourse on Human Rights
Chair: Chung-ying Cheng
Placement: on the academic job market
Alejandro Barcenas Pardo
The Political Philosophy of Han Fei and Niccolo Machiavelli: A Historicist Reinterpretation
Co-Chair: Roger T. Ames
Co-Chair: Tamara Albertini
Placement:Senior Lecturer, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
Alexandria Ham
Seeing-As and Reading-In: An Inquiry into Imagination and Meaning in Aesthetics
Chair: Arindam Chakrabarti
Placement: on the academic job market
Leah E. Kalmanson
The Politics of Emptiness: Alterity, Autonomy, and the Radical Subjectivity of No-Self
Chair: Vrinda Dalmiya
Placement: Associate Professor and Bhagwan Adinath Professor of Jaina Studies, University of North Texas
2009
Benjamin Lukey
Mental Disability and Moral Personhood: Rethinking Kant through the Cases of Down Syndrome, Alzheimer’s Disease, and Autism
Chair: Vrinda Dalmiya
Placement: Philosopher-in-Residence, Kailua High School, Kailua, HI
Ashby Butnor
Embodying Morality: A Pluralistic Approach to the Cultivation of Moral Perception and Action Through the Body
Chair: Vrinda Dalmiya
Placement: Assistant Professor, Metro State College of Denver, CO
2008
Curtis Rigsby
Katsumi Takizawa’s Logic of Irreversibility: The Obverse Side of the Kyoto School
Chair: Steve Odin
Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Guam
Matthew Lopresti
Religious Pluralism in Analytic, Process and South Asian Philosophies of Religion
Chair: Steve Odin
Placement: Assistant Professor, Hawaii Pacific University
Jung-Yeup Kim
An Investigation of qi in the Philosophy of Zhang Zai
Chair: Roger T. Ames
Placement: Assistant Professor, Kent State University, Ohio
Eiho Baba
Property and Patterns: Bridging Zhu Xi’s Metaphysics of Li and the Si-Meng Tradition
Chair: Roger T. Ames
Placement: Assistant Professor, Furman University, SC
Lara Mitias
Knowledge, Reality, and Value of the Past
Chair: Arindam Chakrabarti
Placement: Assistant Professor, Miami University, Oxford, OH
Kyle Takaki
Framing Emotion: Concepts, Categories and Meta-Scientific Frameworks
Chair: Ronald Bontekoe
Placement: Lecturer, Kapiolani Community College, Honolulu
Chan Lee
Self-Cultivation, Moral Motivation and Moral Imagination – A Study of Zhu Xi’s Virtue Ethics
Chair: Chung-ying Cheng
Placement: Visiting scholar, UCLA Center for Korean Studies, CA
2006
Hai-Ming Wen
Ars Contextualis: Confucian Pragmatism as the Art of Contextualizing Personal Experience and the World
Chair: Roger T. Ames
Placement: Associate Professor, Renmin University, Beijing, China
Paula Henderson
What’s the Point? Philosophical Issues in Geometry in Late Antiquity
Chair: James E. Tiles
Placement: Mechanic, US Army; formerly a math teacher; formerly a nun
James McRae
After Kohlberg: Virtue Ethics and Moral Cultivation in Existentialism and Japanese Philosophy
Chair: Graham Parkes
Placement: Assistant Professor, Westminster College, PA
2005
Yih Jiun (Peter) Wong
The Religious Nature of Ancient Chinese Thought Appropriating a Sense of Religiousness for Classical Confucianism
Chair: Roger T. Ames
Placement: Lecturer, Melbourne University, Australia
Stephen M. Bein
Compassion and Moral Guidance
Chair: Graham R. Parkes
Placement: Lecturer, Rochester Community & Technical College, MN
Virginia Suddath
The Junzi Doth Protest: Toward a Philosophy of Remonstrance in Confucianism
Chair: Roger T. Ames
Placement: unknown
Brian Richardson
The Morality of Reading in a Digitizing World
Chair: James E. Tiles
Placement: Librarian, Hamilton Library at University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
2004
Geir Sigurdsson
Learning and Li: The Confucian Process of Humanization Through Ritual Propriety
Chair: Roger T. Ames
Placement: Director of Center of Asian Studies, University of Iceland
Bradley Park
Ethics and Alterity: Moral Considerability and the Other
Chair: Graham Parkes
Placement: Associate Professor, St. Mary’s College, Maryland
Menaha Ganesathasan
The Kingdom within the Hut: Ethical Education and Story-Telling in the Yogavāsistha
Chair: Arindam Chakrabarti
Placement: unknown
Rohit Dalvi
One with Another: An Essay on Relations
Chair: Arindam Chakrabarti
Placement: Associate Professor, Brock University, Ontario, Canada
John Trowbridge
Skepticism and Pluralism: Ways of Living a Life of Awareness as Recommended by the Zhuangzi
Chair: Roger T. Ames
Placement: Asia Program Director, Hawaii Int’l Child, Inc., Honolulu
Brian Bruya
Aesthetic Spontaneity: A Theory of Action Based on Affective Responsiveness
Chair: Roger T. Ames
Placement: Associate Professor, Eastern Michigan University, MI
Matthew MacKenzie
Self-Awareness: Issues in Classical Indian and Contemporary Western Philosophy
Chair: Arindam Chakrabarti
Placement: Associate Professor, Colorado State University, CO
2003
Deborah Kissinger
Renegotiating the Social Contract: From Hobbes to Rawls
Chair: Kenneth Kipnis
Florence Chan
Tradition, Self-Discipline, and Human Becoming: A Comparison of Nietzsche and Confucius
Chair: Roger T. Ames
2002
Thomas B. Yos
Educating for Good Judgment
Chair: Eliot Deutsch
Kurtis Hagen
Confucian Constructivism: A Reconstruction and Application of the Philosophy of Xunzi
Chair: Roger T. Ames
John Dye
Defining Discourse: Language, Authority and Community in Ancient China and Greece
Chair: Roger T. Ames
James Behuniak
Mencius on Becoming Human
Chair: Roger T. Ames
Li-Hsiang Lee
Chinese Sexism and the Confucian Virtue of Familial Continuity
Chair: Mary Tiles
2001
Sharon Thomas
Search for Place
Chair: Eliot Deutsch
Amy Olberding
The Stout Heart: Philosophical Strategies for Death and Grief
Chair: Roger T. Ames
Steven K. Coutinho
Dichotomies and Penumbrae: The Significance of Boundaries in Early Chinese Thinking
Chair: Roger T. Ames
Janghee Lee
The Autonomy of Xin and Ethical Theory in Xunzi
Chair: Roger T. Ames
Andrew R. Colvin
Patterns of Coherence in the Fa Yan of Yang Xiong
Chair: Roger T. Ames
2000
Karma Lekshe Tsomo
Into the Jaws of Yama, Lord of Death: Death and Identity in China and Tibet
Chair: Eliot Deutsch
Brian Lundberg
Musical and Ritual Therapeutics in the Xuzi: The Psychological Dynamics of Crafting One’s Person
Chair: Graham R. Parkes
Jinmei Yuan
Can Aristotelian Logic be Translated into Chinese: Could There Be A Chinese Harry Stottlemeier?
Chair: Mary Tiles
Sor-Hoon Tan
Politics as Ethics in Classic Confucianism and Dewey’s Pragmatism
Chair: Roger T. Ames
1999
Daniel J. Coyle
Guiguzi: On the Cosmological Axes of Chinese Persuasion
Chair: Roger T. Ames
Anuj A. Shah
On Imagining Being Someone Else
Chair: Eliot Deutsch
Marty H. Heitz
Distant Origins: Inscriptions of Life in Early Heidegger and the Zhuangzi
Chair: Graham R. Parkes
Wonsuk Chang
Time and Creativity in the Yijing
Chair: Chung-ying Cheng
Adrienne Cochran
The Interdependence of Embodied Epistemology and Aesthetic Participation
Chair: Eliot Deutsch
1998
Yeoungyu Park
The Semeiosis of the Image Xiang: A Peircean Approach to the Yiching
Chair: Chung-ying Cheng
Sean E. Cridland
Of Nomads, Culture, and Nothingness: A Philosophical Approach to the Problem of Racism
Chair: Eliot Deutsch
1997
Donald Garcia
The Laṅkāvatāra and Platform Sūtra: Contraries A Part and Polarities Together
Chair: Chung-ying Chen
Chaehyun Chong
Abstraction and Theories of Lei: A Response to Chad Hansen’s Mereological Interpretation of Ancient Chinese Philosophy
Chair: Chung-ying Cheng
1996
Byung-Do Moon
An Inquiry into Mencius’ Moral Thinking: Two-Level Interpretation of Mencius’ Theory of Virtue and Moral Decision
Chair: Chung-ying Cheng
John Casey
Emptiness and Actuality: The Process Philosophy of Vasubandhu’s Yogācāra
Chair: Steve Odin
In-Sub Hur
An Analysis of the Different Way of Thinking of the Indian Yogācāra and the Chinese Fa-hsiang School
Chair: David J. Kalupahana
James A. Stroble
The Ethics of War and the Uses of War: An Essay in Philosophical Pacifism
Chair: Roger T. Ames
Russel T. Alfonso
Musical Understanding: Theory of Musical Description or Theory of Musical Perception?
Chair: Mary Tiles
Ramon R. Sewnath
The Ontological Status of the Transcendental Self: A Comparative Study of Kant and Śaṁkara
Chair: Eliot Deutsch
Ronald C. Pine
Intelligent Inference and the Web of Belief: In Defense of a Post-Foundationalist Epistemology
Chair: Larry Laudan
1995
Steven R. Walker
Individual Autonomy and the Family
Chair: Kenneth Kipnis
Michael J. McDonald
Towards a Contemporary Theodicy Based on Critical Review of John Hick, David Griffin and Sri Aurobindo
Chair: Eliot Deutsch
Ok-Sun An
A Study of Early Buddhist Ethics in Comparison with Classical Confucian Ethics
Chair: David H. Kalupahana
Sang-Im Lee
The Unity of the Virtues in Aristotle and Confucius
Chair: James E. Tiles
Timothy J. Freeman
Nietzsche’s Written and Painted Thoughts: Temptations of a Masked Philosopher
Chair: Graham R. Parkes
Carla L. Grady
A Buddhist Response to Modernization in Thailand (with Particular Reference to Conservationists for Forest Monks)
Chair: Roger T. Ames
1994
Peter Hershock
The Interdependence of Enlightenment and Communication: Ch’an and the Re-Birth of Social Buddhism
Chair: David J. Kalupahana
Andrew Loo
The Chinese Sages as Communicative Actors
Chair: Roger T. Ames
Gregory P. Fields
Body and Health in Classical Yoga and Comparative Religious Therapeutics
Chair: K.N. Upadhyaya
1993
Joanne Baldine
The Integrity of Technology: A Critical Investigation of Classical and Pragmatic Interpretations of Knowledge, Science and Technology
Chair: Irving M. Copi
Frank G. Avantaggio
Intrinsic Value of Species
Chair: Lenn E. Goodman
Cassandra L. Pinnick
Rationality Theory and the Strong Programme in the Sociology of Knowledge: A Critique
Chair: Larry Laudan
1992
Henry G. Skaha
Getting Clear on Confucius: Pragmatic Naturalism as a Means of Philosophical Interpretation
Chair: Roger T. Ames
Asanga Tilakaratne
Transcendence, Ineffability and Nirvana: an Analysis of the Relation Between Religious Experience and Language According to Early Buddhism
Chair: David J. Kalupahana
Robin H. Fujikawa
Dogen and a Dimensionality Interpretation of Enlightenment
Chair: Roger T. Ames
1991
Seung-Hwa Lee
Virtues and Rights: Reconstruction of Confucianism as a Rational Communitarianism
Chair: Chung-ying chen
Guy S. Axtell
Cognitive Values, Theory Choice, and Pluralism: On the Grounds and Implications of Philosophical Diversity
Chair: Lenn E. Goodman
1990
Gailynn M. Williamson
The Application of the Principle of Equal Consideration of Interests to the Issue of Children’s Rights
Chair: Ken Kipnis
James D. Sellmann
Timeliness and Sociopolitical Order in the Lü-Shih Ch’un-Ch’iu
Chair: Roger T. Ames
David P. Putney
The Nature and Practice of Freedom: A Dialogue on Freedom and Determinism in Buddhist and Western Philosophy
Chair: David J. Kalupahana
Randall P. Peerenboom
Law and Morality in Ancient China: The Silk Manuscripts of Huang-Lao
Chair: Roger T. Ames
Mildred R. Payne
Logic and Aesthetics in Epistemology
Chair: Chung-ying Cheng
Michael W. Myers
Their Conceptual Sphere in Where the Cow Wanders: Metaphor and Model from Veda to Vedānta
Chair: K.N. Upadhyaya
1989
Raymond J. Steiner
The Concept of Community in Bergson’s Philosophy of Religion
Chair: Eliot Deutsch
1988
David Jones
Ariadne’s Complaint–Becoming of Being in Herakleitos, Chuang Tzu, & Nietzsche
Chair: Graham Parkes
Jesse C. Fleming
Chuang Tzu and the Problem of Personal Identity: A Study of Identity and Inter-relatedness
Chair: Chung-ying Cheng
Woo-Sung Huh
A Critical Exposition of Nishida’s Philosophy
Chair: Eliot S. Deutsch
Mohammad Abdeel
Underdetermination and Language: A Critique of Empiricist and Realist Views
Chair: Irving M. Copi
1987
David M. Lockett
Übermensch, Arahant, and Chen Jen: Models for Overcoming the Crisis of Meaninglessness Through Self-Overcoming
Chair: Roger T. Ames
Chwen Jiuan (Agnes) Lee
The Paradigm of the True Human Being in Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu
Chair: Chung-ying Cheng
John P. Gregory
The Divining of the Middle Path: Bhāvaviveka and of the Pāramita Tradition
Chair: David J. Kalupahana
Lauren F. Pfister
On the Great Unity: A Study in Comparative Philosophy
Chair: Chung-ying Cheng
1986
Kim R. Skoog
The Epistemological Status of Liberative Knowledge (with Special Reference to Advaita Vedānta)
Chair: K.N. Upadhyaya
In-Sing Leung
Method and Methodology in Confucianism
Chair: Chung-ying Cheng
Kwok K. Lau
On Unity in Complementarity of God and Mind–A Study of Creativity in Whitehead and T’ang Chün-i
Chair: Roger T. Ames
Michael K. Dudley
A Philosophical Analysis of Pre-European Contact Hawaiian Thought
Chair: Roger T. Ames
1985
Kirill O. Thompson
An Inquiry into the Formation of Chu Hsi’s Moral Philosophy
Chair: Chung-ying Cheng
Shigenori Nagatomo
The Comparative Study of Body-Mind
Chair: Eliot Deutsch
1984
Monte S. Hull
Mujo: The Japanese Understanding of and Engagement with Impermanence
Chair: Eliot Deutsch
1983
Suwanna Wongwaisawayan
The Buddhist Concept of Ignorance: With Special Reference to Dōgen
Chair: Eliot Deutsch
1982
Gerald Poliks
The Problem of Survival in the Philosophy of William James
Chair: David J. Kalupahana
Richard R. Vuylsteke
The Political Philosophy of Tung Chung-shu (179-104 B.C.): A Critical Exposition
Chair: Chung-ying Cheng
Sharon E. Rowe
Athletic Sport as an Experience of Survival: A Philosophical Analysis of Ritual and Symbolism in the Function and Values of Athletic Sport
Chair: Lenn E. Goodman
1981
David K. Coe
Angst in Philosophy: An Inquiry into the Role of Angst in Contemporary Philosophical Thought
Chair: Winfield E. Nagley
Michael D. Bybee
Peirce’s and James’s Theories of Truth: A Critical Reformulation and Evaluation
Chair: Irving M. Copi
Michael Molloy
Earthly Mysticism: The Mystical Philosophy of Aldous Huxley
Chair: Winfield E. Nagley
Berit Mexia
The Meaning of Subjectivity in the Philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard
Chair: Winfield E. Nagley
Carl B. Becker
Survival: Death and After-life in Christianity, Buddhism, and Modern Science
Chair: Winfield E. Nagley
Muhammad Saleem
The Theory of Imagination in the Philosophy of David Hume
Chair: Winfield E. Nagley
Jeffrey D. Watts
Determinism and the Path to Freedom in Early Buddhism
Chair: David J. Kalupahana
1980
David E. Shaner
The Bodymind Experience in Japanese Buddhism: A Phenomenological Perspective
Chair: Thomas P. Kasulis
Pahalawattage Premasiri
Moral Evaluation in Early Buddhism (from the Perspective of Western Philosophical Analysis)
Chair: Eliot Deutsch
Karen J. Lee
1979
Ralph A. Morelli
An Examination of Recent Proposals in the Theory of Reference
Chair: Irving M. Copi
Thomas E. Jackson
Self and Value: A Critical Comparative Study of Śaṁkara and Sartre
Chair: Eliot Deutsch
Jae-ryong (Kwang-Woong) Shim
The Philosophical Foundation of Korean Zen Buddhism: The Integration of Son and Kyo by Chinul (1158-1210)
Chair: Thomas P. Kasulis
1978
William M. Indich
The Advaitic Theory of Consciousness: A Critical Study (With Comparative Reference to Some Parallel Western Analyses)
Chair: K.N. Upadhyaya
Donald N. Blakeley
The Interpersonal Aspects of Eros in Plato’s Symposium
Chair: Winfield E. Nagley
1977
Neal L. Chobot
Arobindo’s Concept of Spiritual Evolution: A Phenomenological Perspective
Chair: Eliot Deutsch
Robert G. Santee
Chuang Tzu: A Philosophy of Death
Chair: Winfield E. Nagley
Robert B. Zeuschner
A Critical Examination of the Philosophy of Shoen-hui
Chair: Beatrice T. Yamasaki
Daniel S. Goldenberg
A Comparative Analysis of Wittgenstein’s ‘Tractatus’ and Śaṁkara’s Advaita Vedānta with an Introduction to the Logic of Comparative Methodology
Chair: K.N. Upadhyaya
1976
Burke A. Townsend
The Comparability of Scientific Theories
Chair: Irving M. Copi
1975
George D. Panisnick
The Philosophical Significance of the Concept of the Philosopher’s Stone as Used in Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus
Chair: Lenn E. Goodman
1974
Phillip R. Fandozzi
The Heideggerian Perspective on Nihilism: A Critique of Modern Technology Through its Manifestations in Literature, Philosophy and Social Thought
Chair: Frederick L. Bender
1971
Donald W. Mitchell
Rudolf Otto and a Philosophy of Religious Crisis
Chair: Harold E. McCarthy
Earle J. Coleman
Philosophy of Painting by Shih-t’ao, A Translation and an Exposition of his Hua-P’u (Treatise on the Philosophy of Painting)
Chair: Chung-yuan Cheng
1970
Michael P. Bradie
Models and Scientific Realism
Chair: John A. Winnie
1969
Satinder Nath Mahajan
A Comparative Study of the Main Theories of Justification of Political Authority
Chair: Eliot Deutsch
Donald Lee Stewart
Man and Fidelity: A Study of Marcel
Chair: Winfield E. Nagley
Ashok Kumar Malhotra
Nausea: An Expression of Sartre’s Existential Philosophy
Chair: Winfield E. Nagley
1967
Kuang Tih Fan
Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Conception of Philosophy
Chair: Richard P. Haynes
Manikku Wadu Padmasiri De Silva
A Study of Motivational Theory in Early Buddhism with Reference to the Psychology of Freud
Chair: S.K. Saksena
1966
John M. Koller
The Metaphysical Bases and Implications of Indian Social Ideals in Traditional India, Ghandi and Aurobindo
Chair: C. Moore