Past Ph.D.s
The following is a list of all Ph.D.s awarded by the UC Davis Graduate Program in Philosophy, with the dissertation title and faculty adviser(s). (Click here or on the name for links and current occupation.)
2012
Kant's Conception of Logical Extension and Its Implications
Henry Allison
2011
Greg Damico
On Definitional Unity in Aristotle
John Malcolm
Meta-Philosophy: Contra-Quine
G. Aldo Antonelli
Cutting The Problem Of Consciousness Down To Size
Bernard Molyneux
Nate Smith
Essentialist Heuristics in Biology
James Griesemer
2010
The Indeterminacy of Meaning
Michael Jubien and Paul Teller
Narration in Literature and Film
George Wilson and James Griesemer
Michael Trestman
Goal-Directedness, Behavior and Cognition
James Griesemer
2009
Ontology and Modality
L.A. Paul and Cody Gilmore
Time, Tense, and Mind: A Case Study in Metaphysics and Perspectival Representation
Paul R. Teller
2008
Brooke S. Roberts
A Reactive Attitudes Account of Desert
Gerald Dworkin and Pekka Väyrynen
2007
Computationalism and the Putnam-Searle Thesis
Paul R. Teller and Robert C. Cummins
2006
The Value of Individuals and the Value of States of Affairs
Pekka Väyrynen and Connie S. Rosati
The Axioms and Substance in Aristotle's Science of Metaphysics
Michael V. Wedin
Alexa Heidi Lee
A Defense of Descriptivism
Michael Glanzberg and Robert C. Cummins
2005
The Centrality of Phylogenetic Thinking
James R. Griesemer
2004
Equality in Meeting Basic Needs: Reasons for, and Challenges to, a Theory of Distributive Justice that Focuses on Basic Needs
Gerald Dworkin and David Copp
2003
Is a Unified Account of Concepts Possible?
Robert C. Cummins
The Role of Programs in Connectionist Explanations of Cognition
Robert C. Cummins
2002
Todd Harris
The Construction and Evaluation of Data Models in Cell Biology
James R. Griesemer
On the Nature of Dispositions
Michael E. Jubien
2001
Moral Properties, Secondary Qualities, and Moral Motivation
David Copp
Skepticism and Analogical Reasoning in Law
David Copp
Sartre on the Magical
William H. Bossart
2000
Sherry Lynn Deveaux
The Essence of Spinoza's God
Joel I. Friedman and Don Garrett
1999
The Nature of Events
Michael E. Jubien
Moral Judgments, Normative Reasons, and the Motivation of the Practically Rational
David Copp
1998
Emergent Properties
Paul R. Teller
1997
Are Biological Species Individuals?
James R. Griesemer
The Semantic Content of Proper Names
Jeffrey C. King
A Moral Justification for the Right to National Self-Determination
David Copp
Hume on Geometry and Infinite Divisibility
George J. Mattey II
A Revision of David Lewis's "Golden Card": The Classification of Relations Via a New Intrinsic/Extrinsic Property Relation
Michael E. Jubien
1996
Understanding Bias in Scientific Practice
Paul R. Teller
1995
Maxwell's Interpretation of the Electric and Magnetic Potentials: The Methods of Illustration, Analogy and Scientific Metaphor
Paul R. Teller
1994
Hegel and the Doctrine of the Trinity
William H. Bossart
1993
The Reality of Color: The Case for Subjective Realism
Richard Wollheim
The Problem of Self-Belief
Richard Wollheim
Autonomy as a Social Phenomenon
John Martin Fischer
1992
The Question of a Sartrean Ethics
William H. Bossart
1991
On Possibility and Possible Worlds
Michael E. Jubien
1988
Jay Wallis Gallagher
Staking a Claim to Knowledge in an Alien Framework: From Foucault's Critique of the Confessional to Mae West on Men
George J. Mattey II and Mary Anne Warren
1987
Dirk Meier Leben (deceased)
On the Possible, the Impossible and God: The Medieval Latin Philosophical Development of New Testament Sources
Neal W. Gilbert
1985
Katarina Elsbeth Helene Dulckheit
Hegel on Meaning and Reference
George J. Mattey II
1984
Epistemological Sources of Kant's Aesthetic Theory
George J. Mattey II
The Metaphysical Principles of Nietzsche's Cosmology
Joel I. Friedman
Aristotle on the Good of Man
Michael V. Wedin
1983
The Corpuscular Theory and the Semantics of Natural Kind Terms in Locke's Essay
Ronald A. Arbini
1981
Excluded-Opposite Arguments
Ronald A. Arbini
Paula Blanche Hunter
Architectonic and Critical Philosophy
George J. Mattey II
1979
A Posteriori Necessity: Some Recent Views
Michael V. Wedin
1978
Particular Identity and Particular Reality in Plato's Middle Dialogues
John F. Malcolm
1977
Rawls and Utilitarianism: A Comparison and Critique
Fred R. Berger
1974
John Michael King
Functionalist Explanations of Behavior
Ronald A. Arbini
Judy Carol Williams
The Philosophical Significance of the Notion of Seeing-as
Ronald A. Arbini
1972
Qualities and Powers in the Corpuscular Philosophy of Robert Boyle
Ronald A. Arbini
1971
Leibniz: the Physicist and the Philosopher
Marjorie Grene
