
Research






Every spring semester, all graduate students take a Research Seminar in which they have the opportunity to develop an individual scholarly project into a publishable essay. Students have worked on the following projects in recent years:
- "Korsgaard's Constitutivism and the Schmagency Challenge"
- "Political Horizons: Thinking Community at its Frontiers in Aristotle and Montaigne"
- "Intermeshing Different-Differences: Appraising La Caze's Wonder-Generosity Framework for Addressing Complexities of Oppression"
- "Parreēsía as the Basis for Non-Sovereign Democratic Solidarity in Focault"
- "The Emergence of a Political Myth-Function in Derrida's Politics of Friendship"
- "Hegel and the non-identical"
- "Hegel's Phenomenological 'We'"
- "Vanashing and Discontinuity in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit"
- "Willing Grief Otherwise"
- "Community and Isolation: The Indegenous American Thinker and the Skeptic"
- "Leibniz's Reservoir of Perception"
- "First as Adorno, Then as Kant"
- "Damn, it feels good to be a Skeptic: On the motovations of a Pyrrhonist"
- "Pink Labor: Childhood Disidentification in Ma Vie en Rose"
- "On the Identity of Transcendental Object and noumenon: A Genealogy of a Kantian Contradiction"
- "Zarathustra's Frenemy: Agonism and Self-Overcoming"
- "A Pun is its Own Reword: Grammatical Jokes and Philosophy in Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations"
- "Dreaming with their Eyes Open: A New Spinozist Perspective on Mending the Mind"
- "Divine Ethics and the Limits of Law"
- "Feminist Collectivities and the Virtue of Political Imagination"
- "Impersonal Personal Identity"
- "Despair in Becoming a Self: Faith and the Demonic"
- "Antigone Resurrected"
- "The Poet and the Philosopher: An Analysis of the Lyrical Voice in Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling"
- "Kant and Adorno: Objective Mimesis of the Sublime”
- "Foundations of Meaning: Phenomenology, Language and Cognition"
- "Descartes, Pascal and Narcissism: Self-Love in Descartes' Passions of the Soul and Pascal's Pensées"
- "Reflective Judgment and the Production of Immanent 'Transcendental' Conditions in Hannah Arendt's Kant Lectures"
- “Cartesian Hate: A Delusion of Invulnerability”
- "Does Feminist Critique Need Ontology?"
- “The Time of the Contingent: Walter Benjamin’s Aura”
- “Descartes’ Integration of Biology and Reason in Moral Philosophy”
- "The Human Element: Reading Benjamin through Hegel-Colored Glasses"
- "Harnessing Cupid: Superinducing Virtuous Affections and Binding the Imagination"