Graduate Student Research in Philosophy

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'"
• "Vanishing and Discontinuity in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit"
• "Willing Grief Otherwise"
• "Community and Isolation: The Indigenous 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 Motivations 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"
• "An Exercise in Narrativity: #MeToo, #WhyIDidntReport, and the Epistemic Dimensions of Trauma"
• "Tracking Intersectionality: On the Movement of Hermeneutical Resources into the Mainstream"
• "Conceptualism and McDowell's Parmenidean Thesis"
• "Love's Resistance: Heidegger and the Problem of First Philosophy"
• "The Toxicity of the Superwoman Image in Feminist Discourse"
• "On the Grounding Principle of Kant's Transcendental Method: A Deleuzian-Allisonian Exposition"
• "Plausible Deniability in Context"
• "Desire My Reading: A Critical Response to Joan Copjec's "Sex and the Euthanasia of Reason"