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'sPolitics of Friendship"
"Hegel and the non-identical"
"Hegel's Phenomenological 'We'"
"Vanishing and Discontinuity in Hegel'sPhenomenology 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 inMa 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"
