Philosophy Master's Degrees Colorado State University

2008

Gambrel, Joshua

"The Virtue of Simplicity" (Phillip Cafaro)

Horne, Benjamin

"McDowell and Moral Realism: Towards a Stronger Sensibility Theory" (Elizabeth Tropman)

Mugg, Braden

(Elizabeth Tropman)

2007

Chermak, David
“From Evolutionary-Ecological Worldview to Environmental Ethic: A Consideration of Intrinsic Value and Environmental Motivation” (Bernard Rollin)

Green, Joshua
“Imagination and Moral Judgment”(Jane Kneller)

Haddock, Joshua
“The ‘Hopeful Monsters’ of Language: Biology, Semantics and Malapropism” (Michael Losonsky)

Motoarco, Radu
“Mental Causation and the Exclusion Argument” (Michael Losonsky)

Young, Stephen
“Richard Boyd’s Moral Realism: A Comparison of Scientific and Moral Semantics” (Elizabeth Tropman)

2006

Blaney, Alicia
"Environmental Conservation At Multiple Landscape Scales: An Analysis Of The Ethical Past, Present and Future" (Holmes Rolston)

Ehrensperger, David
Plan B: Written and Oral Examination (Michael Losonsky)

Hasanoglu, Kaplan
"Critiquing 'Approximate Truth'" (James Maffie)

Sampey, Jamie
"The Emergence and Treatment of Second-Order Sceptical Doubt in Externalist Theories of Meaning." (Michael Losonsky)

2005

Depew, Brian
"There is a Moral Obligation to Save the Family Farm"
(Michael Losonsky)

Edick, Warren
"Theosophia Et Ritus Sanctum"
(James Boyd)

Gallagher, Padraig
"Flanagan’s Human Ecology: Flourishing and the Limits of Pragmatism" (James Maffie)

Huff, Alyson
"An Ethical Defense of Vegetarianism" (Bernard Rollin)

Nagy, Kelsi
"Values and Action: A Philosophical Analysis of Moral Motivation and Two Classics of Environmental Literature" (Holmes Rolston)

Ricciardi, Christopher
"Subjectivity and Physicalism" (Michael Losonsky)

Salehi, Amir
"Modified notion of representative knowledge by correspondence" (James Maffie)

Thomas, Chris
"A Philosophical Justification for the Legal Rights of Animals" (Bernard Rollin)

2004

Chester, Jason
"Wittgenstein’s Mind-Body Problem" (Michael Losonsky)

Compson, Jane
"Whose Pain, Which Morality? A Defense of the Moral Considerability of Animals Using a Coherence Model of Ethical Justification" (Bernard Rollin)

Waring, Erina
"Time preference, temporal impartiality, and the goodness of lives" (Jane Kneller)

2003

Adams, Rod
"Liberal Education and the Environment: An Analysis of David Orr's Green Proposal for Higher Education" (Phillip Cafaro)

Susek, Michael
"Research Ethics and the HIV-1 Vaccine Trials in Sub-Saharan Africa" (Bernard Rollin)

Wiles, David
"Non-Aristotelian Environmental Virtue Ethics" (Phillip Cafaro)

2002

Corwin, Jennifer
"An Evaluation of Kant's Claims Regarding the Non-Rational Nature of Non-Human Animals" (Jane Kneller)

Fenton, Elizabeth
"Wild Animal Welfare and Common Sense Ethics" (Bernard Rollin)

Gordon, Karen
"The Metaphysical Link Between Freedom and Moralization: A Bergsonian Perspective" (Donald Crosby)

Panusz, Filip
"Bodily Work and Value: Merleau-Ponty, Marx and Environmental Ethics" (Robert W. Jordan)

Rogn, Ketil
"From Earth Ethics to Political Ecology: Theory and Practice in Environmental Philosophy" (Ronald Williams)

2001

Gowans, Matt
"A Latter-day Saint Environmental Ethic" (Phillip Cafaro)

Hains, Chris
"Development and Conservation Issues in Africa" (Holmes Rolston)

Huebner, Bryce
"Naturalism, Continuity, and Normativity: Observations in Meta-ethics and the Philosophy of Science" (James Maffie)

Karaba, Rob
"The Philosophy of Curricula and the Curricula of Philosophy" (Jane Kneller)

LaFrancois, Toben
"An analysis of Kant's use of "Problematic" in the first and third Critiques and implications for his philosophy of the empirical sciences" (Jane Kneller)

Stanton, Kevin
"Philosophers on Mystical Ineffability" (Robert W. Jordan)

Thiel, Jo
"Land Communities, Land Ethics, and Private Land" (Holmes Rolston)

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