This collection includes theses, dissertations, and professional papers from the University of Montana Department of Philosophy. Theses, dissertations, and professional papers from all University of Montana departments and programs may be searched here.
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
The Existential Challenges of Cyberspace, Sean Cleary
THE BIRDS, THE BEES, THE TREES, AND THE BREEZE: EXPANDING THE MORAL UNIVERSE THROUGHT RSK ANLYSIS, Jared Gibbs
Toward a Dialectical Account of Nature, Georgia Rae Grimm
Wilderness as an Aesthetic Concept, Nathan A. Pagel
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Modal Understanding of Robustness Analysis, Grayson O'Reilly
Repairing Warranted Public Trust in Science Through Political Reconciliation, Anna Cat Jay Reely
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Collaborative Conservation: A philosophical analysis of the efficacy and commensurability of TEK and Western Science, Anne M. Belldina
Wonder: A Phenomenological Exploration, Henry R. Kramer
Complicity and Climate Change, Shalomita Kristanugraha
Ethical Eating: Overcoming Alienation in the Industrial Food System by Aligning Our Practices with Our Principles, André Kushnir
A Search for Community, Alexander Moore
IN DEFENSE OF NON-ANTHROPOCENTRISM—A RELATIONAL ACCOUNT OF VALUE AND HOW IT CAN BE INTEGRATED, Ian I. Weckler
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
The Kite and the String: Why Philosophy Needs More Storytellers, Mason James Voehl
Can Nonhumans Be Victims of Genocide?, Kirstin Waldkoenig
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Meat Reimagined: the Ethics of Cultured Meat, Valan Anthos
The Ethosophy of the Grizzly Man: Timothy Treadwell's Three Ethologies, Blake L. Ginsburg
Experiences of WIldness and Value, Hannah G. McLean
Into the Wilds: Influences from Video Games on Our Perception of 'Nature', Toryn W P Rogers
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Epistemically Detrimental Dissent in Climate Science, Iheanyi Amadi
How Should we Conceptualize Moral Disagreements about Animals?, Kristian Cantens
Sharing Nature: Rival Visions of Environmental Discourse, Charles B. Hayes
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Better Talking Heads: Concerning Fuller "Experience" in Environmental Philosophy, Christina Bovinette
A Case for Untrammeledness as the Foundational Goal of Wilderness Management, Robert A. McGlothlin
DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE AND CLIMATE CHANGE: THE WHAT, HOW, AND WHO OF CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY, Jason F. Moeller
Cultivating Wildness, Christopher Reed
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Wilderness and Epistemic Wildness, John T. Stanfield
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
RESTORATION AS CARING PRACTICE: A RELATIONAL PERSPECTIVE ON ECOLOGICAL RECOVERY, Daniel Avery Congdon
Ecology and Engagement: The Importance of Direct Experience of Nature in Culture and Scholarship, Chris Baldwin Humm
A WORKING RELATIONSHIP: AN ACCOUNT CONCERNING WENDELL BERRY'S CONVERSATIONAL APPROACH TO FARMING, Nicholas Brian Redig
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Care and Companionism: Animal Ethics at the End of Life, Casie Jean Dunleavy
CLIMATE AS ASSEMBLAGE: IMAGINING AN ECOLOGICAL METAPHYSIC, Andrea Rae Gammon
The Moral Layers of Fracking: From Basic Rights and Obligations to Human Flourishing, Angela L. Hotaling
Reconceiving Romantic Agency: A Question Concerning Its Extent, Richard Edward Swatek
Whole-Nature: Integrating Science and Eco-Phenomenology, Bartholomew Patrick Walsh
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Aesthetic Appreciation of the Natural Environment: Scientific Knowledge & the Extension from Aesthetics to Ethics, John K. Hays
Society and Superior Individuals: On the Social Concerns in Nietzschean Virtue Ethics, Andrew Theodore Soderlund
Bernard Williams on Coercion and Reasons for Action, Joseph Stephenson
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Constitutionalizing Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in the New Millenium, Katherine Virginia Aldrich
What is Orientation in Reality? A Philosophical Exploration of Technology, Placement, Enchantment and Wonder, Patrick Maurice Burke
Discovering Orientation between Theory and Narrative, Maxwell Haus Clark
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
The Social Benefits of Wilderness, Michael Joseph Aloi
Beyond Wilderness: Wildness as a Guiding Ideal, Christopher James Dunn
Guidelines for a Pluralist Society: Could Rawls Help with Struggles Over Identity, Blake Benjamin Francis
Invisible Woman, Kristin Deanne Howe
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
The Traditional Wilderness Conception, Postmodern Cultural Constructionism and the Importance of Physical Environments, Matthew Adam Gray
Shame, Guilt and Society's Conception of Sex, Hailey M. Magsig
Transcendental Idealism, Transcendental Realism, and the Possibility of Objective Reference, Eric Dane Walker
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Feminist Theories of Autonomy and their Implications for Rape Law Reform, Beth Ann Headley
An Application and Defense of Ronald Dworkin's Theory of Adjudication, Vincent William Wisniewski Jr.
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Arendtian contributions to liberal political theory, Sarah M. McGrath
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Between facts and Utopia: Habermas and Benhabib from deliberative democracy to democratic deficits, Drew Robert Du Bois
Problem of reductionism in morality, Timothy M. Iudicello
Conditions for the justifiability of copyright as property in novel expressions, Jason M. Wiener
Assessment of the Dworkin-Hart debate, Michael B. Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
The forest seer, David H. Gordon
Contemporary philosophical naturalism: In concept and critique, James Carlin Watson
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Speculation's despair: Kierkegaard's prank on Hegel in "The Sickness Unto Death", Linda Basilicato
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
An examination of revisionist theories in criminal insanity jurisprudence, Jacob Reeves Camp
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
The Theme of rest in the works of Saint Augustine, Thomas J. Hesse
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
Toward an understanding of genetic information within society: Three essays, Jason E. Burrows
On the way to a vision of situated cognition through Heidegger's concept of being-in-the-world, Matt Granger
Issues in information technology, Bill Hook
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
Without horizon| Encountering Shoah testimony, Clark Chatlain
Terror and indifference: The device paradigm and the Nicaraguan Contra War, Gus Glaser
Tri-relational view of human agency, Jeffrey Scott Pflug
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
In defense of Ethical Naturalism, David Roberts
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
Three essays in conversational ethics, Scott Forrest Aikin
Interiority control and anarchy: Reading Anti-Oedipus politically, Matthew Tunno
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Friendship and knowledge in the "Theaetetus", Mary Karol Taylor
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
Performing the body, Katarzyna Marciniak
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
Women's philosophical voice expression and inquiry: Explorations in medieval mysticism performance art and ecological feminism, Anne-Marie Lombardi
Theses/Dissertations from 1993
Explorations in form: Revisioning philosophic methodology, Lisa Gerber
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
Virtues in medicine, John Root Stone
Theses/Dissertations from 1991
Consumption: Wasting through appearance, Peter J. Chmielewski
Witnessing the exterior| Blanchot and the impossibility of writing, Philip John Maloney
Theses/Dissertations from 1990
Ecofeminist explorations, Janet Henderson
Three essays in political cultural and legal philosophy, Nickola Lee Pazderic
Theses/Dissertations from 1986
Critical theory of Herbert Marcuse: An inquiry into the possibility of human happiness, Michael W. Dahlem
Theses/Dissertations from 1985
Three essays in American jurisprudence, Dennis NettikSimmons
Theses/Dissertations from 1984
Law and principle, James L. Maher
Egoism morality and justice, Dale R. Mrkich
Sartre and Marx on alienation: An analysis and comparison of their theories, Sean M. O'Brien
Wild mind primal mind, Jay Hansford Vest
Theses/Dissertations from 1983
What is the meaning of... (Wheatfield with Crows, by Vincent van Gogh)?, Michael T. Howell
Heidegger and the sense of freedom: The formal and the substantive approach to freedom in light of the development of Heidegger's thought, Douglas E. Pierce
Theses/Dissertations from 1982
Emergence of Heidegger's philosophy of technology in Being and time, Douglas V. Radandt
Theses/Dissertations from 1981
Reflections on instrumental reason and artistic labor, Craig Howard
Theses/Dissertations from 1980
Three papers addressing the role of poetic language in painting and literature, James Hatley
Theses/Dissertations from 1979
Family in the corporate state, Sandra Margrethe Gudmundsen
Theses/Dissertations from 1977
Reflections on language, Michael Don Palmer
Theses/Dissertations from 1976
Ceremony of innocence is forgotten: Meaning is useless but necessary, Timothy Edward Carey
Theses/Dissertations from 1975
Fascism the technological rationality and monopoly capital, Jan Konigsberg
The crisis of meaning in technology, John Lingner
Theses/Dissertations from 1974
Phenomenology of diving (a being drawn), Marshall L. Griffith
Theses/Dissertations from 1973
Ontological status of the archetypal image, Ted Jordan Meredith
Theses/Dissertations from 1970
Aristotle's doctrine of inherence, James Willard Allard
Theses/Dissertations from 1965
Critique of Jean-Paul Sartre's theory of the ego, Richard Hood Holmes
Contribution of Martin Luther to the concept of individual liberty and its antecedents, Roderick J. Johnson