MIT philosophy: program:
dissertations

• Boolos, George, 6/66, The Hierarchy of Constructible Sets of Integers. (Putnam)
  
  
• Martin, Edwin, 6/68, Quantifying into Opaque Contexts: May We or May We Not? (Cartwright)
  
  
• Davis, Bernard, 9/68, The Notion of Protomeaning. (Bromberger)
  
  
• Thomas, Stephen, 9/68, Philosophical Model-Building and the Philosophy of Mind. (Judith Thomson)
  
  
• Leeds, Stephen, 6/69, Arithmetical Degrees in the Hierarchy of Constructible Sets of Integers. (James Thomson)
  
  
• Teller, Paul, 9/69, Problems in Confirmation Theory. (James Thomson)
  
  
• Boyd, Richard, 2/70, A Recursion-Theoretic Characterization of the Ramified Analytical Hierarchy. (Cartwright)
  
  
• Whitbeck, Caroline, 6/70, The Concepts of Space and Time in the General Theory of Relativity. (Graves)
  
  
• McEvoy, Paul, 9/71, The Philosophy of Niels Bohr. (Graves)
  
  
• Friedman, Kenneth, 6/72, Foundation and Probability Theory and Statistical Thermodynamics. (Bromberger)
  
  
• Kirk, Robert, 6/72, Intermediate Logics and the Equational Classes of Brouwerian Algebras. (James Thomson)
  
  
• Harnish, Robert, 9/72, Studies in Logic and Language. (Katz)
  
  
• Mellema, Paul, 6/73, Problems in the Philosophy of Linguistics. (Bromberger)
  
  
• Shelley, Karan, 9/73, Theories of Scientific Change: Their Nature and Structure. (Bromberger)
  
  
• Siemens, Warren, 9/73, Theories of Scientific Change: Their Nature and Structure. (Bromberger)
  
  
• Zaitchik, Alan, 9/73, The Limits of Hypothetical Contractualism. (Judith Thomson)
  
  
• Nishiyama, Yuji, 6/74, The Structure of Propositions. (Katz)
  
  
• Weston, Thomas, 6/74, The Continuum Hypothesis: Independence and Truth-Value. (Cartwright)
  
  
• Lipton, Michael, 9/74, Quine's Criterion of Ontological Commitment. (Cartwright)
  
  
• Stecker, Robert, 2/75, Moral Sense Theories. (Brody)
  
  
• Karp, David, 6/75, General Ontology. (Brody)
  
  
• Siegel, Kenneth, 9/75, Identity Across Possible Worlds. (Boolos)
  
  
• Soames, Scott, 2/76, A Critical Examination of Frege's Theory of Presupposition and Contemporary Alternatives. (Bromberger)
  
  
• Sparer, Alan, 2/76, Political Obligation and the Just State. (Judith Thomson)
  
  
• Horowitz, Tamara, 6/76, Apriority and Necessity. (Boolos)
  
  
• Levin, Harold, 9/76, First Order Logic as a Formal Language: An Investigation of Categorical Grammar. (Boolos)
  
  
• Foster, Susan, 2/77, Distributive Aspects of Social Justice. (Herman)
  
  
• Mendelsohn, Richard, 2/77, Frege's Paradox. (Cartwright)
  
  
• Prior, Stephen, 6/77, Three Studies in the Philosophy of Mind. (Block)
  
  
• Auerbach, David, 6/78, Expressing Consistency: Godel's Second Incompleteness Theorem and Intentionality in Mathematics. (Boolos)
  
  
• Rabinowitz, Joshua, 9/78, Emergent Problems and Optimal Solutions: A Critique of Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia. (Judith Thomson)
  
  
• Smith, George, 6/79, Rigid Designation, Scope, and Modality. (Cartwright)
  
  
• Kamm, Frances Myrna, 2/80, Problems in the Morality of Killing and Letting Die. (Herman)
  
  
• Levin, Janet Marchel, 9/80, Functionalism, Qualia, and Content. (Block)
  
  
• Stabler, Edward Palmer, Jr., 2/81, Issues in the Foundations of Cognitive Psychology. (Fodor)
  
  
• Katz, Fredric, M., 6/81, Sets and Their Sizes. (Boolos)
  
  
• Krakowski, Israel, 6/81, Current Issues in the Mind-Body Problem. (Block)
  
  
• Cannon, Douglas, 6/82, With Reference to Truth: Studies in Referential Philosophy. (Boolos)
  
  
• Berk, Lon, 9/82, Hilbert's Thesis: Some Considerations About Formalizations of Mathematics. (Boolos)
  
  
• Christie, Andrew,, 5/83, Relationships Among Various Ontologies and Accounts of Modality. (Higginbotham)
  
  
• Poland, Jeffrey, 5/83, Problems and Prospects for the Physicalist Program in Science. (Fodor)
  
  
• Russinoff, Ilene, 5/83, Frege's Problem About Concepts. (Boolos)
  
  
• Pressler, Jonathan, 9/83, In Defense of Ethics. (Cohen)
  
  
• Antognini, Thomas, 2/84, Can Our Quantifiers Range Over All Conditions? (Boolos)
  
  
• Appelt, Timothy, 2/84, Psychologism with Respect to Logic: An Examination of Some Theses. (Cartwright)
  
  
• Wetzel, Linda, 2/84, On Numbers. (Cartwright)
  
  
• McClamrock, Ronald, 6/84, Intentionality and Cognitivism. (Block)
  
  
• Gillon, Brendan, 9/84, The Logical Form of Quantification and Plurality in Natural Language. (Higginbotham)
  
  
• Akhtar Kazmi, Ali, 2/85, Identity and Qualification. (Boolos)
  
  
• Cobetto, Jack Bernard, 5/85, Reference and Beliefs: Some Problems and Theories. (Cartwright)
  
  
• Satz, Debra, 2/87, Freedom Rising: A Reconstruction of Historical Materialism. (Cohen)
  
  
• Segal, Gabriel, 6/87, In Deference to Reference. (Block)
  
  
• Lind, Marcia, 2/88, Emotions and Hume's Moral Theory. (Cohen)
  
  
• Lebed, Jay Aaron, 6/88, On Some Issues Concerning Symbols and the Study of Cognition. (Block)
  
  
• Patterson, Sarah, 6/88, Content and Psychological Explanation. (Block)
  
  
• Uebel, Thomas, 6/89, The Vienna Circle's Debate about Protocol Sentence Debate Revisited: Towards the Reconstruction of Otto Neurath's Epistemology. (Bromberger)
  
  
• Rodriguez, Jorge, 9/89, Mood, Force and Explicit Performatives. (Cartwright)
  
  
• Kaye, Larry, 5/90, Three Studies in Naturalized Philosophical Psychology. (Stalnaker)
  
  
• Lormand, Eric, 5/90, Classical and Connectionist Models of Cognition. (Block)
  
  
• Page, James, 5/90, On the Metaphysics of Numbers. (Boolos)
  
  
• Pietrowski, Paul, 5/90, Meaning Naturally: A Partial Defense of Covariation Semantics. (Stalnaker)
  
  
• Prevett, Elizabeth, 5/90, In Defense of a Linguistic Model for Reflective Equilibrium in Ethics. (Brink)
  
  
• Ruesga, Albert, 6/90, What Can Be Meant? Evaluating a skeptical argument by Donald Davidson. (Higginbotham)
  
  
• Antony, Michael, 10/90, Consciousness, Content and Cognitive Architecture. (Block)
  
  
• Dwyer, Susan, 6/91, Making "Implicit" Explicit: Toward an Account of Implicit Linguistic Knowledge. (Higginbotham)
  
  
• Galloway, David, 6/91, Finitism: An Essay on Hilbert's Programme. (Boolos)
  
  
• Heck, Jr., Richard, 6/91, Logic, Semantics, Ontology. (Boolos)
  
  
• Stein, Edward, 2/92, Rationality and the Limits of Cognitive Science. (Block)
  
  
• Isaacs, Tracy, 6/92, Actions and Events: A Study in Ontology and Ethics. (Thomson)
  
  
• Reimer, Margaret, 6/92, The Semantic Significance of Referential Intentions. (Cartwright)
  
  
• Jeske, Diane, 9/92, The Persistence and Importance of Persons. (Brink)
  
  
• Ulicny, Brian, 6/93, Issues in the Philosophical Foundations of Lexical Semantics. (Higginbotham)
  
  
• Womack, Catherine, 6/93, The Crucial Role of Proof: A Classical Defense Against Mathematical Empiricism. (Higginbotham)
  
  
• Picard, J.R.W. Michael, 9/93, Impredicativity and Turn of the Century Foundations of Mathematics: Presupposition in Poincar and Russell. (Cartwright)
  
  
• Stainton, Robert, 9/93, Non-Sentential Assertions. (Bromberger)
  
  
• Clapp, Leonard, 5/94, Seeing Through Opacity: A Defense of the Russellian View of Propositional Attitudes. (Bromberger)
  
  
• McConnell, Jeffrey, 5/94, Cartesian Intuitions. (Block)
  
  
• Hunter, David, 9/94, Expression, Analysis and Understanding: Three Essays in the Philosophy of Language. (Stalnaker)
  
  
• Lau, Yen-fong, 9/94, Belief in Semantics and Psychology. (Stalnaker)
  
  
• Jung, Darryl, 2/95, The Logic of Principia Mathematica. (Boolos)
  
  
• Bumpus, Ann, 6/95, Intending, Foreseeing and the Doctrine of Double Effect. (Thomson)
  
  
• Koslicki, Kathrin, 6/95, Talk About Stuffs and Things: The Logic of Mass and Count Nouns. (Thomson)
  
  
• Stanley, Jason, 6/95, Meaning and Metatheory. (Stalnaker)
  
  
• Szabo, Zoltan, 6/95, Problems of Compositionality. (Boolos)
  
  
• Stoljar, Daniel, 9/95, The Content of Physicalism. (Block)
  
  
• Hinton, Timothy, 6/96, Foundations of Egalitarian Justice. (Cohen)
  
  
• Kermode, Robert, 6/96, Three Aspects of the Nature of Linguistic Meaning. (Byrne)
  
  
• Feldmann, Judith, 2/97, The Significance of Intuitions of Contingency for the Mind-Body Problem. (Stalnaker)
  
  
• Macia Fabrega, Josep, 6/97, Natural Language and Formal Languages. (Stalnaker)
  
  
• Graff, Delia, 9/97, The Phenomena of Vagueness. (Stalnaker)
  
  
• Botterell, Andrew, 9/98, Analysis in Mind. (Stalnaker)
  
  
• Spencer, Cara, 9/98, On the Metaphysics of Belief. (Stalnaker)
  
  
• Sereno, Lisa, 2/99, Infinity and Experience. (Stalnaker)
  
  
• Brown, Rachel, 9/99, The Extension of Liberalism Beyond Domestic Boundaries: Three Problem Cases. (Cohen)
  
  
• McKitrick, Jennifer, 9/99, The Metaphysics of Dispositions. (Byrne)
  
  
• Streiffer, Robert, 9/99, Moral Relativism and Reasons for Action. (Thomson)
  
  
• Uzquiano, Gabriel, 9/99, Ontology and the Foundations of Mathematics. (McGee)
  
  
• Eklund, Matti, 9/00, Paradoxes and the Foundations of Semantics and Metaphysics. (Yablo)
  
  
• White, Roger, 9/00, Probability, Explanation, and Reasoning. (Stalnaker)
  
  
• Gray, Anthony, 2/01, The Semantics and Metaphysics of Contingent Identity. (Stalnaker)
  
  
• Hernando, Miguel, 2/01, Studies In Belief and Belief Attribution. (Stalnaker)
  
  
• Rayo, Agustin, 2/01, Plural Predication. (McGee)
  
  
• Jonsson, Olafur, 6/01, Vague Objects. (Thomson)
  
  
• Elga, Adam, 9/01, Counterfactuals, Dispositions, and Conscious Experience: Essays on Entropy. (Hall)
  
  
• Meyer, Ulrich, 9/01, Mathematics, Time, and Confirmation. (Stalnaker)
  
  
• Pettit, Dean, 9/01, Understanding Language. (Stalnaker)
  
  
• Friedman, Alexander, 6/02, Minimizing Harm: Three Problems in Moral Theory. (Thomson)
  
  
• Simon, Steven, 6/02, Contributions to a Physicalistic Theory of Action. (Stalnaker)
  
  
• Hoffmann, Aviv, 9/02, Actualism, Singular Propositions, and Possible Worlds: Essays in the Metaphysics of Modality. (Stalnaker)
  
  
• Maitra, Ishani, 9/02, Silence, Speech, and Responsibility. (Haslanger)
  
  
• McGrath, Sarah, 9/02, Causation in Metaphysics and Moral Theory. (Hall)
  
  
• Newman, Anthony, 9/02, Causal Efficacy and Externalist Mental Content. (Byrne)
  
  
• Koellner, Peter, 6/03, The Search for New Axioms. (McGee)
  
  
• Sartorio, Carolina, 6/03, The Causal and the Moral. (Yablo)
  
  
• Einheuser, Iris, 9/03, Conventionalism (Yablo)
  
  
• Flaherty, Joshua, 9/03,The Autonomy of the Political (Cohen)
  
  
• Harman, Elizabeth, 9/03, Moral Status (Cohen)
  
  
• Hawley, Patrick, 9/03, Skepticism Avoided (Stalnaker)

• Egan, Andrew, 2/04, Non-Standard Features (Yablo)

• Sofaer, Neema, 6/04, Economic Inequality and Choice: A Reassessment of Ronald Dworkin's Theory of Distributive Justice (Cohen)

• Doggett, Tyler, 9/04, Moral Properties and Moral Imagination (Byrne)

• John, James, 9/04, Consciousness and Intentionality (Byrne)

• Roskies, Adina, 9/04, Enzo and Me: Essays Concerning the Mental Lives of Humans and Other Animals (Hall)

• Sveinsdottir, Asta, 9/04, Siding with Euthyphro: Response-Dependence, Essentiality, and the Individuation of Ordinary Objects (Haslanger)

• Nickel, Bernhard, 9/05, Truth in Explanation (Hall, Stalnaker, Yablo)

• Abdul-Matin, Ishmawil, 9/06, Is There a Human Right to Democracy? (Cohen)

• Bach-y-Rita, Peter, 9/06, Some Ways That a Thing Can Go Wrong: Malfunctions, Disorders and Perversions (Thomson)

• Swanson, Eric, 9/06, Interactions With Context (Stalnaker)

• Decker, Jason, 2/07, Modality, Rationalism, and Conditionals (Yablo)

• Batty, Clare, 9/07, Lessons in Smelling: Essays on Olfactory Perception (Byrne)

• Berker, Selim, 9/07, The Particular and the General: Essays at the Interface of Ethics and Epistemology (Thomson)

• de Bres, Helena, 9/07, Globalizing Utilitarianism: Distributive Justice Beyond the State (Cohen)

• Finegan Johanna, 9/07, Essays on Obligation (Thomson)

• Sin, Jessica, 9/07, Essays in the Philosophy of Psychiatry (Holton)

• Kurtz, Roxanne, 2/08, Liberalism and Ethical Life: On Equality, Neutrality, and Culture (Cohen & Haslanger)

• Etlin, David, 9/08, Desire, Belief, and Conditional Belief (Stalnaker)

• Ninan, Dilip, 9/08, Imagination, Content, and the Self (Stalnaker)

• Yalcin, Seth, 9/08, Modality and Inquiry (Stalnaker & Yablo)

• Briggs, Rachel, 2/09, Partial Beleif and Expert Testimony (Stalnaker)

• Moss, Sarah, 6/09, Constraining Credences (Stalnaker)

• Ashwell, Lauren, 9/09, Desires and Dispositions (Byrne, Holton & Langton)

• Glick, Ephraim, 9/09, Practical Knowledge and Abilities (Stalnaker)

• Hoffman, Ginger, 9/09, Antidepressants, Bioenhancements, and the Ethics of Self-Respect (Holton)

• Holland, Sean , 9/09, Two Approaches to Human Rights (Haslanger)

• Hosein, Adam, 9/09, The Significance of Fairness (Langton)

• Logue, Heather, 9/09, Perceptual Experience: Relations and Representations (Byrne)

• Dougherty, Thomas, 9/10, Help! Not Just Anybody. Essays on Altruism and Conflicts of Interest (Holton and Langton)

• Henderson, Leah, 9/10, Framework Theories in Science (Stalnaker)

• Krupnick, Ari, 9/10, Internalism and Armchair Reasoning (Stalnaker)

• Kwon, Hongwoo, 9/10, Self-Identification and Self-Knowledge (Stalnaker)

• Urbanek, Valentina, 9/10, The Non-Identity Problem (Hare)

• Vavova, Ekaterina, 9/10, Rational Humility and Other Epistemic Killjoys (White)

• Robichaud, Christopher, 2/11, What Lies Beneath? A Defense of Categorical Humility (Langton)

• Almotahari, Mahrad, 9/11, Situating Language and Consciousness (Stalnaker)

• Graham, Andrew, 9/11, The Significance of Metaphysics (Yablo)

• Manne, Kate, 9/11, Not by Reasons Alone (Holton)
  

• Perez Carballo, Alejandro, 9/11, Rationality without Representation (Stalnaker and Yablo)

• Rinard, Susanna, 9/11, Reasoning One's Way Out of Skepticism (White)

• Santorio, Paolo, 9/11, You and "I", "now" and "then", and Some Related Thoughts (Stalnaker)

• Walden, Kenneth, 9/11, One and the Same Reason (Holton and Langton)

• Emery, Nina, 6/12, Chance, Indeterminacy, and Explanation (Skow)

• Greco, Daniel, 6/12, Epistemic Levels (White)

• Schoenfield, Miriam, 6/12, Imprecision in Normative Domains (White)

• Hedden, Brian, 9/12, Consistency in Choice and Credence (Hare)

• Sliwa, Pauline, 9/12, Praise without Perfection (Holton)

• Carr, Jennifer, 9/13, Justifying Bayesianism (Holton)

• Hagen, Daniel, 9/13, Moral Expertise and Moral Education: A Socratic Account (Haslanger)

• Rochford, Damien, 9/13, Agent and Environment (Stalnaker)

• Horowitz, Sophie, 6/14, Evidence as a Guide to Truth (White)

• Evans, Owain, 9/15, Bayesian Computational Models for Inferring Preferences (White)

• Lenehan, Rose, 9/15, Beyond Slurs: Communicating Evaluative Perspectives (Haslanger)

• Salow, Bernhard, 9/15, Access and Anticipation (White)

• Schumacher, Melissa, 9/15, Causation and Evidence (Skow)

• Ali, Arden, 9/16, Acting from Character: How Virtue and Vice Explain Praise and Blame (Setiya)

• Botchkina, Ekaterina, 9/16, Issues in Objectivity and Mind-Dependence (Haslanger and Yablo)

• Das, Nilanjan, 9/16, Epistemic Stability (White)

• Doody, Ryan, 9/16, Doing Your Best (While Making Do with Less): The Actual Value Conception of Instrumental Rationality (Rayo)

• Marley-Payne, Jack, 9/16, Action-First Attitudes (Stalnaker)

• Millsop, Rebecca, 9/16, Precisifying Art Pluralism (Haslanger)

• Ortiz-Hinojosa, Sofia, 9/16, What Imagination Teaches (Byrne)

• Mandelkern, Matthew, 6/17, Coordination in Conversation (Stalnaker and von Fintel)

• Bianchi, Dylan, 9/17, Know-How as the Cognitive Basis of Skill (Byrne)

• de Kenessey, Brendan, 9/17, Joint Practical Deliberation (Setiya)

• Jenny, Matthias, 9/17, Taming the Impossible (McGee)

• Richardson, Kevin, 9/17, Grounding Pluralism (Yablo)

• Saillant, Said, 9/17, Darwinian Humility: Epistemological Applications of Evolutionary Science (White)

• Wells, Ian, 9/17, Evidence and Choice (White)

• Boylan, David, 9/18, Subjective Modality (Stalnaker)

• Gray, David, 9/18, Ethics for Artificial Agents (Byrne)

• Jaques, Abby, 9/18, Knowing and Doing, Well and Good (Setiya)

• Schultheis, Virginia, 9/18, Belief and Evidence (White)

• Hesni, Samia, 6/19, Normative Discourse and Social Negotiation (Haslanger)

• Muñoz, Daniel, 6/19, What We Owe to Ourselves: Essays on Rights and Supererogation (Schapiro, Setiya)

• Dorst, Kevin, 9/19, Modest Epistemology (White)

• Grant, Cosmo, 9/19, Foundations and philosophical applications of game theory (Stalnaker)

• Lenehan, Rose, 9/19, Reparations, Racial Exploitation, and Racial Capitalism (Haslanger)

• Phillips-Brown, Milo, 9/19, What it Means to Want (Yablo)

• White, Patrick Quinn, 9/19, Love First (Setiya)