SENIOR THESIS AUTHORS AND TITLES
Anderson, Elizabeth: Chews Wisely: An Analysis Concerning Agricultural Production and
Regulation
Eavenson, April Claire: Everydayness: Phenomenology, Language, and the Subtleties of
Communication
Owens, Cecelia: Population Eschatology
Adams, Jim: The Luminous Ocean of Knowing and the Wise Knower of Now
Bounds, Phillip: Matter of Meaning: An Investigation in Materialism, Free Will, and Meaning
Ellison, Stacie: A Third Treatise: Re-evaluating Locke’s Theory of Property
Martin, Sarah: Get the Balance Right: Dismantling the Conscious Mind to Create Unity
Mauss, Melanie: Anorexic Nation: How Dualism Has Exploited Feminism to Result in Anorexia
Nervosa in the United States
Parrish, Meagan: A Reflection on Aesthetic Thought
Plush, James: Existentialism and Utilitarianism: The Foundations of a New Ethical System
Schultz, Raymond: Refuting Traditions: Applications of Dialectics to the Gene
Foster, Jesse: When Harry Met Sally: A Cognitive Exploration Indexing Their Beliefs—and Yours
McLean, Traci: Environmental Aesthetics
Rush, Michael: Mindful Materialization: A Bridge Back to the Self
Bernal, Jose: Calvin’s Baby Talk
Cook, Chase: Putting the “Me” Back in Treatment: Philosophically Validating a Holistic
Approach to Psychology Using Epicurus and Augustine
Dagg, Jason: Ethics in Dreaming
Davis, Johanna Campanaro: Pre-Employment Testing: Unethical and Unnecessary
DiFiore, Laura: Busting the Myth: The Use and Misuse of Myth in Historical Philosophy
Evans, Joseph: A Theory of Emotion in the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
Fonley, Heidi-Jo: Gods of the Rational and Empirical: An Investigation of Descartes and Hume
Garcia, Lana: Contemporary Art: The Manifestation of the Link Between Emotion and Reason
Held, Andrea: Paralyzed Souls of the Righteous
Higashi, Aaron: Of Roses and Rebellions: A Critical Examination of the Viability and Composition of
Postmodern Atheism’s Arguments Against Established Religious Traditions of the Western World
Luttrell, Aaron J.P.: The Imaginary in the Realm of Philosophy
Matheson, Alexander: Rehabilitation in the Modern Prison System
Mueller, Johanna: Finding Love: A Simple Theory in a Complex World
Palmer, Eva: Society Mediation: From One Extreme to the Other
Parkhurst, Travis: Tearing Down the Illusion of the Non-Self: Arguments Against Buddhist
Non-Self Theory
Paul, Tabitha: Closed Into Religion: Individual Preference in a Rural System
Reed IV, George “Giff”: Let’s Hug This Out: Reconciling Derrida’s Deconstuction with
Evangelical Christianity
Sharkey, Alex B.: The Philosopher’s Guide of Poker: Existing Outside the Modern Paradigm
Siebert, M. Nate: The Question of Reference
Sparks, Jonathan: I Feel, Therefore I Intuit
Van Gorder, Amanda: The Moral Question
Worden, Jennifer: Militant Islam V. the World
Detwiler, James: Plato's Soul: Redefining the Attributes
Marshall, Cassandra: Analysis of the Contemporary Human-Equine Relationship
Myers, Paul: Assumptions of Just-War Theory and Its Failure at Global Application
Ngugen, Jennifer: Philosophy for Children: Kids and Their Capacities Towards Moral Thought
and Philosophical Ideas
Raymond, Mary: Disabled Perception in Special Education
Taylor, Corinne: The End of the World …As We Know It
Tyler, Janeal: Identity
Beckmann, Kathryn: Reality and the Limitations Imposed by perception and Subjectivity
Bibler, Jason: The Church of the Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints: An Analysis of Infallibility,
Immutability, and Truth
Brewer, Charita: Standardization: Moving Away from Practical Learning and Philosophy
Cowles, Jordan: The Positive Limitations of the Role of Solitude in Literature
Hagan, Catherine: Liberation Theology: A Critique of Marxist Catholicism as Prescription for
Revolution
Kiper, Jordan: Defining Peace
Kulpinski, Benjamin: The Transmission of Truth with Formal Systems and Language
Lyke, Ariana: The Myth of Reason
Sprung, Melissa: Memorials: Abstract Versus Realistic Depictions
Takahashi, Troy: Teachers Conforming to School Needs
Ellis-Frischmann, Nina: Gregory of Nyssa: Why His Trinitarian Doctrine Is Incomplete
Hudgens, Julia Marie: The Misogynist Myth: Friedrich Nietzsche Revisited
Lotz, Valerie: Feminist Fusion
Poole, Sabrina: Faith and Feminism--Finding a Feminist Judaism
Best, Jonathan: A Hobo in a Monk’s Robe: A Philosophical Analysis of the Beat
Generation
Carranza, Genevieve: Secular Morality Reexamined
Cordova, Zach: Can One Know the Existence of God?
Deemer, Robert: Are Business Organizations Relinquishing Control?
Freers, Kraig: Freers’ Precipice
Lick, Chris: An Antirealist Analysis of Truth: Progress Notwithstanding
Miller, Benjamin: Perpetual Revolution
Trotter, Chris: The Illogical Nature of God
Wagner, Rebecca: Renewing Civil Society: Solving the Disintegration of Political
Space
Bain, Jackson Jacob: unfinished
Hutchison, Andrew: A Discussion Around Searle’s Chinese Room Argument: Thought and
Understanding in Real-World Computation
Kuzma, Joseph: Model Velocity on the Autopoetic Place: An Interpretation of Spinozist
Ontology
Mann, Brian” Existentialism and the Theatre of the Absurd: How the Existential Drama of Jean-
Paul Sartre and Albert Camus is Less Existential than the Theatre of the Absurd
March, Robert: Transformation of Consciousness Using Buddhist Principles to Alleviate Affliction States of Mind
Sparks, Ryan Andrew: Hegel on the Value of Art
Szczepanski, Danielle Marie: Only God Can Judge Me: The Use of Religion for Violence
Weller, II, Richard Thomas: Polyamory and the Weed of Patriarchy
Burkart, Andy: Time: An Introduction and Philosophical Critique of Special Relativity
Butcher, Matthew Paul: Karl Jaspers and Nondualism: Transcendence, Existence, Cipher, and Foundering in Jaspers’ Existenphilosophie
Cummings, Zach Scott: On Libertarianism: A Critical Analysis of the Modern Political
Philosophy
Gaffney, Meghan Suzanne: The Problem of Evil and Its Relation to the Holocaust of World War
II
Garland, Dayna Yvonne: Patriarchical Assumptions: The Problem of Hierarchy in Monastic
Buddhism and the Need for Feminist Reconceptualization
Holden, Mari Kim: Fairness in Competition
Kapustyan, Dimitry: On the Adaptability of Social Orders
Kragel, Amy Louise: Literary Analysis of Biblical Marriage Metaphors and the Effects They
Have on 21st Century Society
Kunimoto, Katherine: Ua Mau Ke O Ka ‘Aina Ka Pono: The Philosophy of Ancient Hawaii
McBrayer, Landon Marc: An Examination of the Evidential Argument from Evil with a
Consideration of the Doctrine of Hell as an Example of Pointless Evil
Odell, Jacob William: Is Emergent Mind Theory Enough to Build Artificial Intelligence
Peterson, Heather: Justifying Just War Theory
Wagner, Naomi: Synthetic Emotion: An Exploration of Consumer Culture and the Feeling of
Lack
Dunn, Joshua: Film and Time
Frum, Matthew Christopher: On Buddhism
Getchey, Kyle: In God We Trust…Man’s Solitary Quest for Freedom and Peace Within a
Representative System or an Honest Debate Over the Merits of Holding Another Constitutional Convention
Griffin, IV, Thomas: A Revisitation of Non-Empiricism: Political Philosophy Through the Lens
of Phenomenology
Ivey, Courtney: The Concept of Solitude: The Philosophical and Psychological Theories of
Solitude and the Relationship to Human Knowledge
Kendall, Jason Robert: Fire on the Mountain: The Nyaya Pentapod as Non-Syllogistic
Alvarez-Hansen, Darla: I Am Not My Life: An Existential Analysis of the Objective Life vs. the
Subjective Life Through Being, Nothingness, and Immortality
Boeninger, Brian Paul: The Explanatory Gap: Limits to Objectivity
Hodges, Linda J.: Callicott’s Land Ethic: Biotic or Biased?
Johnson, Amy: The Role of Government Regulation in Scientific Research: The Case of Stem-
Cell Research
Johnson, Sarah Sawn: unknown
Lucas, Jr., Tommy: unknown
Munger, Jason Ruarke: An Inquiry Into Epistemology
Poore, Justin E.: Liberal Political Philosophy: A Historical Analysis and Comparison of Welfare
and Neo-Classical Liberalism
Alvarez, Teri Louise: The Problem of Consciousness
Auld, Beverly: The Strict Lines of Ethics vs. the Transcendent Lines of Business: AN
Examination of Business Ethics
Busby, Luke A.: A Rose By Any Other Name
Hane, Jennifer Lynn: The Role of Women in Hasidism
Hume, Joyce Maynard: The Difference Principle: Blueprint for Indifference?
Hollister, Bethany: Perspectives of Women’s Oppression
Kasel, Rich: Scarcity: The Hedonistic Assumption in Science and Technology