Ph.D. Dissertations Directed by Ernest Sosa
At Rutgers
2022
Karson Kovakovich, Hallucination and Naive Realism (Directed jointly with John Hawthorne.)
2021
Christopher Willard-Kyle, Surprising Suspensions: The Epistemic Value of Being Ignorant
2019
David Black, The True and the Good. (Directed jointly with Douglas Husak.)
Laura Callahan, Responsible for What’s Rational
2018
Will Fleisher, Endorsement and Inquiry. (Directed jointly with Branden Fitelson.)
2017
Georgi Gardiner, In Pursuit of Understanding
2014
Lisa Miracchi, Getting Things Done. (Directed jointly with Brian McLaughlin.)
Kurt Sylvan, The Normativity of Epistemic Rationality
2013
Kate Devitt, Homeostatic Epistemology
Blake Roeber, Believing, Knowing, Acting
2012
Matthew Benton, Knowledge Norms: Assertion, Action, and Belief
2010
Alexander Jackson, Evaluating Beliefs
2009
Joshue Orozco, Knowledge and Intellectual Skill
Stephanie Wykstra, A Defense of Cartesian Certainty
2008
Jonathan Ichikawa, Imagination and Epistemology
2001
Christopher Knapp, Making Metaethics Matter: Can Moral Semantics Improve Moral Inquiry? (Directed jointly with Richard Foley.)
At Brown
2010
Ali Eslami, The Feeling of Justification: A Phenomenological Amendment to Virtue Epistemology
2008
Benjamin Fiedor, Doxastic Involuntarism and Epistemic Deontology
Jerry Steinhofer, Epistemic Desert and the Value of Knowledge
2006
John Turri, Epistemic Reasons
2005
Derek Ettinger, Making Sense of Things
Allan Hazlett, Grice’s Razor and Moore’s Gambit
2004
Michael Pace, Perceptual Consciousness and Epistemic Justification
2003
Juan Comesaña, The Ways of Reason
2002
Robert Howell, Self-Knowledge and Self-Reference. (Directed jointly with Jaegwon Kim.)
David Matheson, Understanding, Validation and the Everyday in Epistemology
Baron Reed, Knowledge, Agency, and Personhood
Joseph Shieber, The Reasons Others Give Us: The Norms of Assertion Account of the Epistemic Status of Testimony
2000
Jason Kawall, Virtues, Ideal Observers, and the Foundations of Normativity
Jennifer Lackey, Rationality, Defeaters, and Testimony
Peter Marton, Skeptical Games
1999
Jeremy Fantl, Revisability and the A Priori
1998
Douglas McDermid, Is Pragmatism Coherent?
Matthew McGrath, Between Deflationism and the Correspondence Theory
1997
Brie Gertler, Introspectivist View of the Mental
1993
George Strander, The Pragmatics of Epistemology
Robert Welshon, Mental events
1991
Bindu Madhok, The ontological status of ethics
Jeffrey Whitman, The power and value of philosophical skepticism
1990
David Martens, Some descriptional theories of first-person thoughts
1989
David Bennett, Psychophysical Laws: A Framework
John Greco, The foundationalism-coherentism debate in epistemology
1988
Linda Alcoff, New versions of the coherence theory: Gadamer, Davidson, Foucault, and Putnam
Vrinda Dalmiya, Epistemological arguments against the external world
Douglas Oro, The liar paradox and bivalence
1987
Dennis Alicea-Rodriguez, John Dewey on Theory and Practice: Theory of Knowledge and Theory of Teaching and Learning
Arthur F. Moeller, Pragmatism: the Copernican revolution continued
1981
Carol Cleland, Causation: an irreducible physical relation
1980
Richard Rose, Belief and the reference of proper names
Theodore Schick, Meaning, truth, and belief: an inquiry into the natures of propositions and states of affairs
1979
Timothy Colburn, A foundationalist theory of empirical justification
Eric Kraemer, Function, intentionality and organism
1978
David Henderson, Relativism and the concept of empirical knowledge
1977
Arnold Cusmariu, A platonist theory of properties
1975
Michael Gorr, The structure of human action
1973
David Benfield, The problem of defining knowledge
Frederick Bohl, Davidson and Chisholm on events
Herbert Yarvin, Some Cartesian questions
1972
Marlene Fried, Marx's historical materialism and the problem of explanation in history
James Lamb, Fundamental concepts in the theory of rule-sets
Stuart Rosenbaum, Properties and categories
1969
Leonard Lyons, Counterfactuals and “truth conditions"
At Rutgers
2022
Karson Kovakovich, Hallucination and Naive Realism (Directed jointly with John Hawthorne.)
2021
Christopher Willard-Kyle, Surprising Suspensions: The Epistemic Value of Being Ignorant
2019
David Black, The True and the Good. (Directed jointly with Douglas Husak.)
Laura Callahan, Responsible for What’s Rational
2018
Will Fleisher, Endorsement and Inquiry. (Directed jointly with Branden Fitelson.)
2017
Georgi Gardiner, In Pursuit of Understanding
2014
Lisa Miracchi, Getting Things Done. (Directed jointly with Brian McLaughlin.)
Kurt Sylvan, The Normativity of Epistemic Rationality
2013
Kate Devitt, Homeostatic Epistemology
Blake Roeber, Believing, Knowing, Acting
2012
Matthew Benton, Knowledge Norms: Assertion, Action, and Belief
2010
Alexander Jackson, Evaluating Beliefs
2009
Joshue Orozco, Knowledge and Intellectual Skill
Stephanie Wykstra, A Defense of Cartesian Certainty
2008
Jonathan Ichikawa, Imagination and Epistemology
2001
Christopher Knapp, Making Metaethics Matter: Can Moral Semantics Improve Moral Inquiry? (Directed jointly with Richard Foley.)
At Brown
2010
Ali Eslami, The Feeling of Justification: A Phenomenological Amendment to Virtue Epistemology
2008
Benjamin Fiedor, Doxastic Involuntarism and Epistemic Deontology
Jerry Steinhofer, Epistemic Desert and the Value of Knowledge
2006
John Turri, Epistemic Reasons
2005
Derek Ettinger, Making Sense of Things
Allan Hazlett, Grice’s Razor and Moore’s Gambit
2004
Michael Pace, Perceptual Consciousness and Epistemic Justification
2003
Juan Comesaña, The Ways of Reason
2002
Robert Howell, Self-Knowledge and Self-Reference. (Directed jointly with Jaegwon Kim.)
David Matheson, Understanding, Validation and the Everyday in Epistemology
Baron Reed, Knowledge, Agency, and Personhood
Joseph Shieber, The Reasons Others Give Us: The Norms of Assertion Account of the Epistemic Status of Testimony
2000
Jason Kawall, Virtues, Ideal Observers, and the Foundations of Normativity
Jennifer Lackey, Rationality, Defeaters, and Testimony
Peter Marton, Skeptical Games
1999
Jeremy Fantl, Revisability and the A Priori
1998
Douglas McDermid, Is Pragmatism Coherent?
Matthew McGrath, Between Deflationism and the Correspondence Theory
1997
Brie Gertler, Introspectivist View of the Mental
1993
George Strander, The Pragmatics of Epistemology
Robert Welshon, Mental events
1991
Bindu Madhok, The ontological status of ethics
Jeffrey Whitman, The power and value of philosophical skepticism
1990
David Martens, Some descriptional theories of first-person thoughts
1989
David Bennett, Psychophysical Laws: A Framework
John Greco, The foundationalism-coherentism debate in epistemology
1988
Linda Alcoff, New versions of the coherence theory: Gadamer, Davidson, Foucault, and Putnam
Vrinda Dalmiya, Epistemological arguments against the external world
Douglas Oro, The liar paradox and bivalence
1987
Dennis Alicea-Rodriguez, John Dewey on Theory and Practice: Theory of Knowledge and Theory of Teaching and Learning
Arthur F. Moeller, Pragmatism: the Copernican revolution continued
1981
Carol Cleland, Causation: an irreducible physical relation
1980
Richard Rose, Belief and the reference of proper names
Theodore Schick, Meaning, truth, and belief: an inquiry into the natures of propositions and states of affairs
1979
Timothy Colburn, A foundationalist theory of empirical justification
Eric Kraemer, Function, intentionality and organism
1978
David Henderson, Relativism and the concept of empirical knowledge
1977
Arnold Cusmariu, A platonist theory of properties
1975
Michael Gorr, The structure of human action
1973
David Benfield, The problem of defining knowledge
Frederick Bohl, Davidson and Chisholm on events
Herbert Yarvin, Some Cartesian questions
1972
Marlene Fried, Marx's historical materialism and the problem of explanation in history
James Lamb, Fundamental concepts in the theory of rule-sets
Stuart Rosenbaum, Properties and categories
1969
Leonard Lyons, Counterfactuals and “truth conditions"
