Territorial Tensions: The State, Legitimacy, and the Politics of Place

A Dissertation for Defense • Samantha Fritz

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Supervisor of Dissertation

KC Tan (chair)
Professor and Chair of Philosophy 

Communicating Policy-Relevant Science in a Pluralistic Society

A Dissertation for Defense • Vanessa Schipani

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Supervisor of Dissertation

Michael Weisberg (chair)
Bess W. Heyman President's Distinguished Professor of Philosophy 

Individuality in Pregnancy: A Pragmatist Ontology for Biomedical Science

A Dissertation for Defense • Maja Sidzinska

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Supervisor of Dissertation

Karen Detlefsen (co-chair)
Professor of Philosophy and Education

Michael Weisberg (co-chair)
Bess W. Heyman President's Distinguished Professor of Philosophy 

Ideal and Non-Ideal Theorizing in Higher Education: A Political-Liberal Approach

A Dissertation for Defense • Afton Greco

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Supervisor of Dissertation

Sigal Ben-Porath (chair)
MRMJJ Presidential Professor; Professor of Eduaction 

Public Reason, Values in Science, and Democracy

A Dissertation for Defense • Jesse Hamilton

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Supervisor of Dissertation

Michael Weisberg (chair)
Bess W. Heyman President's Distinguished Professor of Philosophy  

Dissertation Committee

Kok-Chor Tan
Professor and Chair of Philosophy

Moral Challenges in Loving the Unlovable

A Dissertation for Defense • Youngbin Yoon

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Supervisor of Dissertation

Errol Lord (co-chair)
Associate Professor of Philosophy 

Daniel Singer (co-chair)
Associate Professor of Philosophy

AT THE MARGINS OF DISABILITY: IMPLICATIONS FOR AGENCY, IDENTITY, AND THE METAPHYSICS OF DISABILITY

A Dissertation for Defense • Sara Purinton

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Supervisor of Dissertation

Errol Lord (co-chair)
Associate Professor of Philosophy 

Jennifer Morton (co-chair)
Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Philosophy and Graduate Chair

THE LIGHT OF THE DARK: DARK MATTER, ASTRONOMY, AND KNOWING THE UNOBSERVABLE

A Dissertation for Defense • Eugene Vaynberg

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Defining Nature: An Ameliorative Account of Nature as Reciprocal Relations

A dissertation for defense by Kate Nicole Hoffman

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