Loyola University Chicago

Department of Philosophy

Recent MA & PhD Defenses

PhD in Philosophy 2021

Katherine Brichacek, PhD

  • Dissertation Title: Refuting the Single Story of Political Action in Hannah Arendt: Navigating Arendt's Eurocentrism and anti-Black Racism
  • Dissertation Director: Dr. Jacqueline Scott

Jacob Joseph Andrews, PhD

  • Dissertation Title: William of Auxerre and Thomas Aquinas on Simultaneous Faith and Knowledge
  • Dissertation Director: Dr. Blake Dutton

Randolph Jay Carlson, PhD

  • Dissertation Title: Political Justificationism: A More Realistic Epistemology of Political Disagreement
  • Dissertation Director: Dr. David Ingram

PhD in Philosophy 2020

David Bukenhofer, PhD

  • Dissertation Title: Making Moral Judgment More Responsible via Constraints on Moral Beliefs
  • Dissertation Director: Dr. Paul K. Moser

PhD in Philosophy 2019

Drew Thompson, PhD

  • Dissertation Title: A Discourse Theoretic Contribution to Migration and Sovereignty
  • Dissertation Director: Dr. David Ingram

Jean Clifford, PhD

  • Dissertation Title: The Role of Incidental Perception in Aristotle's Moral Epistemology
  • Dissertation Director: Dr. Julie Ward

Justin Nordin, PhD

  • Dissertation Title: A Levinasian Approach to Ethics
  • Dissertation Director: Dr. Hanne Jacobs

David Atenasio, PhD

  • Dissertation Title: Collective Responsibility by Agreement
  • Dissertation Director: Dr. Thomas Carson

MA in Philosophy

  • Joshua Hinchie, 2021
  • Conor Beath, 2020
  • Xin Chen, 2019
  • Daniel Khananisho, 2019
  • James Egan, 2018

MA in Social Philosophy

  • Chi Nhan Nguyen, 2021
  • Mark Blancke, 2021
  • Paul Phillipino, 2021
  • An Vu, 2021
  • Marco Machado, 2021
  • Chris Nguyen, 2021
  • Bryan Galligan, 2021
  • Christopher Smith, 2020
  • Orlando Portalatin, 2020
  • Pat Corkery, 2020
  • Oliver Capko, 2020
  • Nathan Krawetzki, 2020
  • Fernando Saldivar, 2020
  • Erin Kast, 2020
  • Conan Rainwater, 2020
  • Thomas Arms, 2020
  • Chia-Yang Kao, 2019
  • David Inczauskis, 2019
  • Joseph Lorenz, 2019
  • Michael Martinez, 2019