PECN-3030 Individual, Society, and State
PHIL-1030 Ethics
PHIL-3560 Social and Political Ethics
PHIL-3660 Anarchy
PHIL-6050 Moral Philosophy
PHIL-6740 Contemporary Political Philosophy
PHIL-6920 Ethics of Community
PHIL-6930 Moral Perspectives
PHIL-6930 Norms
PHIL-6930 Liberalism and Its Enemies
PHIL-6931 Social Morality
PHIL-6931 Diversity and Disagreement
PHIL-6942 History of Political Philosophy
I've also directed independent studies at the graduate level on John Rawls, Social Choice Theory, Formal Methods in Social Philosophy, the ethics of community, and ethical issues in death and dying, and at the undergraduate level on wide ranging topics in moral theory, social and political philosophy, and applied ethics.
Siobhain McGuinness, MA Thesis 2017
Autonomy, Mental Health, and the Right to the Choice of Suicide
Annie Gosserand, Honors Thesis 2019
Ethical Rights of the Child in Medicine
Angelika Robertson, Honors Thesis 2019 (Co-Directed)
Thinking Outside of the Cell: An Analysis of Public Opinion Towards Alternative Sentencing Options
Matti Mortimore, Ph.D. Qualifying Paper 2019
Mutual Advantage and the Status Quo
Pavan Guduri, Honors Thesis 2020
The Duties of an Athlete: A normative analysis of NBA and NFL athletes’ duties as they relate to the interests of the fans and organization
Kennedy Pivnik, Honors Thesis 2020
Morality as a Product of a Market
Colin Threlkeld, Honors Thesis 2020 (Co-Directed)
Freedom for Some: G. A. Cohen on Freedom and Markets Economies
Deeya Patel, Honors Thesis 2022
Beyond the Debate: Preliminary Steps to Introduce Emerging Biomedical Enhancements Safely and Effectively
Alec Wild, MA Thesis 2022
Direct Action: A Factor of Revolution
Daniel Dzah, Ph.D. Dissertation 2022
Immigration and New Philosophies of Inclusion
Siobhain Lash, Ph.D. Dissertation 2022
Popular Environmental Justice Questions: A Philosophical Evaluation
Nilesh Ganguli, Honors Thesis 2023
Dispassionate Reasoning
Molly McClure, MA Thesis 2023
Money as Moral Means
Corey Horn, Ph.D. Dissertation in progress (Co-Directed)
Sovereignty in the International State of Nature
Matt Myers, Ph.D. Dissertation 2024
Essays on Democracy: Political Incentives, Polarization, and Perspectival Diversity
Nicholas Prus, Honors Thesis 2025
Forced to Live or Allowed to Die: The Ethics of Adolescent Medical Refusal
Natalie Cockrell, Tennenbaum Tutorial 2025
What is Justice Behind Bars?
Chen Wang, Ph.D. Dissertation in progress
What We Owe Each Other as Project Pursuers
Jane Li, Ph.D. Dissertation in progress
Political Identity and Polarization
Amethyst Bias, Ph.D. Dissertation in progress
A Comparative Account of Character on Social Media
Shoshana Primak, Ph.D. Dissertation in progress
Open the Mind! Critical Thinking, Liberalism, and Ethics Bowling
Non-Identity Problem (Honors Thesis, 2016)
The Nature and Value of Moral Distress in Medical Practice (Dissertation, 2017)
Doing Good Better: Ethical conceptions of international volunteer tourism for health interventions in the northern Dominican Republic (Honors Thesis, 2019)
The Nature of Luck and its Role in Moral Assessment (Dissertation, 2019)
A Contractualist Approach to Gender Inclusion (MA Thesis, 2020)
The Politics of Freedom: Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, and Simone Weil (Honors Thesis, 2020)
From Confinement to Community: Comparing Juvenile Justice Approaches in New Orleans and Barbados (Honors Thesis, 2020)
Education and Attitudes (Honors Thesis, 2020)
A Holistic Approach to International Criminal Justice: "Which Type of Accountability" Rather Than "Peace Versus Justice" (Honors Thesis, 2021)
Prudence and Law: Plato's Minos, Laws, and Statesman (Dissertation, 2022)
Appealing to Heaven: Conscience, Authority, and Moral Knowledge in the Political Philosophy of John Locke (Dissertation, 2022)
The Value of Compassion: A Comparative Study of Emotions in Aristotle and Rousseau (Dissertation, 2022)
Violence, Rebellion, and Alienation: Camus and Fanon in the Colonial City (Honors Thesis, 2025)
Siobhain McGuinness, MA Thesis Defense 2017
Annie Gosserand (winner of the Senior Scholar award) Honors Thesis Defense 2019