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Theses/dissertations from 2023 2023.

Karl Marx on Human Flourishing and Proletarian Ethics , Sam Badger

The Ontological Grounds of Reason: Psychologism, Logicism, and Hermeneutic Phenomenology , Stanford L. Howdyshell

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Interdisciplinary Communication by Plausible Analogies: the Case of Buddhism and Artificial Intelligence , Michael Cooper

Heidegger and the Origin of Authenticity , John J. Preston

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Hegel and Schelling: The Emptiness of Emptiness and the Love of the Divine , Sean B. Gleason

Nietzsche on Criminality , Laura N. McAllister

Learning to be Human: Ren 仁, Modernity, and the Philosophers of China's Hundred Days' Reform , Lucien Mathot Monson

Nietzsche and Eternal Recurrence: Methods, Archives, History, and Genesis , William A. B. Parkhurst

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Orders of Normativity: Nietzsche, Science and Agency , Shane C. Callahan

Humanistic Climate Philosophy: Erich Fromm Revisited , Nicholas Dovellos

This, or Something like It: Socrates and the Problem of Authority , Simon Dutton

Climate Change and Liberation in Latin America , Ernesto O. Hernández

Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa as Expressions of Shame in a Post-Feminist , Emily Kearns

Nostalgia and (In)authentic Community: A Bataillean Answer to the Heidegger Controversy , Patrick Miller

Cultivating Virtue: A Thomistic Perspective on the Relationship Between Moral Motivation and Skill , Ashley Potts

Identity, Breakdown, and the Production of Knowledge: Intersectionality, Phenomenology, and the Project of Post-Marxist Standpoint Theory , Zachary James Purdue

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

The Efficacy of Comedy , Mark Anthony Castricone

William of Ockham's Divine Command Theory , Matthew Dee

Heidegger's Will to Power and the Problem of Nietzsche's Nihilism , Megan Flocken

Abelard's Affective Intentionalism , Lillian M. King

Anton Wilhelm Amo's Philosophy and Reception: from the Origins through the Encyclopédie , Dwight Kenneth Lewis Jr.

"The Thought that we Hate": Regulating Race-Related Speech on College Campuses , Michael McGowan

A Historical Approach to Understanding Explanatory Proofs Based on Mathematical Practices , Erika Oshiro

From Meaningful Work to Good Work: Reexamining the Moral Foundation of the Calling Orientation , Garrett W. Potts

Reasoning of the Highest Leibniz and the Moral Quality of Reason , Ryan Quandt

Fear, Death, and Being-a-problem: Understanding and Critiquing Racial Discourse with Heidegger’s Being and Time , Jesús H. Ramírez

The Role of Skepticism in Early Modern Philosophy: A Critique of Popkin's "Sceptical Crisis" and a Study of Descartes and Hume , Raman Sachdev

How the Heart Became Muscle: From René Descartes to Nicholas Steno , Alex Benjamin Shillito

Autonomy, Suffering, and the Practice of Medicine: A Relational Approach , Michael A. Stanfield

The Case for the Green Kant: A Defense and Application of a Kantian Approach to Environmental Ethics , Zachary T. Vereb

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Augustine's Confessiones : The Battle between Two Conversions , Robert Hunter Craig

The Strategic Naturalism of Sandra Harding's Feminist Standpoint Epistemology: A Path Toward Epistemic Progress , Dahlia Guzman

Hume on the Doctrine of Infinite Divisibility: A Matter of Clarity and Absurdity , Wilson H. Underkuffler

Climate Change: Aristotelian Virtue Theory, the Aidōs Response and Proper Primility , John W. Voelpel

The Fate of Kantian Freedom: the Kant-Reinhold Controversy , John Walsh

Time, Tense, and Ontology: Prolegomena to the Metaphysics of Tense, the Phenomenology of Temporality, and the Ontology of Time , Justin Brandt Wisniewski

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

A Phenomenological Approach to Clinical Empathy: Rethinking Empathy Within its Intersubjective and Affective Contexts , Carter Hardy

From Object to Other: Models of Sociality after Idealism in Gadamer, Levinas, Rosenzweig, and Bonhoeffer , Christopher J. King

Humanitarian Military Intervention: A Failed Paradigm , Faruk Rahmanovic

Active Suffering: An Examination of Spinoza's Approach to Tristita , Kathleen Ketring Schenk

Cartesian Method and Experiment , Aaron Spink

An Examination of John Burton’s Method of Conflict Resolution and Its Applicability to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict , John Kenneth Steinmeyer

Speaking of the Self: Theorizing the Dialogical Dimensions of Ethical Agency , Bradley S. Warfield

Changing Changelessness: On the Genesis and Development of the Doctrine of Divine Immutability in the Ancient and Hellenic Period , Milton Wilcox

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

The Statue that Houses the Temple: A Phenomenological Investigation of Western Embodiment Towards the Making of Heidegger's Missing Connection with the Greeks , Michael Arvanitopoulos

An Exploratory Analysis of Media Reporting of Police Involved Shootings in Florida , John L. Brown

Divine Temporality: Bonhoeffer's Theological Appropriation of Heidegger's Existential Analytic of Dasein , Nicholas Byle

Stoicism in Descartes, Pascal, and Spinoza: Examining Neostoicism’s Influence in the Seventeenth Century , Daniel Collette

Phenomenology and the Crisis of Contemporary Psychiatry: Contingency, Naturalism, and Classification , Anthony Vincent Fernandez

A Critique of Charitable Consciousness , Chioke Ianson

writing/trauma , Natasha Noel Liebig

Leibniz's More Fundamental Ontology: from Overshadowed Individuals to Metaphysical Atoms , Marin Lucio Mare

Violence and Disagreement: From the Commonsense View to Political Kinds of Violence and Violent Nonviolence , Gregory Richard Mccreery

Kant's Just War Theory , Steven Charles Starke

A Feminist Contestation of Ableist Assumptions: Implications for Biomedical Ethics, Disability Theory, and Phenomenology , Christine Marie Wieseler

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Heidegger and the Problem of Modern Moral Philosophy , Megan Emily Altman

The Encultured Mind: From Cognitive Science to Social Epistemology , David Alexander Eck

Weakness of Will: An Inquiry on Value , Michael Funke

Cogs in a Cosmic Machine: A Defense of Free Will Skepticism and its Ethical Implications , Sacha Greer

Thinking Nature, "Pierre Maupertuis and the Charge of Error Against Fermat and Leibniz" , Richard Samuel Lamborn

John Duns Scotus’s Metaphysics of Goodness: Adventures in 13th-Century Metaethics , Jeffrey W. Steele

A Gadamerian Analysis of Roman Catholic Hermeneutics: A Diachronic Analysis of Interpretations of Romans 1:17-2:17 , Steven Floyd Surrency

A Natural Case for Realism: Processes, Structures, and Laws , Andrew Michael Winters

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

Leibniz's Theodicies , Joseph Michael Anderson

Aeschynē in Aristotle's Conception of Human Nature , Melissa Marie Coakley

Ressentiment, Violence, and Colonialism , Jose A. Haro

It's About Time: Dynamics of Inflationary Cosmology as the Source of the Asymmetry of Time , Emre Keskin

Time Wounds All Heels: Human Nature and the Rationality of Just Behavior , Timothy Glenn Slattery

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

Nietzsche and Heidegger on the Cartesian Atomism of Thought , Steven Burgess

Embodying Social Practice: Dynamically Co-Constituting Social Agency , Brian W. Dunst

Subject of Conscience: On the Relation between Freedom and Discrimination in the Thought of Heidegger, Foucault, and Butler , Aret Karademir

Climate, Neo-Spinozism, and the Ecological Worldview , Nancy M. Kettle

Eschatology in a Secular Age: An Examination of the Use of Eschatology in the Philosophies of Heidegger, Berdyaev and Blumenberg , John R. Lup, Jr.

Navigation and Immersion of the American Identity in a Foreign Culture to Emergence as a Culturally Relative Ambassador , Lee H. Rosen

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

A Philosophical Analysis of Intellectual Property: In Defense of Instrumentalism , Michael A. Kanning

A Commentary On Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's Discourse on Metaphysics #19 , Richard Lamborn Samuel Lamborn

Sellars in Context: An Analysis of Wilfrid Sellars's Early Works , Peter Jackson Olen

The New Materialism: Althusser, Badiou, and Zizek , Geoffrey Dennis Pfeifer

Structure and Agency: An Analysis of the Impact of Structure on Group Agents , Elizabeth Kaye Victor

Moral Friction, Moral Phenomenology, and the Improviser , Benjamin Scott Young

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

The Virtuoso Human: A Virtue Ethics Model Based on Care , Frederick Joseph Bennett

The Existential Compromise in the History of the Philosophy of Death , Adam Buben

Philosophical Precursors to the Radical Enlightenment: Vignettes on the Struggle Between Philosophy and Theology From the Greeks to Leibniz With Special Emphasis on Spinoza , Anthony John Desantis

The Problem of Evil in Augustine's Confessions , Edward Matusek

The Persistence of Casuistry: a Neo-premodernist Approach to Moral Reasoning , Richard Arthur Mercadante

Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010

Dewey's Pragmatism and the Great Community , Philip Schuyler Bishop

Unamuno's Concept of the Tragic , Ernesto O. Hernandez

Rethinking Ethical Naturalism: The Implications of Developmental Systems Theory , Jared J.. Kinggard

From Husserl and the Neo-Kantians to Art: Heidegger's Realist Historicist Answer to the Problem of the Origin of Meaning , William H. Koch

Queering Cognition: Extended Minds and Sociotechnologically Hybridized Gender , Michele Merritt

Hydric Life: A Nietzschean Reading of Postcolonial Communication , Elena F. Ruiz-Aho

Descartes' Bête Machine, the Leibnizian Correction and Religious Influence , John Voelpel

Aretē and Physics: The Lesson of Plato's Timaeus , John R. Wolfe

Theses/Dissertations from 2009 2009

Praxis and Theōria : Heidegger’s “Violent” Interpretation , Megan E. Altman

On the Concept of Evil: An Analysis of Genocide and State Sovereignty , Jason J. Campbell

The Role of Trust in Judgment , Christophe Sage Hudspeth

Truth And Judgment , Jeremy J. Kelly

The concept of action and responsibility in Heidegger's early thought , Christian Hans Pedersen

Roots and Role of the Imagination in Kant: Imagination at the Core , Michael Thompson

Theses/Dissertations from 2008 2008

Peirce on the Passions: The Role of Instinct, Emotion, and Sentiment in Inquiry and Action , Robert J. Beeson

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Dissertations from 2023 2023

The Dialectical Virtue of Ideological Reduction , Keehyuk Nahm, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2022 2022

A Metaphysics of Artifacts: Essence and Mind-Dependence , Tim Juvshik, Philosophy

Higher-Order Evidence and Human Evolution , Justis Koon, Philosophy

All Sortals are Phase Sortals , Justin Mooney, Philosophy

Naturalized Human Epistemology is Social Epistemology , Molly O'Rourke-Friel, Philosophy

Quantitative Character and the Composite Account of Phenomenal Content , Kimberly Soland, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2021 2021

Defending Philosophical Knowledge , Jonathan Dixon, Philosophy

Worlds without End: A Platonist Theory of Fiction , Patrick Grafton-Cardwell, Philosophy

MOVING FORWARD ON THE PROBLEM OF CONSCIOUSNESS? , Haoying Liu, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2020 2020

Continua , Lu Chen, Philosophy

Socratic Piety, Reciprocity, and the Last Elenchos of Plato's Euthyphro , Donovan Cox, Philosophy

Autonomy, Oppression, and Respect , Andrea Wilson, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2019 2019

A Defense of Hume's Dictum , Cameron Gibbs, Philosophy

The Epistemic Dimensions of Moral Responsibility and Respect , John Robison, Philosophy

Self-Knowledge, Choice Blindness, and Confabulation , Hayley F. Webster, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2018 2018

Quantification and Paradox , Edward Ferrier, Philosophy

Meaning and Modality , Jesse Fitts, Philosophy

The Mismatch Problem for Act Consequentialism , Robert Gruber, Philosophy

EXPLORING THE EASY ROAD TO NOMINALISM , Jordan Kroll, Philosophy

THE FIRST PERSON PERSPECTIVE: LANGUAGE, THOUGHT, AND ACTION , Pengbo Liu, Philosophy

The Philosophical Value of Reflective Endorsement , Rachel Robison, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2017 2017

Norms for Bayesians , Lisa Cassell, Philosophy

Applications and Extensions of Counterpart Theory , Bridgette Peterson, Philosophy

Me, Myself and I: Reflections on Self-Consciousness and Authority , jonathan rosen, Philosophy

The Concept of Intrinsic Goodness: Essays in Moorean Moral Philosophy , Miles Tucker, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2016 2016

Physical Geometry , James P. Binkoski, Philosophy

Fallibility and Normativity , Joshua DiPaolo, Philosophy

Structuring Thought: Concepts, Computational Syntax, and Cognitive Explanation , Matthew B. Gifford, Philosophy

The Path To Supersubstantivalism , Joshua D. Moulton, Philosophy

Agency and Reasons in Epistemology , Luis R.G. Oliveira, Philosophy

Understanding and Its Role in Inquiry , Benjamin T. Rancourt, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2015 2015

Variations on Some Rossian Themes , Kristian Olsen, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2014 2014

Taste Disagreements and Predicates of Personal Taste , Heidi Teres Buetow, Philosophy

Synthetic Reductionism in Moral Philosophy , Scott Hill, Philosophy

A Defense of Russellian Descriptivism , Brandt H. van der Gaast, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2013 2013

The Structure of Consciousness , Lowell Keith Friesen, Philosophy

The Plausibility of Moral Error Theories , Casey Alton Knight, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2012 2012

Self-Knowledge in a Natural World , Jeremy Cushing, Philosophy

Counterpossibles , Barak Krakauer, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2011 2011

Pyrrhonian and Naturalistic Themes in the Final Writings of Wittgenstein , Indrani Bhattacharjee, Philosophy

Identity and the Limits of Possibility , Sam Cowling, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2010 2010

On Epistemic Agency , Kristoffer Hans Ahlstrom, Philosophy

Bayesian Epistemology and Having Evidence , Jeffrey Dunn, Philosophy

Sleeping Beauty and De Nunc Updating , Namjoong Kim, Philosophy

Human Freedom in a World Full of Providence: An Ockhamist-Molinist Account of the Compatibility of Divine Foreknowledge and Creaturely Free Will , Christopher J. Kosciuk, Philosophy

The rise of Cartesian occasionalism , Andrew Russell Platt

The Rise Of Cartesian Occasionalism , Andrew Russell Platt, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2009 2009

Composition as Identity: a Study in Ontology and Philosophical Logic , Einar Bohn, Philosophy

Being good, doing right, faring well. , Daniel, Doviak, Philosophy

On the Measurability of Pleasure and Pain , Justin Allen Klocksiem, Philosophy

Knowledge, questions and answers , Meghan B Masto

Knowledge, questions and answers. , Meghan B. Masto, Philosophy

On memory and testimony , Kirk Michaelian, Philosophy

Synthetic Ethical Naturalism , Michael Rubin, Philosophy

On the Objectivity of Welfare , Alexander F. Sarch, Philosophy

Phenomenal Acquaintance , Kelly Trogdon, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2008 2008

'Can' and consequentialism : an account of options. , Edward Lee Abrams, Philosophy

A defense of a particularist research program. , Uri D. Leibowitz, Philosophy

A tenseless account of tensed sentences and tensed belief. , Stephan V. Torre, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2007 2007

Emotional rationality and the fear of death. , Kristen A. Hine, Philosophy

Achievement, enjoyment, and the things we care about : a theory of personal well-being. , Jason R. Raibley, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2006 2006

Vagueness , Thomas J. Bell

Leibniz and Locke on the ultimate origination of things. , Marcy P. Lascano, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2005 2005

Desire-satisfaction theories of welfare. , Christopher C. Heathwood, Philosophy

Well-being and actual desires. , Mark E. Lukas, Philosophy

Brains and barns : the role of context in epistemic attribution. , Julie M. Petty, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2004 2004

Simples and gunk. , Kris, McDaniel, Philosophy

Brains and barns: The role of *context in epistemic attribution , Julie M Petty

The reconciliation of faith and reason in Thomas Aquinas. , Creighton J. Rosental, Philosophy

Forms of goodness : the nature and value of virtue in Socratic ethics. , Scott J. Senn, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2003 2003

Advancing the counterfactual analysis of causation. , Ethan R. Colton, Philosophy

Freedom and responsibility : an agent-causal view. , Meghan E. Griffith, Philosophy

Adopted knowing : claiming self-knowledge in the age of identity. , Kimberly J. Leighton, Philosophy

A priori arguments for reductionism. , Jennifer Rea Susse, Philosophy

Open questions and consequentialist conditionals : central puzzles in Moorean moral philosophy. , Jean-Paul, Vessel, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2002 2002

Autonomous machine agency. , Don, Berkich, Philosophy

The ontology of film. , Julie N. Books, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2001 2001

Ethical theory and population problems. , Kevin E. Moon, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2000 2000

The creation of the eternal truths and the nature of God in Descartes. , Daniel P. Kaufman, Philosophy

Art and psychoanalysis : a topographical, structural, and object-relational analysis illustrated by a study of Shakespeare's Hamlet. , Patricia E. Scarbrough, Philosophy

The nature of moral virtue. , Erik J. Wielenberg, Philosophy

Dissertations from 1999 1999

Transcendental arguments and Kant's Refutation of Idealism. , Adrian, Bardon, Philosophy

Species of goodness. , William Benjamin Bradley, Philosophy

Nothing personal : a defense on non-libertarian incompatibilism. , Bruce C. Galbreath, Philosophy

The speculum and the scalpel : the politics of impotent representation and non-representational terrorism. , David, Mertz, Philosophy

Pleasure, falsity, and the good in Plato's Philebus. , Ciriaco M. Sayson, Philosophy

Criteria in crisis : modernist, postmodernist, and feminist critical practices. , Mary Ann Sushinsky, Philosophy

The nation and nationalism. , Henry C. Theriault, Philosophy

Dissertations from 1998 1998

A defense of materialism against attacks based on qualia. , J. C. Beall, Philosophy

Natural-kind term reference and the discovery of essence. , Joseph F. LaPorte, Philosophy

Desert, virtue, and justice. , Eric F. Moore, Philosophy

The incompatibility of determinism and moral obligation. , Neil Schaefer, Philosophy

Hume's skepticism. , Dennis F. Thompson, Philosophy

The ethnicities of philosophy and the limits of culture. , Joseph S. Yeh, Philosophy

Dissertations from 1997 1997

Metaphysical theories of modality : properties, relations and possibilities. , David A. Denby, Philosophy

Religious belief, social establishment and autonomy. , Christopher J. Eberle, Philosophy

The state of nature and the genesis of commonwealths in Hobbes's political philosophy. , Thomas J. Fryc, Philosophy

The logic of contingent existence. , Daniel M. Kervick, Philosophy

A critique of academic nationalism. , Amie A. Macdonald, Philosophy

Richard Rorty's liberalism : a Marxist perspective. , Markar. Melkonian, Philosophy

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Philosophy Dissertations and Theses

The Department of Philosophy Dissertations and Theses Series is comprised of dissertations and theses authored by Marquette University's Department of Philosophy doctoral and master's students.

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

Place, Attachment, and Feeling: Indigenous Dispossession and Settler Belonging , Sarah Kizuk

Nepantla and Mestizaje: A Phenomenological Analysis of the Mestizx Historical Consciousness , Jorge Alfredo Montiel

The Categories Argument for the Real Distinction Between Being and Essence: Avicenna, Aquinas, and Their Greek Sources , Nathaniel Taylor

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Modeling, Describing, and Explaining Subjective Consciousness- A Guide to (and for) the Perplexed , Peter Burgess

Looking Through Whiteness: Objectivity, Racism, Method, and Responsibility , Philip Mack

Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Maritain on the Student-Teacher Relationship in Catholic Higher Education , Timothy Rothhaar

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

The Empathetic Autistic: A Phenomenological Look at the Feminine Experience , Dana Fritz

Concerning Aristotelian Animal Essences , Damon Andrew Watson

When to Trust Authoritative Testimony: Generation and Transmission of Knowledge in Saadya Gaon, Al-Ghazālī and Thomas Aquinas , Brett A. Yardley

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

The Status of Irrationality: Karl Jaspers' Response to Davidson and Searle , Daniel Adsett

Cosmic City - Cosmic Teleology: A Reading of Metaphysics Λ 10 and Politics I 2 , Brandon Henrigillis

Phenomenal Consciousness: An Husserlian Approach , John Jered Janes

Al-Fārābī Metaphysics, and the Construction of Social Knowledge: Is Deception Warranted if it Leads to Happiness? , Nicholas Andrew Oschman

The Epistemology of Disagreement: Hume, Kant, and the Current Debate , Robert Kyle Whitaker

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

'Our Feet are Mired In the Same Soil': Deepening Democracy with the Political Virtue of Sympathetic Inquiry , Jennifer Lynn Kiefer Fenton

Towards a Philosophy of the Musical Experience: Phenomenology, Culture, and Ethnomusicology in Conversation , J. Tyler Friedman

Humor, Power and Culture: A New Theory on the Experience and Ethics of Humor , Jennifer Marra

Care of the Sexual Self: Askesis As a Route to Sex Education , Shaun Douglas Miller

Re-Evaluating Augustinian Fatalism through the Eastern and Western Distinction between God's Essence and Energies , Stephen John Plecnik

The Fantastic Structure of Freedom: Sartre, Freud, and Lacan , Gregory A. Trotter

The Province of Conceptual Reason: Hegel's Post-Kantian Rationalism , William Clark Wolf

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Hume on Thick and Thin Causation , Alexander Bozzo

Evolution, Naturalism, and Theism: An Inconsistent Triad? , David H. Gordon

The Parable As Mirror: An Examination of the Use of Parables in the Works of Kierkegaard , Russell Hamer

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

Contextualizing Aquinas's Ontology of Soul: An Analysis of His Arabic and Neoplatonic Sources , Nathan McLain Blackerby

The Social and Historical Subject in Sartre and Foucault and Its Implications for Healthcare Ethics , Kimberly Siobhan Engels

Investigations of Worth: Towards a Phenomenology of Values , Dale Hobbs Jr.

Developing Capabilities: A Feminist Discourse Ethics Approach , Chad Kleist

Hegel and the Problem of the Multiplicity of Conflicting Philosophies , Matthew M. Peters

Aquinas, Averroes, and the Human Will , Traci Ann Phillipson

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

Nature, Feminism, and Flourishing: Human Nature and the Feminist Ethics of Flourishing , Celeste D. Harvey

Kierkegaard in Light of the East: A Critical Comparison of the Philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard with Orthodox Christian Philosophy and Thought , Agust Magnusson

The Secular Transformation of Pride and Humility in the Moral Philosophy of David Hume , Kirstin April Carlson McPherson

Living within the Sacred Tension: Paradox and Its Significance for Christian Existence in the Thought of Søren Kierkegaard , Matthew Thomas Nowachek

Moral Imagination and Adorno: Before and After Auschwitz , Catlyn Origitano

Essence and Necessity, and the Aristotelian Modal Syllogistic: A Historical and Analytical Study , Daniel James Vecchio

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Subversive Humor , Chris A. Kramer

Virtue, Oppression, and Resistance Struggles , Trevor William Smith

Health As Embodied Authenticity , Margaret Steele

Recognition and Political Ontology: Fichte, Hegel, and Honneth , Velimir Stojkovski

The Conceptual Priority of the Perfect , Matthew Peter Zdon

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

Dangerous Knowledge? Morality And Moral Progress After Naturalism , Daniel Diederich Farmer

Nietzsche's Revaluation of All Values , Joseph Anthony Kranak

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

Re-Enchanting The World: An Examination Of Ethics, Religion, And Their Relationship In The Work Of Charles Taylor , David McPherson

Thomas Aquinas on the Apprehension of Being: The Role of Judgement in Light of Thirteenth-Century Semantics , Rosa Vargas Della Casa

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

Naturalized Panpsychism: An Alternative to Fundamentalist Physicalism and Supernaturalism , Earl R. Cookson

The Concept of Personhood in the Phenomenology of Edmund Husserl , Colin J. Hahn

The Humanistic, Fideistic Philosophy of Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560) , Charles William Peterson

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

Knowledge and Thought in Heidegger and Foucault: Towards an Epistemology of Ruptures , Arun Anantheeswaran Iyer

William James's Undivided Self and the Possibility of Immortality , Anthony Karlin

The Poetics of Remembrance: Communal Memory and Identity in Heidegger and Ricoeur , David Leichter

The Ontological Foundations for Natural Law Theory and Contemporary Ethical Naturalism , Bernard Mauser

Sexualized Violence, Moral Disintegration and Ethical Advocacy , Melissa Mosko

Spinoza on Individuals and Individuation: Metaphysics, Morals, and Politics , Matthew David Wion

Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010

The Paradox of Nature: Merleau-Ponty's Semi-Naturalistic Critique of Husserlian Phenomenology , Shazad Akhtar

Hume's Conception of Time and its Implications for his Theories of Causation and Induction , Daniel Esposito

Arabic Influences in Aquinas's Doctrine of Intelligible Species , Max Herrera

The Attestation of the Self as a Bridge Between Hermeneutics and Ontology in the Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur , Sebastian Kaufmann

Love's Lack: The Relationship between Poverty and Eros in Plato's Symposium , Lorelle D. Lamascus

Friendship and Fidelity: An Historical and Critical Examination , Joshua Walter Schulz

Natural Law Theory and the "Is"--"Ought" Problem: A Critique of Four Solutions , Shalina Stilley

Attending to Presence: A Study of John Duns Scotus' Account of Sense Cognition , Amy F. Whitworth

Theses/Dissertations from 2009 2009

Friendship and Self-Identity in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur , Cristina Bucur

The Finality of Religion in Aquinas' Theory of Human Acts , Francisco José Romero Carrasquillo

The finality of religion in Aquinas' theory of human acts , Francisco J Romero

Theses/Dissertations from 2008 2008

Self-Identity in Comparative Theology: The Functional lmportance of Charles Taylor's Concept of the Self for a Theology of Religions , Richard Joseph Hanson

Theses/Dissertations from 2007 2007

Husserl's Noema: A Critical Assessment of the Gestalt and Analytic Interpretations , Peter M. Chukwu

A Social Contract Analysis of Rawls and Rousseau: Supplanting the Original Position As Philosophically Most Favored , Paul Neiman

To Validate a Feeling: the Role of the Mood of Angst in Human Being , Gregory P. Schulz

The Conception and Attributes of God: A Comparison of Charles Sanders Peirce and Alfred North Whitehead , Scott W. Sinclair

John Rawls, Public Reason, and Natural Law: A Study of the Principles of Public Justification , Christopher Ward

Submissions from 2006 2006

Hans Jonas's ethic of responsibility applied to anti-aging technologies and the indefinite extension of the human life span , Jeffrey P Goins

David Hume and the Principle of Sufficient Reason , Ginger Lee

Virtue Theory in Plato's Republic , Griffin T. Nelson

The Principle of Alternate Possibilities: Finding Freedom after Frankfurt , Matthew F. Pierlott

Theses/Dissertations from 2005 2005

Is There a Future for Marxist Humanism? , Jacob M. Held

Self-Love and Morality: Beyond Egoism and Altruism , Li Jing

Eikos Logos and Eikos Muthos: A Study of the Nature of the Likely Story in Plato's Timaeus , Ryan Kenneth McBride

Hume's Conclusions on the Existence and Nature of God , Timothy S. Yoder

Submissions from 2004 2004

The foundations of the politics of difference , Peter Nathaniel Bwanali

The Foundations of the Politics of Difference , Peter Nathaniel Bwanali

The Place of Justice in the Thinking of Emmanuel Levinas , Michael H. Gillick

New Waves in Metaethics: Naturalist Realism, Naturalist Antirealism and Divine Commands , Daniel R. Kern

Reason in Hume's Moral System , John Muenzberg

Conceiving Mind: A Critique of Descartes' Dualism and Contemporary Immaterialist Views of Consciousness , Kristin P. Schaupp

Respecting Plurality in Times of Change: Hannah Arendt's Conceptions of Political, Personal, and Ethical Responsibility , Stephen Schulman

Francis Suárez on the Ontological Status of Individual Unity vis-à-vis the Aristotelian Doctrine of Primary Substance , John W. Simmons

Through a Glass Darkly: Bernard Lonergan and Richard Rorty on the Possibility of Knowing Without a God's-Eye-View , Russell Snell

Theses/Dissertations from 2003 2003

Building a Heideggerian Ethic , Kelly A. Burns

St. Thomas Aquinas and the Self-Evident Proposition: A Study of the Manifold Senses of a Medieval Concept , Michael V. Dougherty

Ricoeur's Narrative Development of Gadamer's Hermeneutics: Continuity and Discontinuity , Keith D'Souza

Beauty's Resting Place: Unity in St. Augustine's Sensible Aesthetic , Matthew J. Hayes

Empathy and Knowledge: Husserl's Introductions to Phenomenology , Kevin Hermberg

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  • The Problem of Freedom and Universality: Marxian Philosophical Anthropology  Ralda, Oscar ( University of Oregon , 2024-03-25 ) This dissertation has two principal aims. First, it provides a critical reconsideration of Marx’s philosophical anthropology as it bears on the essential continuity of his emancipatory critique of political economy. Second, ...
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  • An Argument for a Cartographic Approach to Technology  McLevey, Mare ( University of Oregon , 2024-01-09 ) This dissertation develops a way to study technology and politics that is an alternative to dominant approaches particular to contemporary philosophy of technology’s empirical and ethical turns. Dominant models fix ...
  • Nietzsche, Reification, and Open Comportment  Currie, Luke ( University of Oregon , 2024-01-09 ) This work primarily discusses the “fallacy of reification” from the perspective of Nietzsche’s late philosophy (particularly in the chapter on ‘Reason’ in philosophy in his Twilight of the Idols). While reification is ...
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  • Demystifying Racial Monopoly  Haller, Reese ( University of Oregon , 2022-10-04 ) Through analysis of private, public, and state reactions to the Great Depression and northward black migration, this thesis demystifies four key functions of race constitutive of capitalist racial monopoly: historical ...
  • Pragmatism, Genealogy, and Moral Status  Showler, Paul ( University of Oregon , 2022-10-04 ) This dissertation draws from recent work in pragmatism and philosophical genealogy to develop and defend a new approach for thinking about the concept of moral status. My project has two main aims. First, I argue that Huw ...
  • Ethics for the Depressed: A Value Ethics of Engagement  Fitzpatrick, Devin ( University of Oregon , 2022-10-04 ) I argue that depressed persons suffer from “existential guilt,” which amounts to a two-part compulsion: 1) the compulsive assertion or sense of a vague and all-encompassing or absolute threat that disrupts action and ...
  • Soul and Polis: On Arete in Plato's Meno  Smith III, Ansel ( University of Oregon , 2022-10-04 ) In “Soul and Polis: On Arete in Plato’s Meno,” I interpret Meno as a dialogue in which the pursuit of individual arete appears intertwined with political arete. While the differentiation of these two arete is itself ...
  • Place-in-Being: A Decolonial Phenomenology of Place in Conversation with Philosophies of the Americas  Newton, Margaret ( University of Oregon , 2022-05-10 ) Our experiences of place and emplacement are so fundamental to our everyday existence that most of us rarely dedicate much time to thinking about how place and emplacement impact the various aspects of our daily lives. In ...
  • Species Trouble: From Settled Species Discourse to Ethical Species Pluralism  Sinclair, Rebekah ( University of Oregon , 2021-11-23 ) In this dissertation, I develop and defend the importance of species pluralism (the recognition and use of multiple species definitions) for both environmental and humanist ethics. I begin from the concern that, since the ...
  • The Hybris of Plants: Reinterpreting Philosophy through Vegetal Life  Kerr, Joshua ( University of Oregon , 2021-11-23 ) This dissertation reexamines the place of plants in the history of Western philosophy, drawing on the diverse philosophical approaches of Plato, Aristotle, Goethe, Hegel, and Nietzsche, among others. I suggest that a close ...
  • Decolonizing Silences: Toward a Critical Phenomenology of Deep Silences with Gloria E. Anzaldúa and Maurice Merleau-Ponty  Ferrari, Martina ( University of Oregon , 2021-11-23 ) Motivating this dissertation is a concern for how Western philosophical, cultural, and political practices tend to privilege speech and voice as emancipatory tools and reduce silence to silencing. To locate power in silence ...
  • Mere Appearance: Redressing the History of Philosophy  Zimmer, Amie ( University of Oregon , 2021-09-13 ) The principal aim of this dissertation is to seriously consider what accounts of fashion and dress can offer—have indeed already offered—to philosophy. In recounting these histories, I have two primary goals. The first is ...
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  • Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Questionability of Truth  Emery, James ( University of Oregon , 2020-12-08 ) Does Nietzsche’s inquiry into the question of truth take him beyond the sense of truth as correctness found in Platonism toward a more Greek understanding of truth that brings concealment into an unsettling prominence ...
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I supervise at least one undergraduate a year. Many of the same questions come up each year. I have prepared below a set of guidelines to help when starting out on a dissertation.

Please note that this is personal advice and not to be taken as a substitute for the undergraduate handbook and marking scheme.

Do’s and Don’t’s for a dissertation

  • Have a claim. You should be able to state your claim clearly in 1–2 sentences.
  • Have claim of the right size – viz. a size you can defend (be careful not to be too ambitious here)
  • Have a rigorous argument for your claim. Your argument should be able to convince a rational person who does not already believe your claim
  • Make your dissertation clearly understandable to a philosopher who is not an expert in this area
  • Explain why your claim is important
  • Be honest if you do not conclusively establish your claim – e.g. clarify that your claim follows conditional on certain stated assumptions, list unresolved objections
  • Make clear your original contribution
  • Make use of your supervisor for feedback on drafts

Don’t:

  • Aim for this to be your magnum opus or last word on the topic
  • Try to solve a major problem (e.g. the mind-body problem, external world scepticism)
  • Cover every possible view in the field
  • Include extra material unless it advances your argument
  • Have one massive 6,000 word chapter
  • Leave it until Semester 2 to start work

How to write a dissertation

The points above give you an idea of what to aim for but they don’t provide a method for how to get there. There are many ways to write a dissertation. It may be reassuring to know that there are simple methods that can reliably produce an excellent dissertation. The algorithm below is one method:

  • Find the general area you like (e.g. phenomenal consciousness)
  • Select one article/book chapter in that area that you find fascinating (e.g. Smith (2009))
  • Summarise Smith (2009) carefully in your own words, paying attention to whether each step in the argument follows from the previous
  • Look for weaknesses in Smith (2009)’s argument
  • Which new resources do you need to draw on?
  • Which alternative conclusions follow?
  • Which objections can be raised to your proposal?
  • Draw on relevant bits of surrounding literature to support (5)

You have a first class dissertation!

Filling the dissertation with enough words

A common worry among students is whether they are able to write enough words. The longest piece of philosophical writing they may have done so far is 3,000 words. How can you write a sustained argument that lasts for 8,000 words? This turns out to be easier than you might think. Indeed, the difficulty often turns out to be not going over the word limit.

For the sake of argument, let us see how following the algorithm above might work out in terms of word count.

  • Introduction (500 words): What is your claim, the outline of your argument?
  • Chapter 1 (1,000 words): Why is your claim important? What are the pay-offs?
  • Chapter 2 (2,000 words): Careful and charitable summary of X in your own words
  • Chapter 3 (2,000 words): Your rigorous criticism of X
  • Chapter 4 (2,000 words): How X should be corrected, associated costs, consequences for views that use X, possible objections
  • Conclusion (500 words): Summary and next steps for future work

And we are done!

Milestones to aim for

Milestones depend on the specific project and you should talk to your supervisor about your workload and what would be a reasonable plan for finishing the dissertation in the year. Below is a rough plan that one might aim for.

  • End Y3: meet supervisor & agree on general topic
  • Summer vacation: background reading on topic
  • Start Y4: find 1 article/chapter to focus

Year 4, Semester 1:

  • Start: meet with supervisor & agree plan for year
  • Middle: first draft of 2 chapters
  • End: polished draft of 2 chapters

Year 4, Semester 2:

  • Start: first draft of entire dissertation
  • Middle: polished draft of entire dissertation
  • End: revisit, revise, and submit dissertation

Background reading

A dissertation in philosophy is a story … like all good stories, it only includes what is essential to the story — Robert Paul Wolff’s astute advice that applies just as well to UG dissertations as well as PhD theses

Be concise, but explain yourself fully — Jim Pryor with an excellent 3-stage plan for writing philosophy

Style is the feather in the arrow, not the feather in the cap — Peter Lipton has some wonderful and concise writing advice

Read your work aloud. … Be firm: take your prose to the gym, and keep working at it until the bones and sinews show through! — Peter Smith, previously editor of Analysis , with some fantastic advice

What is an argument? — Jim Pryor’s guide is essential reading for anyone writing philosophy; it contains a lexicon of philosophical terms and a taxonomy of good and bad arguments, which is useful for classifying the arguments you consider

PH399       Dissertation in Philosophy

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This course is available on the BSc in Philosophy and Economics, BSc in Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, BSc in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and BSc in Politics and Philosophy. This course is not available as an outside option nor to General Course students.

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The dissertation may be on any topic for which a suitable supervisor in the Philosophy department can be found.

Selection of topic

Candidates should have the subject of their dissertation approved by their supervising member of department.

Arrangements for supervision

The dissertation is an opportunity to do extended independent research and writing and to present this work to one's peers. It should reflect the candidate's own views but must develop out of some established part of the philosophical literature. Students should carefully discuss their topic and approach with their supervisor who will also advise on reading and give feedback on written work. Students must have regular meetings with their supervisor, submit written work regularly, and keep a formal record of their work and progress. Students must also present an early version of their argument to fellow students and will be given feedback on the quality of their presentation as well as on the content of their arguments.

2 hours of seminars in the MT. 20 hours of seminars in the LT.

This year, some or all of this teaching will take place online.

Formative coursework

Students will be expected to produce 1 piece of coursework in the MT and 2 essays, 1 presentation and 1 other piece of coursework in the LT.

The formative coursework sets out several steps towards the dissertation: a literature review (due in MT); a first 2,000 words (due in week 1 of LT), a subsequent 3,000 words (which may be in part a revision of the first 2,000 words), due in week 5 of LT; a presentation of the student's arguments in LT; and a full draft of the dissertation, due in week 11 of LT. All written coursework must be submitted by email to both the student's supervisor and the teacher responsible. Students who fail to submit this coursework on time may be barred from submitting the dissertation. Participation in the weekly seminar and the quality of the presentation will determine 10% of the final mark for the course.

Dissertation (90%, 7000 words) in the ST. Class participation (10%).

Dissertations must be submitted in May 2021, exact date to be confirmed. They should be 5,000-7,000 words, and should be typewritten.

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(2017/18 - 2019/20 combined)

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Total students 2019/20: 28

Average class size 2019/20: 14

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La méthode de la dissertation de philosophie !

Publié le 27 novembre 2018 par Justine Debret . Mis à jour le 7 décembre 2020.

Quelle méthode suivre pour une dissertation de philosophie ? C’est une question que l’on se pose depuis le lycée et qui nous préoccupe encore à l’université.

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Étape 1 de la méthode d’une dissertation – analyser le sujet en profondeur, étape 2 de la méthode d’une dissertation – problématiser, étape 3 de la méthode d’une dissertation – faire un plan, étape 4 de la méthode d’une dissertation – argumenter, étape 5 de la méthode d’une dissertation – l’introduction, le développement, les transitions et la conclusion, étape 6 de la méthode d’une dissertation – la relecture et correction de votre dissertation, présentation gratuite, 1. lire le sujet attentivement.

Cela parait évident, mais la première étape est de lire le sujet en entier . Si plusieurs sujets de dissertation sont proposés, il vous faut les lire  tous   avant de choisir le sujet qui vous semble le plus approprié (celui que vous avez le plus préparé).

Exemple de sujets

2. définir les termes du sujet.

Il est primordial de définir les termes du sujet, afin de le comprendre et de choisir un angle d’attaque.

Conseil Utilisez l’étymologie des mots.

Les mots ont des définitions diverses et vous devrez choisir une définition spécifique pour les termes centraux du sujet en introduction.

Exemple de définition des termes

Sujet  : Le travail n’est-il qu’une contrainte ?

Il faut définir les termes “travail”, “contrainte” et “qu’une”. Si des idées, des concepts, des théories ou des auteurs vous viennent à l’esprit, notez les sur votre brouillon !

Travail  : au sens économique, le travail est une activité rémunérée ou non qui permet la production de biens et services. Avec le capital, c’est un facteur de production de l’économie. L’étymologie du terme travail est tripalium (instrument de torture), un instrument formé de trois pieux, deux verticaux et un placé en transversale, auquel on attachait les animaux pour les ferrer ou les soigner, ou les esclaves pour les punir.

Contrainte  : une chose imposée par l’extérieur contre la volonté d’un individu (différent d’une obligation).

Qu’une  : seulement, uniquement.

3. Faire un brainstorming sur le sujet

Soulignez les mots du sujet qui vous semblent essentiels et essayez de les définir ou de trouver des synonymes.

Étalez plusieurs feuilles de brouillon et écrivez toutes les idées qui vous viennent à l’esprit concernant votre sujet.

Relisez souvent le sujet pour éviter le hors-sujet.

L’analyse du sujet constitue une étape majeure de la réponse : elle cerne à viser précisément les exigences du libellé.

  • Elle porte sur les termes essentiels figurant dans le libellé.
  • Elle doit permettre de dégager le ou les problèmes posés par le sujet et de délimiter le domaine concerné par le sujet.

Exemple de brainstorming

  • Le travail peut être un plaisir.
  • Est-ce une contrainte ou une obligation que l’homme s’inflige ? Que serions-nous sans le travail ?
  • C’est une activité imposée de l’extérieur, donc une contrainte.
  • Le travail permet de nous libérer ?
  • Le travail est une fin en soi ?
  • Est-ce imposé par la société ?

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Grâce aux définitions et au brainstorming , faites un travail de reformulation avec vos propres mots de la question qui vous est posée.

Astuce Commencez la question par “en quoi” (pour une réponse avec différents arguments) ou “est-ce que” (pour une réponse en thèse/antithèse).

Lors de la problématisation du sujet, demandez-vous si vous pouvez y répondre avec vos connaissances et si vos propos sont en relation directe avec le sujet de la dissertation de philosophie.

Exemple de problématique

Problématique  : Est-ce que l’Homme est contraint ou obligé de travailler ?

Maintenant que vous avez une problématique, il faut faire un plan qui y répond. Recherchez des idées et notez-les de manière ordonnée.

En fonction du sujet de dissertation de philosophie proposé, un type de plan va s’imposer : dialectique, analytique ou thématique.

Nous conseillons de faire un plan en trois parties (et deux sous-parties). Toutefois, ce n’est pas obligatoire et vous pouvez faire deux parties (et trois sous-parties).

Il existe plusieurs types de plan  :

  • Le plan dialectique (ou critique).
  • Le plan analytique.
  • Le plan thématique

Exemple de plan

Plan  :

I) Le travail n’est qu’une activité imposée par l’extérieur contre la volonté de l’Homme

A) L’origine du travail B) Il est imposé à l’humanité par d’autres Hommes C) Le travail et la société

II) Le travail est une activité que l’être humain s’impose librement à lui-même

A) Travailler est naturel pour l’Homme ? B) Le travail comme une libération C) Le travail est une fin en soi

L’analyse du sujet de la dissertation de philosophie permet de dégager deux ou trois idées qui sont les parties de votre développement.

Chaque argument est l’objet d’un paragraphe qui doit présenter une explication de l’argument, des exemples précis et une phrase conclusive.

Exemple d’argumentation

B) Le travail comme libération

Argument 1 : D’après Kant, l’Homme se dicterait librement le travail car il en aurait besoin pour se libérer de la nature qui est en lui. En effet, le travail est une activité qui induit de suivre des règles, et ces règles permettent à l’être humain de se libérer de la nature qui réside en lui, c’est-à-dire de se civiliser. Cette nature qui habite l’être humain s’exprime par le désir, l’instinct et les sentiments d’après Kant. Le travail est donc l’activité qui permet à l’Homme de ne plus être esclave de sa nature et d’accéder à l’estime de soi.

Exemple : C’est-à-dire que lorsque l’Homme travail, tout ce qu’il construit « il doit en avoir tout seul le mérite et n’en être redevable qu’à lui-même ». D’après Kant, le travail permet aussi d’évoluer et d’accéder à la culture, car si l’Homme ne travaillait pas, il serait resté au stade primitif. Par exemple, un consultant qui travaille pour Deloitte sur différentes missions continuera de se perfectionner et d’accumuler des connaissances au fil de sa carrière.

Conclusion : Par conséquent, l’Homme s’oblige à travailler pour se libérer de la nature qui est en lui et pour accéder à l’estime de soi, ainsi qu’à la culture.

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1. L’introduction d’une dissertation

L’introduction d’une dissertation de philosophie permet de poser le sujet et d’exposer clairement le problème.

Elle ne doit pas être trop longue (10 à 15 lignes) et s’adresse à un lecteur profane.

L’introduction d’une dissertation de philosophie doit comporter :

  • une amorce ;
  • l’énoncé du sujet (si c’est une citation, elle doit figurer dans l’introduction avec le nom de l’auteur) ;
  • la définition des termes et reformulation du sujet ;
  • la problématique ;
  • l’annonce du plan de la dissertation.

Exemple d’introduction

Sujet  : Le travail n’est-il qu’une contrainte?

Introduction  :

« Le travail a quelque chose de semblable à la mort. C’est une soumission à la matière. » a dit Guillaume Apollinaire. Il pose ainsi la question du travail, comme une unique contrainte. L’étymologie latine du mot travail, « tripalium », signifie « instrument de torture ». En outre, c’est une action liée à la souffrance et qui possède une dimension fortement négative. Par définition, le travail est une activité de transformation de la nature qui a pour effet de transformer l’Homme lui-même. Pour Blaise Pascal, c’est un divertissement qui occupe une grande partie de la vie des Hommes et qui permet de masquer les problèmes essentiels de l’existence humaine. On définit une contrainte comme étant est une chose imposée par l’extérieur contre la volonté d’un individu. Or, il faut bien différencier une contrainte d’une obligation, qui elle est une activité que l’individu s’impose lui-même librement. On peut donc se demander est-ce que l’Homme est contraint ou obligé de travailler ? Dans un premier temps, nous nous demanderons si le travail n’est qu’une activité imposée par l’extérieur contre la volonté de l’Homme, puis dans un deuxième temps nous nous interrogerons sur le fait que le travail est une activité que l’être humain s’impose librement à lui-même.

2. Le développement

Le développement comporte deux ou trois parties, nettement séparées. Il faut sauter une ligne après l’introduction, entre chaque partie, et avant la conclusion.

Chaque partie est divisée en trois ou quatre paragraphes qui s’articulent autour d’un argument ou d’une idée directrice.

Tout argument doit être illustré par un exemple littéraire qui donne lieu à une analyse permettant au lecteur d’apprécier leur pertinence. Chaque partie s’achève sur une phrase de conclusion.

Exemple de développement

Effectivement, l’Homme s’imposerait librement le travail, car il en aurait besoin pour se libérer.

Exemple : C’est-à-dire que lorsque l’Homme travail, tout ce qu’il construit « il doit en avoir tout seul le mérite et n’en être redevable qu’à lui-même ». D’après Kant, le travail permet aussi d’évoluer et d’accéder à la culture, car si l’Homme ne travaillait pas, il serait resté au stade primitif.

Conclusion : Par conséquent, l’Homme s’oblige à travailler pour se libérer de la nature qui est en lui et pour accéder à l’estime de soi ainsi qu’à la culture.

Argument 2 : Par ailleurs, d’autres philosophes voient dans le travail un autre facteur de libération. En effet, pour Pascal, le travail permet à l’Homme de se libérer de la misère existentielle, qui est le maux le plus douloureux de l’espèce humaine et qui est en fait la définition de la condition humaine. La misère existentielle est en fait une angoisse, un ennui qui est commun à tous les Hommes et qui résulte d’une interrogation sur l’existence humaine.

Exemple : Ces questions existentielles, qui sont universelles, plongeraient l’Homme dans une angoisse et un ennui profond. Il existe de nombreuses questions de ce genre comme « que faire de sa vie ? » ou bien « que faire face à l’angoisse de la mort ? ». Pascal considère que pour se libérer face à ce maux l’Homme s’impose librement le travail, qui est un divertissement qui l’occupe et l’empêche de se poser ces questions existentielles. C’est-à-dire que le travail est la seule solution pour l’Homme face au sentiment insupportable que l’existence humaine est absurde.

Conclusion  : Par conséquent, l’Homme se dicte librement le travail car c’est l’unique solution face à l’angoisse et l’ennui causés par la condition humaine. Le travail, d’après ces deux exemples constitue une obligation pour l’Homme dans le sens où il se l’impose librement afin de se libérer de la nature qui est en lui, ainsi que de la misère existentielle qui l’habite. Toutefois, le travail pourrait n’être considéré que comme une contrainte s’il constituait une activité réalisé pour une fin extérieure.

3. Les transitions

Dans une dissertation de philosophie, les transitions sont primordiales. Elles permettent de lier les parties entre elles.

Deux types de transitions sont utilisés :

  • Les transitions entre grandes parties (I et II par exemple).
  • Les transitions entre chaque sous-partie (entre A et B par exemple).

Une transition est faite de plusieurs parties :

  • une mini-conclusion de la partie ou sous-partie précédente ;
  • une critique d’un point faible de la partie précédente ;
  • l’annonce de la partie qui suit.

Exemple de transition

Transition (de B vers C) :

Nous avons mis en exergue que le travail permet à l’Homme de se libérer de la nature qui est en lui et de sa misère existentielle (B). Toutefois, notre étude ne s’est pas encore intéressée aux autres apports du travail. Nous allons désormais nous intéresser au travail comme une fin en soi (C).

4. La conclusion d’une dissertation

La conclusion d’une dissertation de philosophie est une synthèse du développement. Il faudra clairement indiquer la réponse à la problématique de l’introduction. Il est possible d’ajouter ensuite une ouverture qui propose une extension de la réflexion sur un autre angle du thème.

Exemple de conclusion

Conclusion  :

Le travail ne peut guère être uniquement considéré comme une simple contrainte même si il est imposé à l’Homme par d’autres individus. En effet, il s’agit aussi d’une obligation, une fin en soi, qui lui permet en quelque sorte de s’émanciper la nature qui est en lui ainsi que de sa condition humaine. Le travail permet en effet à l’Homme de se libérer d’aspects contraignant liés à l’existence humaine.

Voici une présentation de cours gratuite sur comment faire une dissertation. Vous pouvez l’utiliser avec vos élèves ou simplement de manière personnelle pour travailler la méthode de la dissertation de philosophie.

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