Comps, honors papers, and prize-winning works of the Philosophy Department are featured here. All works have been self-submitted by the student authors. Descriptive information about each work is available to search or browse. Access to the full text of the works is limited to current Carleton affiliates with faculty permission. Learn more about how to submit your work and how to request access to the full text of works.
Submissions from 2024
Luisa F. Cichowski, Philosophy (PHIL) 2024, Seeing “A Landscape of Genocide:” Decolonial Aesthesis and the Aesthetics of Agricultural Landscapes
Nancy Cullen, Philosophy (PHIL) 2024, The Relational Self: Rethinking the Contribution of Care Ethicists
William Longley, Philosophy (PHIL) 2024, The Metaphysics of Sex and Gender
Yichen Zhang, Philosophy (PHIL) 2024, Between ren and Community: how does one die with moral value?
Submissions from 2023
Maya Donovan, Philosophy (PHIL) 2023, Extending Loving Attention to Strangers
Andrew Gorordo, Philosophy (PHIL) 2023, Anxieties of Being: Politics, Violence, and Group Identity
Olivia Lentz, Philosophy (PHIL) 2023, Between God and Evil
Emma MacArthur, Philosophy (PHIL) 2023, If You're Not Reading This, Are Unicorns Real? The Truth Conditions of Indicative Conditionals with False Antecedents
Submissions from 2022
Jake Armstrong, Philosophy (PHIL) 2022, Judy's Duty:Evaluating Popular Theories on the Convergence of Utilitarianism and Partialism
Nicole Collins, Philosophy (PHIL) 2022, To Live Outside of Pop You Must Be Honest: Queer Space-Making, Care, and (Re)appropriation in Hyperpop
Tate Yee Johnson, Philosophy (PHIL) 2022, Vasubandhu’s Illusory Elephant: Alternative Philosophical Methods Yielding Unconventional Results
Jordan Navarro, Philosophy (PHIL) 2022, The Liar Paradox: Considering Fuzzy Logic and Trivalent Truth Conditions
Aidan Wolff-King, Philosophy (PHIL) 2022, When Are You Going to Hug Me? And Other Questions Men Should Ask Their Friends
Submissions from 2021
April Reisenfeld, Philosophy (PHIL) 2021, Rejecting Classical Determinism Through the Non-Physicality of Infinity
Submissions from 2020
Emma Goidel, Philosophy (PHIL) 2020, Reconstituting the Relational-Self: The Multitudes of Harms on Victims/Survivors in the Aftermath of Sexual Assault
Tyler Hruby, Philosophy (PHIL) 2020, Mediating the Procreation Asymmetry Through the Distinction Between Existent and Potential People
Submissions from 2019
David Gallagher, Philosophy (PHIL) 2019, Obligation and Autonomy: Legal Paternalism in the Context of Oppression
Elliot Schwartz, Philosophy (PHIL) 2019, Coming apart at the Seems: Intuition, Skepticism, and Self-defeat
Submissions from 2018
Kuan Chen, Philosophy (PHIL) 2018, The South Korean Conscription Law: Why Is It Unjust?
Daihui Meng, Philosophy (PHIL) 2018, On Happiness: A Conversation Between Daoism and Existentialism
Soren Weigt Schlassa, Philosophy (PHIL) 2018, Rational Induction: A Reply to Goodman
Mark Dailey Steitz, Philosophy (PHIL) 2018, Parkour and Freerunning Philosophy: How the way we move influences our relationship with our environment
Zixuan Wang, Philosophy (PHIL) 2018, "Knowing Beyond the Socio-historical and the Collective": A Critical Analysis of Miranda Fricker's Epistemic Injustice
Submissions from 2017
Laura Katherine Soter, Philosophy (PHIL) 2017, Implicit Bias, Responsibility, and Criticism
Submissions from 2016
Alexandra Katherine Chang, Philosophy (PHIL) 2016, Self-as-Process: Towards and Existential Account of Agency
Katherine Marie Koza, Philosophy (PHIL) 2016, Secrecy, Self-Determination, and Sacred Lands: Motivating Native American Land Policy Reform Through International Political Philosophy
David Clinton Racine, Philosophy (PHIL) 2016, Reconciling Partiality and Impartiality: How Morality Separates Good Partial Reasons from the Bad
Submissions from 2015
Eric Timothy Wittenburg, Philosophy (PHIL) 2015, Vagueness and Fuzzy Logic
Austen Roxanne Yeager, Philosophy (PHIL) 2015, Memory Enhancement and Emotional Authenticity
Submissions from 2014
Annette Martin, Philosophy (PHIL) 2014, Truth and Proof: Defending a Provability Account of Mathematical Truth in Light of Godel's First Incompleteness Theorem
Christopher Andrew Wong, Philosophy (PHIL) 2014, Health Care is not a Human Right: The Principle of Non-Interference and Alternative Rights to Health Care
Submissions from 2013
David Matthew Abel, Philosophy (PHIL) 2013, Toward the Defense of Hypercomputation
David Risberg McNeil, Philosophy (PHIL) 2013, The Mirror of Nonexistence: Evaluating Lucretius's Symmetry Argument
Zoe Susanne Suche, Philosophy (PHIL) 2013, The Heaviest Burden: Selfhood, Unity, and Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence
Elissa Ann Walter, Philosophy (PHIL) 2013, Utilitarianism and the Futility Problem: Can Utilitarianism Serve as a Satisfactory Animal Ethics Framework which Articulates Prominent Human Intuitions?
Submissions from 2012
Simone Childs-Walker, Philosophy (PHIL) 2012, The Cosmological Argument, or What I Mean When I Say the Word God
Patrick Thomas Doty, Philosophy (PHIL) 2012, The Possibility of Panentheistic Free Will
Rebekah Ann Frumkin, Philosophy (PHIL) 2012, Caritas ad mundum: Love of the Particular in St. Augustine
Matthew Robert Hunter, Philosophy (PHIL) 2012, What Would You Have Done? Examining the Role of Empathy in Assessments of Responsibility
Nicholas Alexander Ickovic, Philosophy (PHIL) 2012, What Could Modal Claims Be
Hai Hoang Ngo, Philosophy (PHIL) 2012, The Relationship Theory & Finally Valuable Relationships: A Discussion on Love and its Reasons
Sarah Jane Pinkham, Philosophy (PHIL) 2012, Duties to Ecosystems
Submissions from 2011
Javier Caride, Philosophy (PHIL) 2011, An Objective Concern: The Underlying Subjectivity of Foot's Natural Normativity
Mollie Frances Feldman, Philosophy (PHIL) 2011, Continuous Group Identity in a Changing World
Submissions from 2010
Jabir Bin Mohd Yusoff, Philosophy (PHIL) 2010, Philosophical intuitions and experimental threats: The coast is clear
Jessica Petrini Briol, Philosophy (PHIL) 2010, A Right to Education
Christopher R. Clark, Philosophy (PHIL) 2010, The Debate over Liberal Eugenics
Daniel Frank Kagan-Kans, Philosophy (PHIL) 2010, The Role of Science Fiction and Contingency in Decision-Making
Submissions from 2009
Erinrose Mager, Philosophy (PHIL) 2009, Importance of the contextual framework when addressing kitsch objects and why this framework validates kitsch aesthetically and socially
Ryan Andrew Smith, Philosophy (PHIL) 2009, Semantic externalism and Quine's indeterminacy of translation
Hannah Weinstein, Philosophy (PHIL) 2009, Identifying with your country : an argument for immigrants' cultural rights in liberal democracies
