Dissertations on Pragmatism, 1990-1999

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Career information, where available, follows the dissertation information. Data for academic posts is found from a philosopher's cv, website, or personal communication. A variety of professional publications are also used, especially The Review of Metaphysics, UMI Dissertations, and OCLC First Search. References for publications are indicated as follows. WWIP = Who's Who in Philosophy, ed. D. Runes (New York: Philosophical Library, 1942). PAAPA = Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, APA Membership List, Year. DAP = Directory of American Philosophers. 62 = Vol.1, 1962-63; 64 = Vol. 2, 1964-65; 66 = Vol. 3, 1966-67; 68 = Vol. 4, 1968-1969; 70 = Vol. 5, 1970-71; 72 = Vol. 6, 1972-73; 74 = Vol. 7, 1974-75; 76 = 1976-77, Vol. 8; 78 = Vol. 9, 1978-79; 80 = Vol. 10, 1980-81; 82 = Vol. 11, 1982-83; 84 = Vol. 12, 1984-85; 86 = Vol. 13, 1986-87; 88 = Vol. 14, 1988-89; 90 = Vol. 15, 1990-91; 92 = Vol. 16, 1992-93; 94 = Vol. 17, 1994-95; 96 = Vol. 18, 1996-97; 98 = Vol. 19, 1998-99; 00 = Vol. 20, 2000-01, etc.

1999

Abdel-Nour, Farid. Beyond Rorty, Habermas and Rawls: Cross-cultural Judgment in the Postmetaphysical Age. Dissertation, Political Science Dept., Rutgers University, advisor Stephen Bronner.

Abrams, Jerold Jason Patrick. Charles S. Peirce on the Teleology of Inquiry: A Variation on Aristotle's Idea of Teleology. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Saint Louis University, advisor Richard Blackwell. Creighton University (1999- ).

Backe, Andrew Steven. The Divided Psychology of John Dewey. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Pittsburgh, advisors Merrilee Salmon, Richard Gale, John Norton, and Deborah Mayo.

Baer, Michael. Pragmatismus und Völkerbund 1898-1928. Die Beiträge von William James, George Mead und John Dewey zur Diskussion der Völkerbundidee. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., JFK Institute for Northern American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, advisor Hans Joas.

Conroy, Thomas Michael. The Creation and Transformation of Social Problems: Social Constructionism and Social Problems Theory. Dissertation, Sociology Dept., Boston University, advisor Jeff Coulter.

Dann, Gary Elijah. Rorty's Metaphilosophy in Relation to Radical Theology. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Waterloo, advisors James Van Evra, Richard Holmes. University of Waterloo (adjunct, 1999- ).

Fegan, Kevin Gregory. An Examination of the Use of Values to Suggest a Blending and Measuring of the Philosophies of John Dewey and Frederick Taylor in a Collegiate Business Curriculum. Ed.D. Dissertation, Education Dept., Wayne State University, advisor Richard Gibson.

Gregory, Paul A. Language, Theory, and the Human Subject: Understanding Quine's Natural Epistemology. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Illinois at Chicago. Colgate University (visiting, 2000-2002); Washington and Lee University (2002- ).

Haegele, Gregory Wayne. John Dewey and the Education of Democratic Character. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Emory University, advisor James Gouinlock.

Hartman, Matthew Scot. Making Progress: Pragmatism and the Utopian Imagination in Modern American Literature. Dissertation, English Dept., State University of New York at Buffalo, advisor Arthur Efron.

Hartnett, Sharon Dapper. A Deweyan Analysis of Beginning Secondary Teacher Socialization. Dissertation, Education Dept., Gonzaga University, advisor Nancy Isaacson.

Hwang, Jaekwang. Pragmatizing the Structures of Textuality in the Work of Hawthorne and Melville: A Reading in the Language of Pragmatism and Deconstruction. Dissertation, English Dept., New York University, advisor Josephine Hendin.

Kasser, Jeffrey L. Peirce, Psychologism, and the Doubt-Belief Theory of Inquiry. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Michigan, advisor Louis Loeb. Colby College (1998-2004); North Carolina State University (adjunct, 2004- ).

Kelly, Marc Aubrey. In the Philosophical Vein: Carnap's (and Quine's) Views on Ontology. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Michigan, advisor James Joyce. Changed name to Marc A. Alspector-Kelly. Western Michigan University (2001- ).

Kincaid, Shannon Eric. Democracy and Culture. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., State University of New York at Buffalo, advisor Peter Hare. Brooklyn College, City University of New York (visiting, 1999-2002); Queensborough Community College, NY (2003- ).

Lailas, Elaine Andrews. John Dewey's Theory of Citizenship and Community in the Developing American Democracy as seen through the Philosophy of Pragmatism as a Public Administration Model for the Citizen's Role in Public Governance. Dissertation, Center for Public Administration and Policy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, advisor Orion F. White, Jr.

Lattery, Kevin.  The Epistemology of Experimental Systems in Biological Research. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Minnesota, advisor C. Kenneth Waters.

Legg, Catherine. Modes of Being: A Comparison of the Realism Question in Charles Peirce and Contemporary Analytic Philosophy. Dissertation, Australian National University. University of Waikato, New Zealand (?- ).

Lin, Chung-I. The First Person and Private Language: A Critique of Quine and Davidson's Theorization Approach to Meaning. Philosophy Dept., Dissertation, University of Iowa, advisor David Stern. National Chengchi University, Taiwan (?- ).

MacGilvray, Eric Andrew. The Task Before Us: Pragmatism and Political Justification. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Chicago, advisor Charles Larmore.  University of Chicago (assistant in the college, 1999-2003); Political Science Dept., University of Wisconsin (2003-2006); Political Science Dept., Ohio State University (2006- ).

Magee, Michael Christopher, Jr. Emancipating Pragmatism: Emerson, Jazz and Experimental Writing. Dissertation, English Dept., University of Pennsylvania, advisor Elisa New.

Mandell, David Paul. The Promise of Pluralism: Pragmatist Pluralism and Conceptions of Political Order. Dissertation, Political Science Dept., University of Chicago.

Marietti, Susanna. Il segno matematico in C. S. Peirce. Dissertation, University of Milan, Italy.

Meyer, James Wilbur. Ricoeur's Hermeneutic Theory and Dewey's Educative Process: Pedagogy for Reflective Social Understanding in a Global Context. Dissertation, Education Dept., University of Toledo, advisor Lynne Hudson.

Mueller, Axel. Referenz und Fallibilismus. Zu sprachphilosophischen Grundlagen von Hilary Putnams pragmatischem Kognitivismus. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept, University of Frankfurt, Germany, advisor Jürgen Habermas. Northwestern University (1999- ).

Miller, Paul Brian. Composition and Technology: A Pragmatic Approach. Dissertation, Education Dept., Ohio State University, advisor H. Lewis Ulman.

O'Connor, Daniel J. Democracy as a Way of Life: Deweyan Pragmatism and the Challenge of Capitalism for Liberalism in Thought and Practice. Dissertation, Political Science Dept., University of California, Los Angeles, advisor Eugene Wolfenstein.

O'Sullivan, Stephen Patrick. The Irreducibility of Experience: A Deweyan Approach. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Fordham University, advisor Judith Jones. Suffolk County Community College (?- ).

Phillips, Alan Gerald, Jr. Dewey and Scheffler on the Relationship of Learning and Inquiry. Dissertation, Education Dept., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, advisor Ralph Page.

Pitts, Jonathan Dwen. John Dewey's Aesthetics and Cultural Studies: Reading with the American Grain. Dissertation, English Dept., State University of New York at Buffalo, advisor Arthur Efron.

Rahnamaei, Seyed Ahmad. The Concept of Self-realization in the Educational Philosophies of John Dewey and `Allama Tabataba'i: A Comparative Study. Dissertation, Education Dept., McGill University.

Reynolds, Anthony. American Metaphorologies: the Rhetoric of Poesis in Emerson, Thoreau, Peirce and Rorty. Dissertation, English Dept., New York University, advisors Anselm Haverkamp, Cyrus Patell, and Eduardo Cadava.

Scott, Noel Dane, II. The Widening Spiral: Freedom, Health, Environment. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Vanderbilt University, advisor John Lachs. Western Carolina University (2000-2005), Center for Ethics, University at Montana (2005- ).

Vetter, Martin. Zeichen deuten auf Gott: Die zeichentheoretische Beitrag von Charles S. Peirce zur Theologie der Sakramente. Dissertation, University of Frankfurt, advisor Hermann Deuser.

Yang, Eun-Joo. Continuity and Interaction as the Principles of Nature, Experience and Inquiry in John Dewey's Philosophy: A Theoretical Study for Reconstruction in Education. Dissertation, Education Dept., State University of New York at Buffalo, advisor Michael Simmons, Jr.

Yoder, Scot David. Pragmatism and Practical Philosophy. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Michigan State University, advisor Martin Benjamin. Seton Hall University (1999- ).

Anderson-Doniat, Louise Delphin. John Dewey and Marie Montessori: A Collaboration for the Mondew International School. Ed.D. Dissertation, Loyola University of Chicago, advisor L. Arthur Safer.

Arthur, Paul H. Collective Responsibility: A Pragmatic Approach to Large-Scale Moral Problems. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Colorado, advisor N. Ann Davis.

Bahr, Megan Granda. Transferring Values: Albert C. Barnes, Work and the Work of Art. Dissertation, Art History Dept., University of Texas, advisor Richard Shiff.

Beam, Kaarina J. The Ethos of Postmodernity and the Politics of Education. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Purdue University, advisor William McBride. Marian College of Fond du Lac (DAP 00), Linfield College (2000- ).

Bond, Adrian Nicholas. A Different Kind of Noise: Literariness in the Context of Transcendentalism, Pragmatism, and Formalism. Dissertation, English Dept., University of Toronto, advisor Greig Henderson.

Bordogna, Franscesca Maria. The Scientific Contexts of William James' Pragmatist Epistemology. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Chicago, advisor Arnold Davidson. Max-Planck-Insitut-für-Wissenschaftsgechichte, Berlin (1998-99), University of Notre Dame (1999-2002), Northwestern University (2002-  ) .

Burkum, Keith Edward. From Metaphysics to Ethics as Action. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Vanderbilt University, advisor Michael Hodges.

Carter, Adam Thomas Colenso. Irony and Ideology in Schlegel, de Man, and Rorty. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., McMaster University, advisor D. L. Clark.

Cheng, Tzungming. A Comparative Study of Professional Development Proposed by Buddha and John Dewey. Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Washington, advisor Donald Williams, Jr.

Coetzee, Anton. A Pragmatist Theory of Current Architecture Using Rorty's Perspective on Hegel. Dissertation, School of Architecture, University of Pretoria, South Africa, advisors R. C. Fisher, J. J. Snyman.

Coveney, Agnes. Dewey and Habermas: Articulating a Social Ethics for Citizens. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Loyola University of Chicago, advisor Mary Waymack.

Ellis, Edward Prioleau, Jr. Satisfaction as Art: An Account of Human Satisfaction Based On Dewey's Aesthetics. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Vanderbilt University, advisor John Lachs.

Fahy, Gregory M. A Comparison of the Ethical Thought of Aristotle and John Dewey. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Boston University, advisor Victor Kestenbaum. Gannon University (1999- ); University of Maine at Augusta (?- ).

Granger, David A. Learning to Care for Experience: John Dewey and Robert Persig on Recovering the Aesthetic in the Everyday. Dissertation, Education Dept., University of Chicago, advisor Philip Jackson.

Grippe, Edward J. A Critical Inquiry Into Richard Rorty's Philosophy of the New Pragmatism. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., City University of New York, advisors Charles Landesman and Richard Mendelsohn. Norwalk Community Technical College.

Hester, D. Micah. Community as Healing: Pragmatism and Medical Encounters. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Vanderbilt University, advisor Michael Hodges. Mercer University School of Medicine (1999-2003); University of Arkansas Medical School (2003- ).

Johnson, Jay Emerson. The Shining City on a Hill: Pragmatism, Ideas of History and Christian Eschatology in North America. Dissertation, Graduate Theological Union, advisor Donald Gelpi.

Kunkat, Cornelie. Sidney Hook: Intellektueller zwischen Marxismus und Pragmatismus. Dissertation, Freie Universität, Berlin.

Lane, Robert Edwin. Charles Sanders Peirce and the Principle of Bivalence. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Miami, advisor Susan Haack. University of West Georgia (2002-  ).

Lopez Melian, Josefa Francisca. Knowledge Like Belief in Young Peirce. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Universidad de Navarra, Spain.

McDermid, Douglas James. Is Pragmatism Coherent?: Classical and Contemporary Pragmatism on Truth, Realism, and Epistemology. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Brown University, advisor Ernest Sosa. Cindad Universitaria.

Meadows, Elizabeth. Group Discussions with Teachers about John Dewey's Later Writings on Experience, Art, and Education. Dissertation, Education Dept., University of Chicago, advisor Philip Jackson.

Mi, Chienkuo. Quine and Davidson on Meaning and Holism. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Iowa, advisor Gregory Landini.

Miller, Jackson B. Quest for John Dewey: Performance, Knowledge, and the Art of Inquiry. Dissertation, Speech Communication Dept., Southern Illinois University, advisor Nathan Stuckey.

Milligan, Jeffrey Ayala. Negotiating the Relationship between Religion and Public Education: Conceptualizing a Prophetic Pragmatic Teacher from Toni Morrison's 'Beloved'. Dissertation, Education Dept., University of Oklahoma, advisor Susan Laird.

Moller, Mark S. William James's Quandary: Radical Empiricism, Consciousness and the Miller-Bode Objections. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Washington University, advisor Robert Barrett. Denison University (DAP 98-00).

Nelson, Lonnie Roger. John Dewey and Christianity: Toward a Common Faith? Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Tulane University, advisor Andrew Reck. Hannibal LaGrange College (2000- ).

Oliver, James P. Beyond Words: The "Springs of Delight" in William James's Philosophy of Transcendence. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Vanderbilt University, advisor Michael Hodges.

Ortega Venzor, Alberto. Truth on Practical Reason. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Universidad de Navarra, Spain.

Park, Yeoungyu. The Semeiosis of the Image (Xiang): A Peircean Approach to the "Yijing." Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Hawaii, advisor Chung-Ying Cheng.

Perry, Christopher James. Flexible Meliorism: A Pragmatic Critique of Leibniz, Schopenhauer, and James. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Vanderbilt University, advisor John Lachs.

Peterson, Kevin T. From Self to Subject: American Pragmatists' Response to the Cartesian Implications of Postmodernist Subjectivity. Dissertation, University of Minnesota, advisors Harvey Sarles, David Noble.

Pettit, Joseph S. Pragmatism and Theism: A Question of Ethics. Dissertation, University of Chicago, advisor Franklin Gamwell.

Phillips, Clarence Mark. Truth or Consequences: The Problematic Neo-Pragmatism of Richard Rorty. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Tulane University, advisor Bruce Brower.

Rocknak, Stefanie A. The Construction of Relations in Hume and Quine. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Boston University, advisor Jaakko Hintikka. Hartwick College (?- ).

Seals, Gregory E. Education Itself: The Ontology of Inquiry in Dewey's Later Logic. Dissertation, Education Dept., Georgia State University, advisor Deron Boyles.

Strange, Lisa Shawn. Pragmatism and Radicalism in Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Feminist Advocacy: A Rhetorical Biography. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Indiana University. Changed name to Lisa Shawn Hogan. Departments of Communication Arts and Sciences and Women’s Studies, Pennsylvania State University (senior lecturer, 1999- ).

Whipps, Judy Dee. Philosophy and Social Activism: An Exploration of the Pragmatism and Activism of Jane Addams, John Dewey, and Engaged Buddhism. Dissertation, The Union Institute, advisor Elizabeth Minnich. Grand Valley State University (DAP 00).

Yancy, Valerie Jean. Attending the Dying: William James, A Resource for Medical Ethics at End-of-Life. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Saint Louis University, advisor Belden Lane.

Zavodny, John E. The Marks and Noises of the Monster at the End of the Books from Irony to Camp with Rorty, Kierkegaard, and Derrida. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Tennessee. East Tennessee State University (DAP 00), Unity College (2000- ).

Aliseda-Llera, Atocha. Logical Studies on Abductive Reasoning. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Stanford University, advisor Johan van Bentham. National Autonomous University of Mexico (?- ).

Arsenault, Michel. Laboratoire de creation cinematographique: Kinesthesie de l'oeuvre d'art filmique et de faux pas a partir de la semiotique de C. S. Peirce. Dissertation, Film Dept., Université Laval, advisor Paul Warren.

Beebe, Gayle Duane. Heavenly Bonds: The Interpretive Role of the Religious Community in Friedrich Schleiermacher and Josiah Royce. Dissertation, Religion Dept., Claremont Graduate University.

Broniak, Christopher John. Perception and Context: A Contextual Theory of Perception Based Upon Husserl’s Theory of Horizon and James’ Theory of Fringes. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Loyola University of Chicago, advisor Suzanne Cunningham. Roosevelt University (adjunct, ?- ).

Brown, Hunter. William James’ Will to Believe Revisited. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., McMaster University, advisor Sami Najm. King's College of University of Western Ontario (?- ).

Capps, John Michael. Context and Inquiry: Justification in Naturalized Epistemology. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Northwestern University, advisor Thomas Ryckman. University of North Florida (1998-2000), Rochester Institute of Technology (2000- ).

Chuaqui, Tomas Agustin. Skeptical Convictions: An Investigation of the Sources of Political Beliefs in Rorty, Hume, and Nietzsche. Dissertation, Political Science Dept., Princeton University, advisor George Kateb.

Cummings, Nydia. Experimentalism and Educational Measurement: Complementary Contributions of Dewey and McCall to the New Intellectual Movement in China. Dissertation, Education Dept., University of Miami, advisor Richard Williams.

DePetro, Jonelle. Practical Rationality and the Limits of Instrumentalism. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Arizona, advisor Keith Lehrer. Eastern Illinois University (DAP 98-00).

De Waal, Cornelis. The Quest for Reality: Charles S. Peirce and the Empiricists. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Miami, advisor Susan Haack. Peirce Edition Project, Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis (assistant editor, DAP 00); IUPUI (?- ).

Dosen, Anthony J. The Influence of John Dewey's Educational Philosophy on the Curriculum of the University Laboratory School, 1905-1928. Dissertation, Education Dept., Marquette University, advisor Erika Bogenschild.

Earls, Charles Anthony. Young John Dewey and the Call to Character. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Southern Illinois University, advisor Thomas Alexander.

Evans, David Howell. Communities of Confidence: William Faulkner, William James, and the American Pragmatic Tradition. Dissertation, English Dept., Rutgers University, advisor Richard Poirier.

Felip, Juan Fontrodona. Ciencia y práctica en la acción directiva: Un enfoque peirceano para la dirección de empresas. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Universidad de Navarra, Spain, advisor Jaime Nubiola. IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Spain (?- ).

Gordon, Mordechai. Toward an Integrative Conception of Authority in Education: A Comparison of Hannah Arendt's and John Dewey's Views on Authority. Dissertation, Education Dept, Columbia University, advisor Rene Arcilla.

Greenway, William N. A., Jr. Richard Rorty's Revised Pragmatism: Promise For and Challenge to Christian Theology. Dissertation, Princeton Theological Seminary, advisor Diogenes Allen. Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary (1998- ).

Hamner, Martha Gail. Habits of a Christian Nation: An Alternative Genealogy of American Pragmatism. Dissertation, Religion Dept., Duke University, advisor Kenneth Surin.

Hildebrand, David Louis. Undercutting the Realism-Irrealism Debate: John Dewey and the Neo-Pragmatists. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Texas, advisor G. Douglas Browning. University of Memphis (2002-03), University of Colorado at Denver (2003- ).

Horn, Richard Downing. The Perils of Pragmatism: Sidney Hook's Journey through Philosophy and Politics, 1902-1956. Dissertation, History Dept., Princeton University, advisor Sean Wilentz.

Keith, Heather Elaine. Relocating the Self: Pragmatism, Feminism, and Social Ecology. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Southern Illinois University, advisor Thomas Alexander. East Tennessee State University (1996-1999), Lyndon State College (1999-2005), Green Mountain College (2005- ).

Leffers, Mary Regina. Rethinking the Heart of Being Human: A Reflective Adventure with Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Jane Addams, and John Dewey. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Purdue University, advisors Charlene Haddock Seigfried and William McBride.

Lurie, Yotam. Nietzsche’s and Dewey’s Contextual Challenge to Value Theory. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, advisor Richard Schacht. School of Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel (1996- )

McNabb, Darin Michael. Strange Attraction: C. S. Peirce, Chaos Theory and Reclamation of Pragmatism. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Boston College, advisors Richard Cobb-Stevens, Ronald Anderson. Changed name to Darin McNabb Costa. University of Veracruz, Mexico (?- ).

Melkonian, Markar. Richard Rorty’s Liberalism: A Marxist Perspective. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Massachusetts, advisor John Brentlinger.

Mendieta, Eduardo. From Hermeneutics to Semiotics: Karl-Otto Apel's Transformation of Transcendental Philosophy. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., New School for Social Research. University of San Francisco (1995-2001); SUNY Stony Brook (2001- ).

Miller, Pamela A. The Implications of John Dewey's Ideas for Environmental Ethics. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Indiana University, advisor Karen Hanson. Ball State University (?-?).

Müller, Ralf. Logik, Zeit und Erkennen: Zum Problem der formalen Darstellung der Dynamik und Temporalitat des Erkennes bei Charles S. Peirce, in zeitgenossischen Logiken und in der Kognitionswissenschaft. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Mainz, advisor Thomas Seebohm. Fordham University (DAP 98-00).

Nlandu, Tamba. Reality, Perceptual Experience and Cognition: A Study in Peirce's Philosophy of Mind. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Tulane University, advisor Andrew Reck. Siena College (1999-2000), John Carroll University (2000- ).

Nunneley, Richard Dean, Jr. Inquiry, Practice, Consequence: Educational Action Research and the Neopragmatist Spirit. Dissertation, University of Minnesota, advisors Jean King and Robert Orton.

Olsen, R. Elizabeth. Ways on Imagining: A Pragmatist Aesthetics from William James to Richard Poirier. Dissertation, English Dept., University of California, Santa Barbara, advisor Giles Gunn.

Pawelski, James O. Perception, Cognition, and Volition: The Radical and Integrated Individualism of William James. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Pennsylvania State University, advisors Carl Vaught, Douglas Anderson. Albright College (1998-2002); Human and Organizational Development and Religious Studies, Vanderbilt University (2002-2004); Positive Psychology Center, University of Pennsylvania (2004- ).

Polanco, Moris A. Realismo y Pragmatismo: Biografía Intelectual de Hilary Putnam. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Universidad de Navarra, Spain, advisor Jaime Nubiola. Economics Faclty, University Francisco Marroquín, Spain (?-?).

Reuter, Robert Donald. Religious Belief and Peirce’s Scientific Realism. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Purdue University, advisor William Rowe. Saint Joseph's College. (DAP 98-08).

Reynolds, Andrew Stuart. Irreversibility and Evolution in Peirce's Cosmology. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Western Ontario, advisor Kathleen Okruhlik. University College of Cape Breton (1999- ).

Rondón, Rafael Francisco. Individuality in the Philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Oklahoma, advisor Kenneth Merrill. California State University, Pomona (1995-1998); California State Polytechnic University (1998-2001).

Savage, Daniel Michael. John Dewey's Philosophical Justification of Liberalism: The Natural Unity of Freedom and the Good. Dissertation, Political Science Dept., University of California, Santa Barbara, advisors Peter Digeser, Thomas Schrock.

Snider, Keith F. Pragmatism and the Intellectual Development of American Public Administration. Dissertation, Education Dept., Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

Sperry-White, Elizabeth A. The Contingency of Truth and Normativity: Toward a Reconstruction of Rorty's Account of Truth. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Notre Dame, advisor Gary Gutting. Changed name to Elizabeth Sperry. William Jewell College (DAP 00-08).

Staiger, Jeffrey David.  The James Brothers and the Psychological Interpretation of Romantic Philosophy. Dissertation, English Dept., University of California, Berkeley, advisor Alex Zwerdling.

Stanford, Preston Kyle. A Pragmatic Theory of Causality. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of California at San Diego, advisor Philip Kitcher. University of California at Irvine (1997- ).

Taylor, Paul C. Reconstructing Aesthetics: John Dewey, Expression Theory, and Culture Criticism. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Rutgers University, advisor Peter Kivy. University of Kentucky (1997-1998), University of Washington (1998-2003); Temple University (2003- )..

Taylor, Shawn Kevin. Horace Kallen's Workers' Education for Industrial Democracy. Ed.D. Dissertation, Rutgers University, advisor Joseph Chambliss.

Tristan, Jayne A. John Dewey’s Theory of Inquiry: Experimental Logic and the Aesthetics of Inference. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Southern Illinois University, advisor Thomas Alexander. University of North Carolina, Charlotte (lecturer, ?- ).

Weldon, Stephen. The Humanist Enterprise from John Dewey to Carl Sagan: A Study of Science and Religion in American Culture. Dissertation, History of Science Dept., University of Wisconsin, advisor Ron Numbers.

Yang, Chang. From Dewey's Legacy to Schoen's Epistemology of Practice: Reconceptualizing Reflective Teacher Education. Dissertation, Education Dept., University of British Columbia, advisor M. Elliott.

Yun, Dai Young. Quine's Criterion on Ontological Reducation. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Michigan State University, advisor Joseph Hanna.

Zellman, Robert Frederick. Pragmatic/Ecological Conceptions of the Self: Transaction, Culture, and Habit. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Southern Illinois University, advisor Eugenie Gatens-Robinson. Ocean City College, NJ (?-?); Spoon River College (?- ).

Crouch, Frank Lynn. Everyone Who Sees the Son: Signs, Faith, Peirce's Semiotics, and the Gospel of John. Dissertation, Religion Dept., Duke University, advisor Dan Via.

Crowe, Tim. An Examination of Three Strategies for Dealing with Normativity within Naturalized Epistemology. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Southern Illinois University, advisor Eugenie Gatens-Robinson.

Flesberg, Evon Olive. By Creation of a New Experience: Dewey as Resource for Practical Theology. Dissertation, Religion Dept., Vanderbilt University, advisor Volney Gay.

Goto, Masayuki. George Herbert Mead: A Text Database Analysis of His Writings. Dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara, advisor John Baldwin.

Hull, Kathleen Ann. Peircean Imagination: The Role of Mathematical Reasoning in C. S. Peirce's Philosophy of Religion. Dissertation, Religious Studies, Drew University. New York University (adjunct, 1996-2007); Director of First Year Seminars, Rutgers University (2007- ).

Hytten, Kathryn Ann. Rethinking Pragmatism: Education and the Pragmatist Social Project. Dissertation, Education Dept., University of North Carolina, advisors Richard Phillips, Lynda Stone.

Jackson, Rodger Laine. A Philosophical Exploration of Trust. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Michigan State University, advisor Martin Benjamin. Richard Stockton College (DAP 98-00).

Jones, Donald Crosby. Beyond the Postmodern Impasse of Contemporary Composition: The Non-Foundational Alternative of Deweyan Pragmatism. Dissertation, English Dept., University of New Hampshire, advisor Thomas Newkirk.

Jones, Wylie David. The Politics of Experimentalism: Modernity and the Reconstruction of Democratic Culture in the Thought of Thoreau, Whitman, and Dewey. Dissertation, Political Science Dept., University of Cincinnati, advisor David Resnick.

Kallammakal, Matthew. Presuppositions of the Scientific Ethics of John Dewey. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., DePaul University. Aquinas College, Gopalur-on-sea, India (?-?).

Kettlehut, Martin William. Amplifying Charles Sanders Peirce’s Logic of Relations, An Essay in Metaphysics: The "Polar Sense." Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Temple University, advisor Joseph Margolis.

Kristofik, Paula Kay. The Signification of Chalk: Teacher/Students-in-the-classroom, John Dewey and United States Progressive Education, and the Desire of Pedagogy. Dissertation, Education Dept., University of Pittsburgh, advisor Mariolina Salvatori.

Lee, Hyungdae. The Search for Authority in American Social Thought: Sumner, Dewey, Lippmann, and Niebuhr. Dissertation, History Dept., Ohio University, advisor Charles Alexander.

Lekan, Todd Michael. Interpretive Experimentalism: A Pragmatic Account of Moral Norms and Judgment. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, advisor Richard Schacht. Muskingum College (1996- ).

Light, Andrew. Nature, Class, and Built World: Philosophical Essays between Political Ecology and Critical Technology. Dissertation, University of California, Riverside, advisor B. Magnus. State University of New York at Binghamton (1998-2000), Environmental Conservation Education Program, New York University (2000-2006); University of Washington (2006- ).

Long, Mark C. The Measure of Inquiry: Whitman, Peirce, Williams and the Claims of Reading in Literary Theory and Criticism. Dissertation, English Dept., University of Washington, advisor Leroy Searle.

Lowell, Timothy. Formalism, Pragmatism, and Nihilism in Legal Thought. Dissertation, John Hopkins University.

Maller, Mark P. The Ethics of William James and Jean-Paul Sartre. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Duquesne University, advisor John Scanlon. Lewis University (adjunct, ?-?).

Mether, Thomas R. Towards a Pragmatist Philosophy of Language and Meaning. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Vanderbilt University, advisor John Lachs. Fisk University (DAP 00).

Munn, Edward Carlos. Whitehead, Rorty, and Speculative Thought. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Emory University, advisor Donald Verene. Changed name to Edward Munn Sanchez. University of South Carolina (DAP 98-00).

Myers, William Thomas. The State of Dewey’s Metaphysics. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Texas, advisor Douglas Browning. Birmingham-Southern College (1996- ).

Panesa, Rolando Tariman. Science and Religion in Charles S. Peirce. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Universidad de Navarra, Spain, advisor Jaime Nubiola.

Park, Kyu Young. The Reconstruction of Educational Theory: Confucianism, Practicalism, and Pragmatism (1945-1965). Dissertation, Education Department, Loyola University of Chicago.

Pihlstrom, Sami Johannes. Structuring the World: The Issue of Realism and the Nature of Ontological Problems in Classical and Contemporary Pragmatism. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Helsinki. University of Helsinki (1996- ).

Pollock, Albert. Pragmatism and Hermeneutics: Rorty, James, and Gadamer on Truth. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Ottawa, advisor Andrew Lugg.

Russell, Dee Miller. The Passion that Precedes Knowledge: The Role of Imagination in John Dewey's Theory of Experience and in the Activities of the University of Chicago Elementary School, 1896-1904. Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Georgia.

Ryan, Frank Xavier. Circles of Inquiry: John Dewey’s Philosophy of Transaction. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Emory University, advisor James Gouinlock. Kent State University (1997- ).

Shade, Patrick A. Habits of Hope: A Pragmatic Theory of the Life of Hope. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Vanderbilt University, advisor John Lachs. Rhodes College (1996- ).

Simmons, Jay Keith. Liberalism's Dilemma: Pragmatism and Post-modernity. Dissertation, Political Science Dept., University of Alabama, advisor Daniel Pound.

Smith, Timothy Lowell. Formalism, Pragmatism, and Legalism in Legal Thought. Dissertation, School of Law, Johns Hopkins University.

Torma, Sirpa Hannele. The Prospect of Growth: A Study of Growth Process and the Ethical Basis of Education in the Light of the Conclusions of George Herbert Mead and John Dewey. Dissertation, Education Dept., University of Tampere, Finland.

Trigilio, Josephine. Death of the Armchair Activist: Pragmatic Understandings of Feminist Knowledge. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Oregon, advisor Nancy Tuana. Bentley College (DAP 00); Simmons College (2005- ).

Ward, Roger Allen. An American Theism: Edwards, Peirce, Dewey, and Philosophy of Return. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Pennsylvania State University, advisor Carl Vaught. Georgetown College (DAP 98-00).

Wasson, Donna Stieg. Dewey's Legacy in an Elementary School Curriculum. Dissertation, Education Dept., Indiana University, advisor Norman Overly.

Wilson, Lucas B. John Dewey's Pragmatism and Economic Method: Modernism and Postmodernism in Economics. Dissertation, Economics Dept., University of Massachusetts, advisor Stephen Resnick.

Wyatt, R. Michael. Experience and Community: Twelve-Step Program Theory, American Pragmatism, and Christian Theology. Dissertation, Theology Department, Emory University, advisor Rebecca Chopp.

Albrecht, James M. Limitation and Power: Emerson's Pragmatic Transcendentalism. Dissertation, English Dept., Rutgers University, advisor Richard Poirier.

Avery, Thomas Michael. The Duhem-Popper-Quine Thesis. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., City University of New York, advisor Charles Landesman. New York City College of Technology (adjunct, ?- ).

Baker, Jeffrey S. Somewhere under Pynchon's Rainbow: Pragmatism, Protest, and Radical Democracy in "Gravity's Rainbow." Dissertation, Purdue University, advisor Wendy Flory.

Brey, Philip A. A Pragmatic-Naturalistic Theory of Scientific Representations. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of California at San Diego, advisor Paul Churchland. University of Twente, The Netherlands (?- ).

Camp, James Norbon, III. The Lutheran/Deweyan Watershed: An Assessment of the Lutheran and Deweyan Pedagogies on Modalities of Student Thinking. Dissertation, Education Dept., Texas Woman's University.

Case, Jennifer Hegglin. Putnam’s "Pluralistic Realism": An Exposition and Defense. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Washington University, advisor Roger Gibson. Kalamazoo College (1996).

Daude, Matthew Monroe. Naturalistic Metaphysics and the Tradition: A Study of Dewey’s Metaphysical Method. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Texas, advisor Douglas Browning. Changed name to Matthew M. Daude Laurents. Austin Community College (?- ).

Greene, Paula Jean Knapp. The Role of the Teacher: Historical Perspective on the Works of John Dewey. Ed.D. Dissertation, Vanderbilt University, advisor Dorothy Skeel.

Hadley, Mark Andrew. Religious Thinking in an Age of Disillusionment: William James and Ernst Troeltsch on the Possibilities of a Science of Religion. Dissertation, Religious Studies, Brown University.

Harrington, Marcia Ann. Operationalizing the Method of Inquiry as a Means of Transcending Thinking at the Level of Recognition to Functional Thought: Natural Pragmatism Revisited. Dissertation, Education Dept., University of Toledo, advisor Robert Wilhoyte.

Jackson, David Paul. The Natural World of Value: John Dewey’s Philosophy of Value. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Cincinnati, advisor Donald Gustafson. Northern Kentucky University (adjunct, ?- ).

Mameli, Gianmatteo. Synechism: Aspetti del pensiero di Charles Sanders Peirce. Tesi di Laurea in Semiotica, Università degli Studi di Bolgna, Italy.

Marquez, Ivan. Rorty, Reason, and Modernity's Quest for Freedom and Equality. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Indiana University. Bentley College (DAP 00).

Menta, Timothy. The Origin and Development of Moral Sensibility. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Boston University, advisor Robert Neville. Saint Francis College (DAP 98-00).

Nahser, Frank Byron. Learning to Read the Signs: Reclaiming the Pragmatism of Peirce and Royce for American Business. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., DePaul University, advisor Manfred Frings.

Owen, Bradley William. Ontological Frameworks: Carnap and Quine on Methods of Ontology. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Loyola University of Chicago.

Parks, Marshall. The Later Correspondence of John Dewey. Dissertation, Social Foundations of Education Dept., University of Virginia.

Phelps, Christopher Brooks. Young Sidney Hook: Marxism and Pragmatism, Revolution and Democracy. Dissertation, History Dept., University of Rochester. University of Oregon (1995-1996), Ohio State University, Mansfield (1999- ).

Poteshman, Allen. John Dewey’s Epistemology. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Pittsburgh, advisor Richard Gale. College of Business Administration, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2000- ).

Pratt, Scott Lawrence. Inquiry and Social Diversity: John Dewey’s Conception of Philosophy. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Minnesota, advisor Douglas Lewis. University of Oregon (DAP 98-00).

Ross, Jamie P. Engendered Pragmatism. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Oregon, advisor John Stuhr. Portland State University (1992- ).

Sokolowski, William Robert. A Consideration of Peirce’s Realism. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Boston College, advisors Richard Cobb-Stevens, David Rasmussen. Central Connecticut State University (lecturer, ?- ).

Swartz, Omar Jonathan. Toward a Scholarship of Social Influence: Critical Theory, Neo-Pragmatism, and Rhetorical Inquiry. Dissertation, Speech Communication Dept., Purdue University, advisor Edward Schiappa.

Sykora, Julieta. An Application of William James's Theories of Experience, Belief, and Truth to the Listening Process and the Evaluation of Musical Experience. Dissertation, Music Dept., New York University.

Torres-Gregory, Wanda E. Quine and Heidegger on Language. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Boston University, advisor Erazim Kohak. Simmons College (DAP 00).

Trotter, Carl Griffin. The Loyal Physician: An Essay Applying the Ethics of Josiah Royce to the Practice of Medicine. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Vanderbilt University, advisor John Lachs. Center for Health Care Ethics, St. Louis University (?- ).

Tuggle, Melvin. The Evolution of John Dewey’s Conception of Philosophy and His Notion of Truth. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Southern Illinois University, advisor David Clarke.

Uline, Cynthia Louise. John Dewey's Reflective Methods: Implications for Educational Administration as Moral Practice. Dissertation, Education Dept., Pennsylvania State University, advisor Donald Willower.

Wingrove-Haugland, Erik. Experience, Community and Nature: Ecophilosophical Implications in the Thought of John Dewey and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Vanderbilt University, advisor John Compton. U.S. Coast Guard Academy.

Wollstein, Harold Nathan, Jr. Self-Deception. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Virginia, advisor George Thomas.

Abernethy, Brad Beaven. Content and Supervenience: A Fresh Look at Putnam and Burge. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Toronto, advisor William Seager.

Aronson, Jane. Pragmatic Intrusion. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Stanford University, advisor John Perry.

Barnard, George William. Exploring Unseen Worlds: William James and the Philosophy of Mysticism. Dissertation, Divinity School, University of Chicago, advisor Don Browning.

Chiu, Chi-Chun. Peirce’s Early Concept of Reality: A Study in His Early Metaphysics. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., State University of New York at Buffalo, advisor Peter Hare. National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.

Clark, Chalmers Colucci. Meaning, Skepticism, and Truth in the Immanent Naturalism of W. V. Quine. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., City University of New York, advisor Arnold Koslow.

Connell, Jeanne Mahoney. Reconstructing a Pragmatic Theory of Knowledge: A Transactional Perspective. Dissertation, Education Dept., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, advisor Ralph Page.

Cunningham, Craig Andrew. The Moral Consequences of John Dewey's Metaphysics. Dissertation, Education Dept., University of Chicago, advisor Philip Jackson.

Dearmont, David Duane. Essays on Tychism, Exchangeability, and Indeterminism in Economics. Dissertation, Agriculture Dept., University of Texas, advisor David Bessler.

Fesmire, Steven. Dramatic Rehearsal and the Moral Artist: A Deweyan Theory of Moral Understanding. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Southern Illinois University, advisor Thomas Alexander. East Tennessee State University (DAP 98), Siena College (2000-2002), Green Mountain College (2002- ).

Franklin, Mark John. An Utter Misunderstanding: Reconsidering "The Will to Believe" and Its Critics. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Brown University.

Galperin, Daniel Louis. Some Quinean Arguments for Quine’s Central Doctrine. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of California at Riverside, advisor Alexander Rosenberg.

Gardiner, Mark Quentin. Dummett and Putnam: Realism Under Attack. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., McMaster University, advisor Nicholas Griffin. Mount Royal College (DAP 00).

Gibson, William Harold. War and Peace: A Deweyan Perspective. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Texas, advisor Douglas Browning. United States Air Force Academy (1995-2000); Texas A&M University (visiting, 2000- ).

Hall, Stanley Ralph. Peirce on the Epistemology of Religious Belief. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Saint Louis University, advisor Richard Blackwell.

Horn, Jason Gary. Late Twain and the Funding of Freedom: Rereading St. Joan and August Feldner in the Light of William James. Dissertation, English Dept., University of Colorado, advisor Edward Nolan. Gordon College.

Johnson, Katherine Ann. A Critique of Richard Rorty’s Interpretation of William James’ Pragmatist Theory of Truth. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Boston College, advisors Richard Cobb-Stevens, Thomas Owens. Hanover College (1993- ).

Kadlec, David Charles. Anarchism, Pragmatism, and the Politics of Modernism, 1912-1935. Dissertation, English Language and Literature, University of Chicago, advisor Robert Von Hallberg.

Kim, Chungwook. Perchings and Flights: John Dewey and Julia Kristeva as Resources for Rethinking the Appeal to Experience in Feminist Theology. Dissertation, Divinity School, University of Chicago.

Kuang, Qizhang. Pragmatism in China: The Deweyan Influence. Dissertation, Educational Administration, Michigan State University.

Lamberth, David Clements. Squaring Logic and Life: Metaphysics, Experience, and Religion in William James's Philosophical Worldview. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Harvard University. Florida State University (1995-97), Harvard University Divinity School (1997- ).

Larrey, Phillip (Martin). Ontological Commitment in the Writings of W. V. Quine. Dissertation, Pontificia Universitas Gregoriana.

Martin, Wayne. Fichtean Pragmatism. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of California at Berkeley, advisor Hannah Ginsborg. University of California at San Diego (1993-2005); University of Essex (2005- ).

McGee, Glenn Edwards. Pragmatism and Human Genetic Intervention. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Vanderbilt University, advisor John Lachs. Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania (1995-2005); Bioethics Institute, Albany Medical College, NY (2005- ).

Naylor, Joseph Alan. Rorty, Liberalism and the Limits of Contingency. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of British Columbia, advisor Sam Coval. Douglas College (?-?)

Nicholls-Curwood, Eleanor L. Pragmatism and the Grounding of Ethics: A Study of C. I. Lewis. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., McGill University.

Niu, Xiaodong. A Comparison of the Educational and Social Ideas of Mao Zedong and John Dewey. Ed.D. Dissertation, Columbia University Teachers College.

Norwood, Kyle Matthew. Finding What Will Suffice: Pragmatism and the Incommensurable in Twentieth-Century American Poetics. Dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles.

Oliveira, Jose Carlos A. Toward a Philosophy of Technological Education: Reconstructing Deweyan Insights. Dissertation, Florida State University.

Pilcher, Sally Hartzell. The Ends and Means of Empowerment and John Dewey: Examining the Possibilities and Consequences of a Liberatory Rhetoric. Dissertation, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Rogers, John Stuart. Education as Politics, Politics as Education: John Dewey and Critical Intelligence. Dissertation, Stanford University.

Rothleder, Dianne Jean. The Work of Friendship: Rorty, his Continental Critics, and the Question of the Other. Dissertation, Political Science Dept., University of Chicago. Northwestern University, Political Science Department.

Shook, John Robert. John Dewey’s Early Philosophy: The Foundations of Instrumentalism. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., State University of New York at Buffalo, advisor Peter Hare. Corning Community College, NY (1995-2000), Oklahoma State University (2000-2006); SUNY Buffalo (research professor, 2006- ).

Siebert, Robert Charles. The Liberal/Ironist Leader: A Rortian Perspective on School Leadership. Ed.D. Dissertation, Fordham University.

Staat, Willem. Among Habits and Immediacies: Peirce, Heidegger, and Levinas. Dissertation, English Dept., State University of New York at Buffalo, advisor Jill Robbins.

Sullivan, Shannon Wimberley. Neither/Nor: Beyond the Aesthetic and the Ethical in Kierkegaard's Either/Or. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Vanderbilt University. Miami University (DAP 98), Pennsylvania State University (DAP 00).

Thompson, Stephen Lester. Meaning and Social Facts: Interpretation in the Black Speech Community. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., City University of New York. Howard University (DAP 98), William Paterson University (2000- ).

Wells, Kelly Jo. An Interpretation of Peirce’s Ontology. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Saint Louis University, advisor Richard Blackwell.

Wood, Mark David. The Politics and Theology of Prophetic Pragmatism: A Contribution to the Critique of Radical Political Philosophy. Dissertation, Syracuse University. Department of Religious Studies and African American Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University (?- )

Woodford, Paul Gerard. Development of a Theory of Transfer in Musical Thinking and Learning Based on John Dewey's Conception of Reflective Thinking. Dissertation, Music Education, Northwestern University.

Butler, Brian E. Taking Rorty’s Liberal Ironist Seriously: A Portrait of the Circumscribed Poet. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Claremont Graduate School, advisors Alfred Louch, Steve Erickson, John Roth. University of North Carolina at Asheville (2001- ).

Cormier, Harvey Jerome. William James’s Redefinition of Truth. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Harvard University, advisors Stanley Cavell, Hilary Putnam. University of Texas at Austin (1992-1999), SUNY at Stony Brook (1999- ).

Danisi, John J. The Life of the Mind: William James and Contemporary Philosophy. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., New York University, advisor Robert Gurland. Wagner College (?- ).

Estremera, Miguel Angel. Democratic Theories of Hope: A Critical Comparative Analysis of the Public Philosophies of John Dewey and Henry A. Giroux. Dissertation, Education Dept., Rutgers University, advisor James Giarelli.

Fott, David Samuel. Dewey, Postmodernism, and the Philosophical Foundations of Democracy. Dissertation, Political Science Dept., Harvard University. University of Nevada, Las Vegas (1992- ).

Friedman, Lesley A. C. S. Peirce’s Final Realism: An Analysis of the Post-1895 Writings on Universals. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., State University of New York at Buffalo, advisor Peter Hare. Lynchburg College (1993- ).

Guen Hart, Carroll. Grounding without Foundations: A Conversation between Richard Rorty and John Dewey. Dissertation, Free University of Amsterdam. Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto (1993- ).

Hansen, Jefferson Paul. The Edge of the Local Pragmatist Aesthetics and Objectivist Poetry. Dissertation, English Dept., State University of New York at Buffalo, advisor Charles Bernstein.

Hartman, Helio Roque. Bacon and Dewey: Nature of Relations between Knowledge and Action. Dissertation, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.

Jankoviak, Michael. Environmental Philosophy: A Pragmatic Reconstruction. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Michigan State University, advisor Richard Peterson.

Jones, Judith A. The Metaphysics of Intensity. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Emory University, advisor Thomas Flynn. Fordham University (1991- ).

Jones, Wayne P. A Critical Analysis of Master of Business Administration Education in Relation to the Philosophy of Pragmatism. Dissertation, Marquette University, advisors Adrian DuPuis and Timothy Riordan.

Kazashi, Nobuo. Four Variations on the Phenomenological Theme of 'Horizon': James, Nishida, Merleau-Ponty, and Schutz. Dissertation, Yale University, advisor Maurice Natanson. Hiroshima City University.

Kehi, Balthasar. Communicative Participatory Democracy: A Model of Liberal Democracy in John Dewey and Jurgen Habermas. Dissertation, Education Dept., Columbia University.

Kendall, Carl Frederick. Pragmatism and the Grounds of Epistemology Naturalized: Consequences of C. I. Lewis’s Criticism of Kant’s Theory of ‘Sinn und Bedeutung’ in Concept Formation. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., City University of New York, advisor Marx Wartofsky.

Lee, Du-won. A Semiotic Explication of Communicative Competence. Dissertation, Speech Dept., Southern Illinois University, advisor Richard Lanigan.

Lee, Seongho. School and Social Reform: John Dewey's Changing View. Dissertation, Education Dept., Stanford University, advisor Denis Phillips.

Lubling, Yoram. Persons and Experience: John Dewey’s Philosophy of the Self. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Nebraska, advisor Philip Hugly. Elon College (DAP 98-00).

Magada-Ward, Mary. Imagination and the Struggle with Fact: A Pragmatist Feminist Philosophy of Science. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Southern Illinois University, advisor Mark Johnson. Middle Tennessee State University (DAP 98-08).

Mitchell, Jeffrey Allen. Reason's Different Tastes: Nietzsche, Dewey, and the Affective Component in Valuation. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Vanderbilt University. Arkasas Tech University (1994- ).

Morse, Jane Fowler. The Ends of Education: An Historical Framework from Plato to Dewey for Analyzing Educational Reform. Dissertation, Education Dept., University of Kansas.

Nadelman, Heather L. Wrestling the Octopus: William James and the Limits of Professional Authority. Dissertation, American Studies Dept., Princeton University.

Nickles, John Peter. A Question of Method, Dworkin, CLS, and Rorty. Dissertation, University of Virginia.

Noh, Yang-Jin. Relativism Without Confrontation: Putnam, Rorty, and Beyond. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Southern Illinois University, advisor Mark Johnson. Chonnan University, Korea (?- ).

O'Donnell, Kevin Eugene. The Question of Belief: Pragmatism and Poststructuralism in Contemporary Composition Studies. Dissertation, English Dept., University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, advisor William Van Pelt.

Okeke, Peter Ekemezie. John Dewey and Democracy. Dissertation, University of Calgary, advisor Robert Ware.

Palmer, John Michael. Against Mystery: Naturalism and Behaviorism in the Philosophy of W. V. Quine. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Washington University, advisor Robert Barrett.

Park, Chul-hong. Education as Living: A Re-evaluation of John Dewey's Experience-centered Curriculum. Dissertation, Education Dept., State University of New York at Buffalo, advisor David Nyberg.

Parrish, Timothy Lee. "Which Is Not the Alien?": Pragmatizing American Identity. Disseration, University of Washington, advisor Ross Posnock.

Piacente, Albert Jerome. The Naturalization of Philosophy: A Critical Examination of the Philosophy of Hilary Putnam. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Virginia, advisor Richard Rorty. John Jay College, CUNY (adjunct, ?- ).

Samuel, Francis Assisi. Integrating Individual and Social Dimensions of Education: A Comparative Study of John Dewey and Rabindranath Tagore. Dissertation, Fordham University.

Seiple, David Ilett. John Dewey and the Aesthetics of Moral Intelligence. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Columbia University.

Staab, Janice Marie. Agape: Peirce’s Abduction Concerning the Growth of Intelligibility. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Pennsylvania State University, advisor Carl Hausman. Walla Walla College (DAP 98), Southern Illinois University (DAP 00).

Strander, George. A Pragmatic Approach to the Qualitative Study of Reasoning. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Brown University, advisor Ernest Sosa.

Van Driel, Hans. De Semiosis het semiotek van C. S. Peirce in verband gebrachte met het verschijnsel. "The Semiosis: C. S. Peirce's Semiotics Applied to Film." Dissertation, Catholic University of Brabant.

Wang, Rui. John Dewey's Influence on Chinese Education. Ed.D. Dissertation, Northern Illinois University.

Weaver, William Gaulbert, III. Antifoundationalism, Feminism, and the Temptations of Method. Dissertation, Political Science Dept., University of Virginia.

Yang, Chen-Te. Hu Shih, Pragmatism, and the Chinese Tradition. Dissertation, History Dept., University of Wisconsin, Madison, advisor Yu-Sheng Lin.

Abe, Nobuhiko. Semiotics of Self in Theology: A Comparative Study of James and Nishida. Dissertation, Theology Dept., Harvard University, advisor Richard Niebuhr.

Anderson, Victor. The Legacy of Pragmatism in the Theologies of D. C. Macintosh, H. Richard Niebuhr, and James A. Gustafson. Dissertation, Religion Dept., Princeton University, advisor Jeffrey Stout. Vanderbilt University Divinity School (1992- ).

Auxier, Randall Eugene. Signs and Symbols: An Analogical Theory of Metaphysical Language. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Emory University, advisor Donald Verene. Oklahoma City University (1992-2000), Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (2000- ).

Biesta, Gerardus Johannes Jozef. John Dewey: Theory and Practice. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Rijks Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands. Publishes under the name Gert Biesta. School of Education, University of Exeter, UK (?-2007); Institute of Education, University of Stirling, UK (2007- ).

Bocknek, Judith Rice. "Women's Ways of Knowing": A Deweyan Perspective. Ed.D. Dissertation, Boston University.

Burke, Frank Thomas. Propositions and Judgments in Dewey's Logic. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Stanford University, advisor Denis Phillips. University of South Carolina (1996- ).

Chakraborty, Nirmalya Narayan. An Inquiry into Meaning: In the Light of W. V. Quine and D. Davidson. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Waterloo, advisor James Van Evra. Rabindra Bharati University (?- ).

Dibiase, Allan F. A Study of Dewey's Aesthetic Logic at Work, 1916-1934. Ed.D. Dissertation, Rutgers University, advisor J. J. Chambliss.

Filson, Gerald Wesley. Cooperative Inquiry as a Theory of Practice: Contributions of John Dewey and Jürgen Habermas. Dissertation, Education Dept., University of Toronto.

Fletcher, Robert Paul. Thackery and Pragmatism. Dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, advisor Alexander Welsh.

Gander, Eric Michael. Doing Bourgeois Philosophy at the End of History: Richard Rorty on Philosophy, Politics and Persuasion. Dissertation, Communication Dept., Northwestern University, advisor Michael Hyde.

Garmon, Steven Meredith. Pragmatist Critiques of Jurisprudence. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Virginia, advisor Richard Rorty. Fisk University (1992-1996).

Garon, Suzanne. Der Einfluss der deutschen Idealisten auf den Bereich der Soziologie der Einfluss von Fichte und Hegel auf Mead. Dissertation, Sociology Dept., Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität.

Iliff, Alan James. Charles S. Peirce's Contributions to Mathematical Logic and Philosophy. D.A. Thesis in Mathematics, University of Illinois at Chicago, advisor William Howard.

Jacobson, David Carl. Individual and Community in Dewey and Heidegger. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., State University of New York at Stony Brook, advisor Don Ihde. Concordia College (DAP 98-00).

Kristoff, Joseph S. R. Bruce Raup and John Dewey's Judgmental Process. Ed.D. Dissertation, Rutgers University, advisor James Giarelli.

Levin, Jonathan. Wallace Stevens and the American Pragmatic Tradition. Dissertation, English Dept., Rutgers University, advisor Richard Poirier. English Dept., Columbia University (1993-2001), Fordham University (2001- ).

Martinez Aleman, Ana Maria. John Dewey: A Feminist Consideration of His Concepts of the Individual and Sociality. Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Massachusetts.

McKenna, Erin. Revising Models of Utopia in Light of Feminist and Pragmatist Perspectives. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Purdue University, advisor Charlene Seigfried. Pacific Lutheran University (1992- ).

Musial, Gloria Gosen. John Dewey and Current Pedagogical Practices: Is Deweyan Pedagogy Implemented Today? Dissertation, Dept. of Educational Administration, Michigan State University.

Ngoyi, Tshibilondi. The Paradigm of Semiotic Interpretation: Essay on the Theory of Interpretation in the Semiotic Pragmatic of Ch. S. Peirce. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.

Ning, Yin-Bin. A Post-Philosophical Essay on Knowledge/Power: Richard Rorty, Anti- Foundationalism, and the Possibility of an Alternative Epistemology. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Indiana University, advisor Milton Fisk. National Central University, Taiwan (?- ).

Parker, Kelly Andrew. The Principle of Continuity in Charles S. Peirce’s Phenomenology and Semeiotic. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Vanderbilt University, advisor John Lachs. Grand Valley State University (1992- ).

Rouse, Mary Susan. The Institutional Definition of Art: A Pragmatic Reconstruction. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Florida State University, advisor Eugene Kaelin. Kennesaw State University (DAP 98-08).

Rumana, Richard Zane, Jr. Rorty Becoming Rorty: The Early Writings. Dissertation, Dept. of Humanistic Studies, State University of New York at Albany. William Patterson University (DAP 98-08).

Shinn, George Latimer. William James and Henri Bergson: The Emergence of Modern Consciousness, 1885-1914. Dissertation, Drew University, advisor John von der Heide.

Skaja, Henry George. Getting Clear on Confucius: Pragmatic Naturalism as a Means of Philosophical Interpretation. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Hawaii, advisor Roger Ames. University of Hawaii, Leeward Community College (DAP 98).

Sommermeier, Ralf. John Dewey’s Theory of Communication and Its Implications for Democratic Change. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Southern Illinois University, advisor Elizabeth Eames.

Stein, Jerome Abraham. John Dewey and Adult Education. Dissertation, Education Dept., University of Minnesota, advisor Howard Williams.

Stewart, William Christopher. Social and Economic Aspects of Charles Sanders Peirce’s Conception of Science. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Notre Dame, advisor Cornelius Delaney. Houghton College (1993- ).

Taylor, Eugene Irvine, Jr. Psychology as a Person-Centered Science: William James after 1890. Dissertation, Boston University, advisor Sigmund Koch. Harvard University Medical School, Psychiatry.

Teehan, John Patrick. The Art of Scientific Morality: A Study of John Dewey’s Moral Method. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., City University of New York, advisor Stefan Baumrin. Religion Dept., Hofstra University (1998- ).

Vallayil, John Thomas. Science of Reality: A Study of the Metaphysics of Charles Sanders Peirce. Dissertation, Pontificia Universitas Gregoriana, Vatican.

Zack, Jerome J. A Study of John Dewey's Concept of Situation and Its Implications for the Teaching of Literature. Dissertation, Education Dept., State University of New York at Buffalo, advisor Michael Simmons.

Ziniewicz, Gordon Law. Democracy and Imagination: The Practical Idealism of John Dewey. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Boston College, advisor Richard Cobb-Stevens. Loyola College, Baltimore (visiting, 1993-?).

Alvarenga, Ethel. The Concept of Self-Consciousness: An Epistemological, Semantical or Pragmatical Account. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Boston University, advisor Steve Gerrard.

Axtell, Guy Stanwood. Cognitive Values, Theory Choice, and Pluralism: On the Grounds and Implications of Philosophical Diversity. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Hawaii, advisor Lenn Goodman. University of Nevada, Reno (1992- ).

Berberich, Stefanie. Die Philosophie Richard Rortys. Dissertation, Saarbrücken University.

Burgess, Paul Matthew. Play, Metaphor, and Judgment in a World of Signs: A Peircean Semiotic Approach to Christian Worship. Dissertation, Religion Dept., Duke University, advisor Geoffrey Wainwright.

Cassano, Graham. Over the Carnage: Rhetorical Pragmatism and Social Theory's Fatal Search for Revolution. Dissertation, Sociology Dept., Brandeis University.

Cote, Jean-Francois. Tradition, modernité et postmodernité dans la societé Americaine: Contribution a l'étude critique du concept pragmatiste de communication des sciences sociales Americaines dans une problematique de la socialité contemporaine. Dissertation, York University.

De Tienne, Andre. The Analytic of Representation in Charles S. Peirce's Early and Late Writings. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. University of Indiana - Purdue University Indianapolis (1993- ).

Duening, Thomas Norbert. Rorty's Liberal Ironist: A Model for Information Age Undergraduate Education? Dissertation, Education Dept., University of Minnesota.

Edwards, Michael Charles. Extensionalist Semantics After Quine. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., City University of New York, advisor Jerrold Katz. Barat College (DAP 98-00).

Ehrat, Johannes. Peirce's Iconicity and Meaning Processes in Audiovisual Communication: The Religious in Film and Television Aesthetics, Narratives and Social Form. Dissertation, Communication Dept., Université de Montréal.

Eze, Hippolytus M. A Critical Examination of the Instrumentalism in John Dewey's Pragmatism. Dissertation, Pontificia Universitas Urbaniana.

Han, Ching-Chun. Comparing the "Educated Person" Conceptions of Dewey and Krishnamurti: Implications for the Republic of China (Taiwan). Dissertation, Education Dept., Columbia University Teachers College, advisor Maxine Greene.

Hanks, James Craig. Jürgen Habermas and the Colonization of the Lifeworld. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Duke University, advisor Rick Roderick. University of Alabama, Huntsville (DAP 98-00).

Ho, Zhigong. Across the Pacific: American Pragmatism in China, 1917-1937. Dissertation, History Dept., University of Houston.

Lloyd, Brian Douglass. A Miserable Fit of the Blues: Pragmatism, Exceptionalism and the Failure of American Marxism, 1900-1922. Dissertation, History Dept., University of Michigan, advisor David Hollinger. University of California, Riverside, History Dept.

Kim, Tong-Sik. The Limits of Ungrounded Rhetoric: A Criticism of Rorty's Views of Language, Truth and Philosophy. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Emory University, advisor Nicholas Fotion. Koren Military Academy (?- ).

Macri, Vincent. The Philosophical Implications of Whole Language Instruction and their Relationship to the Educational Philosophy of John Dewey. Dissertation, Education Dept., Southern Illinois University.

Martin, William P. The Dewey-Hutchins Debate on General Education, 1929-1945: A Case of Progressive Historical Bias. Ed.D. Dissertation, Temple University.

Millgram, Elijah. Against Instrumentalism. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Harvard University, advisors Robert Nozick, Hilary Putnam, Thomas Scanlon. Princeton University (1991-97), Vanderbilt University (1997-99), University of Utah (1999- ).

Moore, Jo-Anna Johnson. William James and Art: Perspectives for Art Educators. Ed.D. Dissertation, Education Dept., Harvard University.

Morris, Amy S. Dante and Peirce: Iconicity and Unlikeness in the "Leaves" Simile, Inferno III. Dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles.

Rollins, Mark Christopher. Peircean Pragmatism and the Limits of Justification. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of California, Berkeley, advisor Donald Davidson.

Rudnick, Kenneth Joseph. Charles Sanders Peirce on the Cognitive Given. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Fordham University, advisor Vincent Potter. Gonzaga University (DAP 98), St. John's Seminary College (DAP 00).

Shea, John Michael. Dewey’s Reflective Ethics: Democracy as Method and Ethical Ideal. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Saint Louis University, advisor Vincent Punzo.

Tolland, Anders. Epistemological Relativism and Relativistic Epistemology: Richard Rorty and the Possibility of a Philosophical Theory of Knowledge. Dissertation, Göteborgs Universitet.

Welchman, Jennifer. The Development of John Dewey’s Moral Epistemology. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Johns Hopkins University, advisors J. B. Schneewind, Susan Wolf. University of Maryland, Baltimore County (DAP 98), University of Alberta (1998- ).

Xu, Di. Is School Society, or Society School? A Comparison of the Educational Ideas and Practices of John Dewey and Mao Zedong in China. Ed. D. Dissertation, Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Yu, Xiaoming. The Encounter between John Dewey and the Modern Chinese Intellectuals: The Case of the 1922 Educational Reform. Dissertation, Education Dept., University of Virginia.

1990

Akam, Everett Helmut. Pluralism and the Search for Community: The Social Thought of American Cultural Pluralists. Dissertation, History Dept., University of Rochester, advisor Christopher Lasch.

Alkana, Joseph Marc. The Social Self: Contemporary Psychology and the Writings of Hawthorne, Howells, and William James. Dissertation, University of Texas.

Anderson, James Douglas. The Morally Educated Person: John Dewey, Richard Peters, Lawrence Kohlberg, and the Aims of Moral Education. Ed. D. Dissertation, Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Arcilla, René Vincente. Nihilism and Liberal Education: Richard Rorty on Conversational Edification. Dissertation, Education Dept., University of Chicago. Teachers College, Columbia University. School of Education, New York University (?- ).

Armijos, Gonzalo Jose. Marxism, Pragmatism, and Historical Realism: An Epistemological Appraisal. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Indiana University, advisor Milton Fisk. Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil (?- ).

Baker, Ann Michelle. Putnam on Truth: Metaphysical Realism vs. Kantian Constructivism. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Washington, advisor Laurence BonJour. Illinois Wesleyan University (1990-1994); University of Washington (1994- ).

Benitez, Hermes B. Education and Fragmentation in Rousseau, Hegel and Dewey. Dissertation, University of Alberta.

Bogner, Andrew George. John Dewey's Theory of Adult Education and Adult Development. Dissertation, Education Dept., University of Kansas.

Brandt, Eric Arthur. The Cognitive Significance of Religious Belief in the Work of William James. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Columbia University.

Bruce, Marcus Coleman. The Unfinished Universe: William James, Pragmatism, and the American Intellectual. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Yale University, advisor Jon Butler. Religion Dept., Bates College (?- ).

Carlson, Thomas Bruce. The Pragmatic Individual: From Kant to James. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Harvard University, advisors Hilary Putnam, Israel Scheffler.

Cavanaugh, Mary Patricia. The Holistic Teaching Methods of Francis Parker, John Dewey, Rudolf Steiner, Hughes Mearns, and Laura Zirbes: Literary via the Whole Child. Dissertation, Michigan State University.

Chiles, Richard Preston. William James: A Damaged Self Journeys Towards Reparation. Dissertation, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Northwestern University, advisor James Ashbrook.

Conant, James Ferguson. Three Philosophers: Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and James. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Harvard University, advisors Stanley Cavell, Hilary Putnam. University of Pittsburgh (1990-1999); University of Chicago (1999- ).

Coyle, Kelly. Pragmatic Epistemology: A Resource Model of Communicative Action. Dissertation, Communication Dept., University of Kentucky.

Edmondson, Henry Turner, III. Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey, and Education for Public Affairs. Dissertation, Political Science Dept., University of Georgia, advisor Thomas Lauth.

Engler, Ulrich. Kritik der Erfahrung: Die bedeutung der Aesthetischen erfahrung in der philosophie John Deweys. Dissertation, Tübingen University.

Esteban Cloquell, José Miguel. Empiricism without Dogmas and Internal Realism: A Comparative Study of Theoretical Evolution of W. V. Quine and H. Putnam. Dissertation, Universitat de Valencia, Spain.

Forster, Paul Dickinson. Community, Consensus and Progress Problems in Pragmatism from Peirce and Dewey to Putnam and Rorty. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Western Ontario, advisor R. Butts. University of Ottawa (DAP 98-00).

Golding, Joshua. Pragmatic Justification of Faith in God. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Pittsburgh, advisor Nicholas Rescher. Bellarmine University (DAP 98-00).

Greimann, Dirk. Quines behavioristische Theorie der Sprache. Dissertation, University of Munich.

Haggard, Patricia Alison Louise. Is John Dewey's 1932 'Ethics' Aristotelian? Dissertation, School of Education, Loyola University of Chicago, advisor Walter Krolikowski.

Iranzo Garcia, Valeriano. The Naturalization of Epistemology in the Works of W. V. Quine. Dissertation, Universitat de Valencia, Spain.

Katch, Jerald Alan. Discord at Dewey's School: On the Actual Experiment Compared to the Ideal. Dissertation, Education Dept., University of Chicago.

Kennedy, Kevin Edward. Personal Identity in the Thought of William James and Paul Weiss. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Catholic University of America, advisor Daniel Dahlstrom. St. John's University (DAP 98-00).

Lara Zavala, Maria Pia. La identitad social como proyecto: Hermeneutica, pragmatica y pragmatismo como herramientas de la racionalidad practica. (Social Identity as Project: Hermeneutics, Pragmatics and Pragmatism as Tools of Practical Rationality). Human.D. Dissertation, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain.

Li, Moying. Hu Shi and His Deweyan Reconstruction of Chinese History. Dissertation, Boston University.

McCallister, Edward Albert. Whitehead and James on Prehension. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Georgia, advisor Bowman Clarke. Columbia International University (DAP 98-00).

Monaghan, Paul Arthur. The Problem of Idealism and Natural Realism in G. H. Mead's Social Pragmatism. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Exeter.

Moreau, Marc R. Intention, Meaning and Reality. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Temple University, advisor Joseph Margolis. LaSalle University (?- ).

Mozur, Gerald Edward. Dewey's Principle of Continuity: Context and Criticism. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Washington University, advisor Robert Barrett.

O'Brien, Sean Marie. On Quine's Comparison of Scientific and Ethical Methodologies. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Colorado, advisor James Nickel.

Oh, Chong-Hwan. Toward a Consistent Internal Realism: A Criticism of Putnam’s Theory of Meaning. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Southern Illinois University, advisor Mark Johnson.

Pappas, Gregory Fernando. A  Pragmatist Ethics of Belief. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Texas, advisor Douglas Browning. Texas A&M University (DAP 98-00).

Petry, Edward Stanley, Jr. Self-Control in the Philosophy of Charles S. Peirce. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Pennsylvania State University, advisor Carl Hausman, Robert Corrington. Bentley College (?-2005).

Schulman, Norma Miriam. Into Another Intensity: Social Theories of the Self - George Herbert Mead and Beyond. Dissertation, University of Iowa, advisor John Soloski.

Soneson, Jerome Paul. Religious Pluralism and Theological Method: A Constructive Development of the Thought of John Dewey. Dissertation, Harvard University. University of Northern Iowa (DAP 98-00).

Trufant, Laurel Warren. Metaphors in the Construction of Theory: Ramus, Peirce and the American Mind. Dissertation, History Dept., University of New Hampshire, advisor Robert Mennel.

Trujillo, René Jr. The Social Emergence of Self and World as the Basis for Bridging Relativism and Realism: George Herbert Mead. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Colorado, advisor Gary Stahl. California State University, Bakersfield (2007- ).

Weberman, David S. The Pragmatic Turn in Early Heidegger. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Columbia University, advisor Charles Larmore. University of Wisconsin-Madison (1990-98), Georgia State University (1999- ).