Sources: John R. Shook, "Introduction" to The Chicago School of Pragmatism, vol. 1 (Bristol, UK: Thoemmes, 2000); Richard Lee Smith, "George Herbert Mead and Sociology: The Chicago Years" (1977 dissertation).
| Year | Student | Dissertation title |
| 1895 | Edward Scribner Ames | Agnosticism in its Historical Development |
| 1896 | Simon Fraser McLennan | The Theory of the Impersonal Judgment |
| 1898 | Addison Webster Moore | Implications of the Teleological Character of Knowledge in Locke's Essay on Human Understanding |
| Ernest Carrol Moore | The Relation of Education to Philosophy in Greece and the Early Church | |
| Arthur Kenyon Rogers | Psycho-physical Parallelism | |
| Amy Eliza Tanner | Imagery, with special Reference to the Association of Ideas | |
| 1899 | Daniel Peter MacMillan | The Negative Judgment |
| Henry Waldgrave Stuart | Valuation as a Logical Process | |
| 1900 | Henry Heath Bawden | Theory of the Criterion |
| William Franklin Moncreiff | Examination of Mill's Inductive Canons. | |
| Helen Bradford Thompson | Psychological Norms in Men and Women | |
| 1901 | Myron Lucius Ashley | The Nature of Hypothesis |
| Willard Clark Gore | The Imagination in Spinoza and Hume | |
| 1903 | Kate Gordon | The Psychology of Meaning |
| Elizabeth Kemper Adams | The Aesthetic Experience: Its Meaning in Functional Psychology | |
| Irving Elgar Miller | The Significance of the Mathematical Element in the Philosophy of Plato | |
| 1904 | Irving King | The Differentiation of the Religious Consciousness |
| Edgar Francis Riley | Descartes' Theory of the Judgment | |
| 1906 | William Kelley Wright | The Ethical Significance of Pleasure, Feeling, and Happiness in Modern non-Hedonistic Systems |
| 1907 | Matilde Castro | The Respective Standpoints of Logic and Psychology |
| 1908 | Anna Louise Strong | A Consideration of Prayer from the Standpoint of Social Psychology |
| 1909 | Douglas Clyde Macintosh. | The Reaction Against Metaphysics in Theology |
| Dagny Gunhilda Sunne | The Development of the Subjective Standpoint in Post-Aristotelian Philosophy | |
| Ernest Lynn Talbert | The Dualism of Fact and Idea in it Social Implications | |
| 1910 | Frederick Goodrich Henke | The Psychology of Ritualism |
| Ella Harrison Stokes | The Conception of a Kingdom of Ends in Augustine, Aquinas, and Leibnitz. | |
| 1911 | Elijah Jordan | The Constitutive and Regulative Principles in Kant |
| 1912 | Homer Blosser Reed | The Morals of Competition and Monopoly |
| Benjamin Whitman Van Riper | An Examination of Certain Views of the Time Problem | |
| Charles Edgar Witter | Pragmatic Elements in Kant's Philosophy | |
| 1913 | John Forsyth Crawford | The Relation of Inference to Fact in Mill's Logic |
| Charles Adam Mohr | The New Realism and the Real | |
| Julia Jessie Taft | The Woman Movement from the Standpoint of Personality | |
| Melicent Eda Waterhouse | Universality and Necessity versus Novelty | |
| 1914 | George Tilden Colman | Important Factors in the Transition from Individualistic Ethical Ideals of the Seventeenth Century to Social Ideas of the Nineteenth Century |
| Clarence Herbert Hamilton | A Psychological Interpretation of Mysticism | |
| Ethel May Kitch | Origin and Development of Subjectivity in Hindu Thought | |
| 1915 | Josef Roy Geiger | Some Religious Implications of Pragmatism |
| Colin Allen McPheeters | Moral Standards in Early Kentucky and Missouri | |
| 1916 | Carl Conrad Wernle Nicol | Influence of Function and Occupation of Ethical Codes |
| 1917 | Clarence Edwin Ayres | The Nature of the Relationship between Ethics and Economics |
| Ester Crane | The Place of the Hypothesis in Logic | |
| William A. Crowley | The Logic of the Greek Physicians | |
| Jacob Robert Kantor | The Functional Nature of the Philosophical Categories | |
| 1918 | Holly Estil Cunningham | Three Types of Logical Theory |
| Margaret Daniels | The Aesthetic Aspects of Religious Worship | |
| Sterlling Price Williams | The Conception of Reason in Sidgwick's Ethics | |
| Kia-lok Yen | The Traditional and the Scientific Trends in the Logic of Leibnitz | |
| 1919 | Norman Rufus Boardman | The Significance of Meaning in Pragmatisms and Neo-Realism |
| 1920 | Sidney Kok Wei | International Relationship in China and Its Ethical, Social and Political Interpretation |
| 1921 | Edith Ayres | Some Ethical Factors in Logical Theory |
| Mont Robertson Gabbert | Theories of Consciousness | |
| 1922 | Edward Z. Rowell | Masaryk's Realism and the Czech Nation |
| Thomas Vernor Smith | Philosophic Bases of the American Doctrine of Equality | |
| 1923 | Armand Joseph Burke | The Significance of Adjustment in Aesthetics |
| Gerald Albert Katuin | A Comparison of Methods in Science and Philosophy | |
| John Goodwin Locke | The Social Genesis and Character of Universals | |
| Walter Basil Mahan | The Relation of the Right to the Good in Recent Ethical Theory | |
| Edwin Thomas Mitchell | Modern Theories of the Nature and Function of Ideals | |
| 1924 | Van Meter Ames | The Aesthetics of the Novel |
| Charles Flinn Arrowwood | The Place of Reflective Thinking in the Development and Maintenance of Moral Value | |
| 1925 | Homer Hasenpflug Dubs | The Philosophy of Hsuntze: Ancient Confucianism as Developed in the Philosophy of Hsuntze |
| Adolf Kuring | The Sensory and Intellectual Factor of Knowledge in Aristotle | |
| Charles William Morris, Jr. | Symbolism and Reality: A study in the Nature of the Mind | |
| Donald Ayers Piatt | Mind and Nature | |
| Ruth Willis Pray | The Neo-Platonic Element in Aesthetics | |
| 1926 | Orvil Floyd Myers | The Significance of the Mathematical Element in the Philosophy of Bertand Russell |
| Charner Marquis Perry | The Genesis and Operation of Moral Judgments: A Study of British Theories from Hobbes to Adam Smith | |
| John Daniel Wild, Jr. | The Science and Metaphysics of Symbolism | |
| 1927 | Harold C. Blote | The Concepts of Nature and Matter in Early Greek Philosophy |
| Kurt Friedrich Leidecker | The Noetical Terminology in the Upanishads and Bhagavad Gita | |
| Yi-Pao Mei | The Ethical and Political Philosophy of Motse | |
| Orland Otway Norris | A Behavioristic Account of Individuation | |
| Takeichi Takahashi | The Symptomatic Function and Value of the Synthetic Moral Judgement | |
| 1928 | Maurice James Baum | Genetic Study of the Philosophies of William James and John Dewey |
| Percy Lee Delargy | Empircal Methods in Science and Philosophy | |
| Theodore Thomas Lafferty | The Logical and Epistemological Implications of the Theory of Perspectives | |
| Jarmon Alvis Lynch | Perspectives in Relation to Activity as Substance | |
| Chun-Kao Teng | The Philosophy of Life of the Ancient Taoists | |
| 1929 | Frank Dickinson | Dualism and Functionalism |
| Millard Spencer Everett | Utilitarianism as a Universal Morality | |
| Lien Chao Tzu | The Problem of Subjectivity and Objectivity as Treated in Pragmatism | |
| Dewey Houston Vass | Plato's Philosophy of Education | |
| 1930 | Wayne Albert Risser Leys | Needs and Values in Religion |
| Leslie Manock Pape | The Naturalistic Ethics of John Dewey | |
| Lional Ruby | The Nature of Beauty as Distinguished form other Aesthetic Categories | |
| 1931 | Theodore B. Brameld | The Role of Acquiescence in Leninism |
| Alburey Castell | Mill's Logic of the Moral Science: A Study of the Impact of Newtonism on Early Nineteenth Century Social Thought | |
| Chester M. Kearney | Two Neglected Aspects of the Truth Situation | |
| Wen Kwei Liao | Morality versus Legality: Historic Analysis of the Motivating Factors of Social Conduct | |
| Ralph W. Nelson | The Role of Faith in Kant's Philosophy | |
| Clifford P. Osborne | The Problem of Change in Greek Science | |
| Alfred Tonness | Aspects of the Problem of the Past | |
| Elizabeth Williamson | The Concept of Possibility in Its Philosophical Applications | |
| 1932 | Wilhelm Anderson | An Orientation of Hume's Moral Philosophy |
| David Louis Miller | Emergent Evolution and the Scientific Method | |
| Hugh V.R. Wilson | Ethical Aspects of Reward | |
| 1933 | Albert M. Dunham | The Concept of Tension in Philosophy |
| 1934 | George Dykhuizen | The Conception of God in Philosophy of Josiah Royce: A Critical Exposition of its Epistemological and Metaphysical Development |