Dissertations « Research Pragmatism Cybrary

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Charles Peirce William James F.C.S. Schiller John Dewey George Mead Jane Addams James Tufts Edward Ames Alain Locke Charles Morris C. I. Lewis	W. V. Quine Sidney Hook Hilary Putnam Richard Rorty Nicholas Rescher Larry Laudan Joseph Margolis Paul Kurtz Mark Johnson Susan Haack Cornel West

dissertations on pragmatism, 1990-2009

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.

2007

Agwuele, Anthony Onyemachi. Rorty's deconstruction of philosophy and the challenge of African philosophy. Dissertation, University of Leipzig.

Bell, Catharine. Teaching in the spirit of John Dewey. Dissertation, Education Dept., University of Chicago, advisor Philip Jackson.

Crom, Matthew Russell. Religious pluralism: Josiah Royce's communities of interpretation. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Oregon, advisor Scott Pratt.

Dijstelbloem, Hubertus Odulfus. De democratie anders: politieke vernieuwing volgens Dewey en Latour. Dissertation, Proefschrift Universiteit van Amsterdam.

Fisher, Justin Craig. Pragmatic conceptual analysis. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Arizona, advisor Terry Horgan. University of British Columbia (2006-).

Gangle, Jonathan Rocco. Spinoza in a postmodern context: Reading the "Ethics" with Peirce, Levinas and Deleuze. Dissertation, Religious Studies Dept., University of Virginia, advisor Peter Ochs.

Garchar, Kimberly Kay. A dying community: A Roycean critique of the medical community at the end of life. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Oregon, advisor Scott Pratt. University of Colorado at Denver (post-doc, 2007- ).

Griffin, Eric Bancroft. Radical faith and radical politics in creative dialogue: a critique of the prophetic pragmatism of Cornel West through the interpretive lenses of H. Richard Niebuhr's radical monotheism. Dissertation, Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education.

Griffin, Ledell. Elementary teachers' perceptions of the relevance of John Dewey's philosophy of experiential learning in the 21st century. Ed.D. Dissertation, Education Dept., Wayne State University, advisor Marc Rosa.

Jackson, Brian. John Dewey and teaching rhetoric for civic engagement. Dissertation, Education Dept., University of Arizona, advisor Thomas Miller.

Karaba, Robert G. Making sense of freedom in education: Three elements of neoliberal and pragmatic philosophical frameworks. Dissertation, Education Leadership Dept., Miami University, advisors Kathleen Abowitz and Richard Quantz.

Klein, Alexander M. The Rise of Empiricism: William James, Thomas Hill Green, and the Struggle over Psychology. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Indiana University, advisor Elisabeth Lloyd. University of Toronto (postdoc fellow, 2006- ).

Krueger, Joel. William James and Kitaro Nishida on 'Pure Experience,' Consciousness, and Moral Psychology. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Purdue University, advisor Charlene Seigfried. Danish National Research Foundation (fellowship, 2007).

Maynard, James. Architect of excess: Robert Duncan and the American pragmatist sublime. Dissertation, English Dept., State University of New York at Buffalo, advisor Joseph Conte.

Peng, Hongmei. A conversation between Confucius and Dewey on individual and community. Dissertation, Education Dept., University of Tennessee, advisor Barbara Thayer-Bacon.

Sinclair, Scott W. The conception and attributes of God: A comparison of Charles Sanders Peirce and Alfred North Whitehead. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Marquette University, advisor Stanley Harrison.

Smid, Robert Warren, Jr. Comparing comparisons: An analysis and appraisal of methodologies of cross-cultural comparison from the American Pragmatist and process philosophical traditions. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Boston University, advisor Robert Neville. Curry College (lecturer, 2007- ).

Wagner, Joseph B. Faith in the composition class: A Pragmatic approach to common ground. Dissertation, English Dept., University of North Carolina at Greensboro, advisor Hephzibah Roskelly.

Weber, Eric Thomas. Constructing Justice: Rawls, Dewey and Education. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Southern Illinois University, advisor Larry Hickman. University of Mississippi, Dept. of Public Policy Leadership (2007- ).

2006

Carter, Jacoby. Social Inquiry: A Pragmatist Analysis of Just War Theory Explanations of Terrorism. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Purdue University. John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY (2006- ).

Chen, Po-Nien. John Dewey on theory of learning and inquiry: The scientific method and subject matter. Dissertation, Education Dept., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, advisor Walter Feinberg.

Cockerham, David M. Toward a common democratic faith: The political ethics of John Dewey and Jacques Maritain. Dissertation, Religious Studies Dept., Indiana University, advisor Richard Miller.

Crouch, Jonathan Brent. Josiah Royce's science of order. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Oregon, advisor Scott Pratt.

Curtis, William M. Liberal commitments: Virtue, education, and pragmatic modernity. Dissertation, Political Science Dept., Duke University, advisor Thomas Spragens.

Cusick, Roger J. The ideas of Roscoe Pound: Pragmatism, pluralism and polylegalism. Dissertation, Political Science Dept., State University of New York at Albany, advisor John Gunnell.

DeCoster, Barry. Towards a pragmatic theory of medical explanations of disease. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Michigan State University, advisor Fred Gifford. Vassar College (adjunct, 2005- ).

Dueck, Jeffrey Forbes. Ways of life: Their nature and justification. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., State University of New York at Buffalo, advisor Peter Hare. Buffalo State College (lecturer, 2006- )

Hudson, Suzanne Perling. Robert Ryman: Painting pragmatism. Dissertation, Art History, Princeton University, advisor Hal Foster.

Groe, Matthew. Ethical coexistence beyond dualism: The converging visions of Dewey and Merleau-Ponty. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Villanova University, advisor Thomas Busch. Shippensburg University (lecturer, 2006- ).

Knutson, Andrea. American spaces of conversion: The conductive imaginaries of Jonathan Edwards, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and William James. Dissertation, English Dept., City University of New York, advisor Joan Richardson.

Koopman, Colin. Requiem for the politics of certainty: Pragmatism, democracy, and hope. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., McMaster University, advisor Barry Allen. University of California, Santa Cruz (research fellow, 2006- ).

Lacey, Robert J. American pragmatism and democratic faith. Dissertation, Political Science Dept., University of Massachusetts Amherst, advisor Jerome Mileur.

McBride, Lee A., III. Rethinking liberalism: A comparative study of the moral and political philosophies of John Dewey and Alasdair MacIntyre. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Purdue University, advisor Charlene Seigfried. College of Wooster (visiting, 2006- ).

McClelland, Kenneth A. Opening truth to imagination: The pragmatism of John Dewey and Richard Rorty. Dissertation, Education Dept., Brock University, advisor John Novak.

Mustain, Megan Rust. William James's fields of experience: Navigating the waters of cynicism. Dissertation, Philosophy Department, Southern Illinois University, advisor Larry Hickman. St. Mary's University (2006- ).

Peters, Anne. Politikverlust? : eine Fahndung mit Peirce und Zizek. Dissertation, Freie Universität, Berlin.

Porrovecchio, Mark Joseph. F. C. S. Schiller and the style of pragmatic humanism. Dissertation, Communication Dept., University of Pittsburgh, advisor Peter Simonson.

Puddephatt, Antony J. Rethinking George Herbert Mead: Implications for contemporary theories of knowledge, science, and technology. Dissertation, Sociology Dept., McMaster University, advisor Neil McLaughlin.

Reah, Kevin Patrick. The philosophy of D. H. Lawrence: from prophecy to pragmatism. Dissertation, School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Rellstab, Daniel H. Charles S. Peirce' Theorie natÜrlicher Sprache und ihre Relevanz fÜr die Linguistik : Logik, Semantik, Pragmatik. Dissertation, Universität, Bern.

Rogers, Melvin Lee. The undiscovered Dewey: Identity, democracy and the meaningfulness of experience. Dissertation, Religion Dept., Yale University, advisor Ian Shapiro.

Rummenie, Bruce R. John Dewey and Reinhold Niebuhr: An uncommon faith. Dissertation, Religion Dept., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, advisor Kal Alston.

Russell, Darrell J. John Dewey's philosophy of religion: Confronting the problem of changing needs through a pragmatic adjustment of habit. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, advisor Randall Auxier. Southwestern Illinois College (? - ).

Seltzer-Kelly, Deborah L. Dewey, Darwinism, and teaching democracy: The importance of evolutionary thought for citizenship education. Dissertation, Education Dept., University of Nevada, Reno, advisor Stephen Lafer.

Severo, Rogerio Passos. Theories and reality: Five essays on Quine and underdetermination. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Illinois at Chicago, advisor Peter Hylton.

Simmons, J. Aaron. Violence and singularity: Thinking politics otherwise with Rorty, Kierkegaard, and Levinas. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Vanderbilt University, advisors David Wood and Diane Perpich. Vanderbilt University (lecturer, 2005- ).

Spurgeon, Kelly. Woody Guthrie and John Dewey: Pedagogy of the expressed. Dissertation, Education Dept., University of Kansas, advisor Jim Hillesheim.

Stroud, Scott R. John Dewey on aesthetic experience and moral cultivation. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Temple University, advisor Paul Taylor. University of Texas, Austin, Dept. of Communication Studies (lecturer, 2006- ).

Summers, John Harrison. C. Wright Mills: an American rebel abroad, 1956-1962. Dissertation, History Dept., University of Rochester, advisor Robert Westbrook.

Thomer, David W., Jr. Roads to reform: A strategy for realizing John Dewey's democratic vision. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Temple University, advisor Joseph Margolis.

Tirres, Christopher Daniel. John Dewey and the dynamics of moral faith: An assessment and reconstruction. Dissertation, Divinity School, Harvard University, advisor Francis Fiorenza.

Turner, Jeffrey Dennis. Moral inquiry, the virtues, and pluralism: MacIntyre's Deweyan and Wittgensteinian roots. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of South Carolina, advisor Christopher Tollefsen. Bucknell University (2005- ).

Waddington, David Isaac. Good work for a better society: John Dewey and education through occupations. Dissertation, Education Dept., Stanford University, advisor D. C. Phillips.

Wasmaier, Margit. Zwischen Pragmatismus und Realismus: eine Analyse der Religionsphilosophie von William P. Alston. Dissertation, Hochschule fÜr Philosophie, MÜnchen.

Wells, J'aime Arron. Charles S. Peirce's theory of inquiry. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Rutgers University, advisor Peter Klein.

Wen, Hai-Ming. Ars contextualis: Confucian pragmatism as the art of contextualizing personal experience and world. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Hawai'i at Manoa, advisor Roger Ames. Renmin University of China (?- ).

Whitehead, Deborah F. A mediating way of thinking: Rhetoric, gender, and religion in the American pragmatist tradition. Th.D. Dissertation, Divinity School, Harvard University, advisor Elisabeth Fiorenza.

2005

Bastien, Stephane. De l'experience esthetique a la visee ethique: Variations sur l'identite, l'art et la vie bonne Ricoeur, Dewey, Emerson. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Ottawa. University of Ottawa (part-time, 2005- ).

Bowman, Jonathan M. The European Union democratic deficit: Habermas, pragmatism, and multiperspectival theory. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Saint Louis University, advisor James Bohman. St. Charles Community College, Missouri (2005- ).

Brown, Michael Anthony. Pragmatism, solidarity, and literature. Dissertation, English Dept., University of California at Berkeley, advisor Charles Altieri.

Burns, Lawrence. The ethics of corporeality: A study of the phenomenological and pragmatic significance of the human body. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Toronto, advisors Cheryl Misak and Joseph Heath. Dalhousie University (fellow, 2005-2007).

Campos, Daniel Gerardo. The discovery of mathematical probability theory: A case study in the logic of mathematical inquiry. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Pennsylvania State University, advisors Douglas Anderson and Emily Grosholz. CUNY Brooklyn College (2005- ).

Carden, Stephen Denton. The growth of virtues: MacIntyre and Dewey on ethics. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Vanderbilt University, advisor John Lachs. Owensboro Community and Technical College (Kentucky) (2005- ).

Cheng, Hsi-Heng. A Peircean theory of real kinds. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Miami, advisor Susan Haack. National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan (2005- ).

Clanton, John Caleb. The problem of religion in the American public square: Toward an open Socratic model. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Vanderbilt University, advisors John Lachs and Robert Talisse. Pepperdine University (2005- ).

Constantinides, Helen Rose. A pragmatics of power using Juergen Habermas' theory of communicative action. Dissertation, Writing Studies Dept., University of Minnesota, advisor Alan Gross.

Conway, Charles Gerald. A study in the metaphysics of metaphorical theology: C. S. Peirce's conception of the 'continuum' as a model for the 'spiritual presence' of Paul Tillich. Dissertation, Theology Dept., Graduate Theological Union, advisor Claude Welch.

Crick, Nathan. John Dewey on the art of communication. Dissertation, Communication Dept., University of Pittsburgh, advisor John Poulakos.

Domina, Meryl. Sullivan House School: As explored through a Deweyan lens. Dissertation, English Dept., University of Illinois at Chicago, advisor William Schubert.

Elcombe, Timothy Laird. Overcoming marginalization and insignificance: A pragmatic critique and reconstruction of sport philosophy. Dissertation, College of Health and Human Development, Pennsylvania State University, advisor R. Scott Kretchmar.

Friedman, Randy L. The reconstruction of religion in classical American philosophy. Dissertation, Religious Studies Dept., Brown University, advisor Sumner Twiss.

Furbish, Dean Russel. A philosophical examination of Mead's pragmatist constructivism as a referent for adult science education. Ed.D. Dissertation, Education Dept, North Carolina State University, advisor Carol Kasworm.

Goddard, Constance Heaton. Ella Flagg Young's intellectual legacy: Theory and practice in Chicago's schools, 1862-1917. Dissertation, Education Dept., University of Illinois at Chicago, advisor William Schubert.

Goodyear, Dwight. The tragic sense of pragmatism. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., New School University, advisor Richard Bernstein. Westchester Community College (NY) (2005- ).

Guignard, James Samuel. The purpose of schooling: A rhetorical analysis of Hall, Rice, and Dewey. Dissertation, English Dept., University of Nevada, Reno, advisor Stephen Tchudi.

Hafner, Johannes. From metamathematics to philosophy: A critical assessment of Putnam's model-theoretic argument. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of California at Berkeley, advisors Charles Chihara and Paolo Mancosu. North Carolina State University (?-?), University of Vienna (?- ).

Hall, Irene. The unsung partner: The educational work and philosophy of Alice Chipman Dewey. Ed.D. Dissertation, Education Dept., Harvard University, advisor Sally Schwager.

Harrison, Douglas. Toward a theology of experience: Belief and incapacity in Edwards, Emerson, and William James. Dissertation, English Dept., Washington University, advisor Robert Milder.

Hildreth, Roudy William. Living citizenship: John Dewey, political theory and civic engagement. Dissertation, Political Science Dept., University of Minnesota, advisor James Farr.

Hintz, John G. Pragmatism and the politics of rewilding nature: The case of grizzly bear reintroduction in Idaho. Dissertation, Geography Dept., University of Kentucky, advisor Susan Roberts.

Hogan, Brendan Jerome. Pragmatic imagination: The reconstruction of inquiry, criticism and normativity in John Dewey's philosophy. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., New School University, advisor Richard Bernstein. Pacific Lutheran University (2005- ).

Inukai, Yumiko. The Bundling of the self: The empirical basis for the unity of the self in Hume and James. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Pennsylvania, advisor Gary Hatfield. University of Massachusetts, Boston (2005- ).

Jeon, Sanghwa. Technology, nature, humanity: The meaning of being-human in the thoughts of later Dewey and later Heidegger. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Temple University, advisor John Raines. Changed name to Sofia Jeon Athenikos. Pursuing second doctorate at College of Information Science & Technology, Drexel University.

Laws, Richard Wayne. William James and historical mysticism. Dissertation, History Dept., University of California, Irvine, advisor Alice Fahs.

Lee, Yonghee. Rehearsals of democracy: Exploration of Deweyean concept of democracy in community-based theatres. Dissertation, Theater Dept., Bowling Green State University, advisor Kathleen Farber.

Long, Joseph W. Existential epistemologies. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Purdue University, advisor Charlene Seigfried. Northwestern College (visiting, 2004-2006); St. Thomas University (visiting, 2006- ).

Lowe, Barbara J. Beyond recognition: A feminist-pragmatist account of esthetic moral agency. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Fordham University, advisor Judith Green. St. John Fisher College (2005- ).

McConkie, Judith E. Artful Utility: Rethinking John Dewey's Theories of Experience, Education, and Inquiry in the Context of Contemporary Visual Arts Education. Dissertation, Education Dept., University of Utah.

MÜller-Schmid, Ralf. Qualitatives Denken : John Deweys Erfahrungsbegriff zwischen Erkenntnislehre und Kunsttheorie. Dissertation, University of Frankfurt am Main.

Mullis, Eric Christopher. Toward an embodied aesthetic. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of South Carolina, advisor Tom Burke.

Nowacek, David M. Pragmatism in American jurisprudence and social organization: Reconstructing the discursive background of the judicial "revolution" of the 1930s. Dissertation, Sociology Dept., University of Wisconsin, advisor Charles Camic.

Odom, Barton Page. The concept of Rortyan Christian ironism. Dissertation, Religious Studies Dept., University of Virginia, advisor Jamie Ferreira.

O'Hara, David L. The slow percolation of forms: Charles Peirce's writings on Plato. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Pennsylvania State University, advisor Douglas Anderson.

Ostman, Leif E. A pragmatist theory of design: The impact of the pragmatist philosophy of John Dewey on architecture and design. Dissertation, Architecture Dept., Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan (Sweden).

Riede, Lisa E. John Dewey, communication, and character education: A study of the George Junior Republic of Grove City, Pennsylvania. Dissertation, Communication Dept, Pennsylvania State University, advisor Christopher Johnstone.

Robb, Matthew H. Temporality, authenticity, democracy: Heidegger and Dewey on the meaning of time. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., New School University, advisor Richard Bernstein.

Santini, Sylvano. La reception pragmatique de Gilles Deleuze dans la theorie litteraire americaine: Croire et agir en ce monde-ci. Dissertation, French Literature Dept., University of Montréal.

Schreyach, Michael Graham. Towards pragmatic painting: Jackson Pollock's reflexive potential. Dissertation, Art History Dept., University of California at Berkeley, advisor Davis Whitney.

Segrest, Scott Philip. Common sense philosophy and politics in America: John Witherspoon, James McCosh, and William James. Dissertation, Political Science Dept., Louisiana State University, advisor Hermann Moyse.

Shirin, Andrey V. Postfoundationalist zhivoznaniye: Splitting the difference between American pragmatism and the Russian tradition of all-unity. Dissertation, Princeton Theological Seminary, advisor J. Wentzel Van Huyssteen.

Slater, Michael R. The metaphysician and the moral life: Religion and metaphysics in William James's ethical thought. Dissertation, Religious Studies Dept., Brown University, advisor Sumner Twiss.

Springs, Jason Andrew. Between Barth and Wittgenstein: Pragmatist themes in Hans Frei's 'postliberal' theology. Dissertation, Divinity School, Harvard University, advisor Ronald Thiemann.

Stangl, Chris. Lightning rod and looking glass: Herbert Croly and the pragmatic method in political thought. Dissertation, Political Science Dept., University of Wisconsin, advisor Robert Fowler.

Steeves, Valerie. Beyond data protection: Applying Mead's symbolic interactionism and Habermas's communicative action to Westin's theory of privacy. Dissertation, Communication Dept. Carleton University.

Stokes, Mitchell O. Quinean meta-ontology and fictionalism. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Notre Dame, advisors Alvin Plantinga and Peter van Inwagen.

Thompson, Jennifer K. John Dewey and pragmatic economics. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Vanderbilt University, advisor John Lachs.

Trout, Lara M. Communal inquiry and social justice: A study of Peircean affectivity. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Pennsylvania State University, advisor Douglas Anderson. University of Portland (2005- ).

Uffelman, Mark. The role of self-cultivation in classical pragmatism. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Temple University, advisor Richard Shusterman.

Wang, Ching-Sze. John Dewey in China: To Teach and to Learn. Dissertation, Education Dept., Indiana University, advisor Barry Bull.

2004

Bauer, Marybeth. Achieving a Plurality of Goals in Social Context: A Pragmatist Approach and Guide for Environmental Practitioners. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Bowling Green State University, advisor Donald Scherer.

Campagna-Pinto, Stephen Thomas. "The Workshop of Being": Religious Affections and Pragmatic Value in the Thought of Jonathan Edwards and William James. Dissertation, Divinity School, Harvard Harvard University, advisor Richard R. Niebuhr.

Danisch, Robert C. Making an American Democracy: Pragmatism and the Necessity of Rhetoric. Dissertation, English Dept., University of Pittsburgh, advisor John Poulakos.

Decker, Kevin S. Naturalistic and Aesthetic Individuality in John Dewey's Political Philosophy. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Saint Louis University, advisor Vincent Punzo. Eastern Washington University (?- ).

Deen, Phillip. John Dewey's Theory of Society: Pragmatism and the Critique of Instrumental Reason. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, advisor Larry Hickman. St. Mary's College of Maryland (visiting, ?- ).

Ejsing, Anette. Theology of Anticipation: An Interpretative Study of C. S. Peirce. Dissertation, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, advisor Vitor Westhelle.

Fitzsimmons, Matthew James. John Dewey as Critical Philosopher. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Vanderbilt University, advisor John Lachs.

Grieve, Victoria Marie. Art as New Deal Experience: Progressive Aesthetics and the New Deal Federal Art Project. Dissertation, History Dept., George Washington University, advisor Leo Ribuffo.

Headrick, Paul John. Charles Newman: The post-modern aura, pragmatism, and fiction. Dissertation, York University.

Johnston, James Scott. Inquiry and its Contexts: John Dewey and the Aims of Education. Dissertation, Education Dept., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, advisor Walter Feinberg.

Kadlec-Hassing, Alison. Radical Reconstructions: The Critical Pragmatism of John Dewey. Dissertation, Political Science Dept., University of Minnesota, advisor James Farr.

Kallo, Joseph Sandor. The Consummatory: A Deweyan Account of the Esthetic in Instrumental, Moral, and Religious Experience. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, advisor Thomas Alexander.

Kittelstrom, Amy. The Religion of Democracy: William James and Practical Idealism in Evolutionary America, 1870-1910. Dissertation, History Dept., Boston University, advisor Charles Capper.

Lenker, Mark, III. The Transactional Model: A Critical Examination of John Dewey's Philosophy of Freedom. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Marquette University, advisor Stanley Harrison.

Letzkus, William J. The Role of Mind in Peirce's Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Cosmology. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Temple University, advisor Joseph Margolis.

Macaluso, Nicholas P. Charles Brockden Brown and William James: American Explorations in Epistemology. Dissertation, English Dept., Catholic University of America, advisor Glen Johnson.

Neal, Ronald B. On the Limits and Possibilities of Social Transformation: A Study of the Prophetic Pragmatism of Cornel West, the Christian Realism of Reinhold Niebuhr, and the Theological Legacy of Benjamin Elijah Mays. Dissertation, School of Theology, Vanderbilt University, advisor Victor Anderson.

Nellessen, Dinalva Torres. John Dewey: experiência, ética e educação. Dissertation, Education Department, University of São Paulo, Brazil, advisor Maria Nazaré de Camrgo Pacheco Amaral.

Perley, David Russell. Articulation and Mysticism in the Thought of William James. Dissertation, Religion Dept., University of Toronto, advisor Graeme Nicholson.

Russill, Chris. Toward a Pragmatist Theory of Communication. Dissertation, Communications Dept., Pennsylvania State University, advisor Richard Barton.

Sanders, Mark. The Practical-ambiguous Subject: A Re-conceptualization of the Subject Influenced by David Hume, William James, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., New School University, advisor Richard Bernstein.

Siu, David Chung-Yan. Reconstructing Liberal Democracy: John Dewey's Critical Political Philosophy. Dissertation, Political Science Dept., Harvard University, advisor Seyla Benhabib.

Skerker, Michael. Pragmatism, Pluralism, and the Salience of Doubt. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Chicago, advisor Franklin Gamwell.

Snell, Russell. Through a Glass Darkly: Bernard Lonergan and Richard Rorty on the Possibility of Knowing without a God's-Eye-View. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Marquette University, advisor Andrew Tallon.

Solvie, Pamela A. Technology and Democracy in Education: Three Initiatives Viewed Through a Deweyan Lens. Dissertation, Education Dept., Pennsylvania State University, advisor Jacqueline Edmondson.

Stieb, James. Toward a Constructivist Theory of Realism. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Temple University, advisor Joseph Margolis.

Van Hollebeke. Mark H. John Dewey's Pragmatic Reconstruction of Subjectivity. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Fordham University, advisor Judith Jones.

Voparil, Christopher J. Politics and Vision in the Thought of Richard Rorty. Dissertation, Political Science Dept., New School University, advisor James Miller.

2003

Allen, Michael W. William James: Social Philosopher. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, advisor Thomas Alexander. Plymouth State University (instructor, ?- ).

Bernstein, Jennifer. American Antinomianisms from Anne Hutchinson to Pragmatism. Dissertation, English Dept., City University of New York, advisor Joan Richardson.

Boffetti, Jason Matthew. Priorities to Democracy: The Pragmatisms of William James and Richard Rorty Compared. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Catholic University of America, advisor David Walsh.

Buechner, Jeff. A Critical Examination of Hilary Putnam's Refutation of Computational Functionalism. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Rutgers University, advisor Mary Egan. Rutgers University, Newark (lecturer, ?- ).

Coleman, Martin A. John Dewey's Developmental Account of Meaning. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, advisor Larry Hickman. Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (2004- ).

Eze, Chielozona E. Literature as an Ethical Challenge: Alain Locke and the Responsibility of the Negro Artist. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Purdue University, advisor Leonard Harris.

Fernandez de Barrena Marchena, Sara Elena. La creatividad en Charles S. Peirce: Abduccion y razonabilidad. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Universidad de Navarra, Spain, advisor Jaime Nubiola.

Ferret, Juan. Dynamic Pluralism: A Pluralist Framework for Science. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Oregon, advisor Scott Pratt.

Flaherty, James P. Revisiting the Manifest and Scientific Images: A Study of Sellars, Putnam, Rorty and McDowell. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., New School University, advisor Richard Bernstein. (Marquette University, 2003- ).

Flamm, Matthew Caleb. Blameless Existence and the Moral Turn: Human Individuality as Aesthetic. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Southern Illinois University, advisor Thomas Alexander. Rockford College (2004- ).

Frazier, Brad K. Between Rorty and Macintyre: A Kierkegaardian Account of Irony and Moral Commitment. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Saint Louis University, advisor Gregory Beabout. Lee University, Theology Dept. (? - ).

Gaudet, Eve. The Asymmetry between Quine's Indeterminacy of Translation Thesis and Underdetermination of Theory. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Washington University, advisors Roger Barrett and Roger Gibson.

Gray, Mary Todd. William James's Radical Empiricism and the Phenomenology of Addiction: A Philosophical Inquiry. Dissertation, Division of Nursing, School of Education, New York University, advisor Joanne Griffin.

Jackson, Bernard. Pragmatism, Constitutional Interpretation, and the Problem of Constitutional Change. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Iowa, advisor Richard Fumerton.

Johnson, Johanna R. Dewey and Vygotsky: A Comparison of their Views on Social Constructivism in Education. Ed.D. Dissertation, Education Dept., Rutgers University, advisor James Giarelli.

Knapp, Krister Dylan. To the Summerland: William James, Psychical Research and Modernity. Dissertation, History Dept., Boston College, advisor Alan Lawson.

Kosnoski, Jason. John Dewey and the Aesthetics of Communicative Ethics. Dissertation, Political Science Dept., New School University, advisor Nancy Fraser.

Law-Viljoen, Bronwyn. Haunted Itineraries: Tracing Mysticism in William James, Kenneth Burke, and Michel de Certeau. Dissertation, English Dept., New York University, advisor Harold Bloom.

Lee, Ji-Aeh. Toward a Theoretical Foundation for the Teaching of Philosophy: A Reconstruction of C. S. Peirce's Pragmaticism. Ed.D. Dissertation, Columbia University Teachers College, advisor Christopher Higgins.

Leong, Darryl Todd. Buddhism, Pragmatism, and the Ethics of Experience: Case Studies on kamma in the 'Udana'. Dissertation, Philosophy and Religion Program, California Institute of Integral Studies, advisor Rina Sircar.

Manter, Bette J. Toward a pragmatic theology of reconciliation: An examination of atonement in Josiah Royce. Th.D. Dissertation, Divinity School, Harvard University, advisor Gordon Kaufman.

Mattson, Craig Edward. Modern Doxa and the Rhetoric of Accent: Polanyian Rhetorical Analysis of Richard Rorty's Public Discourse. Dissertation, Communication Dept., Regent University, advisor Terrence Lindvall.

Mendonca, Dina Serra da Luz. The Anatomy of Experience: An Analysis of Dewey's Concept of Experience. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of South Carolina, advisor Tom Burke.

Pamental, Matthew Phillip. Naturalized Human Agency and the Emergence of Norms: Placing Dewey's Ethics on the Map. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Indiana University, advisor Karen Hanson. University of Utah (adjunct, 2001-2004); Northern Illinois University (visiting assistant, 2004- ).

Robinson, Andrew John. God, Evolution and the Philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Exeter.

Rohrer, Patricia Jean. The Ethical Ironist: Kierkegaard, Rorty, and the Educational Quest. Dissertation, Education Dept., Columbia University, advisor Rene Arcilla.

Ruetenik, Tadd L. Sickrooms and Special Revelations: The Significance of the Sick Soul in the Religious Pragmatism of William James. Dissertation, Philosophy Department, Purdue University, advisor Charlene Haddock Seigfried. Pennsylvania State University at Altoona (2003-2007), St. Ambrose University (2007- ).

Smith, Karen Harrell. Comparing the Theories and Practices of Tyler and Dewey with Expert and Effective Teaching of Today. Ed.D. Dissertation, Education Dept., University of Georgia, advisor William Wraga.

Sorohan, Bryan Patrick. Exploring the Meaning of Community, Service, and Learning in the Work of Elsie Ripley Clapp and John Dewey. Dissertation, Education Dept., University of Georgia, advisor P. Elizabeth Pate.

Stotts, Alexandra Lynn. Giving Birth to Feminist Pragmatist Inquiry: A Deweyan Alternative to Quinean Empiricism. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Oregon, advisors Scott Pratt and Nancy Tuana. University of Oregon (adjunct, 2005- ).

Taub, Gad Shmuel. Richard Rorty's American Faith. Dissertation, History Dept., Rutgers University, advisor Jackson Lears.

Westlund, Olle. S(t)imulating a Social Psychology: G. H. Mead and the Reality of the Social Object. Dissertation, Uppsala University, Sweden.

White, Heidi E. The Revitalized Self of William James: Our Relations to the Other. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., New School University, advisor Richard Bernstein. General Studies Program, New York University (2005- ).

2002

Alexander, Victoria N. Narrative Telos: The Ordering Tendencies of Chance. Dissertation, English Dept., City University of New York, advisor Joan Richardson.

Alirangues, Leon. The Experimentalist Curriculum Paradigm. Dissertation, Education Dept., Rutgers University, advisor Dabiel Tanner.

Baruchello, Giorgio. Understanding Cruelty from Dante to Rorty. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Guelph, advisor John McMurtry. University of Akureyri, Iceland (?- ).

Benjamin, Roy A. The Triptych Vision: Joyce and Peirce. Dissertation, English Dept., City University of New York, advisor Edmund Epstein.

Carroll, Elizabeth Lee. The Possibility of Pragmatism: Writing Instruction that Makes a Difference. Dissertation, English Dept., University of North Carolina at Greensboro, advisor Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater.

Crowson, Sue. Semiotics and Cyberspace Beyond Charles Sanders Peirce. Dissertation, English Dept., Texas Christian University, advisor William Tanner.

Csaki, Bela Stephen. The Plexus of Relations: An East-West Theory of the Self. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., State University of New York at Buffalo, advisor Kah-Kyung Cho.

Dickey, Frances. Other Minds: Skepticism, Pragmatism, and Dramatic Speaking in Frost, Eliot, Pound, and Bishop. Dissertation, English Dept., Johns Hopkins University, advisors Allen Grossman and Walter Michaels.

Duggan, Michael F. Chauncey Wright and Forward-looking Empiricism. Dissertation, History Dept., Georgetown University, advisor Robert E. Curran.

Esser, Peter W. John Dewey's Art as Experience: A Treatise on the Art of Living. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Oregon, advisor Scott Pratt.

Franzese, Sergio. William James and the Ethics of Energy. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Vanderbilt University, advisor John Lachs. University of Lecce, Italy (2002- ).

Gross, Neil Louis. The Contemporary Pragmatist Movement in the Human Sciences: Three Case Studies in the Sociology of Ideas. Dissertation, Sociology Dept., University of Wisconsin, advisor Charles Camic. Assistant Prof. Sociology at Williams College (2001-2002), University of Southern California (2002-2003), Harvard University (2003-2008), University of British Columbia (2008- ).

Gudjonsson, Hafthor. Teacher Learning and Language: A Pragmatic Self-study. Dissertation, Education Dept., University of British Columbia, advisor Gaalen Erickson.

Huss, Brian Douglas. Truth, Lies, and Good Reasons. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Minnesota, advisor Ronald Geire. Ryerson University (instructor, 2003-2005); York University (2005-2007); SUNY Potsdam (2007- ).

Lally, Richard Arthur. Pragmatic Self-cultivation and Endurance Sport. Dissertation, Physical Education Dept., Pennsylvania State University, advisor Scott Kretchmar.

Lawson, Leroy Paul. Race, Ideology and the Emergence of Organizational Saga: The Pragmatic Impulse in Higher Education. Dissertation, Education Dept., University of Chicago, advisor Edgar Epps.

Maier, David F. Making Space: Pragmatism Between Skepticism and Dogmatism. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Columbia University, advisor Akeel Bilgrami.

MacMullan, Terrance Anthony. Dewey and Du Bois: The Meaning of Race and Whiteness. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Oregon, advisor Scott Pratt. Eastern Washington University (2002- ).

Mayorga, Rosa-Maria Perez-Teran. On Universals: The Scholastic Realism of John Duns Scotus and Charles Sanders Peirce. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Miami, advisor Susan Haack. Virginia Tech University (2000- ).

Mosteller, Timothy Mark. Epistemological Relativism: MacIntyre, Putnam and Rorty. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Miami, advisor Harvey Siegal. University of San Diego (part-time, 2002-2006), California Baptist University (2006- ).

Nakamura, Jeanne Ellen. Sustaining Engagement: Continuity and Change Into Later Life. Dissertation, Psychology Dept., University of Chicago, advisor Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

Nguyen, Nam T. Nature's Primal Self: An Ecstatic Naturalist Critique of the Anthropocentrism of Peirce's Pragmaticism and Jaspers' Existentialism. Dissertation, Theological School, Drew University, advisor Robert Corrington.

Rossiter, Kevin Daniel. John Dewey's Laboratory School Experiment: A Philosopher's Statement on the Communal Democratic Ideal. Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Missouri, St. Louis, advisor James Walter.

Russell, Barbara Jones. John Dewey's Concept of the Good: A Macro- and Meso-application to the United States Health System. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Tennessee, advisor Glenn Graber.

Schick, Kurt Edward. Civic Ends for Academic Discourse. Dissertation, English Dept., Texas Christian University, advisor Gary Tate.

Schoenbach, Alisa Marion. Pragmatic Modernism and the Politics of Recontextualization. Dissertation, English Dept., University of Virginia, advisors Michael Levenson and Jennifer Wicke.

Semetsky, Inna R. Continuities, Discontinuities, Interactions: Gilles Deleuze and the Deweyan Legacy. Dissertation, Columbia University Teachers College, advisor Nel Noddings.

Stephens, Matthew H. The Philosophical Psychology of William James and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Alberta, advisor Wesley Cooper.

Sturgis, Daniel Paul. Prairies and Paintings: The Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature and Art. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Colorado, advisor John Fisher. University of Colorado, Boulder (instructor, 2002- ).

Thomas, Susan Elizabeth. Part of a Larger Whole: Fred Newton Scott and the Progressive Education Movement. Dissertation, English Dept., Georgia State University, advisor George Pullman.

Woell, John W. On the Trail of the Human Serpent: Philosophy, Religion, and Pragmatism. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Claremont Graduate University, advisor John Roth. Greensboro College (?- ).

Zackariasson, Ulf Arvid. Forces By Which We Live: Religion and Religious Experience from the Perspective of a Pragmatic Philosophical Anthropology. Th.D. Dissertation, Religion Dept., Uppsala Universitet, Sweden.

2001

Brence, Steven Barry. Multiculturalism: The Refusal and Reconstruction of Recognition. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Oregon, advisor Cheyney Ryan. Oregon State University (2001- ).

Crippen, James Albert, Jr. The Viability of a Pragmatic Conception of the Historical Individual. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Temple University, advisor Joseph Margolis. California State University at Fullerton (part-time 2001- ).

Denney, Martha Jane. A Social Semiotics of Music. Dissertation, Anthropology Dept., Brandeis University, advisor Richard Parmentier.

Dogan, Nejat. Inis L. Claude, Inis L. Claude, Jr. and World Order: A Pragmatic Liberal Approach. Dissertation, Political Science Dept., University of Virginia, advisor Michael J. Smith.

Fraser, Bruce W. Syntax, Semantics, and the Justification of Linguistic Methodology: An Investigation into the Source and Nature of the Disagreement between Noam Chomsky and W. V. O. Quine. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Boston University, advisor Jaakko Hintikka. Indian River Community College (?- ).

Good, James Allan. A Search for Unity in Diversity: The "Permanent Hegelian Deposit" in the Philosophy of John Dewey. Dissertation, History Dept., Rice University, advisor Thomas Haskell. North Harris College, Houston (2002- ).

Hamington, Maurice. Embodied Care. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Oregon, advisor Nancy Tuana. Metropolitan State College of Denver (courtesy, ?- ).

Hanlon, Christopher. Pragmatism and the Unconscious: Language and Subject in Psychoanalytic Theory, Pragmatist Philosophy, and American Narrative. Dissertation, English Dept., University of Massachusetts, advisor Randall Knoper.

Hewitt, Randall S. Renewing the Democratic Faith: A Philosophical Analysis of John Dewey's Idea of Power. Dissertation, Education Dept., University of Florida, advisor Robert Sherman.

Hilde, Thomas Christian. Pragmatic Community and Global Displacements. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Pennsylvania State University, advisor John Stuhr. School of Public Policy, University of Maryland (2002- ).

Jurkovic, Barbara Ann. Toward a Philosophic Understanding of Multiage Education: A Deweyan Perspective. Dissertation, Education Dept., University of Akron, advisor Huey-li Li.

Keith, Thomas Edward. Peirce on Inquiry and Truth. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Claremont Graduate University, advisor John Roth. California State University, Long Beach (lecturer, 2001- )

Kindred, Paola Lortie. Continuity, Inquiry, and the Possibility of Wisdom in John Dewey's Pragmatism. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Illinois at Chicago, advisor Sandra Bartky. St. Olaf College (2003-2005).

Knapp, Angelique Desiree. First Person Inquiry. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Princeton University, advisor Gideon Rosen.

Knepp, Dennis Bradley. C. S. Peirce's Revision of Kant's Transcendental Analytic. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Washington University, advisor Roger Barrett. Big Bend Community College (2001- ).

Kuehn, Glenn Allen. Tasting the World: An Aesthetics of Food. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Southern Illinois University, advisor Tom Alexander. Mississippi State University (2001-2005).

Kwak, Duck-Joo. Doing Philosophy as a Way to Individuation: Reading Richard Rorty and Stanley Cavell in Search of a New Moral Education. Dissertation, Teachers College, Columbia University, advisor René Arcilla.

Lea, James Taylor. Charles Sanders Peirce, the Extraordinary Moment, and Musical Affect. DMA Dissertation, Music Dept., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. advisor Thomas Torino.

Marcio, Jamie John. Inquiry as Art in Dewey's Logic: Why Necessity is the Mother of Invention. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., New School University, advisor Richard Bernstein. South Texas Community College (2001- )

Markowitz, Mary C. A Critique of Charter School Theory from a Deweyan Perspective on Democracy and Education. Dissertation, Education Dept., University of Kansas, advisor Suzanne Rice.

Mikkelsen, Ann-Marie. Voices from the Field: Pastoral, Pragmatism and Twentieth-century American Poetry. Dissertation, English Dept., University of California, Irvine, advisor Margot Norris.

Mulier, Vincent. Pragmatism in the Columbia River Basin: Laws, Values, and the Emergence of a Regional River Ethic. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Oregon, advisor Scott Pratt.

Pagano, Joseph S. The Origins and Development of the Triadic Structure of Faith in H. Richard Niebuhr: A Study of the Kantian and Pragmatic Background of Niebuhr's Thought. Dissertation, Religion Dept., Marquette University, advisor Philip Rossi.

Sands, Paul Francis. A Christian Appraisal of the Justification of Religious Faith in Soren Kierkegaard, John Henry Newman, and William James. Dissertation, Religion Dept., Baylor University, advisor Bob E. Patterson.

Sergienko, Andrew Cameron. Towards a Peircean Aesthetic. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Vanderbilt University, advisor John Lachs. Texas A&M Corpus Christie (2001-2002); South Puget Sound Community College (2002- ).

Shaw, Mary Ellen. The Varieties of Goddess Experience: Feminist Pragmatism in the Study of Women's Spirituality. Dissertation, American Studies Dept., University of Minnesota, advisor Gayle G. Yates.

Sinclair, Robert. A Tale of Two Naturalists: Davidson and Quine on the Naturalization of Philosophy. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Simon Fraser University. CUNY Brooklyn College (?- ).

Talisse, Robert Basil. A Critical Study of Liberalism. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., City University of New York, advisor Peter Simpson. Vanderbilt University (2001- ).

Tamminga, Allard. Belief Dynamics: (Epistemo)logical Investigations. Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Ventimiglia, Michael J. "Evolutionary Love" in Theory and Practice. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Pennsylvania State University, advisors Douglas Anderson and Carl Hausman. Sacred Heart University (2001- ).

Williams, Julian Lance. The 'Other' Awakening: American Character, Pragmatism, and the Assassinations of Kate Chopin and Charles Chesnutt. Dissertation, English Dept., Columbia University, advisor René Arcilla.

2000

Adair, Donna Leigh. Deweyan Inquiry in Georgia's School and University Partnerships. Dissertation, Education Dept., Georgia State University, advisor Dorothy Huenecke.

Barcelos, Ana Maria Ferreira. Understanding Teachers' and Students' Language Learning Beliefs in Experience: A Deweyan Approach. Dissertation, Education Dept., University of Alabama, advisor Rebecca Oxford.

Bartlett, Scott Roy. Pluralism, Procedure, and Participation: A Deweyan Critique of Habermas' Discursive Democracy. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Southern Illinois University, advisor Larry Hickman. Southern Methodist University (adjunct, 2000- ).

Cooke, Elizabeth Frances Maurya. Charles S. Peirce's Universal Fallibilism. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., St. Louis University, advisor Richard Blackwell. Creighton University (2001- ).

Douglas, Mark Alan. Warp and Woof: The Role of Pragmatism in the Christian Ethics of Joseph Fletcher, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Robert Johann. Dissertation, Religion Dept., University of Virginia, advisor James Childress.

Dudrick, David Francis. Problems of the Modern Self: Reflections on Rorty, Taylor, Nietzsche, and Foucault. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Notre Dame, advisor Gary Gutting. Bethel College (2000-2001); Colgate University (2001- ).

Ferrero Munoz, Ignacio. Milton Friedman: The Economic Policy of a Liberal Pragmatist. Dissertation, Economics Dept., Universidad de Navarre, Spain.

Forest, Michael J. Charles S. Peirce: Truth, Reality and Objective Semiotic Idealism. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Marquette University, advisor Stanley Harrison. Canisius College (2000- ).

George, George Anthony. Charles S. Peirce's Development of Semiotics from Logic and Pragmatism to a Concept of God. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Florida State University, advisor Neil Jumonville. New England Institute of Art (?- ).

Goeman, James Robert, III. Happiness is a By-Product of Function: William Burroughs and the American Pragmatist Tradition. Dissertation, English Dept., University of North Texas, advisor James Baird.

Gordon, Jenny. Thinking in Context and in Action: Epiphany and the Arrival of New Ideas. Dissertation, Education Dept., University of North Carolina, advisor Kinnard White.

Gosselin, Colette Carmen. The Educational Theory of Carol Gilligan: A Deweyan Perspective. Dissertation, Education Dept., Rutgers University, advisor Jean Anyon.

Greenland, David W. Examination of the Propositions of Tyler and Dewey: Toward Deriving Implications for Program Development. Dissertation, Education Dept., Temple University, advisor Delores Sillva.

Hogan, Jennifer Ann. Digital Democracy: A Series of Reflections on Plato, Rousseau and Dewey. Dissertation, Education Dept., Columbia University, advisor Robert McClintock.

Kienholz, Kevin Bradley. Where Have You Gone, John Dewey?: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Contemporary Reform Movement in Teacher Education. Ed.D. Dissertation, Education Dept., Oklahoma State University.

Levine, Jess Edward. Sidney Hook's Changing Conception of Academic Freedom in the Context of Debates over Anti-communism. Dissertation, Education Dept., Loyola University of Chicago, advisors Gerald Gutek and L. Arthur Safer.

Li, Yuh-shin. John Dewey and Modern Chinese Education: Prospects for a New Philosophy. Dissertation, Education Dept., Ohio State University, advisor Philip Smith.

McDonald, Hugh Powers. Pragmatism and the Problem of the Intrinsic Value of the Environment. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., New School University, advisor Richard Bernstein. New York City College of Technology (2003- ).

McReynolds, Phillip Andrew. John Dewey's Science of Ethics. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Vanderbilt University, advisor John Lachs. Gonzaga University (2001-2006), Penn State University (lecturer, 2006- ).

Mills, David Matthew. The Drama of Creation: Charles Sanders Peirce on the Universe as God's Work of Art. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Pennsylvania State University, advisors Douglas Anderson and Carl Hausman. Cedarville University (1992- ).

Minteer, Ben Andrew. Pragmatism in Environmental Thought: Recoveries and Reconstructions. Dissertation, Environmental Studies Dept., University of Vermont. Bucknell University (2000- )

Morse, Donald J. Dewey's Ethics: Moral Value in the Natural World. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Oregon, advisor Mark Johnson. Webster University (2001- ).

Olafsson, Jon. Conflict and Method: An Essay on Dewey. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Columbia University, advisor Isaac Levi. University of Iceland, Centre for Research in the Humanities (1999- )

Page, Frank J. A Reinterpretation of the Influence of American Pragmatism on Symbolic Interactionist Theory. Dissertation, Sociology Dept., University of Utah, advisor Thomas Burns.

Pugh, Kevin James. Idea-Based, Transformative Experiences in Science: What Are They and How Do You Foster Them? Dissertation, Education Dept., Michigan State University, advisor E. David Wong.

Quinn, Jeanne Follansbee. Democratic Aesthetics: The Discourse of Social Justice in American Literature, Criticism, and Philosophy of the 1930's. Dissertation, English Dept., Boston University, advisor Susan Mizruchi.

Reece, Gregory Lynn. Irony and Religious Belief: An Examination and Comparison of the Ironic Philosophies of Soren Kierkegaard and Richard Rorty. Dissertation, Religion Dept., Claremont Graduate University.

Reilly, Eliza Jane. Pragmatism, Cubism, Modernism: William James and the Trans-Atlantic Avant-garde, 1905-1925. Dissertation, History Dept., Rutgers University, advisor James Livingston.

Reitberger, Magnus. Consequences of Contingency: The Pragmatism and Politics of Richard Rorty. Dissertation, Political Science Dept., University of Stockholm.

Rockwell, William Teed. On What the Mind is Identical With: A Critical Alternative to the Mind/Brain Identity Theory. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., The Union Institute, advisor Elizabeth Minnich. Sonoma State University (2001- ).

Rubin, Richard Marc. Metaphysics as Morals: The Controversy between John Dewey and George Santayana. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Washington University, advisor Richard Watson.

Saito, Naoko. Democratic Education for Holistic Growth: Dewey's Naturalistic Philosophy of Growth Reconstructed in the Light of Emersonian Moral Perfectionism. Dissertation, Teachers College, Columbia University, advisor René Arcilla. University of Kyoto, Japan (2000- ).

Scheckler, Rebecca Klein. Weaving Feminism, Pragmatism, and Distance Education. Dissertation, Education Dept., Virginia Tech University, advisors James Garrison and John Burton.

Schell, Catherine Hannah. Loyal Agents and Lost Causes: The Ethical and Religious Significance of Josiah Royce's Philosophy of Loyalty. Dissertation, Religion Dept., Princeton University, advisor Mark Larrimore.

Shreyar, Sam. Dewey and Bakhtin: Toward Polyphonic Curriculum Theorizing. Ed.D. Dissertation, Columbia University Teachers College, advisor Leslie Williams.

Snider, Cynthia Deniston. Uncertainty and Meaning: Postmodern British fiction and Pragmatic Pluralism. Dissertation, English Dept., Georgia State University, advisor Randy Malamud.

Sorrell, Kory Spencer. Representative Practices: An Essay in Pragmatic Epistemology. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Pennsylvania State University, advisor Vincent Colapietro. Cultures, Civilizations, and Ideas Program at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey (?- ).

Sullivan, Michael. Pragmatism, Rights, and Philosophy of Law. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Vanderbilt University, advisor John Lachs. Emory University (1999- ).

Tan, Sor-hoon. Politics as Ethics in Classical Confucianism and Dewey's Pragmatism. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Hawaii, advisor Roger Ames. National University of Singapore (2000- ).

Taysom, Martha Peterson. The Hope of the Great Community: The Communal Philosophy of Josiah Royce. Dissertation, History Dept., Indiana University, advisor Casey Blake.

Tiller, Glenn Anthony. Peirce, Santayana, and the Presuppositions of Belief. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., University of Toronto, advisor Cheryl Misak. University of Ottawa (2002- ).

Tursi, Renee. The Force of Habit at the Turn of the Century: William James, Henry James, Edith Wharton, and W. E. B. du Bois. Dissertation, English Dept., Columbia University, advisor Ann Douglas.

Vajda, Roger. A Defense of a Pragmatist View of Scientific Laws. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., Michigan State University, advisor Joseph Hanna. Ferris State University (2001-2003).

Vogt, Peter. Pragmatismus und Faschismus - Kreativität und Kontingenz in der Moderne. Dissertation, Philosophy Dept., JFK Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin.

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.

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

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- ).

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- ).

1998

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.

Eddy, Beth. The Rites of Identity: The Religious Naturalism and Cultural Criticism of Kenneth Burke and Ralph Ellison. Dissertation, Religion Dept., Princeton University, advisor Jeffrey Stout.

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- ).

1997

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 (?- ).

1996

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.

1995

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.

1994

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.

1993

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.

1992

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-?).

1991

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- ).