Miami University
Department of Philosophy

Hall Auditorium | PHONE: 513.529.2440 | FAX: 513.529.4731

"It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear."
-Thoreau

Recent Student Work

Here are the topics of some recent student work to fulfill the research and writing requirement for the degree:

 

  • Psychic Borders and National Boundaries: Abjection, Otherness, and the Foreigner Within
  • Freudian Nachtrglichkeit and the Retroactive Creation of Sexuality
  • The Promise of the Political:  Adorno's Language of Art
  • Forgetting and Recollecting:  The Haunting of Memory in Descartes' Desire for Certainty
  • Augustine's Unity of Time and Its Relationship to Mind and Will
  • The Autonomy of Free Will in Relation to the Passions in Descartes