DISSERTATIONS RELEVANT TO WILFRID SELLARS:
IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
 
Note: I have included all the listings of dissertations as given in The Synoptic Vision: Essays on the Philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars, by C.F. Delaney, Michael J. Loux, Gary Gutting, W. David Solomon (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1977), and have added to that list.  This is not a comprehensive listing -- new or missed listings will be added. If any of the authors listed wishes to have their dissertation placed at this site, send me a signed permission to do so, a hard copy, and a copy in electronic form, to: 
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- Klein, 1966
 - Klein, Peter, "The Revolt Against Sense-Data: A Defense of
the Sense-Data Framework," Yale University, 1966.
 - McKim, 1966
 - McKim, Vaughn R., "Human Action and a Scientific Image of
Man," Yale University, 1966.
  - Child, 1967
 - Child, James W., "The Ontological Commitment of Physical
Theories," Indiana University, 1967.
 - Evans, 1967
 - Evans, Robert H., "The Decline and Revival of Critical
Realism," University of Pittsburgh, 1967.
  - Lennon, 1968
 - Lennon, Thomas M., "The Problem of Intentionality in Recent
Analytic Philosophy," The Ohio State University, 1968.
 - Rosenthal, 1968
 - Rosenthal, David M., "Intentionality: A Study of the Views
of Chisholm and Sellars," Princeton University, 1968. 361 pp.
  - BonJour, 1969
 - BonJour, Laurence, "Knowledge, Justification and Truth: A
Sellarsian Approach to Epistemology," Princeton University, 1969.
 - Echelbarger, 1969
 - Echelbarger, Charles G., "Wilfrid Sellars' Philosophy of
Mind," The Ohio State University, 1969.
 - Grontkowski, 1969
 - Grontkowski, Christine R., "The Priority of the Scientific
Image: An Investigation of Wilfrid Sellars' Ontological
Commitment," Fordham University, 1969. 213 pp.
 - Mason, 1969
 - Mason, Perry C., "Ontic Commitment and Abstract Entities in
the Philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars," Yale University, 1969. 208 pp.
  - Marquis, 1970
 - Marquis, Donald B., "Scientific Realism and the Antinomy of
External Objects," Indiana University, 1970.
 - Moore, 1970
 - Moore, Harold, "Instrumentalism," Fordham University, 1970.
 - Putz, 1970
 - Putz, Carl H., "The Nature of Scientific Laws," University
of Pittsburgh, 1970.
 - Wall, 1970
 - Wall, Thomas F., "Intentionality and the Analogy Theory of
Thinking," Boston College, 1970.
  - Angelo, 1971
 - Angelo, Bernard J., "Wilfrid Sellars and the Free-Will Determinism Issue," M.A. Thesis, State University of New York at Buffalo," 1971.
 - Czerny, 1971
 - Czerny, Robert E., "Meaning, Minds, and Language-Learning: A Critical Study of Wilfrid Sellars' Philosophy of Mind," M.A. Thesis, University of Toronto, 1971. 
 - Hopkins, 1971
 - Hopkins, Edwin E., "Wilfrid Sellars' Analysis of Physical
Modality: In Search of an Argument," Duke University, 1971. 225 pages.
 - Richards, 1971
 - Richards, Robert J., "Wilfrid Sellars: Towards a Scientific
Explanation of Man," St. Louis University, 1971. 314 pages.
  - McCaskill, 1972
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 - McCaskill, David G., "Conceptual Schemes and the Revolt
Against the Foundational Theory of Knowledge," Wayne State
University, 1972.
 - Pitt, 1972
 - Pitt, Joseph C., "An Analysis of Wilfrid Sellars' Theory of
Justification," The University of Western Ontario, 1972.
  - Anderson, 1973
 - Anderson, Kenneth Christian, "Wilfrid Sellars and the
Theory of the Given," University of Toronto, 1973.
 - Dayton, 1973
 - Dayton, Eric Brian,  "Desire and Practical Reason," The University of Western Ontario, 1973
 - Rottschaefer, 1973
 - Rottschaefer, William A., "Ordinary Knowledge in the
Scientific Realism of Wilfrid Sellars," Boston University, 1973. 384 pp.
  - Doody, 1974
 - Doody, John A., "Scientific Realism and Instrumentalism: An
Analysis of the Concepts of Description and Explanation,"
University of Notre Dame, 1974.
 - Hartjes, 1974
 - Hartjes, John F., "The Critique of the Given in Wilfrid
Sellars and Edmund Husserl," The Catholic University of America, 1974. 280 pages.
 - Ingham, 1974
 - Ingham, Charles, "Sellars' Theory of Universals and
Particulars," Brown University, 1974. 181 pp.
 - Norman, 1974
 - Norman, Jack, "Events and Semantical Theories," University of
Pittsburgh, 1974.
 - O'Connell, 1974
 - O'Connell, Richard A., "The Structure of Meaning and
Knowledge," Wayne State University, 1974.
  - Freddoso, 1976
 - Freddoso, Alfred, "A Defense of Conceptualism," University
of Notre Dame, 1976.
 - Pressman, 1976
 - Pressman, Sydney Carol, "Thought and Meaning in Wilfrid
Sellars," State University of New York at Albany, 1976.
  - Tarr, 1979
 - Tarr, Patrick Howard, "Wilfrid Sellars' Theory of
Sensations," University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1979, 204 pp.
  - Brown, 1980
 - Brown, Peter Godfrey, "Kantian Psycholinguistics: Wilfrid
Sellars' Philosophy of Language as a Theory of Language
Development," Emory University, 1980, 293 pp.
 - Mazzucco, 1980
 - Mazzucco, Louis Frank, "A Study of Wilfrid Sellars'
Realism," University of Connecticut, 1980.
  - Becker, 1981
 - Becker, Robert James, "Wilfrid Sellars and the Mind-Body
Problem: A Historical and Critical Examination of Sellars' Unity
of Thought," Tulane University, 1981.
 - Davis, 1981
 - Davis, William W., "Analogy and Mental Representation: A
Solution to the Mind-Body Problem Based on the Philosophy of
Wilfrid Sellars," University of Kansas, 1981, 303 pp.
 - Evans, 1981
 - Evans, Joseph Claude, "The Metaphysics of Transcendental
Subjectivity: Descartes, Kant and Sellars," State University of
New York at Stoney Brook, 1981, 295 pp.
 - Murphy, 1981
 - Murphy, Claudia Mary, "Evolutionary Metaphysics: An
Example," University of California, Berkley, 1981, 133 pp.
  - Thurston, 1981
 - Thurston, Bonnie Colleen, "Consciousness and the Evolution
of Conceptual Frameworks," University of British Columbia, 1981.
  - Bernstein, 1982
 - Bernstein, Mark Howard, "Freedom of Will and Autonomy of
Mind," University of California, Santa Barbara, 1982, 120 pp.
 - Friedman, 1982
 - Friedman, Irving Stephen, "Wilfrid Sellars' Refutation of
Physical (,2) Reductive Materialism," City University of New
York, 1982.
 - Hampton, 1982
 - Hampton, Philip Michael, "Direct Realism and the
Phenomenology of Perceptual Consciousness," University of
Toronto, 1982.
 - Paas, 1982
 - Paas, David E., "Presupposition," University of Nebraska -
Lincoln, 1982, 153 pp.
  - Atkinson, 1984
 - Atkinson, Nancy Carol, "Sentience and Stuff," Claremont
Graduate School, 1984, 171 pp.
 - Griffis, 1984
 - Griffis, James B., "Seeing and Sensing: Wilfrid Sellars'
Theory of Perception," State University of New York at Buffalo, 1984.
 - Pendleton, 1984
 - Pendleton, Gene Ronald, "Intuition and the Mode of Analogy:
A Study of Sellars and Kant," University of Waterloo, 1984.
  - Lance, 1988
 - Lance, Mark Norris, "Normative Inferential Vocabulary: The Explication of Social Linguistic Practice," University of Pittsburgh, 1988, 227 pp.
 - Macbeth, 1988
 - Macbeth, Danielle Monique, "Making Sense of Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind,"
University of Pittsburgh, 1988, 301 pp.
 - Scott-Kakures, 1988
 - Scott-Kakures, Dion James, "The Status of Vernacular Psychology," The University of Michigan, 1988, 289 pp.
  - Bickle, 1989
 - Bickle, John William, "Towards a Contemporary Reformulation of the Mind-Body Problem," University of California, Irvine, 1989, 338 pp.
  - Chrucky, 1990
 - Chrucky, Andrew, "Critique of Wilfrid Sellars'
Materialism," Fordham University, 1990, 537 pp.
 - Seibt, 1990
 - Seibt, Johanna, "Towards Process Ontology: A Critical Study in Substance-Ontological Premises," University of Pittsburgh, 1990, 517 pp.
  - Rudnick, 1991
 - Rudnick, Kenneth Joseph, "Charles Sanders Peirce on the Cognitive Given," Fordham University, 1991, 222 pp.
  - Rubenstein, 1995
 - Rubenstein, Eric M., "The Metaphysics of Content," University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1995, 243 pp.
  - Burstein, 2004
 - Burstein, Matthew A., "Neither Tortoises nor Snakes: How to be a Conscientious Objector in the Conflict between Foundationalism and Coherentism," Georgetown University, 2004, 243 pp.
  - Levine, 2005 
 - Levine, Steven, "Naturalism and Normativity: Sellars and McDowell on Mind, Perception, and World." New School, 2005.
  - Poston, 2006
 - Poston, Ted Lanice, "Sellars And Socrates: An Investigation of The Sellars Problem For A Socratic Epistemology," University of Missouri, Columbia, 2006, 185 pp.
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Macbean, 2008
 - Macbean, Jeremy, "Sellars, Scientific Realism, and the Philosophy of Mind." University of Western Ontario, 2008. Adviser: Ausonio Marras. 
  - Olen, 2012  
 - Olen, Peter, "Sellars in Context: An Analysis of Wilfrid Sellars's Early Works," University of South Florida, 2012.
Committee: Stephen Turner, Richard Manning, Rebecca Kukla, Willem deVries, Alex Levine.
  
 
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