The University of Chicago’s Ph.D. in Philosophy program invites deep engagement with foundational questions across the analytic and continental traditions. These dissertation ideas encourage students to critically explore complex themes in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political theory, and the philosophy of language.
The Epistemology of Disagreement and Rational Peer Conflict
Moral Particularism vs. Universalism in Ethical Theory
Intentionality and Mental Representation in Contemporary Philosophy of Mind
The Role of Practical Reason in Kantian Moral Philosophy
Derrida and Deconstruction: Implications for Legal Hermeneutics
The Normativity of Meaning: A Wittgensteinian Perspective
Moral Agency in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Epistemic Injustice and the Politics of Testimonial Credibility
Heidegger’s Concept of Being and Environmental Philosophy
Freedom, Responsibility, and the Problem of Moral Luck
Phenomenology of Perception: Merleau-Ponty Revisited
Philosophy of Mathematics: Platonism vs. Structuralism
Recognition Theory and the Foundations of Social Justice
Analytic vs. Continental: Bridging Methodological Divides
Nietzsche’s Genealogy and the Critique of Modern Morality
Language, Power, and the Construction of Gender
The Metaphysics of Time and the Problem of Temporal Passage
Posthumanism and the Ethics of Emerging Technologies
Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics in Contemporary Moral Psychology
Metaethics and Moral Realism: Current Debates
Philosophy of Law: Natural Law vs. Legal Positivism
Logic and Paradox: Russell, Gödel, and the Foundations of Logic
Political Liberalism and the Challenge of Pluralism
Embodied Cognition and the Reassessment of Cartesian Dualism
The Concept of the Good Life in Ancient Greek Philosophy
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