Doctoral Dissertations in Philosophy granted by the University of Chicago, 1895 – 1935
The information on this page comes from Richard Lee Smith's 1977 doctoral dissertation entitled George Herbert Mead and Sociology: The Chicago Years. Originally, the document was prepared as part of an review of Smith's methodology in American Sociology and Pragmatism. We include it here as tool for other researchers working on the period. We view this as a work in progress and it should be used as such.
| Year | Student | Dissertation title |
| 1895 | Edward Scribner Ames | Agnosticism in its Historical Development |
| 1896 | Simon Fraser McLennan | The Theory of the Impersonal Judgment |
| 1897 | Addison Webster Moore | Implications of the Teleological Character of Knowledge in Locke's Essay on Human Understanding |
| Ernest Carrol Moore | The Relation of Education to Philosophy in Greece and the Early Church | |
| Arthur Kenyon Rogers | Psycho-physical Parallelism | |
| Amy Eliza Tanner | Imagery, with special Reference to the Association of Ideas | |
| 1899 | Daniel Peter MacMillan | The Negative Judgment |
| 1900 | Henry Heath Bawden | Theory of the Criterion |
| William Franklin Moncreiff | Examination of Mill's Inductive Canons. | |
| Henry Waldgrave Stuart | Valuation as a Logical Process | |
| Helen Bradford Thompson | Psychological Norms in Men and Women | |
| 1901 | Myron Lucius Ashley | The Nature of Hypothesis |
| Willard Clark Gore | The Imagination in Spinoza and Hume | |
| 1903 | Kate Gordon | The Psychology of Meaning |
| Elizabeth Kemper Adams | The Aesthetic Experience: Its Meaning in Functional Psychology | |
| Irving King | The Differentiation of the Religious Consciousness | |
| Irving Elgar Miller | The Significance of the Mathematical Element in the Philosophy of Plato | |
| 1904 | Edgar Francis Riley | Descartes' Theory of the Judgment |
| William Kelley Wright | The Ethical Significance of Pleasure, Feeling, and Happiness in Modern non-Hedonistic Systems | |
| 1907 | Matilde Castro | The Respective Standpoints of Logic and Psychology |
| 1908 | Anna Louise Strong | A Consideration of Prayer from the Standpoint of Social Psychology |
| 1909 | Dagny Gunhilda Sunne | The Development of the Subjective Standpoint in Post-Aristotelian Philosophy |
| Ernest Lynn Talbert | The Dualism of Fact and Idea in it Social Implications | |
| 1910 | Frederick Goodrich Henke | The Psychology of Ritualism |
| Ella Harrison Stokes | The Conception of a Kingdom of Ends in Augustine, Aquinas, and Leibnitz. | |
| 1911 | Elijah Jordan | The Constitutive and Regulative Principles in Kant |
| 1912 | Homer Blosser Reed | The Morals of Competition and Monopoly |
| Benjamin Whitman Van Riper | An Examination of Certain Views of the Time Problem | |
| Charles Edgar Witter | Pragmatic Elements in Kant's Philosophy | |
| 1913 | John Forsyth Crawford | The Relation of Inference to Fact in Mill's Logic |
| Charles Adam Mohr | The New Realism and the Real | |
| Julia Jessie Taft | The Woman Movement from the Standpoint of Personality | |
| Melicent Eda Waterhouse | Universality and Necessity versus Novelty | |
| 1914 | George Tilden Colman | Important Factors in the Transition from Individualistic Ethical Ideals of the Seventeenth Century to Social Ideas of the Nineteenth Century |
| Clarence Herbert Hamilton | A Psychological Interpretation of Mysticism | |
| Ethel May Kitch | Origin and Development of Subjectivity in Hindu Thought | |
| 1915 | Josef Roy Geiger | Some Religious Implications of Pragmatism |
| Colin Allen McPheeters | Moral Standards in Early Kentucky and Missouri | |
| 1916 | Carl Conrad Wernle Nicol | Influence of Function and Occupation of Ethical Codes |
| 1917 | Clarence Edwin Ayres | The Nature of the Relationship between Ethics and Economics |
| Ester Crane | The Place of the Hypothesis in Logic | |
| William A. Crowley | The Logic of the Greek Physicians | |
| Jacob Robert Kantor | The Functional Nature of the Philosophical Categories | |
| 1918 | Holly Estil Cunningham | Three Types of Logical Theory |
| Margaret Daniels | The Aesthetic Aspects of Religious Worship | |
| Sterlling Price Williams | The Conception of Reason in Sidgwick's Ethics | |
| Kia-lok Yen | The Traditional and the Scientific Trends in the Logic of Leibnitz | |
| 1919 | Norman Rufus Boardman | The Significance of Meaning in Pragmatisms and Neo-Realism |
| 1920 | Sidney Kok Wei | International Relationship in China and Its Ethical, Social and Political Interpretation |
| 1921 | Edith Ayres | Some Ethical Factors in Logical Theory |
| Mont Robertson Gabbert | Theories of Consciousness | |
| 1922 | Edward Z. Rowell | Masaryk's Realism and the Czech Nation |
| Thomas Vernor Smith | Philosophic Bases of the American Doctrine of Equality | |
| 1923 | Armand Joseph Burke | The Significance of Adjustment in Aesthetics |
| Gerald Albert Katuin | A Comparison of Methods in Science and Philosophy | |
| John Goodwin Locke | The Social Genesis and Character of Universals | |
| Walter Basil Mahan | The Relation of the Right to the Good in Recent Ethical Theory | |
| Edwin Thomas Mitchell | Modern Theories of the Nature and Function of Ideals | |
| 1924 | Van Meter Ames | The Aesthetics of the Novel |
| Charles Flinn Arrowwood | The Place of Reflective Thinking in the Development and Maintenance of Moral Value | |
| 1925 | Homer Hasenpflug Dubs | The Philosophy of Hsuntze: Ancient Confucianism as Developed in the Philosophy of Hsuntze |
| Adolf Kuring | The Sensory and Intellectual Factor of Knowledge in Aristotle | |
| Charles William Morris, Jr. | Symbolism and Reality: A study in the Nature of the Mind | |
| Donald Ayers Piatt | Mind and Nature | |
| Ruth Willis Pray | The Neo-Platonic Element in Aesthetics | |
| 1926 | Orvil Floyd Myers | The Significance of the Mathematical Element in the Philosophy of Bertand Russell |
| Charner Marquis Perry | The Genesis and Operation of Moral Judgments: A Study of British Theories from Hobbes to Adam Smith | |
| John Daniel Wild, Jr. | The Science and Metaphysics of Symbolism | |
| 1927 | Harold C. Blote | The Concepts of Nature and Matter in Early Greek Philosophy |
| Kurt Friedrich Leidecker | The Noetical Terminology in the Upanishads and Bhagavad Gita | |
| Yi-Pao Mei | The Ethical and Political Philosophy of Motse | |
| Orland Otway Norris | A Behavioristic Account of Individuation | |
| Takeichi Takahashi | The Symptomatic Function and Value of the Synthetic Moral Judgement | |
| 1928 | Maurice James Baum | Genetic Study of the Philosophies of William James and John Dewey |
| Percy Lee Delargy | Empircal Methods in Science and Philosophy | |
| Theodore Thomas Lafferty | The Logical and Epistemological Implications of the Theory of Perspectives | |
| Jarmon Alvis Lynch | Perspectives in Relation to Activity as Substance | |
| Chun-Kao Teng | The Philosophy of Life of the Ancient Taoists | |
| 1929 | Frank Dickinson | Dualism and Functionalism |
| Millard Spencer Everett | Utilitarianism as a Universal Morality | |
| Lien Chao Tzu | The Problem of Subjectivity and Objectivity as Treated in Pragmatism | |
| Dewey Houston Vass | Plato's Philosophy of Education | |
| 1930 | Wayne Albert Risser Leys | Needs and Values in Religion |
| Leslie Manock Pape | The Naturalistic Ethics of John Dewey | |
| Lional Ruby | The Nature of Beauty as Distinguished form other Aesthetic Categories | |
| 1931 | Theodore B. Brameld | The Role of Acquiescence in Leninism |
| Alburey Castell | Mill's Logic of the Moral Science: A Study of the Impact of Newtonism on Early Nineteenth Century Social Thought | |
| Chester M. Kearney | Two Neglected Aspects of the Truth Situation | |
| Wen Kwei Liao | Morality versus Legality: Historic Analysis of the Motivating Factors of Social Conduct | |
| Ralph W. Nelson | The Role of Faith in Kant's Philosophy | |
| Clifford P. Osborne | The Problem of Change in Greek Science | |
| Alfred Tonness | Aspects of the Problem of the Past | |
| Elizabeth Williamson | The Concept of Possibility in Its Philosophical Applications | |
| 1932 | Wilhelm Anderson | An Orientation of Hume's Moral Philosophy |
| David L. Miller | Emergent Evolution and the Scientific Method | |
| Hugh V.R. Wilson | Ethical Aspects of Reward | |
| 1933 | Albert M. Dunham | The Concept of Tension in Philosophy |
| 1934 | George Dykhuizen | The Conception of God in Philosophy of Josiah Royce: A Critical Exposition of its Epistemological and Metaphysical Development |
| Stephen C. Tornay | William Ockham's Philosophy | |
| 1934 | Estelle Merril Allen DeLacy | Meaning and Methodology in Hellenistic Philosophy |
| William V. Evans. | ??? |
