{"id":28,"date":"2017-08-20T21:07:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T01:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/jcruz\/?page_id=28"},"modified":"2026-05-22T18:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T22:26:16","slug":"thesis-students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/jcruz\/thesis-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Thesis Students"},"content":{"rendered":"

Satya Benson, Cognitive Science ’26 \u2014 “Toward an Information-Theoretic Account of Universal Abstractions” (co-advised with Duncan Clark<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Yasemin Sukal, Philosophy ’26 \u2014 “Human Flourishing and the Worry of Delegation to AI”<\/p>\n

Thomasina Hare, Philosophy ’25 \u2014 “On a Very Large, Lonely Object”<\/p>\n

April Owens, Philosophy ’23 \u2014 “Thinking On Our Feet: Towards an Embodied Functionalism”<\/p>\n

Zach Shreier, Philosophy ’21\u2014 “Life, Mind, and the Manifest Image”
\nAn essay on reconciling the manifest and scientific images through the free energy principle applied to a range of scales and humanistic topics.<\/p>\n

Noah Betz-Richman<\/a>, Philosophy ’18\u2014 “Phenomenal Intentionality, Private Concepts, and the Problem of Externalism”<\/p>\n

Justin Edwards<\/a>, Cognitive Science ’17\u2014 “Human-Computer Interaction in Non-Visual Modalities: Overcoming Modal Bias”<\/p>\n

Reidar Riveland<\/a>, Cognitive Science ’17\u2014 “Predictive Coding in the Brain: An Account of Natural Representation”<\/p>\n

Nina Kumar, Cognitive Science ’16\u2014 “Theories of Decision Making: From Humans to Machines”<\/p>\n

Willis Kuelthau, Philosophy ’16\u2014 “The Ethics of Ethics: The Stakes of a Philosophical Approach”<\/p>\n

Dylan Meacham, Philosophy ’15\u2014 “Rule-Following and Basic Conceptual Abilities”<\/p>\n

Michael McPhee, Cognitive Science ’15\u2014 “Singing Meat: The Emergence of the Mental in a Physical World”<\/p>\n

Zoe Jenkin<\/a>, Philosophy ’12\u2014 “Conceptual Change and the Analytic Synthetic Distinction”
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Allison Hansen-Decelles, Philosophy ’10\u2014 “The Animal-Famine Argument<\/span>“<\/span><\/p>\n

Rachel Schneebaum, Philosophy ’09\u2014 “Re-Reading the Problem of Consciousness<\/span>“<\/span><\/p>\n

Anna Edmonds<\/a>, Philosophy ’07\u2014 “Abandoning the Truth Aim: A reevaluation of the aim of belief and the goal of cognition”<\/span><\/p>\n

Joanna Korman<\/a>, Cognitive Science ’07\u2014 “A Distinctive Epistemology of Social Contents<\/span>“<\/span><\/p>\n

Julianne Shelby, Cognitive Science ’06\u2014 “Theories Naturalized<\/span>“<\/span><\/p>\n

Paul Sonenthal, Philosophy ’05\u2014 “The Role of the Observer in Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics<\/span>“<\/span><\/p>\n

Jennifer Misyak<\/a>, Cognitive Science<\/span>\u00a0’05\u2014 “Developmental Delay to Theory of Mind in Autism<\/span>“<\/span><\/p>\n

John Morrison<\/a>, Philosophy<\/span> ’01\u2014 “Contextualism and the Neglected Question of Context<\/span>“<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Satya Benson, Cognitive Science ’26 \u2014 “Toward an Information-Theoretic Account of Universal Abstractions” (co-advised with Duncan Clark) Yasemin Sukal, Philosophy ’26 \u2014 “Human Flourishing and the Worry of Delegation to AI” Thomasina Hare, Philosophy ’25 \u2014 “On a Very Large, Lonely Object” April Owens, Philosophy ’23 \u2014 “Thinking On Our Feet: Towards an Embodied Functionalism” … Continue reading “Thesis Students”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":862,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/jcruz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/jcruz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/jcruz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/jcruz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/862"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/jcruz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/jcruz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/jcruz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/jcruz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}