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Past Theses
Students in the Program write honors theses on topics that use moral and political philosophy to address practical problems. Previous theses have considered such questions as the just distribution of health care, our obligations to future generations, the role of moral values in education, the moral implications of genetic engineering, and the relationship between gender inequality and the structures of work and family.
Past theses are available to read. Please contact gmaung [at] stanford.edu (subject: Past%20Thesis%20request) (Gillyn Maung) with your request (author, title, and year). You may look at hard copies of past theses at the Ethics in Society Center offices.
2024
- Juan Carlos (Kyle) Becerra
- Presidential Disobedience: A New Take on Executive Challenges Against the Supreme Court
- Advisor: Michael W. McConnell
- Isabelle Cashe
- Directors of Our Lives: Psychological Narrativity and the Empathic Protagonist
- Advisor: Josh Landy
- Isabella Jordan
- The Ethics of Harnessing Content Moderation to Safeguard American Political Elections from Misinformation and Generative AI
- Advisor: Mehran Sahami
- Cameron Lange
- Generation without Representation: Youth Suffrage in Theory and Practice
- Advisor: Emilee Chapman
- Jessica Faith Lee
- Rawls and Climate Change: The Need for a Human Rights-Based Framework
- Advisor: Leif Wenar
- E Ju Ro
- Can "Comfort Women" Speak? Examining the Sonyeosang and Subaltern Speech
- Advisor: David Cohen
- James Wall
- Environmental Justice in Space
- Advisor: Emily Polk
- Serena Zhou
- From Retribution to Forgiveness: Justifying Punishment through Relational Egalitarianism
- Advisor: Michael Bratman