But the humanity and emotionality of these events often get lost in the diffuse philosophical dissertations of Alvin Eng's script (2 10).
Although Benjamin introduces a number of specific criticisms of Fichte's philosophical position in his dissertation, he nonetheless values the Fichtean concept of reflection for providing the epistemological foundation of Friedrich Schlegel's and Novalis' understandings of the metaphysical function of art criticism.
He chose as the subject of his dissertation Benjamin R. Tucker, a philosophical anarchist who, among many other activities, once ran a bookstore in New York.
He is pursuing a doctorate in religious studies at Princeton University where he is writing a dissertation on the philosophical anthropology of Martin Buber.
In 1950 his first book, An Examination of the Place of Reason in Ethics (essentially his dissertation), brought him to philosophical attention.
Mally earned his philosophical doctorate in 1903, with the dissertation Untersuchungen zur Gegenstandstheorie des Messens (Investigations in the Object Theory of Measurement), which was published in 1904.
In an interview days after her appointment, Dr. Moody-Adams was philosophical, which is fitting, considering her doctoral dissertation at Harvard, "Moral Philosophy Naturalized: Morality and Mitigated Skepticism in Hume".
In his doctoral dissertation, Benjamin argues that the philosophical relationship between the Idea of art and particular artworks posited in Romantic aesthetics must be understood in relation to Fichte's theory of reflection.
In 1921, Strauss completed his dissertation, "The problem of Knowledge in the Philosophical Doctrine of F.H. Jacobi," under the direction of Cohen's student, Ernst Cassirer (1874 1945).
Late in life, Natorp directed Hans-Georg Gadamer's doctoral dissertation (Gadamer 1922), and, together with his long-time philosophical interlocutor, Edmund Husserl of Freiburg, engineered Martin Heidegger's appointment as an Extraordinarius at Marburg in 1923.
