Graduate Placement

Graduate

Placement

Dissertation Title

Advisor

2008

Brendan Murday
Email

Ithaca College (tenure-track)

Pending

2007

Nathan Hanna
Email

"The Justifiability of Punishment"

Kenneth Baynes/Edward McClennen

Christopher Calvert-Minor
Email

Hamilton College (visiting)

"Practicist Epistemology and the Social Dimension"

Linda Alcoff

Irem Kurtsal Steen
Email

University of Missouri, St. Louis (visiting)

"Composition, Vagueness, and Persistence"

André Gallois

Mike McFall
Email - Bio

Stanford University (postdoc)

"Self-Respect and Family Egalitarianism" (passed with distinction)

Laurence Thomas

Michael McKeon
Email - Bio

St. Gregory's University (tenure-track)

"The Value of Religious Commitments in a Pluralistic Society"

Laurence Thomas

Kevin Kukla
Email - Bio

University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa (visiting)

"An Anti-Bivalentist Solution to the Sorites Paradox"

André Gallois

2006

Mark Scala
Email - Bio

Texas Tech (visiting)

"Three-Dimensionalism"

John Hawthorne

Jessica Wollam

University of Portland
Portland State (adjunct at both)

"Context and Anti-Essentialism:
A Thoroughgoing Approach"

Edward Mooney

Craig Hanson

Palm Beach Atlantic University (tenure-track)

"Addiction: Rationality and
Responsibility"

Edward McClennen

Philip Pegan

Neumann College (full-time continuing position)

"The Nature of Assertion"

John Hawthorne

Dimitria Gatzia
Email - Bio

University of Akron (visiting)

"Color Fictionalism: Color
Discourse without Colors"

Clyde Hardin

Laurence James
Email Website

Eastern Kentucky University (tenure-track)

"The Meaningfulness of Life"

Michael Stocker

2005

Mark Steen

St. Louis University (postdoc)

"Stuff, Process, and Object:
An Examination of Substance and Its Alternatives"

André Gallois

2004

Kari Middleton

"Conceptions and Consequences of Semantic Underdetermination"

Thomas McKay

John Draeger

Buffalo State

"Caring for Others:
A Theory of Moral Reasons"

Michael Stocker

Seth Shabo

University of Vermont (visiting)

"Holding Responsible without Ultimate Responsibility:
Towards a Communitarian Defense of Compatibilism"

Michael Stocker

2003

Erik Schmidt

Gonzaga University

"Beyond Comparison:
Incomparability and the Psychology of Choice"

Michael Stocker

Daniel Haggerty

University of Scranton

"Moral Magnetism:
A Study in Relations of Emotion, Value & World"

Michael Stocker

Hayat-Un Nessa

Villanova University

"Issues of Human Agency & Third World Feminism"

Linda Alcoff

2002

Eric Funkhouser

University of Arkansas

"Eluding Exclusion:
Making Room for the Special Sciences"

Robert Van Gulick

Patricia Psomas

"Speech Act Theories of Meaning"

William P. Alston

Carol Quinn

U.N.C.—Charlotte

"Reconsidering the Nazi Debate:
The Moral Aspects of Deciding Whether to Use the Nazi Data"

Samuel Gorovitz

2001

Sean McAleer

University of Wisconsin-
Eau Claire

"Kant and Virtue Ethics"

Michael Stocker

David Kim

University of San Francisco

"Mortal Feelings:
A Theory of Revulsion and the Intimacy of Agency"

Michael Stocker

Robert Fudge

Weber State University

"An Anti-Realist Account of Aesthetic Properties"

Philip Peterson

2000

Pierre LeMorvan

The College of New Jersey

"A Defense of the Theory of Appearing"

William Alston

Heather Battaly

California State University, Fullerton

"What Are the Virtues of Virtue Epistemology"

William Alston

1999

Marc Hight

Hampden-Sydney College

"Between Substance and Mode: The Ontology of Ideas Among Early Moderns"

Nicholas Jolley
John Hawthorne

Ali Karatay

Bogaziçi University
Turkey

"Philosophy of Natural Numbers"

Mark Brown

Barbara Stock

Gallaudet University

"Deciding Not to Treat Handicapped Infants: When Is Life Not Worth Living?"

Samuel Gorovitz

Fred Zammiello

LeMoyne College

"Understanding Complex Demonstratives: The Ground of Reference in Sensory Signals"

Philip Peterson

1998

Brad Beach

Houghton College

"Intention, Teleology and God"

William Alston

Sun Demirli

Bogaziçi University
Turkey

"Hume’s Account of Causation"

Mark Brown

Neil Manson

Univ. of Mississippi

"Why Cosmic Fine-Tuning Needs to be Explained"

Peter van Inwagen

Stuart Rachels

Univ. of Alabama
Tuscaloosa

"Hedonic Value"

Jonathan Bennett

1997

Sam Levey

Dartmouth College

"Matter, Unity and Infinity In Early Leibniz"

Jonathan Bennett

1996

Chris Conn

Univ. of the South

"Locke on Essence and Identity"

Jonathan Bennett

Stephen Joel Garver

LaSalle Univ.

"Responsible Believing"

William Alston

Raja Halwani

The School of the Art Institute Of Chicago

"Intention, Interpretation And Truth"

Catherine Lord

Marianne J. Adams

Hamilton College

"Objectivity Humanly Conceived: Subjectivity Interpretation and Interest In Moral andScientific Knowledge"

Linda Alcoff

Charles Kurtz

Thiel College

"Generalized Quantifiers and Measure Theory"

Mark Brown
Thomas McKay

Dana Radcliffe

Senior Lecturer of Business Ethics at Cornell University and Adjunct Professor at Syracuse University

"Belief, Grounds, and the Basing Relation" 

William Alston

In-Kyu Song

Hapdong Presbyterian Theological Seminary

"Divine Foreknowledge and Necessity"

William Alston

David Woodruff

Huntington College

"A Non-Physicalist Ontology Of Art Objects"

Catherine Lord

1995

Paul Bloomfield

University of Connecticut

"Normativity andMetaphysics"

Michael Stocker

Andrew Cortens

Boise State University

"Understanding Anti-Realism"

William Alston

Greg Ganssle

Rivendell Institute for Christian Thought, New Haven, CT

"Atemporality and the Mode Of Divine Knowledge"

William Alston

Michael Lynch

University of Connecticut

"On the True and the Real"

William Alston

Sandra Visser

Valparaiso University

"Logical Form & Ontological Commitment"

Peter van Inwagen

Joseph Waligore

University of Wisconsin,
Stevens Point

"The Joy of Torture:  Hellenistic & Indian Philosophy on the Doctrine that the Sage is AlwaysHappy, Even If Tortured"

Michael Stocker

1994

Kelly Salsbery

Stephen F. Austin State Univ.

"An Adverbial Approach to Metaphysics"

Thomas McKay