Below is a list of all 54 students who have received their Ph.Ds from the Philosophy Department at Syracuse University since 1994. We have organized it by the year in which they received their degrees, and have also listed their current positions and titles of their dissertations. Please send any updates or corrections to: lfarnswo@syr.edu or wbradley@syr.edu.
Graduate |
Placement |
Dissertation Title |
Advisor |
2009 |
Jason Clark
Email
|
3 year Post-Doc at University of Osnabrueck, GERMANY
|
'
"Classifying Emotions in Biology, Psychology, and Philosophy: Evolutionary, Developmental, and Functional Continuities Between Basic and Higher-Cognitive Emotions" |
Bence Nanay |
Adam Schechter
Email
|
Weill Cornell Medical School (Research Integrity Coordinator) |
'
"Valuing Life: A Moral Defense of the Right to Die in Liberal Democracy" |
Laurence Thomas |
2008 |
Brendan Murday
Email
|
Ithaca College (tenure-track) |
'
"Two-Dimensionalism and Semantic Content" |
André Gallois |
Edison Barrios
Email Website |
University of Rochester (1-year visiting) |
'
"The Foundations of Linguistics: Two Theses" |
Thomas McKay |
2007 |
Nathan Hanna
Email Website |
Lawrence University (2-year postdoc) |
'
"The Justifiability of Punishment" |
Kenneth Baynes/Edward McClennen |
Christopher Calvert-Minor
Email |
University of Wisconsin, Whitewater (tenure-track) |
'
"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 |
St. Gregory's University (tenure-track) |
'
"The Value of Religious Commitments in a Pluralistic Society" |
Laurence Thomas |
Kevin Kukla |
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (tenure-track) |
'
"An Anti-Bivalentist Solution to the Sorites Paradox" |
André Gallois |
2006 |
Mark Scala
Email |
West Texas A&M (tenure-track) |
'
"Three-Dimensionalism" |
John Hawthorne |
Jessica (Wollam) Logue
|
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 |
(offered tenure-track job at Eastern Kentucky University ; declined offer; left the profession) |
"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 |
Freelance writer and editor, Portland, Oregon |
"Conceptions and Consequences of Semantic Underdetermination" |
Thomas McKay |
John Draeger |
Buffalo State (tenure-track) |
"Caring for Others:
A Theory of Moral Reasons" |
Michael Stocker |
Seth Shabo |
Florida State University (visiting) |
"Holding Responsible without Ultimate Responsibility:
Towards a Communitarian Defense of Compatibilism" |
Michael Stocker |
2003 |
Erik Schmidt |
Gonzaga University (Assistant Professor) |
"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
(Associated Faculty, Intellectual Heritage Program)
|
"Issues of Human Agency & Third World Feminism" |
Linda Alcoff |
2002 |
Eric Funkhouser |
University of Arkansas (Assistant Professor) |
"Eluding Exclusion:
Making Room for the Special Sciences" |
Robert Van Gulick |
Patricia Psomas |
no information available |
"Speech Act Theories of Meaning" |
William P. Alston |
Carol Quinn |
Freelance editor, proofreader |
"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 (Associate Professor) |
"Kant and Virtue Ethics" |
Michael Stocker |
David Kim |
University of San Francisco (Associate Professor) |
"Mortal Feelings:
A Theory of Revulsion and the Intimacy of Agency" |
Michael Stocker |
Robert Fudge |
Weber State University (Assistant Professor) |
"An Anti-Realist Account of Aesthetic Properties" |
Philip Peterson |
2000 |
Pierre LeMorvan |
The College of New Jersey (Associate Professor) |
"A Defense of the Theory of Appearing" |
William Alston |
Heather Battaly |
California State University, Fullerton (Associate Professor) |
"What Are the Virtues of Virtue Epistemology" |
William Alston |
1999 |
Marc Hight |
Hampden-Sydney College (Associate Professor) |
"Between Substance and Mode: The Ontology of Ideas Among Early Moderns" |
Nicholas Jolley
John Hawthorne |
Ali Karatay |
Bogaziçi University
Turkey (Assistant Professor) |
"Philosophy of Natural Numbers" |
Mark Brown |
Barbara Stock |
Gallaudet University (Associate Professor) |
"Deciding Not to Treat Handicapped Infants: When Is Life Not Worth Living?" |
Samuel Gorovitz |
Fred Zammiello |
LeMoyne College (Assistant Professor) |
"Understanding Complex Demonstratives: The Ground of Reference
in Sensory Signals" |
Philip Peterson |
1998 |
Brad Beach |
Houghton College (Assistant Professor) |
"Intention, Teleology and God" |
William Alston |
Sun Demirli |
Bogaziçi University
Turkey (Assistant Professor) |
"Hume’s Account of Causation" |
Mark Brown |
Neil Manson |
Univ. of Mississippi (Assistant Professor) |
"Why Cosmic Fine-Tuning Needs to be Explained" |
Peter van Inwagen |
Stuart Rachels |
Univ. of Alabama
Tuscaloosa (Associate Professor) |
"Hedonic Value" |
Jonathan Bennett |
1997 |
Sam Levey |
Dartmouth College (Associate Professor) |
"Matter, Unity and Infinity In Early Leibniz" |
Jonathan Bennett |
1996 |
Chris Conn |
University of the South (Associate Professor) |
"Locke on Essence and Identity" |
Jonathan Bennett |
Stephen Joel Garver |
LaSalle University (Assistant Professor) |
"Responsible Believing" |
William Alston |
Raja Halwani |
The School of the Art Institute Of Chicago (Professor, Chair) |
"Intention, Interpretation And Truth" |
Catherine Lord |
Marianne J. Adams |
Hamilton College (Associate Professor) |
"Objectivity Humanly Conceived: Subjectivity Interpretation
and Interest In Moral andScientific Knowledge" |
Linda Alcoff |
Charles Kurtz |
Thiel College (Assistant Professor) |
"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 (Associate Professor) |
"A Non-Physicalist Ontology Of Art Objects" |
Catherine Lord |
1995 |
Paul Bloomfield |
University of Connecticut (Associate Professor) |
"Normativity andMetaphysics" |
Michael Stocker |
Andrew Cortens |
Boise State University (Associate Professor) |
"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 (Associate Professor) |
"On the True and the Real" |
William Alston |
Sandra Visser |
Valparaiso University (Associate Professor) |
"Logical Form & Ontological Commitment" |
Peter van Inwagen |
Joseph Waligore |
University of Wisconsin,
Stevens Point (Lecturer) |
"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 University (Assistant Professor) |
"An Adverbial Approach to Metaphysics" |
Thomas McKay |