Placement
Below is a listing of all PhDs awarded since 2000 along with placement information.
TT=tenure-track (or continuing tenure-track equivalent); T=tenured; PTI=part-time instructor.
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Placement | Dissertation Title | Advisor | |
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Lorenza D'Angelo |
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Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies (1-year postdoc) |
"Valent Experience: On Its Non-sensory Nature, Its Unity, and Its Place in Value Theory." | Ben Bradley | |
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Stacy Kohls (defending in Spring 2024) |
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Southwestern Illinois College (Assistant Professor, TT, starting in Fall 2024) |
"A New Hobbesian Constructivism" | Hille Paakkunainen | |
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Aatif Abbas (defending in Spring 2024) |
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Colgate University Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (starting in Fall 2024) and Assistant Professor, TT (starting in Fall 2026). |
"Global Justice through Poor People's Perspectives." | Kenneth Baynes | |
| 2023 | ||||||
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Nikki Fortier |
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Ithaca College (Adjunct Professor) |
"Bringing Hedonism Back: Towards an Objective Hedonistic Account of Well-Being" | Ben Bradley and David Sobel | |
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Huzeyfe Demirtas |
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Chapman University (2-year postdoc) |
"Responsibility Internalism and Responsibility for AI" | Ben Bradley | |
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Dante Dauksz |
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University of Rochester (Adjunct Professor) |
"Space and Time in Kant's Inaugural Dissertation" | Fred Beiser | |
| 2022 | ||||||
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Jan Swiderski |
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non-academic |
"Metaphysical Coherentism" | Mark Heller | |
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Rowan Bell |
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University of Missouri (postdoc), University of Guelph (Assistant Professor TT) |
"Gender Norms and Gendered Traits" | Hille Paakkunainen | |
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Teresa Bruno-Niño |
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Penn State University (Assistant Teaching Professor) |
"On the Prudential Power of Beliefs and Fittingness of Attitudes" | David Sobel | |
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Benjamin Cook |
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non-academic |
"Powers and the Metaphysics of Fundamentality" | Kris McDaniel | |
| 2021 | ||||||
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Carolyn Garland |
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Non-academic | "Explaining the Metaphysics of Grief" | Kris McDaniel/Hille Paakkunainen | |
| 2020 | ||||||
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Isaiah Lin |
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Providence Christian College (Assistant Professor TT) |
"On the Plurality of Existences" | Kristopher McDaniel | |
| 2019 | ||||||
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Byron Simmons |
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Texas A&M University (Visiting Assistant Professor) |
"The Nature of Being" | Kristopher McDaniel | |
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Amir Arturo Javier-Castellanos |
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Non-academic |
"Issues in the Metaphysics of Material Objects" | Mark Heller | |
| 2018 | ||||||
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Naomi Dershowitz |
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non-academic |
"All the Small Things: Contingent Mereological Nihilism" | Mark Heller | |
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Joseph Hedger |
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Syracuse University (adjunct) | "Seeing and Believing: Philosophical Issues in Theory of Mind Development" | Robert Van Gulick | |
| 2017 | ||||||
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Li Kang |
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Washington and Lee University - (Assistant Professor-TT) | "Spreading Structures" | Kris McDaniel | |
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James Lee |
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Visiting Assistant Professor at SUNY Oswego | "A Metaphysician's User Guide: The Epistemology of Metaphysics" | Kris McDaniel | |
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Kendall Fisher |
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Seattle University (TT) | "Thomas Aquinas on the Metaphysical Nature of the Soul and It's Union with the Body" | Kara Richardson and Kris McDaniel | |
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Nicole Dular |
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Notre Dame of Maryland University (Assistant Professor TT) | "Knowing Better, Reasoning Together" | David Sobel and Hille Paakkunainen | |
| 2016 | ||||||
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Sean Clancy |
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East China Normal University (TT) | "What Counts as Desiring the Actual Good" | Ben Bradley | |
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Steve Steward |
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non-academic | "On What Consists in What" | Kristopher McDaniel | |
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Preston Werner |
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Hebrew University (TT) | "Seeing Right and Wrong: A Defense of A Posteriori Intuitionism" | David Sobel | |
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Travis Timmerman |
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Seton Hall University (TT) | "In Defense of Deprivationism" | Ben Bradley | |
| 2015 | ||||||
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Yishai Cohen |
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University of Southern Maine (TT) | "Incompatibilist Alternative Possibilities" | Mark Heller | |
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Kirsten Egerstrom |
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Whatcom Community College | "Practical Identity and Meaninglessness" | Ben Bradley | |
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Mihnea Capraru |
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Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan (assistant professor) | "The Sundial Tribe and the Labyrinth of Purpose" | Robert Van Gulick/Thomas McKay | |
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Amy Massoud |
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Syracuse University (adjunct) | "Moral Worth and Supererogation" | Ben Bradley | |
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Ryan Hubbard |
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Gulf Coast State College (TT) | "A Defense of Formal Contractualism" | Kenneth Baynes | |
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Charles (Rich) Booher |
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De Anza College, Cupertino, CA (TT) | "Perfection, History and Harmonious Individuality: Herder's Ethical Thought, 1765-1791" | Frederick Beiser | |
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Aaron Wolf |
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Colgate University (Visiting Assistant Professor) | "Where the Reasons Come From" | Ben Bradley | |
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Jacob Greenblum |
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Springfield Memorial Health Hospital (Clinical Ethicist) | "Social Equality: On the Aim of Distributive Justice" | Kenneth Baynes | |
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Jason Rourke |
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"Questions and Inquiry: Some Epistemological Applications" | Mark Heller | ||
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Andrew Specht |
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Allan Hancock College (ITS Director) | "Kant and the Neglected Alternative" | Frederick Beiser | |
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Mark Barber |
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Non-academic employment | "Ground and Relative Fundamentality" | Mark Heller | |
| 2013 | ||||||
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Kristen Oganowski |
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Non-academic employment | "Centralizing Ambiguity: Simone de Beauvoir and a Twenty-First Century Ethics" | Linda Alcoff | |
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John Monteleone |
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Lemoyne College (TT) | "Feeling in Character: Towards an Ethics of Emotion" | Michael Stocker | |
| Matthew Skene | Aurora Community College, Colorado (adjunct) | "Putting the Ghost Back in the Machine: A Defense of Common Sense Dualism" | Robert Van Gulick | |||
| Kelly McCormick | Texas Christian University (TT) | "Towards a Revisionist Account of Moral Responsibility" | Andre Gallois | |||
| David Bzdak | Professor at Onondaga Community College | "Knowing How: An Empirical, Functionalist Approach" | Mark Heller | |||
| 2012 | ||||||
| Joel Brown | U.S. Air Force Academy (Assistant Professor) | "Kant, Derivative Influence, and the Metaphysics of Causality" | Frederick Beiser | |||
| Jordan Dodd | Lecturer at University of British Columbia | "Meaningful Experiences: An Essay on Experiences of Understanding" | Robert Van Gulick | |||
| Anthony Fisher |
Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Washington |
"Ideology and Fundamentality: A Study in Metaphysics" | André Gallois | |||
| Jeremy Dickinson | Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (lecturer) | "An Essay on the Ontology of Reasons" | Mark Heller | |||
| Paul Prescott |
non-academic Upstate Medical University (Lecturer) |
"On Pessimism: A Study in Normative Psychology" | Michael Stocker | |||
| Patrick Beach | Cycorp (Ontological Engineer) | "Moral Luck" | Ben Bradley | |||
| 2011 | ||||||
| Andrew Corsa | Lynn University, Boca Raton (Associate Professor) | "Thomas Hobbes' Response to the Fool: Justice and Magnanimity" | Edward McClennen | |||
| Jeremy Pierce |
LeMoyne College (adjunct) |
"A Realist Metaphysics of Race: a Context-Sensitive, Short-Term Retentionalist, Long-Term Revisionist Approach" | Linda Alcoff | |||
| Deke Gould |
Professor of Philosophy at Augustana College |
"Analyticity, Platonism, and A Priori Knowledge" | André Gallois | |||
| Aaron Koller | Non-academic employment | "The Flower of Human Perfection: Moses Mendelssohn's Defense of Rationalist Aesthetics" | Frederick Beiser | |||
| 2010 | ||||||
| Steffen Borge | University of Tromsø (Associate Professor) | "Speaker's Meaning: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language" | John Hawthorne | |||
| Kora Gould | Black Hawk College (TT) | "Personal Identity, Reductionism and Eliminativism" | André Gallois | |||
| KienHow Goh | First appointment: Central Washington University (VAP); current appointment unknown | "Fichte's Theory of Practical Agency" | Frederick Beiser | |||
| 2009 | ||||||
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Jason Clark |
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University of Osnabrueck, GERMANY (postdoc) |
"Classifying Emotions in Biology, Psychology, and Philosophy: Evoluntionary, Developmental, and Functional Continuities Between Basic and Higher-Cognitive Emotions" |
Bence Nanay | |
| Adam Schechter | Yale University - Human Research Protection Program | "Valuing Life: A Moral Defense of the Right to Die in Liberal Democracy" | Laurence Thomas | |||
| 2008 | ||||||
| Brendan Murday | Ithaca College (T) | "Two Dimensionalism and Semantic Content" | André Gallois | |||
| Edison Barrios | University of Utah (3-yr 2013-2016) | "The Foundations of Linguistics: Two Theses" | Thomas McKay | |||
| 2007 | ||||||
| Nathan Hanna | Drexel University (TT) | "The Justifiability of Punishment" | Kenneth Baynes/Edward McClennen | |||
| Christopher Calvert-Minor | University of Wisconsin, Whitewater (T) | "Practicist Epistemology and the Social Dimension" | Linda Alcoff | |||
| Irem Kurtsal Steen | Allegheny College (TT), begin Fall 2020 | "Composition, Vagueness, and Persistence" | André Gallois | |||
| Michael McFall | Annapolis Area Christian School | "Self-Respect and Family Egalitarianism" (passed with distinction) | Laurence Thomas | |||
| Michael McKeon | Barry University (T) | "The Value of Religious Commitments in a Pluralistic Society" | Laurence Thomas | |||
| Kevin Kukla | Teach for America | "An Anti-Bivalentist Solution to the Sorites Paradox" | André Gallois | |||
| 2006 | ||||||
| Mark Scala | West Texas A&M (TT) | "Three-Dimensionalism" | John Hawthorne | |||
| Jessica (Wollam) Logue | University of Portland (lecturer) | "Context and Anti-Essentialism: A Thoroughgoing Approach" | Edward Mooney | |||
| Craig Hanson | Palm Beach Atlantic University (T) | "Addiction: Rationality and Responsibility" | Edward McClennen | |||
| Philip Pegan | Neumann University (TT) | "The Nature of Assertion" | John Hawthorne | |||
| Dimitria Gatzia | University of Akron, Wayne (TT) | "Color Fictionalism: Color Discourse without Colors" | Clyde Hardin | |||
| Laurence James | Non-academic employment | "The Meaningfulness of Life" | Michael Stocker | |||
| 2005 | ||||||
| Mark Steen | Boğaziçi University, Istanbul (TT) | "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 (T) | "Caring for Others: A Theory of Moral Reasons" | Michael Stocker | |||
| Seth Shabo | University of Delaware (T) | "Holding Responsible without Ultimate Responsibility: Towards a Communitarian Defense of Compatibilism" | Michael Stocker | |||
| 2003 | ||||||
| Erik Schmidt | Gonzaga University (T) | "Beyond Comparison: Incomparability and hte Psychology of Choice" | Michael Stocker | |||
| Daniel Haggerty | University of Scranton (T) | "Moral Magnetism: A Study in Relations of Emotion, Value & World" | Michael Stocker | |||
| 2002 | ||||||
| Eric Funkhouser | University of Arkansas (T) | "Eluding Exclusion: Making Room for the Special Sciences" | Robert Van Gulick | |||
| Patricia Psomas | In Athens, Greece (no further information) | "Speech Act Theories of Meaning" | William P. Alston | |||
| Carol Quinn | Metro State College (T) | "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 (T) | "Kant and Virtue Ethics" | Michael Stocker | |||
| David Kim | University of San Francisco (T) | "Mortal Feelings: A Theory of Revulsion and the Intimacy of Agency" | Michael Stocker | |||
| Robert Fudge | Weber State University (T) | "An Anti-Realist Account of Aesthetic Properties" | Philip Peterson | |||
| 2000 | ||||||
| Pierre LeMorvan | The College of New Jersey (T) | "A Defense of the Theory of Appearing" | William P. Alston | |||
| Heather Battaly | California State University, Fullerton (T) | "What Are the Virtues of Virtue Epistemology?" | William P. Alston | |||