Philosophy offers graduate work leading to the PhD degree. It also has joint JD/MA and JD/PhD programs with the Law School, and offers certificates in Philosophy of Biology, History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine (HPSTM), and Cognitive Neuroscience.
The Department has an excellent placement record. Since 1996, over 70% of graduates have continued on to tenure-track academic positions. The vibrancy of the Department’s philosophical culture (as shown, for instance, by its active colloquium series), its strength in a broad range of areas of philosophy, and the outstanding reputation of its faculty combine to attract some of the nation’s most talented graduate students.
We are very pleased with our recent placement record. It is organized below by the year the Ph.D. was earned, beginning with the most recent year. Next to each graduate is the name of his or her institution and dissertation title.All tenure-track positions are indicated by (TT).
Russell Powell
University of Oxford, Faculty of Philosophy
Research Fellow
Reading the Book of Life: Contingency and Convergence in Macroevolution
Hagop Sarkissian
Baruch College, CUNY
Assistant Professor (TT)
After Confucius: Psychology and Moral Power
Sahar Akhtar
University of Virginia
Assistant Professor (TT)
Topics in Rational Choice
Sun Kyeong Yu
Minnesota State, Mankato
Assistant Professor (TT)
Reducing Biology
Elizabeth Jelinek
Vanderbilt University
Assistant Professor (TT)
Platonic Teleology Through An Aristotelian Lens
David Kaplan
Washington University in St. Louis
James S. McDonnell Postdoctoral Research Fellow
The Nature and Bases of Spatial Representation
Grant Ramsey
University of Notre Dame
Assistant Professor (TT)
Culture from Infrahumans to Humans: An Essay in the Philosophy of Biology
Kevin DeLapp
Converse College
Assistant Professor (TT)
Re-enchanting Morality: A Defense of Pluralistic Moral Realism
Nita Farahany
Vanderbilt University Law School
Assistant Professor of Law (TT)
Rediscovering Criminal Responsibility through Behavioral Genetics
