Placement
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).
For current graduate students planning to enter the job market, please review the Placement Guide.
Please send any updates or corrections to Lisa Poteet.
2008
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
2007
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
2006
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
2005
Robert Conrad
Center of Medical Law and Ethics, King’s College London
Postdoctoral Fellow
Conceptual Structures of Moral Experience in Cross-Cultural Comparative Analysis
Caery Evangelist
University of Portland
Assistant Professor (TT)
Medieval Intelligibility: The Relationship Between Mind, World and Transcendental Truth in the Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas
Avram Hiller
Portland State University
Assistant Professor (TT)
Vagueness and Normativity
Marion Hourdequin
Colorado College
Assistant Professor (TT)
Nature and Normativity: Biology, Culture, and the Evolution of Ethical Norms
Stefan Linquist
University of Guelph, Ontario
Assistant Professor (TT)
The Descent of Mind: An Evolutionary Account of the Higher Cognitive Emotions
Joel Schickel
University of Dayton
Assistant Professor
Freedom of the Will, Passion, and Virtue in Descartes’s Theory of Judgment
Tamler Sommers
University of Houston
Assistant Professor (TT)
Beyond Freedom and Resentment: An Error Theory of Free Will and Moral Responsibility
Andrew Terjesen
Rhodes College
Assistant Professor
The Role of Sympathy and Empathy in Moral Judgment, with Special Reference to Adam Smith and David Hume
William Wojtach
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University
Postdoctoral Fellow
An Empirically Constrained Study of Visual Perception
2004
Frederic Bouchard
University of Montreal
Assistant Professor (TT)
Evolution, Fitness and the Struggle for Persistence
2003
Boris Kukso
University of California at Berkeley, School of Law
Law Student
Trouble for Truthmakers: Negation and Possibility
Anthony Williams
College of Charleston
Assistant Professor (TT)
Moral Conflict and Incommensurability
2002
Alan Galloway
Non-academic position
Moral Perception
2001
Todd Davis
Non-academic position
Science and the Constitutive a priori: Ian Hacking’s Philosophy of Science
Michael Muth
Wesleyan College
Assistant Professor (TT)
The Augustinian Background of Bonaventure’s Doctrine of Order
Eddy Nahmias
Georgia State University
Assistant Professor (TT)
Free Will and the Knowledge Condition
Thomas Osborne
University of St. Thomas
Assistant Professor (TT)
The Natural Love of God Over Self: The Role of Self-Interest in Thirteenth-Century Ethics
Brook Sadler
University of South Florida
Assistant Professor (TT)
Amoralism and the Justification of Morality
2000
Steven Geisz
University of Tampa
Assistant Professor (TT)
Speaking Wordly: An Adverbial View of Presentation
James E. Mahon
Washington and Lee University
Associate Professor (tenured)
Motivational Internalism and the Authority of Morality
Thomas Polger
University of Cincinnati
Associate Professor (tenured)
Natural Minds
Elizabeth Schiltz
College of Wooster
Associate Professor (tenured)
Sophrosune and Mania: The Rise and Study of Moral Psychology
1999
Gokhan Adalier
Eastern Mediterranean University
Professor of Business Administration
The Structure of Judgments and Knowledge in Plato’s Theaetetus
Carla Fehr
Iowa State University
Associate Professor (tenured)
A Natural History of the Evolution of Sexual Reproduction: The Virtues of Explanatory Pluralism
1998
James Allman
Non-academic position
Language, Speakers, and Metaphor
1997
Joseph U. Neisser
Sam Houston State Universtiy
Assistant Professor (TT)
The Embodied Approach to Cognition: A Defense
Glenn Sanford
Sam Houston State University
Professor
Explaining Evolution: Genes, Culture, Environment, and Mechanisms
1996
Donald Scott Carson
Ohio University
Associate Professor and Director of Studies, Honors Program in Philosophy
Being and Truth: Elements of Aristotle’s Philosophy of Language
Jack Wilson
Washington and Lee University
Associate Professor (tenured)
Living Entities: Identity and Persistence