• Thomas W. Polger Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies Department of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati

Professor Thomas W. Polger, University of Cinicnatti: Duke Alumnus 2000

Breanna Kerchner - 2010
Lafayette College in Easton, PA  (two-year visiting teaching job)
Thesis: Humean Supervenience

Russell Powell - 2008
University of Oxford, Faculty of Philosophy
Research Fellow
Reading the Book of Life: Contingency and Convergence in Macroevolution

Hagop Sarkissian - 2008
Baruch College, CUNY
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track)
After Confucius: Psychology and Moral Power

Sahar Akhtar - 2008
University of Virginia
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track)
Topics in Rational Choice

Sun Kyeong Yu - 2008
Minnesota State, Mankato
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track)
Reducing Biology

Elizabeth Jelinek - 2007
Vanderbilt University
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track)
Platonic Teleology Through An Aristotelian Lens

David Kaplan - 2007
Washington University in St. Louis
James S. McDonnell Postdoctoral Research Fellow
The Nature and Bases of Spatial Representation

Grant Ramsey - 2007
University of Notre Dame
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track)
Culture from Infrahumans to Humans: An Essay in the Philosophy of Biology

Kevin DeLapp - 2006
Converse College
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track)
Re-enchanting Morality: A Defense of Pluralistic Moral Realism

Nita Farahany - 2006
Vanderbilt University Law School
Assistant Professor of Law (Tenure Track)
Rediscovering Criminal Responsibility through Behavioral Genetics


Robert Conrad - 2005
Center of Medical Law and Ethics, King’s College London
Postdoctoral Fellow
Conceptual Structures of Moral Experience in Cross-Cultural Comparative Analysis

Caery Evangelist - 2005
University of Portland
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track)
Medieval Intelligibility: The Relationship Between Mind, World and Transcendental Truth in the Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas

Avram Hiller - 2005
Portland State University
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track)
Vagueness and Normativity

Marion Hourdequin - 2005
Colorado College
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track)
Nature and Normativity: Biology, Culture, and the Evolution of Ethical Norms

Stefan Linquist - 2005
University of Guelph, Ontario
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track)
The Descent of Mind: An Evolutionary Account of the Higher Cognitive Emotions

Joel Schickel - 2005
University of Dayton
Assistant Professor
Freedom of the Will, Passion, and Virtue in Descartes’s Theory of Judgment

Tamler Sommers - 2005
University of Houston
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track)
Beyond Freedom and Resentment: An Error Theory of Free Will and Moral Responsibility

Andrew Terjesen - 2005
Rhodes College
Assistant Professor
The Role of Sympathy and Empathy in Moral Judgment, with Special Reference to Adam Smith and David Hume

William Wojtach - 2005
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University
Postdoctoral Fellow
An Empirically Constrained Study of Visual Perception

Frederic Bouchard - 2004
University of Montreal
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track)
Evolution, Fitness and the Struggle for Persistence

Boris Kukso - 2003
University of California at Berkeley, School of Law
Law Student
Trouble for Truthmakers: Negation and Possibility

Anthony Williams - 2003
College of Charleston
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track)
Moral Conflict and Incommensurability


Alan Galloway - 2002

Non-academic position
Moral Perception

Todd Davis - 2001

Non-academic position
Science and the Constitutive a priori: Ian Hacking’s Philosophy of Science

Michael Muth - 2001
Wesleyan College
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track)
The Augustinian Background of Bonaventure’s Doctrine of Order

Eddy Nahmias - 2001
Georgia State University
Associate Professor (Tenured)
Free Will and the Knowledge Condition

Thomas Osborne
University of St. Thomas
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track)
The Natural Love of God Over Self: The Role of Self-Interest in Thirteenth-Century Ethics

Brook Sadler
University of South Florida
Associate Professor (Tenured)
Amoralism and the Justification of Morality

Steven Geisz - 2000
University of Tampa
Associate Professor (Tenured)
Speaking Wordly: An Adverbial View of Representation

James E. Mahon - 2000
Washington and Lee University
Associate Professor (Tenured)
Motivational Internalism and the Authority of Morality

Thomas Polger - 2000
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

Gokhan Adalier - 1999
Eastern Mediterranean University
Professor of Business Administration
The Structure of Judgments and Knowledge in Plato’s Theaetetus

Carla Fehr - 1999
Iowa State University
Associate Professor (Tenured)
A Natural History of the Evolution of Sexual Reproduction: The Virtues of Explanatory Pluralism

James Allman - 1998

Non-academic position
Language, Speakers, and Metaphor

Joseph U. Neisser - 1997
Sam Houston State Universtiy
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track)
The Embodied Approach to Cognition: A Defense

Glenn Sanford - 1997
Sam Houston State University
Professor
Explaining Evolution: Genes, Culture, Environment, and Mechanisms

Donald Scott Carson - 1996
Ohio University
Associate Professor and Director of Studies, Honors Program in Philosophy
Being and Truth: Elements of Aristotle’s Philosophy of Language

Jack Wilson - 1996
Washington and Lee University
Associate Professor (tenured)
Living Entities: Identity and Persistence

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