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Colloquia

March 26-28
Graduate Student Prospectives Visit

March 28
Philip Pettit

"Freedom, Probability and Resilience"

April 11-13
Phil-Bio Conference: Cooperative Alliances in the History of Life: Aggregation, Individuation, and the Major Evolutionary Transitions





 


 
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).

Please send any updates or corrections to Lisa Poteet.


2008

Russell Powell
Georgetown University
Postdoctoral Fellow

Hagop Sarkissian
Baruch College, CUNY
Assistant Professor (TT)
After Confucius: Psychology and Moral Power

Sun Kyeong Yu
Minnesota State, Mankato
Assistant Professor (TT)
Reducing Biology

2007

Sahar Akhtar
University of Virginia
Assistant Professor (TT)
Topics in Rational Choice Theory: Altruism, Consequentalism, and Identity

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
Notre Dame University
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

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 Queensland, Australia
Postdoctoral Fellow
The Descent of Mind: An Evolutionary Account of the Higher Cognitive Emotions

Joel Schickel
Hampden-Sydney College
Lecturer in Philosophy
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

2004

Frederic Bouchard
University of Montreal
Assistant Professor (TT)
Evolution, Fitness and the Struggle for Persistence

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

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
Assistant Professor (TT)
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
Assistant Professor (TT)
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



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