Placement
Our 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.
| Alumnus | Employment | Thesis |
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2019 - Year of Graduation |
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| Bryce Gessell | Assistant Professor of Philosophy (TT), Southern Virginia University | Materia Mentis: How the Brain Sculpts the Mind |
| Max Beninger | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Salzburg | The Mental Workspace: Working Memory and Its Relation to Attention and Consciousness |
| Matthew Harris | Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA | Continents in Cognition |
| Lauren Bunch | Clinical Ethics Fellow and Instructor Bioethics at Albany Medical College | Authenticity and Enhancement |
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Paul Henne |
Assistant Professor (TT) at Lake Forest College | Omissions, Causation, and Modality |
| Sungwoo Um |
Post-doctoral Fellow (2-year) at National Institutes of Health (NIH), Clinical Center, the Department of Bioethics |
The Virtues of Intimate Relationships |
2018 - Year of Graduation |
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| Rafael Ventura | Assistant Professor (TT), Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey) |
Evolutionary Models of Language |
| Lok Chan | Post-doctoral Associate, Social Sciences Research Institute, Duke University | Deliberative Bayesianism: Abduction, Reflection, and the Weight of Evidence |
2017 - Year of Graduation |
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| Aaron Ancell |
Edmund J. Safra Post-Doctoral Fellow-in-Residence, Harvard University |
Public Unreason: Essays on Political Disagreement |
| Jing Hu |
Assistant Professor (TT), Concordia University (Montreal) |
A New Perspective on Sympathy and Its Cultivation, with Insights from the Confucian Tradition |
| Susanne Meyer | Flavors of Responsibility | |
2015 - Year of Graduation |
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| Aryn Conrad | Robins Kaplan Law firm | On the Functions of Morality |
| Nathaniel Gindele | A Naturalistic Philosophy of Play | |
| James Ong | Postdoctoral fellow, University of San Diego | Inhabiting Difference |
| Gordon Steenbergen | Assistant Professor (TT), Lycoming College | Understanding Cognition |
| Daniel Stephens | Assistant Professor of Humanities (TT), Duke Kunshan University (China) | The Sage's Psychology: Confucianism Naturalized |
2014 - Year of Graduation |
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| David Barack | Presidential Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia University | Mindcraft: A Dynamical Systems Theory of Cognition |
| Carlos Mariscal | Assistant Professor (TT), University of Nevada, Reno | Universal Biology |
| Stephen Martin | Lecturer, Tufts University; Lecturer, University of Tennessee, Knoxville | Irresistible Reasons, Immovable Minds, and the Miracle of Rational Persuasion |
2013 - Year of Graduation |
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| Robert Williams | Peircean Naturalism | |
| Nathan Morton | Ontologist, Cycorp, Austin, Texas | Articulating the Core Realist Commitment |
| John Park | Assistant Professor (TT), Sacramento State University | Theories of Concepts and Ethics |
2012 - Year of Graduation |
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| Matthew Braddock | Assistant Professor (TT), University of Tennessee at Martin | Debunking Challenges to Moral Realism |
| David Crawford | Postdoctoral fellow, University of Bristol, United Kingdom | Philosophy: Chance Begets Order: Hierachical Probabilistic Processes in the Natural Sciences; Biology: Hierarchical Transition Via Individuation, Not Integration: How the Filamentous Fungi Challenge the Standard Model |
| Leonore Fleming | Associate Professor (Tenured), Utica College | Variance, Selection and Evolutionary Explanation |
| Daniel Kraemer | Adjunct Professor, Florida International University | Making Sense of Normative Functions and Information in Neurobiological Systems |
2011 - Year of Graduation |
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| Sanem Soyarslan | Assistant Professor (TT), NC State University | Reason and Intuitive Knowledge in Spinoza's 'Ethics': Two Ways of Knowing, Two Ways of Living |
| Breanna Kerchner | Visiting Assistant Professor - two year, Lafayette College in Easton, PA | Humean Supervenience |
2009 - Year of Graduation |
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| Russell Powell | Associate Professor (Tenured), Boston University | Reading the Book of Life: Contingency and Convergence in Macroevolution |
| Andres Luco | Assistant Professor (TT), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore | Desire and the Rationality of Virtue |
2008 - Year of Graduation |
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| Hagop Sarkissian | Associate Professor (Tenured), Baruch College and the Gradate Center, CUNY | After Confucius: Psychology and Moral Power |
| Sahar Akhtar | Assistant Professor (TT), University of Virginia | Topics in Rational Choice |
| Sun Kyeong Yu | Associate Professor (Tenured), Minnesota State, Mankato | Reducing Biology |
| Elizabeth Jelinek | Assistant Professor (TT), Vanderbilt University | Platonic Teleology Through An Aristotelian Lens |
2007 - Year of Graduation |
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| Woojin Han | Associate Professor (TT), Duksung Women's University | A Construction of A Posteriori Physicalism |
| David Kaplan | James S. McDonnell Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Washington University in St. Louis | The Nature and Bases of Spatial Representation |
| Grant Ramsey | BOFZAP Research Professor, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven, Belgium | Culture from Infrahumans to Humans: An Essay in the Philosophy of Biology |
2006 - Year of Graduation |
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| Kevin DeLapp | Harold Fleming Chair of Philosophy, Converse College | Re-enchanting Morality: A Defense of Pluralistic Moral Realism |
| Nita Farahany | Professor of Law and of Philosophy, Duke University | Rediscovering Criminal Responsibility through Behavioral Genetics |
2005 - Year of Graduation |
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| Robert Conrad | Postdoctoral Fellow, Center of Medical Law and Ethics, King’s College London | Conceptual Structures of Moral Experience in Cross-Cultural Comparative Analysis |
| Caery Evangelist | Associate Professor (Tenured), University of Portland | Medieval Intelligibility: The Relationship Between Mind, World and Transcendental Truth in the Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas |
| Avram Hiller | Associate Professor (Tenured), Portland State University | Vagueness and Normativity |
| Marion Hourdequin | Associate Professor (Tenured), Colorado College | Nature and Normativity: Biology, Culture, and the Evolution of Ethical Norms |
| Stefan Linquist | Associate Professor (Tenured), University of Guelph, Canada | The Descent of Mind: An Evolutionary Account of the Higher Cognitive Emotions |
| Joel Schickel | Assistant Professor, University of Dayton | Freedom of the Will, Passion, and Virtue in Descartes’s Theory of Judgment |
| Tamler Sommers | Associate Professor (Tenured), University of Houston | Beyond Freedom and Resentment: An Error Theory of Free Will and Moral Responsibility |
| Andrew Terjesen | Attorney, Davis Polk, New York | The Role of Sympathy and Empathy in Moral Judgment, with Special Reference to Adam Smith and David Hume |
| William Wojtach | Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University | An Empirically Constrained Study of Visual Perception |
| Frédéric Bouchard | Professor of Philosophy and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Montreal, Canada | Evolution, Fitness and the Struggle for Persistence |
2003 - Year of Graduation |
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| Boris Kukso | Trial Attorney, US Department of Justice | Trouble for Truthmakers: Negation and Possibility |
| Anthony Williams | Assistant Professor (TT), College of Charleston | Moral Conflict and Incommensurability |
2002 - Year of Graduation |
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| Alan Galloway | Non-academic position | Moral Perception |
2001 - Year of Graduation |
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| Todd Davis | Non-academic position | Science and the Constitutive a priori: Ian Hacking’s Philosophy of Science |
| Michael Muth | Assistant Professor (TT), Wesleyan College | The Augustinian Background of Bonaventure’s Doctrine of Order |
| Eddy Nahmias | Professor of Philosophy, Georgia State University | Free Will and the Knowledge Condition |
| Thomas Osborne | Assistant Professor (TT), University of St. Thomas | The Natural Love of God Over Self: The Role of Self-Interest in Thirteenth-Century Ethics |
| Brook Sadler | Associate Professor (Tenured), University of South Florida | Amoralism and the Justification of Morality |
2000 - Year of Graduation |
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| Steven Geisz | Associate Professor (Tenured), University of Tampa | Speaking Wordly: An Adverbial View of Representation |
| James E. Mahon | Professor of Philosophy, CUNY | Motivational Internalism and the Authority of Morality |
| Thomas Polger | Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati | Natural Minds |
| Elizabeth Schiltz | Associate Professor (Tenured), College of Wooster | Sophrosune and Mania: The Rise and Study of Moral Psychology |
1999 - Year of Graduation |
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| Gokhan Adalier | Professor of Business Administration, Eastern Mediterranean University |
The Structure of Judgments and Knowledge in Plato’s Theaetetus |
| Carla Fehr | Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy, University of Waterloo, Canada | A Natural History of the Evolution of Sexual Reproduction: The Virtues of Explanatory Pluralism |
1998 - Year of Graduation |
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| James Allman | Non-academic position | Language, Speakers, and Metaphor |
1997 - Year of Graduation |
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| Joseph U. Neisser | Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Sam Houston State University | The Embodied Approach to Cognition: A Defense |
| Glenn Sanford | Professor, Sam Houston State University | Explaining Evolution: Genes, Culture, Environment, and Mechanisms |
1996 - Year of Graduation |
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| Gillian Brock | Professor, University of Auckland, New Zealand | |
| Donald Scott Carson | Associate Professor and Director of Studies, Honors Program in Philosophy, Ohio University | Being and Truth: Elements of Aristotle’s Philosophy of Language |
| Jack Wilson | Associate Professor (tenured), Washington and Lee University | Living Entities: Identity and Persistence |