Graduate Placement Record
The Department makes the strongest possible effort to assist its doctoral students in finding suitable employment upon completion of their programs. The
broad philosophical background and teaching experience our students acquire prepare them to teach in a wide variety of courses and make them attractive
candidates in a tight job market.
| Name | Dissertation Title | Advisor | Initial Placement | Current Position |
| 2008 | ||||
| Ichikawa, Jonathan | Ernest Sosa | Univ of St. Andrews (Post Doc) | ||
| Parvin, Doug | Brian McLaughlin | Augustana College (TT) | ||
| Turner, Jason | Ontology, Quantification, and Fundamentality | Ted Sider | Univ of Leeds (TT) | |
| 2007 | ||||
| Allori, Valia | Northern Illinois Univ (TT) | |||
| Corabi, Joseph | Evolutionary Arguments and the Mind-Body Problem | Brian McLaughlin | St. Joseph's Univ (TT) | |
| Cumming, Samuel | Proper Nouns | Ernest Lepore & Jason Stanley | UCLA (TT) | |
| Eddon, Maya | Univ of Mass - Amherst (2 yr Post Doc) | |||
| Glick, Jeffrey | The Importance of Knowledge Per Se | Peter Klein | Univ of Rochester (1 yr Post Doc) | |
| Greaves, Hillary | Merton College, Oxford Univ (Junior Research Fellow) | |||
| Kelly, Daniel | Univ of Sydney (2 yr Post Doc) Purdue Univ (TT) |
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| Mag Uidhir, Christopher | Cornell Univ (2 yr Post Doc) | |||
| Whitcomb, Dennis | An Epistemic Value Theory | Alvin Goldman | Western Washington Univ (TT) | |
| 2006 | ||||
| Bartlett, Gary | Brian McLaughlin | Haverford College (Visiting Asst Prof) | Central Washington Univ (TT) | |
| Edwards, Kevin | Referentialism Without Compromise | Jerry Fodor | Univ of Kansas (TT) | |
| Meacham, Christopher | Chance and the Dynamics of De Se Beliefs | Frank Arntzenius | Bersoff Fellow - NYU (Post Doc) | Univ of Mass - Amherst (TT) |
| Molynuex, Bernard | Aspects of Consciousness Explained | Alvin Goldman | UC Davis (TT) | |
| Pinillos, Angel | On Referring to the Same Thing | Stephen Neale | Arizona State Univ. (TT) | |
| Ross, Jacob | Rational Acceptance | Larry Temkin | Univ. of Southern California (TT) | |
| Sennet, Adam | Arguments and Adjuncts | Ernest Lepore & Jason Stanley | UC Davis (TT) | |
| Swenson, Adam | Pain and the Nature of Value | Larry Temkin | Cal State Northridge (TT) | |
| Weisberg, Jonathan | Credence and Credibility: Taking the Common Sense Approach to Probabilistic Epistomology | Barry Loewer | Univ of Toronto (TT) | |
| 2005 | ||||
| Batori, Zsolt | Fiction, Imagination, and Cognition | Peter Kivy & Stephen Stich | Univ of Art & Design, Budapest, Hungary (TT) | Univ of Art & Design, Budapest, Hungary (TT) |
| Keane, Brian | Brian McLaughlin | pursuing a 2nd Ph.D. at UCLA in Psychology | pursuing a 2nd Ph.D. at UCLA in Psychology | |
| Manley, David | Essays on Meaning and the A Priori | John Hawthorne | Univ of Southern California (TT) | |
| Sripada, Chandra | Conceptual Foundations for the Psychology and Evolution of Morality | Stephen Stich | Univ of Michigan (TT) | |
| Wasserman, Ryan | The Problem of Change | Ted Sider | Western Washington Univ (TT) | |
| 2004 | ||||
| North, Jill | Time and Probability in an Asymmetric Universe | Barry Loewer | NYU (Post Doc-2004) Yale Univ (TT-2005) |
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| Phillips, Matthew | Intentional States and Intentional State Ascriptions: An Integrated Linguistic/Psychological Account | Robert Matthew | CUNY City College Biology (Post Doc) | |
| 2003 | ||||
| Buechner, Jeff | A Critical Examination of Hilary Putnam's Refutation of Computational Functionalism | Frances Egan | Rutgers Univ Newark (1 yr Lectureship | Rutgers Univ Newark (Lecturer) |
| Driscoll, Catherine | Darwinizing Human Nature: Methodological Issues in Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology | Stephen Stich | Dartmouth (1 yr Lecturer) | North Carolina State (TT) |
| Duncan, Stewart | Hobbes: Metaphysics and Method | Martha Bolton | Univ of Nebraska (1 yr Lecturer) | Univ of Florida, Gainsville (TT) |
| Schneider, Susan | Meaning and the Computational Mind: the Role of Intentional and Computational States in a Scientific Psychology | Jerry Fodor | Moravian College (TT) | Univ of Pennsylvania (TT) |
| Valdman, Mikhail | Autonomous Preferences, Autonomous Persons | Larry Temkin | Rutgers Business School (1 yr Post Doc) | Virginia Commonwealth (TT) |
| Wager, Adam | Perceptual Awareness and Perceptual Knowlege | Brian McLaughlin | Univ of Vermont (TT) | |
| 2002 | ||||
| Cross, Troy | Fundamental Properties | Brian McLaughlin | Yale Univ (TT) | |
| De Rosa, Raffaella | Innate Ideas and Intentionality: Descartes vs Locke | Martha Bolton | Univ of South Caroline (TT) | Rutgers Univ (TT) |
| Moriarty, Jeffrey | Just Deserts: The Significance of Desert to Distributive Justice | Howard McGary | Cal State, Long Beach (TT) | Bowling Green (TT) |
| Sarnecki, John | A Theory of Concepts and Concept Acquisition | Brian Loar | Univ of Toledo (TT) | |
| Ward, Barry | A Projectivist Theory of Natural Laws and Objective Chances | Tim Maudlin | Univ of Arkansas (TT) | |
| 2001 | ||||
| Deutsch, Max | The World Knot: The Problem of Consciousness and Revamped Materialism | Colin McGinn | Hong Kong Univ (TT) | |
| Ellis, Stephen | Multiple Objectives: Commensurability, Calibration, and Decision | Douglas Husak | Univ of Oklahoma (2 yr) | Univ of Oklahoma (TT) |
| Haybron, Dan | Happiness and Ethical Inquiry: An Essay in the Psychology of Well-Being | Douglas Husak | Univ of Arizona (1 yr) | St. Louis Univ (TT) |
| Johnson, Kent | Knowledge of Word-Meaning | Ernest Lepore | UC Irvine (TT) | UC Irvine |
| Knapp, Christopher | Making Metaethics Matter: Can Moral Semantics Improve Moral Inquiry? | Richard Foley & Ernest Sosa | Binghamton Univ (TT) | |
| LoLordo, Antonio | Flesh vs. Mind: A Study of the Debate Between Descartes and Gassendi | Martha Bolton | Univ of Virginia (TT) | |
| Moyer, Mark | A Semantic Approach to Material Constitution | Timothy Maudlin | Univ of Vermont (1 yr) | Univ of Vermont (TT) |
| McKeen, Catherine | The Best Things: Primary Substances in Aristotle's Ontology | Robert Bolton | SUNY Brockport (TT) | |
| Weinberg, Jonathan | Intuitions: An A Posteriori Critique of the A Priori | Peter Klein | Indiana Univ (TT) | |
| 2000 | ||||
| Beardman, Stephanie | Affective Deliberation: Toward a Humean Account of Practical Reasons | Barry Loewer | Washington Univ (2 yr) | Barnard College (Asst Prof) |
| Cohen, Jonathan | Color Properties and Color Perception: A Functionalist Account | Brian McLaughlin | Univ of British Columbia (Post Doc) | UC San Diego (Assoc Prof) |
| Galgut, Elisa | Poetic Faith and Prosaic Concerns | Peter Kivy | Univ of Capetown, S.A. (TT) | Univ of Capetown, S.A. (Lecturer) |
| Kutach, Douglass | Entropy and Counterfactual Asymmetry | Tim Maudlin | Texas Tech (1 yr) | Brown Univ |
| Mallon, Ron | Making Up Your Mind: The Social Construction of Human Kinds and its Implications | Stephen Stich | Univ of Utah (1 yr) | Univ of Utah (Assoc Prof) |
| Meskin, Aaron | Relevance and the Philosophy of Art | Peter Kivy | Texas Tech (TT) | Univ of Leeds (Lecturer) |
| Stubblefield, Anna | Anti-black Oppression and the Ethical Significance of African American Identity | Howard McGary | Temple Univ (TT) | Rutgers Univ Newark Univ (Asst Prof - TT) |
| 1999 | ||||
| Kingsbury, Justine | Content and Function: A Defense of Millikanian Teleosemantics | Frances Egan | Auckland (3 yr) | Auckland |
| Levy, Kenneth | Free Will Hunting | Colin McGinn | Columbia Law School | |
| Murphy, Dominic | Madness and Modularity: Theoretical Issues in the Foundations of Psychopathology | Stephen Stich | Washington Univ (Post Doc) | Cal Tech (Asst Prof) |
| Schaffer, Jonathan | Causation and the Probabilities of Processes: Towards an Account of the Causal Relation | Brian McLaughlin | Univ of Houston (TT) | Univ of Mass - Amherst (Asst Prof) |
| 1998 | ||||
| Balog, Katalin | Conceivability Arguments | Brian Loar | Cornell (1 yr) | Yale (Asst Prof) |
| D'Cruz, Mark | Names as Disguised Descriptions | Robert Matthews | Univ of Singapore (TT) | Univ of Singapore (Asst Prof) |
| Huemer, Michael | A Direct Realist Account of Perceptual Awareness | Peter Klein | Univ of Colorado (TT) | Univ of Colorado (Assoc Prof) |
| Paul Lodge | Leibniz's Anti-Cartesian Metaphysics of Body: A Study of the Correspondence Between Leibniz and DeVolder | Martha Bolton | Tulane Univ (TT) | Oxford Univ, Mansfield College (Lecturer) |
| Samuels, Richard | Massively Modular Minds | Stephen Stich | Univ of Penn (TT) | Ohio State (Full Prof) |
| Sutton, Jonathan | The Bounds of Reference An Enquiry Into the Contingent a Priori and Descriptive Reference | Brian Loar | Rice Univ (1 yr) | Auburn Univ (Asst Prof) |
| Yoo, Julie | Norms and Laws in a Natural World: A Compatibilist Account of Mental Causation | Robert Matthews | Georgia South (1 yr) | Lafayette College (Asst Prof) |
| 1997 | ||||
| Callender, Craig | Explaining Time's Arrow | Robert Weingard | LSE (TT) | UC-San Diego (Assoc Prof) |
| Gillett, Carl | Naturalizing Thought | Jerry Fodor | Illinois Wesleyan (TT) | Illinois Wesleyan (Assoc Prof) |
| Richman, Ken | Nature and Natural Belief in Hume's Theory of the Mind | Martha Bolton | Kalamazoo College (TT) | Mass College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences (Assoc Prof) |
| Taylor, Paul | Reconstruction in Aesthetics: On the Possibility of a Deweyan Aesthetic Theory | Peter Kivy | Univ of Washington (TT) | Univ of Washington (Asst Prof) |
| Vitola, Anna | For a Deflationary Conception of Truth | Vann McGee | Rutgers Univ (PTL) | Rutgers Univ (PTL) |
| Witmer, Gene | Demanding Physicalism | Brian McLaughlin | Univ of Florida - Gainsville (TT) | Univ of Florida - Gainsville (Assoc Prof) |
| Zhang, Yi | Cofinitary Groups and Almost Disjoint Families | Simon Thomas, Math Vann McGee, Phil. |
Rutgers Univ (Math) | Univ of Michigan Asst Prof (Visiting Asst Prof, Math) |
| 1996 | ||||
| Strevens, Michael | Bigger Than Chaos: The Probabilistic Structure of Complex Systems | Barry Loewer | Iowa State (1 yr) | NYU (Assoc Prof) |
| Milne, Andrew | The Alienation of Content: Truth, Rationality and Mind | Jerry Fodor | Cal Tech (1 yr) | Univ of South Carolina (Adj Prof) |
| 1995 | ||||
| Bertolo, Stefano | Lernability Properties of Parametric Models for Natural Language Acquisition | Robert Matthews | MIT (2 yr) | N/A (CYCORP. TX) |
| Margolis, Eric | Concepts and the Innate Mind | Jerry Fodor | Rice Univ (TT) | UW Madison |
| Read, Rupert | Practices Without Foundations? Sceptical Readings of Goodman And Wittgenstein | Barry Loewer | Manchester Metrop (2 yr) | East Anglia, UK (Lecturer) |
| Laurence, Stephen | Naturalism and Language | Stephen Stich | Manchester | Sheffield (Prof) |
| Sisko, John | A Study of Aristotle's Account of Nous in the De Anima | Robert Bolton | Temple Univ (1 yr) | College of NJ (TT) |
| Tait, Alastair | Mental Causation | Robert Matthews | Returned to Scotland | |
| Tigner, Joyce | A Social Conception of Self-Deception | Brian McLaughlin | Rutgers Univ (Adj Prof) | Raritan Comm (Asst Prof) |
| Warfield, Fritz | Priviledge Access and Externalism | Stephen Stich | U of Notre Dame (TT) | U. of Notre Dame (Assoc Prof) |
Last Update: 08-15-07