Recent Placements
All listed academic positions are tenure track (TT) or tenure track equivalent (TTE). Those marked with an asterisk (*) are non-tenure track positions; those marked with a plus (+) are renewable positions; those marked PD are post-doc positions.
For those graduates for whom their first post-PhD placement remains their current position, the position has been listed only once.
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Year |
PhD Recipient |
Title of Dissertation |
Current Employment First Placement Post-PhD |
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2024 |
Spencer Paulson | Epistemic Reasons & Cognitive Self-Monitoring | University of Glasgow (PD) |
2024 |
Nathan Lauffer | Groundwork for a Theory of Epistemic Hygiene | Metropolitan State University (*) |
2024 |
Regina Hurley | Inquiry Beyond the Answer-Seeking Conception: Redefining the Nature and Norms of Inquiry | University of Buffalo (TT) |
2024 |
Jessica Talamantez | On the Nature and Significance of Political Respect | Milwaukee School of Engineering (*) |
2023 |
Blaze Marpet | The Value of Wisdom: Philosophical Protreptic in Plato, Vātsyāyana, and Dharmottara | University of South Florida |
2022 |
Carmen De Schryver | Decolonizing Phenomenology: Dialogical Universality in Césaire, Fanon and Hountondji | Trinity College |
| 2022 | Eli
Lichtenstein |
Sovereignty, Violence, and Critique: Essays on Foucault’s Early Genealogies of Power | Lewis & Clark College (*) |
| 2022 | Marzouq Alnusf | Global Racial Capitalism: How Race Matters to Global Justice | Kuwait University |
| 2022 | Jonathan Vandenburgh |
Causal Models, Meaning, and Beliefs |
Stanford University (PD) |
| 2021 | Joshua Kissel |
Realizing Social Freedom: Exit, Democracy, and an Egalitarian Ethos |
University of Central Florida (PD)
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| 2021 | John Beverley |
Responsibility Where We Find It |
SUNY University of Buffalo(TT)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (2021-2022) |
| 2021 | Taylor Rogers | Knowing How to Feel: Mapping affective epistemologies of ignorance through numbness |
Governors State University (TT)Loyola University |
| 2021 | Mark Thomson | Emotions and the Subject's Point of View | Capilano University (TTE) |
| 2021 | Nathan Weston | Defending Pragmatic Epistemic Instrumentalism: A Pragmatic Account of Epistemic Normativity |
Data Scientist at Reynolds Consumer Products |
| 2020 | Carry Osborne | A Social Approach to Doxastic Responsibility | American University (*) |
| 2020 | Daniel Skibra | Modals and their Arguments | University of Konstanz (PD) |
| 2020 | William Cochran | Aristotle's Notion of Teaching and Its Role in His Theory of Moral Education |
Wake Forest University (PD, 2020-21) Harvard University (PD, 2021-23) |
| 2019 | Evan Dutmer | Cicero Philosophico-Politicus: Glory, Friendship, Utopia | Culver Academies |
| 2019 | Gretchen Ellefson | Communicative Context and Normativity | Southern Utah University (TT) |
| 2019 | Lauren Leydon-Hardy | Epistemic Infringement | Amherst College (TT) |
| 2019 | Nicholas Leonard | Testimony, Higher-Order Evidence, and Rational Indeterminacy | University of San Francisco (TT) |
| 2018 | Ezra Cook | Intensionality and Abstraction: A Theory of Logical Form | Data Scientist at RotaRoute |
| 2018 | Morganna Lambeth | Rethinking the Structure of Events: Heidegger on Kant and the Concept of Cause |
Purdue University (PD, 2018-2021) |
| 2017 | Carlos Pereira Di Salvo | Reconstructing the Kantian Cosmopolitan Project | University of Pennsylvania (*) |
| 2017 | Jared Peterson | A Puzzle about Desire: The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Wanting |
SUNY Oswego (*+) |
| 2017 | Raff Donelson | When We Ask What Law Is | Louisiana State University (TT) |
| 2017 | Amy Flowerree | The Practical Foundations of Epistemic Normativity |
University Of Cologne, Center for Epistemology and the Kantian Tradition (PD) (AY 2017-18) |
| 2016 | Chelsea Egbert | Feminist Critiques of Consent | Employed in the private sector |
| 2016 | David Johnson | Color, Movement, Intensity: Aesthetics and Metaphysics in the Thought of Gilles Deleuze |
Art Institute of Chicago (*) |
| 2016 | Kurt Mertel | Liberating the Self-Relation from Reification and Alienation: Towards an Appropriative Approach |
Queen's University (*+) |
| 2016 | Hung Nguyen | Birth in Beauty: Truth, Goodness and Happiness in the Platonic Dialogues | On the Market |
| 2016 | Adam Ring | The Bounds of Understanding: Ontology, Interpretation, and Critique in Heidegger's Being and Time | St. John's University in Queens (*+) |
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2015 |
Daniel Tovar |
Perception and Persuasion in Aristotle's Ethics |
Southern California Institute of Architecture (*) The Art Institute of Chicago (*+) |
|
2015 |
Rebecca Mason |
Social Ontology Naturalized |
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| 2015 | Seth Mayer | Democratic Ethos: A Theory of Informal Politics |
Auburn University (*+) |
|
2014 |
Tyler Zimmer |
Relational Egalitarianism |
University of Chicago (TTE) |
|
2014 |
Eric Jonas |
Derrida's Theory of Alterity and Critical Animal Studies |
Digital Production Specialist at Integrated Direct Marketing |
|
2014 |
Derek Green |
Intentionality, Determinacy, and Rules: Kripke's Paradox and the Normativity of Content |
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2014 |
Deborah Goldgaber |
The Materiality of the Trace: Deconstruction beyond the Linguistic Turn |
LSU (TT) |
|
2013 |
Emilie Prattico |
Is Democracy Epistemic or Egalitarian? A Habermasian Perspective |
Business for Social Responsibility (Partnership Development & Research, FRANCE) |
|
2013 |
Oksana Maksymchuk |
The Measure Doctrine in Plato’s Protagoras |
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2012 |
Max Cherem |
Habermas on Citizenship and Immigration |
Kalamazoo College (TT) |
|
2012 |
Ryan Doran |
Definiteness, Specificity, and the Multiple Uses of Demonstrative Expressions |
University of Regina (TT) |
|
2012 |
Guy Elgat |
Nietzsche's Overcoming of Schopenhauer's Pessimism |
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2012 |
Haewon Jeon |
Does Plato Think Ordinary People Can Be Virtuous? The Moral Capacity of the Producers in Plato's Republic |
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2012 |
Alison Peterman |
Spinoza's Physics |
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2012 |
Wolfhart Totschnig |
Extraordinary Moments, Extraordinary Endeavors: Arendt on New Beginnings and Principled Action |
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2011 |
Carl Ehrett |
Vagueness: Precision and Particularity |
Currently pursuing a PhD in Mathematical Sciences at Clemson University Furman University (*) |
|
2011 |
Laura Papish |
Against Constructivism in Kantian Ethical Theory |
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2011 |
Scot B Rousse |
Thrown Projection: An Interpretation and Defense of the Hermeneutic Conception of the Self in Heidegger's 'Being and Time' |
Pluralistic Networks (Researcher & Curriculum Developer) UC Berkeley (*+) |
|
2010 |
Kelby Harrison |
Ethics of Passing: A Theoretical and Practical Analysis |
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2010 |
The Black Gift: Cultural Nationalism and Cosmopolitani |
Dalhouise University (TT) |
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2010 |
Henry Southgate |
Individuation and Opposition in Hegel’s 'Doctrine of Essence':The Importance of the Kant’s 'Amphiboly' to Hegel’s Metaphysics |
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2009 |
Brad Cokelet |
Rational Agency, Virtue, and Respect for Persons |
U of Miami (TT) University of Kansas (TT) |
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2009 |
Jonathan Trejo-Mathys |
Inheritance, Sovereignty, and Promise: Political Authority and Obligation in an Age of Transformations |
Boston College (TT) |
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2009 |
Kate Padgett Walsh |
The Direction of Desire: A Hegelian Account of Reasons for Action |
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2008 |
Howard Kaplan |
Realism, Idealism, and the Commitments of Common Sense |
Litigator at Kirkland & Ellis LLP |
|
2008 |
Tushar Irani |
Plato's Grounds for Philosophy: The Virtues of Dialectic in the Later Dialogues |
Wesleyan U (TT) |
|
2007 |
Eli Diamond |
Divine Thinking as the Paradigm of Life in Aristotle's De Anima |
Dalhousie University (TT) |
|
2007 |
Ben Rutter |
Hegel on the Modern Arts |
St. Ann's School (NY) (*+) |
|
2007 |
Melissa Yates |
Religion in the Public Sphere: Reflections on Rawls and Habermas |
Rutgers-Camden (TT) |