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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| 2022 | Carmen De Schryver | Decolonizing Phenomenology: Dialogical Universality in Césaire, Fanon and Hountondji | Trinity College |
| 2022 | Marzouq Alnusf | Global Racial Capitalism: How Race Matters to Global Justice | Kuwait University |
| 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 | 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 (*+) |
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2015 |
Rebecca Mason |
Social Ontology Naturalized |
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| 2015 | Seth Mayer | Democratic Ethos: A Theory of Informal Politics |
Auburn University (*+) |
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2014 |
Tyler Zimmer |
Relational Egalitarianism |
University of Chicago (TTE) |
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2014 |
Eric Jonas |
Derrida's Theory of Alterity and Critical Animal Studies |
Digital Production Specialist at Integrated Direct Marketing |
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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) |
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2013 |
Emilie Prattico |
Is Democracy Epistemic or Egalitarian? A Habermasian Perspective |
Business for Social Responsibility (Partnership Development & Research, FRANCE) |
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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) |
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2012 |
Ryan Doran |
Definiteness, Specificity, and the Multiple Uses of Demonstrative Expressions |
University of Regina (TT) |
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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 (*) |
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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) |
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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 |
Rational Agency, Virtue, and Respect for Persons |
University of Kansas (TT) U of Miami (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 |
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2008 |
Tushar Irani |
Plato's Grounds for Philosophy: The Virtues of Dialectic in the Later Dialogues |
Wesleyan U (TT) |
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2007 |
Eli Diamond |
Divine Thinking as the Paradigm of Life in Aristotle's De Anima |
Dalhousie University (TT) |
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2007 |
Ben Rutter |
Hegel on the Modern Arts |
St. Ann's School (NY) (*+) |
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2007 |
Melissa Yates |
Religion in the Public Sphere: Reflections on Rawls and Habermas |
Rutgers-Camden (TT) |
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2006 |
Joseph Cannon |
Feeling and Judgment in Kant: Aesthetic Judgment, Practical Judgment and the Creation of Beauty in Art |
PPC Strategist at Ox Optimal |
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2006 |
Vincent Chiao |
Self-Knowledge between Decision and Discovery |
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2006 |
Jeffrey Flynn |
Human Rights and Global Diversity: Rawls, Taylor, Habermas |
Fordham University (TT) Middlebury College (*+) |
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2006 |
Samir Haddad |
Derrida, Arendt, and the Inheritance of Democracy |
Fordham University (TT) |
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2006 |
Todd Hedrick |
Reconstituting Political Philosophy: Rawls and Habermas in Dialogue |
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2006 |
Jason Leddington |
Perceptual Acquaintance |
Bucknell University (TT) Centre College (*+) |
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2006 |
Sebastian Rand |
From A Priori Grounding to Conceptual Transformation: The Philosophy of Nature in German Idealism |
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2006 |
Steve Skultety |
The Role of Conflict in Aristotle's Political Philosophy |
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2005 |
Joshua Andresen |
Nietzsche's Project of Creating New Values in Beyond Good and Evil |
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2005 |
Alexandra Bradner |
On the Pragmatics of Explanation from VanFraasen to Achinstein |
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2005 |
Daniel Brandes |
Where Everything is Possible: Hannah Arendt on Freedom and the Question of Evil | |
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2005 |
Matthew Steilen |
On Color: The Metaphysical Conception of the World |
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2004 |
David Gray |
Philosophical Dimensions of Criminal Trials in Transitions to Democracy |
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2002 |
Evelyn Brister |
Scientific Objectivity and Scientific Objectives |
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2001 |
Robert Colter |
Plato's Theory of Knowledge inTheatetus and Republic |
Centre College (TT) |
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2001 |
Richard Foley |
The Principle of Sufficient Reason and the Problem of the External World in Hume's Treatise and Kant'sCritique of Pure Reason |
Eastern Illinois University (TT) |
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2001 |
Michelle Little |
David Hull's Generalized natural Selection as an Explanation for Scientific Change |
California State University (*) |
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2001 |
Ronald Loeffler |
Meaning as Use: A Critique and Reconstruction of Robert Brandom's Practice-Based Account of Semantic Norms |
Grand Valley State (TT) |
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2001 |
Eric Sparks |
Intentionality in the Works of Martin Heidegger and Wilfrid Sellars |
Law School |
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2000 |
David Bullwinkle |
Epistemology and Unity of Science in Carnap's Aufbau |
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2000 |
John Fennell |
Naturalism and Normativity |
Grinnell College (TT) |
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2000 |
Emmett L. Bradbury III |
Utilitarianism and the Psychology of Personal Identity: A Critique of Bernard Williams |
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1999 |
Edgar Boedeker |
The Concept of Showing in the Early Writings of Heidegger and Wittgenstein |
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1999 |
Bruce Gordon |
Quantum Statistical Mechanics and the Ghosts of Modality |
Houston Baptist University (TT) Baylor University (TT) |
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1999 |
J. Robert Loftis |
Normativity and Mathematics: A Wittgensteinian Approach to the Study of Number |
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1999 |
Lenny Moss |
What Genes Can't Do: Prolegomena to a Post-Modern Synthesis Philosophy |
University of Exeter (UK) (TTE) University of Sussex (UK) (TTE) |
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1999 |
Jonah Murdock |
On John Rawls and Public Reason |
Medical School |
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1999 |
John Victor Peterson |
A Discourse Theory of Moral Judgment |
Law School |
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1999 |
Melissa Zinkin |
Kant's Concept of Force |
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1999 |
Christopher Zurn |
Competence and Contest: Conceptions of the Self in the Critical Theories of Jürgen Habermas and Charles Taylor |
University of Massachusetts Boston (TT) University of Kentucky |
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1998 |
Jerrell Cayford |
The Radical Readings of Wittgenstein: Wisdom, Cavell, Kripke, and Bloor as a School of Wittgenstein Readers |
Private Sector Professional |
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1998 |
Willaim Dudley |
Freedom Beyond the Will: A Critical Study of Hegel and Nietzsche |
Williams College (TT) |
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1998 |
José Medina |
Wittgenstein in Transition: Meaning, Rules, and Practices |
Vanderbilt University (TT) |
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1998 |
Steven Weinstein |
Conceptual and Foundations Issues in the Quantization of Gravity |
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1997 |
John M. Capps |
Context and Inquiry: Justification in Naturalized Epistemology |
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1997 |
Darrell Moore |
Epidermal Capital: Formation of (Black) Subjectivity in Political Philosophy and Culture |
DePaul University (TT) |
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1996 |
Amy Allen |
Toward a Feminist Theory of Power |
Dartmouth College (TT) |
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1996 |
Joel Anderson |
Toward a Social Conception of Personal Autonomy: Identity, Intelligibility, and Intersubjectivity |
Utrecht University (NL) (TTE) |
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1996 |
Jonathan Maskit |
Aesthetic World Disclosure in Kant and Heidegger |
Denison University (*+) |
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1996 |
Kevin Olson |
The Critical Theory of the Welfare State |
UC Irvine (TT) |
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1995 |
Barbara Fultner |
Radical Interpretation of Communicative Action: Holism in Davidson and Habermas |
Denison University (TT) |
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1995 |
Morality and Social Action |
University of Toronto (TT) |
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1995 |
David P. McCabe |
The Virtues of State Neutrality: A Defense of Liberal Politics |
Colgate University (TT) |
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1995 |
Kirk Pillow |
Reflective Judgment and Aesthetic Imagination in Kant and Hegel |
Provost of the Pratt Institute Pratt Institute (TT) |
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1994 |
Grace A. Clement |
Toward a Feminist Ethic of Care: Reconciling Care, Autonomy, and Justice |
Salisbury University (TT) |
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1994 |
Todd Alan Grantham |
Species Selection and Macroevolution: Toward a Non-Reductionist Theory of Evolution |
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1994 |
Ralph Ernest Shain |
Time and Underdetermination |
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1993 |
Pablo De Greiff |
Temporal Aspects of the Representation of the Moral Point of View |
Currently the Director of Research Program at ICTJ SUNY Buffalo (TT) |
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1993 |
Lee Mark Horvitz |
Substance Metaphysics and Theories of the Moral Agent: Heidegger and Foucault on Ethics |
Miami U. |
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1993 |
Catherine A. Ludlum Foos |
Plato's Account of Friendship |
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1992 |
Richard Neal Manning |
The Resurrection of Coherence: A Critical Analysis of Contemporary Coherentist Epistemology |
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1992 |
Andrew Peter Norman |
Justification and Context: The Rational Rejection of Demands for Evidence |
Currently out of academia Hamilton College (TT) |
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1991 |
Ciaran Cronin |
Power and Modernity |
Currently works in the Translation Programme of the Goethe-Institut |
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1991 |
William Rehg |
Insight and Solidarity: A Study in the Discourse Ethics of Jürgen Habermas |
St. Louis University (TT) |