Placements Archive
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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| 2006 |
Joseph Cannon
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Feeling and Judgment in Kant: Aesthetic Judgment, Practical Judgment and the Creation of Beauty in Art
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PPC Strategist at Ox Optimal
U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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| 2006 | Vincent Chiao | Self-Knowledge between Decision and Discovery |
University of Toronto
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| 2006 |
Jeffrey Flynn
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Human Rights and Global Diversity: Rawls, Taylor, Habermas
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Fordham University
Middlebury College
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2006
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Samir Haddad
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Derrida, Arendt, and the Inheritance of Democracy
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2006
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Todd Hedrick
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Reconstituting Political Philosophy: Rawls and Habermas in Dialogue
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University of Richmond (*)
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2006
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Sebastian Rand
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From A Priori Grounding to Conceptual Transformation: The Philosophy of Nature in German Idealism
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2006
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Jason Leddington
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Perceptual Acquaintance
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Centre College (*+)
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2006
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Steve Skultety
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The Role of Conflict in Aristotle's Political Philosophy
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2005
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Joshua Andresen
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Nietzsche's Project of Creating New Values in Beyond Good and Evil
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2005
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Alexandra Bradner
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On the Pragmatics of Explanation from Van Fraasen to Achinstein
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2005
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Daniel Brandes
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Where Everything is Possible: Hannah Arendt on Freedom and the Question of Evil
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2005
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Matthew Steilen
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On Color: The Metaphysical Conception of the World
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2004
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David Gray
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Philosophical Dimensions of Criminal Trials in Transitions to Democracy
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U of Maryland School of Law
Duke University of Law
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2002 |
Evelyn Brister |
Scientific Objectivity and Scientific Objectives |
Rochester Institute of Technology (TT) |
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2001 |
Robert Colter |
Plato's Theory of Knowledge in Theatetus and Republic |
University of Wyoming (*) 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 |
University of Missouri (TT) 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) University of Illinois at Chicago (*) |
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2001 |
Eric Sparks |
Intentionality in the Works of Martin Heidegger and Wilfrid Sellars |
Partner at Gould and Ratner Law School |
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2000 |
David Bullwinkle |
Epistemology and Unity of Science in Carnap's Aufbau |
Kirkwood Community College (IA) (TT) |
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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 |
Chicago State University (TT) |
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1999 |
Edgar Boedeker |
The Concept of Showing in the Early Writings of Heidegger and Wittgenstein |
University of Northern Iowa (TT) |
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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 |
Lorain County Community College (TT) St. Lawrence University (*) |
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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 |
Binghamton University (TT) |
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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 |
Northwestern University Vanderbilt University (TT) |
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1998 |
Steven Weinstein |
Conceptual and Foundations Issues in the Quantization of Gravity |
University of Waterloo (TT) |
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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 |
Penn State University 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 |
Joseph M. Heath |
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 |
College of Charleston (TT) |
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1994 |
Ralph Ernest Shain |
Time and Underdetermination |
Missouri State University (TT) DePaul University (*) |
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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 |
Indiana University East (TT) |
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1992 |
Richard Neal Manning |
The Resurrection of Coherence: A Critical Analysis of Contemporary Coherentist Epistemology |
University of South Florida (TT) University of Pittsburgh (*) |
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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 Grinnell College |
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1991 |
William Rehg |
Insight and Solidarity: A Study in the Discourse Ethics of Jürgen Habermas |
St. Louis University (TT) |