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2007-2008

Sara Gavrell-Ortiz

Associate Admin Program Specialist
U.W.-Madison Institutional Review Board

"Birthing with Dignity"
(Advisor: Claudia Card)

Daniel Shriro

Attorney at Law, Oakland, CA

"Secession and the Right to Non-Intervention"
(Advisor: Claudia Card)

Joel Velasco

Stanford University

2 year post-doc

"Philosophy and the Tree of Life The Metaphysics and Epistemology and Phylogenetic Systematics"
(Advisor: Elliott Sober)

2006-2007

Joey Baltimore

West Virginia University

tenure track

The Argument from Reason and the Problem of Mental Causation
(Advisor: Keith Yandell) 

Deborah Mower

Youngstown State University
tenure track  

Leveling  Sex Differences in Mindreading
(Advisor: Larry Shapiro)

Greg Novack

Wayne State University

tenure track 

Unification and Description-Variance in the Philosophy of Science
(Advisor: Elliott Sober)

Ben Sachs

NIH Post-doc

Two years

Does Rationality Ever Require Immorality?
(Advisor: Russ Shafer-Landau)


Matt Ferkany

Michigan State University

Two Years

The Nature and Importance of Self-Respect
(Advisor: Harry Brighouse)

Gene Marshall

Dartmouth College

One-year

Akrasia in Spinoza's Ethics
(Advisor: Steve Nadler)

Josh Thurow

Mount Marty College

tenure track

The A Priori: A Defense via Explanation
(Advisor: Keith Yandell)


Kevin Brosnan

Cambridge University Post-doc

Three years

Evolutionary Theory and the
Autonomy of Ethics
(Advisor: Elliot Sober)

Pamela Knoll

Did not pursue academic employment

A Reading of Plato's Lysis
(Advisor: Paula Gottlieb)

James Steadman

Did not pursue academic employment

Moral Responsibility and Its Conditions
(Advisor: Dennis Stampe)

Terence Sullivan

Did not pursue academic employment

Weighing the Causal Importance of Genes
(Advisor: Elliot Sober)

2005-2006

Vitor Moura

University of Minho, Portugal
tenure track

In Search for the wrong Currency: a Theory of Metaphoric Experience
(Advisor: Noel Carroll)

Alan Rubel

Greenwall Fellowship
Johns Hopkins/Georgetown
2 years

A Philosophical Account of Privacy
(Advisor: Claudia Card)

Aaron Smuts

Temple University
One year

Laughing at Art: Humor, Art and Morality
(Advisor: Noel Carroll)

2004-2005

John Fields

Edgewood College

tenure track

Perception, Testimony, and the Argument from religious Experience
(Advisor: Keith Yandell)

Ken Hochstetter

College of Southern Nevada

Modality, Reductionism, and Material Adequacy: A Rejection of Reductionism
(Advisor: Keith Yandell)

Rimas Uzgiris

St. John's University

long term contract

Desire, Meaning, and Virtue: The Socratic Account of Poetry
(Advisor: Terry Penner)

2003-2004

Sara Chant

University of Missouri - Coulumbia

tenure track

Composite Action
(Advisor: Dennis Stampe)

Laura McAlinden

Bridgewater State College (Massachusetts)

tenure track

Leibniz on Constant Creation and Divine Concurrence
(Advisor: Steven Nadler)

Dale Murray

UW-Baraboo/UW-Richland Center

tenure track

Nozickian Libertarianism and A Positive Right to Health Care
(Advisor: Harry Brighouse)

Laura Osinski

Madison Area Technical College

tenure track

Guaranteeing Equal Financial Opportunity for Political Participation: How Ideal Theory Informs the Debate over Campaign Finance Reform
(Advisor: Andrew Levine)

Fatih Ozturk

Pamukkale University 

tenure track

The Indispensability of Internalism in Epistemology
(Advisor: Alan Sidelle)

Stephen Schmid

UW-Rock County

tenure track

Indeterminacy in Reductive Color Theories
(Advisor:
Lawrence Shapiro)

Andrea Veltman

York University (Canada)

James Madison University 
tenure track

Transcendence, Creativity, and Futility: Labor and Work in the Ethics of Simone de Beauvoir
(Advisor: Claudia Card)

 

 

2002-2003

Mehmet Elgin

Mugla University (Turkey)
tenure track

Laws in the Special Sciences: A Comparative Study of Biological Generalizations
(Advisor: Elliott Sober)

Zachary Ernst

University of Missouri - Columbia

tenure track

Evolutionary Game Theory and the Origins of Fairness Norms
(Advisor: Elliott Sober)

Eric Wolf

Carlton College (Minnesota)

Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science
(Advisor: Malcolm Foster)

Jerry Yang

National Taipei University of Technology

tenure track

An Essay on Self-Awareness
(Advisor: Dennis Stampe)

 

 

2001-2002

Randy Blumenstein

Attorney at Law

Zoning, Spillovers, and Harm
(Advisor: Dan Hausman)

David Concepcion

Ball State University

tenure track

Individual Moral Responsibility and Luck
(Advisor: Claudia Card)

Noel Hendrickson

Information Analysis Program
James Madison University
tenure track

The Contingency of Choice: Developing and Defending a New Method and Theory in the Philosophy of Freedom and Action
(Advisor: Keith Yandell)

Stan Kaufman

Attorney at Law

Enforcement and the Existence of a Legal System: A Study in the Concept of Law
(Advisor: Lester Hunt)

Joonsung Kim

Myongji University Korea

tenure track

Probabilistic Causality: In Defense of the Unanimity Theory
(Advisor: Ellery Eells)

Sheila Lintott

Bucknell University

tenure track

On the Performative Interpretation of Nature: A New Model of Nature Appreciation
(Advisor: Noel Carroll)

Kate Norlock

St. Mary's College of Maryland
tenure track

A Feminist Ethics of Forgiveness
(Advisor: Claudia Card)

Will Seaman

Indeterministic Explanation: Visited, Revisted, and Again, Revisited
(Advisor: Ellery Eells)

Naomi Shiraishi

Direct Reference Theory and Modes of Presentation
(Advisor: Alan Sidelle)

Charles Starkey

Washington University
Currently:
Clemson Univ.

tenure track

Emotion, Moral Perception, and Character
(Advisor: Lester Hunt)

Stephen Whitton

Robert Morris College

Punishment and Character
(Advisor: Claudia Card)

 

2000-2001

Brian Brost

Central Missouri State University

tenure track

Toward a Theory of Linguistic Knowledge
(Advisor: Alan Sidelle)

Matthew Davidson

California State University--San Bernandino

tenure track

Propositions, Proper Names, and Indexicals: A Neo-Fregean Approach
(Advisor: Alan Sidelle)

Tracy Edwards

University North Carolina--Chapel Hill

Public Policy as a Matter of Principle: An Examination into Expression that Subordinates and Silences
(Advisor: Claudia Card)

Branden Fitelson

UC-Berkeley

tenure track

Studies in Bayesian Confirmation Theory
(Advisor: Malcolm Forster)

Todd Hughes

Software Industry (ontologist)

Qualism
(Advisor: Berent Enc)

Stephan Johnson

City College of San Francisco
tenure track

Content, Naturalism, and Normativity
(Advisor: Alan Sidelle)

Sungsu Kim

Texas Tech

tenure track

Mental Causation: The Causal Efficacy of Content
(Advisor: Berent Enc)

Ron Sandler

Northeastern Univ.

tenure track

Spinoza's Ethical Theory
(Advisor: Steven Nadler)

Laura Sizer

Hampshire College

tenure track

A Theory of Moods and Their Place in our Science of Mind
(Advisor: Larry Shapiro)

1999-2000

Noel Adams

Marquette University

tenure track

Kierkeggard's Conception of the Eternal in his Climacean Works
(Advisor: Keith Yandell)

Gordon Barnes

SUNY at Brockport
tenured

Modal Inquiry: An Epistemological Study
(Advisor: Alan Sidelle)

Monica Cowart

Merrimack College

tenure track

The Connection Between Embodied Cognition and Cognitive Complexity
(Advisor: Malcolm Forster)

Jeff Jones

Lewis & Clark Law School

tenure track

History, Civic Education, and Liberal Democracy
(Advisor: Harry Brighouse)

Dean Kowalski

UW-Waukesha

tenure track

Conditionals of Freedom as Bivalent: A Defense of Middle Knowledge
(Advisor: Keith Yandell)

Chris Stephens

Currently: University of British Columbia

tenure track

Why Be Rational? Prudence, Rational Belief, and Evolution
(Advisor: Elliott Sober)