Department of Philosophy

Placement History

Our department assigns a faculty member as Placement Officer and devotes a significant portion of staff resources to help graduates find employment. The placement officer carefully reviews every element of a candidate’s dossier; the faculty participate in mock interviews for all job seekers, each of whom is also given the opportunity to present a practice job talk to the department. In a job market that has long been challenging, the department is proud of its placement record and committed to enhancing the professional qualifications of its graduate students.

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2024-2025

  • Michael Bruckner
    • Placement: NYU Shanghai (2-yr postdoc)
    • Dissertation: “Minds Evaluating Minds”
    • Advisor: Russ Shafer-Landau
  • Lukas Myers
    • Placement: Auburn University (4-yr postdoc)
    • Dissertation: “The Role and Rules of Ridicule”
    • Advisor: Harry Brighouse
  • Elizabeth Bell
    • Placement: Gonzaga University (Permanent Teaching Faculty)
    • Dissertation: “A Foundation for a Logic of Images”
    • Advisor: Michael Titelbaum

2023-2024

  • Alex Pho
    • Placement: Hamilton College (2-yr postdoc)
      • Subsequent position: University of the Fraser Valley (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Essays in Asian American Social and Political Philosophy”
    • Advisor: Russ Shafer-Landau
  • Hunter Gentry
    • Placement: Kansas State University (3-yr Visiting Assistant Professor)
      • Subsequent position: University of Central Florida (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Essays on the Language-Cognition-Perception Interface”
    • Advisor: Hayley Clatterbuck
  • Jonathon VandenHombergh
    • Placement: “The One is the Type of the Many”
    • Dissertation: National Institutes of Health (2-yr postdoc)
    • Advisor: Farid Masrour
  • Stephanie Hoffman
    • Placement: Kansas State University (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “How is Sex Used in Research: An Epistemic and Ethical Evaluation ”
    • Advisor: Elliott Sober
  • Katherine Deaven
    • Placement: UNC-Chapel Hill (Teaching Assistant Professor)
    • Dissertation: “Understanding Evolvability”
    • Advisor: Elliott Sober

2022-2023

  • Marcos Picchio
    • Placement: National Institutes of Health (2-yr postdoc)
      • Subsequent position: Oakland University (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “RCTs in Development Economics: An Ethical Audit”
    • Advisors: Daniel Hausman and Harry Brighouse
  • Michael Schon
    • Placement: Texas Tech (2-yr Visiting Assistant Professor)
    • Dissertation: “Neutral Monism Beyond Russell”
    • Advisor: Alan Sidelle
  • Emma Prendergast
    • Placement: Utah Tech University (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “The Moral Authority of Citizens”
    • Advisor: Harry Brighouse
  • Camilla Hernandez-Flowerman
    • Placement: Harvard University (3-yr postdoc)
      • Subsequent position: Bentley University (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Weakness of Political Will”
    • Advisor: Harry Brighouse
  • Stewart Eskew
    • Placement: UW-LaCrosse (Permanent Teaching Faculty)
    • Dissertation: “A Modest Defense of Moral Perceptualism”
    • Advisor: Russ Shafer-Landau
  • Greg Nirshberg
    • Placement: Iona University (Permanent Teaching Faculty)
    • Dissertation: “Content, Embodiment and Structure: Essays on Representational Naturalism”
    • Advisor: Lawrence Shapiro

2021-2022

  • Lindsay Schwartz
    • Placement: Denison University (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Reclamation: A Liberal Theory of Criminal Justice”
    • Advisor: Harry Brighouse
  • Aaron Yarmel
    • Placement: The Ohio State University Ethics Center (Associate Director)
    • Dissertation: “Essays in Rules for Activism”
    • Advisor: Harry Brighouse
  • Stephanie Sheintul
    • Placement: Boston University (Visiting Assistant Professor)
      • Subsequent position: University of Adelaide (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Paternalistic Distrust, Doxastic Disrespect, and Agential Injustice”
    • Advisor: Harry Brighouse

2020-2021

  • Megan Fritts
    • Placement: The College of St. Scholastica (tenure-track)
      • Subsequent position: University of Arkansas (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Actions and Causes: A Methodological Inquiry into the Explanation of Action”
    • Advisor: Daniel Hausman and Sarah Paul
  • Josh Mund
    • Placement: Tulane University (Visiting Assistant Professor)
      • Subsequent position: Truman State University (3-yr Visiting Assistant Professor)
    • Dissertation: “Essays on Human Obligations to Animals”
    • Advisor: Robert Streiffer

2019-2020

  • Hadley Cooney
    • Placement: Central Michigan University (tenure-track)
      • Subsequent position: Fairfield University (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “A Model of Human Nature We May Look To: Spinoza on the Free Man”
    • Advisor: Steven Nadler
  • Augusta Moore
    • Placement: Did not seek academic employment
    • Dissertation:“A New Way of Identifying and Teaching the Deliberative Virtues: the Intersection of Justice, Deliberation, and Civic Virtues”
    • Advisor: Harry Brighouse
  • Adam Pham
    • Placement: California Institute of Technology (2 year post-doc)
    • Dissertation: “Essays on The Moral Limits of Markets and Politics”
    • Advisor: Daniel Hausman

2018-2019

  • Lindsay Lin
    • Placement: Did not seek academic employment
    • Dissertation: “New Perspectives on the Moral Significance of Coercion, Manipulation, and Bodily Violence”
    • Advisor: Robert Streiffer
  • David O’Brien
    • Placement: Tulane University (tenure-track)
      • Subsequent position: UW-Madison School of Education (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “The Badness of Inequality: A Defense”
    • Advisors: Daniel Hausman and Harry Brighouse
  • Shanna Slank
    • Placement: Kansas State University (tenure-track)
      • Subsequent position: Kenan Institute of Ethics, Duke University (Research Fellow)
    • Dissertation: “Essays on Ignorance and Living Well”
    • Advisor: Russ Shafer-Landau and Harry Brighouse

2017-2018

  • Tim Aylsworth
    • Placement: Florida International University (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Cracks in the Keystone: Kant on the Incomprehensibility of Freedom”
    • Advisor: James Messina
  • Frank Cabrera
    • Placement: Kansas State University (Visiting Assistant Professor)
      • Milwaukee School of Engineering (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Inference to the Best Explanation, Bayesianism, and the Context of Pursuit”
    • Advisor: Elliott Sober
  • Clinton Castro
    • Placement: Florida International University (tenure-track)
      • Subsequent position: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Information School (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “The Sources of Epistemic Normativity”
    • Advisor: Michael Titelbaum
  • Casey Hart
    • Placement: Did not obtain academic employment
    • Dissertation: “Attitude Aggregation for Democratically Structured Groups”
    • Advisor: Michael Titelbaum
  • David Moon
    • Placement: Did not seek academic employment
    • Dissertation: “Value Incommensurability and Practical Reason”
    • Advisor: Russ Shafer-Landau
  • Blake Myers
    • Placement: Did not seek academic employment
    • Dissertation: “Knowledge and Understanding”
    • Advisor: Peter Vranas
  • Benjamin Schwan
    • Placement: National Institutes of Health (2 year post-doc)
      • Subsequent position: Clinical Ethicist, Case Western Reserve (permanent, non-tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “The Reach of Action and the Boundary of Ought”
    • Advisors: Sarah Paul and Russ Shafer-Landau
  • Derrick Murphy 
    • Placement: Did not seek academic employment
    • Dissertation: “Putting the Pieces Together: The Elements and Principles of Composite Objects”
    • Advisor: Alan Sidelle

2016-2017

  • Lydia DuBois
    • Placement: Simon Fraser University (sessional faculty)
    • Dissertation: “Medical Practice: Its Objects and Ends”
    • Advisor: Daniel Hausman
  • Alex Hyun
    • Placement: Minerva Schools, Keck Graduate Institute (3-yr renewable position)
    • Dissertation: “Essays on Moral Realism”
    • Advisor: Russ Shafer-Landau
  • Emi Okaysu
    • Placement: Did not seek academic employment
    • Dissertation: “Modelling Inferences in Historical Linguistics”
    • Advisor: Elliott Sober
  • Olav Vassend
    • Placement: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Foundations of Bayesian Instrumentalism”
    • Advisor: Malcolm Forster

2015-2016

  • Brian McLoone
    • Placement: Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (1 year postdoc)
      • Subsequent position: Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department, National Research University, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia (tenure-track)
      • Subsequent position: Auburn University (Teaching Faculty, indefinite appointment)
    • Dissertation: “The Causal Scope of Natural Selection”
    • Advisor: Elliott Sober
  • Reuben Stern
    • Placement: Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (postdoc)
      • Subsequent position: Kansas State University (tenure-track)
      • Subsequent position: Duke University (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Counterfactual Reasoning and Practical Reasoning in Causal Graphs”
    • Advisor: Daniel Hausman

2014-2015

  • Hayley Clatterbuck
    • Placement: University of Rochester (tenure-track)
      •  Subsequent position: UW-Madison, Assistant Professor (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Are Humans the Only Theorizers?: A Philosophical Examination of the Theory-Theory of Human Uniqueness”
    • Advisor: Elliott Sober
  • Tim Hansel
    • Placement: Edgewood College (lecturer)
    • Dissertation: “Nonideal Theory and Partisanship”
    • Advisor: Harry Brighouse
  • Jeff Pretti
    • Placement: Did not seek academic employment
    • Dissertation: “Intuitions, Substitutions & a Causal Account of Reference within Simple Sentences”
    • Advisor: Alan Sidelle
  • Naftali Weinberger
    • Placement: Tilburg University (3 year postdoc)
      •  Subsequent position: University of Pittsburgh (1 year postdoc)
      • Subsequent position: Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (2 year postdoc)
    • Dissertation: “Causal Inference Across Populations”
    • Advisor: Daniel Hausman

2013-2014

  • Daniel Crow
    • Placement: UW-Madison (Visiting Asst. Prof)
      • Subsequent position: Left academia to become a therapist
    • Dissertation: “Knowing the Non-Natural: Why Morality is as it Appears”
    • Advisor: Russ Shafer-Landau
  • Justin Horn
    • Placement: Oklahoma State (tenure-track)
      • Subsequent position: Virginia Tech (Collegiate Assistant Professor)
    • Dissertation: “Three Challenges to Moral Realism: Evolution, Disagreement, and Moral Semantics”
    • Advisor: Russ Shafer-Landau
  • Holly Kantin
    • Placement: National Institutes of Health (2 year postdoc)
      • Subsequent position: University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Objects, Identity, and Modality: In Defense of Ontological Nihilism”
    • Advisor: Alan Sidelle
  • Jacob Krch
    • Placement: Did not seek academic employment
    • Dissertation: “Nietzsche’s Account of Human Excellence”
    • Advisor: Ivan Soll
  • Jonathan Lang
    • Placement: Did not seek academic employment
    • Dissertation: “Parity, Austerity, and the Extension of the Cognitive”
    • Advisor: Malcolm Forster
  • Michael Roche
    • Placement: Mississippi State (Visiting Asst. Prof)
      • Subsequent position: Idaho State University (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Self-Knowledge – A Defense of an Extrospective Account”
    • Advisor: Lawrence Shapiro
  • Daniel Schneider
    • Placement: Ghent University (postdoc)
      • Subsequent position: Cambridge University (3-year appointment)
      • Subsequent position: University of Haifa (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Spinoza’s Method of Certainty”
    • Advisor: Steven Nadler
  • Danielle Wylie
    • Placement: Mississippi State (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Moral Cognition and Its Implications for Ethics”
    • Advisor: Lawrence Shapiro

2012-2013

  • Jeff Behrends
    • Placement: Illinois State University (tenure-track)
      • Subsequent position: Harvard University (visiting Assistant Professor)
    • Dissertation: “A Hybrid Account of the Sources of Practical Normativity”
    • Advisor: Russ Shafer-Laundau
  • Molly Gardner
    • Placement: University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill (2 year postdoc)
      • Subsequent position: Bowling Green University (tenure-track)
      • Subsequent position: University of Florida (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Our Duties to Future Generations”
    • Advisor: Robert Streiffer
  • Michael Goldsby
    • Placement: Washington State University (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Methodology in Crisis: Modeling in the So-Called ‘Sick’ Science of Ecology”
    • Advisor: Elliott Sober
  • Casey Helgeson
    • Placement: LSE (3-year postdoc)
      • Subsequent position: HEC Paris+CNRS (1-year postdoc)
      • Subsequent position: Penn State (Assistant Research Professor)
    • Dissertation: “Diverse Evidence, Independent Evidence, and Darwin’s Arguments from Anatomy and Biogeography”
    • Advisor: Elliott Sober
  • Peter Nichols
    • Placement: University of Saint Thomas (Adjunct Instructor)
    • Dissertation: “Personal Identity, Wide Reflective Equilibrium, and the Autonomy of the Normative”
    • Advisor: Alan Sidelle
  • Regina Schouten
    • Placement: Illinois State University (tenure-track)
      • Subsequent position: Illinois State University (tenure-track)
      • Subsequent position: Harvard University (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “A Family Affair: Political Liberalism and the Gendered Division of Labor”
    • Advisor: Claudia Card
  • Bekka Williams
    • Placement: University of Arkansas (3-year Visiting Assistant Professor)
      • Subsequent position: University of Minnesota-Mankato (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Doing One’s Part: Group Obligations and the Obligations of Individuals in Groups”
    • Advisor: Harry Brighouse

2011-2012

  • Mohammed Abed
    • Placement: Cal State – Los Angeles (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Genocide as a Process of Social Group Destruction”
    • Advisor: Lester Hunt
  • Mark Anderson
    • Placement: Tarrant County College (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Moral Luck and Libertarianism”
    • Advisor: Keith Yandell
  • Joshua Filler
    • Placement: Ripon College (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Essays on Evolution and Explanation”
    • Advisor: Elliott Sober
  • Tom Frost
    • Placement: Long Beach City College (adjunct instructor)
    • Dissertation: “The Relativity of Conceivability”
    • Advisor: Keith Yandell
  • Fred Harrington
    • Placement: Edgewood College (Permanent Faculty)
    • Dissertation: “The Concept and Grounding of Human Rights”
    • Advisor: Claudia Card
  • Shahin Izadi
    • Placement: Did not seek academic employment
    • Dissertation: “For Your Own Good: Philosophical Theories of Well-Being and Children”
    • Advisor: Dan Hausman
  • David Killoren
    • Placement: Coastal Carolina University (3-year postdoc)
      • Subsequent position: Northwestern University (1-year postdoc)
      • Subsequent position: Australian Catholic University (3-yr postdoc)
      • Subsequent position: Koç University (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Moral Intuitions, Moral Perceptions, and Moral Dilemmas”
    • Advisor: Russ Shafer-Landau
  • Matthew Kopec
    • Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, UC-Boulder (3 yrs.)
      • Subsequent position: Associate Director of the Ethics Institute, Northeastern University
      • Subsequent position: Program Director, Embedded EthiCS, Harvard University
    • Dissertation: “Norms of Group Rationality: Essays in Social Epistemology”
    • Advisor: Elliott Sober
  • Mark Mitchell
    • Placement: Did not seek academic employment
    • Dissertation: “Benevolence and Justice: On the Role of Benevolence in Liberal Political Conceptions of Justice”
    • Advisor: Lester Hunt
  • Eric Stencil
    • Placement: Utah Valley University (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Cartesian Modality: Possibility and Essence in Descartes and Arnauld”
    • Advisor: Steven Nadler
  • Leigh Vicens
    • Placement: Augustana College (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Divine Determinism: A Critical Consideration”
    • Advisor: Keith Yandell
  • Matt Waldren
    • Placement: Academic publishing
    • Dissertation: “Liberalism and the Aims of Education”
    • Advisor: Harry Brighouse
  • Jason Walker
    • Placement: Research Coordinator, Institute for Humane Studies
      • Subsequent position: Adjunct Lecturer, Georgetown University
      • Subsequent position: Visiting Lecturer, China Foreign Affairs University
    • Dissertation: “The Rule of Law as an Emergent Order”
    • Advisor: Lester Hunt
  • Brynn Welch
    • Placement: Emory & Henry College (tenure-track)
      • Subsequent position: University of Alabama-Birmingham (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Why You Should Be Nice to Your Parents: A Theory of Filial Obligations”
    • Advisor: Harry Brighouse

2010-2011

  • Vivi Atkin
    • Placement: Did not seek academic employment
    • Dissertation: “Applying Kant’s Universality Test for the Morality of Actions”
    • Advisor: Claudia Card
  • John Basl
    • Placement: Bowling Green State University (tenure-track)
      • Subsequent position: Northeastern University (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “The Levels of Selection and the Functional Organization of Biotic Communities”
    • Advisor: Elliott Sober
  • Mavis Bliss
    • Placement: Loyola University Maryland (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Moral Imagination in an Ethics of Principle”
    • Advisor: Claudia Card
  • Hallie Liberto
    • Placement: University of Connecticut–Storrs (tenure-track)
      • Subsequent position: University of Maryland (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “On the Moral and Legal Alienation of Reproductive rights, Sexual rights, and Rights to Bodily Organs”
    • Advisor: Daniel Hausman
  • Emily McRae
    • Placement: University of Oklahoma (tenure-track)
      • University of New Mexico (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Love, Equanimity and the Cultivation of Moral Emotions”
    • Advisor: Claudia Card
  • Shanna Spaulding
    • Placement: Washington University, McDonnell Postdoctoral Fellowship in Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology
      • Subsequent position: Oklahoma State University (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “In Defense of Mindreading: a Philosophical Perspective on the Psychology and Neuroscience of Social Cognition”
    • Advisor: Lawrence Shapiro

2009-2010

  • Jaime Ahlberg
    • Placement: University of Florida (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Ideal and Nonideal Theory in the Realm of the Political”
    • Advisor: Harry Brighouse
  • Matthew Barker
    • Placement: Mt. Allison University (Canada) (tenure-track)
      • Subsequent position: Concordia University (Montreal)(tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “The Philosophy of Species: Conceptual, Metaphysical and Ethical Insights Concerning Biological Species”
    • Advisor: Elliott Sober
  • Donald Moskowitz
    • Placement: Did not seek academic employment
    • Dissertation: “Topics in the Philosophy of Mind”
    • Advisor: Elliott Sober
  • Gregor Mougin
    • Placement: Did not seek academic employment
    • Dissertation: “Mental Causation and Screening Off”
    • Advisor: Elliott Sober
  • Armin Shulz
    • Placement: London School of Economics (tenure-track)
      • Subsequent position: University of Kansas (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Evolutionary Theory and the Belief/Desire Model of the Mind”
    • Advisor: Elliott Sober
  • Richard Teng
    • Placement: Did not seek academic employment
    • Dissertation: “Goal-Directed Behavior”
    • Advisor: Daniel Hausman

2008-2009

  • Paul Anders
    • Placement: Edgewood College (temporary lecturer)
      • Subsequent position: Mt. Marty College (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Whewellian Science and Christian Theology: On the Possibility of Consilience”
    • Advisor: Keith Yandell
  • Paul Dunn
    • Placement: Did not seek academic employment
    • Dissertation: “Beyond Skepticism and Certainty”
    • Advisor: Alan Sidelle
  • Michael Humiston
    • Placement: State University of New York–New Paltz (Adjunct Professor)
    • Dissertation: “Contextualist Semantics Without Contextualist Epistemology”
    • Advisor: Dennis Stampe
  • W. John Koolage
    • Placement: University of British Columbia postdoc (1 year)
      • Subsequent position: Eastern Michigan University (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Realism and the Agreement of Independent Measurements”
    • Advisor: Malcolm Forster

2007-2008

  • Sara Gavrell-Ortiz
    • Placement: Associate Admin Program Specialist, UW–Madison Institutional Review Board
      • Subsequent position: University of Puerto Rico
    • Dissertation: “Birthing with Dignity”
    • Advisor: Claudia Card
  • Daniel Shriro
    • Placement: Did not seek academic employment
    • Dissertation: “Secession and the Right to Non-Intervention”
    • Advisor: Claudia Card
  • Joel Velasco
    • Placement: Stanford University postdoc (two years)
      • Subsequent position: Cornell University (one year)
      • Subsequent position: California Institute of Technology postdoc (2 years)
      • Subsequent position: Texas Tech (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Philosophy and the Tree of Life The Metaphysics and Epistemology and Phylogenetic Systematics”
    • Advisor: Elliott Sober
  • Madeleine Arseneault
    • Placement: State University of New York-New Paltz (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “On What Is Said”
    • Advisor: Dennis Stampe

2006-2007

  • Joey Baltimore
    • Placement: West Virginia University (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “The Argument from Reason and the Problem of Mental Causation”
    • Advisor: Keith Yandell
  • Deborah Mower
    • Placement: Youngstown State University (tenure-track)
      • Subsequent position: University of Mississippi (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Leveling Sex Differences in Mindreading”
    • Advisor: Lawrence Shapiro
  • Greg Novack
    • Placement: Wayne State University (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Unification and Description-Variance in the Philosophy of Science”
    • Advisor: Elliott Sober
  • Ben Sachs
    • Placement: NIH postdoc (2 years)
      • Subsequent position: Program in Environmental Studies & Center for Bioethics, New York University, Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow (3 years)
      • Subsequent position: St. Andrews (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Does Rationality Ever Require Immorality?”
    • Advisor: Russ Shafer-Landau
  • Matt Ferkany
    • Placement: Michigan State Philosophy (2 years)
      • Subsequent position: Michigan State School of Education (3 years)
      • Michigan State School of Education (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “The Nature and Importance of Self-Respect”
    • Advisor: Harry Brighouse
  • Eugene Marshall
    • Placement: Dartmouth College Visiting Lecturer (2 years)
      • Subsequent position: Wellesley College (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Akrasia in Spinoza’s Ethics”
    • Advisor: Steven Nadler
  • Josh Thurow
    • Placement: Augustana College Visiting Lecturer (2 years)
      • Subsequent position: Mount Marty College (tenure-track)
      • Subsequent position: University of Texas San Antonio (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “The A Priori: A Defense via Explanation”
    • Advisor: Keith Yandell
  • Kevin Brosnan
    • Placement: Cambridge University Postdoc (three years)
      • Subsequent position: Virginia Commonwealth University (rolling horizon)
    • Dissertation: “Evolutionary Theory and the Autonomy of Ethics”
    • Advisor: Elliott Sober
  • Pamela Knoll
    • Placement: Did not seek academic employment
    • Dissertation: “A Reading of Plato’s Lysis”
    • Advisor: Paula Gottlieb
  • James Steadman
    • Placement: Did not seek academic employment
    • Dissertation: “Moral Responsibility and Its Conditions”
    • Advisor: Dennis Stampe
  • Terence Sullivan
    • Placement: Did not seek academic employment
    • Dissertation: “Weighing the Causal Importance of Genes”
    • Advisor: Elliott Sober

2005-2006

  • Vitor Moura
    • Placement: University of Portugal (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “In Search for the Wrong Currency: A Theory of Metaphoric Experience”
    • Advisor: Noel Carroll
  • Alan Rubel
    • Placement: Law Clerk, Wisconsin Supreme Court
      • Subsequent position: NIH/Johns Hopkins Greenwall Fellowship (2 years)
      • Subsequent position: UW-Madison, School of Library Studies and Legal Studies (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “A Philosophical Account of Privacy”
    • Advisor: Claudia Card
  • Aaron Smuts
    • Placement: Temple University Visiting Assistant Professor
      • Subsequent position: Rhode Island College (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Laughing at Art: Humor, Art and Morality”
    • Advisor: Noel Carroll

2004-2005

  • John Fields
    • Placement: Edgewood College (tenure-track)
      • Subsequent position: Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Edgewood College
    • Dissertation: “Perception, Testimony, and the Argument from Religious Experience”
    • Advisor: Keith Yandell
  • Ken Hochstetter
    • Placement: College of Southern Nevada
    • Dissertation: “Modality, Reductionism, and Material Adequacy: A Rejection of Reductionism”
    • Advisor: Keith Yandell
  • Rimas Uzgiris
    • Placement: St. John’s University (long term contract)
    • Dissertation: “Desire, Meaning, and Virtue: The Socratic Account of Poetry”
    • Advisor: Terry Penner

2003-2004

  • Sara Chant
    • Placement: Florida State University (tenure-track)
      • Subsequent position: University of Missouri–Columbia (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Composite Action”
    • Advisor: Dennis Stampe
  • Laura McAlinden
    • Placement: Bridgewater State College (Massachusetts) (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Leibniz on Constant Creation and Divine Concurrence”
    • Advisor: Steven Nadler
  • Dale Murray
    • Placement: Virginia Commonwealth University (Visiting Lecturer)
      • Subsequent position: Xavier University, Louisiana (tenure-track)
      • Subsequent position: Joint appointment UW-Baraboo/Sauk County and UW-Richland (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Nozickian Libertarianism and A Positive Right to Health Care”
    • Advisor: Harry Brighouse
  • Laura Osinski
    • Placement: Madison Area Technical College (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Guaranteeing Equal Financial Opportunity for Political Participation: How Ideal Theory Informs the Debate over Campaign Finance Reform”
    • Advisor: Andrew Levine
  • Fatih Ozturk
    • Placement: Pamukkale University (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “The Indispensability of Internalism in Epistemology”
    • Advisor: Alan Sidle
  • Stephen Schmid
    • Placement: UW–Rock County (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Indeterminacy in Reductive Color Theories”
    • Advisor: Lawrence Shapiro
  • Andrea Veltman
    • Placement: York University (2 years)
      • Subsequent position: James Madison University (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Transcendence, Creativity, and Futility: Labor and Work in the Ethics of Simone de Beauvoir”
    • Advisor: Claudia Card

2002-2003

  • Mehmet Elgin
    • Placement: Mugla University (Turkey) (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Laws in the Special Sciences: A Comparative Study of Biological Generalizations”
    • Advisor: Elliott Sober
  • Zachary Ernst
    • Placement: Florida State University (tenure-track)
      • Subsequent position: University of Missouri-Columbia (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Evolutionary Game Theory and the Origins of Fairness Norms”
    • Advisor: Elliott Sober
  • Eric Wolf
    • Placement: Carleton College
    • Dissertation: “Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science”
    • Advisor: Malcolm Forster
  • Jerry Yang
    • Placement: Taipei University of Technology (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “An Essay on Self-Awareness”
    • Advisor: Dennis Stampe

2001-2002

  • Randy Blumenstein
    • Placement: Did not seek academic employment
    • Dissertation: “Zoning, Spillovers, and Harm”
    • Advisor: Dan Hausman
  • David Concepcion
    • Placement: Ball State University (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Individual Moral Responsibility and Luck”
    • Advisor: Claudia Card
  • Noel Hendrickson
    • Placement: Information Analysis Program, James Madison University (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “The Contingency of Choice: Developing and Defending a New Method and Theory in the Philosophy of Freedom and Action”
    • Advisor: Keith Yandell
  • Stan Kaufman
    • Placement: Did not seek academic employment
    • Dissertation: “Enforcement and the Existence of a Legal System: A Study in the Concept of Law”
    • Advisor: Lester Hunt
  • Joonsung Kim
    • Placement: Myongji University Korea (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Probabilistic Causality: In Defense of the Unanimity Theory”
    • Advisor: Ellery Eells
  • Sheila Lintott
    • Placement: Bucknell University (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “On the Performative Interpretation of Nature: A New Model of Nature Appreciation”
    • Advisor: Noel Carroll
  • Kate Norlock
    • Placement: St. Mary’s College of Maryland (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “A Feminist Ethics of Forgiveness”
    • Advisor: Claudia Card
  • Will Seaman
    • Placement: Did not seek academic employment
    • Dissertation: “Indeterministic Explanation: Visited, and Again, Revisited”
    • Advisor: Ellery Eells
  • Naomi Shiraishi
    • Placement: Public Health Services Specialist, UW–Madison Library
    • Dissertation: “Direct Reference Theory and Modes of Presentation”
    • Advisor: Alan Sidelle
  • Charles Starkey
    • Placement: Washington University postdoc
      • Subsequent position: Clemson University (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Emotion, Moral Perception, and Character”
    • Advisor: Lester Hunt
  • Stephen Whitton
    • Placement: Morris College
    • Dissertation: “Punishment and Character”
    • Advisor: Claudia Card

2000-2001

  • Brian Brost
    • Placement: Central Missouri State University (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Toward a Theory of Linguistic Knowledge”
    • Advisor: Alan Sidelle
  • Matthew Davidson
    • Placement: California State University–San Bernandino (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Propositions, Proper Names, and Indexicals: A Neo-Fregean Approach”
    • Advisor: Alan Sidelle
  • Tracy Edwards
    • Placement: North Carolina–Chapel Hill
    • Dissertation: “Public Policy as a Matter of Principle: An Examination into Expression that Subordinates and Silences”
    • Advisor: Claudia Card
  • Branden Fitelson
    • Placement: Acting Assistant Professor, Stanford University
      • Subsequent position: San Jose State University (tenure-track)
      • Subsequent position: UC-Berkeley (tenure-track)
      • Subsequent position: Rutgers University (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Studies in Bayesian Confirmation Theory”
    • Advisor: Malcolm Forster
  • Todd Hughes
    • Placement: Did not seek academic employment
    • Dissertation: “Qualism”
    • Advisor: Berent Enç
  • Stephan Johnson
    • Placement: College of San Francisco (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Content, Naturalism, and Normativity”
    • Advisor: Alan Sidelle
  • Sungsu Kim
    • Placement: Texas Tech (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Mental Causation: The Causal Efficacy of Content”
    • Advisor: Berent Enç
  • Ron Sandler
    • Placement: Northeastern Univ. (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Spinoza’s Ethical Theory”
    • Advisor: Steven Nadler
  • Laura Sizer
    • Placement: Hampshire College (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “A Theory of Moods and Their Place in our Science of Mind”
    • Advisor: Larry Shapiro

1999-2000

  • Noel Adams,
    • Placement: Marquette University (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Kierkeggard’s Conception of the Eternal in his Works”
    • Advisor: Keith Yandell
  • Gordon Barnes
    • Placement: University of St. Thomas (tenure track, initial position)
      • Subsequent position: SUNY at Brockport (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Modal Inquiry: An Epistemological Study”
    • Advisor: Alan Sidelle
  • Monica Cowart
    • Placement: Merrimack College (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “The Connection Between Embodied Cognition and Cognitive Complexity”
    • Advisor: Malcolm Forster
  • Jeff Jones
    • Placement: University of Massachusetts-Boston (tenure-track)
      • Subsequent position: Lewis & Clark Law School (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “History, Civic Education, and Liberal Democracy”
    • Advisor: Harry Brighouse
  • Dean Kowalski
    • Placement: UW-Waukesha (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Conditionals of Freedom as Bivalent: A Defense of Middle Knowledge”
    • Advisor: Keith Yandell
  • Chris Stephens
    • Placement: University of British Columbia (tenure-track)
    • Dissertation: “Why Be Rational? Prudence, Rational Belief, and Evolution”
    • Advisor: Elliott Sober