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.

2022-2023

wdt_ID Name Dissertation Title & Advisor Placement
10 Marcos Picchio "RCTs in Development Economics: An Ethical Audit” (Advisors: Dan Hausman and Harry Brighouse) National Institutes of Health Postdoc (2 years)
11 Michael Schon "Neutral Monism Beyond Russell" (Advisor: Alan Sidelle) Texas Tech (Visiting Assistant Professor)
12 Emma Prendergast “The Moral Authority of Citizens" (Advisor: Harry Brighouse) Utah Tech University (tenure-track)
13 Camila Hernandez Flowerman “Weakness of Political Will” (Advisor: Harry Brighouse) Harvard University (3-yr post-doc)
14 Stewart Eskew "A Modest Defense of Moral Perceptualism"
(Advisor: Russ Shafer-Landau)
UW-LaCrosse (Permanent Teaching Faculty)
15 Greg Nirshberg “Content, Embodiment and Structure: Essays on Representational Naturalism” (Advisor: Larry Shapiro) Iona University (Permanent Teaching Faculty)

2021-2022

wdt_ID Name Dissertation Title & Advisor Placement
10 Lindsey Schwartz “Reclamation: A Liberal Theory of Criminal Justice”
(Advisor: Harry Brighouse)
Denison University (tenure-track)
11 Aaron Yarmel “Essays in Rules for Activism”
(Advisor: Harry Brighouse)
The Ohio State University Ethics Center (Associate Director)
12 Stephanie Sheintul "Paternalistic Distrust, Doxastic Disrespect, and Agential Injustice"
(Advisor: Harry Brighouse)
Initial Position: Boston University (Visiting Assistant Professor)
Current position: University of Adelaide (tenure-track)
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2020-2021

wdt_ID Name Dissertation Title & Advisor Placement
10 Megan Fritts "Actions and Causes: A Methodological Inquiry into the Explanation of Action" (Co-advisors: Dan Hausman and Sarah Paul) Initial Position: The College of St. Scholastica (tenure-track)
Subsequent Position: University of Arkansas (tenure-track)
11 Josh Mund "Essays on Human Obligations to Animals" (Advisor: Rob Streiffer) Tulane University (Visiting Assistant Professor)

2019-2020

wdt_ID Name Dissertation Title & Advisor Placement
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11 Hadley Cooney “A Model of Human Nature We May Look To: Spinoza on the Free Man” (Advisor: Steve Nadler) Central Michigan State University (tenure-track)
12 Augusta Moore “A New Way of Identifying and Teaching the Deliberative Virtues: the Intersection of Justice, Deliberation, and Civic Virtues” (Advisor: Harry Brighouse) Did Not Seek Academic Employment
13 Adam Pham “Essays on The Moral Limits of Markets and Politics” (Advisor: Dan Hausman) California Institute of Technology (2 year post-doc)

2018-2019

wdt_ID Name Dissertation Title & Advisor Placement
11 Lindsay Lin "New Perspectives on the Moral Significance of Coercion, Manipulation, and Bodily Violence" (Advisor: Robert Streiffer) Did Not Seek Academic Employment
12 David O'Brien The Badness of Inequality: A Defense (Co-advisors: Harry Brighouse and Dan Hausman) Tulane University (tenure-track)
13 Shanna Slank "Essays on Ignorance and Living Well" (Co-advisors: Russ Shafer-Landau and Mike Titelbaum) Initial Position: Kansas State University (tenure-track)
Subsequent Position: Kenan Institute of Ethics, Duke University (Research Fellow)

2017-2018

wdt_ID Name Dissertation Title & Advisor Placement
11 Tim Aylsworth "Cracks in the Keystone: Kant on the Incomprehensibility of Freedom" (Advisor: James Messina) Florida International University (tenure-track)
12 Frank Cabrera Dissertation Title: "Inference to the Best Explanation, Bayesianism, and the Context of Pursuit" (Advisor: Elliott Sober) Initial Position: Kansas State University (Visiting Assistant Professor)

Subsequent Position: Milwaukee School of Engineering (tenure-track)
13 Clinton Castro "The Sources of Epistemic Normativity" (Advisor: Mike Titelbaum) Initial Position: Florida International University (tenure-track)
Current position: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Information School (tenure-track)
14 Casey Hart "Attitude Aggregation for Democratically Structured Groups" (Advisor: Mike Titelbaum) Did Not Obtain Academic Employment
15 David Moon "Value Incommensurability and Practical Reason" (Advisor: Russ Shafer-Landau) Did Not Seek Academic Employment
18 Blake Myers "Knowledge and Understanding” (Advisor: Peter Vranas) Did Not Seek Academic Employment
19 Benjamin Schwan Dissertation title: "The Reach of Action and the Boundary of Ought" (Advisors: Sarah Paul and Russ Shafer-Landau) Initial Position: National Institutes of Health (2 year post-doc)

Subsequent Position: Clinical Ethicist, Case Western Reserve (permanent, non-tenure-track)
20 Derrick Murphy "Putting the Pieces Together: The Elements and Principles of Composite Objects" (Advisor: Alan Sidelle) Did not seek academic employment

2016-2017

wdt_ID Name Dissertation Title & Advisor Placement
11 Lydia DuBois "Medical Practice: Its Objects and Ends" (Advisor: Dan Hausman) Simon Fraser University (sessional faculty)
12 Alex Hyun "Essays on Moral Realism" (Advisor: Russ Shafer-Landau) Minerva Schools, Keck Graduate Institute (3-yr renewable position)
13 Emi Okaysu "Modelling Inferences in Historical Linguistics” (Advisor: Elliott Sober) Did Not Seek Academic Employment
14 Olav Vassend "Foundations of Bayesian Instrumentalism" (Advisor: Malcolm Forster) Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (tenure-track)

2015-2016

wdt_ID Name Dissertation Title & Advisor Placement
11 Brian McLoone "The Causal Scope of Natural Selection" (Advisor: Elliott Sober) Initial Position: Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (1 year postdoc),

Subsequent Position: Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department, National Research University, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia (tenure-track)
12 Reuben Stern "Counterfactual Reasoning and Practical Reasoning in Causal Graphs" (Advisor: Dan Hausman) Initial Position: Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (postdoc)
Subsequent Position: Kansas State University (tenure-track)
Subsequent Position: Duke University (tenure-track)

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2014-2015

wdt_ID Name Dissertation Title & Advisor Placement
11 Hayley Clatterbuck "Are Humans the Only Theorizers?: A Philosophical Examination of the Theory-Theory of Human Uniqueness" (Advisor: Elliott Sober) Initial Position: University of Rochester (tenure-track)
Subsequent Position: UW-Madison, Assistant Professor (tenure-track)
12 Tim Hansel "Nonideal Theory and Partisanship" (Advisor: Harry Brighouse) Edgewood College (Lecturer)
13 Jeff Pretti "Intuitions, Substitutions & a Causal Account of Reference within Simple Sentences" (Advisor: Alan Sidelle) Did Not Seek Academic Employment
14 Naftali Weinberger "Causal Inference Across Populations" (Advisor: Dan Hausman)

Initial Position: Tilburg University (3 year postdoc)

Subsequent Position: University of Pittsburgh (1 year postdoc)

Subsequent Position: Munich (2 year postdoc)

2013-2014

wdt_ID Name Dissertation Title & Advisor Placement
11 Daniel Crow “Knowing the Non-Natural: Why Morality is as it Appears” (Advisor: Russ Shafer-Landau) Initial Position: UW-Madison (Visiting Asst. Prof)

Subsequent Position: Left academia to become a therapist
12 Justin Horn “Three Challenges to Moral Realism: Evolution, Disagreement, and Moral Semantics” (Advisor: Russ Shafer-Landau) Initial Position: Oklahoma State (tenure-track)

Subsequent Position: Virginia Tech (Collegiate Assistant Professor)
13 Holly Kantin “Objects, Identity, and Modality: In Defense of Ontological Nihilism” (Advisor: Alan Sidelle) Initial Position: National Institutes of Health (2 year postdoc)

Subsequent Position: University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa (tenure-track)
14 Jacob Krch “Nietzsche’s Account of Human Excellence (Advisor: Ivan Soll) Did Not Seek Academic Employment
15 Jonathan Lang Parity, Austerity, and the Extension of the Cognitive” (Advisor: Malcolm Forster) Did Not Seek Academic Employment
16 Michael Roche “Self-Knowledge – A Defense of an Extrospective Account” (Advisor: Larry Shapiro) Initial Position: Mississippi State (Visiting Asst. Prof)

Subsequent Position: Idaho State University (tenure-track)
17 Daniel Schneider “Spinoza’s Method of Certainty” (Advisor: Steve Nadler) Initial Position: Ghent University (postdoc)

Subsequent Position: Cambridge University (3-year appointment)

Subsequent Position: University of Haifa (tenure-track)
18 Danielle Wylie “Moral Cognition and Its Implications for Ethics” (Advisor: Larry Shapiro) Mississippi State (tenure-track)

2012-2013

wdt_ID Name Dissertation Title & Advisor Placement
11 Jeff Behrends "A Hybrid Account of the Sources of Practical Normativity" (Advisor: Russ Shafer-Landau) Initial Position: Illinois State University (tenure-track)

Subsequent Position: Harvard University (visiting Assistant Professor)
12 Molly Gardner “Our Duties to Future Generations” (Advisor: Rob Streiffer) Initial Position: University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill (2 year postdoc)

Subsequent Position: Bowling Green U (tenure-track)

Subsequent Position: University of Florida (tenure-track)
13 Michael Goldsby "Methodology in Crisis: Modeling in the So-Called 'Sick' Science of Ecology." (Advisor: Elliott Sober) Washington State University (tenure-track)
14 Casey Helgeson “Diverse Evidence, independent evidence, and Darwin's arguments from anatomy and biogeography” (Advisor: Elliott Sober)
Initial Position: LSE (3-year postdoc)

Subsequent Position: HEC Paris+CNRS (1-year postdoc)

Subsequent Position: Penn State (Assistant Research Professor)
15 Peter Nichols "Personal Identity, Wide Reflective Equilibrium, and the Autonomy of the Normative" (Advisor: Alan Sidelle) University of Saint Thomas (Adjunct Instructor)
16 Regina Schouten “A Family Affair: Political Liberalism and the Gendered Division of Labor” (Advisor: Claudia Card) Initial Position: Illinois State University (tenure-track)

Subsequent Position: Harvard University (tenure-track)
17 Bekka Williams “Doing One's Part: Group Obligations and the Obligations of Individuals in Groups”(Advisor: Harry Brighouse) Initial Position: University of Arkansas (3-year Visiting Assistant Professor)

Subsequent Position: University of Minnesota-Mankato (tenure-track)

2011-2012

wdt_ID Name Dissertation Title & Advisor Placement
11 Mohammed Abed “Genocide as a Process of Social Group Destruction” (Advisor: Lester Hunt) Cal State - Los Angeles (tenure-track)
12 Mark Anderson “Moral Luck and Libertarianism” (Advisor: Keith Yandell) Tarrant County College (tenure-track)
13 Joshua Filler “Essays on Evolution and Explanation” (Advisor: Elliott Sober) Ripon College (tenure-track)
14 Tom Frost “The Relativity of Conceivability” (Advisor: Keith Yandell) Long Beach City College (adjunct instructor)
15 Fred Harrington “The Concept and Grounding of Human Rights” (Advisor: Claudia Card) Edgewood College (Permanent Faculty); declined tenure-track offer in Texas
16 Shahin Izadi “For Your Own Good: Philosophical Theories of Well-Being and Children” (Advisor: Dan Hausman) Did Not Seek Academic Employment
17 David Killoren “Moral Intuitions, Moral Perceptions, and Moral Dilemmas” (Advisor: Russ Shafer-Landau)

Initial Position: 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)
18 Matthew Kopec “Norms of Group Rationality: Essays in Social Epistemology” (Advisor: Elliott Sober) Initial Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, UC-Boulder (3 yrs.)
Subsequent Position: Associate Director of the Ethics Institute, Northeastern University
Current Position: Program Director, Embedded EthiCS, Harvard University
19 Mark Mitchell "Benevolence and Justice: On the Role of Benevolence in Liberal Political Conceptions of Justice" (Advisor: Lester Hunt) Did Not Seek Academic Employment
20 Eric Stencil “Cartesian Modality: Possibility and Essence in Descartes and Arnauld” (Advisor: Steve Nadler) Utah Valley University (tenure-track)
21 Leigh Vicens “Divine Determinism: A Critical Consideration” (Advisor: Keith Yandell) Augustana College (tenure-track)
22 Matt Waldren "Liberalism and the Aims of Education" (Advisor: Harry Brighouse) Working in academic publishing
23 Jason Walker “The Rule of Law as an Emergent Order” (Advisor: Lester Hunt) Initial position: Research Coordinator, Institute for Humane Studies

Subsequent Position: Adjunct Lecturer, Georgetown University

Subsequent Position: Visiting Lecturer, China Foreign Affairs University
24 Brynn Welch “Why You Should Be Nice to Your Parents: A Theory of Filial Obligations” (Advisor: Harry Brighouse) Initial Position: Emory & Henry College (tenure-track)

Subsequent Position: University of Alabama-Birmingham (tenure-track)

2010-2011

wdt_ID Name Dissertation Title & Advisor Placement
11 Vivi Atkin "Applying Kant’s Universality Test for the Morality of Actions" (Advisor: Claudia Card) Did Not Seek Academic Employment
12 John Basl “The Levels of Selection and the Functional Organization of Biotic Communities” (Advisor: Elliott Sober) Initial Position: Bowling Green State University (tenure-track)

Subsequent Position: Northeastern University (tenure-track)
13 Mavis Biss “Moral Imagination in an Ethics of Principle” (Advisor: Claudia Card) Loyola University Maryland (tenure-track)
14 Hallie Liberto “On the Moral and Legal Alienation of Reproductive rights, Sexual rights, and Rights to Bodily Organs” (Advisor: Daniel Hausman) Initial Position: University of Connecticut–Storrs (tenure-track)

Subsequent Position: University of Maryland (tenure-track)
15 Emily McRae "Love, Equanimity and the Cultivation of Moral Emotions" (Advisor: Claudia Card) Initial Position: University of Oklahoma (tenure-track)

Subsequent Position: University of New Mexico (tenure-track)
16 Shannon Spaulding "In Defense of Mindreading: a Philosophical Perspective on the Psychology and Neuroscience of Social Cognition" (Advisor: Lawrence Shapiro) Initial Position: Washington University, McDonnell Postdoctoral Fellowship in Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology

Subsequent Position: Oklahoma State University (tenure-track)

2009-2010

wdt_ID Name Dissertation Title & Advisor Placement
11 Jaime Ahlberg "Ideal and Nonideal Theory in the Realm of the Political (Advisor: Harry Brighouse) University of Florida (tenure-track)
12 Matthew Barker "The Philosophy of Species: Conceptual, Metaphysical and Ethical Insights Concerning Biological Species" (Advisor: Elliott Sober) Initial Position: Mt. Allison University (Canada) (tenure-track)

Subsequent Position: Concordia University (Montreal)(tenure-track)
13 Donald Moskowitz "Topics in the Philosophy of Mind" (Advisor: Elliot Sober) Did Not Seek Academic Employment
14 Gregory Mougin "Mental Causation and Screening Off" (Advisor: Elliott Sober) Did Not Seek Academic Employment
15 Armin Schulz "Evolutionary Theory and the Belief/Desire Model of the Mind"(Advisor: Elliott Sober) Initial Position: London School of Economics (tenure-track)

Subsequent Position: University of Kansas (tenure-track)
16 Richard Teng "Goal-Directed Behavior" (Advisor: Daniel Hausman) Did Not Seek Academic Employment

2008-2009

wdt_ID Name Dissertation Title & Advisor Placement
11 Paul Anders "Whewellian Science and Christian Theology: On the Possibility of Consilience" (Advisor: Keith Yandell) Initial Position: Edgewood College (temporary lecturer)

Subsequent Position: Mt. Marty College (tenure-track)
12 Paul Dunn "Beyond Skepticism and Certainty" (Advisor: Alan Sidelle) Did Not Seek Academic Employment
13 Michael Humiston "Contextualist Semantics Without Contextualist Epistemology" (Advisor: Dennis Stampe) State University of New York–New Paltz (Adjunct Professor)
14 W. John Koolage "Realism and the Agreement of Independent Measurements" (Advisor: Malcolm Forster) Initial Position: University of British Columbia postdoc (1 year)

Subsequent Position: Eastern Michigan University (tenure-track)

2007-2008

wdt_ID Name Dissertation Title & Advisor Placement
11 Sara Gavrell-Ortiz "Birthing with Dignity" (Advisor: Claudia Card) Initial Position: Associate Admin Program Specialist, UW–Madison Institutional Review Board.

Subsequent Position: University of Puerto Rico
12 Daniel Shriro "Secession and the Right to Non-Intervention" (Advisor: Claudia Card) Did Not Seek Academic Employment
13 Joel Velasco "Philosophy and the Tree of Life The Metaphysics and Epistemology and Phylogenetic Systematics"(Advisor: Elliott Sober) Initial Position: 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)
14 Madeleine Arseneault "On What Is Said" (Advisor: Dennis Stampe) State University of New York-New Paltz (tenure-track)

2006-2007

wdt_ID Name Dissertation Title & Advisor Placement
11 Joey Baltimore The Argument from Reason and the Problem of Mental Causation (Advisor: Keith Yandell) West Virginia University (tenure-track)
12 Deborah Mower Leveling Sex Differences in Mindreading (Advisor: Larry Shapiro) Initial Position: Youngstown State University (tenure-track)

Subsequent Position: University of Mississippi (tenure-track)
13 Greg Novack Unification and Description-Variance in the Philosophy of Science (Advisor: Elliott Sober) Wayne State University (tenure-track)
14 Ben Sachs Does Rationality Ever Require Immorality? (Advisor: Russ Shafer-Landau) Initial Position: 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)
15 Matt Ferkany The Nature and Importance of Self-Respect (Advisor: Harry Brighouse) Initial Position: Michigan State Philosophy (2 years)

Subsequent Position: Michigan State School of Education (3 years)

Subsequent Position: Michigan State School of Education (tenure-track)
16 Eugene Marshall Akrasia in Spinoza’s Ethics (Advisor: Steve Nadler) Initial Position: Dartmouth College Visiting Lecturer (2 years).

Subsequent Position: Wellesley College (tenure-track)
17 Josh Thurow The A Priori: A Defense via Explanation (Advisor: Keith Yandell) Initial Position: Augustana College Visiting Lecturer (2 years).

Subsequent Position: Mount Marty College (tenure-track)

Subsequent Position: University of Texas San Antonio (tenure-track)
18 Kevin Brosnan Evolutionary Theory and the Autonomy of Ethics (Advisor: Elliot Sober) Initial Position: Cambridge University Postdoc (three years)

Subsequent Position: Virginia Commonwealth University (rolling horizon)
19 Pamela Knoll A Reading of Plato’s Lysis (Advisor: Paula Gottlieb) Did Not Seek Academic Employment
20 James Steadman Moral Responsibility and Its Conditions (Advisor: Dennis Stampe) Did Not Seek Academic Employment
21 Terence Sullivan Weighing the Causal Importance of Genes (Advisor: Elliot Sober) Did Not Seek Academic Employment

2005-2006

wdt_ID Name Dissertation Title & Advisor Placement
11 Vitor Moura In Search for the Wrong Currency: A Theory of Metaphoric Experience (Advisor: Noel Carroll) University of Portugal (tenure-track)
12 Alan Rubel A Philosophical Account of Privacy (Advisor: Claudia Card) Initial Position: Law Clerk, Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Subsequent Position: NIH/Johns Hopkins Greenwall Fellowship (2 years).

Subsequent Position: U.W.-Madison, School of Library Studies and Legal Studies (tenure-track)
13 Aaron Smuts Laughing at Art: Humor, Art and Morality (Advisor: Noel Carroll) Initial Position: Temple University Visiting Assistant Professor.

Subsequent Position: Rhode Island College (tenure-track)

2004-2005

wdt_ID Name Dissertation Title & Advisor Placement
11 John Fields Perception, Testimony, and the Argument from Religious Experience (Advisor: KeithYandell) Initial Position: Edgewood College (tenure-track)

Subsequent Position: Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Edgewood College
12 Ken Hochstetter Modality, Reductionism, and Material Adequacy: A Rejection of Reductionism (Advisor: KeithYandell) College of Southern Nevada
13 Rimas Uzgiris Desire, Meaning, and Virtue: The Socratic Account of Poetry (Advisor: Terry Penner) St. John’s University (long term contract)

2003-2004

wdt_ID Name Dissertation Title & Advisor Placement
11 Sara Chant Composite Action (Advisor: Dennis Stampe) Initial Position: Florida State University (tenure-track).

Subsequent Position: University of Missouri–Columbia (tenure-track)
12 Laura McAlinden Leibniz on Constant Creation and Divine Concurrence (Advisor: Steven Nadler) Bridgewater State College (Massachusetts) (tenure-track)
13 Dale Murray Nozickian Libertarianism and A Positive Right to Health Care (Advisor: Harry Brighouse) Initial Position: 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).
14 Laura Osinski Guaranteeing Equal Financial Opportunity for Political Participation: How Ideal Theory Informs the Debate over Campaign Finance Reform (Advisor: Andrew Levine) Madison Area Technical College (tenure-track)
15 Fatih Ozturk The Indispensability of Internalism in Epistemology (Advisor: Alan Sidelle) Pamukkale University (tenure-track)
16 Stephen Schmid Indeterminacy in Reductive Color Theories (Advisor: Lawrence Shapiro) UW–Rock County (tenure-track)
17 Andrea Veltman Transcendence, Creativity, and Futility: Labor and Work in the Ethics of Simone de Beauvoir (Advisor: Claudia Card) Initial Position: York University (2 years).

Subsequent Position: James Madison University (tenure-track)

2002-2003

wdt_ID Name Dissertation Title & Advisor Placement
6 Mehmet Elgin Laws in the Special Sciences: A Comparative Study of Biological Generalizations (Advisor: Elliott Sober) Mugla University (Turkey) (tenure-track)
7 Zachary Ernst Evolutionary Game Theory and the Origins of Fairness Norms (Advisor: Elliott Sober) Initial Position: Florida State University (tenure-track).

Subsequent Position: University of Missouri-Columbia (tenure-track)
8 Eric Wolf Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (Advisor: Malcolm Foster) Carleton College (Minnesota)
9 Jerry Yang An Essay on Self-Awareness (Advisor: Dennis Stampe) Taipei University of Technology (tenure-track)

2001-2002

wdt_ID Name Dissertation Title & Advisor Placement
1 Randy Blumenstein Zoning, Spillovers, and Harm (Advisor: Dan Hausman) Did Not Seek Academic Employment
7 David Concepcion Individual Moral Responsibility and Luck (Advisor: Claudia Card) Ball State University (tenure-track)
8 Noel Hendrickson The Contingency of Choice: Developing and Defending a New Method and Theory in the Philosophy of Freedom and Action (Advisor: Keith Yandell) Information Analysis Program, James Madison University (tenure-track)
9 Stan Kaufman Enforcement and the Existence of a Legal System: A Study in the Concept of Law (Advisor: Lester Hunt) Did Not Seek Academic Employment
10 Joonsung Kim Probabilistic Causality: In Defense of the Unanimity Theory (Advisor: Ellery Eells) Myongji University Korea (tenure-track)
11 Sheila Lintott On the Performative Interpretation of Nature: A New Model of Nature Appreciation (Advisor: Noel Carroll) Bucknell University (tenure-track)
12 Kate Norlock A Feminist Ethics of Forgiveness (Advisor: Claudia Card) St. Mary’s College of Maryland (tenure-track)
13 Will Seaman Indeterministic Explanation: Visited, and Again, Revisited (Advisor: Ellery Eells) Did Not Seek Academic Employment
14 Naomi Shiraishi Direct Reference Theory and Modes of Presentation (Advisor: Alan Sidelle) Public Health Services Specialist, UW–Madison Library
15 Charles Starkey Emotion, Moral Perception, and Character (Advisor: Lester Hunt) Initial Position: Washington University postdoc.

Subsequent Position: Clemson University (tenure-track)
16 Stephen Whitton Punishment and Character (Advisor: Claudia Card) Morris College

2000-2001

wdt_ID Name Dissertation Title & Advisor Placement
1 Brian Brost Toward a Theory of Linguistic Knowledge (Advisor: Alan Sidelle) Central Missouri State University (tenure-track)
3 Matthew Davidson Propositions, Proper Names, and Indexicals: A Neo-Fregean Approach (Advisor: Alan Sidelle) California State University–San Bernandino (tenure-track)
7 Tracy Edwards Public Policy as a Matter of Principle: An Examination into Expression that Subordinates and Silences (Advisor: Claudia Card) North Carolina–Chapel Hill
8 Branden Fitelson Studies in Bayesian Confirmation Theory (Advisor: Malcolm Forster) Initial Position: 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)
9 Todd Hughes Qualism (Advisor: Berent Enc) Did Not Seek Academic Employment
10 Stephan Johnson Content, Naturalism, and Normativity (Advisor: Alan Sidelle) College of San Francisco (tenure-track)
11 Sungsu Kim Mental Causation: The Causal Efficacy of Content (Advisor: Berent Enc) Texas Tech (tenure-track)
12 Ron Sandler Spinoza’s Ethical Theory (Advisor: Steven Nadler) Northeastern Univ. (tenure-track)
13 Laura Sizer A Theory of Moods and Their Place in our Science of Mind (Advisor: Larry Shapiro) Hampshire College (tenure-track)

1999-2000

wdt_ID First Name Last Name Dissertation Title & Advisor Placement
1 Noel Adams Kierkeggard’s Conception of the Eternal in his Works (Advisor: KeithYandell) Marquette University (tenure-track)
2 Gordon Barnes Modal Inquiry: An Epistemological Study (Advisor: Alan Sidelle) Initial Position: University of St. Thomas (tenure-track).

Subsequent Position: SUNY at Brockport (tenure-track)
3 Monica Cowart The Connection Between Embodied Cognition and Cognitive Complexity (Advisor: Malcolm Forster) Merrimack College (tenure-track)
4 Jeff Jones History, Civic Education, and Liberal Democracy (Advisor: Harry Brighouse) Initial Position: University of Massachusetts-Boston (tenure-track).

Subsequent Position: Lewis & Clark Law School (tenure-track)
5 Dean Kowalski Conditionals of Freedom as Bivalent: A Defense of Middle Knowledge (Advisor: Keith Yandell) UW–Waukesha (tenure-track)
6 Chris Stephens Why Be Rational? Prudence, Rational Belief, and Evolution (Advisor: Elliott Sober) University of British Columbia (tenure-track)