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.
2023-2024
| wdt_ID | Name | Dissertation Title & Advisor | Placement |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | Alex Pho | "Essays in Asian American Social and Political Philosophy" (Advisor: Russ Shafer-Landau) |
Hamilton College (2-yr postdoc) |
| 12 | Hunter Gentry | "Essays on the Language-Cognition-Perception Interface" (Advisor: Hayley Clatterbuck) |
Kansas State University (3-yr Visiting Assistant Professor) |
| 13 | Jonathon VandenHombergh | "The One is the Type of the Many" (Advisor: Farid Masrour) |
National Institutes of Health (2-yr postdoc) |
| 14 | Stephanie Hoffmann | “Sex in Scientific Research: An Epistemic and Ethical Evaluation” (Advisor: Elliott Sober) |
Kansas State University (Tenure-Track) |
| 15 | Katherine Deaven | “Understanding Evolvability” (Co-Advisors: Elliott Sober and Hayley Clatterbuck) |
UNC-Chapel Hill (Teaching Assistant Professor) |
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 (2-yr postdoc) |
| 11 | Michael Schon | "Neutral Monism Beyond Russell" (Advisor: Alan Sidelle) | Texas Tech (2-yr 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 postdoc) |
| 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) |
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) Current Position: University of Arkansas (tenure-track) |
| 11 | Josh Mund | "Essays on Human Obligations to Animals" (Advisor: Rob Streiffer) | Initial Position: Tulane University (Visiting Assistant Professor) Current Position: Truman State University (3-yr Visiting Assistant Professor) |
2019-2020
| wdt_ID | Name | Dissertation Title & Advisor | Placement |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | Hadley Cooney | “A Model of Human Nature We May Look To: Spinoza on the Free Man” (Advisor: Steve Nadler!) | Initial Position: Central Michigan University (tenure-track) Current Position: Fairfield 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) | Initial Position: Tulane University (tenure-track) Current Position: UW-Madison School of Education (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) |