Graduate
Placement
Our graduates acquire a broad philosophical background and teaching experience that makes them attractive candidates and prepares them to teach a wide variety of courses. In recent years many students have been placed in leading American and foreign colleges and universities.
| Dissertation Title (Advisor) |
Initial Placement | Most Recent Position |
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2007-2008 |
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| "Contested Concepts and Competing Conceptions" (Gupta) | Illinois Wesleyan University (TT) |
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| "Form without Formalism"(McDowell) | Glendon College, University of York (TT) | |
| "Aristotle and the Problems of Concepts" (Lennox) | University of North Carolina (one-year) | |
| "The Rational Unity of the Self" (McDowell) | University of North Carolina (one-year) | |
| "The Conceptual Basis of Understanding" (McDowell) | Claremont McKenna (on-year) | |
2006-2007 |
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| "Perception in Perspective" (McDowell) | Australia National University (post-doc) | Australia National University (TT) |
| "Logic, Space, and Kantian Responses to the Ninteenth Century Revolution in Germany" (Wilson) | University of California, Irvine (TT) | |
| University of Chicago (TT) | ||
| "Locke's Perfectionist Liberalism: An Articulation and Defense" (Thompson) | Ohio University (one-year, renewed) | |
2005-2006 |
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| "Inhabiting the Epistemic Frame of Mind: Plato's Protagoras and the Socratic Denial of Akrasia" (Allen) | Continuing education in another field |
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| "Wittgensteinian Quietism" (McDowell) | University of Chicago (TT) | |
| "Cognitive Control in Mathematics" (Manders) | Northwestern |
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| "Kierkegaard's Socratic Task" (McDowell/ Conan) | University of Montana (TT) | |
| "Perception and Representation in Leibniz" (Rescher) | 3-year post-doc at Stanford | |
2004-2005 |
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| "Kant and the Significance of Self-Consciousness" (McDowell) | Harvard (TT) | |
| "Truth and Alethic Paradox" (Brandom) | Ohio State (TT) | |
| "Norms, Revisions, and Linguistic Practices: Three Essays on Theories of Conceptual Content" (Camp) | University of Connecticut (TT) | |
| 2003-2004 | ||
| "Problems in Applying Mathematics: On the Inferential and Representational Limits of Mathematics in Physics" (Clifton/Norton) | University of Kansas (TT) | University of Chicago (TT) |
| "Practical Reasons and the Conditions of Agency" (Thompson) | Harvard (TT) | |
| "Drawing from the Sources of Reason: Reflective Self-Knowledge in Kant's First Critique" (Engstrom) | Georgia State (TT) | |
| 2002-2003 | ||
| "The Lens of Character: Aristotle, Murdoch and the Idea of Moral Perception" (Engstrom) | Williams (TT) | University of Montana (TT)) |
| "Accepting Testimony" (Belnap) | University of Utah (one year) | |
2001-2002 |
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| "A defense of semantic primitivism" (Brandom) | Bowling Green State University (TT) | |
| "Self-defeat, publicity, and incoherence: three criteria for consequentialist theories" (Gauthier) | University of Kansas (TT) | |
| "Presence of mind: belief, perception, and expressivity" (McDowell) | Johns Hopkins University (TT) | |
2000-2001 |
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| "The moral grip" (Gauthier) | University of Utah (TT) | |
| "Locality, localization, and the particle concept: topics in the foundations of quantum field theory" (Clifton) | Princeton University (TT) | |
| "Minimal inflationism: A defense of the truth-conditional theory of meaning" (Brandom) | Kansas State University (TT) | |
| "Possible worlds: what they are good for and what they are" (Rescher) | Georgetown University (TT) | |
| "Justice and the 'metaphysical impulse'" (McDowell) | Attending Harvard Law School | Clerk for federal appellate court judge in California after graduating Harvard Law School. |
1999-2000 |
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| "The role of feeling in moral thought" (McDowell) | New School University (NYC) (TT) | |
| ABD (Engstrom) | Princeton University (1-year) | UCLA (visiting) |
| "What does it mean to say that logic is formal?" (Brandom) | UC Berkeley (TT) | |
| "How beliefs make a difference" (McDowell) | Duke University (TT) | |
| "The role of necessity in empirical knowledge" (McDowell) | University of Toronto (TT) | |
| "Contractarianism and coherence with moral judgments: Rawls and Scanlon on theory evaluation" (Gauthier) | Attending Yale Law School | |
| "Reasons, justifications and excuses" (McDowell) | Left philosophy | |
1998-99 |
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| "Recipes for the simple-minded: a constructive account of original intentionality" (Brandom) | University of Nevada - Las Vegas (TT) | |
| "The treasure house of the mind: Descartes' conception of innate ideas" (Engstrom) | College of Charleston (TT) | |
| "Aspects of the theory of qualitative rational belief change" (Belnap) | University of Washington (non-TT) | |
| "Mental causation: natural, but not naturalized" (Haugeland) | University of Utah (1-year) | Auburn University (TT) |
| "Public spirit and liberal democracy: John Stuart Mill's civic liberalism" (Gauthier) | University of Minnesota--Duluth (1-year) | Old Dominion University (TT) |
| "Laws of nature: meeting the empiricist challenge" (Camp/Earman) | UNC-Chapel Hill (TT) | |
1997-98 |
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| "Appropriating persons: John Locke's theory of private property" (Engstrom) | Philosophical Review | University of Toronto (TT) (starting Fall 2004) |
| "The problem of Mitleid and the morality of Mitleid: a reading of Nietzsche on morality" (Horowitz) | University of Iceland | |
| "Moral attention: toward a liberationist ethics of everyday life" (Gauthier) |
Moravian College (TT) | |
| "The instability of skepticism" (Camp) |
University of Utah (TT) | |
| "Social anatomy of action: toward a responsibility-based conception of agency" (Brandom) | University of Southern Mississippi (part-time) | |
| "The union of soul and body: Descartes' conception of a human being" (Engstrom) | College of Charleston (TT) | Hampshire College (TT) Simon Fraser University (starting Fall 2002) |
| "Marxism and the critique of moral ideology" (Gauthier) | Ohio State University (TT) | Harvard University, Dept. of Afro-American Studies (TT) |
1996-97 |
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| "Whatever is never and nowhere is not: space, time, and ontology in classical and quantum gravity" (Earman) | Princeton University (TT) | University of Pittsburgh (tenured) |
| "Ethics and the intentional" (Gauthier) |
UC Berkeley, Boalt Law School (faculty) | University of Pennsylvania Law School (faculty) |
| "Semantic norms and temporal externalism" (Brandom) | University of Toledo (TT) | York University (TT) |
| "Using and understanding" (Brandom) |
Southern Methodist University (TT) | |
| "Nonsense, logic, and skepticism" (McDowell) |
University of Illinois -- Champaign-Urbana (1-year) | Colgate University (tenured) |
1995-96 |
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| "Self, sympathy, and society in Hume's Treatise of Human Nature" (A. Baier) | University of Toronto (TT) | |
| "Toward a coherent theory of moral rights" (Camp) | Northwestern University (TT) | |
| "Making moral sense: substantive critique as an alternative to rationalism in ethics" (McDowell) | Technische Universität - Berlin | Humboldt Universtät zu Berlin |
| "Conformity, creativity and the social constitution of the subject" (Haugeland) | University of Oregon (TT) | University of South Florida (tenured) |
| "Virtue taking form: a study of Plato's 'Protagoras'" (Gill) | (Never sought placement) | |
| "On the verge of collapse: modal interpretations of quantum mechanics" (Earman) | Middlebury College (TT) | University of Pittsburgh (tenured) |
| The object of reason: an inquiry into the possibility of practical reason" (A. Baier) | Kansas State University (2-year) | University of Toronto (TT) |
| "An investigation in the logics of seeing-to-it-that" (Belnap) | Cycorp, Inc. | Indiana University (1-year) |
1994-95 |
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| "Analogical reasoning and plausibility in the sciences" (Salmon) | University of British Columbia (TT) | |
| "Speaking my mind: first-person authority and conscious mentality" (Camp) | Indiana University (TT) | University of Chicago (tenured) |
| "Principle and particularity in justice as fairness" (K. Baier) | SUNY-Albany (TT) | SUNY-Albany (tenured) |
| "John Dewey's epistemology" (Gale) | Left philosophy to pursue PhD in finance at University of Chicago | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (tenured associate professor of finance) |
| "Property rights and the political philosophy of John Locke" (Gauthier) | Kenyon College (1-year) | University of New Hampshire (tenured) |
1993-94 |
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| "Significance, emotions, and objectivity: some liimits of animal thought" (Haugeland) | Franklin & Marshall College (TT) | Franklin & Marshall College (tenured) |
| "Cosmoi: the best of all possible worlds" (Gale) | West Virginia University (1-year) | Hillsdale College (TT) |
| "The deliberative landscape: an essay in moral psychology" (Gauthier) | University of Chicago (TT) | University of Chicago (tenured) |
| "Material falsity in Descartes' Meditations" (A. Baier) | Singapore National University (TT) | |
| "Real properties, relevance logic, and identity" (Belnap) | Stanford University (3-year) | University of Toronto (tenured) |
1992-93 |
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| "Cognitive instability, unpersuadability of the knower, and the deceptiveness of the world: a study in Plato's epistemology" (McDowell) | Ohio State University (non-TT) | Practicing law |
| "Illocutions and attitudes" (Belnap) | University of Virginia (TT) | University of Virginia (tenured) |
| "Probablistic causation in scientific explanation" (W. Salmon) | Rice University (TT/tenured) | California Institute of Technology (tenured) |
| "Causation and non-reductionism" (Brandom) | Yale University (TT) | |
| "Descartes's representation of the self" (A. Baier) | Hamilton College (2-year) | University of New Mexico (tenured) |
| "Misperceptions of Aristotle: his alleged responses to the skeptic" (Whiting) | Georgia State University (TT) | Brooklyn College (TT) |
| "A Kantian criticism of consequentialism" (Gauthier) | Lafayette College (1-year) | University of Baltimore (TT) |
| "Reason, persons, and artworks" (A. Baier) | University of Nevada - Reno (TT) | University of Nevada - Reno (tenured) |
1991-92 |
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| "Revision rules: an investigation into non-monotonic inductive definitions" (Belnap) | Yale University (2-year) | University of California, Irvine (tenured) |
| "Motions of the mind: Thomas Hobbes and the science of moral virtue" (Gauthier) | Georgetown University (1-year) | University of Colorado (tenured) |
| "Content and confirmation" (W. Salmon) | Yale University (TT) | Birbeck College, University of London (tenured) |
| "Friendship and alienation" (A. Baier) | University of Manitoba (TT) | University of Manitoba (tenured) |
| "From animal rights to animal liberation: an anarchistic approach to inter-species morality" (Whiting) | Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University | University of Dayton (TT) |
| "Reason dethroned; knowledge regained" (Camp) | Left philosophy to pursue Library & Information Science degree | |
| "The determinate character of perceptual experience" (McDowell) | University of Toronto (TT) | University of Toronto (tenured) |
| "Subjectivity, real intentionality, and animal minds" (McDowell) | Bowling Green State University (TT) | Bowling Green State University (tenured) |
Notes
- This record does not include placement information for HPS graduates.
- For information about the placement process, see the graduate studies handbook.
- If you notice any errors or outdated information on this page, please contact us.
