Placement |
Below is information regarding the placement record of the philosophy department over the last sixteen years.
The directory is organized by the academic year in which students went on to the job market.
The left-hand column gives the graduate's name and the title of his or her dissertation. The right-hand column lists the person's current position, as well as past positions, if applicable.
All positions are tenure-track, or tenured, unless otherwise indicated.
Please note the following qualifications:
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All and only students who currently have or who have had some form of academic employment are listed below. Therefore:
2. Students who sought jobs before finishing their degrees but have not yet secured a position and have not yet finished their degrees are not listed below.
3. Some of the students listed in the most recent years may not have received their degrees yet, and may not even have defended.
4. Students who finished their degrees in the years listed above but are still looking for their first tenure-track positions are listed below, so long as they have some form of academic employment.
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2012-2013 |
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Sharon Berry
The Marriage of Rationalism & Empiricism: A New Approach to the Access Problem |
Australian National University
(Postdoctoral fellowship, 2013-14 academic year)
Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (Israel)
(Postdoctoral fellowship, beginning July 2014) |
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Nico Cornell
Wrongs without Rights |
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Patricio Fernandez
The Power of a Practical Conclusion |
Universidad de los Andes, Chile |
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Johann Frick
'Making People Happy, Not Making Happy People': A Defense of the Asymmetry Intuition in Population Ethics |
Princeton University
(Joint Appointment in Philosophy & in the Center for Human Values) |
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Allison Kuklok
Conceptualism & Objectivity in Locke's Account of Natural Kinds |
St. Michael's College |
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Paul Schofield
The Commonwealth as Agent: Group Action, the Common Good, & the General Will |
Bates College
(2-year Postdoctoral fellowship) |
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Jiewuh Song
Global Institutions and Relations among Non-Co-Citizens |
Justitia Amplificata Center for Advanced Studies, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
(Postdoctoral fellowship) |
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2011-2012 |
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Jon Litland
Topics in Philosophical Logic
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University of Texas, Austin
University of Oslo, Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, Plurals, Predicates & Paradox Project at IFIKK
(Postdoctoral fellowship while still tenure-track at above.) |
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2010-2011 |
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Gabrielle Jackson
Gilbert Ryle & Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Adverbialist Theory of Mind |
University of Toronto, Jackman Humanities Institute
(2-year Andew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship) |
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Michael Kessler
Neutrality, Independence & Publicity: a Kantian Account of Political Legitimacy |
University of Pittsburgh
(3-year Lectureship, renewable) |
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Kranti Saran
Bodily Sensations: Nature, Location, & Extent |
University of Delhi |
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Changwon Sung
Morality & Other Values: A Contractualist Perspective. |
Korea University |
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2009-2010 |
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Arnon Levy
Idealization, Explanation & Fiction |
Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (Israel)
(5-year Polonsky Postdoctoral Fellowship)
Will move to The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Fall 2014, with a joint appointment at the Sidney M. Edelstein Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine. |
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Kristi Olson
Justice, Unequal Talents, & the Market |
Princeton, Center for Human Values
(Shapiro Bioethics Postdoctoral Fellowship)
Moved to Stanford University in Fall 2012 |
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Kritika Yegnashankaran
Reasoning as Action |
Bard College |
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2008-2009 |
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Simon Rippon
An Epistemological Argument for Moral Response-Dependence |
University of Oxford
(Uehiro Postdoctoral Fellowship)
Moved to Central European University (Budapest) in December 2012: Joint appointment in the Department of Philosophy and the School of Public Policy |
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Drew Schroeder
Divorcing the Good & the Right |
Harvard
(2-year Postdoctoral Fellowship, Program in Ethics and Public Health)
Moved to Claremont McKenna College in Fall 2011 |
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James Shaw
Nonsense, Truth, & Ineffability |
University of Pittsburgh |
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2007-2008 |
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Jake Beck
The Structure of Thought |
Texas Tech University
Washington University
(2-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Philosophy/Neuroscience/Psychology Program, while still tenure-track at above.)
Moved to York University in Fall 2012 |
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Eli Chudnoff
A Study of Rational Intuition |
University of Miami |
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Melissa Frankel
In Defense of Phenomenalism: Why Berkeley is Not All Wrong |
Syracuse University
Moved to Carleton University in 2009 |
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David Gray
What Lies Within: Essays on Phenomenology, Psychology, & Self-Knowledge |
New College of Florida
(Post-doctoral Fellowship)
Texas Tech University
(1-year non-tenure-track position)
Vanderbilt University
(tenure-track)
Colgate University
(tenure-track) |
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Paul Katsafanas
Practical Reason & the Structure of Reflective Agency |
University of New Mexico-Albuquerque
Moved to Boston University in Fall 2010 |
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Japa Pallikkathayil
Your Money or Your Life: Coercion in Personal & Political Contexts |
New York University
Moved to University of Pittsburgh in Fall 2012 |
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Andrew Roche
The Groundwork for Kant's Metaphysics of Experience |
University of Oklahoma
(Non-tenure-track visiting assistant professor position)
Wheaton College
(Non-tenure-track position)
Centre College
(Tenure-track) |
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Bharath Vallabha
Agency & the Mind-Body Problem |
Bryn Mawr College
Left to pursue a non-academic career. |
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2006-2007 |
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Anthony Corsentino
Vehicles of Meaning: Essays on Semantic Context-Dependence in Speech & Thought |
Columbia University
(Core Curriculum lecturer)
Wellesley College
(Non-tenure-track visiting assistant professor position)
Boston University
(Core Curriculum) |
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Martin O'Neill
Freedom, Fairness & Responsibility |
University of York |
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2005-2006 |
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Anthony Coleman
Contextualism & Skepticism |
Willamette University
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Kyla Ebels Duggan
Autonomy & Interpersonal Authority |
Northwestern University
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Arata Hamawaki
Self-Imagination & Judgement |
University of Chicago, The Franke Institute for the Humanities
(Post-doctoral Fellowship)
Moved to Auburn University in Fall 2007
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Sara Olack
Punishment as Negative Reciprocity |
Johns Hopkins University
(Post-doctoral Fellowship)
Became a medical student at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine |
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Thomas Teufel
Kant's Notion of Aesthetic Purposiveness |
Baruch College, CUNY
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2004-2005 |
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Jinho Kang
The Road to the Tractatus: A Study of the Development of Wittgenstein's Early Philosophy |
SUNY New Paltz
Moved to Seoul National University in 2006
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2003-2004 |
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Hunsang Chun
Wish, deliberation, & action: A study of Aristotle's moral psychology
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Sogang University (Seoul, South Korea) |
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Louis-Philippe Hodgson
The Demands of External Freedom: Kantian Social Contract Theory & International Right |
Glendon College of York University |
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Waheed Hussain
The Value of Freedom |
Wharton Business School
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Øystein Linnebo
Science with Numbers: A Naturalistic Defense of Mathematical Platonism |
University of Bristol
Moved to Birkbeck College, University of London |
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Patrick Shin
A Conception of Equal Treatment |
Suffolk University Law School
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Abraham Stone
Husserl & Cavellian Skepticism, with Reference to the Thomistic Theory of Creation |
University of California, Santa Cruz
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Catherine Wearing
Semantics & Pragmatics in the Interpretation of Metaphor |
Wellesley College
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2002-2003 |
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Hilla Jacobson-Horowitz
Evaluating Phenomenal Consciousness |
Ben-Gurion University, Israel
(Post-doctoral Fellowship)
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Michael Rescorla
Is Thought Explanatorily Prior to Language? |
University of California, Santa Barbara
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Sharon Street
Evolution and the Nature of Reasons |
New York University
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2001-2002 |
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Mary Coleman
Intentional Explanation & Practical Reasoning |
Bard College
Moved to Illinois Wesleyan University |
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Brent Kalar
Creating a Common Sense Beauty, Morality, & Community in Kant's Theory of Taste |
University of New Mexico
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2000-2001 |
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Luca Ferrero
Making Up One's Self: Commitments, Agency, and Identity |
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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Aaron James
The Objectivity of Practical Reasons |
University of California, Irvine
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Tom Kelly
The Practical Evaluation of Belief |
University of Notre Dame
Moved to Princeton in Fall 2004 |
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Katalin Makkai
Object, Subject, & the Other: Aesthetic Conditions of Judgment in Kant's Critique of Judgment |
Barnard College
Columbia University
Moved to European College of Liberal Arts, Berlin |
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1999-2000 |
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Alyssa Bernstein
Human Rights Reconceived: A Defense of Rawls' Law of Peoples |
Ohio University |
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Sean Greenberg
Hidden Folds of Freedom: Freedom & the Will in Leibniz and Malebranche |
John Hopkins University
Moved to University of California, Irvine |
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Pamela Hieronymi
Virtue and Its Imitation |
UCLA |
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Adam Leite
Skepticism, Reasonable Doubts, and the Fragility of Knowledge |
Indiana University |
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Sophia Reibetanz Moreau
Character, Freedom & Practical Reason |
University of Toronto
(Law and Philosophy, joint) |
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1998-1999 |
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William Bracken
Becoming Subjects: The Agency of Desire in Lacan's Return to Freud |
University of California, Riverside |
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David Macarthur
Skepitical Reason & Inner Experience |
University of Sydney, Australia
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Lionel McPherson
Special Concern & the Reach of Moral Principle |
Tufts University |
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Faviola Rivera-Castro
Kant on Virtue & Justice |
National Autonomous University of Mexico |
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Sherrilyn Roush
Conditions of Knowledge |
Rice University
Moved to University of California, Berkeley |
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Ori Simchen
Uses of Mention |
University of British Columbia
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Angela Smith
Attitudes, Agency, & Responsibility |
University of Washington, Seattle
Moved to Washington & Lee University |
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1997-1998 |
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Talbot Brewer
Character, Desire, & Moral Commitment |
University of Virginia |
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Steven Gross
Essays on Linguistic Context-Sensitivity & Its Philosophical Significance |
University College London
Moved to Johns Hopkins University |
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Ian Proops
Logic & Language in Wittgenstein's Tractatus |
University of Michigan
Moved to University of Texas, Austin |
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1996-1997 |
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Nancy Bauer
Recounting Women: Simone de Beauvoir & Feminist Philosophy |
Tufts University |
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Scott Brewer
Valuing Reasons: Analogy & Epistemic Deference in Legal Argument |
Harvard University Law School |
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William Bristow
Hegel & the Transformation of Philosophical Critique |
University of California, Irvine
Moved to University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee |
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Emily Carson
Mathematics, Metaphysics & Intuition in Kant |
McGill University |
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Yuval Dolev
Time From the Metaphysical & Anti-metaphysical Perspectives |
Bar-Ilan University, Israel |
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Michael Glanzberg
The Paradox of the Liar & the Problem of Context |
University of Toronto
Moved to University of California, Davis
Moved to Northwestern University |
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William Haines
Practical Hedonic Sensibility and the Construction of Goodness |
Georgetown University
(Visiting Assistant Professor)
Moved to University of Hong Kong
(Post-doctoral fellowship) |
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Agnieszka Jaworska
Rescuing Oblomov |
Stanford University
Moved to University of California, Riverside |
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Tamar Schapiro
Caring for Our Principles: Action Under Non-Ideal Conditions |
Stanford University |
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Leif Wenar
Private Property: Conceptual and Normative Analyses |
University of Sheffield
Moved to King's College London, School of Law in 2008 |
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