Placement

The Philosophy Department offers guidance and support to its Ph.D. students when they seek academic employment. The Department's placement advisor holds informational meetings for job candidates, offers advice about their CVs and writing samples, and oversees the assembly of their dossiers. The Department also gives candidates practice interviews, and Department members travel to the meetings of the American Philosophical Association to provide on-the-spot advice and support for Berkeley candidates being interviewed there. The Department covers the costs of travel to the APA meetings for candidates who have prearranged interviews.

Placements for Ph.D. recipients since 1997 (including students from the Group in Logic and Methodology of Science who have specialized in philosophy) are listed below. Offers tendered but not accepted are shown in gray. Offers are tenure-track unless otherwise noted.

Joseph Barnes , A Platonic Account of Epistemic Value. Committee: Niko Kolodny, John MacFarlane, and G. R. F. (John) Ferrari.

UC Berkeley (lecturer), 2012

Brian Berkey (Ph.D. 2012), Against Moderate Morality: The Demands of Justice in an Unjust World. Committee: Niko Kolodny and R. Jay Wallace.

University of Melbourne (Social Justice Initiative, two year postdoc), 2012

Vanessa de Harven (Ph.D. 2012), The Coherence of Stoic Ontology. Committee: Klaus Corcilius, Dorothea Frede, and Anthony A. Long.

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2012
Union College, 2012

Markus Kohl (Ph.D. 2012), Kant on Freedom, Nature and Normativity. Committee: Hannah Ginsborg and R. Jay Wallace.

University of Tennessee, 2012
Birkbeck College, London, 2012

Tamar Lando (Ph.D. 2012), Probabilistic Semantics for Modal Logic. Committee: Paolo Mancosu and Barry Stroud.

Columbia University, 2012
University of Pennsylvania, 2012

Julia Nefsky , The Morality of Collective Harm. Committee: Niko Kolodny and R. Jay Wallace.

University of Toronto, 2012

Benjamin Boudreaux (Ph.D. 2011), Recent Immigration and the Nation: An Account of the Demands of Assimilation. Committee: Niko Kolodny and R. Jay Wallace.

Non-academic (entered MS program in Foreign Service at Georgetown), 2011

Michael Caie (Ph.D. 2011), Rationality and Semantic Paradox. Committee: John MacFarlane and Michael Martin.

University of Rochester, 2011
Syracuse University, 2012

Stanley Chen (Ph.D. 2011), Matters of Taste Are Not “Mere Matters of Taste”. Committee: John MacFarlane and Barry Stroud.

Non-academic (attending Harvard Law School), 2011

Andy Engen (Ph.D. 2011), The Reactive Theory of Punishment. Committee: Niko Kolodny and R. Jay Wallace.

UC Berkeley (lecturer), 2011
Illinois Wesleyan University, 2012

Matthew Parrott (Ph.D. 2011), Agency and First-Person Authority. Committee: Barry Stroud and Daniel Warren.

University of Puget Sound (Visiting Assistant Professor), 2011
University of Oxford (2-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship), 2012

James Stazicker (Ph.D. 2011), Visual Attention as a Source of Knowledge. Committee: John Campbell and Alva Noë.

New York University (two year Bersoff Fellowship), 2011
University of Reading (UK), 2012

George Tsai (Ph.D. 2011), Moral Judgment and Historical Understanding. Committee: Hans Sluga and R. Jay Wallace.

Scripps College (Visiting Assistant Professor), 2011
University of Hawaii, Manoa, 2012
Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), 2012

Jessica Gelber (Ph.D. 2010), Causes and Kinds in Aristotle’s Embryology. Committee: Alan Code, John MacFarlane, and Anthony A. Long.

Syracuse University, 2011

Ian Schnee (Ph.D. 2010), Justification, Reasons, and Truth. Committee: Niko Kolodny and Barry Stroud.

University of Western Kentucky, 2010

Fabrizio Cariani (Ph.D. Logic 2009), The Semantics of ‘Ought’ and the Unity of Modal Discourse. Committee: Niko Kolodny and John MacFarlane.

Northwestern University, 2009

James Genone (Ph.D. 2009), Appearance as Reality: Direct Realism and Perceptual Error. Committee: John Campbell, Alva Noë, and Alison Gopnik.

Stanford University (Introduction to the Humanities Program), 2009
Franklin and Marshall College (two year visiting position), 2012

Joe Karbowski (Ph.D. 2009), The Methodology of Aristotle’s Inquiry into the Human Good in the Nicomachean Ethics. Committee: Alan Code, R. Jay Wallace, and Anthony A. Long.

University of Notre Dame, 2009

Russ McBride (Ph.D. 2009), The Homeostatic Mind: A Developmental Study of Object Cognition. Committee: John R. Searle and Hans Sluga.

Non-academic (programming), 2009

John Schwenkler (Ph.D. 2009), Space and Self-Awareness. Committee: John Campbell, Alva Noë, and Stephen Palmer.

Mount St. Mary's University, 2009

Josh Sheptow (Ph.D. 2009), Coordination and Exclusion: Two Problems of Mental Causation. Committee: John Campbell and Alva Noë.

Non-academic (attending Stanford Law School), 2009

Jennifer Smalligan (Ph.D. 2009), Explanation and Belief in David Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature. Committee: Janet Broughton and John Campbell.

Brandeis University, 2009

Andreas Anagnostopoulos (Ph.D. 2008), Aristotle on Change and Potentiality. Committee: Alan Code, John MacFarlane, and Anthony A. Long.

Humboldt University, Berlin (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), 2008
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich (Akademischer Rat), 2010

Agnes Gellen Callard (Ph.D. 2008), An Incomparabilist Account of Akrasia. Committee: Samuel Scheffler, R. Jay Wallace, and G. R. F. (John) Ferrari.

University of Chicago, 2008
Columbia University, 2008
NYU, 2008
Stanford University, 2008

Kenny Easwaran (Ph.D. Logic 2008), The Foundations of Conditional Probability. Committee: Branden Fitelson, John MacFarlane, and Sherrilyn Roush.

University of Southern California, 2008
University of Pittsburgh, 2008

Mike Titelbaum (Ph.D. 2008), Quitting Certainties: A Doxastic Modeling Framework. Committee: Branden Fitelson and John MacFarlane.

University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008
Duke University, 2008

Joel Yurdin (Ph.D. 2008), Aristotle: From Sense to Science. Committee: Alan Code, Hans Sluga, Barry Stroud, and Anthony A. Long.

Haverford College, 2008

Ben Callard (Ph.D. 2007), Ignorance and Innocence. Committee: Samuel Scheffler and John R. Searle.

Lehman College, CUNY, 2007
Lecturer, University of Chicago, 2008

Rick Canedo (Ph.D. 2007), Understanding an Independent World from the Human Point of View: A Response to Rorty, Williams, and Dreyfus. Committee: Hubert Dreyfus and Hans Sluga.

Non-academic (management consulting), 2007

Berislav Marusic (Ph.D. 2007), Skepticism Between Absurdity and Idleness. Committee: Janet Broughton, John MacFarlane, and Barry Stroud.

Brandeis University, 2007

David Berger (Ph.D. 2006), Kant’s Distinction Between the Beautiful and the Agreeable. Committee: Hannah Ginsborg and Daniel Warren.

Non-academic (attending University of Michigan law school), 2006

Hui-chieh Loy (Ph.D. 2006), The Moral Philosophy of the Mozi “Core Chapters” . Committee: Kwong-loi Shun, Hans Sluga, and R. Jay Wallace.

National University of Singapore, 2006

Bence Nanay (Ph.D. 2006), How Animals See the World: A Theory of Content for Action-Oriented Perceptual States. Committee: John MacFarlane and John R. Searle.

Syracuse University, 2006
Concordia University, 2006
CUNY (Baruch College), 2006
Rice University, 2006

Johannes Hafner (Ph.D. Logic 2005), From Metamathematics to Philosophy: A Critical Assessment ofPutnam’s Model-Theoretic Argument. Committee: Charles Chihara, John MacFarlane, and Paolo Mancosu.

North Carolina State University, 2006

Shoshana Smith (Ph.D. 2005), Clear and Distinct Perception in Descartes' Philosophy. Committee: Janet Broughton and Hannah Ginsborg.

Colgate University (two-year), 2005

Wayne Wu (Ph.D. 2005), What’s Attention Got to Do with Action? An Essay on Perception and Action. Committee: John R. Searle, R. Jay Wallace, and Alison Gopnik.

Ohio State University, 2005

Tim Crockett (Ph.D. 2004), Leibniz on Shape and the Reality of Body. Committee: Janet Broughton and Hannah Ginsborg.

Marquette University, 2004

Suzanne Obdrzalek (Ph.D. 2004), The Philosopher’s Eros — Reason and Passion in Plato’s Middle Dialogues. Committee: Alan Code, R. Jay Wallace, and G. R. F. (John) Ferrari.

Yale University (two year postdoc), 2004
Claremont McKenna, 2006
Syracuse University, 2006
University of Alberta, 2006
University of Manitoba, 2006
University of Tennessee, 2006
Washington University in St. Louis, 2006

Elizabeth Camp (Ph.D. 2003), Saying and Seeing-As: The Linguistic, Cognitive, and Imaginative Uses and Effects of Metaphor. Committee: John MacFarlane, John R. Searle, and Richard Wollheim.

Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows (two year fellowship), 2003
University of Pennsylvania, 2005

Diana Fleming (Ph.D. 2003), Virtue and Right Action. Committee: Kwong-loi Shun and Richard Wollheim.

Indiana University, South Bend, 2003

W. Goodwin (Ph.D. 2003), Kant’s Philosophy of Geometry. Committee: Charles Chihara, Paolo Mancosu, and Daniel Warren.

Swarthmore College (Visiting Assistant Professor), 2003

Niko Kolodny (Ph.D. 2003), Relationships as Reasons. Committee: Samuel Scheffler and R. Jay Wallace.

Harvard University, 2003
Columbia University, 2003
NYU, 2003
UCLA, 2003
UC Berkeley, 2005

Omar Mirza (Ph.D. Logic 2003), Naturalism and Darwin’s Doubt: a Study of Plantinga’s Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism. Committee: John MacFarlane and Hans Sluga.

St. Cloud State University, 2003

Cheryl Chen (Ph.D. 2002), Perception and Empirical Thought. Committee: Barry Stroud and Daniel Warren.

Bryn Mawr College, 2002
Harvard University (Lectureship), 2006
Johns Hopkins, 2006

Edward Cushman (Ph.D. 2002), Normativity and the Prospects of Naturalism. Committee: Barry Stroud and Daniel Warren.

Reed College (not tenure-track), 2002

Jonathan Ellis (Ph.D. 2002), Psychological Conditions for Psychological Awareness. Committee: John R. Searle and Barry Stroud.

UC Santa Cruz, 2002

Peter Hanks (Ph.D. 2002), The Unity of the Proposition. Committee: John R. Searle and Barry Stroud.

University of California, Davis (one-year visiting professorship), 2002
University of Minnesota, 2003

Brendan O'Sullivan (Ph.D. 2002), Causal Relevance and Mental Properties. Committee: John R. Searle and Bruce Vermazen.

Rhodes College, 2002

Christopher Pincock (Ph.D. 2002), A Structuralist Approach to Applying Mathematics. Committee: Paolo Mancosu and Hans Sluga.

Purdue University, 2002

Jason Bridges (Ph.D. 2001), Locating Thought: Externalism & Naturalism about Mental Content. Committee: Hannah Ginsborg and Barry Stroud.

University of Chicago, 2001

Casey Perin (Ph.D. 2001), Rationality and Ancient Scepticism. Committee: Janet Broughton, Alan Code, and Anthony A. Long.

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2001

Wai-hung Wong (Ph.D. 2001), Rational Resistance to Skepticism. Committee: Samuel Scheffler and Barry Stroud.

California State University, Chico, 2001

Richard Zach (Ph.D. Logic 2001), Hilbert’s Finitism: Historical & Philosophical Perspectives. Committee: Paolo Mancosu.

University of Calgary, 2001

Strefan Fauble (Ph.D. 2000), Interpretation, Function, and Metaphysics of Works of Art. Committee: Bruce Vermazen and Richard Wollheim.

UC Irvine (postdoc), 2000

Ursula Coope (Ph.D. 1999), Time As a Number of Change: Aristotle’s Physics IV, 10-14. Committee: Alan Code, David Gill, and Anthony A. Long.

University of London (Jacobsen Fellowship), 1998
Birkbeck College, University of London, 1999

John Holbo (Ph.D. 1999), Prolegomena to Wittgenstein’s Tractatus. Committee: Hubert Dreyfus and Hans Sluga.

National University of Singapore, 1999

Maria Merritt (Ph.D. 1999), Virtue Ethics & the Social Psychology of Character. Committee: Kwong-loi Shun and Bernard Williams.

College of William and Mary, 1999

Steven Arkonovich (Ph.D. 1998), Reasons for Action & the Roles of Desire. Committee: Samuel Scheffler and Bernard Williams.

Reed College, 1998

Andrew Carpenter (Ph.D. 1998), Kant’s Earliest Solution to the Mind/Body Problem. Committee: Hannah Ginsborg and Daniel Warren.

Antioch College, 1998

Joshua Dever (Ph.D. 1998), Variables. Committee: Charles Chihara and Stephen Neale.

University of Texas, Austin, 1998

Eli Dresner (Ph.D. 1998), Formal Semantics & the Algebraic View of Meaning. Committee: Donald Davidson, Stephen Neale, and Bruce Vermazen.

Tel Aviv University, 1998

Mathias Frisch (Ph.D. 1998), Theories, Models, and Explanation. Committee: Martin Jones and Elisabeth Lloyd.

University of Maryland, 1998

Robert Gorton (Ph.D. 1998), Meaning Without Theory. Committee: Hans Sluga and Bruce Vermazen.

UC Berkeley (Lecturer), 1998

Sean Kelly (Ph.D. 1998), The Relevance of Phenomenology to the Philosophy of Language & Mind. Committee: Hubert Dreyfus and John R. Searle.

Princeton University, 1998

Herman Cappelen (Ph.D. 1997), Words, Signs, and Quotation. Committee: Charles Chihara, Stephen Neale, and John R. Searle.

Vassar College, 1997

Michael Green (Ph.D. 1997), Liberalism & Nation States. Committee: David Gill and Samuel Scheffler.

University of Chicago, 1997

Matthew Henken (Ph.D. 1997), Necessity & Its Discontents: A Study in Philosophical Troublemaking. Committee: John R. Searle and Barry Stroud.

UC Santa Cruz, 1997

Eric Schwitzgebel (Ph.D. 1997), Words About Young Minds: The Concepts of Theory, Representation, and Belief in Philosophy & Developmental Psychology. Committee: Elisabeth Lloyd, John R. Searle, and Alison Gopnik.

UC Riverside, 1997