Placement

The Philosophy Department offers comprehensive 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 detailed advice about their application materials, and oversees the assembly of their dossiers. The Department also schedules practice interviews for new job candidates, as well as a “Graduate Research Colloquium” at which they each present results of their research to the entire Department; these events replicate, as far as possible, a regular philosophy talk, providing valuable feedback for candidates as they prepare for on-campus interviews. The Department provides placement support to its Ph.D. students until such time as they receive an offer of continuing academic employment (a tenure-track position or equivalent).

Our placement results in recent years compare favorably with those of other leading graduate programs in philosophy. In fact, the 2017 Academic Placement Data and Analysis, funded by the American Philosophical Association, places us among the very best when judged by metrics such as placements into tenure-track positions at leading research institutions.

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.

Madeleine Levac (Ph.D. 2026), Having Things in Mind. Committee: Michael Martin and John MacFarlane.

  • Amherst College (Visiting Assistant Professor), 2026

Milan Mossé (Ph.D. 2026), Reasons By Request. Committee: R. Jay Wallace and Johann Frick.

  • Stanford University Center for Ethics (Two year postdoc), 2026
  • NYU Center for Bioethics (Three-year postdoc), 2026 (declined)

Edward Schwartz (Ph.D. 2026), Expression and Display in Evaluative Discourse. Committee: R. Jay Wallace and Seth Yalcin.

  • University of Bristol (Three-year postdoc), 2026
  • King's College, London (Three-year postdoc), 2026 (declined)

Scott Casleton (Ph.D. 2025), Digital Frontiers of Free Speech. Committee: Niko Kolodny, R. Jay Wallace, and Kinch Hoekstra.

  • University of Arizona, Department of Political Economy and Moral Science, 2025

Jes H. Golden (Ph.D. 2025), Gut Feelings and Embodied Epistemology. Committee: Alva Noë and John Campbell.

  • Indiana University, Bloomington, Center for Possible Minds (two year postdoc), 2025

Elek Lane (Ph.D. 2025), Metaphor in Mind and Language. Committee: John MacFarlane and Seth Yalcin.

  • Lingnan University (Two year postdoc), 2025 (declined)
  • Texas A&M University, 2025 (declined)
  • University of Vienna (one year postdoc), 2025

Mathias Boehm (Ph.D. 2024), Updating the Common Ground. Committee: John MacFarlane and Seth Yalcin.

  • Akademischer Rat auf Zeit, University of Heidelberg (six year position), 2025
  • Junior Research Fellowship, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (one-year postdoc), 2024

Urte Laukaityte (Ph.D. 2024), The Scope of Functional Neurological Disorder: Symptom Perception, Inference, and Psychiatry. Committee: Alison Gopnik, John Campbell, and Alva Noë.

  • Aarhus Universitet (postdoc), 2025

Guillaume Massas (Ph.D. Logic 2024), Duality and Infinity. Committee: Paolo Mancosu and Wesley H. Holliday.

  • Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa (one year postdoc), 2024
  • Chapman University, 2025

Patrick Ryan (Ph.D. 2024), The Epistemology of the Infinite. Committee: Paolo Mancosu and Shamik Dasgupta.

  • Caltech (Two year postdoc), 2025 (declined)
  • New York University (Bersoff Postdoctoral Fellowship), 2025
  • Chapman University (1 year postdoc), 2024

Greyson Abid (Ph.D. 2023), Recognition Is an Interface Between Perception and Cognition. Committee: John Campbell and Alva Noë.

Michael Arsenault (Ph.D. 2023), Aristotle on the Metaphysics of Sensory Experience. Committee: Timothy Clarke, Michael Martin, and Klaus Corcilius.

  • University of Tübingen (three year postdoc), 2023
  • University of South Carolina, 2025 (declined)
  • University of Toronto, 2025

Joseph Kassman-Tod (Ph.D. 2023), Art Criticism: A ‘Poetic’ Conversation. Committee: Andreja Novakovic and Alva Noë.

  • Humboldt Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Leipzig (two-year postdoc), 2026

Sven Neth (Ph.D. 2023), Non-Ideal Decision Theory. Committee: John MacFarlane and Lara Buchak.

  • University of Pittsburgh, 2024

Emily Perry (Ph.D. 2023), Dynamism: Aristotle’s Ontology of Causal Powers. Committee: Timothy Clarke and Daniel Warren.

  • Concordia University, 2023

Dan Khokhar (Ph.D. 2022), Address and Response: The Normativity of Requesting, Begging, and Commanding. Committee: R. Jay Wallace and Niko Kolodny.

  • University of Virginia (Two year postdoc), 2025 (declined)
  • New York University (three year postdoc, Center for Bioethics), 2022
  • Georgetown University (One year postdoc), 2025 (declined)
  • University of Alabama, 2025

Sophia Dandelet (Ph.D. 2021), Making Up Our Minds: Ethical Norms in Epistemic Inquiry. Committee: R. Jay Wallace and John MacFarlane.

  • University of Cambridge, 2022
  • University of Madison Wisconsin (Associate Professor with tenure), 2025
  • New York University (Bersoff Postdoctoral Fellowship), 2021

Yifeng Ding (Ph.D. Logic 2021), Propositional Quantification and Comparison in Modal Logic.

  • Peking University, 2021
  • Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Science, 2021 (declined)

Ravit Dotan (Ph.D. 2021), The Social View of Evidence. Committee: Lara Buchak and Shamik Dasgupta.

  • University of Pittsburgh (one year postdoc, Center for Philosophy of Science), 2021
  • Stanford University (two year postdoc, McCoy Center for Ethics), 2021 (declined)

Omar Fakhri (Ph.D. 2021), How to Stand Your Ground in the Face of Moral Disagreement. Committee: Lara Buchak and R. Jay Wallace.

  • Bethel University, 2021

Alex Kerr (Ph.D. 2021), Ways of Perceiving. Committee: John Campbell, Geoffrey Lee, and Michael Martin.

  • University of Madison Wisconsin , 2025
  • University of Antwerp (one year postdoc, Centre for Philosophical Psychology), 2021
  • Princeton University (Skolnick Postdoctoral Fellowship), 2022

Caitlin Dolan (Ph.D. 2020), Looking and Learning: Pictorial Representation and Visual Skill. Committee: Alva Noë and Hannah Ginsborg.

  • San Francisco State University (Lecturer), 2017

Nick French (Ph.D. 2020), Moral Obligation, Mutual Recognition, and Our Reasons to be Moral. Committee: R. Jay Wallace and Niko Kolodny.

  • Jacobin (Assistant Editor), 2021
  • Berkeley Connect Fellowship (one year postdoc), 2020

Kirsten Pickering (Ph.D. 2020), Why Answer the Epistemic Challenge?. Committee: Niko Kolodny and R. Jay Wallace.

  • Mount Tamalpais College (operating in San Quentin State Prison) (Research and Program Fellow), 2021

James Walsh (Ph.D. Logic 2020), Reflecting on the Consistency Strength Hierarchy. Committee: Paolo Mancosu.

  • Cornell University (Klarman Fellowship—three year postdoc), 2020
  • New York University, 2023

Russell Ahmed-Buehler (Ph.D. Logic 2019), A Logical Theory of Confirmation. Committee: Lara Buchak and Wesley H. Holliday.

Adam Bradley (Ph.D. 2019), Sensitive Subjects: Bodily Awareness, Pain, and the Self. Committee: John Campbell, Geoffrey Lee, and Michael Martin.

  • Auburn University (one year instructorship, renewable), 2020
  • NYU Shanghai (postdoctoral teaching fellowship), 2019 (declined)
  • University of Antwerp (one year postdoc, Centre for Philosophical Psychology), 2019
  • Lingnan University, Hong Kong, 2021

Nicholas Gooding (Ph.D. 2019), The Social Achievement of Self-Understanding: Aristotle on Loving Oneself and Others. Committee: Kinch Hoekstra and Timothy Clarke.

  • Deep Springs College (Visiting Faculty, Spring Semester), 2020
  • Deep Springs College (Visiting Faculty, Spring Semester), 2022
  • Outer Coast College (Visiting Faculty, Spring Semester), 2021

Ethan Jerzak (Ph.D. 2019), Paradox in Thought and Natural Language. Committee: John MacFarlane and Seth Yalcin.

  • National University of Singapore, 2019

Jackson Kernion (Ph.D. 2019), Constraining Consciousness. Committee: John Campbell and Geoffrey Lee.

Rachel Rudolph (Ph.D. 2019), Talking about Appearances: Experience, Evaluation, and Evidence in Discourse. Committee: Seth Yalcin and John MacFarlane.

  • Auburn University, 2019
  • UC San Diego, 2024

James Hutchinson (Ph.D. 2018), Frege’s Systematic Conception of Truth and its Consequences. Committee: John MacFarlane and John Campbell.

  • University of Indiana (Oscar R. Ewing Visiting Assistant Professor), 2018
  • University of Toronto (two year postdoc), 2020
  • Nazarbayev University, 2022
  • Simon Fraser University (one year term lectureship), 2019

Jeffrey Kaplan (Ph.D. 2018), Weightless Normativity: A Theory of Law, Language, and More. Committee: Niko Kolodny and Hannah Ginsborg.

  • University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2018

Erica Klempner (Ph.D. 2018), Beauty, Art and Testimony: Subjectivity and Objectivity in Aesthetics. Committee: John MacFarlane, Hannah Ginsborg, and Barry Stroud.

  • Berkeley Connect Fellowship (one year postdoc), 2018

Alex Kocurek (Ph.D. Logic 2018), What Can You Say? Measuring the Expressive Power of Languages. Committee: Seth Yalcin and Wesley H. Holliday.

  • Cornell University, 2018
  • UC San Diego, 2024

Antonia Peacocke (Ph.D. 2018), Knowing Yourself is Something You Do. Committee: Barry Stroud and John Campbell.

  • Stanford University, 2018
  • New York University (Bersoff Postdoctoral Fellowship), 2018

Austin Andrews (Ph.D. 2017), Transparency in Perception. Committee: John Campbell and Geoffrey Lee.

  • Berkeley Connect Fellowship (one year postdoc), 2020
  • Berkeley Connect Fellowship (one year postdoc), 2017
  • Washington University, St. Louis (McDonnell Postdoctoral Fellowship, two years ), 2018
  • Mt. San Antonio College, 2019 (declined)

Jeremy Carey (Ph.D. 2017), Reason, Desire, and the Will: In Defense of a Tripartite Moral Psychology. Committee: Kinch Hoekstra, R. Jay Wallace, and Hannah Ginsborg.

  • Siena College (visiting position, extended for second year), 2017

Peter Epstein (Ph.D. 2017), Sensible Concepts: Experience and the A Priori. Committee: Barry Stroud, John Campbell, Geoffrey Lee, and Tania Lombrozo.

  • Brandeis University, 2020
  • Cambridge University (Randall Dillard Research Fellowship, three years), 2017

Quinn Hiroshi Gibson (Ph.D. 2017), On the Fringes of Moral Responsibility: Skepticism, Self-Deception, Delusion, and Addiction. Committee: R. Jay Wallace and John Campbell.

  • NYU Shanghai (two year postdoctoral teaching fellowship), 2017
  • American University of Beirut, 2019
  • Clemson University, 2022
  • Leibniz University Hannover (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), 2022 (declined)
  • Moravian University, 2022 (declined)
  • Trinity College, Dublin, 2026 (declined)

Julian Jonker (Ph.D. 2017), In Defense of Directed Duties. Committee: Niko Kolodny and R. Jay Wallace.

  • Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2017

Richard Lawrence (Ph.D. 2017), Nominalization, Specification, and Investigation. Committee: John MacFarlane, Paolo Mancosu, and Hannah Ginsborg.

  • University of Vienna (three year postdoc), 2022
  • Berkeley Connect Fellowship (one year postdoc), 2017
  • Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (two year postdoc), 2019

Dylan Murray (Ph.D. 2017), Hijacking Reason: Implicit Attitudes and Moral Responsibility. Committee: John Campbell and R. Jay Wallace.

  • Princeton University (two year postdoc), 2017
  • Universidad de los Andes, Colombia (two year postdoc, LATAM Free Will, Agency, and Responsibility Project), 2019

Umrao Sethi (Ph.D. 2017), Perception and the Dual Nature of Appearances. Committee: John Campbell, Michael Martin, Hannah Ginsborg, and Tania Lombrozo.

  • Brandeis University, 2019
  • Bard College, 2017 (declined)
  • CUNY Lehman, 2017

Justin Vlasits (Ph.D. 2017), Platonic Division and the Origins of Aristotelian Logic. Committee: Timothy Clarke, John MacFarlane, and Klaus Corcilius.

  • Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), 2017
  • University of Illinois at Chicago, 2021

Eugene Chislenko (Ph.D. 2016), Intention and Normative Belief. Committee: Hannah Ginsborg, R. Jay Wallace, and Hubert Dreyfus.

  • Temple University, 2017

Ethan Nowak (Ph.D. 2016), Two Dogmas About Demonstratives. Committee: Seth Yalcin, Line Mikkelsen, and John MacFarlane.

  • Umeå University, Sweden (Associate Professorship), 2020
  • University College London (two year teaching position, extended for third year), 2016
  • Umeå University, Sweden (two year postdoc), 2019
  • Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, Kings College London (three year postdoc), 2019
  • Stanford University, 2024

Lindsay Crawford (Ph.D. 2015), Epistemic Obligation in Perspective. Committee: Niko Kolodny, Lara Buchak, and Sherrilyn Roush.

  • Connecticut College (C3 Postdoctoral Fellowship), 2015
  • Connecticut College, 2018

Melissa Fusco (Ph.D. 2015), Deontic Disjunction. Committee: John MacFarlane, Line Mikkelsen, and Seth Yalcin.

  • Columbia University, 2016

Maxwell Gee (Ph.D. 2015), Rationality and Expected Utility. Committee: Niko Kolodny and Lara Buchak.

  • Non-academic (management consulting), 2015

Janum Sethi (Ph.D. 2015), Kant on Subjectivity and Self-consciousness. Committee: Daniel Warren and Hannah Ginsborg.

  • University of Michigan, 2015

Katrina Winzeler (Ph.D. 2015), Theories of Mental Disorders Remain Scientific in Spite of Both the Absence of Reductive Explanations and the Presence of Interventional Mental Autonomy. Committee: John Campbell, John Searle, and Tania Lombrozo.

  • Pierce College , 2016

Erin Beeghly (Ph.D. 2014), Seeing Difference: The Epistemology and Ethics of Stereotyping. Committee: R. Jay Wallace and Véronique Munoz-Dardé.

  • University of Utah, 2014
  • Connecticut College (C3 Postdoctoral Fellowship), 2014 (declined)

Zachary Bruce (Ph.D. 2014), Descartes’s Method and the Role of Eternal truths. Committee: Daniel Warren and Barry Stroud.

Arpy Khatchirian (Ph.D. 2014), Substantive Truth and Knowledge of Meaning. Committee: John MacFarlane, Hannah Ginsborg, and Barry Stroud.

  • UC Berkeley (Lecturer, Fall Program for Freshmen), 2015
  • Stanford Online High School, 2019

Luke Misenheimer (Ph.D. 2014), The Publicity of Concepts. Committee: Geoffrey Lee and John Campbell.

  • Nonacademic employment (software development), 2014

Justin Bledin (Ph.D. Logic 2013), Logic Informed. Committee: Niko Kolodny and John MacFarlane.

  • Johns Hopkins University, 2013
  • NYU (Bersoff Postdoctoral Fellowship), 2013 (declined)
  • University College London, 2013 (declined)

Erich Matthes (Ph.D. 2013), Engaging with the Past: Essays on History, Value, and Practical Reason. Committee: Niko Kolodny and R. Jay Wallace.

  • Wellesley College, 2013
  • University of Pennsylvania (2-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship), 2013 (declined)

Michael Rieppel (Ph.D. 2013), Being Something: Prospects for a Property-Based Approach to Predicative Quantification. Committee: John MacFarlane, John Campbell, and Line Mikkelsen.

  • UC Berkeley (Lecturer), 2014
  • Syracuse University, 2015

Joseph Barnes (Ph.D. 2012), A Platonic Account of Epistemic Value. Committee: Niko Kolodny, G. R. F. (John) Ferrari, and John MacFarlane.

  • Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, 6-year term position), 2013
  • UC Berkeley (Lecturer), 2012

Joshua Beattie (Ph.D. 2012), Evolutionary Naturalism and the Normativity of the Mental. Committee: John Campbell and John Searle.

  • Stanford Online High School, 2012

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

  • Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2015
  • Ohio University, 2015 (declined)
  • Stanford University (Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Dept. of Philosophy/McCoy Center), 2013
  • University of Melbourne (Social Justice Initiative, research fellowship), 2012

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

  • Union College, 2012 (declined)
  • University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2012

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

  • University of Tennessee, 2012
  • University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2017
  • Birkbeck College, London, 2012 (declined)

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

  • University of Pennsylvania, 2012 (declined)
  • Columbia University, 2012

Julia Nefsky (Ph.D. 2012), The Morality of Collective Harm. Committee: R. Jay Wallace and Niko Kolodny.

  • 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 Pittsburgh, 2014
  • University of Toronto, 2018
  • 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: R. Jay Wallace and Niko Kolodny.

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

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

  • University of Oxford (2-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship), 2012
  • University of Puget Sound (Visiting Assistant Professor), 2011
  • King's College London, 2014

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

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

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

  • University of Hawaii, Manoa, 2012
  • Scripps College (Visiting Assistant Professor), 2011
  • Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), 2012 (declined)
  • Australian National University (18-month Postdoctoral Fellowship), 2012

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

  • University of Toronto, 2018
  • University of Pittsburgh, 2014
  • Syracuse University, 2011

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

  • University of Puget Sound (Visiting Assistant Professor), 2010
  • Western Kentucky University, 2011
  • University of Washington (Lecturer), 2015

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

  • Northwestern University, 2009

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

  • Stanford University (Introduction to the Humanities Program), 2009
  • Minerva Schools at KGI (Associate Professor), 2016
  • Rutgers University-Camden, 2013
  • 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: Anthony A. Long, Alan Code, and R. Jay Wallace.

  • University of Notre Dame, 2009

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

  • Non-academic (programming), 2009

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

  • Mount St. Mary's University, 2009
  • Florida State University, 2013

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

  • Miami-Dade College, 2018
  • 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: John Campbell and Janet Broughton.

  • Brandeis University, 2009
  • University of Edinburgh (Senior Lecturer), 2020

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: R. Jay Wallace, Samuel Scheffler, and G. R. F. (John) Ferrari.

  • Stanford University, 2008 (declined)
  • NYU, 2008 (declined)
  • University of Chicago, 2008
  • Columbia University, 2008 (declined)

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

  • UC Irvine, LPS, 2023
  • University of Southern California, 2008
  • University of Pittsburgh, 2008 (declined)
  • Texas A&M University, 2014

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

  • Duke University, 2008 (declined)
  • University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008

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

  • Haverford College, 2008

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

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

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

  • Non-academic (management consulting), 2007

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

  • University of Edinburgh (Senior Lecturer), 2020
  • Brandeis University, 2007

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

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

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

  • 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: Alva Noë, John Searle, and John MacFarlane.

  • Syracuse University, 2006
  • Rice University, 2006 (declined)
  • Concordia University, 2006 (declined)
  • University of Antwerp, 2010
  • CUNY (Baruch College), 2006 (declined)

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

  • Frostburg State University, 2011
  • 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: Alison Gopnik, John Searle, and R. Jay Wallace.

  • 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: R. Jay Wallace, G. R. F. (John) Ferrari, and Alan Code.

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

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

  • Rutgers University, 2013
  • 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
  • University of South Florida, 2013

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

  • Harvard University, 2003
  • Columbia University, 2003 (declined)
  • NYU, 2003 (declined)
  • UC Berkeley, 2005
  • UCLA, 2003 (declined)

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

  • St. Cloud State University, 2003

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

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

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

  • Reed College (not tenure-track), 2002

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

  • UC Santa Cruz, 2002

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

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

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

  • 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: Barry Stroud and Hannah Ginsborg.

  • 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: Barry Stroud and Samuel Scheffler.

  • 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: David Gill, Anthony A. Long, and Alan Code.

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

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

  • National University of Singapore, 1999

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

  • College of William and Mary, 1999

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

  • Reed College, 1998

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

  • Antioch College, 1998

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

  • University of Texas, Austin, 1998

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

  • 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: John Searle and Hubert Dreyfus.

  • Princeton University, 1998

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

  • Vassar College, 1997

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

  • University of Chicago, 1997

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

  • 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: Alison Gopnik, John Searle, and Elisabeth Lloyd.

  • UC Riverside, 1997