PHILOSOPHY: recent Ph.D.s
The City University of New York Graduate Center
For recent job placement information,
please see the Program's placement history.
2007
- Vera Albrecht
"Between Being and Not-Being: Non-Existent Objects and the Intermediary in Plato, Frege, and Meinong"
(Advisor: Richard Mendelsohn; S. Cahn, F. Kirkland, N. Pappas, P. Simpson) - Bana Bashour
"Personal Identity and Responsibility"
(Advisor: John Greenwood; M. Levin, N. Pappas, R. Sorabji, C. Wilson) - Victor Crome
"Zeno's Paradoxes and the Passage of Time"
(Advisor: Richard Mendelsohn; M. Fitting, A. Koslow, M. Levin, R. Parikh) - Keota Fields
"Berkeley's Immaterialism: An Interpretation and Critique"
(Advisor: Steven Cahn; J. Greenwood, F. Kirkland, B. Montero, P. Simpson) - Nada Gligorov
"Eliminative Materialism and the Distinction between Common Sense and Science"
(Advisor: David Rosenthal; J. Greenwood, B. Montero, A. Orenstein, G. Strawson) - Alan Grose
"Rawls, Democracy and the Problem of Stability"
(Advisor: Frank Kirkland; S. Cahn, O. Dahbour, V. Held, P. Smith) - Len Mitchell
"World Poverty and Moral Obligations"
(Advisor: Steven Cahn; W. J. Earle, B. Montero, S. Ross, P. Simpson) - Frank Pupa
"Ambiguous Articles: An Essay on the Theory of Descriptions"
(Advisor: Michael Devitt; A. Berger, R. Fiengo [Linguistics], S. Neale, D. Rosenthal) - Kenneth Shouler
"Are There Moral Obligations to Oneself?"
(Advisor: Stefan Baumrin; W. J. Earle, J. Greenwood, D. Lackey, R. Rhodes) - James Snyder
"Matter and Method in Marsilio Ficino's Platonic Theology
(Advisor: Catherine Wilson; G. Press, E. Michael, P. Simpson, R. Sorabji) - Chris Steinsvold
"Topological Models of Belief Logics"
(Advisor: R. Parikh; R. Mendelsohn, M. Levin, Kit Fine (NYU), M. Fitting) - Andrei Zavaliy
"The Phenomenon of Amoralism: An Investigation of the Emotive and Cognitive Roots"
(Advisor: Douglas Lackey; S. Cahn, S. Ross, P. Simpson, C. Wilson)
2006
- Russell Marcus
"Numbers Without Science"
(Advisor: David Rosenthal; M. Devitt, Jody Azzouni (Tufts), E. Mendelson, A. Cordero) - Douglas B. Meehan
"The Qualitative Character of Spatial Perception"
(Advisor: David Rosenthal; M. Davies, J. Adler, G. Strawson, B. Montero) - Fritz McDonald
"Truth and Moral Discourse"
(Advisor: Paul Horwich; S. Ross, M. Devitt, V. Held, C. Wilson) - Jeffrey Stephenson
"Mischief As a Virtue"
(Advisor: Michael Levin; N. Pappas, P. Simpson, T. Kasachkoff, J. Kleinig) - Christine M. Vitrano
"The Structure of Happiness"
(Advisor: Steven Cahn; J. Greenwood, T. Kasachkoff, F. Purnell, E. Michael) - Josh Weisberg
"The Problem of Consciousness: Mental Appearance and Mental Reality"
(Advisor: David Rosenthal; M. Devitt, D. Lackey, M. Levin, B. Montero) - Julie Zilberberg
"The Ethics of Sex Selection"
(Advisor: Virginia Held; J. Kleinig, P. Smith, A. Donchin, S. Schwarzenbach)
2005
- Leonidas Bouritsas
"A Paradox of Freedom and the Old Rivalry Between Philosophy and Politics"
(Advisor: Steven Cahn; N. Pappas, S. Schwarzenbach, F. Kirkland, V. Held) - Carrie Figdor
"Externalism and the Causal Efficacy of Content"
(Advisor: Michael Devitt; J. Greenwood, D. Rosenthal, A. Cordero, M. Davies) - Rick Repetti
"The Metacausal Theory of Autonomy"
(Advisor: Michael Levin; J. Greenwood, S. Grover, G. Strawson, H. Frankfurt (Princeton)) - William Seeley
"The Neurophysiology of Aesthetic Experience: Three Case Studies"
(Advisor: David Rosenthal) - Dena Shottenkirk
"The Effects of Nelson Goodman's Nominalism on His Aesthetics"
(Advisor: Frederick Purnell; E. Michael, F. Kirkland, V. Held, S. Grover) - Jami Weinstein
"Returning to the Level of the Skin and Beyond: A Techno-Zoontology"
(Advisor: Sibyl Schwarzenbach; C. Acampora, S. Aronowitz, P. Clough, J. Stambaugh)
2004
- Maureen Eckert
"In Pursuit of Piety: A Translation and Interpretation of Plato's Euthyphro"
(Advisor: Steven Cahn; N. Pappas, F. Purnell, W. Earle, P. Smith) - William Fisk
"Strange Mutations, A Defense of Temporal Neutrality"
(Advisor: Douglas Lackey; S. Baumrin, W. Earle, V. Held, R. Rhodes) - Reese Heitner
"From a Phono-Logical Point of View"
(Advisor: Michael Levin; H. Cairns, (Linguistics, GC), P. Horwich, J. Adler, C. Verheggen) - Yvonne Raley
"On Ontology"
(Advisor: Arnold Koslow; J. Adler, M. Devitt, J. Greenwood, C. Verheggen) - Mehul Shah
"Why Can't There Be A Logic of Discovery"
(Advisor: John Greenwood; J. Adler, M. Levin; C. Landesman; A. Koslow) - Mark Sheehan
"The Metaphysics of Judgments of Obligation"
(Advisor: Stefan Baumrin; S. Blackburn, J. Adler, R. Rhodes, D. Rosenthal)
2003
- Joseph Biehl
"Immoral Psychology: The Cognitivist's Conundrum"
(Advisor: Stefan Baumrin; S. Cahn, S. Blackburn, P. Smith, J. Greenwood) - Dien Ho
"Theorizing the World: How Explanations Reveal Reality"
(Advisor: Arnold Koslow; J. Adler, J. Kim, A. Collins, J. Greenwood) - Mark McEvoy
"Relying on Reason: A Reliabilist Account of A Priori Mathematical Knowledge"
(Advisor: David Rosenthal; M. Devitt, M. Levin, A. Orenstein, P. Kitcher) - Roblin Meeks
"Identifying the First-Person"
(Advisor: David Rosenthal; J. Adler, J. Greenwood, S. Grover, M. Levin) - Michael Menser
"On the Evolutionary Significance of Developmental Constraints"
(Advisor: Frederick Purnell; J. Greenwood, M. Levin, J. Adler, K. Schwenk) - Nachum Turetzky
"Establishing Democratic Welfare Standards"
(Advisor: Stefan Baumrin; D. Rosenthal, P. Simpson, P. Smith, R. Rhodes) - Elly Vintiadis
"Teaching Differences: An Explication and Defense of Wittgenstein's On Certainty"
(Advisor: Michael Levin; P. Horwich, C. Landesman, S. Grover, C. Verheggen)
