The Graduate Center, City University of New York - Philosophy

Placement History

A list of all recent Ph.D.s is also available.

Student Thesis Advisor Placement
2011-12
Jennifer Corns Pain is Not a Natural Kind Jesse Prinz Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Pain Project at the University of Glawgow, Scotland
Benjamin Young Olfaction: Smelling the Content of Consciousness Jesse Prinz Kreitman
Post-Doctoral Fellow at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Jonah Goldwater Physicalism, Substance, and the Shifting Locus of Fundamentality Barbara Montero Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Missouri, Columbia
David Pereplyotchik The Psychological Import of Syntactic Theory Michael Devitt One Year Visiting Position, Hamilton College, NY
2012 Alumni Appointments
Mark Alfano [Ph.D. 2011] was awarded the 2012 - 2013 Postdoctoral Research Fellow position at the Princeton University Woodrow Wilson School and Center for Human Values and was appointed as an Assistant Professor (tenure track) at the University of Oregon, to begin in 2013.
2010-11
Jean-David Lafrance Endurance and Multilocation Arnold Koslow Fellow (post-doc), Fonds Quebecois sur la société et la culture (FQRSC), Oxford University
Sergio Gallegos Essays on Identity: A Defense of Logical Orthodoxy Richard Mendelsohn Visiting Professor, Denison University, OH
Ellen Fridland Perception and Skill: Theoretical Foundations for A Science of Perception David Rosenthal Researcher (post-doc), Berlin School of Mind, Visiting Instructor, Humboldt University of Berlin
Brian Robinson Meaning and Morality Stephen Neale Visiting Instructor, Grand Valley State University, MI
Mark Alfano Factitious Virtue Jesse Prinz Fellow (post-doc) Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Studies
James Dow The I Needs the Other: An Interpersonal Account of Self-Consciousness Jesse Prinz Visiting Assistant Professor, Hendrix College, AR
Chris Sula Moral Mental States: Four Methods in Metaethics Catherine Wilson Assistant Professor, Pratt's School of Information and Library Science (SILS)
Rossen Ventzislavov The Language of Philosophy, A Critical Look Into the Language of Early Analytic Philosophy Nickolas Pappas Assistant Professor of Philosophy (full-time renewable contract), Woodbury University, CA
Maria Brincker Moving Beyond Mirroring - A social affordance model of sensorimotor integration during action perception Jesse Prinz Assistant Professor of Philosophy (tenure-track), the University of Massachusetts Boston
2011 Alumni Appointments
Peter Langland-Hassan [Ph.D. 2009] was appointed Assistant Professor (tenure track) at the University of Cincinnati.
Felipe Amaral [Ph.D. 2010] was appointed Assistant Professor of Philosophy (tenure track), University of Brasilia.
2009-10
Hung-Tzu Yhan On The Phenomenal Character of Conscious Experiences David Rosenthal Assistant Professor of Philosophy (tenure-track), Chung Cheng University in Taiwan
David Morrow Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances: An Essay in Moral Epistemology Catherine Wilson Assistant Professor of Philosophy (tenure-track), University of Alabama at Birmingham
Vera Albrect Between Being and Not-Being: Non-Existent Objects and the Intermediary in Plato, Frege, and Meinong Richard Mendelsohn Assistant Professor of Philosophy (tenure-track), Laguadia Community College, CUNY
2010 Alumni Appointments
Maureen Eckert [Ph.D. 2004] was promoted to Associate Professor (with tenure) in the Philosophy Department of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
Erik C. Banks [Ph.D. 2000] was promoted to Associate Professor (with tenure) in the Philosophy Department at Wright State University in Dayton Ohio.
2008-09
Peter Langland-Hassan The Representational Character of Imagination Jonathan Adler Post-Doctoral Researcher, Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program, Washington University, St. Louis
Pierre Baumann Reference and Relevance Stephen Neale Assistant Professor of Philosophy (tenure-track), University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras, San Juan
James Hitt Emotion: Thought and Feeling David Rosenthal Assistant Professor of Philosophy (tenure-track), Saginaw Valley State University
Richard Brown The Semantics of Moral Communication Stefan Baumrin Assistant Professor of Philosophy (tenure-track), Laguadia Community College, CUNY
2008 Alumni Appointments
Robert Talisse [Ph.D. 2001] was promoted to Full Professor in the Philosophy Department of Vanderbilt University.
2007-08
Nada Gligorov Eliminative Materialism and the Distinction Between Common Sense and Science David Rosenthal Assistant Professor of Medical Education, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
Russell Marcus Numbers Without Science David Rosenthal Chauncey Truax Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Hamilton College
Josh Weisberg The Problem of Consciousness: Mental Appearance and Mental Reality David Rosenthal Assistant Professor of Philosophy (tenure-track), University of Houston
2007 Alumni Appointments
Carrie Figdor [Ph.D. 2005, "Externalism and the Causal Efficacy of Content," Advisor: Michael Devitt] was appointed Assistant Professor of Philosophy (tenure track), University of Iowa.
Fritz McDonald [Ph.D. 2006, "Truth and Moral Discourse," Advisor: Paul Horwich] was appointed Assistant Professor of Philosophy (tenure track), Oakland University, Michigan.
2006
Greg Caruso     Assistant Professor of Philosophy,
Corning Community College, NY
Keota Fields A Critical Assessment of Berkeley's Immaterialism Catherine Wilson Assistant Professor of Philosophy, UMASS Dartmouth (Tenure-track)
Eddie Genna     Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Political Science (tenure-track), Pheonix College, AZ
Fritz McDonald Truth and Moral Discourse Paul Horwich Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, SUNY New Paltz
Luis Rodriguez Abascal     Professor of Legal, Moral and Political Philosophy (tenured), School of Law, Universidad Autónoma of Madrid.
William Seeley The Neurophysiology of Aesthetic Experience: Three Case Studies David Rosenthal Visiting Assistant Professor, Franklin and Marshall College
Christine Vitrano The Structure of Happiness Steven Cahn Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, City College of New York
2006 Alumni Appointments
Eric Banks [Ph.D. 2000, "Ernst Mach's World Elements: A Study in Natural Philosophy," Advisor: Arnold Koslow] was appointed Assistant Professor of Philosophy (tenure track), Wright University, Ohio.
Mehul Shah [Ph.D. 2004, "Why Can't There Be A Logic of Discovery," Advisor: John Greenwood] was appointed Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Iona College, NY.
Mark Sheehan [Ph.D. 2004, "The Metaphysics of Moral Judgements of Obligation," Advisor: Stefan Baumrin] was appointed Research Fellow, Program on Ethics and the New Biosciences, Sub-Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford.
Dena Shottenkirk [Ph.D. 2005, "The Effects of Nelson Goodman's Nominalism on His Aesthetics," Advisor: Frederick Purnell] is now Program Leader, MFA Program (Fine Arts Section), Glasgow School of Art and Vice President, Giotto Fund (Institutional Art Investment).
Robert Talisse [Ph.D. 2001, "A Critical Study of Liberalism," Advisor: Peter Simpson] was promoted to Associate Professor of Philosophy with Tenure, Vanderbilt University.
Jamie Weinstein [Ph.D. 2005, "Returning to the Level of the Skin and Beyond: A Techno-Zoontology," Advisor: Sibyl Schwarzenbach] was appointed visiting professor (2 years) in gender studies at Mount Holyoke, MA.
2005
Leonidas Bouritsas The Paradox of Freedom and the Old Rivalry Between Philosophy and Politics Steven Cahn Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Stephens Institute of Technology
Carrie Figdor Externalism and the Causal Efficacy of Content Michael Devitt Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College
Rick Repetti The Metacausal Theory Of Autonomy Michael Levin Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY
2004
Maureen Eckert In Pursuit of Piety: A Translation and Interpretation of Plato's Euthyphro Steven Cahn Assistant Professor of Philosophy, UMASS Dartmouth (Tenure-track)
William Fisk Strange Mutations, A Defense of Temporal Neutrality Douglas Lackey Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Baruch College, CUNY
Reese Heitner From a Phono-Logical Point of View Michael Levin Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia
Roblin Meeks Identifying the First-Person David Rosenthal Lecturer, Princeton University Writing Program
Yvonne Raley On Ontology Arnold Koslow Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Felician College (Tenure-track)
Mehul Shah Why Can't There Be A Logic of Discovery John Greenwood Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Baruch College, CUNY
Mark Sheehan The Metaphysics of Judgments of Obligation Stefan Baumrin Center for Professional Ethics, Keele University
2004 Alumni Appointments
Lisa Dolling [Ph.D 1995, The Role of Understanding in the Philosophical Writings of Niels Bohr, Adviser: Marx Wartofsky] was appointed Associate Professor of Philosophy and Coordinator, Department of Philosophy, Stephens Institute of Technology, New Jersey
2003
Joseph Biehl Immoral Psychology: The Cognitivists' Conundrums Stefan Baumrin Lecturer in Philosophy University College, Cork
Jennifer Fisher Revising Logic: Where the A Priori Meets the Empirical Arnold Koslow University of Florida, Jacksonville (Tenure-track)
Dien Ho Theorizing the World: How Explanations Reveal Reality Arnold Koslow University of Kentucky at Lexington (Tenure-track)
Mark McEvoy Relying on Reason: A Reliabilist Account of Mathematical Apriorism David M. Rosenthal Hofstra University (Tenure-track)
Andrew Marx Autonomy, Liability, and Efficiency: Wealth Maximization Stefan Baumrin Adjunct Professor in Tort Law, Randolph-Macon College
David Shein Realism, Anti-Realism, and The Success of Science Arnold Koslow Assistant Dean of Students, Assistant Professor of Philosophy Bard College (Tenure-track)
Nachum Turetzky Establishing Democratic Welfare Standards Stefan Baumrin Returned to Israel to seek employment
Elly Vintiadis Teaching Differences: An Explication and Defense of Wittgenstein's On Certainty Michael Levin  
2003 Alumni Appointments
David Pitt [Ph.D 1994, "Decompositional Semantics", Adviser: Jerrold J. Katz] was appointed Assistant Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Los Angeles (Tenure-track).

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