Recent Ph.D.s

For recent job placement information, please see the Program's placement history.

2013

• Timothy Czech
  “On Dreaming”
  (Advisor: Prof. Steven Cahn)
• Wesley Buckwalter
  "Knowledge Ascription and Traditional Epistemology”
  (Advisor: Prof. Jesse Prinz)
  
• Onyoung Oh
  “Deflationary Theory of Truth and Meaning”
  (Advisor: Prof. Paul Horwich)

2012

• Fletcher Maumus
  “Singular Terms: Reference and Attribution”
  (Advisor: Prof. Alex Orenstein)
• Matias Bulnes
  “Intentionality Without Intensionality”
  (Prof. Michael Levin)
• Laura DiSumma
  "The Art of Telling About the Self: Memories in Literature and Film”
  (Advisor: Prof. Noel Carroll)
• Michel Klincewicz
  "Time, Unity, and Conscious Experience”
  (Advisor: Prof. David Rosenthal)
• Graham Parsons
  “More Important than Your Life: War, Individualism, and Justice”
  (Advisor: Prof. Omar Dahbour)
• George Seli
  “The Causal Role of State Consciousness”
  (Advisor: Prof. Barbara Montero)
• Rosemary Twomey
  “Aristotle on the Common-Sense and the Unity of Perception”
  (Advisor: Prof. Iakovos Vasiliou)
• John Wigglesworth
  “Metaphysical Dependence and Set Theory”
  (Advisor: Prof. Graham Priest)
• Morgan Horowitz
  “Marx’s Democratic Idea: Communism’s Relation to Liberal Theory”
  (Advisor: Prof. Sibyl Schwarzenbach)
• Robert Merker
  “Philanthropy Charting the Moral Terrain”
  (Advisor: Prof. Steven Ross)
• Jordan Pascoe
  “Cosmopolitanism and Colonialism: Marriage, Race, and Kant’s Philosophy of Family”
  (Advisor: Prof. Sibyl Schwarzenbach)
• Tobyn DeMarco
  “The Metaphysics of Improvisation”
  (Advisor: Prof. Nickolas Pappas)
• Hidenori Kurokawa
  “Tableaux and Hypersequents for Modal and Justification Logics”
  (Advisor: Prof. Sergei Artemov)
• Jennifer Corns
  “Pain is Not a Natural Kind”
  (Advisor: Prof. Jesse Prinz)

2011

• Jonah Goldwater
  “Physicalism, Substance, and the Shifting Locus of Fundamentality”
  (Advisor: Prof. Barbara Montero)
• David Pereplyotchik
  “The Psychological Import of Syntactic Theory”
  (Advisor: Prof. Michael Devitt)
• Jean-David Lafrance
  “Endurance and Multilocation”
  (Advisor: Prof. Arnold Koslow)
• Pierre Faye
  “Teleosemantics: A Millikanian Treatment of the Intentional Content of Mental Representation”
  (Advisor: Prof. Michael Devitt)
• Ornaith O'Dowd
  “The Responsibilities of Reason: Kant and Care”
  (Advisor: Prof. Sibyl Schwarzenbach)
• Brian Robinson
  “Meaning and Morality”
  (Advisor: Prof. Stephen Neale)
• Mark Alfano
  “Factitious Virtue”
  (Advisor: Prof. Jesse Prinz)
• Chris Sula
  "Moral Mental States: Four Methods in Metaethics"
  (Advisor: Catherine Wilson)
• Kris Kemtrup
  “The Stratification of Nature”
  (Advisor: Prof. Jesse Prinz)
• Sergio Gallegos
  “Essays on Identity: A Defense of Logical Orthodoxy”
  (Advisor: Prof. Richard Mendelsohn)
• Benjamin Young
  “Olfaction: Smelling the Content of Consciousness”
  (Advisor: Prof. Jesse Prinz)
• Patrick Linden
  “A Critique of Contemporary Nonnaturalist Moral Realism”
  (Advisor: Prof. Jesse Prinz)
• Gregg Caruso
  “Fee Will and Consciousness: A Determinist Account of the Illusion of Free Will”
  (Advisor: Prof. Michael Levin)
• Rossen Ventzislavov
  “The Language of Philosophy, A Critical Look Into the Language of Early Analytic Philosophy”
  (Advisor: Prof. Nickolas Pappas)

2010

• Felipe Amaral
  “Referring and Describing: Three Essays on Definite Description and Complex Demonstratives”
  (Advisor: Prof. Michael Devitt)
• James Dow
  “The I Needs the Other: An Interpersonal Account of Self-Consciousness”
  (Advisor: Prof. Jesse Prinz)
• Maria Brincker
  “Moving Beyond Mirroring - A social affordance model of sensorimotor integration during action perception ”
  (Advisor: Prof. Jesse Prinz)
• Kevin Murtagh
  “A Defense of Corporal Punishment: A Humane Alternative to Incarceration”
  (Advisor: Prof. John Kleinig)
• John Farley
  “Truth and Literature”
  (Advisor: Prof. Sibyl Schwarzenbach)
• Ellen Fridland
  “Perception and Skill: Theoretical Foundations for A Science of Perception”
  (Advisor: Prof. David Rosenthal)

2009

• Michael Collins
  "The Nature and Implementation of Representation in Biological Systems"
  (Advisor: Prof. Jesse Prinz)
• Moti Mizrahi
  "What is Scientific Progress?"
  (Advisor: Prof. Catherine Wilson)
• Ezra Fried
  "Self-Determination and Moral Responsibility"
  (Advisor: Prof. Peter Simpson)
• Carl Hammer
  "The Structure of Practical Rationality"
  (Advisor: Prof. Stefan Baumrin)
• Damien Dupont
  "Anger Et Cetera: Understanding The Emotions In Ethics"
  (Advisor: Prof. Stefan Baumrin)
• Irene Caesar
  "Why We Should Not Be Unhappy About Happiness Via Aristotle"
  (Advisor: Prof. Peter Simpson)
• Sinem Elkatip
  "A Neo-Humean Bundle Theory: A Reductionist Account of Personal Identity, Consciousness, and Self-Concern"
  (Advisor: Prof. Michael Levin)
• Arnon Ben-David
  "Three Essays on Bentham"
  (Advisor: Prof. Douglas Lackey)
• Jeremy Gwiazda
  "Probability, Simplicity, and Infinity: A Critique of Richard Swinburne’s Argument for Theism"
  (Advisor: Prof. Steven Cahn)
• Phyllis Liang
  "Environmental Sustainability and Social Justice"
  (Advisor: Prof. Sibyl Schwarzenbach)
• Chryssoula Gitsoulis
  "A Critique of Saul Kripke's Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language"
  (Advisor: Prof. Paul Horwich)
• Hung-Tzu Yhan
  "On The Phenomenal Character of Conscious Experiences"
  (Advisor: Prof. David Rosenthal)
• Peter Langland-Hassan
  "The Representational Character of Imagination"
  (Advisor: Prof. Jonathan Adler)

2008

• Richard Brown
  "The Semantics of Moral Communication"
  (Advisor: Prof. Stefan Baumrin)
• James Hitt
  "Emotion: Thought and Feeling"
  (Advisor: David Rosenthal)
• David Morrow
  "Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances: An Essay in Moral Epistemology"
  (Advisor: Prof. Catherine Wilson)
• Mark Zelcer
  "Against Mathematical Explanation"
  (Advisor: Prof. Rohit Parikh)

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: M. Levin)
• 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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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