Students entering the job market should read Tziporah Kasachkoff's Placement Services FAQ.
A list of all recent Ph.D.s is also available.
| Student | Thesis | Advisor | Placement |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | |||
| 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 (tenure-track), Corling 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 Warenski [Ph.D 2002, The Epistemological Status of Logic, Adviser: Hartry Field] was appointed as Visiting Assistant Professor, Union College, Schenectady, NY | |||
| 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 | |
| Lisa Warenski | The Epistemological Status of Logic | Hartry Field | Post-Doc Fellow/Advisor, Honors College, CUNY |
| 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). | |||