Job Placement
The list below shows dissertations written, dissertation chair, first post Ph.D. appointment, and present appointment for all Ph.D., since 1991-92.
2005-06
Connecting Models to the Real World: Game Theory in Action. Chair: Nancy Cartwright. 1st appointment: Postdoctoral Fellow, Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology, Washington University, St. Louis
Beyond Structural Realism. Chair: Craig Callender 1st appointment: University of Minnesota, Duluth, TT
The Metaphysics of Morality: A Dispositionalist Account. Chair: David Brink 1st appointment: Southern Methodist University, TT.
2004-05
Mental Content: Husserl’s Logical Investigations. Chair: Wayne Martin 1st appointment: Western Oregon University, TT.
Dionysian Positivism; Science and Culture in Nietzsche’s Middle Period. Chair: Donald Rutherford. 1st appointment: University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
Hegel’s Normative Economics: Work, Freedom and Community. Chair: Michael Hardimon lst appointment: Occidental College, TT.
2003-04
"Descartes' Naturalistic Rationalism." Chair: Donald
Rutherford
1st Postion: University of S. Carolina, Tenure track
Current appointment: same
"Undetermination and the Claims of Science."
Chair: Paul Churchland
1st Position: Bowdoin College
Current appointment: SUNY, Albany, Tenure Track
2001-02
"Visual Representations and Scientific Knowledge."
Chair: Sandra Mitchell.
1st appointment: Assistant Professor, Tenure Track, Virginia
Polytechnic and State University, Blacksburg, Va.
Current appointment: same
"Explanation, Truth, and Politics: The Medical
Management of Intersex Conditions." Chair: Gerald Doppelt
No information available.
2000-01
"A Theoretical and Methodological Look at Human Causal
Induction." Chair: Clark Glymour
Current apointment: Asst. Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
"Kant's Conception of Autocracy in his Theory of
Virtue." Chair: Henry Allison
1st appointment: Asst. Professor Tenure Track, Philosophy, Virginia
Polytechnic and State U., Blacksburg, Va.
Current appointment: same
"The Explanation of Necessity in Cognitive Science."
Chair: Patricia Kitcher
Non-academic, computing, Carnegie Mellon University
"Ethics and Eugenics: Reproductive Decision Making in
light of Information provided by Contemporary Biological Science and
Technology." Chair: Philip Kitcher
1st appointment: Post-doc., Division of Bioethics, University of
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Current appointment: same
"Natural Ethical Facts: Evolution, Connectionism, and
Moral Cognition," Chair: Paul M. Churchland
1st position: Assistant professor, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado
Springs.
Current appointment: same
1999-00
"Liberalism, Group Rights and Race." Chair: Gerald
Doppelt
lst appointment: Asst. Prof., San Diego State University, Philosophy,
Tenure Track
Current appointment: same
"Kant and the Principles of Perception."
Chair: Henry Allison
Lecturer, Ohio
1st appointment: New Mexico State University, Visiting assistant
professor
Current appointment: no information
"Domain Integration: A Theory of Progress in the Life
Sciences." Chairs: Patricia Churchland and Sandra Mitchell
1st appointment: Post-doc., Washington U., St. Louis
Current appointment: Tenure Track, George Washington University
"Reliability of Methods for Chaotic Data Analysis."
Chair: Clark Glymour
1st appointment: Colorado College, Colorado Springs Tenure Track
Current appointment: Carnegie Mellon University
"Hobbes, Spinoza and the Approach to Naturalistic
Ethics." Chair. S. Nicholas Jolley
1st appointment: Visiting Asst. Professor, Texas A.&M.
Current appointment: Assistant Professor, Texas A.&M. Tenure
Track
"A Naturalistic Account of Normativity."
Chair: David Brink
1st appointment: Philosophy, Simon Fraser University, B.C., Tenure Track
Current appointment: same
"The Fact of Experience: Maimon's Sceptical Challenge to
Kant's Discursivity Thesis." Chair: Henry Allison
lst appointment: Post Doc., Yale University
Current appointment: Asst. Professor, Tenure Track, Pomona College,
Pomona, Ca., Tenure Track
"Dwelling in Metaphysica: The Ethical Unity of
Heidegger's Thinking." Chairs: Hubert Dreyfus and Gerald
Doppelt
1st appointment: Asst. Professor, Philosophy, U. of New Mexico, Tenure
Track
Current appointment: same
1998-99
"Anti-anti holism." Chair: Steven Yalowitz
lst appointment: Asst. Professor, Philosophy, Centre College, Danville,
Ky. Tenure Track
Current appointment. University of New Mexico
"The Early Modern Philosophical Foundations of
Cognitive Science." Chairs: Paul Churchland and Patricia
Kitcher
lst appointment: Stanford University, temporary
Current appointment: Same
"Hegel's Dialectic." Chairs: Gerald Doppelt
and Wayne Martin
1st appointment: No academic appointment. Has completed a law school
degree.
"Objectivity and Spatial Representation."
Chair: Patricia Churchland
Non academic, SD computer start up.
1997-98
"Reasonable Behavior: The Public-Making Aspect of Action
Sustains Norms and Innovation." Chairs: Patricia Churchland
and Adrian Cussins
Non-academic, McKinsey Associates
1996-97
"Models of Life: Abstraction and Material Modeling in Modern
Biology." Chair: Philip Kitcher
lst appointment: Visiting Assistant Professor, Indiana University
Current appointment: unknown
"Cognitive Science as the Computational Neuroethology
of Intelligent Behavior: Why Biological Facts are Important for
explaining Intelligent Behavior." Chairs: Patricia Churchland
and Sandra Mitchell
lst appointment: Post-doc., Washington U., St. Louis
Current appointment: Pitzer College, Tenure Track
"A Pragmatic Theory of Causation." Chair:
Philip Kitcher
lst position: Philosophy, UC Irvine, Tenure Track
Current: Same
1995-96
"Mechanistic Explanation." Chair: Philip Kitcher
lst appointment: Philosophy, Kansas State U., Manhattan, Ks. Tenure
Track
Current appointment: Tenured at same.
"Minds, Machines and the Nature of Scientific
Progress." Chair: Paul Churchland
Non academic, business
"The Role of Das Man in Heidegger's Early Work."
Chair: Frederick Olafson
lst appointment: John Carroll University, Cleveland, Oh. Tenure Track
Current appointment: Tenured at same
"Interpretive Problems in the Theaetetus."
Chair: Edward Lee
lst appointment: SD Law School, Dean?
Current appointment: no information available
"Real Computation." Chair: Patricia Kitcher
1st appointment: Post-Doc, Austrian government
Current appointment: Post-Doctoral Fellow, UC Davis
1994-95
"A Pragmatic-Naturalistic Theory of Scientific
Representations." Chair: Paul Churchland
lst appointment: Asst. Prof., University Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
"Emulation, Simulation and Cognition."
Chair: Paul Churchland
lst appointment: Post-doc., Washington U, St. Louis
Current appointment: UCSD, Asst. Professor, Philosophy, Tenure Track
"Against Ethical Realism." Chair: Georgios
Anagnostopoulos
1st appointment: Philosophy, Towson State U., Towson, Md. Non Tenure
Track
Current appointment: Asst. Professor at same. Tenure Track
"Cognition, Computation, and Explanation."
Chair: Patricia Churchland
Current appointment: Assistant Professor, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
and Chair, Cognitive Science Department at same, Tenure Track
1993-94
"Oscillations and Consciousness: Toward a New Framework for
the Mind/Brain." Chairs: Gerald Doppelt and Dan Lloyd
1st appointment: Virginia Polytechnic and State University, Blacksburg,
Tenure Track
Current appointment: Associate Professor tenured, at same
"Psychological Learning Functions and language
Learning and Theory Change." Chairs: Patricia Kitcher and
Philip Kitcher
lst appointment: University of Puerto Rico Tenure Track
Current appointment: Associate Professor, tenured, Lehigh University,
Bethlehem, Pa
"Mechanisms in Quantum Field Theory."
Chairs: Philip Kitcher and Paul Teller
lst appointment: Concordia University, Montreal, Tenure Track
Current appointment: No information available
"A Mind with a Heart of its Own." Chairs:
Gerald Doppelt and Patricia Kitcher
lst appointment: University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Current appointment: Assoc. Prof., tenured, Philosophy, University of
the Pacific, Stockton
1992-93
"Kant's Doctrine of Transcendental Illusion." Chair:
Henry Allison
1st appointment: Philosophy, University of San Diego, Tenure Track
Tenured at same.
"Different Dimensions of Scientific Knowledge."
Chair: Philip Kitcher
No information available.
1991-92
"Methodological and Ethical Issues in Experimental Inquiry:
The Human Genome Initiative" Chair: Philip Kitcher
1st appointment: Philosophy, Western Michigan U., Kalamazoo, tenure
track
Current appointment: same: Associate Professor
"Normative Naturalized Epistemology."
Chair: Philip Kitcher
1st appointment: Virginia Polytechnic and State University
Current appointment: University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point
"Freedom and Character in Plato's Republic and
Hegel's Philosophy of Right." Chair: Robert Pippinv
1st appointment: Xavier University, Cincinnati, Tenure Track
Current appointment: University of the Pacific, Stockton, Assoc. Prof.
Tenured
"A Critical Examination of the Notion of Scientific
Rationality." Chair: Philip Kitcher
1st appointment: Visiting Asst. Professor, University of Utah
Current appointment: Assoc.. Prof, Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa.
"Meaning, Metaphysics, and Society." Chair:
Paul Churchland
1st appointment: University of Queensland, Brisbane