The department makes every effort to assist its doctoral students in finding suitable academic employment. The list below includes all graduate students who have received their Ph.D. in the department since 1996. Positions are designated as tenure-track (TT), tenured (T), or fixed-term (FT). If our graduates have accepted employment outside academia, this is noted where information is available. Any additions or corrections to the list would be appreciated.
| Name |
Dissertation Title |
Advisor |
Inital Placement |
Current Position |
| Eric Campbell |
Breakdown of Morality |
Co-Chairs: David Brink and Richard Arneson |
UC San Diego, Lecturer |
UC San Diego, Lecturer |
| Timothy Jankowiak |
Sensation and Intentionality in Kant's Theory of Cognition |
Eric Watkins |
University of Southern Utah, TT |
University of Southern Utah, TT
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| Erick Ramirez |
A Sensible Sentimentalism |
Chair: David Brink, Co-Chair: Dana Nelkin |
California State, Santa Clara, Lecturer |
California State, Santa Clara, Lecturer |
| Michael Tiboris |
Youth and Diminished Responsibility |
Co-Chairs: Richard Arneson and Dana Nelkin |
Philosophy UC San Diego: Spencer Foundation Post Doc. |
Philosophy UC San Diego: Spencer Foundation Post Doc. |
| Name |
Dissertation Title |
Advisor |
Inital Placement |
Current Position |
| Jacob Stegenga |
Multimodal Evidence |
Nancy Cartwright |
Postdoctoral Fellow University of Toronto |
Assistant Professor, University of Utah (TT) |
| James Messina |
Kant's Hiddent Ontology of Space |
Eric Watkins |
Southern Utah University (TT) |
Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison (TT) |
| Charles Kurth |
Rethinking the Objectivity of Ethics |
David Brink |
Washington University St. Louis (TT) |
Washington University St. Louis (TT) |
| Erin Frykholm |
Narrative Epistemology and the Variability of Virtue. Hume on Character and Moral Epistemology |
Co-Chairs: Donald Rutherford & Richard Arneson |
University of Kansas (TT) |
University of Kansas (TT) |
| Name |
Dissertation Title |
Advisor |
Inital Placement |
Current Position |
| Kristen Irwin |
The Core Mysteries: Pierre Bayle's Philosophical Fideism |
Donald Rutherford |
Biola University (TT) |
Biola University (TT) |
| Mitchell Herschbach |
Beyond Folk Psychology? Toward an Enriched Account of Social Understanding |
William Bechtel |
CSU Northridge (FT) |
CSU Northridge (FT) |
| Name |
Dissertation Title |
Advisor |
Inital Placement |
Current Position |
| Nina Brewer-Davis |
Political Obligation through Connectedness |
David Brink |
Auburn University (FT) |
Visiting Assistant Professor, Auburn University |
| Ioan Muntean |
Unification and Explanation in Early Kaluza-Klein Theories |
Craig Callendar |
Leeds University Lecturer (FT) |
Leeds University Lecturer (FT) |
| Matthew Brown |
Science and Experience: A Deweyan Pragmatist Philosophy of Science |
Paul Churchland |
University of Texas, Dallas (TT) |
University of Texas, Dallas (TT) |
| Lisa Damm |
The Architecture of Emotion Experience |
Rick Grush |
University of Pittsburgh HPS (Postdoc) |
Law School |
| Sophia Efstathiou |
The Use of Race as a Variable in Biomedical Research |
Nancy Cartwright |
University of Southhampton (Postdoc) |
Researcher, Philosophy, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) |
| Name |
Dissertation Title |
Advisor |
Inital Placement |
Current Position |
| Eric Conrad |
Science and Objectivity |
Gerald Doppelt |
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| Araceli Penafuerte |
An Actualist Ontology for Counterfactuals |
Gila Sher |
San Diego State (FT) |
San Diego State (FT) |
| Matthew Egan |
The Apotheosis of a Human Ideal: The Young Hegel's Conception of the Absolute |
Eric Watkins |
Occidental College (FT) |
Lecturer, University Of San Diego |
| Dale Dorsey |
Thresholds and the Good: A Program of Political Evaluation |
Richard Arneson |
University of Alberta (TT) |
University of Kansas (TT) |
| Name |
Dissertation Title |
Advisor |
Inital Placement |
Current Position |
| Gregory Charak |
Between Soul and Precision: Ernst Mach's Biological Empiricism and the Social Democratic Philosophy of Science |
Nancy Cartwright |
Medical School, University of Pennsylvania |
Medical School, University of Pennsylvania |
| Aaron Schiller |
Concepts in Experience |
Rick Grush |
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (FT) |
University of Santa Clara |
| Name |
Dissertation Title |
Advisor |
Inital Placement |
Current Position |
| Cory Wright |
Truth and Cognition |
William Bechtel |
Washington University-PNP (Postdoc) |
CSU Long Beach (TT) |
| Nellie Wieland |
Scribbledehobble: A Dissertation on Linguistic Agency |
Wayne Martin |
CSU Long Beach (TT) |
CSU Long Beach (TT) |
| Jeff Stedman |
Perfectionism, Value Pluralism and the Human Good |
David Brink, Richard Arneson |
Bowling Green State University (FT) |
Law School |
| Jason Thibodeau |
Ordinary Language Philosophy: A Critical Re-examination |
Rick Grush |
Auburn University (FT) |
Georgia Perimeter College |
| Gregory Shirley |
Heidegger and the Philosophy of Logic |
Wayne Martin, Gila Sher |
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| Andrew Hamilton |
Laws, Causes, and Kinds: Toward a Solution to the Biology Problem |
Nancy Cartwright |
Arizona State University (TT) |
Arizona State University (TT) |
| Anna Alexandrova |
Connecting Models to the Real World: Game Theory in Action |
Nancy Cartwright |
Washington University-PNP (Postdoc); U of Missouri-St. Louis (TT) |
Lecturer, Cambridge
|
| Name |
Dissertation Title |
Advisor |
Inital Placement |
Current Position |
| Mark Warshaw |
The Cognitive Challenge to the Truth Conditional Theory of Meaning |
Gila Sher |
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Out of Philosophy |
| Mark Newman |
Beyond Structural Realism |
Craig Callendar |
University of Minnesota-Duluth (TT) |
Rhodes College Memphis |
| Luke Robinson |
The Metaphysics of Morality: A Dispositionalist Account |
David Brink |
Southern Methodist University (TT) |
SMU (TT) |
| Carl Sachs |
The Collapse of Transcendence in Nietzsche's Middle Period |
Donald Rutherford |
University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth (FT) |
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Alabama, Birmingham |
| Kory Schaff |
Work, Freedom and Community: Hegel's Normative Economics |
Richard Arneson, Michael Hardimon |
Occidental College (TT) |
Occidental College (TT) |
| Name |
Dissertation Title |
Advisor |
Inital Placement |
Current Position |
| John Vella |
Nature, Reason and Philia in Euripidean Drama |
Georgios Anagnostopoulos |
University of San Diego (FT) |
Dept of English, Loyola High School, L.A. |
| Name |
Dissertation Title |
Advisor |
Inital Placement |
Current Position |
| Jonathan Gunderson |
Action and Inaction: The Reality of Reasons and Limits of Physicalism |
Gerald Doppelt, Steven Yalowitz |
John Carroll University (FT) |
Metropolitan State University (FT) |
| Ryan Hickerson |
The Breakthrough to Phenomenology: Three Theories of Mental Content in the Brentano School |
Wayne Martin |
Western Oregon University (TT) |
Western Oregon University (T) |
| Matthew Kisner |
Descarte's Naturalistic Rationalism |
Donald Rutherford |
University of South Carolina (TT) |
University of South Carolina (T) |
| P.D. Magnus |
Undetermination and the Claims of Science |
Paul Churchland |
Bowdoin College (FT) |
SUNY Albany (T) |
| Vida Pavesich |
Hans Blumenberg: An Anthropological Key |
Michael Hardimon |
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CSU East Bay (FT) |
| Name |
Dissertation Title |
Advisor |
Inital Placement |
Current Position |
| Eric Peterson |
The Cultural Constitution of Real, Scientific Objects |
Gerald Doppelt |
|
Independent Researcher |
| James Anderson |
The Role of Interdependence in Moral Theory: Liberalism and its Critics |
Gerald Doppelt |
|
San Diego State (FT) |
| Laura Perini |
Visual Representation and Scientific Knowledge |
Sandra Mitchell, Paul Churchland |
Virginia Tech (TT) |
Pomona College (TT) |
| Name |
Dissertation Title |
Advisor |
Inital Placement |
Current Position |
| David Danks |
The Epistemology of Causal Judgment |
Clark Glymour |
Carnegie Mellon (TT) |
Carnegie Mellon (T) |
| William Casebeer |
Natural Ethical Facts: Evolution, Connectionism, and Moral Cognition |
Paul Churchland |
US Airforce Academy |
USAF |
| Michael Selgelid |
Neugenics: Genetically Informed Reproductive Decision Making |
Philip Kitcher |
University of Witwatersrant (Postdoc) |
Senior Research Fellow, CAPPE, ANU |
| Joseph Ramsey |
Expertise and Mixture in Automatic Causal Discovery |
Clark Glymour |
Director of Research Computing, Carnegie Mellon |
Director of Research Computing, Carnegie Mellon |
| Name |
Dissertation Title |
Advisor |
Inital Placement |
Current Position |
| Ilya Farber |
Domain Integration: A Theory of Progress in the Scientific Understanding of Life and Mind |
Patricia Churchland, Sandra Mitchell |
Washington University-PNP (Postdoc) |
Singapore Management University (TT) |
| Maralee Harrell |
Chaos and Reliable Knowledge |
Clark Glymour |
Colorado College (TT) |
Carnegie Mellon (T) |
| Anne Margaret Baxley |
Kant's Theory of Virtue: The Importance of Autocracy |
Henry Allison, David Brink |
Virginia Tech (TT) |
Washington University (T) |
| Evan Tiffany |
The Normativity of Morality |
David Brink |
Simon Fraser University (TT) |
Simon Fraser University (T) |
| John Berteaux |
Race and the Liberal Tradition |
Gerald Doppelt |
San Diego State (TT) |
CSU Monterey Bay (T) |
| Michael LeBuffe |
Two Types of Seventeenth Century Naturalistic Ethics |
Nicholas Jolley, David Brink |
Texas A&M (FT) |
Texas A&M (T) |
| Name |
Dissertation Title |
Advisor |
Inital Placement |
Current Position |
| Aarre LaaKso |
The Significance of Spatial Representation |
Patricia Churchland, Gary Cottrell |
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Employed outside academia |
| Mark Collier |
Newton of the Mind: An Examination of Hume's Science of Human Nature |
Paul Churchland, Patiricia Kitcher |
Stanford (FT) |
University of Minnesota, Morris (TT) |
| Iain Thomson |
The End of Onto-Theology: Understanding Heidegger's Turn, Method, and Politics |
Gerald Doppelt, Hubert Dreyfus |
University of New Mexico (TT) |
University of New Mexico (T) |
| Ian Eagleson |
The Epistemic Role of Kantian Intuitions |
Henry Allison, Patricia Kitcher |
New Mexico State (FT) |
Employed outside academia |
| Kelly Becker |
Meaning Holism: An Articulation and Defense |
Steven Yalowitz |
Centre College (TT) |
University of New Mexico (T) |
| Jason Frye |
Phenomenology as Bildungsprozess: The Structure of Hegel's Dialectic |
Henry Allison, Wayne Martin |
Law School |
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| Jessica Pfeiffer |
Playing Dice with the Universe: A Combinatorial Account of Laws |
Philip Kitcher, Sandra Mitchell |
|
University of Maryland (T) |
| Peter Thielke |
Discursivity and its Discontents: Maimon's Challenge to Kant's Account of Cognition |
Henry Allison, Wayne Martin |
Yale (Postdoc) |
Pomona College (T) |
| Name |
Dissertation Title |
Advisor |
Inital Placement |
Current Position |
| Stefan Heck |
Reasonable Behavior: Making the Public Sensible |
Patricia Churchland |
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Employed outside academia |
| Name |
Dissertation Title |
Advisor |
Inital Placement |
Current Position |
| Brian Keeley |
Cognitive Science as the Computational Neuroethology of Intelligent Behavior: Why Biological Facts are Important for Explaining Intelligent Behavior |
Patricia Churchland, Sandra Mitchell |
Washington University-PNP (Postdoc) |
Pitzer College (T) |
| Gillian Barker |
Abstraction, Analogy and Induction: Toward a General Account of Ampliative Inference |
Philip Kitcher |
|
University of Western Ontario (TT) |
| Kyle Stanford |
A Pragmatic Theory of Causation |
Philip Kitcher |
UC Irvine-LPS (TT) |
UC Irvine-LPS (T) |
| Name |
Dissertation Title |
Advisor |
Inital Placement |
Current Position |
| Edmund Mulaire |
The Promise of Science: Scientific Realism Without Convergence |
Paul Churchland |
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Employed outside academia |
