This is a complete record of all students who have graduated in recent years.
For each graduate, we list dissertation title, dissertation advisor, and initial and current position. The following key will be useful in reviewing these records:
(P) = Post-doc or other fellowship
(TT) = Tenure-track or equivalent
(T) = Tenure or equivalent
(V) = visiting assistant professor, assistant professor (non-tenure-track), lecturer, adjunct, or equivalent
(C) = continuing appointment, non-tenure-track
Alumni: to submit updates, please feel free to fill out our Placement Updates form, or contact phil-grad-coord@umich.edu.
PhD Graduates 2023
Lingxi Chenyang
Dissertation Title: TBD
Dissertation Chair: Anderson
Placement:
2022 – present: University of Utah | Law (TT)
Chris Nicholson
Dissertation Title: Essays on Belief, Decision, and Learning
Dissertation Chair: Joyce
Placement:
2022 – present: TBD
PhD Graduates 2022
Mercy Corredor
Dissertation Title: Expressing Emotions for Sex Equality
Dissertation Chair: Anderson
Placement:
2022 – present: Virginia Tech | Philosophy (TT)
Guus Duindam
Dissertation Title: An Interpretation and Defense of the Supreme Principle of Morality
Dissertation Chair: Buss
Placement:
2022 – present: US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (clerkship)
Josh Hunt
Dissertation Title: Symmetry and Reformulation: On Intellectual Progress in Science and Math
Dissertation Chairs: Ruetsche, Belot
Placement:
2023 – present: Syracuse University | Philosophy (TT)
2022 – 2023: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Philosophy (P)
Jonathan Sarnoff
Dissertation Title: Crimes and Risks
Dissertation Chairs: Mendlow, Weatherson
Placement:
2023 – present: US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit | Chief Judge Michael A Chagares (clerkship)
2022 – 2023: Southern District of New York | Judge John P Cronan (clerkship)
Joe Shin
Dissertation Title: In the Wake of Wrong: Essays on the Ethics of Blame, the Reactive Attitudes, and Apologies
Dissertation Chairs: Buss, Weatherson
Placement:
2022 – present: Calvin University | Philosophy (P)
Laura Soter
Dissertation Title: Acceptance, Belief, & Partiality: Topics in Doxastic Control, the Ethics of Belief, and the Moral Psychology of Relationships
Dissertation Chairs: Railton, Kross
Placement:
2022 – present: Duke University | Philosophy (P)
Angela Sun
Dissertation Title: Essays on Integrated Agency
Dissertation Chairs: Buss
Placement:
2022 – present: Washington and Lee University | Philosophy (TT)
Elise Woodard
Dissertation Title: Inquiring Further: Essays on Epistemic Normativity
Dissertation Chairs: Weatherson, Moss
Placement:
2023 – present: Syracuse University | Philosophy (TT)
2022 – 2023: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Philosophy (P)
PhD Graduates 2020
Kevin Blackwell
Dissertation Title: Temporally Continuous Probability Kinematics
Dissertation Chairs: Joyce
Placement:
2020 – present: University of Bristol | Philosophy (P)
Ian Fishback
Dissertation Title: Method and the Morality of War
Dissertation Chair: Anderson
Placement:
2021: Lund University (P)
Eduardo Martinez
Dissertation Title: Democratic Evaluation and Improvement: A Set of Standards for Citizens and Democratic Institutions
Dissertation Chairs: Anderson, Darby
Placement:
2020 – present: University of Cincinnati | Philosophy (TT)
Van Tu
Dissertation Title: Aristotle on Practical Rationality: Deliberation, Preference Ranking, and the Imperfect Decision-Making of Women
Dissertation Chair: Caston
Placement:
2022 – present: California State University, San Bernardino | Philosophy (TT)
2019 – 2022: Bowdoin College | Philosophy (V)
PhD Graduates 2019
Sydney Keough
Dissertation Title: Self-Understanding and Narrative Explanation
Dissertation Chair: Anderson
Placement:
2018 – present: Saint Norbert College | Philosophy (TT)
Eli Lichtenstein
Dissertation Title: Force and Objectivity: On Impact, Form, and Receptivity to Nature in Science and Art
Dissertation Chairs: Belot, Herwitz
Placement:
2022 – present: University of Edinburgh | Philosophy (V)
2019 – 2022: University of Michigan | Philosophy (C)
Filipa Melo Lopes
Dissertation Title: Recognizing Social Subjects: Gender, Disability and Social Standing
Dissertation Chair: Maitra
Placement:
2019 – present: University of Edinburgh | Philosophy (TT)
Steve Schaus
Dissertation Title: Law as Morality
Dissertation Chair: Hershovitz
Placement:
2022 – present: University of Michigan | Law (TT)
2020 – 2022: Harvard University | Law (P)
2019 – 2020: US Court of Appeals (DC Circuit) | Judge Harry T. Edwards (clerkship)
Nick Serafin
Dissertation Title: Equality, Status, and Identity in American Constitutional Law
Dissertation Chair: Anderson
Placement:
2020 – present: Santa Clara University | Law (TT)
2019 – 2020: San Francisco State University | Law, Philosophy (V)
Umer Shaikh
Dissertation Title: Aristotle's Theory of Causal Powers
Dissertation Chair: Caston
Placement:
2020 – present: unknown
2018 – 2019: Rice University | Philosophy (V)
PhD Graduates 2018
Sara Aronowitz
Dissertation Title: Rational Structures in Learning and Memory
Dissertation Chair: Railton
Placement:
2022 – present: University of Toronto | Philosophy (TT)
2020 – 2022: University of Arizona | Philosophy, Cognitive Science (TT)
2018 – 2020: Princeton University | Cognitive Science, University Center for Human Values (P)
Mara Bollard
Dissertation Title: What Makes an Emotion Moral?
Dissertation Chair: Jacobson
Placement:
2019 – present: University of Michigan | Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science | Associate Director and Lecturer III (C)
2018 – 2019: Amherst College | Philosophy (V)
Kimberly Chuang
Dissertation Title: An Account of Contributive Justice
Dissertation Chairs: Anderson, Railton
Placement:
2019 – present: unknown
2018: University of Michigan | Philosophy (V)
Anna Edmonds
Dissertation Title: Epistemic Norms and the Normativity of Belief
Dissertation Chair(s): Lasonen-Aarnio, Railton
Placement:
2018 – present: University of Michigan | Philosophy (C)
Zoë Johnson King
Dissertation Title: Trying to Act Rightly
Dissertation Chair: Weatherson
Placement:
2022 – present: Harvard University | Philosophy (TT)
2020 – 2022: University of Southern California | Philosophy (TT)
2018 – 2020: New York University | Philosophy (P)
Shai Madjar
Dissertation Title: Emotional Assessment and Emotion Regulation: A Philosophical Approach
Dissertation Chair: Jacobson
Placement:
2021 – 2025: University of Michigan | Psychiatry (C)
2018 – 2021: University of Michigan | Medical School (C)
Cat Saint Croix
Dissertation Title: Non-Ideal Epistemology in a Social World
Dissertation Chairs: Lasonen-Aarnio, Weatherson
Placement:
2020 – present: University of Minnesota | Philosophy (TT)
2018 – 2020: University of Minnesota | Philosophy (P)
PhD Graduates 2017
Boris Babic
Dissertation Title: Foundations of Epistemic Risk
Dissertation Chair: Joyce
Placement:
2021 – present: University of Toronto | Philosophy, Statistics (TT)
2019 – 2021: INSEAD Paris/Singapore | Decision Sciences (V)
2017 – 2019: California Institute of Technology | Philosophy (P)
Annette Bryson
Dissertation Title: Non-Inflationary Realism about Morality: Language, Metaphysics, and Truth
Dissertation Chairs: Buss, Gibbard
Placement:
2019 – present: John Cabot University | Philosophy (V)
2017 – 2019: University of Notre Dame | Center for Philosophy of Religion (P)
Daniel Drucker
Dissertation Title: Attitudes Beyond Belief: A Theory of Rational Non-Doxastic Attitude Formation and Evaluation
Dissertation Chair: Swanson
Placement:
2020 – present: University of Texas at Austin | Philosophy (TT)
2019 – 2020: University of Helsinki | Philosophy (P)
2017 – 2019: National Autonomous University of Mexico | Philosophy (P)
Patrick Shirreff
Dissertation Title: What We Can Do With Words: Essays on the Relationship between Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Theorizing
Dissertation Chair: Weatherson
Placement:
2018 – present: University of Tartu | Philosophy (P)
Nina Windgätter
Dissertation Title: A Socially Constructive Social Contract
Dissertation Chair: Anderson
Placement:
2017 – present: University of New Hampshire | Philosophy (C)
PhD Graduates 2016
Paul Boswell
Dissertation Title: Affect, Representation, and the Standards of Practical Reason
Dissertation Chairs: Railton, Buss
Placement:
2021 – present: Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
2018 – 2021: University of Chicago | Law (C)
2016 – 2018: Université de Montréal | Philosophy (P)
Jeremy Lent
Dissertation Title: Knowing by Example: A Social-Cognitive Approach to Epistemology
Dissertation Chairs: Anderson, Joyce
Placement:
2022 – present: unknown
2020 – 2022: Yale University | Law and Philosophy (P)
2016 – 2019: Yale University | Law (C)
Nils-Hennes Stear
Dissertation Title: Problems to Appreciate: Aesthetics, Ethics, and the Imagination
Dissertation Chairs: Jacobson, Walton
Placement:
2023 – present: Uppsala Universitet | Philosophy (TT)
2021 – 2023: Universität Hamburg | Philosophy (P)
2020 – 2021: Auburn University | Philosophy (P)
2017 – 2020: University of Southampton | Philosophy (P)
2016 – 2017: National Autonomous University of Mexico | Philosophy (P)
Rohan Sud
Dissertation Title: Vagueness in a Precise World: Essays on Metaphysical Vagueness
Dissertation Chairs: Weatherson, Manley
Placement:
2022 – present: Virginia Polytechnic and State University | Philosophy (TT)
2018 – 2022: Ryerson University | Philosophy (TT)
2016 – 2018: Bates College | Philosophy (P)
Damian Wassel
Dissertation Title: Multiple Objective Decision Making
Dissertation Chair: Thomason
Placement:
2016 – present: Vault Comics | CEO & Publisher
PhD Graduates 2015
Chloe Armstrong
Dissertation Title: Modality in Leibniz’s Philosophy
Dissertation Chair: Schmaltz
Placement:
2015 – present: Lawrence University | Philosophy (T)
Charles "Chip" Sebens
Dissertation Title: Locating Oneself in a Quantum World
Dissertation Chairs: Ruetsche, Baker
Placement:
2018 – present: California Institute of Technology | Philosophy (TT)
2016 – 2018: University of California - San Diego | Philosophy (TT)
2015 – 2016: California Institute of Technology | History and Philosophy of Science (P)
Will Thomas
Dissertation Title: How and Why the Criminal Law Should Punish Corporations
Dissertation Chair: Anderson
Placement:
2022 – present: University of Michigan | Ross School of Business (TT)
2020 – 2022: Harvard University | Law (P)
2019 – 2020: Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Robin Zheng
Dissertation Title: A Justice-Oriented Account of Moral Responsibility for Implicit Bias
Dissertation Chair: Anderson
Placement:
2022 – present: University of Glasgow | Political Philosophy (TT)
2016 – 2022: Yale-NUS College | Philosophy (TT)
2015 – 2016: University of Cambridge | Philosophy (P)
PhD Graduates 2014
Dmitri Gallow
Dissertation Title: The Emergence of Causation
Dissertation Chair: Joyce
Placement:
2020 – present: Australian Catholic University | Philosophy (T)
2015 – 2020: University of Pittsburgh | Philosophy (TT)
2014 – 2015: New York University | Philosophy (P)
Warren Herold
Dissertation Title: Perspective Taking and Moral Evaluation: Themes from Adam Smith
Dissertation Chair: Anderson
Placement:
2014 – present: University of Arkansas | Philosophy (TT)
Ira Lindsay
Dissertation Title: A Humean Theory of Property Rights
Dissertation Chair: Railton
Placement:
2016 – present: University of Surrey | Law (T)
2014 – 2016: Dartmouth College | Philosophy (P)
Stephen Nayak-Young
Dissertation Title: Towards a Just Work Law: Exit Options, Relationships, and Regulation
Dissertation Chair: Anderson
Placement:
2022 – present: Budbuds
2020 – 2021: JLG Lawyers
2019 – 2020: Lyon Law PC
2018: Baker Marquart LLP
2016 – 2017: San Francisco State University | Law, Philosophy (V)
2014 – 2016: University of California - Los Angeles | Law, Philosophy (P)
Bryan Parkhurst
Dissertation Title: Sound's Arguments: Philosophical Encounters with Music Theory
Dissertation Chairs: Satyendra, Walton
Placement:
2017 – present: Oberlin College | Music Theory and Aural Skills (T)
2015 – 2017: University of South Florida | Music Theory, Philosophy (V)
2014 – 2015: Columbia University | Music Theory (P)
Adam Rigoni
Dissertation Title: Legal Rules, Legal Reasoning, and Non-monotonic Logic
Dissertation Chair: Thomason
Placement:
2014 – present: Arizona State University | Philosophy (TT)
Jonathan Shaheen
Dissertation Title: Meaning and Explanation
Dissertation Chair: Manley
Placement:
2022 – present: Uppsala Universitet | Philosophy (TT)
2019 – 2021: Universiteit Gent | Philosophy and Moral Sciences (P)
2017 – 2018: Uppsala Universitet | Philosophy (P)
2015 – 2016: Universiteit Gent | TBA (P)
2014 – 2015: Oberlin College | Philosophy (P)
PhD Graduates 2013
Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman
Dissertation Title: The Duty to Miscegenate
Dissertation Chair: Anderson
Placement:
2022: University of Bristol | Business and Civic Engagement (V)
2020 – 2021: University of Warwick | Sociology (P)
2019: University of Bristol | Sociology, Politics and International Studies (TT)
2018: unknown
2017: University of Birmingham | Centre for West Midlands History (P)
2016: University of Bristol | Sociology (V)
2015 – 2017: Birmingham City University | Black Studies Research Cluster (V)
2014: University of Oxford | TBA (V)
2013 – 2015: University College London | Philosophy (P)
William "Billy" Dunaway
Dissertation Title: Realism and Fundamentality in Ethics and Elsewhere
Dissertation Chair: Gibbard
Placement:
2015 – present: University of Missouri - St. Louis | Philosophy (T)
2013 – 2015: University of Oxford | Philosophy (P)
Jason Konek
Dissertation Title: New Foundation for Imprecise Bayesianism
Dissertation Chair: Joyce
Placement:
2018 – present: University of Bristol | Philosophy (T)
2017 – 2018: University of Kent | Philosophy (TT)
2015 – 2016: Kansas State University | Philosophy (TT)
2013 – 2015: University of Bristol | Philosophy (P)
Daniel Peterson
Dissertation Title: Prospects for a New Account of Time Reversal
Dissertation Chair: Belot
Placement:
2018 – present: Morehouse College | Philosophy (V)
2016 – 2020: South Georgia State College | Philosophy (V)
2015 – present: Mind Bubble | Co-Founder and Executive Director
2014 – 2015: Georgia Highlands College | Philosophy (V)
2013 – 2014: Berry College | Philosophy (V)
Alex Silk
Dissertation Title: What Normative Terms Mean and Why It Matters for Ethical Theory
Dissertation Chairs: Gibbard, Railton
Placement:
2013 – present: University of Birmingham | Philosophy (T)
PhD Graduates 2012
Stephen Campbell
Dissertation Title: Prudential Value and the Appealing Life
Dissertation Chair: Gibbard
Placement:
2016 – present: Bentley University | Philosophy (T)
2020 – 2021: Harvard University | Edmond J Safra Center for Ethics (V)
2014 – 2015: University of Pennsylvania | Medical Ethics & Health Policy (P)
2012 – 2019: Yale University | Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics (V)
2012 – 2014: Coe College | Philosophy and Religion (P)
Neil Mehta
Dissertation Title: A Subjective Representationalist Approach to Phenomenal Experience
Dissertation Chairs: Lormand, Egan
Placement:
2012 – present: Yale-NUS College | Philosophy (T)
Sven Nyholm
Dissertation Title: On the Universal Law and Humanity Formulas
Dissertation Chairs: Anderson, Buss
Placement:
2019 – present: Utrecht University | Philosophy and Religious Studies (T)
2015 – 2019: Eindhoven University of Technology | Philosophy and Ethics (TT)
2012 – 2015: University of Cologne | Philosophy (P)
Dan Singer
Dissertation Title: Doxastic Normativity
Dissertation Chair: Joyce
Placement:
2013 – present: University of Pennsylvania | Philosophy (T)
PhD Graduates 2011
Nate Charlow
Dissertation Title: Practical Language: Its Meaning and Use
Dissertation Chair: Gibbard
Placement:
2011 – present: University of Toronto | Philosophy (T)
Lina Jansson
Dissertation Title: Explanation and Dependence
Dissertation Chair: Sklar
Placement:
2016 – present: University of Nottingham | Philosophy (T)
2011 – 2015: Nanyang Technical University | Philosophy (TT)
Shen-yi "Sam" Liao
Dissertation Title: On Morals, Fictions, and Genres
Dissertation Chair: Walton
Placement:
2016 – present: University of Puget Sound | Philosophy (T)
2014 – 2015: University of Leeds | TBA (P)
2013 – 2015: Nanyang Technological University | Philosophy (TT)
2011 – 2013: Kansas State University | Philosophy (V)
Ian McCready-Flora
Dissertation Title: Belief and Rational Cognition in Aristotle
Dissertation Chair: Caston
Placement:
2016 – present: University of Virginia | Philosophy (TT)
2014 – 2015: Saint Louis University | Philosophy (TT)
2011 – 2014: Columbia University | Society of Fellows in the Humanities (P)
Alexandra Plakias
Dissertation Title: The Good and the Gross: Essays in Metaethics and Moral Psychology
Dissertation Chair: Anderson
Placement:
2014 – present: Hamilton College | Philosophy (T)
2012 – 2014: University of Aberdeen | Northern Institute of Philosophy, Relativism & Rational Tolerance Project (P)
2011 – 2012: Rutgers University | Philosophy (V)
Dustin Tucker
Dissertation Title: Propositions and Paradoxes
Dissertation Chair: Thomason
Placement:
2013 – present: Colorado State University | Philosophy (T)
2011 – 2013: Texas Tech University | Philosophy (V)
David Wiens
Dissertation Title: Engineering Global Justice: Achieving Success Through Failure Analysis
Dissertation Chair: Anderson
Placement:
2013 – present: University of California - San Diego | Political Science, Philosophy (T)
2011 – 2013: Australian National University | Philosophy (P)
PhD Graduates 2010
Kevin Coffey
Dissertation Title: Methodology, Reformulation, and Underdetermination: Essays on Realism and Interpretation in Foundational Physics
Dissertation Chairs: Belot, Ruetsche
Placement:
2013 – present: New York University - Abu Dhabi | Philosophy (T)
2011 – 2013: Virginia Tech | Philosophy (V)
2010 – 2011: Texas Tech University | Philosophy (V)
Eduardo García-Ramírez
Dissertation Title: Proper Names: A Cognitive - Philosophical Study
Dissertation Chair: Swanson
Placement:
2019 – present: Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas (CONICET-SADAF) | Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas (TT)
2010 – present: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | Philosophy (T)
Elizabeth "Liz" Goodnick
Dissertation Title: The Role of Naturalistic Explanation in Hume's Critique of Religious Belief
Dissertation Chair: Loeb
Placement:
2013 – present: Metropolitan State University of Denver | Philosophy (T)
2012 – 2013: University of Oklahoma - Norman | TBA (V)
2011 – 2012: University of Notre Dame | Center for Philosophy of Religion (P)
2010 – 2011: University of Washington - Seattle | TBA (V)
TBA: Illinois Wesleyan University | TBA (V)
Marie Jayasekera
Dissertation Title: The Will in Descartes' Thought
Dissertation Chair: Curley
Placement:
2018 – present: California State University - Long Beach | Philosophy (V)
2017 – 2018: University of California - Irvine | TBA (P)
2010 – 2017: Colgate University | Philosophy (TT)
Ivan Mayerhofer
Dissertation Title: Talk about Coming into Existence
Dissertation Chair: Thomason
Placement:
2021 – present: Davidson College | Religious and Spiritual Life (admin)
2019 – 2021: University of Colorado - Boulder | Religious Studies (C)
2014 – 2019: Rampart High School
2014 – 2015: University of Colorado - Colorado Springs | TBA (V)
2013 – 2014: Colorado College | Education (C)
2011 – 2012: Colorado Springs School District 11
2010 – 2013: Colorado College | Philosophy (V)
David Plunkett
Dissertation Title: Locating Practical Normativity
Dissertation Chairs: Gibbard, Railton
Placement:
2012 – present: Dartmouth College | Philosophy (T)
2010 – 2012: University of California - Los Angeles | Law (P)
Amanda Roth
Dissertation Title: Ethical Inquiry as Problem-Resolution: Objectivity, Progress, and Deliberation
Dissertation Chair: Anderson
Placement:
2014 – present: State University of New York - Geneseo | Philosophy, Women's & Gender Studies (T)
2012 – 2014: Bowling Green State University | Philosophy (V)
2010 – 2012: University of Michigan | Center for Ethics in Public Life, Ford School of Public Policy (P)
Lei Zhong
Dissertation Title: A Non-Reductive Naturalist Approach to Moral Explanation
Dissertation Chair: Railton
Placement:
2014 – present: Chinese University of Hong Kong | Philosophy (T)
2011 – 2013: Lingnan University | Philosophy (TT)
2010 – 2011: Peking University | Philosophy (TT)
PhD Graduates 2009
Aaron Bronfman
Dissertation Title: Coping with Imperfection
Dissertation Chairs: Joyce, Railton
Placement:
2009 – present: University of Nebraska - Lincoln | Philosophy (T)
Josh Brown
Dissertation Title: From Semantics to Metaphysics
Dissertation Chairs: Gillies, Ludlow
Placement:
2012 – present: Gustavus Adolphus College | Philosophy (T)
2008 – 2012: University of Houston | Philosophy (TT)
Vanessa Carbonell
Dissertation Title: Moral Saints Reconsidered
Dissertation Chairs: Anderson, Darwall
Placement:
2009 – present: University of Cincinnati | Philosophy (T)
David Dick
Dissertation Title: Ethics and the Possibility of Failure: Getting It Right about Getting It Wrong
Dissertation Chair: Railton
Placement:
2009 – 2022: University of Calgary | Philosophy (T)
Alexa Forrester
Dissertation Title: Considering the Options: The Purpose and Authority of Practical Deliberation
Dissertation Chair: Anderson
Placement:
2013 – present: Santa Rosa Junior College | Philosophy, Humanities and Religion (TT)
2012 – 2013: Portland Community College | TBA (V)
2010 – 2012: Portland State University | TBA (V)
2009 – 2011: Franklin & Marshall College | Environmental Philosophy (P)
Dustin Locke
Dissertation Title: Quidditism
Dissertation Chair: Joyce
Placement:
2009 – present: Claremont McKenna College | Philosophy (T)
Eleni Manis
Dissertation Title: Distributive Justice for Democracies: A Needs-Based Sufficientarian Approach
Dissertation Chair: Anderson
Placement:
2020 – present: Surveillance Technology Oversight Project | Research Director
2019 – 2020: Mike Bloomberg 2020
2019: Mayor's Office of the Chief Technology Officer
2018 – 2019: New York City Mayor's Office of Operations
2018: Center for Data Innovation
2017 – 2020: New York University - Wagner | Public Policy and Public Administration (C)
2013 – 2017: Office of the Nassau County Comptroller
2009 – 2013: Franklin & Marshall College | Philosophy (TT)
Howard Nye
Dissertation Title: Ethics, Fitting Attitudes, and Practical Reason: A Theory of Normative Facts
Dissertation Chairs: Gibbard, Railton
Placement:
2009 – present: University of Alberta | Philosophy (T)
Tim Sundell
Dissertation Title: Conflict and Content
Dissertation Chairs: Gillies, Ludlow
Placement:
2018 – present: University of Kentucky | Philosophy, Linguistics (T)
2016 – 2018: Auburn University | Philosophy (T)
2010 – 2016: University of Kentucky | Philosophy (TT)
2009 – 2010: Northwestern University | Philosophy (P)
PhD Graduates 2008
Matthew E. Silverstein
Dissertation Title: Normative Authority and the Foundations of Ethics
Dissertation Chair: Railton
Placement:
2009 – present: New York University Abu Dhabi | Philosophy (T)
2007 – 2009: Amherst College | Philosophy (P)
Jim Staihar
Dissertation Title: A Restorative Signaling Theory of Punitive Desert
Dissertation Chair: Anderson
Placement:
2018 – present: SUNY Polytechnic Institute | Business (TT)
2010 – 2018: University of Maryland | Business (TT)
2009 – 2010: Princeton University | Law, Public Affairs (P)
2008 – 2009: University of Chicago | Law, Philosophy (P)
Erica Lucast Stonestreet
Dissertation Title: Self-Creating Reasons: The Normative Implications of Identity
Dissertation Chair: Darwall
Placement:
2010 – present: College of Saint Benedict & Saint John's University | Philosophy (T)
2008 – 2010: College of Saint Benedict & Saint John's University | Philosophy (V)
Gabriel Zamosc–Regueros
Dissertation Title: An Interpretation of the Ideals of Sovereignty, Wholeness, and Becoming What One Is in Nietzsche's Practical Philosophy
Dissertation Chair: Darwall
Placement:
2008 – present: University of Colorado - Denver | Philosophy (T)
PhD Graduates 2007
Christopher Dodsworth
Dissertation Title: A Theory of Moral Obligation
Dissertation Chair: Anderson
Placement:
2008 – present: Spring Hill College | Philosophy (T)
2007 – 2008: University of Notre Dame | Center for Philosophy of Religion (V)
TBA: University of Michigan (P)
Soraya Gollop
Dissertation Title: Beyond Simple Desire: How Desires Can be More or Less Stable, and Why This Matters in Rational Deliberation
Dissertation Chair: Joyce
Placement:
2020 – present: University of New Mexico | Project ECHO (admin)
2019 – 2020: Southern Methodist University | Philosophy (V)
2017 – 2020: Dallas Independent School District
2007 – 2015: Southern Methodist University | Philosophy (TT)
Rob Gressis
Dissertation Title: Kant's Theory of Evil: An Interpretation and Defense
Dissertation Chair: Darwall
Placement:
2008 – present: California State University - Northridge | Philosophy (T)
2007 – 2008: University of Notre Dame | Center for Philosophy of Religion (P)
Alex Hughes
Dissertation Title: Seeing and Experiencing: The Revelation of Particulars in Visual Experience
Dissertation Chairs: Lormand, Ludlow
Placement:
2020 – present: Metropolitan State University of Denver | Statistics (C)
2014 – 2017: Metropolitan State University of Denver | Philosophy (V)
2012 – present: freelance writer and editor
2011 – 2012: University of Notre Dame | Philosophy (V)
2007 – 2011: Illinois Wesleyan University | Philosophy (V)
Patrick Lewtas
Dissertation Title: Panpsychism: An Exploration and Defense
Dissertation Chairs: Lormand, Wilson
Placement:
2007 – present: American University of Beirut | Philosophy (T)
PhD Graduates 2006
Remy Debes
Dissertation Title: Empathic Justification: The Value of Interpersonal Viewpoints and Affective Unity in the Normative Assessment of Emotion
Dissertation Chairs: Darwall, Velleman
Placement:
2006 – present: University of Memphis | Philosophy (T)
Hanna Kim
Dissertation Title: Context, Compositionality, and the Myth of Metaphor
Dissertation Chairs: Ludlow, Stanley
Placement:
2006 – present: Washington and Jefferson University | Philosophy (T)
Carole Lee
Dissertation Title: Methodological Rationalism and Psychology
Dissertation Chairs: Anderson, Joyce
Placement:
2008 – present: University of Washington | Philosophy (T)
2006 – 2008: Mount Holyoke College | Philosophy (TT)
PhD Graduates 2005
Steven Daskal
Dissertation Title: Rebuilding Society from the Ground Up: Contextual Justice, Fellow Citizenship, and U.S. Welfare Policy
Dissertation Chairs: Darwall, Gibbard
Placement:
2010 – present: Northern Illinois University | Philosophy (T)
2005 – 2010: Virginia Tech | Philosophy (TT)
Christie Hartley
Dissertation Title: Justice for All: Constructing an Inclusive Contractualism
Dissertation Chair: Anderson
Placement:
2005 – present: Georgia State University | Philosophy (T)
PhD Graduates pre-2005
2003-2004
Robin Bradley Kar
Dissertation Title: Legal Parallelism (2004)
Dissertation Chair: Railton
Placement:
2009 – present: University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana | Law, Philosophy (T)
2004 – 2009: Loyola Marymont University | Law (T)
Gerhard Nuffer
Dissertation Title: Information, Belief, and Possibility (2004)
Dissertation Chair: Joyce
Placement:
2020 – present: DCI Digital Career Institute gGmbH
2019: Lemundo GmbH
2018 – 2019: Logic Joe GmbH
2017: KNIME.com
2010 – 2017: independent scholar
2007 – 2010: Reed College | Philosophy and Humanities (V)
2005 – 2007: University of Wisconsin - Madison | Philosophy (V)
2004 – 2005: University of Michigan | Philosophy (V)
Stephen Petersen
Dissertation Title: Belief-Desire Coherence (2003)
Dissertation Chair: Lormand
Placement:
2005 – present: Niagara University | Philosophy (T)
2004 – 2006: Kalamazoo College | Philosophy (P)
2003 – 2004: University of Michigan | Philosophy (V)
2002-2003
James M A Bell
Dissertation Title: The Relevance of Skepticism (2002)
Dissertation Chair: Joyce
Placement:
2008 – present: unknown
2003 – 2007: Oberlin College | Philosophy (P)
Bruce Lacey
Dissertation Title: Cognitive Content and Communication (2003)
Dissertation Chair: Thomason
Placement:
2018 – present: Connecticut Children's Medical Center | grant writer
2014 – 2018: First Choice Health Centers | grant writer
2011 – 2014: Mercy Medical Center | grant writer
2010 – 2011: A Leg to Stand On | grant writer
2009 – 2014: PM360 Magazine
2009 – 2010: DPS Technologies
2006 – 2009: Berghahn Books
2004 – 2005: Washtenaw Community College
2004 – 2005: University of Michigan | TBA (V)
Kevin Toh
Dissertation Title: Essays on Normativity and Describability of Law (2003)
Dissertation Chairs: Darwall, Velleman
Placement:
2016 – present: University College London | Law (T)
2012 – 2016: San Francisco State University | Philosophy (T)
2009 – 2011: University of Texas - Austin | Law (V)
2003 – 2008: Indiana University | Philosophy (TT)
2001-2002
Charles Goodman
Dissertation Title: Ancient Dharmas, Modern Debates: Towards an Analytic Philosophy of Buddhism (2002)
Dissertation Chair: Gibbard
Placement:
2003 – present: State University of New York - Binghamton | Philosophy, Asian and Asian-American Studies (T)
2002 – 2003: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee | TBA (V)
Robert Mabrito
Dissertation Title: Studies in Disagreement and Inconsistency (2001)
Dissertation Chair: Gibbard
Placement:
2004 – present: North Carolina State University | Philosophy and Religious Studies (T)
2002 – 2004: Arizona State University | TBA (V)
2001 – 2002: Tufts University | Philosophy (V)
Kathleen "Katie" McShane
Dissertation Title: The Nature of Value: An Environmentalist Challenge to Ethical Theory (2002)
Dissertation Chair: Anderson
Placement:
2008 – present: Colorado State University | Philosophy (T)
2003 – 2008: North Carolina State University | Philosophy and Religious Studies (TT)
2002 – 2003: Harvard University | Center for Ethics in the Professions (P)
Blain Neufeld
Dissertation Title: Civic Respect and Political Plural Subjects (2002)
Dissertation Chairs: Darwall, Anderson
Placement:
2008 – present: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee | Philosophy (T)
2005 – 2008: Trinity College | Philosophy (TT)
2002 – 2005: Stanford University | Introduction to the Humanities Program (P)
Greg Sax
Dissertation Title: Toward Theory of High-Grade Representation: A Taxonomy of Content Types (2002)
Dissertation Chair: Tappenden
Placement:
2012 – present: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen | Philosophy (V)
2001 – 2012: University of Michigan | Philosophy (V)
Rivka Weinberg
Dissertation Title: Procreative Justice: A Contractualist Approach (2001)
Dissertation Chair: Anderson
Placement:
2002 – present: Scripps College | Philosophy (T)
2001 – 2002: CUNY - Brooklyn College | TBA (V)
2000-2001
Nishiten Shah
Dissertation Title: Thinking Through Belief (2001)
Dissertation Chair: Velleman
Placement:
2000 – present: Amherst College | Philosophy (T)
Gregory Walski
Dissertation Title: Descartes's Doctrine of the Creation of Eternal Truths (2001)
Dissertation Chair: Curley
Placement:
2012 – present: unknown
2011: freelance exhibit designer
2004 – 2010: unknown
2000 – 2003: University of California - San Diego | TBA (V)
Andrea Westlund
Dissertation Title: Selflessness and Responsibility for Self: The Implications of Deference for Autonomy, Shared Agency, and Love (2001)
Dissertation Chair: Velleman
Placement:
2018 – present: Florida State University | Philosophy (T)
2011 – 2018: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee | Philosophy, Women's & Gender Studies (T)
2012 – 2013: Northwestern University | Brady Program in Ethics and Civic Life (V)
2003 – 2011: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee | Philosophy, Women's Studies (TT)
2001 – 2003: University of Pittsburgh | Philosophy (TT)
1999-2000
Karen Bennett
Dissertation Title: Keeping Modality in Mind: A Defense of Token Identity (2000)
Dissertation Chairs: Joyce, Yablo
Placement:
2018 – present: Rutgers University | Philosophy (T)
2007 – 2018: Cornell University | Philosophy (T)
2001 – 2005: Australian National University | TBA (P)
2000 – 2007: Princeton University | TBA (TT)
Craig Duncan
Dissertation Title: Equality for Infidels: The Moral Foundations of Modern Liberalism (2000)
Dissertation Chair: Anderson
Placement:
2001 – present: Ithaca College | Philosophy and Religion (T)
2000 – 2001: University of Michigan | Philosophy (V)
Edward "Ted" Hinchman
Dissertation Title: Trust and Reason (2000)
Dissertation Chair: Velleman
Placement:
2018 – present: Florida State University | Philosophy (T)
2003 – 2018: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee | Philosophy (T)
2001 – 2003: Claremont McKenna College | Philosophy (TT)
1999 – 2001: Kenyon College | Philosophy (V)
1999: Bowdoin College | Philosophy (V)
Nadeem Hussain
Dissertation Title: Creating Values: Appropriating Nietzsche for a Fictionalist Theory of Value (1999)
Dissertation Chairs: Anderson, Darwall
Placement:
2000 – present: Stanford University | Philosophy, German Studies (T)
1999 – 2000: University of Michigan | Philosophy (V)
Samuel Ruhmkorff
Dissertation Title: The Reliability of Inference to the Best Explanation (2001)
Dissertation Chair: Joyce
Placement:
2020 – present: self-employed author
2001 – 2020: Bard College at Simon's Rock | Philosophy (T)
2012 – 2016: Smith College | Philosophy (V)
2000 – 2001: University of Missouri | Philosophy (V)
Richard Schoonhoven
Dissertation Title: Explaining Causation: Toward a Humean Theory of Scientific Explanation and Causation (1999)
Dissertation Chair: Joyce
Placement:
2000 – present: West Point Academy | Philosophy (T)
Peter Vranas
Dissertation Title: Respect for Persons: An Epistemic and Pragmatic Investigation (2001)
Dissertation Chair: Darwall
Placement:
2006 – present: University of Wisconsin - Madison | Philosophy (T)
2001 – 2006: Iowa State University | Philosophy and Religious Studies (TT)
James Woodbridge
Dissertation Title: Truth as a Pretense: A Deflationary Account of Truth-Talk (2001)
Dissertation Chairs: Crimmins, Yablo
Placement:
2006 – present: University of Nevada - Las Vegas | Philosophy (T)
2005 – 2006: Yale University | Philosophy (V)
2004 – 2005: University of Michigan | Philosophy (V)
2001 – 2004: College of William & Mary | Philosophy (V)
1998-1999
Marc Alspector-Kelly
Dissertation Title: In the Philosophical Vein: Carnap's (and Quine's) Views on Ontology (1999)
Dissertation Chair: Joyce
Placement:
2001 – present: Western Michigan University | Philosophy (T)
2000 – 2001: University of Michigan | TBA (V)
1999 – 2000: University of Toronto | TBA (V)
Jeffrey Brand
Dissertation Title: Sharing Fate: Contractualism, Individualism, and Collective Agency (1999)
Dissertation Chairs: Railton, Darwall
Placement:
2002 – present: George Washington University | Philosophy (T)
1999 – 2002: University of Wisconsin - Eau Clair | Philosophy & Religious Studies (TT)
Jeanine Diller
Dissertation Title: The Content and Coherence of Theism (2000)
Dissertation Chairs: Curley, Loeb
Placement:
2008 – present: University of Toledo | Philosophy, Religious Studies (TT)
2001 – 2008: independent scholar
2000 – 2001: Hope College | Philosophy (V)
1999 – 2000: Seattle Pacific University | Philosophy (V)
Jeffrey Kasser
Dissertation Title: Peirce, Psychologism, and the Doubt-Belief Theory of Inquiry (1999)
Dissertation Chair: Loeb
Placement:
2008 – present: Colorado State University | Philosophy (T)
2004 – 2008: North Carolina State University | Philosophy and Religion (V)
1998 – 2004: Colby College | Philosophy (V)
Krista Lawlor
Dissertation Title: Cognitive Policies: Reidentifying Objects of Thought (1998)
Dissertation Chair: Crimmins
Placement:
1999 – present: Stanford University | Philosophy (T)
Laura Schroeter
Dissertation Title: Making Sense: The Epistemology of Semantic Externalism (1999)
Dissertation Chair: Crimmins
Placement:
2005 – present: University of Melbourne | Philosophy (T)
2003 – 2005: Monash University | Philosophy (P)
1999 – 2003: Australian National University | TBA (P)
1998 – 1999: University of Michigan | Philosophy (V)
1997-1998
John Devlin
Dissertation Title: Truth, Modality, and Ontology (1998)
Dissertation Chair: Yablo
Placement:
2017 – present: unknown
2010 – 2016: Northern Arizona University | Philosophy, Business (TT)
2004 – 2009: unknown
1999 – 2003: Arizona State University | Philosophy (TT)
Mika LaVaque-Manty
Dissertation Title: No Secret Agents: A Liberal Theory of Political Action (1998)
Dissertation Chair: Anderson
Placement:
2001 – present: University of Michigan | Political Science (T)
1908 – 2001: University of Washington | Political Science (TT)
Stephen Schulz
Dissertation Title: Studies in Humeanism (1998)
Dissertation Chair: Gibbard
Placement:
1999 – 2006: Cycorp
1998 – 1999: University of Michigan | Philosophy (V)
Jitendra Subramanyam
Dissertation Title: Determinism and Indeterminism in the Quantum Realm (1997)
Dissertation Chair: Sklar
Placement:
2018 – present: Gartner
2017 – 2018: Synaptiq AI
2017: Harvard Extension School | Machine Learning (V)
2013 – 2017: Datatiq
2011 – 2013: The Hackett Group
2009 – 2011: CAST Research Labs
2003 – 2009: Corporate Executive Board
2000 – 2003: Q Industries
1999 – 2000: IDEV
1998 – 1999: Delima Associates
Michael Weber
Dissertation Title: Satisficing: The Rationality of Preferring What is Good Enough (1998)
Dissertation Chairs: Railton, Anderson
Placement:
2008 – present: Bowling Green State University | Philosophy (T)
1998 – 2008: Yale University | Philosophy (T)
1996-1997
John Doris
Dissertation Title: People Like Us: Morality, Psychology, and the Fragmentation of Character (1996)
Dissertation Chairs: Gibbard, Railton
Placement:
2019 – present: Cornell University | Philosophy, Applied Economics and Management (T)
2004 – 2019: Washington University in St Louis | Philosophy, Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology (T)
1998 – 2004: University of California - Santa Cruz | Philosophy (TT)
1996 – 1998: University of Michigan | Philosophy (V)
Manyul Im
Dissertation Title: Emotion and Ethical Theory in Mencius (1997)
Dissertation Chairs: Munro, Darwall
Placement:
2014 – present: University of Bridgeport | Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
2007 – 2014: Fairfield University | Philosophy; Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences (TT)
2000 – 2003: University of Oklahoma | Philosophy (V)
1997 – 2007: California State University - Los Angeles | Philosophy (TT)
1995-1996
Christopher Roberson
Dissertation Title: Godwin Revisited: Anarchism for the Real World (1996)
Dissertation Chair: Anderson
Placement:
2010 – present: Lincoln Elementary School
2003 – 2010: stay-at-home dad
1998 – 2003: Roosevelt University | Philosophy (V)
1997 – 1998: Loyola University | Philosophy (V)
1996 – 1997: University of Michigan | Philosophy (V)
1994-1995
Justin D'Arms
Dissertation Title: Evolution and the Moral Sentiments (1995)
Dissertation Chair: Gibbard
Placement:
1995 – present: Ohio State University | Philosophy (T)
Leon F. Porter
Dissertation Title: Semantic Paradox and the Metaphysics of Truth (1995)
Dissertation Chair: Yablo
Placement:
2019 – present: Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC)
2014 – present: University of Iowa | freelance writer
2012 – present: Law School Admission Council
2005 – 2019: Pearson Assessments
1995 – 2017: ACT | freelance writer
David Sobel
Dissertation Title: Well-Being and Consequentialism (1996)
Dissertation Chairs: Anderson, Railton
Placement:
2013 – present: Syracuse University | Philosophy (T)
2007 – 2013: University of Nebraska | Philosophy (T)
1996 – 2007: Bowling Green State University | Philosophy (TT)
1995 – 1996: Bowling Green State University | Philosophy (V)
1993-1994
Stephen Angle
Dissertation Title: Concepts in Context (1994)
Dissertation Chair(s): TBA
Placement:
1994 – present: Wesleyan University | Philosophy (TT)
Alexander Miller
Dissertation Title: Sublimation, Realism, and Rule-Following: An Outline of a Humanized Platonism (1995)
Dissertation Chairs: Wright, Yablo
Placement:
2012 – present: University of Otago | Philosophy (T)
2006 – 2012: University of Birmingham | Philosophy (T)
2003 – 2005: Macquarie University | Philosophy (T)
1999 – 2002: Cardiff University | Philosophy (TT)
1996 – 1999: University of Birmingham | Philosophy (TT)
1994 – 1995: University of Nottingham | Philosophy (TT)
Paul Torek
Dissertation Title: Something to Look Forward To: Personal Identity Prudence, and Ethics (1995)
Dissertation Chair: Gibbard
Placement:
2004? – present: Huron Valley Steel Corporation
1998 – 2001: University of Michigan | Mechanical Engineering (C)
1995 – 1998: unknown
1992-1993
Sin Yee Chan
Dissertation Title: An Ethic of Loving: Ethical Particularism and the Engaged Perspective in Confucian Role-Ethics (1993)
Dissertation Chair(s): TBA
Placement:
1993 – present: University of Vermont | Philosophy (T)
Daniel Jacobson
Dissertation Title: Ethical Perspective: On Narrative Art and Moral Perception (1994)
Dissertation Chair: Walton
Placement:
2020 – present: University of Colorado - Boulder | Philosophy (T)
2009 – 2020: University of Michigan | Philosophy (T)
2002 – 2009: Bowling Green State University | Philosophy (T)
1999 – 2002: Franklin & Marshall College | Philosophy (TT)
1999: University of California - Berkeley | TBA (V)
1996 – 1998: College of Charleston | Philosophy (TT)
1995 – 1996: Wesleyan University | Philosophy (V)
1994 – 1995: University of South Carolina | TBA (V)
1994: University of Rochester | TBA (V)
Eileen John
Dissertation Title: Fiction as Conceptual Thought Experiment (1993)
Dissertation Chair(s): TBA
Placement:
2006? – present: University of Warwick | Philosophy (T)
1993 - 2005?: University of Louisville | Philosophy (TT)
Brian Leiter
Dissertation Title: Nietzsche and the Critique of Morality: Philosophical Naturalism in Nietzsche's Theory of Value (1995)
Dissertation Chair(s): TBA
Placement:
2008 – present: University of Chicago | Center for Law, Philosophy & Human Values (T)
1995 – 2008: University of Texas - Austin | Law, Philosophy (T)
1993 – 1995: University of San Diego | Law (TT)
Sigrún Svavarsdóttir
Dissertation Title: Thinking in Moral Terms (1993)
Dissertation Chair(s): TBA
Placement:
2014 – present: Tufts University | Philosophy (T)
2000 – 2014: Ohio State University | Philosophy (TT)
1993 – 2000: New York University | Philosophy (TT)
José Zalabardo
Dissertation Title: Content and Objectivity (1994)
Dissertation Chair(s): Railton, Wright
Placement:
2000 – present: University College London | Philosophy (T)
1994 – 2000: University of Birmingham | Philosophy (TT)
1991-1992
Stephan Burton
Dissertation Title: Aesthetic Sensualism Defended (1992)
Dissertation Chair(s): TBA
Placement:
2002 – present: unknown
2000 – 2002?: Touchstone Farm
1999 – 2000: National Institutes of Health | Clinical Bioethics (P)
1998 – 1999: Johns Hopkins University | TBA (V)
1995 – 1997: unknown
1993 – 1994: University of Chicago | TBA (V)
1992 – 1993: Indiana University Bloomington | TBA (V)
Jeff Gauthier
Dissertation Title: Hegel's Ethical Thought and Feminist Social Criticism (1992)
Dissertation Chair(s): TBA
Placement:
1992 – present: University of Portland | Philosophy (T)
Joel Richeimer
Dissertation Title: Perceptual Expertise and the Autonomy of Perception (1992)
Dissertation Chair(s): TBA
Placement:
1992 – present: Kenyon College | Philosophy (T)
1990-1991
David Anderson
Dissertation Title: Reconstructing the Justice Dispute in America (1990)
Dissertation Chair(s): TBA
Placement:
2004 – present: The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars | senior vice president
1994 – 2006: George Washington University | Political Management (V)
1992 – 1993: University of Cincinnati | Philosophy (V)
1991 – 1992: College of Charleston | Philosophy (V)
Heidi Feldman
Dissertation Title: Legal Judgments, Thick Concepts, and Objectivity (1993)
Dissertation Chair: Railton
Placement:
1998 – present: Georgetown University | Law, Philosophy (T)
1991 – 1998: University of Michigan | Law (TT)
Eric Gampel
Dissertation Title: Naturalizing the Normative (1991)
Dissertation Chair(s): TBA
Placement:
1991 – present: California State University - Chico | Philosophy (T)
James Joyce
Dissertation Title: The Axiomatic Foundations of Bayesian Decision Theory (1991)
Dissertation Chair(s): TBA
Placement:
1991 – present: University of Michigan | Philosophy, Statistics (T)
1987 – 1990: University of the District of Columbia | Philosophy (V)
Don Loeb
Dissertation Title: Generality in Moral Reflection (1990)
Dissertation Chair(s): TBA
Placement:
1991 – present: University of Vermont | Philosophy (T)
1990: Oakland University | TBA (V)
Lee McIntyre
Dissertation Title: Problems in the Philosophy of Social Science (1991)
Dissertation Chair(s): TBA
Placement:
1999 – present: Boston University | Center for Philosophy and History of Science (P)
2014 – 2019: Harvard University Extension School | TBA (P)
2004– 2012: Simmons College | Philosophy (V)
2003 – 2004: Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) | executive director
2000 – 2003: Harvard University | special assistant to the executive dean
1999 – 2000: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
1993 – 1999: Colgate University | Philosophy (TT)
1992 – 1993: Boston University | TBA (P)
Julia Tanney
Dissertation Title: Interpretation, Irrationality, and Psychological Norms (1991)
Dissertation Chair: Wright?
Placement:
2016 – present: independent researcher
1995 – 2015: University of Kent | Philosophy (T)
1991 – 1995: University of Sheffield | Philosophy (TT)
Darryl Wright
Dissertation Title: Refuting Idealism (1991)
Dissertation Chair(s): TBA
Placement:
1991 – present: Harvey Mudd College | Philosophy (T)
