Recent Placements
2021
Robbie Kubala
The University of Texas at Austin
Assistant Professor
Dissertation:Non-Ideal Practices: An Essay on Ethical Theory and Deliberation
Jorge Morales
Northeastern University
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Philosophy
Dissertation: The Strength of the Mind: Essays on Consciousness and Introspection
Jake McNulty
Dartmouth College
Two Year Postdoc
Disseration: "Logic in Hegel's Logic"
2020
Yarran Hominh
Dartmouth Leslie Center for the Humanities
Mellon Postdoctorial Fellow (2021-22)
Bard College
Assistant Professor (2022)
Disseration: "The Problem of Unfreedom"
Robby Finley
University of Maine
Assistant Professor
Disseration: "Logic in Accounts of the Potential and Actual Infinite"
Usha Nathan
Louisiana State University
Assistant Professor (tenture track)
Disseration: "Aristotle's Path: Why they matter"
Katharine McIntryre
Expert Admissions
Writing Specialist
Dissertation:Freedom from Domination: A Foucauldian Account of Power, Subject Formation, and the Need for Recognition
Sabina Vaccarino Bremner
University of Groningen
Assistant Professor (permanent, subject to probation)
Dissertation:The Reflective Dimension of Practical Judgment: Kant, Critique, and the Revision of Moral Universals
Adam Blazej
Moorpark College
Adjunct Professor of Philosophy
Dissertation in progress
Natalie Hannan
University of Rochester
Doctoral Fellow
Dissertation in progress
César Cabezas
Temple University
ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow
Dissertation: Structural Racism and the Explanation of Durable Racial Inequality
Laura Martin
Northwestern University
Postdoctoral Weinberg Fellow in the Brady Scholars Program in Ethics and Civic Life
Dissertation: The Social Ontology of Systemic Oppression
Sébastien Rivat
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dissertation: Representation and Realism in the Age of Effective Theories
Aaron Landau
Wellesley College
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow (2 year)
Dissertation: Philosophy in a World of Injustice
Jonathan Fine
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Assistant Professor of Philosophy (tenure track)
Dissertation: Beauty on Display: Plato and the Concept of the Kalon
Philip Yaure
Virginia Tech
Assistant Professor of Philosophy (tenure track)
Dissertation: To Reforge the Nation: Emancipatory Politics and Antebellum Black Abolitionism
Isabel Kaeslin
University of Fribourg
4-year Research Postdoc
Dissertation: Emotion, Cognition, and the Virtue of Flexibility
Michael Neilsen
University of Sydney
Lecturer in Mathematical Philosophy
Dissertation: Essays on Learning and Induction
Thimo Heisenberg
Bryn Mawr
Assistant Professor of Philosophy (tenure track)
Dissertation: Hegel on Social Critique: Life, Action, and the Good in the Philosophy of Right
Simon Brown
Johns Hopkins University
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Foundations of Mind
Dissertation: Animal Minds in Time
2019
Nathan Bice
American Express
Senior Manager - Risk Management (Machine Learning)
Dissertation: Thoughts about Thoughts: the Structure of Fregean Propositions
Michael Nielsen
Australian National University
Research Fellow
Dissertation: Essays on Learning and Induction
Robby Finley
Bucknell University
Visiting Assistant Professor
Dissertation: Logic in Accounts of the Potential and Actual Infinite
Aaron Landau
Wellesley College
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Philosophy
Dissertation: Philosophy in a World of Injustice
Jake McNulty
New York University
Bersoff Post-Doctoral Fellow
Dissertation:Logic in Hegel's
Ignacio Ojea Quintana
Australian National University
Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Philosophy, College of Arts and Social Sciences
Dissertation: Opinions and Preferences as Socially Distributed Attitudes
Guillermo Del Pinal
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Assistant Professor, Departments of Philosophy and Linguistics
Dissertation: The Semantic Architecture of the Faculty of Language: Compositional Operations and Complex Lexical Representations
Max Hayward
University of Sheffield
Lecturer, Department of Philosophy
Dissertation: Ethics as a Humanistic Inquiry
2018
Alison Fernandes
Trinity College, Dublin
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy
Dissertation: A Deliberative Account of Causation: How the Evidence of Deliberating Agents Accounts for Causation and its Temporal Direction
Jonathan Fine
Yale University
Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer in Humanities and in Philosophy
Dissertation: Beauty on Display: Plato and the Concept of the Kalon
Isabel Kaeslin
University of Zurich
Lecturer
Dissertation: Emotion, Cognition, and the Virtue of Flexibility
Jorge Morales
Johns Hopkins University
Postdoctoral Fellow - Philosopher in Residence, Perception and Mind Laboratory, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Dissertation: The Strength of the Mind: Essays on Consciousness and Introspection
2017
Alison Fernandes
University of Warwick
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
AHRC Project: "Time: Between Metaphysics and Psychology"
Dissertation: A Deliberative Account of Causation: How the Evidence of Deliberating Agents Accounts for Causation and its Temporal Direction
Max Hayward
Bowling Green State University
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Dissertation: Ethics as a Humanistic Inquiry
Jonathan Lawhead
Davidson Academy
Instructor
Dissertation: Lightning in a Bottle
Rush Stewart
Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (LMU Munich)
Assistant Professor
Dissertation: Essays on Aggregation in Deliberation and Inquiry
Christine Susienka
Sacred Heart University
Assistant Professor
Dissertation: Human Responsibilities: A Relational Account of Human Rights
2016
David Blancha
STEM Manager for Graduate Career Services
UCLA Career Center
Dissertation: The Moral of Luck
Alison Fernandes
University of Pittsburgh
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Philosophy of Science
Dissertation: A Deliberative Account of Causation: How the Evidence of Deliberating Agents Accounts for Causation and its Temporal Direction
Jeremy Forster
Columbia University
Lecturer, Philosophy Department, Core Curriculum
Dissertation: Nietzsche and the Pathologies of Meaning
Alexander Madva
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Assistant Professor (tenure track)
Dissertation: The Hidden Mechanisms of Prejudice: Implicit Bias & Interpersonal Fluency
Katharine McIntyre
Columbia University
Lecturer, Philosophy Department, Core Curriculum
Dissertation: Freedom from Domination: A Foucauldian Account of Power, Subject Formation, and the Need for Recognition
Michael Stevenson
Columbia University
Lecturer, Philosophy Department, Core Curriculum
Dissertation: Subjectivity and Selfhood in Kant, Fichte, and Heidegger
Porter Williams
University of Pittsburgh, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Assistant Professor (tenure track)
Dissertation: Philosophy of Science Made Effective: Realism, Reduction, and the Renormalization Group in Quantum Field Theory
2015
Avery Archer
George Washington University
Assistant Professor (tenure track) (beginning January 2016)
Dissertation:The Rational Significance of Desire
Mark Berger
University of Chicago
Collegiate Assistant Professor and Harper Fellow in the Society of Fellows
Dissertation: Genuine Value Pluralism and the Foundations of Liberalism
Guillermo Del Pinal
ZAS Berlin
Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dissertation: The Semantic Architecture of The Faculty of Language: Compositional Operations and Complex Lexical Representation
Katherine Gasdaglis
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Assistant Professor (tenure track)
Dissertation: Intuition in Kant’s Theoretical Epistemology: Content, Skepticism, and Idealism
Brian Kim
Oklahoma State University
Assistant Professor (tenure track)
Dissertation: The Context-Sensitivity of Rationality and Knowledge
Isabel Lerer
Founder of The Dodo (www.thedodo.com), a venture-backed digital media start-up dedicated to building the definitive online community for people who care about animals. Part news, part entertainment, part advocacy, The Dodo leverages the viral nature of animal content in an effort to help push the animal welfare agenda mainstream.
Dissertation: The Sport of Spectatorship: Exploring the Agency of Animals through Literature
Yang Liu
University of Cambridge
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dissertation: Probabilities: Studies in the Foundations of Bayesian Decision Theory
Alexander Madva
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Visiting Assistant Professor
Dissertation: The Hidden Mechanisms of Prejudice: Implicit Bias & Interpersonal Fluency
Ariadna Pop
Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
Diplomat
Dissertation: Making Sense of Faultless Disagreement
Jeremy Wolos
Huron Consulting Group (New York, NY)
Higher Education Management Consultant
Dissertation: That Seems Right: Reasoning, Inference, and the Feeling of Correctness
2014
Michael Brent
University of Denver
Assistant Professor (tenure track)
Dissertation: The Power of Agency
John Brunero
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Robert R. Chambers Distinguished Associate Professor of Philosophy and the Moral Sciences
Dissertation: Essays on Practical Reason and Instrumental Rationality
Guillermo Del Pinal
Ruhr-Universität, Mercator Research Group and Institute of Philosophy II
Postdoctoral Fellow (Neurolinguistics, Philosophy of Language and Cognition)
Project: Theory of Memory
Dissertation: The Semantic Architecture of The Faculty of Language: Compositional Operations and Complex Lexical Representation
Andrew Franklin-Hall
University of Toronto
Assistant Professor (tenure track)
Dissertation: Origins and Departures: Childhood in the Liberal Order
Jonathan Gilmore
Baruch College, City University of New York
Assistant Professor (tenure track)
Previous position: Assistant Professor (tenure track) at Yale University
Dissertation: The Life of a Style: Beginnings and Endings in the Narrative History of Art
Dehlia Hannah
Arizona State University
Research Curator, Synthesis Center
Assistant Research Professor, Department of Arts, Media and Engineering
Affiliated Faculty, School for the Future of Innovation and Society
Copenhagen University
Guest Researcher, Department of Media, Cognition and Communication
Dissertation: Performative Experiments: Case Studies in the Philosophy of Art, Science, and Technology
Brian Kim
Bowdoin College
Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy
Dissertation: The Context-Sensitivity of Rationality and Knowledge
Jonathan Lawhead
University of Southern California, Dornsife
Postdoctoral Fellow in Sustainability Solutions
Project: Complex Adaptive Systems and Geoengineering
Dissertation: Foundations of Climate Science
Alexander Madva
Vassar College
Visiting Assistant Professor
Dissertation: The Hidden Mechanisms of Prejudice: Implicit Bias & Interpersonal Fluency
Andreja Novakovic
University of California, Riverside
Assistant Professor (tenure track)
Dissertation: Second Nature and Ethical Life: Habit, Culture, and Critique in Hegel's Science of Right
Sebastian Watzl
University of Oslo, Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature (CSMN)
Associate Professor (tenured)
Dissertation: The Significance of Attention
2013
Avery Archer
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Assistant Professor (tenure track)
Dissertation: The Rational Significance of Desire
Andrew Franklin-Hall
University of California, Riverside
Post-doctoral Fellowship (2013-2014)
Dissertation: Origins and Departures: Childhood in the Liberal Order
Dehlia Hannah
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Center for 21st Century Studies
Postdoctoral Provost Fellow
Dissertation: Performative Experiments: Case Studies in the Philosophy of Art, Science, and Technology
Brian Kim
The Ohio State University
Visiting Assistant Professor
Dissertation: The Context-Sensitivity of Rationality and Knowledge
Felix Koch
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Assistant Professor)
Freie Universität Berlin (Free University Berlin)
Dissertation: Voluntarism and Reflection
Chloe Layman
Columbia University
Lecturer, Philosophy Department, Core Curriculum
Dissertation: Descartes’ Slight and Metaphysical Doubt
Ariadna Pop
University of Illinois, Chicago
Visiting Assistant Professor
Dissertation: Making Sense of Faultless Disagreement
Jonathan Rick
University of Toronto
Lecturer in Philosophy
Dissertation: From Partial Passions to Moral Sentiments: Sympathy and a Smithian Psychology of Moral Judgment
Michael Seifried
College of Wooster
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Beau Shaw
Columbia University
Lecturer, Philosophy Department, Core Curriculum
Dissertation: Authenticity and Death in Being and Time
Dana Tulodziecki
Purdue University
Assistant Professor (tenure track)
Dissertation: Realism, Underdetermination, and Method: Considerations on Knowledge and Experience
2012
Michael Brent
Carthage College
Bradley Postdoctoral Fellowship
Dissertation: The Power of Agency
Andrew Franklin-Hall
Barnard College
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Dissertation: Origins and Departures: Childhood in the Liberal Order
Alexander Madva
University of California, Berkeley
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship
Dissertation: The Hidden Mechanisms of Prejudice: Implicit Bias & Interpersonal Fluency
Marco Nathan
University of Denver
Assistant Professor (tenure track)
Dissertation: Explanatory Patterns in Molecular Developmental Biology
Andreja Novakovic
College of William and Mary
Assistant Professor (tenure track)
Dissertation: Second Nature and Ethical Life: Habit, Culture, and Critique in Hegel's Science of Right
Katherine Rickus
Marquette University
Assistant Professor (tenure track)
Dissertation: Anatomies of Affect: Examining Emotions as Processes
Beau Shaw
New York University
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Pratt Institute, Social Science and Cultural Studies
Visiting Instructor
Dissertation: Authenticity and Death in Being and Time
Michael Stevenson
Hunter College
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Dissertation: Subjectivity and Selfhood in Kant, Fichte, and Heidegger
Nandi Theunissen
Johns Hopkins University
Assistant Professor (tenure track)
Dissertation: The Value of Humanity
Sebastian Watzl
University of Oslo
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Study of Mind and Nature (CSMN)
Dissertation: The Significance of Attention
2011
Chris Haufe
Case Western Reserve University
Assistant Professor (tenure track)
Dissertation: Evolutionary Psychology and the Future of Evolutionary History
Jonathan Neufeld
College of Charleston
Assistant Professor (tenure track)
Dissertation: Listeners, Critics, and Judges: Performance and Deliberation in the Musical Public Sphere
Anubav Vasudevan
University of Chicago
Assistant Professor (tenure track)
Dissertation: Symmetry and the Determination of Prior Belief
2010
Michael Fuerstein
St. Olaf College
Assistant Professor (tenure track)
Dissertation: The Scientific Public: Inquiry in Democratic Society
Christiana Olfert
Tufts University
Assistant Professor (tenure track)
Dissertation: Building the Soul: Aristotle's Constitutive View of Virtue
Jonathan Rick
Columbia University
Lecturer, Philosophy Department, Core Curriculum
Dissertation: From Partial Passions to Moral Sentiments: Sympathy and a Smithian Psychology of Moral Judgment
Daniel Viehoff
University of Sheffield
Lecturer (tenure track)
Dissertation: The Claims of Disagreement: A Theory of Democratic Authority
Sebastian Watzl
Harvard University
MBB Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Philosophy
Dissertation: The Significance of Attention
2009
Michael Fuerstein
Rutgers University
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Cultural Analysis
Dissertation: The Scientific Public: Inquiry in Democratic Society
Jonathan Rick
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Visiting Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department
Dissertation: From Partial Passions to Moral Sentiments: Sympathy and a Smithian Psychology of Moral Judgment
Matthew H. Slater
Bucknell University
Assistant Professor (tenure track)
Dissertation: The Nature of Kinds
Bonnie Talbert
Harvard University
Lecturer on Social Studies
Dissertation: Other Minds and Other People: A Tenative Epistemology
Daniel Viehoff
Harvard University
Faculty Fellow, Safra Center for Ethics
Dissertation: The Claims of Disagreement: A Theory of Democratic Authority
2008
Fernando Birman
Delft University of Technology
Senior Researcher
Dissertation: An Inquiry on Physicalism
Laura Franklin-Hall
New York University
Assistant Professor
Dissertation: From a Microbiological Point of View
Arnon Keren
University of Haifa
Lecturer
Dissertation: Testimony, Science, and the Social: Obtaining Knowledge from Authorities
2007
Andrea Borghini
College of the Holy Cross
Assistant Professor
Dissertation: On the Necessity and Sufficiency of Universals
Dana Tulodziecki
University of Missouri, Kansas City
Assistant Professor
Dissertation: Realism, Underdetermination, and Method: Considerations on Knowledge and Exper ience
Sirine Shebaya
Johns Hopkins University
Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Dissertation: Individuals as Ultimate Objects of Moral Concern
Hanne (Ahonen) Appelqvist
University of Helsinki
Researcher
Dissertation: Wittgenstein and the Conditions of Musical Communication
Eleonora Cresto
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (National Council for Scientific and Technical Research)
Assistant Reseacher
Dissertation: Inferring to the Best Explanation: A Decision Theoretic Approach
Tiger Roholt
Montclair State University
Assistant Professor
Dissertation: Groove: The Phenomenology of Musical Nuance
2006
John Brunero
University at Missouri-St. Louis
Assistant Professor
Dissertation: Essays on Practical Reason and Instrumental Rationality
Daniel Cloud
Princeton University
Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Dissertation: Functionalism in Scientific Practice
Mark Couch
Seton Hall University
Assistant Professor
Dissertation: Functionalism in Scientific Practice
Chris Haufe
Duke University
Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Dissertation: Evolutionary Psychology and the Future of Evolutionary History
Arnon Keren
National Institutes of Health, Department of Bioethics
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dissertation: Testimony, Science, and the Social: Obtaining Knowledge from Authorities
Matthew H. Slater
University of Idaho
Assistant Professor
Dissertation: The Nature of Kinds
Ivan Welty
Willamette University
Assistant Professor
Dissertation: Frege Against Hilbert on the Foundations of Geometry
Sophia Wong
Long Island University
Assistant Professor
Dissertation: Rawlsian Contractualism and Cognitive Disabilities
2005
Kenneth Ehrenberg
University at Buffalo (SUNY)
Assistant Professor
Dissertation: A Functional Methodology for General Jurisprudence
Ernesto V. Garcia
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Assistant Professor
Dissertation: Nature and Freedom in Kant's Ethics: The Historical Development of Kant's Moral and Political Philosophy
Brian Soucek
University of Chicago
Collegiate Assistant Professor and Harper Fellow
The Society of Fellows (4 year post-doctoral fellowship)
Dissertation: The Personification of Art
Neil Williams
University at Buffalo (SUNY)
Assistant Professor
Dissertation: The Power to Persist
Jonathan Neufeld
Vanderbilt University
Assistant Professor
Dissertation: Listeners, Critics, and Judges: Performance and Deliberation in the Musical Pu blic Sphere
Hsing-Chien Tsai
Chung-Cheng University
Assistant Professor
Dissertation: The Logic and Metaphysics of Part-Whole Relations
Zanja Yudell
California State University at Chico
Assistant Professor
Dissertation: Scientific Realism and Inconsistency: A Model-Based Approach
2004
Stéphanie Ruphy
Université de Marseille et d'Aix-en-Provence
Professor
Dissertation: Philosophical Implications of the Unity/Disunity of Science Debate
Peter Hajnal
The European College of Liberal Arts (Berlin)
Assistant Professor
Dissertation: Seeing Whole
Gustavo Ortiz-Millan
Instituto de Investigaciones Filisoficas Universidad
Researcher
Dissertation: The Belief-Desire Model and the Nature of Value
2003
Sergia Hay
University of Maryland, University College, European Division
Collegiate Faculty
Dissertation: An Ethical Stance Despite the World: Silence in Soren Kierkegaard's Second Ethics