The Department makes the strongest possible effort to assist its doctoral students in finding suitable employment upon completion of their programs. The broad philosophical background and teaching experience our students acquire prepare them to teach in a wide variety of courses and make them attractive candidates in a competitive job market.

All regular tenure-track positions are noted with a 'TT'
Tenured appointments are noted with a 'T'

Unless otherwise noted, all positions are in Philosophy Departments.

2023

Christopher Fruge

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How to Make
Advisor(s): Jonathan Schaffer
Initial placement: Oxford (4 year postdoc)

2022

D Black

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The True and the Good
Initial placement: Litigator for AARP

Carolina Flores

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Bad Believers: Evidence-Resistance, Rational Persuasion, and Social Change
Advisor(s): Elisabeth Camp and Susanna Schellenberg
Initial placement: 2-year postdoc at University of California-Irving; University of California Santa Cruz (TT)

Adam Gibbons

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Incentives, Institutions, and the Language of Politics
Advisor(s): Alexander Guerrero
Initial placement: Lingnan University (TT)

James Goodrich

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Self-Defense without Deontology
Advisor(s): Larry Temkin
Initial placement: University of Wisconsin-Madison (TT)

Ting-An Lin

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Addressing Structural Wrongs: From Moral Theory to Implementation
Advisor(s): Alexander Guerrero
Initial placement: 2-year postdoc at Stanford
Present position: University of Connecticut (TT)

2021

Christopher Willard-Kyle

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Surprising Suspensions: The Epistemic Value of Being Ignorant
Advisor(s): Ernest Sosa
Initial placement: 5-year Research Assistant position at University of Glasgow

Tyler John

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Chronopolitanism: Broadening Longtermism
Advisor(s): Alexander Guerrero
Initial placement: Longview Philanthropy

Olivia Odoffin

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"On the Bifold Heterogeneity Problem for Affect Programs
Advisor(s): Susanna Schellenberg
Initial placement: 1 year postdoc at the University of Antwerp

Dee Payton

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How To Be Social
Advisor(s): Theodore Sider
Initial placement: Howard University (TT)
Present position: University of Virginia (TT)

Isaac Wilhelm

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The Non-Fundamental: Explanation
Advisor(s): Barry Loewer & Jonathan Schaffer
Initial placement: National University of Singapore (TT)

2020

David Anton Johnson

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Deliberations on Deliberation
Advisor(s): Andy Egan
Initial placement: One-year postdoc at Brown University
Present position: SUNY - Geneseo, post-doc (1 year)

Verónica Gómez

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Metaphysical Foundations for Intentional Psychology
Advisor(s): Frances Egan & Theodore Sider
Initial placement: NYU Bersoff; University of California - Berkeley (TT)

Chris Hauser

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Essence, Definition, and Scientific Inquiry in Aristotle
Advisor(s): Robert Bolton
Initial placement: University of Scranton (TT)

Sam Carter

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Exploring Information
Advisor(s): Jeff King & Thony Gillies
Initial placement: Permanent Lecturer at Australian Catholic University

Eli Shupe

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Comparing Capacities
Advisor(s): Elisabeth Camp
Initial placement: University of Texas, Arlington (TT)

2019

Austin Baker

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When Perception Bypasses Truth: Attention, Bias, and the Structures of Social Stereotypes
Advisor(s): Andy Egan
Initial placement: 3-year postdoc Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science
Present position: 2-year postdoc at University of Oslo

Ben Bronner

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Intention, Prevention, and the Just War
Advisor(s): Alec Walen
Initial placement: Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets & Ethics (2-year junior faculty fellowship)
Present position: Teaching Assistant Professor, George Washington University

Laura Callahan

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Responsible for What's Rational
Advisor(s): Ernest Sosa
Initial placement: Notre Dame (TT)

Eddy Chen

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Essays on the Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics
Advisor(s): Barry Loewer & David Albert
Initial placement: UCSD (TT)

Nico Kirk-Giannini

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Commitment, Communication, and Content: Toward a Theory of Assertion
Advisor(s): Ernest Lepore & Jeff King
Initial placement: Rutgers-Newark (TT)

Daniel Rubio

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Essays in Formal Metaphysics
Advisor(s): Dean Zimmerman
Initial placement: Princeton University (2-year postdoc)
Present position: Toronto Metropolitan University (TT)

2018

Lee-Sun Choi

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Primitive Individuation and Haecceitism
Advisor(s): Barry Loewer
Initial placement: Ewha Women’s University (Korea)

Marilie Coetsee

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The Ethics of Disagreement
Advisor(s): Ruth Chang
Initial placement: University of Richmond (TT)

Will Fleisher

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Endorsement & Inquiry
Advisor(s): Ernest Sosa
Initial placement: Washington University, St. Louis (2 year postdoc)
Present position: Georgetown University

Pamela Robinson

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Toward an Ultimate Normative Theory
Advisor(s): Andy Egan
Initial placement: University of Massachusetts-Lowell (2 year postdoc)
Present position: University of British Columbia - Okanagan (TT)

Peter van Elswyk

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Unqualified Declaratives
Advisor(s): Ernest Lepore & Jeff King
Initial placement: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (TT)
Present position: Northwestern University

2017

Georgi Gardiner

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In Pursuit of Understanding
Advisor(s): Ernest Sosa
Initial placement: Oxford (2 year postdoc); University of Tennessee (TT)

Simon Goldstein

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Informative Dynamic Semantics
Advisor(s): Thony Gillies & Ernest Lepore
Initial placement: Lingnan University (TT)

David Rose

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Promiscuous Teleology and Folk Metaphysics
Advisor(s): Jonathan Schaffer
Initial placement: Washington University, St. Louis (2 year postdoc)
Present position: Florida State (2 year postdoc)

M. Beth Valentine

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Fictitious Consents: What They are and What They Can Do
Advisor(s): Doug Husak
Initial placement: Washington & Lee (1 year)
Present position: University of North Dakota (NTT)

2016

Marcello Antosh

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Understanding Normative Practical Reasons
Advisor(s): Ruth Chang
Initial placement: Purdue University (Visiting Assistant Professorship)

Robert Beddor

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Reduction in Epistemology
Advisor(s): Alvin Goldman & Andy Egan
Initial placement: KU Leuven (in Belgium) (2 year postdoc); President’s Assistant Professorship, National University of Singapore (TT)

Edwin Green Jr.

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Seeing the Structure of Objects
Advisor(s): Brian McLaughlin
Initial placement: Bersoff Fellowship at NYU (postdoc, 1 year appt.); MIT (TT)

Michael T. Hicks

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Humeanism after the BSA: A Second Best System
Advisor(s): Barry Loewer
Initial placement: 1.5 year postdoc at Oxford
Present position: University of Glasgow

Stephanie Leary

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On the Grounds of Normativity
Advisor(s): Ruth Chang & Andy Egan
Initial placement: 3 year Visiting Professorship, Indiana-Bloomington
Present position: McGill University (TT)

Una Stojnic

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Context-Sensitivity in a Coherent Discourse
Advisor(s): Ernest Lepore & Jeff King
Initial placement: 2 year Summer postdoc, ANU; Bersoff Fellowship at NYU (postdoc, 1 year appt.); Columbia (TT)
Present position: Princeton University (TT)

Stephen Woodside

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Liability, Responsibility, and Ineffective Threats
Advisor(s): Doug Husak
Initial placement: Westpoint

2015

Rodrigo Borges

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Knowledge from Knowledge: An Essay on Inferential Knowledge
Advisor(s): Peter Klein
Initial placement: FAPESP, 2-3 year postdoc, University of Campinas, Brazil
Present position: Permanent Lectureship, University of Florida

Timothy Campbell

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Personal Ontology and Bioethics
Advisor(s): Jeff McMahan & Larry Temkin
Initial placement: 2 year postdoc, Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm, Sweden

Marco Dees

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The Fundamental Structure of the World: Physical Magnitudes, Space and Time, and the Laws of Nature
Advisor(s): Dean Zimmerman
Initial placement: Rutgers University-PTL
Present position: Vassar College (Half-time)

Ronald Planer

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Information in Development and Evolution
Advisor(s): Brian McLaughlin
Initial placement: ANU, 1 year postdoc; Kentucky (TT)

Christopher Weaver

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Essays on Causation, Explanation, and the Past Hypothesis
Advisor(s): Barry Loewer
Initial placement: Illinois Urbana-Champaign (TT)

Tobias Wilsch

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Laws in Metaphysics
Advisor(s): Jonathan Schaffer
Initial placement: University of Uppsala, 3 year postdoc
Present position: Assistant Professorship at Tübingen (6 year)

2014

Thomas Blanchard

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Causation in a Physical World
Advisor(s): Barry Loewer
Initial placement: UC, Berkeley (postdoc), Illinois-Wesleyan University (TT)
Present position: Illinois-Wesleyan University (TT)

Janelle Derstine

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Backwaters of Ontology
Advisor(s): Dean Zimmerman
Initial placement: Rutgers University-PTL

Ricardo Mena

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Semantic Quietism
Advisor(s): Brian McLaughlin
Initial placement: UNAM (TT)

Lisa Miracchi

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Getting Things Done
Advisor(s): Ernest Sosa & Brian McLaughlin
Initial placement: Bersoff Fellowship at NYU (1 yr. appt.)
Present position: University of Pennsylvania (TT)

Justin Sharber

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The Predictive Focus Account of the Principle of Simplicity
Advisor(s): Branden Fitelson
Initial placement: Rutgers University-PTL
Present position: Software Engineer

Kurt Sylvan

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On the Normativity of Epistemic Rationality
Advisor(s): Ernest Sosa
Initial placement: University of Southampton, UK (2 year)
Present position: University of Southampton, UK (TT)

2013

Geoffrey Anders

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Cartesian Concepts
Advisor(s): Martha Bolton
Initial placement: Lecturer, Stonehill College
Present position: Executive Director, Leverage Research

Josh Armstrong

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Language Change in Context
Advisor(s): Ernest Lepore & Jeff King
Initial placement: University of Pennsylvania (1 year appt.)
Present position: UCLA (TT)

Nick Beckstead

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On the Overwhelming Importance of Shaping the Far Future
Advisor(s): Larry Temkin
Initial placement: Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford University
Present position: Program Officer at Open Philanthropy Project

Heather Demarest

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A Theory of Laws of Nature, Disposition, and Chances
Advisor(s): Barry Loewer
Initial placement: University of Oklahoma (TT)
Present position: UC-Boulder (TT)

S. Kate Devitt

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Homeostatic Epistemology: Reliability, Coherence and Coordination in a Bayesian Virtue Epistemology
Advisor(s): Ernest Sosa
Initial placement: 1 year lectureship, Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
Present position: Social & Ethical Robotics Researcher, Defence Science & Technology Group (Australia)

Richard Dub

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Delusions, Acceptances, and Cognitive Feelings
Advisor(s): Brian McLaughlin
Initial placement: Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva (postdoc)
Present position: Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva (postdoc- renewed for additional year)

Preston Greene

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Rationality and Success
Advisor(s): Andy Egan
Initial placement: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (TT)

Benjamin Levinstein

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Accuracy as Epistemic Utility
Advisor(s): Branden Fitelson
Initial placement: University of Bristol (post-doc); Future of Humanities Institute, Oxford (2 year postdoc)
Present position: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (TT)

Zachary Miller

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Essays on the Semantics of Modality
Advisor(s): Thony Gillies
Initial placement: University of Oklahoma (TT)
Present position: Software Engineer

Alex Morgan

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On the Matter of Memory: Neural Computation and the Mechanisms of Intentional Agency
Advisor(s): Frances Egan & Robert Matthews
Initial placement: Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of T
Present position: Rice University (TT)

Carlotta Pavese

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The Unity and Scope of Knowledge
Advisor(s): Jason Stanley
Initial placement: 2013: Bersoff Fellowship, NYU,
Present position: Duke University (TT)

Blake Roeber

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Believing, Knowing, Acting
Advisor(s): Ernest Sosa
Initial placement: Notre Dame (TT)

Jennifer Wang

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Modal Primitivism
Advisor(s): Dean Zimmerman
Initial placement: University of Georgia (TT)
Present position: Simon Fraser University (TT)

2012

Matt Benton

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Advisor(s): Ernest Sosa
Initial placement: Oxford (postdoc); Notre Dame, 1 year postdoc
Present position: Seattle Pacific University (TT)

Tom Donaldson

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Papers of Pragmatics
Advisor(s): Ernest Lepore
Initial placement: Harvard Society of Fellows (3 year)
Present position: Simon Fraser University (TT)

Jon Winterbottom

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Corrective Justice, Harm, and Reparations for Historical Injustice
Advisor(s): Howard McGary
Initial placement: UCSB (1 year Visiting Professorship)
Present position: Financial Coordinator, The Institute for Energy Efficiency, UCSB

2011

Luvell Anderson

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Communicating Offense: The Sordid Life of Language Use
Advisor(s): Howard McGary & Ernest Lepore
Initial placement: Pennsylvania State (postdoc)
Present position: Syracuse University (T)

Gabriel Greenberg

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The Semiotic Spectrum
Advisor(s): Jeff King & Jason Stanley
Initial placement: UCLA (TT)

Allison Hepola

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The Metaphysics of Interpretation
Advisor(s): Peter Kivy & Dean Zimmerman
Initial placement: Samford (TT)

Michael Johnson

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Harlequin Semantics
Advisor(s): Ernest Lepore &
Initial placement: Lingnan University, Hong Kong (Visiting Lecturer)

Karen Lewis

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Understanding Dynamic Discourse
Advisor(s): Jeff King
Initial placement: University of Southern California (TT)
Present position: Barnard College (TT)

Jennifer Nado

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Intuition and Inquiry
Advisor(s): Stephen Stich
Initial placement: Lingnan University, Hong Kong (TT)

Karen Shanton

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How many Persons am I? An Empirical Investigation of Personhood + the Unconscious
Advisor(s): Alvin Goldman
Initial placement: ACLS Fellow
Present position: Analyst, American National Government at the Congressional Research Service

Meghan Sullivan

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The A-Theory: A Theory
Advisor(s): Dean Zimmerman
Initial placement: Notre Dame (TT)

Carrie Swanson

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Socratic Dialectic and the Resolution of Fallacy in Plato's Euthydemus
Advisor(s): Alan Code
Initial placement: Indiana (postdoc)
Present position: University of Iowa (T)

Evan Williams

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Ethics Under Moral Neutrality
Advisor(s): Larry Temkin
Initial placement: Purdue (Visiting Assistant Professor)
Present position: University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh (TT)

2010

Alexander Jackson

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Evaluating Beliefs
Advisor(s): Ernest Sosa
Initial placement: Boise State (TT)

William Starr

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Conditionals, Meaning, and Mood
Advisor(s): Ernest Lepore & Jason Stanley
Initial placement: NYU (Bersoff Fellow)
Present position: Cornell University (TT)

2009

Saba Bazargan

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"Individual Responsibility for Collectively Committed Harms."
Advisor(s): Jeff McMahan
Initial placement: UCSD (TT)

Carlos Montemayor

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The Psychology of Time and its Philosophical Implications
Advisor(s): Alvin Goldman
Initial placement: San Francisco State University (TT)

Joshua Orozco

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Knowledge and Intellectual Skill
Advisor(s): Ernest Sosa
Initial placement: Whitworth University (TT)

Iris Oved

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The Mental Coining of Terms
Advisor(s): Jason Stanley
Initial placement: University of Arizona (postdoc, Computer Science)
Present position: Founder of Paradox Lab:

Andrew Sepielli

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Along an Imperfectly-Lighted Path: Practical Rationality and Normative Uncertainty
Advisor(s): Ruth Chang
Initial placement: University of Toronto (TT)

Stephanie Wykstra

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A Defense of Cartesian Certainty
Advisor(s): Ernest Sosa
Initial placement: Stonehill College (TT)
Present position: Freelance writer and researcher

2008

Benjamin Allen

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Zeno, Aristotle, The Racetrack and the Archilles: A Historical and Philosophical Investigation
Advisor(s): Robert Bolton
Initial placement: Tufts University (postdoc)
Present position: Haverford College (Visiting Assistant Professor)

Walter Dean

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What Algorithms Could Not Be
Advisor(s): Robert Matthews
Initial placement: University of Warwick (TT)

Jonathan Ichikawa

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Imagination and Epistemology
Advisor(s): Ernest Sosa
Initial placement: University of St. Andrews (postdoc)
Present position: University of British Columbia (TT)

Doug Parvin

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Phenomenal Concepts
Advisor(s): Brian McLaughlin
Initial placement: Augustana College (TT)

Jason Turner

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Ontology, Quantification, and Fundamentality
Advisor(s): Ted Sider
Initial placement: University of Leeds (TT)
Present position: University of Arizona (T)

2007

Valia Allori

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Fundamental Physical Theories: Mathematical Structures Grounded on a Primitive Ontology
Advisor(s): Tim Maudlin
Initial placement: Northern Illinois University (TT)

Joseph Corabi

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Evolutionary Arguments and the Mind-Body Problem
Advisor(s): Brian McLaughlin
Initial placement: St. Joseph's University (TT)

Samuel Cumming

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Proper Nouns
Advisor(s): Ernest Lepore & Jason Stanley
Initial placement: UCLA (TT)

Maya Eddon

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Quantity and Quality: Fundamental Properties in Metaphysics
Advisor(s): Ted Sider & John Hawthorne
Initial placement: University of Mass -Amherst (2 year postdoc)
Present position: University of Massachusetts at Amherst (TT)

Jeffrey Glick

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The Importance of Knowledge Per Se
Advisor(s): Peter Klein
Initial placement: University of Rochester (Visiting Assistant Professor)
Present position: Texas A & M University, Kingsville (TT)

Hillary Greaves

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On the Everettian Epistemic Problem
Advisor(s): Frank Arntzenius
Initial placement: Merton College, Oxford Univ (Jr Research Fellow)
Present position: Somerville College, Oxford (Permanent Fellow)

Daniel Kelly

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Projectivism Psychologized: A Cognitive and Evolutionary Perspective on Disgust and its Philosophic Implications
Advisor(s): Stephen Stich
Initial placement: University of Sydney (2 year postdoc),
Present position: Associate Professor, Purdue University

Christopher Mag Uidhir

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The Intentional & Essential in Art
Advisor(s): Peter Kivy
Initial placement: Cornell University (2 year postdoc)
Present position: University of Houston (Associate Professor)

Dennis Whitcomb

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An Epistemic Value Theory
Advisor(s): Alvin Goldman
Initial placement: Western Washington University (TT)

2006

Gary Bartlett

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Taking Phenomenal Internalism Seriously
Advisor(s): Brian McLaughlin
Initial placement: Haverford College (Visiting Asst Prof)
Present position: Central Washington Univ (TT)

Kevin Edwards

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Referentialism Without Compromise
Advisor(s): Jerry Fodor
Initial placement: Univ of Kansas (TT)
Present position: Syracuse University (TT)