For a description of the ways in which the department assists graduate students seeking academic employment, see the final appendix, “Placement,” in the graduate student handbook.
Listed below are recent Ph.D graduates. The positions listed include tenure-track and non-tenure-track positions, as well as positions outside of academia. The years listed are those in which the student graduated, which are not always the same as those of the job placement. Updates are added to the listings, but this is unsystematic, with no pretense of completeness.
2025
- Christopher Arledge
PhD Thesis: From Chaos to Order: Assessing the Foundations of Emergent Gravity (Rynasiewicz)
Current Affiliation: Knowledge Analyst at NASA’s Spectrum Policy and Planning
2024
- Hüseyin Güngör
PhD Thesis: Counterfactuality, Necessity and Possibility in Truthmaker Semantics (Bledin)
Current Affiliation: Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton - Ryan Ross
PhD Thesis: Groundless Belief in Conspiracies (Williams)
Current Affiliation: Lecturer at Morgan State University
2023
- Luce deLire
PhD Thesis: Spinoza’s Metaphysics of Infinity. (Melamed)
Current Affiliation: Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at Humboldt University - Austin Heath
PhD Thesis: Pyrrhonian Practice: Pyrrhonian Skepticism as Investigative, Suspensive, and Therapeutic. (Bett)
Current Affiliation: Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the University Writing Program, Johns Hopkins University - Itai Marom
PhD Thesis: Practical Matters: Rational Human Agents in the Making. (Moyar)
Current Affiliation: Independent Scholar - Richard Teague
PhD Thesis: On Wondering: The Epistemology of a Questioning Attitude. (Bledin)
Current Affiliation: Teaching Fellow at Trinity College Dublin
2022
- Cara Cummings
PhD Thesis: Aristotle’s Akratēs : Healing Morally Bad Character. (Bett)
Current Affiliation: Lecturer at Morgan State University - Zachary Gartenberg
PhD Thesis: Prospects for Nothing: Representing Nonbeing and the Metaphysics of Intentionality in Aquinas, Spinoza, and Leibniz. (Melamed)
Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor, St. John’s College - Tammo Lossau
PhD Thesis: “Knowledge First” and Its Limits. (Williams)
Current Affiliation: wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the University of Bremen - Jason Yonover
PhD Thesis: Hegel and Spinoza on Freedom and Right. (Melamed)
Current Affiliation: Desai Family Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer in Philosophy, Princeton University
2021
- Kathryn Brophy
PhD Thesis: Thinking Human Animals: What We Are and How We Persist. (Gross)
Current Affiliation: Lecturer, University of Colorado
2020
- Nikola Andonovski
PhD Thesis: On Episodic Memory: Preservation, Reconstruction and Modeling. (Gross)
Current Affiliation: Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Grenoble - Seunghwan Baek
PhD Thesis: Kant’s Analogies of Experience. (Förster)
Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Gangneung-Wonju National University - Alexander Englert
PhD Thesis: Evolving the Highest Good; A Study of a Kantian Ideal. (Förster)
Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor, University of Richmond
2019
- Anton Kabeshkin
PhD Thesis: Hegel’s Anti-Reductionist Philosophy of Nature. (Förster)
Current Affiliation: wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Potsdam University, Germany - David Lindeman
PhD Thesis: Representations of Mind. (Gross)
Current Affiliation: Associate Teaching Professor, Georgetown University - Joshua McBee
PhD Thesis: Taking the Helm: Genealogical Debunking Arguments, Moral Realism, and the Possibility of Moral Knowledge. (Moyar)
Current Affiliation: Deputy Director, Climate Advisers - Patrick O’Donnell
PhD Thesis: Racialized Discourse at the Intersection of Meaning, Mind, and Metaphysics. (Gross)
Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Oakton College, Chicago - Thomas Wilk
PhD Thesis: Metaethics for Neopragmatists: A Pragmatic Account of Linguistic Meaning for Moral Vocabulary. (Williams)
Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Widener University
2018
- Genco Guralp
PhD Thesis: Evidence and Confirmation in Precision Cosmology: The Case of the Accelerating Universe. (Rynasiewicz)
Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor, San Diego State University - Adam Reid
PhD Thesis: Veganism and the Ethics and Epistemology of Disagreement: A Neo-Pascalian Approach. (Bok)
Current Affiliation: Policy analyst, Canadian Coast Guard/Fisheries & Oceans Canada
2017
- Arash Abazari
PhD Thesis: Hegel’s Logic of Essence and the Ontology of Power in Capitalism. (Moyar)
Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor at Emory University - Marianna Bergamaschi Ganapini
PhD Thesis: Reasoning, Belief and the Quest for Truth. (Gross)
Current Affiliation: Associate Professor, Union College - Nicholas Goldberg
PhD Thesis: Acts of Reference: An Essay on the Rational Powers of Proper Names. (Gross)
Current Affiliation: Healthcare Writer, Recovery Centers of America - Jady Shi-Yu Hsin
PhD Thesis: Achieving Our Law: Towards a Modern Legal Science. (Bok)
Current Affiliation: Honors Attorney, United States Department of Labor - Sandy (Kolls) Koullas
PhD Thesis: On the Value of Relationships. (Theunissen)
Current Affiliation: Lecturer, University Writing Program, Johns Hopkins University - Josef Simpson
PhD Thesis: Knowing How to Know: Competence and Epistemic Evaluability. (Williams)
Current Affiliation: Academic Coach, The Catholic University of America
2016
- John Brandau
PhD Thesis: Spinoza on Definition and Essence. (Melamed)
Current Affiliation: Director for Research Administration Operations, Research & Economic Development, Morgan State University - Giorgi Lebanidze
PhD Thesis: Hegel’s Transcendental Ontology. (Moyar)
Current Affiliation: Lecturer, Western Connecticut State University
2015
- Michael Gentzel
PhD Thesis: A Normative Framework for Analyzing Human Enhancement Technologies. (Bok)
Current Affiliation: Instructor, West Chester University - Alexander James
PhD Thesis: Neo-Aristotelian-Wittgensteinian Ontology: The Logical Form of the Proposition, Philosophical Explanation, and Categorial Thought. (Williams)
Current Affiliation: Adjunct Instructor, Utah Valley University - Pavle Stonjanovic
PhD Thesis: The Stoics and the Academics on the Apprehensive Impression. (Bett)
Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor, University of Belgrade - John Waterman
PhD Thesis: Shadows of Doubt: On the Psychological Foundations of the Skeptical Problem. (Gross)
Current Affiliation: Associate Teaching Professor, University of New England
2014
- James Dubik
PhD Thesis: Waging War: Filling the Gap in Just War Theory. (Bok)
Current Affiliation: Senior Fellow, Institute for the Study of War - Bryan Miller
PhD Thesis: Scientific Psychiatry: A Novel Framework for Psychiatry Understood as a Branch of Medicine. (Gross)
Current Affiliation: Senior Director, Collage Group
2013
- James Gilmore
PhD Thesis: Instrinsic goods and their role in the good life in Plato. (Bett)
Current Affiliation: Assistant Director of Graduate Admissions, Elon College - Jonathan Hricko
PhD Thesis: A Defense of the Suppositionalist View of Hypothetical Entities. (Rynasiewicz)
Current Affiliation: Associate Professor, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University - Cherie McGill
PhD Thesis: Agrippa’s fourth way Wittgenstein’s on Certainty and the epistemic regress argument. (Williams)
Current Affiliation: Associate Professor of Practice, Boston College - Nicolas Tebben
PhD Thesis: Epistemic rights. (Williams)
Current Affiliation: Associate Professor, Towson University - Ru-Yu Karen Yan
PhD Thesis: Consciousness, self, and self-consciousness. (Gross)
Current Affiliation: Associate Professor, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
2012
- Julia Krause
PhD Thesis: What non-conceptual content should be. (Williams)
Current Affiliation: - Derek Leben
PhD Thesis: Lexical semantics and its philosophical applications. (Gross)
Current Affiliation: Associate Teaching Professor of Business Ethics, Carnegie Mellon University - Patrick Leland
PhD Thesis: Kant and the semantics of mental content (1755-1781). (Förster)
Current Affiliation: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Loyola University New Orleans - Jeffrey Maynes
PhD Thesis: Meaningful intuitions: The evidential role of intuitions in the study of language. (Gross)
Current Affiliation: Associate Professor, St. Lawrence University
2011
- David Jones
PhD Thesis: Toward a particularist autonomy. (Bok)
Current Affiliation: Senior Community Faculty, Metro State University
2010
- Ana Diaz
PhD Thesis: The limits of reductive physicalism. (Williams)
Current Affiliation: Associate Professor, Montana State University-Billings - Victor Di Fate
PhD Thesis: Real causes for revision: Scientific methods in the so-called vera causa tradition. (Achinstein)
Current Affiliation: Associate Professor, Spring Hill College - Lisa Ievers
PhD Thesis: Mind, nature, and normativity in Hume. (Bett)
Current Affiliation: Teacher, Morristown-Beard School - Aaron Smith
PhD Thesis: Aristotle on abstraction. (Bett)
Current Affiliation: Instructor, Ayn Rand Institute (ARI)
2009
- Kimberlea Brinson Burke
PhD Thesis: Making symbols, making worlds: Philosophical and historical reflections on scientific representation. (Williams)
Current Affiliation: - Linda Brown
PhD Thesis: Moral reflection, moral improvement. (Bok)
Current Affiliation: Teacher, Horace Mann School - Michael Hicks
PhD Thesis: The environment dependence of thought: An essay in the metaphysics of thought. (Williams)
Current Affiliation: Associate Professor, Miami University - Eric Morton
PhD Thesis: Naturalism, normativity, and the space of reasons. (Williams)
Current Affiliation: Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Enrollment Management, Georgia State University - Youngsup Park
PhD Thesis: On Fodor’s concept nativism. (Rynasiewicz)
Current Affiliation: University of Maryland Global Campus - Michael Perry
PhD Thesis: Epistemology in the shadow of Pyrrhonism. (Williams)
Current Affiliation: Administrative Judge, U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board - Marius Stan
PhD Thesis: Kant’s theory of motion: Metaphysical foundations of Leibnizian science. (Rynasiewicz)
Current Affiliation: Associate Professor, Boston College - Oliver Thorndike
PhD Thesis: Kant’s Transition Project in practical philosophy: From spontaneity to perception. (Förster)
Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University Peabody Institute