Graduate Student Placement Record
Placement of all students who have finished our M.A. program 1999-Present.
| Thesis Title | Applied to PhD Programs? |
Results (Philosophy PhD program with full funding unless otherwise noted) |
|---|---|---|
2012 |
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| Intelligibility and Reliability: A Relational Conception of the Constitutive Aim of Agency |
Yes
|
University of California, San Diego |
| Exam Option |
Yes
|
University of California, Riverside (graduated in 2007) |
| Who’s Counting? Cognitive Disability and Rawlsian Contractualism |
Yes
|
May re-apply to PhD programs in the future |
| The Duty of Assistance is a Liberal Duty |
No
|
Applying for Fall 2013 |
| Sympathy and Causal Inference: Hume on Other Minds |
No
|
Pepperdine Law School |
| The Moral Status of the Deceased in Kant's Ethics |
No
|
University of Chicago Law School (graduated in 2011) |
| A Greater Scope for Error: Judgment, Sensation, and the Material Falsity of Sensory Ideas |
No
|
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| Exam Option |
No
|
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| Other schools that admitted our students in 2012: UC-Irvine, Ohio State | ||
2011 |
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| Problems with Causal Reasoning in Cognitive Neuroscience |
Yes
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Arizona State University (HPS) |
| The Problem From Memory and Moral Responsibility |
Yes
|
University of California, Irvine |
| Deliberating to Believe: A Critical Examination of How Truth Functions as a Normative Constraint on Belief |
Yes
|
Northwestern |
| Essence and Modality: the alleged conflict between Actualism and Kind Essentialism |
Yes
|
Purdue University |
| The A Priority of the Intelligible |
Yes
|
Stanford University |
| The Prole Machine: Politics and Revolution in the Cramped Conditions of Capital |
Yes
|
University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Political Science) |
| A Defense of Rawls's Account of Toleration in The Law of Peoples |
Yes
|
University of Illinois, Chicago |
| Justice for the Cognitively Disabled: Obligations to Those at the Margins of Our Moral Community |
Yes
|
University of California, Riverside |
| Idealism in Kant and Berkeley: A Defense of Berkeley's Concept of Objectivity |
Yes
|
Ohio State University |
| Moral Requirements, Moral Reasoning, and the First Two Formulations of the Categorical Imperative |
Yes
|
University of Pennsylvania (graduated in 2010) |
| Taking the "Peep-Show" Public: Intersubjectivity, Psychologism, and Conceptual Realism |
Yes
|
Yale University (graduated in 2010) |
| The Case for Government Anti-Obesity Legislation |
No
|
Federal Judicial Clerk |
| Other schools that admitted our students in 2011: Alberta, CUNY Graduate Center, Iowa, Maryland, Miami, Michigan State, Minnesota, New School, North Texas, Notre Dame, Utah, Washington-Seattle, Vanderbilt | ||
2010 |
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| Quantifier Variance, Classical Logic, and Neo-Fregeanism |
Yes
|
University of Virginia |
| Making Sense of Intelligibility: A Discussion of Velleman's Constitutive Aim of Action |
Yes
|
University of California, Riverside |
| Necessary Identity Statements Trivialized |
Yes
|
University of British Columbia |
| Free Citizens and the Coercive Account of the Site of Justice |
Yes
|
University of Arizona |
| Moral Incentive and Respect in Kant's Ethics |
Yes
|
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| A Dilemma for Hellman's Modal Structuralism |
Yes
|
University of California, Irvine |
| Autonomy, Estrangement, and External Reasons |
Yes
|
University of Pittsburgh (graduated in 2008) |
| The Role of Emotions in Akrasia |
No
|
Cornell Law School |
| Intimates, Self-Trust and Self-Awareness in Autonomous Decision Making |
No
|
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| Other schools that admitted our students in 2010: Alberta, UC-Davis, UC-Santa Barbara, Connecticut, Florida State, Illinois-Chicago, Indiana, Maryland, McGill (Political Science), Miami, SUNY-Buffalo, Purdue, Rochester, St. Louis U, Syracuse, Toronto, Washington-Seattle, Western Ontario, UW-Madison | ||
2009 |
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| Can We Contextualize Skepticism? |
Yes
|
CUNY Graduate Center |
| Kant’s Derivation of the Formula of Universal Law |
Yes
|
Harvard University |
| The Implications of Special Relativity for Persistence |
Yes
|
Syracuse University |
| Inquiry, Attention and Relevance: An Account of Knowledge and its Role in Discourse |
Yes
|
University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
| Incentives and Goodness in Kant’s Ethics |
Yes
|
University of California, Los Angeles |
| The Concept of Belief and Epistemic Rationality |
Yes
|
University of Texas, Austin |
| Agency and the Theoretical View of Persons |
Yes
|
University of Miami |
| Self-Deception & Culpable Ignorance |
Yes
|
University of California, Riverside (graduated in 2008) |
| Exam Option |
No
|
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| Moore, Dewey, and the Reconstruction of Ethics |
No
|
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| Gibson on Perceiving Affordances Directly |
No
|
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| Other schools that admitted our students in 2009: Arizona State, Bowling Green, UC-San Diego, UC-Santa Barbara, Colorado-Boulder, Connecticut, Indiana, Ohio State, Michigan, Missouri, UNC-Chapel Hill, Stanford, Washington U, Yale. | ||
2008 |
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| The Tractarian Operation N: Its Role and Expressive Capacity |
Yes
|
University of Illinois, Chicago |
| A Pragmatic Account of the Referential Use of Definite Descriptions |
Yes
|
University of California, Davis |
| Shame and the Self |
Yes
|
Harvard University |
| Disagreeing About Modal Disagreement |
Yes
|
Syracuse University |
| The Development of Kant's Conception of Respect for the Moral Law |
Yes
|
Stanford University |
| Agency and Morality |
Yes
|
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| G.E. Moore on Common Sense and Analysis |
Yes
|
Vanderbilt University (graduated in 2007) |
| Systematicity and Mental Content |
Yes
|
Duke University (Center for Cognitive Neuroscience PhD) (graduated in 2007) |
| A Defense of Gilbert Harman's Moral Relativism |
Yes
|
University of Florida (graduated in 2004) |
| A Critical Analysis of John Hick's Pluralist Hypothesis |
Yes
|
Marquette University (graduated in 2003) |
| Boundaries of the Self: A Critical Discussion of Harry Frankfurt's Conception of Identification |
No
|
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| Metaphor, Comparison, and Aesthetic Success |
No
|
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| Other schools that admitted our students in 2008: Brown, Connecticut, Florida State, Fordham, Illinois-Chicago, Indiana, Loyola, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio State, Rochester, UC-Berkeley, UC-Riverside, UC-San Diego, UC-Santa Barbara | ||
2007 |
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| G.E. Moore and E.M. Forster |
Yes
|
Johns Hopkins University (English PhD Program) |
| Can Humean supervenience be reconciled with the Principal Principle? |
Yes
|
Princeton University |
| J.G.H. Feder's Simultaneity Objection to Kant's Claim to the Apriority of Space |
Yes
|
University of Pennsylvania |
| Kant's Idea of Pure Morality and Hegel's Critique |
Yes
|
University of California, Riverside |
| Nietzsche's Weapon of War: the Method of Science |
Yes
|
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| Exam Option |
No
|
Harvard Law School |
| Other schools that admitted our students in 2007: Arizona State, Bowling Green, Cincinnati, Connecticut, Cornell, Miami, Ohio State, Pittsburgh, Purdue, UC-Irvine | ||
2006 |
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| The Demands of Incompatibilism Upon Libertarian Theories of Free Will |
Yes
|
Florida State University |
| The Ideas of the Kingdom of Ends and the Highest Good in Kant's Moral Theory |
Yes
|
Harvard University |
| Exam Option |
Yes
|
Rice University |
| Performativity and Social Kinds: Race, Gender, and the Pursuit of Justice |
Yes
|
Rutgers University (Women's & Gender Studies PhD Program) |
| Can Accounts of Naturalistic Virtue Ethics Survive? |
Yes
|
University of Missouri (non-funded) |
| Epistemic Responsibility and the Concept of Belief |
Yes
|
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill |
| A Look at the Conception of Care in Three Ethical Theories |
Yes
|
University of Kentucky (graduated in 2004) |
| The Fold in the Other Night: Foucault on Desubjective Technologies of the Self |
No
|
Lecturer at UWM |
| Justifying Morality: An Essay on the Rationality of Moral Actions |
No
|
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| The Nature of Mental Existence in Anselm's Ontological Argument |
No
|
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| On Constructing an Argument Against Tyler Burge's Preservative Theory of Memory Based on Memory Construed as an Inferential Communicative Process |
No
|
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| Other schools that admitted our students in 2006: Arizona, Bowling Green, Cincinnati, Georgetown, Illinois-Chicago, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota (Women's Studies), Northwestern, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, Stanford, UC-Riverside, Wisconsin-Madison | ||
2005 |
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| What Does the Scientist See? Does it Matter? |
Yes
|
Duke University |
| Is Morality a Skill? |
Yes
|
Harvard University |
| Exam option |
Yes
|
Marquette University |
| Beyond the Meaning of 'Meaning': Rigidity and Semantic Externalism |
Yes
|
Ohio State University |
| On the Nature of Value Properties and Judgments at the Intersection of Aesthetics and Ethics |
Yes
|
SUNY-Buffalo |
| Saving the In-Itself World: Some Responses To Putnam's Internal Realism |
Yes
|
University of California, Irvine |
| The Nature of Second Nature |
Yes
|
University of Florida |
| Three Arguments for Nonconceptual Content |
Yes
|
University of Minnesota |
| Reconciliation & Quasi-Realist Moral Truth & Objectivity |
Yes
|
University of Reading (UK) |
| Belief and Responsibility |
Yes
|
University of Rochester |
| General Laws and Causal Relations: Scientific Explanation |
Yes
|
University of Southern California |
| Propositional Attitudes, Reference, and Pragmatics |
Yes
|
University of Southern California |
| Signs and Generality: An Examination of the Berkeleyan Alternative to Abstract Ideas |
Yes
|
University of Toronto |
| The Philosophical Basis of Clement Greenberg's Art Criticism: The Union between Kantian and Hegelian Aesthetics |
Yes
|
University of Washington-Seattle |
| Other schools that admitted our students in 2005: Arizona State, Birkbeck College, London (UK), British Columbia, Cincinnati, Connecticut, CUNY, Edinburgh (UK ), Florida State, Illinois-Chicago, Indiana, Iowa, Loyola (Chicago), Maryland, Missouri, Northwestern, Sheffield (UK), St. Andrews (UK), Stirling (UK), Syracuse, Temple, UC-Davis, U-Mass, Western Ontario, Wisconsin-Madison | ||
2004 |
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| Objecting to Objectifying Desires: An Objection to the Kantian Model of Deliberation |
Yes
|
Cornell University |
| Defense of Marx's Scientific Socialism |
Yes
|
Northwestern University |
| The Last Metaphysician: An Analysis of Heidegger's Interpretation of Nietzsche |
Yes
|
University of California, Riverside |
| Real Selves or Bust? |
Yes
|
University of Cincinnati |
| An Analysis of Kant's Treatment of Suicide |
Yes
|
University of Illinois-Chicago |
| Nature, Priority and Political Animals in Aristotle's Politics |
Yes
|
University of Illinois-Chicago |
| A Three-Mechanism Structure of Mind to Explain Human Language and Responsibility |
Yes
|
University of Waterloo (Canada) |
| The Problem with "Self" Competition |
No
|
Marquette Law School; Fall '07 - Clerkship with New Mexico Supreme Court |
| Other schools that admitted our students in 2004: Bowling Green, CUNY, Maryland, Minnesota, Ohio State, Southern California, Syracuse, UC-Irvine, UC-Santa Cruz, U-Mass, Virginia, Wisconsin-Madison | ||
2003 |
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| The Evolution of Guilt: A Defense of Norm-Expressivism |
Yes
|
Michigan State University |
| Desires and Practical Reasoning: Three Accounts Considered |
Yes
|
University of California, Davis (attended 1 year); University of Wisconsin-Madison (Fall '05) |
| The Substitutional Interpretation of the Quantifiers of Predicate Logic |
Yes
|
University of Pittsburgh |
| A Critical Analysis of John Hick's Pluralist Hypothesis |
No
|
Lecturer at UWM |
| A Study of Nietzsche's Gay Science |
No
|
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2002 |
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| Un-blocking Our Access to the Contents of Perceptual Experience |
Yes
|
Duke University |
| An Analysis of Kierkegaard's Notion of Personhood |
Yes
|
Saint Louis University (attended 1 year); St. Louis University Law School (attended 1 year); Lehigh University (History PhD, Fall 05) |
| Testimonial Justification and Epistemic Individualism |
Yes
|
University of Missouri |
| Colors, Values and the Possibility of Analogy |
No
|
Works in the Criminal Defense division of the Wisconsin State Public Defender's Office |
| Global Theories, Local Theories, Theories of Adjudication and Ronald Dworkin's Law as Integrity |
No
|
Professor at Marquette Law School |
2001 |
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| Chardin's Cycle |
Yes
|
Marquette University |
| Moral Development and the Duty of Self-Perfection |
Yes
|
Northwestern University |
| The Truth in Projectivism |
Yes
|
Ohio State University |
| A Theistic Defense of Natural Evils |
Yes
|
Purdue University |
| Philosophy as Therapy: An Elucidation of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Method |
Yes
|
University of Iowa |
| Exam option |
No
|
Teacher in Milwaukee Public Schools |
| Vagueness |
No
|
Works in Pharmaceutical Sales |
2000 |
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| Taking Occasionalism Seriously |
Yes
|
Brown University |
| The Personal Ethics of Sustainable Development: An Application of Kant's Notion of the Categorical Imperative |
Yes
|
CUNY |
| John Rawls, Justice as Fairness and the Failure of Froperty-Owning Democracy |
Yes
|
Marquette University |
| Weakness of Will: Towards a Reformed Belief/Desire Account |
Yes
|
Northwestern University |
| Exam Option |
No
|
UWM (Urban Education/Educational Psychology PhD program) |
| Hybrid Theories of Justice: A New Foundation Based on T. M. Scanlon's Ethics of Reasonable Rejection |
No
|
Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Air Force Academy |
| Non-thesis project |
No
|
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| Understanding Kant's prohibition of revolution, his support of the French revolution, and our right to revolt |
No
|
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1999 |
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| The Inductive-Statistical and Deductive-Nomologicial Models of Probabilistic Explanation and the Problem of Explaining Particular Explanada |
Yes
|
Indiana University |
| Themes in Kantian Moral Psychology: Humanity, Needs, and Autonomy |
Yes
|
University of Florida |
| Assuring the Fair Value of the Political Liberties: The Need for an Ethos Justice |
No
|
Attended Law School |
| Ducks, Rabbits, and Dubbits: A Wittgensteinian Study of Seeing |
No
|
NYU (Obtained Social Work MSW; Social Work PhD program) |
| Exam option |
No
|
UWM (Urban Studies) |
| Reference, Interpretation and Clarity |
No
|
Harvard Law School |
| Other schools that admitted our students who graduated from 1999-2003 include: Bowling Green, CUNY, Duquesne, Emory, Fordham University, Georgetown, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Loyola, Marquette, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio State, Penn, Rochester, UC-Davis, UC-Irvine, UCLA, UC-Riverside, UCSD, UC-Boulder, UI-Chicago, U Mass-Amherst, U Texas-Austin, U Utah, U Virginia, U Washington-Seattle, U Wisconsin-Madison, Vanderbilt | ||
| A partial list of the schools that admitted our students that graduated before 1999: Alberta, Bowling Green, Brown, UCLA, UC-San Diego, UC-Irvine, UC-Riverside, U of Chicago, Colorado, Columbia U., Cornell, CUNY, Emory, Georgetown, UI-Urbana-Champaign, UI-Chicago, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Marquette, Maryland, U Mass-Amherst, Minnesota, North Carolina, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Penn, Pittsburgh, Purdue, Rice, Rochester, St. Louis, Texas, Toronto, Vanderbilt, Virginia, UW-Madison, Washington U., and Yale | ||