graduate program

undergrad program

application

class schedules

university calendar

speaker schedule

the colloquium

philosophy links

contact us

search
 
  

 

Dissertations and Placement Record, 1992-2003     The list below includes all graduate students who have received the Ph.D. since 1992, plus  current Ph.D. students who hold positions at other universities. It is accurate and complete  to the best of the Department’s knowledge; however, the Department cannot guarantee its accuracy or completeness. The status of academic positions (visiting, tenure track, permanent, tenured, etc.) is indicated for positions presently held.     Angela Coventry (dissertation in progress)  Present Position: University of Arizona (visiting)  Lorraine Besser-Jones (2003): Personal Integrity and the Sense of Duty: A Humean Theory of Justice and Moral Obligation  Present Position: Stanford University (three year appointment)  John Roberts (2002): Mob Metaphysics: An Interpretation of Berkeley's Philosophy  Previous Position: Notre Dame (post doc)  Present Position: Florida State University (tenure track)  Dan Ryder (2002): Neurosemantics: A Theory  Present Position: University of Indiana (post doc)  Roger Sansom (2002): Development as an Adaptation  Present Position: Texas A&M (tenure track)  Christopher Taylor (2002): Unavoidability and Commitment  Present Position: St. Andrews University (lectureship)  Shelby Weitzel (2002): Forgiveness, Resentment, and Self-Respect  Previous Position: University of Utah (visiting)  Present Position: Holy Cross (tenure track)  Jeffrey Downard (2001): The Role of Taste in Morality: From Kant to Schiller to Emerson  Present Position: Northern Arizona University (tenured)  Thomas Holden (2001): The Antinomy of Material Composition: Galileo to Kant  Present Position: Syracuse University (tenure track)  Andrew Johnson (2001): Insufficient Reason: An Interpretation and Critique of Kant's Categorical Imperative  living and working in Germany  Malik McCluskey (2001): Autonomy, Property, and Distributive Justice  Present Position: Howard University (tenure track)  Sean McKeever (2001): Completeness as a Criterion of the Acceptability of Moral Theories  Previous Position: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (visiting)  Present Position: Ithaca College (two year appointment)  Rebecca Whisnant (2001): Centering Oneself: Normative Independence and the Moral Life  Present Position: University of Southern Indiana (tenure track)  Mary MacLeod (2000): As in Heaven: The Moral Law Within  Previous Positions: Rice University; Colgate University; Dartmouth College  Present Position: Howard University (tenure track)  Claire Horisk (1999): Everyday Meaning and Sunday Truth: Truth in the Theory of Meaning  Previous Position: Grinnell College  Present Position: University of Missouri (tenure track)  Jeremy Ofseyer (1999): Hume and the Natural Law Tradition  Previous Position: University of California, Los Angeles (visiting)  Present Position: practicing law  Michael Ridge (1999): The Shape of Practical Reasons: A Defense of Agent-Neutralism  Previous Position: Australian National University (post-doctoral fellowship)  Present Position: University of Edinburgh (permanent)  Karen Stohr (1999): Virtue Ethics and Virtuous Agency  Previous Position: Mount St. Mary’s College (tenure track)  Present Position: Georgetown (tenure track)  Jonathan Tresan (1999): Motivation, Disagreement, and Meta-ethical Mistakes  Present Position: University of Florida (tenure track)  Peter Alward (1998): Believed World Semantics  Previous Position: College of Charleston  Present Position: University of Lethbridge (tenure track)  Eric Barnes (1998): Cooperation and Trust: Puzzles in Utilitarian and Contractarian Moral Theory  Previous Position: University of Illinois  Present Position: Mount Holyoke College (visiting)  Richard Dean (1998): What We Should Treat as an End in Itself  Previous Position: Rutgers University (visiting)  Present Position: American University of Beirut (tenure track)  Rebecca Hanrahan (1998): Evidence for Possibilities  Previous Position: Mount Holyoke College  Present Position: East Tennessee State University (tenure track)  Nicholas Hunt-Bull (1998): Making Sense of Moral Sense: Francis Hutcheson’s Moral Theory  Previous Position: University of North Carolina at Greensboro (visiting)  Present Position: Southern New Hampshire University (permanent)  Jane Reid (1998): Integrity and the Emotions  Present Position: University of Illinois Counseling Center  Samuel Bruton (1997): Kant’s Conception of the Moral Law: Themes in Groundwork II  Previous Position: North Carolina State University  Present Position: University of Southern Mississippi (tenure track)  Bradley Cohen (1997): The Normative Dimension of Commonsense Psychology  Present Position: University of Evansville (tenure track)  Seth Holtzman (1997): A Philosophical Re-examination of Presupposition  Catawba College (tenure track)  Andrew Mills (1997): Speakers, Hearers, and the Prospects for Linguistic Knowledge  Present Position: Otterbein College (tenure track)  Lori Alward (1996): Suicide and Moral Responsibility under Conditions of Political Oppression  Previous Positions: Guilford College; University of Puget Sound; University of Utah  Present Position: Pace University (tenure track)  Karann Durland (1996): Primary and Secondary Qualities: Common Sense, Science, and Berkeley  Present Position: Austin College (tenured)  Scott Gaylord (1996): Hume on the Certainty and Necessity of Arithmetic  Present Position: practicing law  Benjamin Overbey (1996): An Ethic for the Military: Establishing and Grounding a Professional  Military Ethic for the Military Forces of the United States  Present Position: Veterans Administration, Washington DC  Eric Rubenstein (1996): The Metaphysics of Content  Previous Position: Colgate University  Present Position: Indiana University of Pennsylvania (tenure track)  Valerie Tiberius (1996): Deliberation about the Good: Justifying What We Value  Previous Position: Franklin and Marshall University  Present Position: University of Minnesota (tenure track)  John Walker (1996): Defending Liberal Neutrality  Previous Position: University of Minnesota at Duluth  Present Position: Information Technology, University of Minnesota at Minneapolis  Michael Gill (1995) Human Nature and the Accessibility of Morality in Cudsworth, Hutcheson, and Hume  Previous Positions: Purdue University, College of Charleston (tenure track)  Present Position: University of Arizona (tenure track)  Sarah Holtman (1995): Kant, Justice, and the Augmentation of Ideal Theory  Previous Position: College of William and Mary  Present Position: University of Minnesota (tenured)  Wayne Riggs (1995): Epistemic Pluralism  Present Position: University of Oklahoma (tenured)  Earl Spurgin (1995): The Binding Force of Promises  Present Position: John Carroll University (tenured)  Andrew Cohen (1994): Hobbesian Political Authority and the Right of Resistance  Previous Positions: University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point (tenure track), University of Oklahoma (tenure track)  Present Position: Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics, Georgia State University (Managing Director)  Paul Davies (1994): Evolutionary Functions and Philosophy of Mind  Present Position:  College of William and Mary (tenured)  Carl Ficarrotta (1994): Contract Theory and Morality in International Relations  Present Position: United States Air Force Academy  William Knorpp (1994): Relativism and the New Psychologisms  Present Position: James Madison University (tenure track)  Thomas Adajian (1993): Imagination, Games, Pictures: A Critical Examination of Kendall Walton’s Mimesis as Make-Believe  Present Position: James Madison University (tenure track)  Robert Johnson (1993): Kant’s Theory of Moral Worth  Present Position: University of Missouri (tenured)  Terry Moore (1993): Conduct and Community  Present Position: Associate Director for Project Development, University of Tennessee (affiliated with Computer Science Department)  Cynthia Stark (1993): Securing Self-Respect  Present Position: University of Utah (tenured)  James O'Shea (1992): Problems of Substance: Perception and Object in Hume and Kant  Present Position: University College Dublin (permanent)