Placement

James Sias (2013)
“Emotion, Virtue, and Moral Perception: A Defense of Moral Intuitions”
Present position: Dickinson College (tenure-track) 

Yujia Song (2013)
“Empathy, Understanding, and Judgment”
Present position: Salisbury University (tenure-track)
Previous positions: University of Louisville (visiting), Purdue University (visiting)

Nena Davis (2012)
“The Valuing Theory of Personal Identity over Time: Philosophical Analysis and Practical Applications”
Previous position: University of Tennessee (visiting)

Cathay Liu (2012)
“Descartes’s Unity of Method”
Previous position: Yale-National University of Singapore (tenure-track)

Matt Priselac (2012)
“Locke’s Naturalized Epistemology”
Present position: University of Oklahoma (tenured)
Previous position: Virginia Tech (visiting)

Elanor Taylor (2012)
“The Perspectival Nature of Emergence”
Present position: Johns Hopkins University (tenured)
Previous position: Iowa State University (tenure-track)

Katie Elliott (2011)
“On the Nature of Objective Chance”
Present position: Brandeis (tenure-track)
Previous position: NYU (Bersoff Fellow of Philosophy), UCLA (tenured)

David Frost (2011)
“On the Qua Problem Qua Qua Problem: The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Mental Causation”
Previous position: University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point (visiting)

Margo Landy (2011)
“The Moral Point of View in Hume, Kant, and Mill”
Present Position: San Francisco State University (university registrar)
Previous position: Holy Names University (university registrar), University of the Pacific (university registrar)

Chris Smith (2011)
“Conceptual Experiences”
Present position: no longer in the profession
Previous positions: UCLA (visiting), Wake Forest University (visiting)

Jamin Asay (2011)
“Truthmaking, Truth, and Realism: New Work for a Theory of Truthmakers”
Present position: Purdue University (tenured)
Previous positions: University of North Carolina (visiting); Lingnan University, Hong Kong (tenure-track), University of Hong Kong (tenured)

Felipe De Brigard (2011)
“Reconstructing Memory”
Present position: Duke University (tenured)
Previous position: Harvard University (postdoc)

Adam Cureton (2011)
“On the Nature, Grounds and Limits of Social Moral Rules”
Present position: University of Tennessee (tenured)

Emily Kelahan (2011)
“Hume’s Treatise and the Theory of Ideas”
Present position: Illinois Wesleyan University (tenured)

Kristen Bell (2011)
“Mercy and Criminal Justice”
Present position: University of Oregon Law School (tenure-track)
Previous positions: Stanford Law School, Yale Law School (research scholar, lecturer, and Senior Liman Fellow)

Seth Bordner (2010)
“Drawing the Curtain of Words: A Strict Interpretation of Berkeley’s Philosophy of Language and Its Consequences”
Present position: University of Alabama (tenured)

Jason Bowers (2010)
“Ontology, Priority, and Teleology: A Defense of Classical Platonism”
Present position: North Carolina A&T State University (visiting)
Previous positions: University of North Carolina at Wilmington (visiting), Center for Instructional Technology, Duke University

Eric Mandelbaum (2010)
“The Architecture of Belief”
Present Position: CUNY/Baruch College (tenured)
Previous position: Oxford (fellowship)

Clair Morrissey (2010)
“Grounding the Standing to Prosecute Atrocities”
Present position: Occidental College (tenured)

Mark Phelan (2010)
“Figuration of the Folk: The Nature and Use of Metaphor”
Present position: Lawrence University (tenured)
Previous position: Yale University (postdoc)

Ted Parent (2009)
“Metasemantics: On the Limits of Semantic Theory”
Present position: Nazarbayev University, Kazhakstan (tenure-track)
Previous position: Virginia Tech (visiting)

David Ripley (2009)
“Negation in Natural Language”
Present Position: Monash University (tenured)
Previous positions: Institut Jean-Nicod, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris (postdoc), University of Melbourne (postdoc), University of Connecticut (tenure-track)

Piers Turner (2009)
“Progress and Expertise in Mill’s Liberal Democracy”
Present position: The Ohio State University (tenured)

Megan Wallace (2009)
“Composition Is Identity”
Present position: University of Kentucky (tenured)
Previous position: Oberlin College (visiting)

Andrew Courtwright (2008)
“Justice, health, and status: Moral theory and the new epidemiology of health disparities”
Present position: University of Pennsylvania Medical Center (physician)

Elizabeth Foreman (2008)
“Focusing Respect on Creatures”
Present position: Missouri State University (tenure-track)
Previous position: Saint Louis University (tenure-track)

Bryce Huebner (2008)
“Distributing Cognition: A Defense of Collective Mentality”
Present position: Georgetown University (tenured)
Previous positions: Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University and Cognitive Evolution Laboratory, Harvard (simultaneous postdocs)

Hylarie Kochiras (2008)
“Force, Matter, and Metaphysics in Newton’s Natural Philosophy”
Previous positions: Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh (fellowship), European Institutes for Advanced Study (postdoc)

David Landy (2008)
“The Synthesis of Concepts: Inferentialism and Semantic Theory in Hume, Kant, and Hegel”
Present position: San Francisco State University (tenured)
Previous position: Wake Forest University (visiting)

Dylan Sabo (2008)
“Where Concepts Come From”
Present position: Occidental College (visiting)
Previous positions: Auburn University (visiting), Western Michigan University (visiting)

Yolonda Wilson (2008)
“The Concept of Representation and the Interests of Perpetual Minorities”
Present position: Howard University (tenure-track)
Previous Position: Duke University (tenure-track)

Anabella Zagura (2008)
“An Account of Valuing”
Present position: no longer in the profession
Previous position: Wake Forest University (visiting)

Mark Bauer (2007)
“Normativity without Artifice: A New Foundation for Teleological Realism”
Present position: University of Colorado Denver (visiting)
Previous positions: Michigan State University (visiting), Virginia Tech (visiting)

Justin Jeffrey (2007)
“Normative Progeny”
Present position: Mental Health Counselor at UMN Community-University Health Care Center (earned his MSW in May 2013 from the University of St. Thomas, Minnesota)
Previous positions: Duke University (visiting), University of Idaho (tenure-track)

Nicoletta Orlandi (2007)
“Seeing and Thinking: The Flexibility of Visual Content”
Present position: UC Santa Cruz (tenured)
Previous position: Rice University (tenure-track)

Sarah Scott (2007)
“Invoking the Tooth Fairy Twice, or How to Identify Cases of Ad Hoc Hypothesis Acceptance”
Present position: Of counsel, Venable LLP Law Practice (Baltimore)
Previous position: Of counsel, Goodell DeVries (Baltimore)

Matthew Chrisman (2006)
“Ethical and Epistemic Expressions”
Present position: University of Edinburgh (permanent)

Ty Raterman (2006)
“Preferences, Well-being, and Value”
Present position: no longer in the profession
Previous position: University of the Pacific (tenure-track)

Ingra Schellenberg (2006)
“Moral Moods”
Present position: University of Washington (tenure-track)
Previous position: University of Kansas (tenure-track)

Brian Thomas (2006)
“The Racialized Self: Empowerment, Self-Respect, and Personal Autonomy”
Present Position: Western Washington University (adjunct instructor)
Previous position: The University of British Columbia (visiting)

Vicki Behrens (2005)
“What’s Wrong with False Beliefs?”
Present position: University of North Carolina (Assistant Director, The Writing Center)
Previous position: University of North Carolina (Academic Advisor)

Macalester Bell (2005) 
“The Importance of Contempt”
Present position: Bryn Mawr College (tenured)
Previous positions: Columbia University (tenure-track), Franklin and Marshall College (tenure-track)

Tamra Frei (2005)
“Implications of the Categoricity of the Hypothetical Imperative”
Previous position: Michigan State University (tenure-track)

Patrick Miller (2005)
“Purity of Thought: Dualism and Divinization in Greek Philosophy”
Present position: Duquesne University (tenured)
Previous position: Duke University (visiting)

Susanne Sreedhar (2005)
“Hobbes on the Right of Self-Defense”
Present position: Boston University (tenured)
Previous position: Tulane University (tenure-track)

Yaacov Ben-Shemesh (2004)
“State Neutrality and Collective Self-Government”
Present position: Ono School of Law, Tel Aviv (tenure-track)

Samantha Corte (2004)
“The Ethics of Religious Committment”
Present position: no longer in the profession
Previous position: Auburn University (visiting)

Angela Coventry (2004)
“Causation, Quasi-Realism, and David Hume”
Present position: Portland State University (tenured)
Previous position: University of Arizona (visiting)

Jason Dickenson (2004)
“Actions, Reasons, and Motivational Strength”
Present position: no longer in the profession
Previous position: University of Pittsburgh (visiting)

Gregory Littmann (2004)
“Defending the Law of Non-Contradiction: A Critique of Dialetheism”
Present position: Southern Illinois University (tenure-track)
Previous position: Southern Illinois University (visiting)

Adrienne Martin (2004)
“Why Instruments Aren’t Reasons”
Present position: Claremont McKenna College (tenured)
Previous positions: National Institutes of Health (two-year postdoc), University of Pennsylvania (tenured)

Colleen Murphy (2004)
“The Nature and Moral Importance of Political Reconciliation”
Present position: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (tenured)
Previous position: Texas A&M (tenured)

Matthew Smith (2004)
“Property Rights, Social Norms and The Law: A Natural Law Theory of Property”
Present position: University of Leeds (tenured)
Previous position: Yale University (tenure-track)

Lorraine Besser (2003)
“Making Sense of the Sense of Duty: A Humean Theory of Moral Motivation”
Present position: Middlebury College (tenured)
Previous positions: University of Waterloo (tenure-track), Stanford University (three-year appointment)

Hans Muller (2003)
“Fear and Loathing in Deliberation: One Connection Between Emotion and Rationality”
Present position: American University of Beirut (tenured)
Previous position: Ithaca College (visiting)

Clea Rees (2003)
“The Importance of Empathy”
Present position: University of Cardiff (lecturer)
Previous positions: University of California at Berkeley, Indiana University of Pennsylvania (visiting), University of California Santa Cruz (visiting)

John Roberts (2002)
“Mob Metaphysics: An Interpretation of Berkeley’s Idealism”
Present position: Florida State University (tenured)
Previous position: Notre Dame (postdoc)

Dan Ryder (2002)
“Neurosemantics: A Theory”
Present position: University of British Columbia (tenured)
Previous positions: University of Connecticut (tenure-track), University of Indiana (postdoc)

Roger Sansom (2002)
“Development as an Adaptation: A Philosophical Contribution to the Developmental Synthesis”
Present position: Texas A&M (tenured)

Christopher Taylor (2002)
“Unavoidability and Commitment”
Present position: no longer in the profession
Previous position: St. Andrews University (lecturer)

Shelby Weitzel (2002)
“Forgiveness, Resentment, and Self-Respect”
Present position: no longer in the profession
Previous position: University of Utah (visiting)

Rebecca Whisnant (2002)
“Centering Oneself: Normative Independence and the Moral Life”
Present position: University of Dayton (tenured)
Previous position: University of Southern Indiana (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: University of California/Santa Barbara (tenured)
Previous position: Syracuse University (tenure-track)

Andrew Johnson (2001)
“Insufficient Reason: An Interpretation and Critique of Kant’s Categorical Imperative”
Present position: Missouri State (tenured)
Previous position: Southern Methodist University (visiting)

Malik McCluskey (2001)
“Autonomy, Property, and Distributive Justice”
Present position: Director of Diversity, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Previous Position: Howard University (tenure-track)

Sean McKeever (2001)
“Completeness as an Ideal for Moral Theory”
Present Position: Davidson College (tenured)
Previous positions: Ithaca College, University of North Carolina (visiting)

Jonathan Tresan (2001)
“Moral-Cognitive Relations and Metaethics”
Present position: University of Rochester (visiting)
Previous positions: University of Florida (tenure-track), University of North Carolina (visiting)

Mary MacLeod (2000)
“As in Heaven: The Moral Law Within”
Present position: Indiana University of Pennsylvania (tenured)
Previous positions: Howard University (tenure-track), Rice University, Colgate University, Dartmouth College

Claire Horisk (1999)
“Everyday Meaning and Sunday Truth: Truth in the Theory of Meaning”
Present position: University of Missouri (tenured)
Previous position: Grinnell College (tenure-track)

Jeremy Ofseyer (1999)
“Hume and the Natural Law Tradition”
Present position: practicing law
Previous position: University of California, Los Angeles (visiting)

Michael Ridge (1999)
“The Shape of Practical Reasons: A Defense of Agent-Neutralism”
Present position: University of Edinburgh (permanent)
Previous position: Australian National University (three-year postdoc)

Karen Stohr (1999)
“Virtue Ethics and Virtuous Agency”
Present position: Georgetown University (tenured)
Previous position: Mount St. Mary’s College (tenure-track)

Peter Alward (1998)
“Believed World Semantics”
Present position: University of Lethbridge (tenured)
Previous position: College of Charleston (visiting)

Eric Barnes (1998)
“Cooperation and Trust”
Present position: Hobart and William Smith Colleges (tenured)
Previous positions: Mount Holyoke, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, University of Illinois

Richard Dean (1998)
“What We Should Treat as an End in Itself”
Present position: California State University, Los Angeles (tenured)
Previous position: American University of Beirut (tenure-track)

Rebecca Hanrahan (1998)
“Evidence for Possibilities”
Present position: Whitman College (tenured)
Previous positions: East Tennessee State University (tenure-track), Mount Holyoke College (visiting)

Nicholas Hunt-Bull (1998)
“Making Sense of Moral Sense: Francis Hutcheson’s Moral Theory”
Present position: Paul Smith’s College (Provost)
Previous position: Southern New Hampshire University (permanent), University of North Carolina, Greensboro (visiting)

Jane Reid (1998)
“Integrity and the Emotions”
Present position: University of Illinois Office of Technology Management

Samuel Bruton (1997)
“Kant’s Conception of the Moral Law: Themes in Groundwork II”
Present position: University of Southern Mississippi (tenured)
Previous position: North Carolina State University (visiting)

Bradley Cohen (1997)
“The Normative Dimension of Commonsense Psychology”
Present position: University of Minnesota, Digital Media Center
Previous position: University of Evansville (tenure-track)

Seth Holtzman (1997)
“A Philosophical Re-examination of Presupposition”
Present position: Catawba College (tenured)

Andrew Mills (1997)
“Speakers, Hearers, and the Prospects for Linguistic Knowledge”
Present position: Otterbein College (tenured)

Lori Alward (1996)
“Suicide and Moral Responsibility under Conditions of Political Oppression”
Present position: Tacoma Community College, Mathematics Department
Previous positions: Pace University, Guilford College, University of Puget Sound, University of Utah

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 ProfessionalMilitary Ethic for the Military Forces of the United States”
Present position: National Institute of Standards and Technology
Previous position: Veterans Administration, Washington DC

Eric Rubenstein (1996)
“The Metaphysics of Content”
Present position: Indiana University of Pennsylvania (tenured)
Previous position: Colgate University (visiting)

Valerie Tiberius (1996)
“Deliberation about the Good: Justifying What We Value”
Present position: University of Minnesota (tenured)
Previous position: Franklin and Marshall University (tenure-track)

John Walker (1996)
“Defending Liberal Neutrality”
Present position: University of Minnesota, Digital Media Center
Previous position: University of Minnesota at Duluth (visiting)

Michael Gill (1995) 
“Human Nature and the Accessibility of Morality in Cudsworth, Hutcheson, and Hume”
Present position: University of Arizona (tenured)
Previous positions: Purdue University, College of Charleston (tenure-track)

Sarah Holtman (1995)
“Kant, Justice, and the Augmentation of Ideal Theory”
Present position: University of Minnesota (tenured)
Previous position: College of William and Mary (tenure-track)

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 I. Cohen (1994)
“Hobbesian Political Authority and the Right of Resistance”
Present positions: Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics, Georgia State University (Director), Georgia State University (tenured)
Previous positions: University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point (tenure-track), University of Oklahoma (tenure-track)

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: Retired from the profession
Previous positions: United States Air Force Academy, University of North Carolina (visiting)

William Knorpp (1994)
“Relativism and the New Psychologisms”
Present position: James Madison University (permanent)

Thomas Adajian (1993)
“Imagination, Games, Pictures: A Critical Examination of Kendall Walton’s Mimesis as Make-Believe”
Present position: James Madison University (permanent)

Robert Johnson (1993)
“Kant’s Theory of Moral Worth”
Present position: University of Missouri (tenured)

Terry Moore (1993)
“Conduct and Community”
Present position: University of Tennessee, 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)

John Pauley (1991)
“A Common-Sense Theory of Self-Knowledge”
Present position: Simpson College (tenured)