Philosophy Department
Graduate Program
 

Placement Record

Listed below are the results of job searches by students who first entered the market in the years 1994-95 through 2005-06. It is accurate and complete to the best of the Department's knowledge; however, the Department cannot guarantee its accuracy or completeness. Please contact the Department with any corrections or additions.

  • (TT) indicates tenure track.
  • (T) indicates tenured position.
  • An asterisk (*) indicates that the offer was accepted.
  • Positions currently held are shown in bold.

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Last updated: Thursday, April 10, 2008



Damon Horowitz, Meaning and Relativism in Knowledge and Metaphor (2007, Ken Taylor)
2007-08: *University of Pennsylvania (postdoc)

Patrick Girard, Modal Logic for Belief and Preference Change (2008, Johan van Bentham)
2007-08: *University of Auckland (T)

Jennifer M. Morton, Practical Reasoning and the Varieties of Agency (Michael E. Bratman)
2007-08: *Swathmore College (2-year visiting); University of British Columbia (3-year visiting)

Angela Potochnik, Evolution, Explanation and Unity of Science (2007, Elliott Sober and Michael Friedman)
2007-08: *Oklahoma State University (TT)

Darren Bradley, Bayesianism and Self-Locating Beliefs or Tom Bayes meets John Perry (2007, Elliott Sober and Michael Friedman)
2006-07: *University of British Columbia (postdoc)

Neil van Leeuwen, Self-Deception and the Metaphysics of Belief (2007, Ken Taylor)
2006-07: *Rutgers University (postdoc)

Isidora Stojanovic, What Is Said. An Inquiry Into Reference, Meaning, and Content (2007, John Perry)
2004-05: *CNRS (Centre National de Recherche Scientifique), at the Institut Jean-Nicod (TT)

Patrick Forber, The Traces of Change: Evidence in Evolutionary Biology (2006, Elliott Sober)
2005-06: *Tufts (TT), Virginia Tech (TT)

Audrey Yap, The Mathematical Practice and the Philosophy of Mathematics (2006, Michael Friedman)
2005-06: *University of Victoria, British Columbia(TT)

Conceptual Foundations of Cultural Evolution (2005, Peter Godfrey-Smith)
2005: *McKinsey & Company (non-academic job; did not go on philosophy job market)

Dan Corbett, Making Sense of Ourselves: How Beliefs Explain Behavior (2005, Ken Taylor )
2004-05: *Penn (visiting)
2005-06: *U of Nebraska, Lincoln (visiting)

On the Normativity of the Instrumental Principle of Reason (2005, Michael Bratman)
2004: *U of Chicago Law School (did not go on philosophy job market)

Robert C. Jones, The Moral Significance of Animal Cognition (2005, Peter Godfrey-Smith)
2003-04: *Stanford IHUM (3-year postdoc) (did not go on philosophy job market)
2004-05:
2005-06:

The Significance of Moral Disagreement (2004, Debra Satz)
2003-04: Kansas State University (TT); *UNC Chapell Hill (1-year visiting)
2004-05: UMBC (TT); *Virginia Tech  (TT)

Bayesianism and Simplicity (2004, Peter Godfrey-Smith)
2003-04: *UC Irvine (visiting)

Simple Words and Subtle Things: Social Kinds and the Making of Reference (2004, John Etchemendy)
2003-04: *Virginia Tech (TT)

Feelings and Emotional Evaluation (2004, John Perry & David Hills)
2003-04: *Cornell, Mellon Humanities Posdoctoral Fellowship (visiting)
2004-05: *Cornell, (visiting)
2005-06: *Cornell ( visiting)

Misrepresenting the Mind (2004, Peter Godfrey-Smith)
2004: *McKinsey & Company (non-academic job; did not go on philosophy job market)

Michael Weisberg, When Less is More: Tradeoffs and Idealization in Model-Building (2003, Peter Godfrey-Smith)
2002-03: *U Penn (TT)

Patrick Scotto di Luzio, Forms of Logic: Discourse, Diagrams, and Proof (2003, John Etchemendy)
2001-02: *McKinsey & Company (non-academic job)

Amol R. Sarva, The Concept of Modularity in Cognitive Science (2003, Mark Crimmins)
2002-03: *McKinsey & Company (non-academic job)

Self-Expression as Voice: A Nietzschean Study of the Material Production of Authenticity (2002, John Perry)
1999-00: *Stanford IHUM (3-year postdoc)
2000-01: Washington and Jefferson College (2-year visiting)
2001-02:
2002-03: *Earlham C (TT)

Yonatan Shemmer, Desiring at Will: Reasons, Motivation and Motivational Change (2002, Michael Bratman)
2000-01: *Stanford IHUM (3-year postdoc)
2001-02:
2002-03:
2003-04: *Sheffield (TT); U of Ankara (TT)

Eric L. Hutton, Virtue and Reason in Xunzi (2001, Philip J. Ivanhoe)
2000-01: *U of Utah (TT); *Berkeley Center for East Stud (postdoc); Harvard Fairbank Center for East Asian Research (postdoc)

Janet D. Stemwedel, Underlying Stories: The Structure of Causal Talk in Chemistry and In Everyday Life (2001, Peter Godfrey-Smith)
1998-99: *Stanford IHUM (3-year postdoc) (did not go on philosophy job market)
2000-01:
2001-02: *San Jose State (TT); Evergreen State College (TT); Towson University  (TT)

The Discovery of Practical Reason: Plato, Aristotle and the Development of a Notion of Deliberation (2002, Julius Moravcsik)
2000-01:
2001-02: *U of Maryland Baltimore (TT)

Fiction: From Reference to Interpretation (2002, Julius Moravcsik)
2001-02: *Washington and Jefferson C (TT); *Mellon Postdoct. at U of Michigan
2004-05: *Birkbeck UCL (job search limited to London)

Ethics and Modality (2002, Kenneth Taylor)
2000-01:
2001-02: *Greenwall Fellowship, John Hopkins (2 yr postdoc); *U of Delaware  (TT)

Manuel Vargas, Even Better than the Real Thing: Revisionism and Responsibility (2001, Michael Bratman)
2001-02: *USF (TT); *Caltech (postdoc); San Jose State (TT); Texas A&M at Corpus Christi (TT)
2004-05: *Berkeley (1/2 time, visiting); UNC-Chapel Hill (visiting)
2005-06: UMass Amherst (TT); Utah (Tenured)

Saying, Samesaying, and What is Said (2000, John Perry)
1999-00: *Stanford IHUM (3-year Postdoc)
2001-02: *Illinois S at Urbana Champagne (visiting)
2004-05: *Bristol (TT)

The Art/Work of Black Aesthetic Criticism (2000, Julius Moravcsik)
?: CUNY
2000-01: *Spelman College

Peter Graham, Testimony: The Epistemology of Linguistic Acceptance (2000, Fred Dretske)
1999-00: *Saint Louis U (TT)
2001-02: *UC Riverside (T); Simon Fraser U (TT)

Friendship as Shared Intentional Activity (2005, Michael Bratman)
1997-98: *Guilford College
1998-99: *Guilford College (TT)

Ontology and Objectivity (1999, Solomon Feferman & John Perry)
1999-00: *U of Michigan (TT), Yale (TT), U of Texas  (TT)
Present Position : UNC Chapel Hill (TT)

Murderous Delusions: The Ethics and Metaphysics of Race (2000, Debra Satz)
1998-99: *Guilford College (TT)

Lawrence Adam Lengbeyer (Lawrence Beyer), The Disintegration of Belief (2000, Michael Bratman)
1998-99: *Franklin & Marshall (1 year visiting)
1999-00: *US Naval Academy (TT); U Wisconsin Oshkosh  (TT); Appalachian State U  (TT)

Non-Contingent Reasons(1999, Rachel Cohon)
1998-99: *U of Florida Gainesville (TT)

Media and Meaning: A Schematic Approach to Representation Semantics and its Applications (1999, John Etchemendy)
?: Team Prometheus (startup; did not go on philosophy job market)

Tim Schroeder, Foundations of Mental Representation (1998, Fred Dretske)
1997-98: *SSHRC Canada (Postdoc)
1997-98: *U of Manitoba (TT)
2005-06: *OSU (T)

Heidegger's Philosophy of Logic (1999, Dagfinn Føllesdal)
1997-98: *Stanford (postdoc)
1998-99: *Franklin and Marshall (TT); Stanford (postdoc)

Moral Variety and Plural Theories (1998, Rachel Cohon)
1998-99: *Arizona State University Honors College (ongoing non-tenure)
1999-00: *U of Michigan; *John Hopkins University Bioethics Institute (Postdoc); National Institutes of Health Dept. of Clinical Bioethics (Postdoc) (very limited search)
2003-04: *UNC Chapel Hilll Depts. of Social Medicine and Philosophy (TT in Social Medicine) (very limited search)

In Defense of Deep Virtue Ethics (1998, Julius Moravcsik)
1998-99: *U of Michigan Ann Arbor (1-year Visiting)
1999-00: *Rice (TT); Ohio State (TT); Wash U St Louis  (TT); U of Wash. Seattle  (TT); U of Calgary  (TT); Cornell  (3-year Postdoc)
2002-03: *Brown (T)

Michael Blake, Social Justice and State Borders (1998, Debra Satz)
1997-98: *Harvard (TT)
2001-02: *John F. Kennedy School of Government (TT)
2005-06: *University of Washington (T; joint Philosophy and Public Policy)

Analyticity Revisited (1998, John Etchemendy)
1995-96: *U of Barcelona (TT)

A Model of the Structure of Belief (1998, John Perry)
1997-98:
1998-99:
1999-00: *Universidad de Salamanca (postdoc)
2000-01:
2001-02: *Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (visiting)
2002-03:
2003-04: *Universitat de Barcelona (visiting)
2005-06: *Universitat de Barcelona (TT)

Ethics and Tradition in the 'Xunzi' (1998, Philip J. Ivanhoe)
?: *Loyola University Chicago (visiting), ?

Liberty Worth the Name: Beyond Hobbesean Compatibilism (1998, Michael Bratman & Marleen Rozemond)
1997-98: (limited job search)
1998-99: *UCSD (visiting) (limited job search)
1999-2000: *USC(T); UC Davis  (TT); UCSD  (TT)

Quantum Mechanics and Reality: An Interpretation of Everett's Theory (1997, Patrick Suppes)
1994-95:
1995-96:
1996-97:
1997-98: *Einstein Project-Caltech, ?
?: *Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, ?

Sven Bernecker, Knowing One's Own Mind: Externalism and Privileged Self-Knowledge (1997, Fred Dretske)
1996-1997: *U of Munich (wiss. Assistent, Habilitation)
2002-2003:*U Manchester (T); U Aberdeen  (T), *U London Birkbeck College  (visiting)
2005-2006:*UC Irvine (T)

Stefano Franchi, Endgames: Game and Play at the End of Philosophy (1997, John Perry)
1997-98: *Stanford IHUM (postdoc)
1998-99: *U of Auckland (TT)

Bodies and Souls: The Rehabilitation of Maimed Soldiers in France and Germany during the First World War (1998, Debra Satz)
1997-98:
1997-98: *Science and Technology Studies, Cornell (postdoc)
?: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (1 year)

Mark Greaves, The Philosophical Status of Diagrams (1997, John Etchemendy)
1997: Boeing Research and Technology
2001: Defense Advanced Resarch Projects Agency (did not go on philosophy job market)
2005: *Vulcan Inc. (did not go on philosophy job market)

Reflective Evaluation, Autonomy, and Self-Knowledge (1998, Michael Bratman)
1999-00:
2000-01:
2001-02: *Mount Holyoke College (visiting)

The Many Faces of Consciousness (1997, Fred Dretske)
1996-97: *Duke (TT)

Thinking, Meaning, and Speaking: Conceptual Role Semantics Reconsidered (1998, John Perry)
1997-98: *University of Rochester (TT)
1999: Left philosophy for computer industry

Atocha Aliseda, Seeking Explanations: Abduction in Logic, Philosophy of Science and Artificial Intelligence(1997, Johan van Bentham)
1996-97: *U Nacional Autónoma de México (TT)
1999-00: *University of Groningen The Netherlands (3-year postdoc)

Better Living Without Free Will: A Theoretical and Pragmatic Argument for Acting on the Belief that We are Neither Free nor Deserving (1997, Debra Satz)
1996-97:
1997-98: *U of Idaho (TT)
1998-99: *Wichita State U (TT)

Nietzsche's Perspectivism: A Thesis on Subjectivity (1997, Philip J. Ivanhoe)
1996-97: *Hamilton College (TT)

Contemplation and the Practical Life: A Study of Aristotle's 'Nichomachean Ethics' (1996, Julius Moravcsik)
1993-94:
1994-95:
1995-96: *College of William and Mary
1996-97:
1997-98: *Mount Union College (T)

Jealousy and Confidence: An Essay on the Limits of Authority (1996, John Dupre)
1999: Overstock.com (did not go on philosophy job market)

The Conditions and Possibility of Commitment: An Argument for Moral Realism (1997, Rachel Cohon)
?: ?

Jonathan Kaplan, Networks of Support: Politics and Genes in Contemporary Society (1996, John Dupre)
1995-96: *Stanford Biomedical Ethics Center's Program in Genomics, Ethics and Society (postdoc); University of Utah Genomics Center (postdoc)
1996-97: *Stanford CIV (visiting)
1998-99: *U of Tennessee, Knoxville (TT)
2003-04: *Oregon State U (TT)

Plato on the Practice of Philosophy (1995, Julius Moravcsik)
1995-96: (limited search)
1996-97: *Center for Applied Ethics Pace U (limited search)

James Dwyer, Religious Schooling in a Liberal Society: Parents' Rights, Community Rights, and Justice for Children (1995, Debra Satz)
1994-95:
1995-96:
1996-97: *U. of Missouri St. Louis (TT)
Present Position: *William & Mary School of Law (T)

Friedrich Nietzsche's Socrates and the Problem of Decadence (1995, Eckart Forster)
1993-94:
1994-95: *U of Memphis (TT), St. Mary's College  (TT), Hamilton College  (TT)
1998-1999: *Loyola U of Chicago (TT)


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