Graduate Placement

The list below, which groups alumni according to the year they received the Ph.D., gives their dissertation topics and current teaching positions.

2009
Hera Arsen "Was Plato a Mathematical Platonist?: An Inquiry into the Nature of The Intermediates, Their Effects on Plato's Metaphysics, and Plato's Resulting Mathematical Ontology"
2008
Miren Boehm Assistant Professor University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee "Hume's Foundational Project in Book I of The Treatise"	Jeffrey Ogle "Self and Other: Interpenetrating Investigations of Three Philosophers"
2007
Thomas Bushnell, BSG Lecturer, California State Polytechnic University Pomona "Peter Abelard's Conception of the Good"	John Whipple Assistant Professor University of Illinois at Chicago "Leibniz's Metaphysics of Creation and Finite Substance"
2006
Marc Baer "The Primacy of Virtue in Virtue Ethics"	Kenneth Brown Assistant Professor CalPoly San Luis Obispo "The Strict Interpretation of Locke's Theory of Ideas"
Charles Otwell Lecturer, Long Beach City College "Our Fractured Self-Conception"
2005
Jason Ford Assistant Professor: Univ. of Minnesota Duluth "The Attention Model of Consciousness"	Jeffrey McDonough Assistant Professor, Harvard University "Liebniz on Internal Teleology and the Laws of Optics"
Noa Shein Instructor, University of Haifa (Israel) "The Structure of Spinoza's Metaphysics: Attributes, Finite Minds, and the Infinite Intellect"	June Yang Faculty, Tenure Track Grossmont College, San Diego, CA "John Norris' Theory of Ideas: A Re-evaluation of the English Malebranche"
2004
Jeremy Anderson Assistant Professor DePauw University "The Correctives of Discreet Masters: Political Stability and Education in the Hobbesian Commonwealth"	Ian Duckles Assistant Professor Indiana University of Pennsylvania "'Shipwrecked with the aid of repentance' - Sin, Ethics and Normativity in Kant and Kierkegaard'"
John Wise Lecturer, East Stroudsberg University, PA "Sartre's Phenomenological Ontology and the German Idealist Tradition"
2003
Deborah Hawkins Assistant Professor of Philosophy, St. Andrews Presbyterian College "Toward Equal Opportunity: The Moral Significance of Kant's Political Philosophy"	Alejandro Santana Assistant Professor, University of Portland Portland, Oregon "The Problem of the Socratic Elenchus"
Timothy Schoettle Assistant Professor of Philosophy Messiah College, Pennsylvania "Observation and Orientation: A neo-Kantian critique of neo-Leibnizianism in the Philosophy of Mind."
2002
Jan-Erik Jones Assistant Professor, Southern Virginia University "The Workmanship of the Understanding"	Paul Livingston Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico "Experience and Structure: An Investigation in the History of Philosophy of Mind"
Linda Palmer Research Scientist, Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA "The Necessity of Beauty: Aesthetics and Cognition in Kant's Critique of Judgement"	Andrew Youpa Assistant Professor, Southern Illinois University, IL "Descartes and Spinoza on Freedom and Virtue"
2001
Mariana Anagnostopoulos Faculty, California State University Fresno "The Desire for Good in Plato and Aristotle"	Michele Grisat "On Feminist Agency, Identity, Subjectivity: A Critique of Judith Butler's Radical Democracy in a Performative Mode"
Alice Sowaal Assistant Professor, San Francisco State University "Cutting it up Cartesian Style: Individuation and Motion in Descartes's Ontology of Body"	Jeff Yoshimi Assistant Professor, University of California, Merced "Dynamics of Consciousness: Phenomenology, Neuroscience, and Dynamical Systems Theory"