Dissertations and Placement Record, 1992-2004
  

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. 
  

Adrienne Martin (2004)
Instruments Are Not Reasons 
Position starting Fall 2004: National Institute of Health (two year post doc)

Colleen Murphy (2004)
The Nature and Moral Importance of Political Reconciliation 
Position starting Fall 2004: Texas A&M (tenure track)

Matthew Smith (2004)
Property Rights, Social Norms and The Law  
Position starting Fall 2004: Yale University (tenure track)

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) 

Angela Coventry (2003)
Causation, Quasi-Realism, and David Hume
Present Position: University of Arizona (visiting)

Jason Dickenson (2003)
Actions, Reasons, and Motivational Strength
Present Position: University of Pittsburgh (visiting)

Hans Muller (2003)
Fear and Loathing in Deliberation
Present Position: Ithaca College (visiting)
Position starting Fall 2004: American University of Beirut (tenure track) 

Clea Rees (2003)
The Importance of Empathy 
Present Position: Indiana University of Pennsylvania (visiting)
Position starting Fall 2004: University of California/Berkeley (visiting)

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)
Position starting Fall 2004: University fo Connecticut (tenure track)  

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)
Position starting Fall 2004: University of California/Santa Barbara  

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 (visiting) 

Rebecca Whisnant (2001)
Centering Oneself: Normative Independence and the Moral Life 
Previous Position: University of Southern Indiana (tenure track)
Present Position: University of Dayton (visiting) 

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 (three year post doc) 
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, 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 (tenured) 

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)