- Department of Philosophy
- Graduate Studies
- Placement of M.A. Graduates
Placement of M.A. Graduates
Over the past decade, the department has awarded approximately 122 M.A. degrees. Eighty-six (86) of those graduates chose to apply to Ph.D. programs in philosophy, and 74 of them (86%) were admitted to a Ph.D. program in philosophy with full funding. Nine (9) entered other graduate or professional programs, and at least six (6) found employment in teaching positions. The remainder have pursued a variety of career paths, having been enriched by their study of philosophy.
Detailed Placement Record, 2007-present
Each table below provides placement outcomes for a year. The column on the left indicates whether a graduate applied to Ph.D. programs in philosophy. Unless otherwise indicated, doctoral admission included full funding.
App? | Title of Writing Sample | Philosophy Ph.D. Program Entered | Other Career Path or Comment |
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Yes |
Successful Equivocation |
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
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Yes1 |
The E-Function of Assertion and its Norms |
University of British Columbia |
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Yes2 |
The Cost of the Open Future: A Pathway to Eternalism |
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
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Yes |
Is Modal Personism a Mere Prejudice? |
Rice University |
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Yes |
Living without Hard Incompatibilism |
Dianoia Institute, Australian Catholic University |
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Yes |
The (Naive) Truth about Revising Your Logic |
University of Pittsburgh |
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Yes3 |
Dialectical Theosis |
University of South Florida |
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Yes |
This Street Fits No Pat Trick: In Defense of the Evolutionary Debunking Argument |
Rice University |
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No |
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Freelance cinematography |
No |
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Currently office coordinator at community college; plans to teach and pursue administrative position at community college. |
Yes |
Against Cognitive Monism: Beginning to Appreciate the Evidence for Pluralism |
University of Western Ontario |
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Yes |
Accounting for the Fluidity of Human Desires |
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Pursuing teaching at community colleges; plans to apply to doctoral programs for fall 2024. |
2023 applicants were also admitted to philosophy Ph.D. programs at: Arizona State University, Syracuse University, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, York University (Canada) |
App? | Title of Writing Sample | Philosophy Ph.D. Program Entered | Other Career Path or Comment |
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Yes1 | A Defense of Subjective Justification for Self-Defense | Purdue University | |
Yes2 | Realist Worries About Ideally Coherent Eccentrics | Indiana University | |
No | TBA | ||
Yes | On Pragmatic Encroachment and the Knowledge-Action Principle | Washington University, St. Louis | Deferred for one year |
Yes | Relational Equality or Distributive Equality? Two Approaches to Social Justice | University of Maryland | |
No |
Plans to apply to doctoral programs in philosophy for fall 2023 and listed in 2023 as 1 |
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No | Teaching in Mexico | ||
Yes3 | Right Action from Competences | University of Kansas | |
No | Plans to apply to doctoral programs in philosophy for fall 2023 and listed in 2023 as 2 | ||
Yes4 | When Standard Use Does Not Imply Literal Use: A Defense of Kripke’s Test | Plans to apply for graduate/professional programs | |
Yes | The Equivalency of Standard Consequentialism and Rational Requirements | Rice University | |
Yes | Essay in the philosophy of mind |
Plans to apply to doctoral programs for fall 2023 and listed in 2023 as 3 |
2022 applicants were also admitted to philosophy Ph.D. programs at (numbers in parentheses indicate admissions in addition to those listed above): Arizona State University, Bowling Green State University (2), St. Louis University, University at Albany, University of Arizona, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2), University of Nebraska, University of St. Andrews/Stirling (unfunded).
App? | Title of Writing Sample | Philosophy Ph.D. Program Entered | Other Career Path or Comment |
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Yes |
Public Reason, Self-Defeat and the Corollaries of a Commitment to Social Cooperation |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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No |
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Plans to apply to doctoral programs in philosophy for fall 2022 and listed in 2022 as 1 |
Yes1 |
The Benefit of the Doubt and the Presumption of Trust |
St. Louis University |
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No |
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Plans to pursue teaching opportunities |
Yes |
Free Will in Madhyamaka Buddhist Philosophy |
University of Chicago (Divinity School) |
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No |
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Plans to apply to doctoral programs in philosophy for fall 2022 and listed in 2022 as 3 |
No |
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Internship in art museum; plans to apply to doctoral programs in art history and/or philosophy for fall 2022 |
No |
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Plans to apply to law schools |
Yes |
Against Positism |
Indiana University at Bloomington |
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Yes |
Civic Friendship in a Pluralistic Society: Consensus or Convergence? |
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Plans to reapply to doctoral programs in philosophy for fall 2022 and listed in 2022 as 5. |
Yes |
What Slurs do not Mean: In Defense of a Prohibitionist Account |
Georgetown University |
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No |
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Plans to work at a bank and apply to doctoral programs in philosophy for fall 2022 |
No |
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Plans to work full-time and apply to doctoral programs in philosophy in the future |
2021 applicants were also admitted to philosophy Ph.D. programs at (numbers in parentheses indicate admissions in addition to those listed above): Georgetown University (1, without full funding), Indiana University (1), Ohio State University, University of Arizona, University of California at Davis, University of California at Riverside, University of Notre Dame
App? | Title of Writing Sample | Philosophy Ph.D. Program Entered | Other Career Path or Comment |
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Yes1 | Realist Worries About Ideally Coherent Eccentrics | Admitted to a doctoral program with full funding, but declined admission; teaching at community colleges; plans to reapply to doctoral programs in philosophy and listed in 2022 as 2. | |
Yes | The Metaphysics of Chaos Theory | University of Pittsburgh (HPS) | |
Yes | The Benefit of the Doubt and the Presumption of Trust | Working at a day program for adults with disabilities; plans to reapply to doctoral programs in philosophy for fall 2021 and listed in 2021 as 1. | |
Yes | Mysteries and Free Will: Cracking the Case with Counterfactuals | Florida State University | |
No | Accepted a fully funded offer to the Ph.D. program in Agricultural and Applied Economics at Texas Tech University | ||
Yes2 | Error 403: Epistemic Accessibility in the Best Systems Account of Lawhood | University of Washington (Seattle) | |
Yes | A Rawlsian Argument for Universal Healthcare: A Multi-Principle Alternative to the Normal Function Account | University of Utah | |
No | Also completed J.D. program at NIU; currently working as a licensed attorney | ||
Yes | Desire as a Normative Concept | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | |
No | Teaching at Clarke University; plans to apply to doctoral programs in philosophy in the future | ||
Yes | That’s Not What a Brain Is: Brains, Philosophical Methodology, and What We Are | Cornell University | |
No | Accepted position as a software engineer in the private sector | ||
No | Plans to apply to doctoral programs in philosophy for fall 2021 | ||
Yes | Informed Consent to Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Transference, Paternalism, and the Relations Between Them | Rice University | |
Yes | Conciliationism and the Poverty of Reasons | Plans to reapply to doctoral programs in philosophy, and to apply to doctoral programs in political science and to J.D. programs for fall 2021 | |
Yes | Naturalistic and Existential Responsibility | Admitted to a doctoral program with full funding, but declined admission; plans to reapply to doctoral programs in philosophy and listed in 2022 as 4 |
2020 applicants were also admitted to philosophy Ph.D. programs at (numbers in parentheses indicate admissions in addition to those listed above): Fordham University, Georgetown University (without full funding), Ohio State University, University of Arizona, University of California at Riverside, University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Maryland (2), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1), Western University (Ontario, Canada)
App? | Title of Writing Sample | Philosophy Ph.D. Program Entered | Other Career Path or Comment |
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Yes | Can “Scale” Replace “Level” in Scientific Practice? | Western University (Ontario, Canada) | |
Yes | What “Must” and “May” Must Not and May Not Mean | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
Yes | The Counterfactual Analysis — With a Twist | University of Notre Dame | |
No | Adjunct teaching at area community colleges; applied to doctoral programs in philosophy for fall 2020 and listed in 2020 as 1 | ||
No | Plans to apply to doctoral programs in philosophy for fall 2020 | ||
Yes | Two Objections to Goble’s Logic of “Good, Should, and Would” | University of Arizona | |
Yes | Partiality, Attachments and Consequentialism | University of Maryland | |
Yes1 | The Synthesized Self: Ismael, Kant, and the Self as a Collection | Plans to reapply to doctoral programs in philosophy in fall 2020 | |
Yes2 | Love and the Worthy Intellectual Life | University of Oklahoma | |
No3 | Master of Divinity, Fuller Theological Seminary | ||
Yes | Plato on Education: Political Matters Matter | Admitted to a doctoral program with full funding, but declined admission; plans to apply to doctoral programs in philosophy in Japan for fall 2020 |
2019 applicants were also admitted to philosophy Ph.D. programs at (numbers in parentheses indicate admissions in addition to those listed above): Cornell University, Fordham University, St. Louis University, University of California at Irvine (Logic and Philosophy of Science), University of California at San Diego, University of Maryland (2), University of Nebraska, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Rochester, University of St. Andrews (without full funding), University of Texas at Austin
App? | Title of Writing Sample | Philosophy Ph.D. Program Entered | Other Career Path or Comment |
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No | Plans to apply to programs in veterinary medicine in the future | ||
Yes | Wave Function Anti-Realism | Indiana University, History and Philosophy of Science | |
Yes | Future Bias and Presentism | University of California at Irvine | |
Yes1 | Conversational Implicature as Atypical Coordination Equilibrium | Carnegie Mellon University | |
Yes | On Being a Rational Animal and Public Reasons | Purdue University | |
Yes | How (Not) to Handle Selfless Assertions | Rutgers University | |
No2 | Entering M.S. in Public Policy program, Carnegie Mellon University | ||
No | Working as Financial Planner | ||
Yes3 | Loosening the Connection Between Virtue and Well-Being | University of Notre Dame | |
No | Entering J.D. program, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law | ||
Yes | Defending a Mind-Dependent Account of the Context of Conversation | University of Iowa | |
No | working in software development in the private sector | ||
Yes | Is Someone Out There? On Metzinger’s No-Self Alternative | University of British Columbia | |
No | Applied to doctoral programs in philosophy for fall 2020; listed in 2020 as 2 | ||
No | Plans to apply to doctoral programs in philosophy for fall 2019; listed in 2019 as 1 | ||
Yes4 | Intellectual Love | Entering M.Litt. program in analytic theology at University of St. Andrews; applied to doctoral programs in philosophy for fall 2019 and listed in 2019 as 2 | |
Yes | Applied to law schools for fall 2019; listed in 2019 as 4 | ||
No | Applied to programs in social work for fall 2019; listed in 2019 as 5 | ||
2018 applicants were also admitted to philosophy Ph.D. programs at (numbers in parentheses indicate admissions in addition to those listed above): Bowling Green State University, Northwestern University, Syracuse University, University of California at Davis, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Notre Dame (1), University of Pittsburgh, University of Rochester, University of Southern California, Washington University St. Louis, Yale University
App? | Title of Writing Sample | Philosophy Ph.D. Program Entered | Other Career Path or Comment |
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Yes | Lexical Sarcasm, Grice, and Camp’s Theory | University of California at Santa Barbara | |
Yes | Resurrecting Davidson’s Case Against Minimalism | Ohio State University | |
Yes1 | Motivation, Normative Pragmatics, and Moral Discourse | University of Arizona | |
Yes | Can Infinitists Handle the Finite Mind Objection and the Distinction Objection? A Dilemma for Infinitism | Rice University | |
Yes | GRE tutor; plans to reapply to doctoral programs for fall 2018 | ||
Yes2 | Committed Uses and Faultless Disagreement | University of Texas at Austin | |
Yes | Slurs, At-Issueness, and Questions Under Discussion | Rutgers University | |
Yes | What’s Wrong with Explaining Essence in Terms of Necessity? | Admitted to a doctoral program with full funding, but declined admission and will apply again in a year or two | |
Yes | Consequentialism, Convention, and Character: How a Different Decision Procedure Aids Consequentialism | Washington University in St. Louis | |
Yes | Getting Leibniz Out on the Cheap | University of Southern California | |
Yes | Explanation and Similarity: Boris Kment and Meghan Sullivan’s Competing Accounts of Closeness | University of Virginia | |
No | Position with AmeriCorps VISTA at Western Illinois University at Quad Cities; applied to doctoral programs in philosophy for fall 2018 and listed ins 2018 as 3 | ||
Yes | Culpability and Moral Ignorance: When We Should Have Known Better | CUNY Graduate Center | |
No | Plans to apply to doctoral programs in 2017-2018 and listed in 2018 as 4 | ||
Yes | The Semantics and Pragmatics of Epistemic Possibility: Why Contextualism Might Be Right | University of Toronto | |
Yes | The Viability of an Epistemic Constraint on Truth | Reapplied to doctoral programs in philosophy in 2018 and listed there as 1 | |
No | Plans to apply for positions in community colleges teaching philosophy | ||
Yes | The Generation of Knowledge and Justification Through Testimony | University of Miami | |
Yes | Modified Molinism and Compatibilist Middle Knowledge | Entering Ph.D. program in theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary | |
Yes3 | Dispositional Essentialism, Directedness, and Final Causation | St. Louis University | |
No4 | Entering J.D. program at University of Arkansas at Fayetteville |
2017 applicants were also admitted to philosophy Ph.D. programs at (numbers in parentheses indicate admissions in addition to those listed above): Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell University (2), Georgetown University (4), Indiana University (2), Johns Hopkins University, Marquette University, Northwestern University (2), Ohio State University, Oxford University, Purdue University, Rice University (2), St. Louis University (3), SUNY Buffalo (2), University of Arizona, University of California at Davis (3), University of California at Irvine, University of California at Los Angeles, University of California at San Diego (2), University of Connecticut, University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Edinburgh, University of Iowa, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (2), University of Miami, University of Missouri (2), University of Nebraska, University of Reading, University of Rochester, University of Texas at Austin, University of Wisconsin at Madison (2), Washington University St. Louis
App? | Title of Writing Sample | Philosophy Ph.D. Program Entered | Other Career Path or Comment |
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Yes | Dialectical Justification, Sensitivity and Skepticism | University of California at Los Angeles | |
Yes | Ethics, Intuitions, and Equilibrium: A Response to Peter Singer | Rice University | |
Yes* | Situationism and the Discerning Situation: The Need for Robust Character Traits | Washington University in St. Louis | |
Yes | The Inheritors of Thieves: Settling the Debt | Marquette University | |
No | Working as chess instructor | ||
Yes | Neuroscience, Psychology, and Causation: What Searle Got Right and Wrong About Neuroscience and the Problem of Consciousness | Applied to law schools for fall 2017; listed in 2017 as 4 | |
Yes | The Moral Precautionary Principle | St. Louis University | |
Yes | Safe at Last: Extra-Safety and Closure | Indiana University at Bloomington | |
Yes | Predicates of Personal Taste and Hare’s Paradox | Reapplied to philosophy doctoral programs in 2017 and listed there as 2 | |
No | Was admitted to several J.D. programs, but declined admissions; applied to seminaries for fall 2019 and is listed in 2019 as 3 | ||
No | Applied to philosophy doctoral programs for fall 2017; listed in 2017 as 1 | ||
Yes | Hi-Phi: Setting the Record Straight on the Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness | TBD |
2016 graduates were also admitted to philosophy Ph.D. programs at: Bowling Green State University, Northwestern University, Rice University (2), St. Louis University (3), University of Arizona, University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Iowa, University of Maryland at College Park, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, University of Miami, University of Missouri, University of Notre Dame
App? | Title of Writing Sample | Philosophy Ph.D. Program Entered | Other Career Path or Comment |
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Yes | Agent-Causal Libertarianism and Control | Indiana University at Bloomington | |
Yes | Contextualism Without Representation: A Response to the Meaning-Intention Problem | University of Arizona | |
Yes | Trolleys and Transplants: Derailing the Distinction Between Doing and Allowing | University of California at San Diego | |
Yes | Quasi-Realism and Objectivity | Georgetown University | |
Yes | Does Moral Discourse Satisfy Cognitive Command? | Indiana University at Bloomington | |
Yes | On Truth and Lies in a Non-normative Sense: A Reply to the Inflationary Argument | University of Connecticut | |
Yes | Why the Totality State of Affairs is Not a Truthmaker for Negative Existential Truths | Cornell University | |
Yes | Wielding the Self-Defeatingness Objection Against Consequentialism | Private sector (probably information technology) | |
Yes* | On Subset-Realization: Kim’s Dilemma and the Problem of Mismatching Powers | Washington University in St. Louis | |
Yes | The Illusion of Freedom: Agent-Causation and Self-Deception | Entered M.Phil. program in philosophy at KU Leuven, Belgium; subsequently entered Ph.D. program in philosophy at KU Leuven | |
No | TBD | ||
Yes | The Failure of Non-Cartesian Substance Dualism | University of Colorado at Boulder |
2015 graduates were also admitted to philosophy Ph.D. programs at: Baylor University, Indiana University at Bloomington (6), Purdue University, Syracuse University (3), University of California at Davis, University of California at Irvine, University of California at Santa Barbara (2), University of Colorado at Boulder (2), University of Maryland at College Park, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (2), University of Miami, University of Minnesota at Twin Cities, University of Missouri at Columbia, University of Notre Dame, University of Southern California, University of Washington at Seattle
App? | Title of Writing Sample | Philosophy Ph.D. Program Entered | Other Career Path or Comment |
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Yes | Epistemological Disjunctivism, Internalism, and Accessibility | University of Massachusetts at Amherst | |
No | Pursuing a vocation with the Catholic Church (most likely attending seminary) | ||
Yes | Truth We Can Aim At: Deflationism and Objective Norms of Assertion | University of Toronto | |
Yes | The Structure of Complex Intentions: Responding to Bratman's Denial of the Simple View | Indiana University at Bloomington | |
Yes | A Scenic Route to Visual Representation | University of Southern California | |
No | Private sector | ||
Yes | Truth-Conditional Pragmatics and Meaning Shift | University of Connecticut | |
No | Private sector (information technology) | ||
No | Teaching at Assumption Catholic High School (WI); applied to doctoral programs in 2016 and listed there as * | ||
Yes | Minds Can Be Multiply Realized and (Globally) Reduced | Reapplied to doctoral programs in 2015 and listed there as * |
2014 graduates were also admitted to philosophy Ph.D. programs at: Brown University, Cornell University, Indiana University at Bloomington (2), Northwestern University, Ohio State University, Syracuse University, University of California at Los Angeles, University of California at Santa Barbara, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (2), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Notre Dame (2), University of Southern California (2), University of Virginia, Washington University in St. Louis
App? | Title of Writing Sample | Philosophy Ph.D. Program Entered | Other Career Path or Comment |
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Yes1 | Against Nelson's Proposal for Descriptivists> | University of Colorado at Boulder | |
No | Teaching English at Zirve University in Turkey | ||
Yes | Ockhamism and Causal Determinism | University of Toronto | |
Yes | Descriptions, Communication, and Shared Content | Indiana University at Bloomington | |
Yes2 | How to Resolve the Justification Problem for Gibbardian Expressivism Without Going Hybrid | Brown University | |
Yes | The Cognitive Realist Account of Propositions | University of California at Santa Barbara | |
Yes | Intention and Resolution in a Two-Stage Newcomb's Problem | University of Southern California | |
No | Entered a Catholic Benedictine Monastery; applied to doctoral programs in philosophy in 2017 and listed there as 3 | ||
Yes3 | Redundancy, Prosententialism, Actuality, Non-Redundancy | University of Toronto | |
Yes | Hitchhiker's Guide to Time Travel | University of Illinois at Chicago | |
Yes | Knowledge in an Ontologically Minimal World | University of Colorado at Boulder | Deferred admission for one year |
Yes | Are Psychological Theories of Personal Identity Supplemented with Constitution a Viable Account of Human Persons' Deeper Kind? | Pursuing a career in health care |
2013 graduates were also admitted to philosophy Ph.D. programs at: Carnegie Mellon University, City University of New York, Georgetown University, Northwestern University (3), Ohio State University, Purdue University, Rice University, SUNY Buffalo, University of California at Davis, University of California at Los Angeles, University of California at San Diego, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (3), University of Missouri at Columbia, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, University of Notre Dame (2), University of Wisconsin at Madison, Washington University in St. Louis (2)
App? | Title of Writing Sample | Philosophy Ph.D. Program Entered | Other Career Path or Comment |
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Yes | A Prosententialist Account of Vagueness | University of Southern California | |
Yes | Intrinsicality for the Metaphysically Grounded | Rutgers University | |
No | Private sector | ||
Yes | The Semantics and Pragmatics of Empty Names | University of Maryland | |
No | Waited to apply to doctoral programs in philosophy in 2013 and listed there as 2 | ||
Yes | Against the Minimalistic Reading of Epistemic Contextualism | University of Southern California | |
No | Private sector | ||
Yes | From Internalism to Instrumentalism and Its Normative Implications | Rice University | |
No | Waited to apply to doctoral programs in philosophy in 2013 and listed there as 3 | ||
Yes | Knowledge and Explanation | Indiana University at Bloomington | |
Yes | Can Moral Value and Obligation Be Determined By Merely Possible Gods? | Entered M.A. program in theology at University of Chicago Divinity School |
2012 graduates were also admitted to philosophy Ph.D. programs at: Cornell University, University of Texas at Austin, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (3), Northwestern University, Washington University in St. Louis, University of California at Santa Barbara, University of Virginia, University of Toronto, University of Calgary, University of California at Davis
App? | Title of Writing Sample | Philosophy Ph.D. Program Entered | Other Career Path or Comment |
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Yes | Questioning Schaffer’s Aristotelian Metaontology | University of Massachusetts at Amherst | |
Yes | Assertion, Knowledge, and the Belief that One Knows | Indiana University at Bloomington | |
No | Taught philosophy at University of Montevallo; applied to doctoral programs in philosophy in 2013 and listed there as 1 | ||
Yes | A Case for the World State | Entered M.A. program in international relations at Columbia University | |
Yes | Throwing the Game: Causation as Influence and the Problem of Preemption | University of Virginia | |
Yes | Title not available | University of Wisconsin at Madison | |
Yes | Intuition Skepticism: Against Arguments from Disagreement | Ohio State University | |
No | Private sector; applied to a variety of graduate programs in 2018 and listed there as 2 | ||
Yes | Determinates, Determinables, and Realization: Two Scientific Cases Considered | University of California at San Diego | |
No | Law school | ||
No | Private sector |
2011 graduates were also admitted to philosophy Ph.D. programs at: University of Maryland, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of British Columbia, Northwestern University, Purdue University, Syracuse University, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Miami, University of Calgary, University of Connecticut
App? | Title of Writing Sample | Philosophy Ph.D. Program Entered | Other Career Path or Comment |
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Yes | Against the No Past Objection | University of California at Riverside | |
Yes | Whatever Could Be Caused Must Actually Be Caused | Rutgers University | |
Yes | How the Mind Can Survive a (Total) Change of Its Parts | University of Southern California | |
Yes | Quietism Is a Humanism: Putnam Against Unconscious Absolutism | Johns Hopkins University | |
Yes | An Old Problem for Pritchard’s New Anti-Luck Epistemology | University of Colorado at Boulder | |
Yes | Art, Meaning, and Allusion: Strengthening Hypothetical Intentionalism | University of Maryland | |
Yes | Modality and the Mind-Body Problem | University of Nebraska | |
No |
2010 graduates were also admitted to philosophy Ph.D. programs at: University of Maryland, Syracuse University, Florida State University, Ohio State University, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Northwestern University, University of California at Santa Barbara, University of Washington
App? | Title of Writing Sample | Philosophy Ph.D. Program Entered | Other Career Path or Comment |
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Yes | Worldbound Individuals in Armstrong's Truthmaker Theory | University of Texas at Austin | |
Yes | Reflective Reasons and Valuable Justification: Against the Knowledge Norm of Assertion | University of Colorado at Boulder | |
No | Entered M.A. program in anthropology at NIU | ||
Yes | A Consistent Triad: The Possibility of God's Libertarian Freedom in Creating the World | University of Notre Dame | |
Yes | Which Duty? Which Conception of Humanity? A Critique of Christine Korsgaard's The Sources of Normativity | Purdue University (declined) | Entered Ph.D. program in political science at NIU |
Yes | Kant's Limited Retributive Thesis | Entered Ph.D. program in political science at NIU | |
No | Teaching at Hiawatha High School (IL) | ||
Yes | The Normativity of Truth | University of Utah | |
No | Contributing Editor, News and Stories, Calvin College | ||
Yes | Overcoming Explanatory Exclusion | University of Arizona | |
Yes | Minimalism and the Value of Truth: A Reply to Lynch | University of Colorado at Boulder | |
Yes | A Minimalist Response to Wright’s Inflationary Argument | University of California at Riverside |
2009 graduates were also admitted to philosophy Ph.D. programs at: University of Southern California, University of California at Irvine, University of California at San Diego, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Washington University (St. Louis), City University of New York, Georgetown University, University of Virginia, University of Maryland, Syracuse University, University of Miami, University of California at Davis, Florida State University, University at Buffalo, Temple University, University of Cincinnati, and Southern Illinois University
App? | Title of Writing Sample | Philosophy Ph.D. Program Entered | Other Career Path or Comment |
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Yes | The Dimensional View of Realization: Successes and Failures | University of California at San Diego (deferred) | |
Yes | Does the Theist Have an Epistemic Advantage Over the Atheist: Plantinga and Descartes on Theism, Atheism, and Skepticism | Rutgers University | |
Yes | God, Evil, and Closure | University of Notre Dame | |
Yes | Justification, Truth, and Bergmann's Theory of Justification | Ohio State University | |
Yes | The Attenuated Ramblings of a Madman: Feyerabend's Anarchy Examined | University of California at Davis | |
Yes | Title not Available | Entered Th.D. program in theology at Boston University | |
Yes | Epistemic Choice and the Consequence Argument | University of Nebraska at Lincoln | |
Yes | An Internalist Commitment to Morality | Syracuse University | |
No | Permanent faculty member at Hinsdale Central High School (IL) | ||
No | Teaching at Kishwaukee Community College (IL) | ||
Yes | Title not available | Florida State University | |
Yes | Berkeley's Notions, Perception, and Method | University of South Florida | |
No | Entered Ph.D. program in physics at NIU | ||
Yes | Mental Causation and B Emergentism | University of Maryland at College Park | |
Yes | Essentialism and the Necessity of Identity | University of Arizona (transferred to UNC Chapel Hill) |
2008 graduates were also admitted to philosophy Ph.D. programs at: Indiana University at Bloomington, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Brown University, Cornell University, University of Southern California, University of Wisconsin at Madison, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Northwestern University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Rochester, University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Miami, City University of New York, University of Florida, Purdue University, Arizona State University
App? | Title of Writing Sample | Philosophy Ph.D. Program Entered | Other Career Path or Comment |
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Yes | Knowledge and Certainty: The Case Against Dogmatism | Indiana University at Bloomington | |
Yes | Freedom Doesn't Come Cheap: The Problem of Properly Ignoring Causal Explanations within a Contextualist Account of Freedom | University of Wisconsin at Madison | |
No | Teaching full time at Waubonsee Community College (IL) | ||
Yes | Keeping Utilitarians Honest: Why Utilitarianism Fails as a Normative Theory | Florida State University | |
Yes | Integrity in Kant's Moral Philosophy | Tulane University | |
Yes | We Know Not of What We Speak: Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Religion | Entered Ph.D. program in theology at Marquette University | |
Yes | Contextualist Accounts of Freedom Cannot Solve the Problem of Free Will | University of Washington | |
No | Teaching at Hinckley-Big Rock High School (IL) |
2007 graduates were also admitted to philosophy Ph.D. programs at: University of Maryland at College Park, University of Rochester, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Purdue University, University of Kansas, Marquette University, Loyola University of Chicago, University of California at Davis, Syracuse University
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