Philosophy Department | the Grad Program

PhD job placement

The following is a complete list of PhDs awarded by the department since 1998. To summarize briefly: 12 of 13 found academic work after graduating. 8 of 13 secured tenure-track positions.

Although prospective graduate students are naturally interested in numbers like these, it should be noted that the sample size of actual graduates is still rather small. When students do not go on to academic work, do not find tenure-track positions, or find but leave tenure-track positions, they often do so for idiosyncratic reasons such as geographic or family preferences.

1998

• Worldly Thoughts: A Theory of Embedded Cognition (chair: Ron McClamrock)

  1st position: University of Central Oklahoma, tenure track

  Subsequent position: Castleton State College (VT), tenure track

2000

• The Role of Intentions in Perceptual Demonstrative Utterances (chair: Ron McClamrock)

  1st position: Nova University

  Subsequent position: Western Illinois University, tenure track

2001

• Explaining Consciousness: Naturalizing the Phenomenological (chair: Ron McClamrock)

  1st position: Hunter College, tenure track

  Subsequent position: Skidmore College

2002

• Upward Collapses and Downward Explosions: The Emergence of the Problem of Individuation in Plato and Aristotle and the Solutions Proposed by Porphyry and Boethius (chair: Josiah Gould)

  1st position: Adirondack Community College, tenure track

  Subsequently tenured at same

• Understanding Moral Weakness (chair: John Kekes)

  1st position: Sienna College

  Subsequent position: College of Saint Rose

2003

• Personal Identity and Moral Responsibility (chair: Josiah Gould)

  1st position: adjunct teaching

  Subsequent position: Oakland Community College, Oakland County, Michigan

• Autonomy in End-of-life Decision Making (chair: Bonnie Steinbock)

  1st position: University of Toronto, post doc

  Subsequent position: University of North Florida, tenure track

2004

• Leaving Morality Where It Is: The Particularistic Approach to Morality and the Problems of Contingency, Happiness, and Responsibility (chair: John Kekes)

  1st position: Rogers State University, tenure track

  Subsequent position: East Stroudsburg University

2005

• Hegel's Response to Meta-critical Skepticism in the Phenomenology of Spirit (chair: Robert Howell)

  Winner of University at Albany's 2005 Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation award

  1st position: Union College

  Subsequent position: Frostburg State University, tenure track

2006

• Kant's Deduction of the Political Ideal (chair: Jon Mandle)

  Winner of University at Albany's 2006 Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation award

  1st position: Montclair State University, tenure track

  Subsequent position: Ithaca College, tenure track

2007

• Paul Horwich on Truth and 'True' -- with Particular Consideration of the Generalization Problem (chair: Brad Armour-Garb)

  1st position: Bennington College

  subsequent position: Washburn University

2008

• Empirically Grounded Metaphors in Science (chair: P.D. Magnus)

  position: Supreme Headquarters for Allied Powers in Europe high school, Belgium; teaching chemistry and philosophy

• Mental Causation: A Nonreductivist Perspective (chair: Ron McClamrock)

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