Department Placement Record

Our department offers a full range of placement services and support to our students. The departmental Placement Director organizes a placement workshop that meets during the spring and fall quarters for students finishing, or near finishing, their degrees. The Placement Director also advises students on preparing their CV's and assembling their dossiers and arranges practice interviews for students attending the divisional meetings of the APA.

Listed below is placement information for recent graduates of our program. Students are listed by the year in which they received their current positions. Dissertation topics, faculty advisors and previous positions, where applicable, follow.

2007

Nick Baiamonte
De Anza College, tenure track
Avoiding Evil: Motivation, Reflection, and Character Structure
Faculty Advisor: Eric Schwitzgebel

Jessica Ludescher
Seattle University, Assistant Professor in the Business School
with a joint appointment in Philosophy, tenure track
The Logical Compatibility of CSR with Any Theory of the Firm
Faculty Advisor: Georgia Warnke

Sam Page
Concordia College, Bronxville, NY, was temporary Assistant Professor (2005-2007), now permanent
Nature's Joints: Inherent or Imposed? (Ph.D. 2004)
Faculty Advisor: Peter Graham

Joshua Rust
Stetson University, FL, tenure track.
John Searle's Ideal Type: Max Weber and the Construction of Social Reality (Ph.D. 2005)
Faculty Adviser: Eric Schwitzgebel

Daniel Speak
Loyola Marymount University, CA, Assistant Professor, tenure track
Moral Responsibility and the Relevance of Alternative Possibilities (Ph.D. 2002)
Faculty Adviser: John M. Fischer
Previous Positions: Associate Professor, Azusa Pacific University (2002-2007)
Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Notre Dame (2005-2006)

Matt Talbert
West Virginia University, Assistant Professor, tenure track
Moral Reasons and Personal History: A Normative Competence Account of Moral Responsibility (Ph.D. 2005)
Faculty Advisor: Gary Watson
Previous position: UCSD, postdoctoral fellowship, (2005-2007)

2006

Chris Campolo
Hendrix College, Conway, AK, four-year initial contract (2002-06), now tenure track.
The Reach of Argument (Ph.D. 2003)
Faculty Adviser: Georgia Warnke

Hugh Marlowe
Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, renewable contract
Saving the Agent: An Investigation of Agency, Explanation, and Two-Standpoint Arguments (Ph.D. 2004)
Faculty Advisor: Gary Watson

Rico Vitz
University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL, tenure track
Virtuous Belief: Descartes, Hume, and the Proper Method of Belief Formation (Ph.D. 2006)
Faculty Advisor: Paul Hoffman

Jeremy Wisnewski
Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY, tenure track
Former Position: East Carolina University
Agency, Normativity, and Theory: Awakening from Anthropological Slumber (Ph.D. 2002)
Faculty Advisor: Bernd Magnus

2005

Rodrigo De Castro
Faculdade Maurício de Nassau, Recife, Brazil, renewable contract
Direct Reference and Belief Ascriptions: Overcoming the Relational Paradigm
Faculty Advisor: Howard Wettstein

Scott Dixon
Minnesota State Technical and Community College, Moorhead, MN, tenure track
Hume (in progress)
Faculty Advisor: Paul Hoffman

Dillon Emerick
Palomar College, San Marcos, CA, tenure track
Critical Theory, Critical Subjects (in progress)
Faculty Advisor: Georgia Warnke

Andrew Light
University of Washington, Seattle, Associate Professor of Philosophy & Public Affairs
Nature, Class, and the Built World: Philosophical Essays Between Political Ecology and Critical Technology (Ph.D. 1996)
Faculty Advisor: Bernd Magnus
Previous Positions: University of Montana (1996-1998); State University of New York, Binghampton (1998-2000) (both tenure track); New York University (tenured 2005)

Glen Pettigrove
Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand, lecturer (equivalent to assist. prof., tenure track)
Seeking Forgiveness: Studies in Moral and Political Philosophy (Ph.D. 2003)
Faculty Advisor: Georgia Warnke
Previous Position: Santa Clara University, Santa Clara (2003-2005)

Ted Preston
Rio Hondo College, Whittier, CA, tenure track
Bridging the Gap between Normative Beliefs and Actions (Ph.D. 2005)
Faculty Advisor: Eric Schwitzgebel

Chris Yeomans
Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, tenure track
Hegel's Logic of Agency: A Transcendental Defense of Free Will (Ph.D. 2005)
Faculty Advisor: Pierre Keller

2004

Jeff Salbato
Albuquerque TVI College, Albuquerque, NM, tenure track
Reading Kierkegaard's Pseudonyms: Ironic Misunderstandings (in progress)
Faculty Advisor: William Bracken

David Strauss
Department of Defense, Washington, D.C., Presidential Management Fellow (2004-2005)
Understanding and Evaluating Expert Testimony in Toxic Tort Law: An Intersection of Philosophy, Science, and Law (Ph.D. 2004)
Faculty Advisor: Carl Cranor

2001

Jane Haproff
Sierra College, Rocklin, CA, tenure track
The Fundamentalist Challenge: Public Reason and the Religious Voice (Ph.D. 2000)
Faculty Advisor: Georgia Warnke
Previous Position:  California State University, San Bernardino, CA, adjunct

Joseph Orosco
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, tenure track
Strong Democratic Vistas: Deliberative and Participatory Democracy in Twentieth Century American Philosophy (Ph.D. 2002)
Faculty Advisor: Georgia Warnke

Jeff Vanderpool
Fullerton College, CA, tenured (2005)
Arguments by Analogy: The Function of Comparison in Generalization and Explanatory Inference (Ph.D. 2005)
Faculty Adviser: Larry Wright

2000

Martha Burns
Non-academic position
Beyond "Dartmouth": J.S. Mill's Commonsensical Approach to Singular, General, Abstract, Connotative, and Kind Terms (Ph.D. 2000)
Faculty Advisor: Howard Wettstein

Thomas Donovan
San Jacinto Community College, CA, tenured (2004)
Lukacs, Habermas and the Model of Art (Ph.D. 2004)
Faculty Advisor, Georgia Warnke

Dale Turner
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA, tenure track
Fallacies and the Concept of an Argument (Ph.D. 2000)
Faculty Advisor: Larry Wright

1999

Andrew Coats
Non-academic position
Approaching the Mountain of Modalities: A View of Imaginability, Conceivability, and Possibility (Ph.D. 1999)
Faculty Advisor: Genoveva Marti

Antonio Rauti
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, tenure track
The Many Faces of Semantic Compositionality (Ph.D. 2000)
Faculty Advisor: Genoveva Marti
Previous Position: Auburn University, one-year initial contract

1998

Sara Austin
Riverside Community College, CA, adjunct
Principles and Practices of Health Care in the United States (Ph.D. 1998)
Faculty Advisor: Georgia Warnke

Christopher Blakey
College of the Canyons, Santa Clarita, CA, tenure track
Moral Sensibility Theory and Moral Objectivity (Ph.D. 1998)
Faculty Advisor: John M. Fischer

Andrew Eshleman
University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AK (tenured 2004)
Responsibility for Character (Ph.D. 1998)
Faculty Advisor: John M. Fischer

Christopher Gilbert
Cuesta Community College, San Luis Obispo, CA (tenured 2004)
Grace and Reason: Freedom of the Will in Augustine, Aquinas, and Descartes (Ph.D. 1998)
Faculty Advisor: Paul Hoffman

Kerrin McMahan
East L.A. College, Acting Dean of Academic Affairs (tenured 2002)
The Etiology of Virtue (in progress)
Faculty Advisor: John M. Fischer

Todd Weber
Monterey Peninsula Community College, CA, tenure track
Moral Dilemmas: Escaping Inescapable Wrongdoing (Ph.D. 1998)
Faculty Advisor: Andrews Reath
Previous Positions: College of St. Benedict's/St. John's University/Oakland University

1997

Dasiea Cavers-Huff
Riverside Community College, CA, tenure track
Cognitive Science and Metaphysics Revisited: Toward a Theory of Properties (Ph.D. 1997)
Faculty Advisor: Larry Wright

1996

Yoko Arisaka
University of San Francisco, CA (tenured 2002)
Space and History: Philosophy and Imperialism in Nishida and Watsuji (Ph.D. 1996)
Faculty Advisor: Bernd Magnus

Daniel Williamson
San Jose State University, CA, adjunct
An Ethics of Resistance: A Consideration of Foucault on Power, Subjects, and Gay Identity (Ph.D. 1996)
Faculty Advisor: David Glidden