Our 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 CVs 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.

2013

  • Daniel Justin Coates (Ph.D. 2012)
    • University of Houston, Texas, Assistant Professor, tenure track
    • Dissertation title: Reasons and Responsibility
    • Faculty advisor: John Martin Fischer
    • Previous position: University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, IL, One year Law and Philosophy Research Fellow 2012

  • Patrick Todd (Ph.D. 2011)
    • University of Edinburgh, Chancellor’s Fellow (leads automatically to permanent position)
    • Dissertation title: The Metaphysics of Moral Responsibility
    • Faculty advisor: John Martin Fischer
    • Previous position: University of Innsbruck and the Munich School of Philosophy, Two year post-doctoral position (2011)

2012

  • Ben Mitchell-Yellin (Ph.D. 2012)
    • University of California-Riverside, Riverside, CA, 3 year Post Doctoral Researcher
    • Immortality Project, John Templeton Foundation Grant
    • Dissertation title: Evaluators, explainers, planners: the importance of basic conceptions of what we are like as agents
    • Faculty advisor: Andrews Reath

  • Jason Chang (Ph.D. 2012)
    • Evergreen Valley College, San Jose, CA, Adjunct Instructor
    • Dissertation title: Toward a More Honest Public Reason Liberalism
    • Faculty advisor: Coleen Macnamara

  • Daniel Justin Coates (Ph.D. 2012)
    • University of Houston, Texas, Assistant Professor, tenure track
    • Dissertation title: Reasons and Responsibility
    • Faculty advisor: John Martin Fischer
    • Previous position: University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, IL, One year Law and Philosophy Research Fellow 2012

  • Christopher Scott Sevier (Ph.D. 2012)
    • College of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, Assistant Professor, tenure track
    • Dissertation title: Thomas Aquinas On the Nature and Experience of Beauty
    • Faculty advisor: David Glidden
    • Previous position: Cal State University, Fullerton, CA, Visiting Assistant Professor

  • Megs Gendreau (Ph.D. 2011)
    • Cal Poly Pomona, Assistant Professor, tenure track
    • Dissertation title: Modeling Environmental Justice: A Normative Conception for Healthier Communities
    • Faculty advisor: Carl Cranor
    • Previous position: Two year post-doctoral position, Bowdoin College (2011-2013)

  • Michael Goerger (Ph.D. 2011)
    • Central Washington University, Assistant Professor, tenure track
    • Dissertation title: Love and Morality: Toward an Ethic of Universal Love
    • Faculty advisor: David Glidden
    • Previous position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Central Washington University

  • Chris Franklin (Ph.D 2010)
    • Marymount University, Arlington, VA, Assistant Professor, tenure track
    • Dissertation title: Strawsonian Libertarianism: A Theory of Free Will and Moral Responsibility
    • Faculty advisor: John Martin Fischer
    • Previous position: Two year Visiting Assistant Professor, Biola University

2011

  • Jacob Affolter (Ph. D 2010)
    • University of Kentucky, Lexington, Lecturer
    • Dissertation title: Tolerance as a Moral and Political Virtue
    • Faculty advisor: Gary Watson
    • Previous position: Adjunct faculty, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2009-11

  • Andrew Eshleman (Ph.D. 1998)
    • University of Portland, Oregon, taken position as Chair of the department
    • Faculty advisor: John Martin Fischer
    • Previous position: University of Arkansas, Little Rock, 1998 (tenured 2004)

2010

  • Chris Franklin (Ph.D 2010)
    • Biola University, Two year Visiting Assistant Professor position
    • Dissertation title: Strawsonian Libertarianism: A Theory of Free Will and Moral Responsibility
    • Faculty advisor: John Martin Fischer

  • John McAteer (Ph.D. 2010)
    • Houston Baptist University, Houston, TX, Assistant Professor, Renewable contract
    • Dissertation title: Moral Beauty and Moral Taste from Shaftesbury to Hume
    • Faculty advisor: Andrews Reath

  • Garrett Pendergraft (Ph.D. 2010)
    • Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, Assistant Professor, tenure track
    • Dissertation title: Fundamentalist Contextualist Compatibilism: A Response to the Consequence Argument
    • Faculty advisor: John Martin Fischer

  • Elizabeth Hamilton (Ph.D. 2010)
    • West Virginia University, Accreditation and Planning Officer
    • Dissertation title: Coercion, Responsibility and Discourse
    • Faculty advisor: John Martin Fischer

2009

  • Rodrigo De Castro (Ph.D. 2005)
    • Federal University of Sergipe (Aracaju, Brazil): Professor, tenure track
    • Dissertation title: Direct Reference and Belief Ascriptions: Overcoming the Relational Paradigm
    • Faculty advisor: Howard Wettstein
    • Previous position: Faculdade Maurício de Nassau (Recife, Brazil): renewable contract

  • Zack Knorr (Ph.D. 2006)
    • Los Angeles Valley College: Assistant Professor, tenured
    • Dissertation title: The Moral Problem of Capitalism: What Habermasian Critical Theory Can Tell Us About Recent Developments in the International Anti-Sweatshop Movement
    • Faculty advisor: Georgia Warnke

  • Nathan Placencia (Ph.D. 2009)
    • University of West Virginia: Assistant Professor, tenure track
    • Dissertation title: Am I who I say I am?: A Role Identification account of Identity
    • Faculty advisor: Georgia Warnke

  • Robert Sanchez (Ph.D. 2012)
    • The College of William and Mary: Three-year position
    • Dissertation title:  The Virtue of Silence: An Ethical Reading of Socrates, Kierkegaard, and Wittgenstein
    • Faculty advisor: Erich Reck

  • Neal Tognazzini (Ph.D. 2009)
    • The College of William and Mary: Assistant Professor, tenure track
    • Dissertation title: The Conceptual Foundations of Moral Responsibility
    • Faculty advisor: John Martin Fischer

  • Chris Yeomans (Ph.D. 2005)
    • Purdue University: Assistant Professor, tenure track
    • Dissertation title: Hegel’s Logic of Agency: A Transcendental Defense of Free Will
    • Faculty advisor: Pierre Keller
    • Previous position: Kenyon College (Gambier, OH): Assistant Professor, tenure track

  • Felipe Leon (Ph.D 2009)
    • Metropolitan Community College – Penn Valley, Tenure track
    • Dissertation title:  Armchair knowledge and Modal Skeptisim: A Rapprochement
    • Faculty advisor: Peter Graham
    • Previous position: Claremont McKenna College, Adjunct Faculty

2008

2007

  • Nick Baiamonte (Ph.D. 2007)
    • De Anza College (Cupertino, CA): Instructor, tenure track
    • Dissertation title: Avoiding Evil: Motivation, Reflection, and Character Structure
    • Faculty advisor: Eric Schwitzgebel

  • Jessica Ludescher (Ph.D. 2007)
    • Seattle University, Assistant Professor in the Business School with a joint appointment in Philosophy (tenure track)
    • Dissertation title: The Logical Compatibility of CSR with Any Theory of the Firm
    • Faculty advisor: Georgia Warnke

  • Sam Page (Ph.D. 2004)
    • Concordia College (Bronxville, NY): Assistant Professor (non-tenure track) 2005–2009
    • Dissertation title: Nature's Joints: Inherent or Imposed?
    • Faculty advisor: Peter Graham

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

  • Daniel Speak (Ph.D. 2002)
    • Loyola Marymount University (Los Angeles, CA): Assistant Professor, tenure track. (Tenured and became Chair of department 2011)
    • Dissertation title: Moral Responsibility and the Irrelevance of Alternative Possibilities
    • Faculty advisor: John Martin Fischer
    • Previous positions:
      • Associate Professor, Azusa Pacific University (2002–2007)
      • Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Notre Dame (2005–2006)

  • Michael Stannard (Ph.D. 2007)
    • Clovis and Madera Centers of the State Center Community College District (Fresno, CA): Instructor of Philosophy
    • Dissertation title:  Material ends of reason: Kantian Formalism, pure intelligent existence, and the possibility of a deduction of the postulate of freedom
    • Faculty advisor: Andrews Reath

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

2006

  • Chris Campolo (Ph.D. 2003)
    • Hendrix College (Conway, AR): Associate Professor, four-year initial contract (2002-06), now tenured.
    • Dissertation title: The Reach of Argument
    • Faculty advisor: Georgia Warnke

  • David Long (Ph.D. 2009)
    • Bellevue College: Adjunct Professor
    • Dissertation title: Hume and Buddhism: A Comparative Study of Personal Identity, Skepticism, and Moral Sentiments
    • Faculty advisor: Paul Hoffman (with Justin McDaniel, Department of Religious Studies)

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

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

  • Jeremy Wisnewski (Ph.D. 2002)
    • Hartwick College (Oneonta, NY): Assistant Professor, tenure track
    • Dissertation title: Agency, Normativity, and Theory: Awakening from Anthropological Slumber
    • Faculty advisor: Bernd Magnus
    • Previous position: East Carolina University

2005

  • Scott Dixon
    • Minnesota State Technical and Community College (Moorhead, MN): Instructor, tenure track
    • Dissertation title: Hume (in progress)
    • Faculty advisor: Paul Hoffman

  • Dillon Emerick (Ph.D. 2005)
    • Palomar College (San Marcos, CA): Instructor, tenured
    • Dissertation title: Critical Theory, Critical Subjects
    • Faculty advisor: Georgia Warnke

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

  • Glen Pettigrove (Ph.D. 2003)
    • The University of Auckland (Auckland, New Zealand): Lecturer in Philosophy (equivalent to Assistant Professor), tenure track
    • Dissertation title: Seeking Forgiveness: Studies in Moral and Political Philosophy
    • Faculty advisor: Georgia Warnke
    • Previous positions:
      • Massey University (Palmerston North, New Zealand): Lecturer in Philosophy
      • Santa Clara University (2003–2005)

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