Below is a chart representing the placement of Ph.D.s from Northwestern's Philosophy Department since the 1990's. It is organized according to the years in which students received their degrees. For the sake of completeness, it includes graduates who decided not to pursue academic careers and graduates who are still looking for tenure-track positions. All listed academic positions are tenure track except for those marked with an asterisk. Those marked (*) are renewable, non-tenure track positions. [Note: most of the entries reflect either initial appointments or first tenure track appointments -which indicate activities of our placement-team. Later career-developments are not tracked here.]
| Year |
Name of Ph.D.-recipient |
Title of Dissertation |
Placement/Current Employment |
2008 |
Katie Padgett Walsh |
The Direction of Desire: A Hegelian Account of Reasons for Action. |
Iowa State U |
2008 |
Tushar Irani |
Plato's Grounds for Philosophy: The Virtues of Dialectic in the Later Dialogues. |
Wesleyan U |
2007 |
David Gray |
Philosophical Dimensions of Criminal Trials in Transitions to Democracy. |
U of Maryland School of Law |
2007 |
Brad Cokelet |
Rational Agency, Virtue, and Respect for Persons. |
U of Miami |
2007 |
Joe Cannon |
Judgement and Ordeal: Metaphysics in Nietzche. |
U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee* |
2007 |
Melissa Yates |
Religion in the Public Sphere: Reflections on Rawls and Habermas. |
St. John's University (New York) |
2007 |
Eli Diamond |
Divine Thinking as the Paradigm of Life in Aristotle's De Anima. |
Dalhousie University, Halifax (CDN) |
2007 |
Ben Rutter |
Hegel on the Modern Arts. |
St. Ann's School (NY) |
2006 |
Samir Haddad |
Derrida, Arendt, and the Inheritance of Democracy. |
Fordham University |
2006 |
Steve Skultety |
The Role of Conflict in Aristotle's Political Philosophy. |
U of Mississippi |
2006 |
Vincent Chiao |
Self-Knowledge between Decision and Discovery. |
Law School PostDoc (Harvard) |
2006 |
Sebastian Rand |
From A Priori Grounding to Conceptual Transformation: The Philosophy of Nature in German Idealism |
Georgia State University |
2006 |
Jason Leddington |
Perceptual Acquaintance. |
Bucknell U
|
2006 |
Todd Hedrick |
Reconstituting Political Philosophy: Rawls and Habermas in Dialogue. |
Michigan State |
2005 |
Alexandra Bradner |
On the Pragmatics of Explanation from VanFraasen to Achinstein. |
Denison U. |
2005 |
Matt Steilen |
On Color: The Metaphysical Conception of the World. |
Law School (Stanford) |
2003 |
Josh Andresen |
Nietzsche's Project of Creating New Values in Beyond Good and Evil |
American University of Beruit |
2003 |
Jeff Flynn |
Human Rights and Global Diversity: Rawls, Taylor, Habermas |
Middlebury College |
2002 |
Evelyn Brister |
Scientific Objectivity and Scientific Objectives |
Rochester IT |
2001 |
Loeffler, Ronald |
Meaning as Use: A Critique and Reconstruction of Robert Brandom's Practice-Based Account of Semantic Norms |
Grand Valley State |
|
Sparks, Eric |
Intentionality in the Works of Martin Heidegger and Wilfrid Sellars |
Law School |
|
Colter, Robert |
Plato's Theory of Knowledge in Theatetus and Republic |
Centre College |
|
Little, Michelle |
David Hull's Generalized natural Selection as an Explanation for Scientific Change |
California State University * |
|
Foley, Richard |
The Principle of Sufficient Reason and the Problem of the External World in Hume's Treatise and Kant's Critique of Pure Reason |
Eastern Illinois University |
2000 |
David Bullwinkle |
Epistemology and Unity of Science in Carnap's Aufbau |
Kirkwood Community College (IA) |
|
John Fennell |
Naturalism and Normativity |
Grinnell College |
|
Emmett L. Bradbury III |
Utilitarianism and the Psychology of Personal Identity: A Critique of Bernard Williams |
Chicago State U. |
1999 |
Edgar Boedeker |
The Concept of Showing in the Early Writings of Heidegger and Wittgenstein |
U. of N. Iowa |
|
William Dudley |
Freedom Beyond the Will: A Critical Study of Hegel and Nietzsche |
Williams College |
|
Bruce Gordon |
Quantum Statistical Mechanics and the Ghosts of Modality |
Baylor U. |
|
J. Robert Loftis |
Normativity and Mathematics: A Wittgensteinian Approach to the Study of Number |
St. Lawrence U.* |
|
José Medina |
Wittgenstein in Transition: Meaning, Rules, and Practices |
Vanderbilt U. |
|
Lenny Moss |
What Genes Can't Do: Prolegomena to a Post-Modern Synthesis Philosophy |
U of Sussex (UK) |
|
Jonah Murdock |
On John Rawls and Public Reason |
Medical School |
|
John Victor Peterson |
A Discourse Theory of Moral Judgment |
Law School |
|
Melissa Zinkin |
Kant's Concept of Force |
SUNY Binghamtom |
|
Christopher Zurn |
Competence and Contest: Conceptions of the Self in the Critical Theories of Jürgen Habermas and Charles Taylor |
U. of Kentucky |
1998 |
John M. Capps |
Context and Inquiry: Justification in Naturalized Epistemology |
Rochester Institute of Technology |
|
Jerrel Crayford |
The Radical Readings of Wittgenstein: wisdom, Cavell, Kripke, and Bloor as a School of Wittgenstein Readers |
Professional |
|
Steven Weinstein |
Conceptual and Foundations Issues in the Quantization of Gravity |
University of Waterloo |
1997 |
Darrell Moore |
Epidermal Capital: Formation of (Black) Subjectivity in Political Philosophy and Culture |
DePaul U. |
1996 |
Amy Allen |
Toward a Feminist Theory of Power |
Dartmouth Coll. |
|
Joel Anderson |
Toward a Social Conception of Personal Autonomy: Identity, Intelligibility, and Intersubjectivity |
Utrecht U. (NL) |
|
Barbara Fultner |
Radical Interpretation of Communicative Action: Holism in Davidson and Habermas |
Denison U. |
|
Jonathan Maskit |
Aesthetic World Disclosure in Kant and Heidegger |
Denison U. * |
|
Kevin Olson |
The Critical Theory of the Welfare State |
UC Irvine* |
|
Kirk Pillow |
Reflective Judgement and Aesthetic Imagination in Kant and Hegel |
Hamilton College |
1995 |
Joseph M. Heath |
Morality and Social Action |
U. of Toronto |
|
David P. McCabe |
The Virtues of State Neutrality: A Defense of Liberal Politics |
Colgate U. |
1994 |
Grace A. Clement |
Toward a Feminist Ethic of Care: Reconciling Care, Autonomy, and Justice |
Salisbury State U. |
|
Todd Alan Grantham |
Species Selection and Macroevolution: Toward a Non-Reductionist Theory of Evolution |
College of Charleston |
|
Ralph Ernest Shain |
Time and Underdetermination |
DePaul U. * |
1993 |
Pablo De Greiff |
Temporal Aspects of the Representation of the Moral Point of View |
SUNY Buffalo |
|
Lee Mark Horvitz |
Substance Metaphysics and Theories of the Moral Agent: Heidegger and Foucault on Ethics |
Miami U. |
|
Catherine A. Ludlum Foos |
Plato's Account of Friendship |
Indiana U - East |
|
Richard Neal Manning |
The Resurrection of Coherence: A Critical Analysis of Contemporary Coherentist Epistemology |
Carleton University |
1992 |
Andrew Peter Norman |
Justification and Context: The Rational Rejection of Demands for Evidence |
Hamilton College |
1991 |
Ciaran Cronin |
Power and Modernity |
U. of Illinois Chicago |
|
William Rehg |
Insight and Solidarity: A Study in
the Discourse Ethics of Jürgen Habermas |
St. Louis U. |
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