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small-12 medium-8 medium-push-4 large-9 large-push-3 medium-order-2 columns" role="main"> <h1 class="page-title">Recent Dissertations and Placements</h1> <h4>2024</h4> <p><strong>Abigail Holmes (HPS)<br></strong><em>Climbing the Comic Distance Ladder<br></em>Don Howard<br>Placement: Georgia Tech, post-doc</p> <p><strong>Grace Hibshman<br></strong><em>Love, Forgiveness, and Narrative</em><br>Michael Rea<br>Placement: University of Notre Dame, post-doc</p> <p><strong>Mack Sullivan<br></strong><em>The Foundations of Modal Metaphysics</em><br>Daniel Nolan<br>Placement: University of Notre Dame, post-doc</p> <p><strong>Qiong Wu</strong><br><em>Anti-realist Approaches to Modality</em><br>Daniel Nolan<br>Placement: University of Notre Dame, post-doc</p> <p> </p> <h4> <a id="2022" name="2022"></a>2023</h4> <p><strong>Joshua Barthuly</strong><br><em>Modal Skepticism and its Applications</em><br>Michael Rea and Jonah Schupbach<br>Placement: non-academic</p> <p><strong>Haley Dutmer</strong><br><em>Teaching With and For Virtue</em><br>Meghan Sullivan<br>Placement: Culver Academies</p> <p><strong>Mark Puestohl</strong><br><em>Essays on the Explanatory Foundation of Vagueness</em><br>Daniel Nolan<br>Placement: non-academic</p> <p><strong>Yu Qiu<br></strong><em>Aquinas on the Order of Love.</em><strong><br></strong>Therese Cory<strong><br></strong>Placement: Peking University, postdoc</p> <p><strong>Rachel Rupprecht</strong><br><em>The Argument from Moral Disagreement</em><br>Ted Warfield<br>Placement: Georgia Highlands College, Instructional Designer</p> <p><strong>Kevin Scott</strong><br><em>A Foundational Theory for Neo-Aristotelian Virtue Ethics</em><br>James Sterba</p> <p><strong>Oliver Tradi<br></strong><em>Practicality, Inquiry, Epistemology: A Pretty Picture</em><strong><br></strong>Blake Roeber<strong><br></strong>Placement: Princeton University, postdoc</p> <p><strong>Bokai Yao</strong><br>"Set Theory with Urelements" <br>Joel David Hamkins and Daniel Nolan<br>Placement: Peking University, tenure track</p> <p> </p> <h4>2022</h4> <p><strong>Char Brecevic (HPS)</strong><br><em>The Rightful Place of Science: Science, Values, and Democracy </em><br>Don Howard and Heather Douglas<br>Placement: Seattle University, tenure-track </p> <p><strong>Jordan Lavender</strong><br><em>"The Subjective Turn: The Metaphysics of Experience in the Fourteenth Century"</em><br>Stephen Dumont<br>Placement: Texas A&M, tenure track</p> <p><strong>Fr. Philip Neri Reese, O.P.</strong><br><em>Thomas Aquinas and the Demonstrative Character of Metaphysics</em><br>Therese Cory<br>Placement: Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum), tenure-track</p> <p><strong>Kevin Schieman</strong><br><em>In View of Ourselves: On the Benefits of Nueroscientific Explanation in Machine Ethics</em><br>Don Howard<br>Placement: U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Assistant Professor</p> <p><strong>Stella Jiayue Zhu</strong><br><em>Artifact and Social Intention: a Consideration in Three Parts</em><br>Christopher Shields<br>Placement: St. John’s, Annapolis, tenure-track</p> <p> </p> <h4>2021</h4> <p><strong>Trevor Anderson</strong><br><em>Socrates, Knower</em><br>Sean Kelsey<br>Placement: pursuing further graduate education</p> <p><strong>Matteo Bianchetti</strong><br><em>Geometric representations in mathematical problem-solving. Intuition and creativity</em><br>Curtis Franks<br>Placement: non-academic</p> <p><strong>Kay Malte Bischof</strong><br><em>Engaging Spinoza and Spinozism</em><br>Sam Newlands<br>Placement: The Azrieli Fellow Program, 3-year post-doc</p> <p><strong>Reid Comstock</strong><br><em>Aristotle's Ethikoi Logoi: On the Pedagogical Purpose of the Ethical Treatises</em><br>Sean Kelsey<br>Placement: University of Texas at Austin, Lecturer</p> <p><strong>John Hanson (HPS)</strong><br><em>Descartes on Representation, Presentation, and the Real Natures."</em><br>Sam Newlands<br>Placement: Minneapolis College, faculty</p> <p><strong>Ross Jensen</strong><br><em>Love and the Politics of Place</em><br>Meghan Sullivan</p> <p><strong>Jongsuh Lee</strong><br><em>Computation in Aristotle's Syllogistic</em><br>Christopher Shields<br>Placement: pursuing further graduate education</p> <p><strong>Fr. John Peck</strong><br><em>Powered-Up: Substantial Unity and Upward Determination</em><br>Christopher Shields<br>Placement: St. Louis University, tenure-track</p> <p><strong>Sebastian Murgueitio Ramirez (HPS)</strong><br><em>On the Empirical Significance of Physical Symmetries</em><br>Nicolas Teh<br>Placement: Purdue University, tenure-track</p> <p><strong>Evan Schultz</strong><br><em>Socrates on Self-Knowledge</em><br>Sean Kelsey</p> <p><strong>Emily Spencer</strong><br><em>In Defense Of Our Better Angels: On Empathy’s Role in Ethics</em><br>Paul Weithman<br>Placement: non-academic</p> <p style="margin-left: 840px;"><a href="#2022">Top</a></p> <h4>2020</h4> <p><strong>Corey Dethier</strong><br><em>From Variance to Convergence: Robustness and Epistemology of Science</em><br>Anjan Chakravartty and Curtis Franks<br>Placement: Leibniz University, 3.5-year post-doc</p> <p><strong>Jamee Elder (HPS)</strong><br><em>The Epistemology of Gravitational Wave Astrophysics</em><br>Don Howard<br>Placement: Tufts University, Assistant Professor</p> <p><strong>Jude Galbraith (HPS)</strong><br><em>Researcher Responsibilities in Climate Engineering: Values, Ethics, and Environmentally Disruptive Technology Innovation</em><br>Don Howard<br>Placement: Texas A&M International University, teaching faculty</p> <p><strong>Geoffrey Hall</strong><br><em>The Algebraic Structure of Propositions</em><br>Daniel Nolan and Jeff Speaks<br>Placement: non-academic</p> <p><strong>Ellen Lehet</strong><br><em>The Explanatory Value of Category Theory </em><br>Curtis Franks<br>Placement: non-academic</p> <p><strong>Benjamin Middleton</strong><br><em>A New Solution to the Curry Paradox</em><br>Tim Bays<br>Placement: non-academic</p> <p><strong>Paul Trần-Hoàng</strong><br><em>Model-Theoretic Approaches to Theoretical Equivalence and Reduction</em><br>Tim Bays, Curtis Franks<br>Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Vassar College</p> <p style="margin-left: 840px;"><a href="#2022">Top</a></p> <h4>2019</h4> <p style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="text-decoration-thickness: initial;"><span style="text-decoration-style: initial;"><span style="text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong>Graham Clay</strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="text-decoration-thickness: initial;"><span style="text-decoration-style: initial;"><span style="text-decoration-color: initial;"><em>Hume on Knowledge</em></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="text-decoration-thickness: initial;"><span style="text-decoration-style: initial;"><span style="text-decoration-color: initial;">Sam Newlands<br>Placement: University of North Carolina, 3-year postdoc</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><strong>Tobias Flattery</strong><br><em>A Leibnizian Package Deal: Essentialism, Causal Independence, and Existential Independence</em><br>Samuel Newlands<br>Placement: Wake Forest University, Assistant Teaching Professor</p> <p><strong>Jack Himelright</strong><br><em>An Austere Nominalist Strategy for Paraphrasing Away Properties and Relations</em><br>Peter van Inwagen<br>Placement: Kansas State University, visiting assistant professor</p> <p><strong>Liz Jackson</strong><br><em>Belief and Credence: A Defense of Dualism</em><br>Robert Audi and Ted Warfield<br>Placement: St. Louis University, tenure track</p> <p><strong>Ting Cho Lau</strong><br><em>The Reasons Management Framework</em><br>Meghan Sullivan<br>Placement: Wagner College, teaching professor </p> <p><strong>Samuel Murray</strong><br><em>Vigilance: Self-Control for Planner</em><br>Robert Audi and Ted Warfield<br>Placement: Duke University, Post Doctoral Associate, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience </p> <p><strong>Fr. Raphael Mary O.P. Salzillo</strong><br><em>A Soul as a Part in Aquinas</em><br>Christopher Shields<br>Placement: Dominic School of Philosophy and Theology, Assistant Professor</p> <p><strong>Jesse Schupack</strong><br><em>The Socratic Foundations of Platonic Justice</em><br>Sean Kelsey<br>Placement: University of Michigan Law School</p> <p><strong>Jer Steeger</strong><br><em>Quantum Probabilism: New Foundations for Subjective Quantum Probabilities</em><br>Nicholas Teh<br>Placement: University of Washington, Research Associate, "The Role of the Classical Limit and Symmetries in Constructing Quantum Theories." </p> <p style="margin-left: 840px;"><a href="#top">Top</a></p> <h4>2018</h4> <p><strong>Paul Blaschko</strong><br><em>Intending to Believe: An Essay on Doxastic Agency and the Voluntarist Foundations of Epistemic Normativity"</em><br>Robert Audi<br>Placement: University of Notre Dame, Assistant Teaching Professor; Director, Sheedy Family Program in Economy, Enterprise, and Society</p> <p><strong>Callie Phillips</strong><br><em>Metaphysics Without Naturalness </em><br>Michael Rea<br>Placement: Washington State University, teaching professor</p> <p><strong><strong>William Smith</strong></strong><br><em>Legitimizing Medical Practice</em><br>Robert Audi<br>Initial Placement: Emory University, Medical Student<br>Current Placement: University of Pennsylvania, medical residency </p> <p><strong>Aaron Wells</strong><br><em>Reason and Reality in Kant</em><br>Karl Ameriks<br>Current Placement: Metropolitan State University of Denver, lecturer</p> <p style="margin-left: 840px;"><a href="#top">Top</a></p> <h4>2017</h4> <p><strong>Javier Lanao Camara</strong><br><em>Lawless Possibilities: A Powers Account of Natural Modality</em><br>Anjan Chakravartty<br>Placement: Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (Buenos Aires), 2-year postdoc</p> <p><strong>Nevin Climenhaga</strong><br><em>Knowledge and Certainty </em><br>Robert Audi<br>Initial Placement: University of Notre Dame, Managing Editor of Studies in History and Philosophy of Science<br>Current Placement: Australian Catholic University, permanent faculty</p> <p><strong>Rebecca Chan</strong><br><em>Making Metaphysics Matter: Essay on Reasons and Persons</em><br>Michael Rea<br>Placement: San Jose State University, tenure-track </p> <p><strong>Justin Christy</strong><br><em>Aspects of Visual Awareness</em><br>Jeff Speaks, Fritz Warfield<br>Current Placement: Philosophy as a Way of Life Project, Program Coordinator (3-year); Assistant Teaching Professor</p> <p><strong>Dustin Crummett</strong><br><em>Committing to Equality: Essays on Distributive Justice, Community, and Economics</em><br>Paul Weithman<br>Placement: two-year, postdoctoral researcher position at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Animal Rights Project)</p> <p><strong>Ryan Hammond</strong><br><em>Living Without Desire</em><br>David Solomon<br>Placement: non-academic</p> <p><strong>Kate Finley</strong><br><em>Perception, Cognition, and Prediction</em><br>Fritz Warfield<br>Placement: Hope College, Assistant Professor (tenure-track)</p> <p><strong>Michael Longenecker</strong><br><em>The Contingently Non-Concrete Uses and Nature"</em><br>Peter van Inwagen<br>Placement: Wuhan University, China, 2-year post-doc</p> <p><strong>Malcolm McCollum</strong><br><em>Hobbes on Political Union and Authorization</em><br>Paul Weithman<br>Placement: New York University, Law Student</p> <p><strong>Mousa Mohammadian</strong><br><em>Theoretical Virtues in Science and Metaphysics<br></em>Anjan Chakravartty <br>Placement: American University of Beirut, tenure-track</p> <p><strong>David Pattillo</strong><br><em>Reference and Ontology: How Can We Refer to Abstract Objects?</em><br>Peter van Inwagen<br>Placement: non-academic</p> <p><strong>Michael Rauschenbach</strong><br><em>Spinoza's Isolationism"</em><br>Sam Newlands<br>Placement:Duke University, Psychiatry department</p> <p><strong>Benjamin Rossi</strong><br><em>Internalism about Practical Reasons</em><br>Fritz Warfield<br>Initial Placement: Miami University, OH, Visiting Assistant Professor<br>Current Placement: Duke Law School</p> <p><strong>Margaret Schmitt </strong><br><em>On the Activity of Theoretical and Practical Reason</em><br>Jeff Speaks</p> <p><strong>Jeff Snapper</strong><br><em>Ontological Commitment, Paraphrase, and Nihilism</em><em> </em><br>Michael Rea</p> <p><strong>Monica Solomon</strong><br><em>On Isaac Newton's Concept of Mathematical Force</em><br>Katherine Brading<br>Initial Placement: University of Southern California Society of Fellows in the Humanities, with an affiliation to the USC School of Philosophy, 2-year post-doc fellow<br>Current Placement: Bilkent University, Assistant Professor</p> <p><strong>David Squires</strong><br><em>A Defense of Aristotle's Constituent Ontology</em><br>Sean Kelsey and Christopher Shields<br>Initial Placement: University of Notre Dame, Center for Ethics and Culture (post-doc)<br>Current Placement: University of St. Thomas Houston, Assistant Professor</p> <p style="margin-left: 840px;"><a href="#top">Top</a></p> <h4>2016</h4> <p><strong>Dimitris Apostolopoulos</strong><br><em>Logos and Phenomenon: A Reappraisal of Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy of Language</em><br>Stephen Watson and Gary Gutting<br>Placement: Loyola University Chicago, tenure-track</p> <p><strong>Andrew Brenner</strong><br><em>A Defense of Mereological Nihilism</em><br>Peter van Inwagen<br>Initial Placement: University of Gothenburg, 18-month post-doc<br>Current Placement: Hong Kong Baptist University, tenure-track</p> <p><strong>Peter Finocchiaro</strong><br><em>Structuring Metaphysical Disputes: A Foray into Meta-Ideology</em><br>Michael Rea<br>Current Placement: Wuhan University, China, assistant professor</p> <p><strong>Patrick Gamez</strong><br><em>Foucault against Ethics: Subjectivity and Critique after Humanism</em><br>Stephen Watson and Gary Gutting<br>Initial Placement: Missouri S&T, tenure-track<br>Current Placement: Notre Dame, Director of the Reilly Center Dual Degree Program </p> <p><strong>Jordan Rodgers</strong><br><em>Nietzsche and the Task of Philosophy</em><br>Karl Ameriks<br>Current Placement: Notre Dame Office for Postdoctoral Affairs</p> <p><strong>Alexander Stern</strong><br><em>Fallen Language: Benjamin and Wittgenstein on the Aesthetics of Meaning</em><br>Fred Rush<br>Initial Placement: Goethe University, Frankfurt, 1-year post-doc <br>Current Placement: Features Editor at <em>Commonweal</em></p> <p><strong>Jeffrey Tolly</strong><br><em>Reliabilism and the Generality Problem</em><br>Ted Warfield<br>Initial Placement: University of Indianapolis, 2-year visiting<br>Current Placement: Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study, Assistant Director (continuing)</p> <p style="margin-left: 840px;"><a href="#top">Top</a></p> <h4>2015</h4> <p><strong>Michael Deem</strong><br><em>Norms and Nature: Engagements between Ethical Theory and the Biological Sciences</em><br>Robert Audi, Grant Ramsey<br>Initial Placement: Pediatric Ethics and Genomics Fellowship, Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics (1-year) (F15) and Indiana State University, tenure-track<br>Current Placement: Center for Bioethics and Health Law & Department of Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Associate Professor</p> <p><strong>Naomi Fisher</strong><br><em>Kant, Schelling, and a New Philosophy of Nature</em><br>Karl Ameriks, Fred Rush<br>Initial Placement: Clark University, tenure-track <br>Current Placement: Loyola University Chicago, Assistant Professor </p> <p><strong>Robert Gustin</strong><br><em>Kant’s Argument for the Transcendental Ideality of Time</em><br>Karl Ameriks<br>Initial Placement: non-academic<br>Current Placement: non-academic</p> <p><strong>Scott Hagaman</strong><br><em>Content and Justification: Prospects for Epistemological Rationalism</em><br>Robert Audi</p> <p><strong>Andrew Helms</strong><br><em>Duns Scotus on Common Natures and "Carving at the Joints" of Reality</em><br>Richard Cross<br>Initial Placement: University of Texas at San Antonio, 1-year post-doc<br>Current Placement: University of Texas at San Antonio, Lecturer II</p> <p><strong>Daniel Immerman</strong><br><em>Now That’s a No-Know! The Best Argument for External World Skepticism</em><br>Ted Warfield<br>Initial Placement: Notre Dame, Arts and Letters Post-doc<br>Current Placement: non-academic</p> <p><strong>Ryan Kemp</strong><br><em>On the Possibility of Radical Ethical Transformation: med stadigt Hensyn til Kierkegaard</em><br>Fred Rush<br>Placement: Wheaton College, Assistant Professor</p> <p><strong>Allison Murphy</strong><br><em>Living Well with Others: Aristotle on Friendship</em><br>David O'Connor<br>Initial Placement: Carleton College, Visiting Assistant Professor<br>Current Placement: Carleton College, tenure-track</p> <p><strong>Anne Peterson</strong><br><em>Hylomorphism in Aristotle’s Metaphysics: Constituent Ontology without Derivitave Diversification</em><br>Michael Loux<br>Placement: University of Utah, Assistant Professor</p> <p><strong>Amy Seymour</strong><br><em>Presentism, Propositions, and Persons: A Systematic Case for All-Falsism</em><br>Michael Rea<br>Placement: Fordham University, Assistant Professor</p> <p><strong>Daniel Sportiello</strong><br><em>The Primacy of the Practical in the History of Philosophy</em><br>David Solomon<br>Initial Placement: Santa Clara University, renewable visiting<br>Current Placement: University of Mary, Assistant Professor</p> <p style="margin-left: 840px;"><a href="#top">Top</a></p> <h4>2014</h4> <p><strong>Beau Branson</strong><br><em>The Logical Problem of the Trinity</em><br>Richard Cross<br>Initial Placement: Non-academic<br>Current Placement: Brescia University, Assistant Professor</p> <p><strong>Manuela Fernandez-Pinto</strong><br><em>Learning from Ignorance: Agnotology’s Challenge to Philosophy of Science</em><br>Janet Kourany<br>Initial Placement: University of Helsinki, 3-year post-doc<br>Current Placement: Universidad de los Andes, Columbia, Associate Professor</p> <p><strong>Amelia Hicks</strong><br><em>Moral Particularism: The Nonexistence of Moral Principles and the Nature of Proper Moral Deliberation </em><br>Michael DePaul<br>Initial Placement: Kansas State University, Visiting <br>Current Placement: Kansas State University, Assistant Professor</p> <p><strong>Matthew Lee</strong><br><em>Belief, Doubt, and Confidence: A Threshold Account</em><br>Robert Audi, Michael DePaul<br>Initial Placement: Berry College, tenure-track<br>Current Placement: Berry College, Assistant Professor</p> <p><strong>Charles Pence </strong><br><em>Chance in Evolutionary Theory: Fitness, Selection, and Genetic Drift in Philosophical Perspective</em><br>Grant Ramsey<br>Initial Placement: Louisiana State University, tenure-track<br>Current Placement: Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, Lecturer</p> <p><strong>Bradley Rettler</strong><br><em>Grounding Truthmaking</em><br>Michael Rea<br>Initial Placement: Baylor University, 3-year research post-doc<br>Current Placement: University of Wyoming, Assistant Professor</p> <p style="margin-left: 840px;"><a href="#top">Top</a></p> <h4>2013</h4> <p><strong>Natalia Baeza </strong><br><em>Contradiction, Critique, and Dialectic in Adorno</em><br>Fred Rush<br>Initial Placement: University of Florence, Italy, post-doc fellow<br>Current Placement: non-academic</p> <p><strong>Kenneth Boyce </strong><br><em>Towards a Fictionalist Nominalism</em><br>Michael Rea<br>Placement: University of Missouri, Assistant Professor</p> <p><strong>Isaac Choi</strong><br><em>Expertise: Its Nature and Appraisal</em><br>Ted Warfield<br>Initial Placement: University of Oxford, post-doc Research Fellow<br>Current Placement: George Fox University, Assistant Professor, Honors Faculty Fellow</p> <p><strong>Eric Hagedorn</strong><br><em>The Language of Scientia: Ocham’s Mental Language as the Subject Matter of Aristotelian Science</em><br>Richard Cross<br>Initial Placement: St. Norbert’s Teaching Fellow, 3-year renewable<br>Current Placement: St. Norbert’s Teaching Fellow, Assistant Professor</p> <p><strong>Graham Leach-Krouse</strong><br><em>Conceptions of Absolute Provability </em><br>Tim Bays, Mic Detlefsen, Paul Larson<br>Placement: Kansas State, Associate Professor</p> <p><strong>Aaron Segal </strong><br>Hume-Inspired Metaphysics<br>Alvin Plantinga, Peter van Inwagen<br>Initial Placement: Yeshiva University, tenure-track<br>Current Placement: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, permanent faculty</p> <p><strong>Alexander Skiles </strong><br><em>Getting Grounded: Essays in the Metaphysics of Fundamentality</em><br>Michael Rea<br>Initial Placement: University of Geneva, Switzerland, postdoc<br>Current Placement: Assistant Teaching Professor and Assistant Undergraduate Director, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University<br><br><strong>Joshua Tepley </strong><br><em>Being in Heidegger’s Being and Time</em><br>Gary Gutting<br>Initial Placement: Saint Anselm College, visiting <br>Current Placement: Saint Anselm College, Assistant Professor</p> <p style="margin-left: 840px;"><a href="#top">Top</a></p> <h4>2012</h4> <p><strong>Alex Arnold </strong><br><em>An Essay on Evidence</em><br>Ted Warfield<br>Initial Placement: Templeton Foundation, non-academic<br>Current Placement: Templeton Foundation, Senior Program Officer</p> <p><strong>Andrew Bailey</strong><br><em>Person and Animal</em><br>Alvin Plantinga, Michael Rea<br>Initial Placement: Notre Dame, Arts and Letters Postdoc <br>Current Placement: Yale-NUS College (Singapore), Associate Professor</p> <p><strong>Karen Chan </strong><br><em>The Conclusion to the Practical Syllogism: A Comparison of the Aristotelian-Thomistic and Contemporary Analytic Traditions</em><br>David Solomon<br>Initial Placement: St. Patrick's Seminary & University, regular faculty<br>Current Placement: St. Patrick's Seminary, Associate Professor, Academic Dean</p> <p><strong>Daniel Hicks</strong><br><em>Scientific Practices and their Social Context</em><br>Don Howard<br>Initial Placement: Notre Dame Arts and Letters Post-doc<br>Current Placement: UC Merced, tenure track</p> <p><strong>Lorraine Juliano Keller</strong><br><em>Whence Structured Propositions</em><br>Marian David<br>Placement: Niagara University, adjunct professor</p> <p><strong>Richard Kim</strong><br><em>The Nature of Well-Being: Towards a Defense of Aristotelian Perfectionism</em><br>David Solomon<br>Initial Placement: City University of Hong Kong, 5 yr. Post-doc<br>Current Placement: Loyola University Chicago, tenure-track</p> <p><strong>Lee Mayo</strong><br><em>Simulation and Replication: How Digital Computer Simulations Serve as Scientific Experiments</em><br>Don Howard<br>Initial Placement: N/A<br>Current Placement: Lipscomb University, Visiting Assistant Professor</p> <p><strong>Thomas Mulherin</strong><br><em>The Antinomy of Musical Meaning</em><br>Fred Rush<br>Initial Placement: Georgetown, 1-year visiting<br>Current Placement: Georgetown, adjunct</p> <p><strong>Bryan Pilkington</strong><br><em>The Problem of Human Dignity </em><br>David Solomon<br>Initial Placement: University of Notre Dame, teaching Post-doc<br>Current Placement: Fordham University, Director of Academic Programs, Center for Ethics Education</p> <p><strong>Christopher Porter</strong><br><em>Mathematical and Philosophical Perspectives on Algorithmic Randomness</em><br>Michael Detlefsen, Curtis Franks, Peter Cholak<br>Initial Placement: National Science Foundation International Research, Postdoctoral Fellow<br>Current Placement: Drake University, Assistant Professor</p> <p><strong>Luke Potter</strong><br><em>The Incarnate Word: Philosophical Essays on the Christian Doctrine of Scripture</em><br>Mike Rea<br>Initial Placement: University of Notre Dame, Center for Philosophy of Religion<br>Current Placement: non-academic<br><br><strong>Jennifer Rodriguez</strong><br><em>The Ethics of War and Peace: From Pacifism to Crusade and In Between</em><br>David Solomon<br>Initial Placement: Notre Dame, adjunct asst. professor<br>Current Placement: Notre Dame, adjunct asst. professor</p> <p><strong>Iulian Toader</strong><br><em>Objectivity Sans Intelligibility: Hermann Weyl’s Symbolic Constructivism</em><br>Michael Detlefsen, Don Howard<br>Initial Placement: Marie Curie Int'l Research fellowship, 3 yrs at U of Bucharest, Romania<br>Current Placement: University of Salzburg, Lise Meitner Senior Scholar</p> <p style="margin-left: 840px;"><a href="#top">Top</a></p> <h4>2011</h4> <p><strong>James Barham</strong><br><em>Teleological Realism in Biology</em><br>Philip Sloan<br>Initial Placement: non-academic<br>Current Placement: non-academic</p> <p><strong>Brian Boeninger</strong><br><em>Partial Freedom and Degrees of Moral Responsibility: The Metaphysics of Influence and Libertarianism</em><br>Thomas Flint<br>Initial Placement: Providence College, Visiting<br>Current Placement: non-academic</p> <p><strong>Clair Brown</strong><br><em>Supererogation for a Virtue Ethicist</em><br>W. David Solomon<br>Initial Placement: Bridgewater State College, tenure-track<br>Current Placement: Asbury University, Associate Professor </p> <p><strong>Elise Crull</strong><br><em>Quantum Decoherence and Interlevel Relations</em><br>Don Howard<br>Initial Placement: St. Andrew’s University, 3-year post-doc<br>Current Placement: City College, CUNY, Assistant Professor</p> <p><strong>Buket Korkut-Raptis</strong><br><em>The Narrative Nature of Ethical Discourse</em><br>David Solomon<br>Initial Placement: Notre Dame, post-doc, 1-year<br>Current Placement: Muğla University (Turkey), Associate Professor</p> <p><strong>Jason Miller</strong><br><em>Subjectivity in Hegel’s Aesthetics</em><br>Karl Ameriks, Fred Rush<br>Initial Placement: Rice University, visiting<br>Current Placement: Warren-Wilson College, Professor, Department Chair</p> <p><strong>Dolores Griffin Morris</strong><br><em>Physical Dualism and the Mind-Body Problem</em><br>Alvin Plantinga<br>Initial Placement: University of South Florida, visiting<br>Current Placement: University of South Florida, Instructor</p> <p><strong>Angela Smith</strong><br><em>Prolegomena to a Kantian Theory of Moral Judgment</em><br>Karl Ameriks<br>Initial Placement: Mount Saint Mary’s University, Adjunct and tenure-track<br>Current Placement: Florida State University, Adjunct</p> <p><strong>Bradley Thames</strong><br><em>History, Contingency, and Virtue</em><br>W. David Solomon<br>Initial Placement: Notre Dame, post-doc, 1 year<br>Current Placement: Ashford University (MN), Assistant Professor</p> <p><strong>Holly VandeWall</strong><br><em>Philosophical Assumptions in U.S. Environmental and Public Health Policy: A Case Study of the Clean Water Act</em><br>Vaughn McKim<br>Initial Placement: Boston College, visiting<br>Current Placement: Boston College, Assistant Professor of the Practice</p> <p><strong>Sean Walsh</strong><br><em>Arithmetical Knowledge and Arithmetical Definability: Four Studies</em><br>Michael Detlefsen, Peter Cholak<br>Initial Placement: Birkbeck, University of London, three-year post-doc<br>Current Placement: UCLA, Associate Professor</p> <p><strong>Peter Wicks</strong><br><em>Everything is What It Is: Ethical Theory and the Language of Judgment</em><br>David Solomon<br>Initial Placement: Princeton, post-doc<br>Current Placement: Elm Institute, Director, Program in Ethics, Finance, and Economics; Research Fellow</p> <p style="margin-left: 840px;"><a href="#top">Top</a></p> <h4>2010</h4> <p><strong>DiQuattro, David</strong><br><em>Learning to Speak: A Prelude to an Augustinian Conception of Practical Reason</em><br>Michael DePaul, Megan Halteman-Zwart<br>Initial Placement: Grove City College, tenure track <br>Current Placement: Stetson University, adjunct</p> <p><strong>Megan Halteman-Zwart</strong><br><em>What Simple Description....Can Never Grasp: Heidegger and the Plato of Myth</em><br>Stephen Watson<br>Initial Placement: St. Mary’s College (IN), visiting<br>Current Placement: St. Mary’s College (IN), Assistant Professor</p> <p><strong>Keller, John</strong><br><em>Telling the Whole Truth: The Role of Paraphrase in Philosophical Inquiry</em><br>Peter van Inwagen<br>Initial Placement: Niagara University, tenure-track<br>Current Placement: Niagara University, Associate Professor</p> <p><strong>Rasmussen, Joshua</strong><br><em>What Propositions Correspond To And how They Do It</em><br>Peter van Inwagen<br>Initial Placement: Notre Dame, 2 year Sorin Post-doc<br>Current Placement: Asuza Pacific University, Associate Professor</p> <p><strong>Reed, Philip</strong><br><em>The Virtue of Vanity in Hume’s Moral Theory</em><br>David Solomon<br>Initial Placement: Canisius College, tenure-track<br>Current Placement: Canisius College, Associate Professor</p> <p><strong>Rosato, Jennifer</strong><br><em>Opening Oneself to an Other: Sarte’s and Levinas’ Phenomenological Ethics</em><br>Gary Gutting<br>Initial Placement: St. Thomas University (MN), tenure-track<br>Current Placement: St. Johns Seminary, Camarillo, adjunct</p> <p><strong>Watkins, Brian</strong><br><em>Good Taste: Pleasure and Practice in Kant’s Critique of Aesthetic Judgment</em><br>Karl Ameriks, Anja Jauernig<br>Initial Placement: Duke University, Writing Program, 3-year visiting<br>Current Placement: non-academic</p> <p style="margin-left: 840px;"><a href="#top">Top</a></p> <h4>2009</h4> <p><strong>Baldwin, Jason</strong><br><em>A Social Requirement Theory of Moral Obligation</em><br>Michael DePaul<br>Initial Placement: non-academic<br>Current Placement: non-academic</p> <p><strong>Frost, Gloria</strong><br><em>Thomas Aquinas on Necessary Truths about Contingent Beings</em><br>Alfred Freddoso<br>Initial Placement: University of St. Thomas (MN), tenure-track<br>Current Placement: University of St. Thomas (MN), Associate Professor</p> <p><strong>Garcia, Robert</strong><br><em>Nominalist Contituent Ontologies: A Development and Critique</em><br>Michael Loux<br>Initial Placement: Texas A&M University, tenure-track<br>Current Placement: Texas A&M University, Associate Professor</p> <p><strong>Hain, Raymond</strong><br><em>Practically Virtuous: Instrumental Practical Reasoning and the Virtues</em><br>Ralph McInerny and David Solomon<br>Initial Placement: Catholic University of America, 1-year visiting<br>Current Placement: Providence College, Associate Professor</p> <p><strong>Jech, Alexander</strong><br><em>Wholehearted Love: An Augustinian Reconstruction of Frankfurt</em><br>David O'Connor<br>Initial Placement: University of Virginia, post-doc, 2 years<br>Current Placement: University of Notre Dame, Assistant Professional Specialist, Director of Undergraduate Studies</p> <p><strong>King, Nathan</strong><br><em>The Epistemology of Disagreement: Puzzles, Solutions, and Applications</em><br>Ted Warfield and Robert Audi<br>Initial Placement: Notre Dame, Sorin Post-doc, 2 years<br>Current Placement: Whitworth University, Associate Professor</p> <p><strong>Mihut, Cristian</strong><br><em>Diachronic Agency and Narrative Understanding</em><br>David Solomon<br>Initial Placement: Bethel College (IN), tenure-track<br>Current Placement: Bethel College (IN), Associate Professor</p> <p><strong>Zepeda, Joseph</strong><br><em>The Problem of the Vacuum in the Rationalist Tradition</em><br>Karl Ameriks, Anja Jauernig<br>Initial Placement: St. Mary’s (CA), tenure-track<br>Current Placement: St. Mary’s (CA), Assistant Professor </p> <p style="margin-left: 840px;"><a href="#top">Top</a></p> <h4>2008</h4> <p><strong>Fogel, Brandon</strong><br><em>Epistemolgy of a Theory of Everything: Weyl, Einstiein, and the Unification of Physics</em><br>Don Howard<br>Initial Placement: University of Chicago, Harper Fellow, 4 year post-doc<br>Current Placement: University of Chicago, Assistant Professor</p> <p><strong>Jensen, Jennifer</strong><br><em>The Grounding Objection to Molinism</em><br>Thomas Flint<br>Initial Placement: University of Notre Dame, Adjunct <br>Current Placement: University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Senior Instructor</p> <p><strong>Khawaja, Irfan</strong><br><em>Foundationalism and the Foundations of Ethics</em><br>David Solomon<br>Initial Placement: Felician College, adjunct <br>Current Placement: Felician College, Assistant Professor</p> <p><strong>Morris, Michael</strong><br><em>The Unity of Identity and Difference as the Ontological Basis of Hegel’s Social and Political Philosophy</em><br>Karl Ameriks<br>Initial Placement: Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, post-doc<br>Current Placement: University of Southern Florida, Associate Professor</p> <p><strong>Pitts, James Brian</strong><br><em>General Covariance, Artifcial Gauge Freedom, and Empirical Equivalence</em><br>Don Howard<br>Initial Placement: Notre Dame, Sorin Post-doc, 2-year<br>Current Placement: University of Cambridge, Senior Research Associate</p> <p style="margin-left: 840px;"><a href="#top">Top</a></p> <h4>2007</h4> <p><strong>Green, Jeffrey</strong><br><em>Work for a New Theory of Modality</em><br>Michael Rea, Peter van Inwagen<br>Initial Placement: Wheaton College, visiting<br>Current Placement: Houston Baptist University, Associate Professor, Dean</p> <p><strong>McKaughan, Daniel</strong><br><em>Toward a Richer Vocabulary for Epistemic Attitudes: Mapping the Landscape of Cognitive Attitudes</em><br>Don Howard<br>Initial Placement: Notre Dame, 2-year Sorin Post-doc<br>Current Placement: Boston College, Associate Professor</p> <p><strong>Walsh, Sean</strong><br><em>Modern Moral Theory and the Indeterminacy Objection to Aristotelian Virtue Ethics</em><br>Karl Ameriks and David Solomon<br>Initial Placement: University of Minnesota, Duluth, tenure-track<br>Current Placement: University of Minnesota, Duluth, Associate Professor</p> <p style="margin-left: 840px;"><a href="#top">Top</a></p> <h4>2006</h4> <p><strong>Biddle, Justin</strong><br><em>Socializing Science: On the Epitemic Sginificance of the Institutional Context of Science</em><br>Don Howard<br>Initial Placement: Bielefeld University, post-doc<br>Current Placement: Georgia Tech School of Public Policy, Associate Professor</p> <p><strong>Botham, Thad</strong><br><em>Rendering Free Will Intelligible: A Defense of Agent-Causation</em><br>Thomas Flint and Alvin Plantinga<br>Initial Placement: Valparaiso University, Visiting Professor<br>Current Placement: Arizona State University, Instructor</p> <p><strong>Coffman, Eldon Franklin Jr.</strong><br><em>An Essay on the Logic of Warrant</em><br>Alvin Plantinga and Ted Warfield<br>Initial Placement: University of Notre Dame, post-doc<br>Current Placement: University of Tennessee, Professor</p> <p><strong>Green, Christopher</strong><br><em>The Epistemic Parity of Testimony, Memory, and Perception</em><br>Michael DePaul and Alvin Plantinga<br>Initial Placement: University of Mississippi, tenure-track<br>Current Placement: University of Mississippi, Professor</p> <p><strong>Huff, Benjamin</strong><br><em>Friendship and the Shared Life of Virtue</em><br>David O'Connor<br>Initial Placement: Randolph-Macon College, tenure-track<br>Current Placement: Randolph-Macon College, tenured</p> <p><strong>Jensen, Mark Nathan</strong><br><em>A Theory of Civil Society</em><br>Paul Weithman<br>Initial Placement: Hope College, 2-year visiting<br>Current Placement: United States Air Force Academy, Associate Professor </p> <p><strong>Kennedy, Matthew John</strong><br><em>Second Naivete: Essays on the Structure of Experience</em><br>Michael Loux and Leopold Stubenberg<br>Initial Placement: University of Nottingham, tenure-track<br>Current Placement: non-academic</p> <p><strong>Ostaric, Lara</strong><br><em>Between Insight and Judgment: Kant’s Conception of Genius and its Fate in German Idealism</em><br>Karl Ameriks<br>Initial Placement: Saint Michael’s College (Vermont) tenure-track<br>Current Placement: Temple University, Associate Professor</p> <p><strong>Shrader, Warren</strong><br><em>The Metaphysics of Ontological Emergence</em><br>Alvin Plantinga and Ted Warfield<br>Initial Placement: Indiana University South Bend tenure-track<br>Current Placement: Indiana University South Bend, Associate Professor</p> <p style="margin-left: 840px;"><a href="#top">Top</a></p> <p> </p> <p><a href="/graduate-program/recent-placements/past-ph-d-recipients/">View Ph.D. recipients since 1934</a>.</p> </main> <div 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