Placement by year of graduation

In the last fifteen years, the department has graduated 82 PhD's.  70 of these students have found positions in teaching or academic administration:  18 are in tenured university or college positions, 28 are in tenure track positions at colleges or universities, 22 are in instructorships or other university adjunct positions, and 2 are in long-term positions in secondary education.  Many recent departmental graduates have also received prestigious post-doctoral fellowships from DAAD, Fulbright, the Dibner Institute and other sources.

The list below is intended to give prospective students a sense of where our graduates end up teaching.  In order to maintain privacy, only the title of dissertations are listed.  The information is, to our knowledge, accurate, but the department is not responsible for errors.  Please contact the departmental placement director with questions or updated information.

Expected Date of Graduation - 2008

Visiting Assistant Professor
Auburn University, AL

2007

Instructor
Boston University, MA

Instructor
Stonehill College, MA
"Approaching Organisms as Systems: A Critical Study of the Method of 'Systems
Biology'"

Assistant Professor, Tenure Track
Marquette University, WI

Assistant Professor, Tenure Track
York University, Toronto, ON
"The Nature and Limits of Forgiveness"

Assistant Professor, Tenure Track
Florida International University
"After Aesthetics: Martin Heidegger and the End of Art"

Assistant Professor, Tenure Track
Bridgewater State College, MA

Assistant Professor, Tenure Track
Xavier University, OH
"Artistotle on the Nature of the Self"

Assistant Professor, Tenure Track
Luther College, IA
Dissertation not yet defended

One-Year Position
Wooster College, OH &
One-Year Position
Colby College, ME
"Liberty, Action and the State in Spinoza"

Lecturer
Université du Québec à Montréal &
Post-Doctoral Fellowship
University of Sydney
"Locating Mind in the Causal World: Locke, Collins and Enlightened Determinism”

Instructor
Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON
"Reformed Foundationalism and Warrant: Two Related Projects in Religious Epistemology"

2006

Assistant Professor, Tenure Track
Suffolk University, MA
"Wittgenstein and Infinity"

Instructor
Boston College, MA
"The Legitimate Fruits of Descartes' Rules"

Instructor
Writing Program, Harvard University
"Nietzche's Genealogy: The Art of Polemical Philology"

Assistant Professor, Tenure Track
Salve Regina University, RI
"Hobbes's Science of Politics"

Instructor
University of Tennessee
"Is Rotation Absolute? : A Historical Examination of a Fundamental Question."

Instructor
Boston College, MA
“Aspects of the Will in Arthur Schopenhauer"

Instructor
Boston University Core Curriculum
"The Dialectic of the Good in Plato's Philebus"

2005

Assistant Professor, Tenure Track
Suffolk University
"Sympathizing with the Enemy: A Theory of Political Reconciliation"

Instructor
Stonehill College
"The Tacit and the Ineffable: Frege and Wittgenstein on the Distinction Between Language as a Calculus and Language as the Universal Medium"

2004

"Between Theory and Practice: Heidegger and the Lure of Art"

Research/Teaching Fellowship
University of Tampere, Finland
"Edmund Husserl's Phenomenology and the Development of Mathematics in the Late 19th Century"

Assistant Professor, Tenure Track
St. Thomas University, Fredericton, NB
"Aristotle and Plotinus on the Simplicity of Nous"

Instructor
Providence College, RI
"Aristotle on Being and Substance: Definiteness and Having a Function"

Instructor
Boston University Core Curriculum
"Political Justice in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Politics"

2003

Assistant Professor, Tenure Track
Xavier University, OH
"Philosophy and Physics: Action-at-a-Distance and Locality"

Assistant Professor, Tenure Track
Technion Israel Institute of Technology
"Where Languages End: Ludwig Wittgenstein at the Crossroads of Music, Language, and the World"

Assistant Professor Tenure Track
Loyola New Orleans University
"Single-Mindedness: Language, Thought, and the First-Person"

Assistant Professor, Tenure Track
North Georgia State & State College
"Essentialism and Individuation in Modal Logic"

Instructor
Boston University Core Curriculum
"Hegel's Logic of Essence"

Assistant Professor, Tenure Track
University of South Florida
"The Ethics of Character: John Stuart Mill on Aesthetic Education"

Instructor
Boston College, MA
"David Hume's Moral Science and Illusions of Common Life"

"Modality and the Reflective Grounds of Kantian Transcendental Philosophy"

2002

Tutor, Tenure Track
St. John’s College, MD
"Kant's Conception of the Highest Good"

Adjunct
Emerson College
"Aspects of the Theory of Seeing"

Instructor
Villanova University, Core Humanities Program
"The Laughing Body: Helmuth Plessner's Philosophical Anthropology Revisited"

Assistant Professor, Tenure Track
Stonehill College
"Loving the Fine: Goodness and Happiness in Aristotle's Ethics"

Assistant Professor, Tenure Track
Babson College
"Intersubjective Norms and the Claims of Conscience: A Hegelian Ethics"

2001

Adjunct
Emerson College, Hellenic College, Framingham State
"Philosophy and Play"
"Law, Virtue and Justics in Aristotle's Politica"

Assistant Professor, Tenure Track
Luther College, IA
"The Logic of Freedom in Rousseau's Social Contract"

Assistant Professor, Tenure Track
University of Texas, El Paso
"Computational Theories of Vision and the Problem of Explanation in Neuroscience"

Assistant Professor, Tenure Track
Xavier University, OH
"Kant and the Question of the State: Freedom, Permission, and Republicanism"

Assistant Professor, Tenure Track
Kent University
"The Analog-Digital Distinction and the Flow of Information"

2000

Assistant Professor, Tenure Track
University of Rome, Italy
"The Development of Kant's Refutation of Idealism"

Assistant Professor, Tenure Track
Wellesley College
“The Promise of Time”

Associate Professor
Indian River College, FL
"Syntax, Semantics, and the Justification of Linguistic Methodology: An Investigation
into the Source and Nature of the Disagreement Between Noam Chomsky and W.V.O. Quine"

Lecturer
The Key School, MD
"David Hume: Sceptical Scientist Of Morals"

Assistant Professor, Tenure Track
Catholic University of America
"Aporia and Philosophy: A Commentary on Plato's Meno"

Lecturer
Boston University Academy
"Aristotle on the Relationship Between Perception and Thought"
"On the Idea that There Is No Logic of Discovery: A History"

1999

Academic Dean, VP
Bethel College
"Metaphysics and the Interpretation of Physical Theory: A Historical Examination from the Seventeenth Century to the Nineteenth Century"

Assistant Professor, Tenure Track
Lehman College, CUNY
"Bertrand Russell on Perception and Belief: His Development from 1913-1918"

Assistant Professor, Tenure Track
Mt. Mary College, WI
"Redeeming Philosophy: Philosophy in Augustine's Confessions"

1998

Associate Professor, Tenured
Hartwick College
"The Construction of Relations in Hume and Quine"

Assistant Professor, Tenure Track
University of Maine, Augusta
"A Comparision of the Ethical Thought of Aristotle and John Dewey"

1997

Instructor ESL
Framingham State College, MA
"Epistemology and Science in the Thought of Desire Mercier and Jacques Maritain: A Topic in the History of Thomistic Epistemology"

Assistant Professor
University of Salonika, Greece
"Epistemic Probabilities in the Context of the Interrogative Approach"

Associate Professor, Tenured
University of North Dakota
"Adam Smith and the Problem of Neutrality in Contemporary Liberal Theory"

Associate Professor, Tenured
Seton Hall University
"Kant's Argument Against Self-Murder and its Relation to the Principle of Self-Preservation of Reason"

1996

Associate Professor, Tenured
Colorado State University
"Thoreau's Vision of a Good Life in Nature: Towards an Environmental Virtue Ethics"

Assistant Professor, Tenure Track
College of General Studies, Boston University
"Hegel's Idea of Method as Form of Dialectical Closure"

1995

Assistant Professor, Tenure Track
New School, NY
"The Problem of the Body in Husserl's Phenomenology"
"Phenomenological Aspects of Wittgenstein's Philosophy"

Associate Professor, Tenured
Gordon College, MA
"Hegel's Reconciliation of Theory and Practice"

Professeure Adjointe
University of Montreal
"Levinas Between Ethics and Politics: The Problem of Responsibility and Justice"

Associate Professor, Tenured
St. Francis University, PA
"The Origin and Development of Moral Sensibility"

1994

Medical Doctor
"The Moral Responsibility of the Physician: A Philosophical Examination”

Administrator
Institut fur die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Austria
"Crisis and Responsibility: Environment, Lifeworld and the Elemental"
"Quine and Heidegger on Language"

Assistant Professor
Seoul, Korea
"Whitehead’s Criticism of Hume: An Element in the Background of Whitehead’s Subjectivism"

Associate Professor, Tenured
University of Western Ontario, Canada
"Constructivism, Computability, and Physical Theories "

1993

Assistant Professor, Tenure Track
Boston College, MA
"Reason, Virtue, and Moral Education: A Study of Plato's Protagoras"

Assistant Professor, Tenure Track
Department of Rhetoric, University of California-Berkeley
"Alien Pleasures: The Exile of the Poets in Plato’s Republic"

Department Chair
Edinboro University, PA
"Community and Morality in African Thought: A Critique of Tempels’ Bantu Ontology; its Impact and its Implications for the Role of Community in African Moral Thinking"

Associate Professor, Tenured
Suffolk University, MA
“Parmenides – Fragment Three”

1992

"The Progress of Leah: The Recovery of the Classical Ideal of the Active Life in Florentine Civic Humanism"

"Wittgenstein on the Experience and Content Model of the Mind"

1990

Associate Professor, Tenured
Department of Humanities, New Jersey Institute of Technology
"Humanity Extended: Technology and the Limits of Nature"

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