Placement Record
The Department of Philosophy is especially proud of its placement record. The department awarded 125 Ph.D. degrees between January of 1991 and August 2007.
The following list shows the dissertation title, initial placement, and last known position (if different than the initial placement) of every student who received a Ph.D. in philosophy from Notre Dame between January 1991 and August 2009.
2009
A Social Requirement Theory of Moral Obligation
Initial Placement: Non-academic
Thomas Aquinas on Necessary Truths about Contingent Beings
Initial Placement: University of St. Thomas, MN, Tenure Track
Nominalist Contituent Ontologies: A Development and Critique
Intial Placement: Texas A&M University, Tenure Track
Practically Virtuous: Instrumental Practical Reasoning and the Virtues
Intial Placement: Catholic University of America, 1 yr. visiting
Critical Belief in the Unconditioned: Kant’s Antinomy as a Positive Response to Skepticism about Reason
Intial Placement: St. Joseph's University, Tenure track
Wholehearted Love: An Augustinian Reconstruction of Frankfurt
Intial Placement: University of Virginia, 2 yr. Postdoc
What are Structured Propositions (ABD)
Intial Placement: Niagara University, Tenure Track
The Epistemology of Disagreement: Puzzles, Solutions, and Applications
Initial Placement: University of Notre Dame, 2 yr. Sorin Postdoc
Diachronic Agency and Narrative Understanding
Initial Placement: Bethel College
The Virtue of Vanity in Hume’s Moral Theory (ABD)
Intial Placement: Canisius College, Tenure Track
Practical Feelings: Kant’s Doctrine of Pleasure and Pain (ABD)
Intial Placement: Thompson Writing Program, Duke University - 3 yr. Postdoc
The Problem of the Vacuum in the Rationalist Tradition
Intial Placement:St. Mary's (CA), Tenure Track
2008
Epistemolgy of a Theory of Everything: Weyl, Einstiein, and the Unification of Physics
Intial Placement: Harper Post-doc at the University of Chicago
The Grounding Objection to Molinism
Initial Placement: Adjunct Asst. Professor at the University of Notre Dame
Foundationalism and the Foundations of Ethics
Initial Placement: Assistant professor of philosophy at Felician College in Lodi, NJ
The Unity of Identity and Difference as the Ontological Basis of Hegel’s Social and Political Philosophy
Initial Placement: Germany, grad assistantship
General Covariance, Artificial Gauge Freedom, and Empirical Equivalence
Initial Placement: Sorin Post-doc at the University of Notre Dame
2007
Work for a New Theory of Modality
Initial Placement: 2 yr. visiting at Wheaton College; (2009) Houston Baptist University, Permanent Position
Toward a Richer Vocabulary for Epistemic Attitudes
Initial Placement: Sorin Postdoc at the University of Notre Dame
Modern Moral Theory and the Indeterminacy Objection to Aristotelian Virtue Ethics
Initial Placement: University of Minnesota at Duluth - Tenure Track
2006
Socializing Science: On the Epistemic Significance of the Institutional Context of Science
Intial Placement: (2009) Georgia Tech University, Tenure Track
Rendering Free Will Intelligible: A Defense of Agent-Causation
Initial Placement: Non-academic
An Essay on the Logic of Warrant
Initial Placement: University of Tennessee, Tenure Track
The Epistemic Parity of Testimony, Memory, and Perception
Initial Placement: University of Mississippi, Tenure Track Law
Friendship and the Shared Life of Virtue
Initial Placement: Randolph-Macon College, Tenure Track
A Theory of Civil Society
Initial Placement: Hope College, 2 yr. visiting
Second Naivete: Essays on the Structure of Experience
Initial Placement: University of Nottingham, UK, Tenure Track
Between Insight and Judgment: Kant’s Conception of Genius and its Fate in German Idealism
Initial Placement: St. Michael's University, Tenure Track
The Metaphysics of Ontological Emergence
Initial Placement: Indiana University, Tenure Track
2005
A Principled Sensibility: Rules and the Life of the Virtues
Initial Placement: University of Virginia, Tenure Track
Understanding as an Epistemic Goal
Initial Placement: University of Notre Dame, Post-Doc
Quinean Meta-ontology and Fictionalism
Initial Placement: New Saint Andrews College
2004
Toward Philosophy's Other Beginning: The Problem of Transcendence in Heidegger and Derrida
Initial Placement: Calvin College, Tenure Track
Presentism and Some Related Questions
Initial Placement: University of St. Thomas, Tenure Track
Perceiving Structure: Phenomenological Method and Categorical Ontology in Brentano, Husserl, and Sartre
Initial Placement: St. John's, N.M., Tenure Track
Moral Realism Without Values: An Essay on Reasons for Action
Initial Placement: Southern Illinois University, Tenure Track
Husserl's Trancendental Idealism
Initial Placement: Non-Academic
Civic Excellence: Citizen Virtue and Contemporary Liberal Democractic Community
Initial Placement: Non-Academic
A Philosophical Inquiry into the Concept of Number
Initial Placement: University of Notre Dame, Teaching Scholar, 1 yr.
The Infused and Acquired Virtues in Aquinas’ Moral Philosophy
Initial Placement: Catholic University, Tenure Track
The Mirror of Justice: A Plea for Mercy in Contemporary Liberal Theory
Initial Placement: Witherspoon Institute, Princeton, 2 yr. postdoc
Divine Providence and Human Libertarian Freedom: Reasons for Incompatibility and Theological Alternatives
Initial Placement: University of Notre Dame, Adjunct Asst. Professor
Persistence, Persons and Vagueness
Initial Placement: Virginia Commonwealth University, Tenure Track
Arithmetical Investigations: A Study of Models of Arithmetic and Purity of Methods
Initial Placement: Stanford University, Three year appointment
Re-Creating Adam: A Philosophical Investigation of the Genetic Engineering of Human Beings
Initial Placement: Georgia Tech, School of Public Policy, Tenure Track
Scientific Anomaloy and Biological Effects of Low-Dose Chemicals: Elucidating Normative Ethics and Scientific Discovery
Initial Placement: University of South Carolina, Tenure Track
Aristotle’s Teleology and Modern Mechanics
Initial Placement: Hunter College (CUNY), Substitute Asst. Professor, 1 yr.
The Philosophical Context of Heidegger’s Reappropriation of Aristotle
Initial Placement: Michigan Tech, Tenure Track
On the Relationship Between Biology and Medicine
Initial Placement: University of Redlands, Tenure Track
Agency and Moral Realism
Initial Placement: Wake Forest, Tenure Track
Meeting Anscombe’s Demand: Toward A Moral Psychology of Character
Initial Placement: University of Missouri, Visiting
Design Arguments Within a Reidian Epistemology
Initial Placement: Oklahoma Baptist, Tenure Track
2003
Horizons of Description: Black Holes and Complementarity
Initial Placement: MIT, post-doc
Intentions in Action: Contemporary Interpretations of the Principle of Double Effect
Initial Placement: St. Thomas, Tenure Track
Flourishing and Self-Interest in Virtue Ethics
Initial Placement: Air Command & Staff College, Maxwell Air Force Base - Tenure Track
2002
In Defense of Presentism
Initial Placement: Florida State - Tenure Track
The Autonomous Hume: On the Search for the Kantian Moral Motive in Hume’s Moral Philosophy.
Initial Placement: Baylor University - Tenure Tack
The Intellectual Commons: A Theory of Intellectual Property Rights
Initial Placement: Non-academic employment
Binding Force: The Concept of Law in Moral Philosophy
Initial Placement: Houghton College - Tenure Track
Groundwork for a Dual-Attribute Theory of Mind
Initial Placement: Fordham - Tenure Track
ABD
Initial Placement: Utah Valley State Univ. - Tenure Track
Epistemology of Experiment & the Physiological Acoustics of Hermann von Helmholtz
Initial Placement: Seattle Pacific University
Externalism, Skepticism, and Relevant Alternatives
Initial Placement: Asbury College - Tenure Track
Freedom & Incompatibilism: The Possibility of Undetermined Free Action
Initial Placement: St. Louis University - Tenure Track
Last Known Position: Northern Illinois University - Tenure Track
Rational Identity and Merleau-Ponty's Final View of Phenomenology
Initial Placement: Gonzaga University - One Year
2001
The Problem of Non-Being
Initial Placement: None
The Semantics of Analogy According to Thomas de Vio Cajetan's De Nominum Analogia Initial Placement: Wheaton College - Tenure Track
Anthropology and Freedom in Kant's Moral Philosophy: Saving Kant from
Schleiermacher's Dilemma
Initial Placement: Whitman College - Tenure Track
Truth in History: The Crisis in Continental Philosophy of the History of Philosophy Initial Placement: Memorial University (Canada) - One Year
The Soul and Discursive Reason in the Philosophy of Proclus
Initial Placement: Carleton Univeristy (Canada) - Tenure Track
Philosophical Perspectives on Quantum Chaos: Models and Interpretations
Initial Placement: Boston University - Tenure Track
MacIntyre's Conceptions of Moral Inquiry: Origins, Nature and the Roots of Error
Initial Placement: Director of Yale Alumni Association
2000
The Arabic Plotinus: A Study of Philosophy in Transition
Initial Placement: King's College London - Tenure Track
Problems of the Modern Self: Reflections on Rorty, Taylor, Nietzsche, and Foucault Bethel College (MN) - Tenure Track
Initial Placement: Bethel College (MN) - Tenure Track
Last Known Position:
Colgate University - Tenure Track
Self-Legislation and Prudence in Kant's Moral Philosophy: A Critical Examination of
Some Constructivist Interpretations
Initial Placement: Purdue University - Tenure Track
Conditions of Moral Responsibility
Initial Placement: Western Illinois University - Tenure Track
Impossible Worlds
Initial Placement: Westmont College - Tenure Track
Concepts and the Given in Kant's Theory of Experience
Initial Placement: Did not seek academic employment
Virtues in Action: Aquinas's Reply to the Action-Guiding Objection
Initial Placement: Calvin College - Tenure Track
Truth Beloved: Thomas Aquinas and the Relational Transcendentals
Initial Placement: Augustana College, Tenure Track
Last Known Position: Villanova University, Tenure Track
1999
Implicitly Grounded Beliefs
Initial Placement: Roberts Wesleyan - Tenure Track
Virtue, Reason and History: The Practical Philosophy of Giambattissta Vico
Initial Placement: Xavier University – Temporary
Last Known Placement: Boston College - Tenure Track
Science, Intellect, and Social Evolution: A Study of Auguste Comte's Philosophy of Science
Initial Placement: Georgia Tech School of Public Policy - Visiting
The Theory of Middle Freedom: A Unified Acausal Theory of Free Agency
Initial Position: Practicing Psychiatrist
Last Known Placement: Trinity International Univ. - Adjunct
Situated Science: A Phenomenological Defense of Philosophy as Rigorous Science Post- Initial Placement: Doctoral Fellowship at U. of Georgia
Georges Cuvier, Transcendental Naturalist: A Study of Teleological Explanation in Biology
Initial Placement: Xavier University – Temporary
Last Known Placement: Thomas Aquinas College - Tenure Track
Autonomy: Moral Not Political: Democratic Education and Kant
Initial Placement: Did not seek academic position
1998
Taking Reasons Seriously in a Naturalistic Account of Normativity
Initial Placement: Harvard University - Tenure Track
Last Known Placement: Williams College - Tenure Track
An Essay on Divine Presence
Initial Placement: Criswell College
Last Known Placement: Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
The Contingency of Truth and Normativity: Toward a Reconstuction of Rorty's Account of Truth
Initial Placement: William Jewell College - Tenure Track
Self and Will: An Existential Theory of Motivation and Frankfurt's Theme of
Identification
Initial Placement: Fordham Univerisity - Tenure Track
Knowledge and Norms: A Defense of Epistemic Justification
Initial Placement: Post Doctoral Appointment Free University Amsterdam
Last Known Placement: University of South Alabama - Tenured
Continuity and the Reality of Movement
Initial Placement: Thomas Aquinas College - Tenure Track
Eros and Practical Reason in the Symposium
Initial Placement: Providence College – Visiting
Last Known Placement: St. Joseph's Univ. (PA) - Tenure Track
Freedom and the Legitamacy of Moral Education: Philosophical Reflections on Aristotle and Rousseau
Initial Placement: Declined Tenure Track offer from Catholic University of America
Last Known Placement: Unknown
HPS - Laws of Nature and the Universe: Philosophical Implications of Modern Cosmology
Initial Placement: Post Doctoral Fellowship - Rice Univ.
Last Known Placement: University of Georgia - Tenure Track
HPS - Ontological Commitments and Theory Appraisal in the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Initial Placement: Goshen College
1997
Internalism, Externalism and Epistemic Defeat
Initial Placement: Purdue University - Tenure Track
A Theodicy of Hell
Initial Placement: Valparaiso Univ. - Temporary Teaching
Last Known Placement: Unknown
Weakness of Will as a Problem for Practical Rationality
Initial Placement: Whitworth College - Tenure Track
1996
John Rawls and Liberal Neutrality
Initial Placement: Furman University - Tenure Track
Rationality and the Paradoxes of Decision Theory: A Critique of Rational Choice Views Initial Placement: Post Doc. Fellow - Univ. of South Florida
Last Known Placement: Kent State Univ. - Tenure Track
Mental Representation: St. Thomas and the De interpretatione
Initial Placement: Creighton University - Tenure Track
Last Known Placement: University of Portland - Tenure Track
The Metaphysics of Material Constitution
Initial Placement: Univ. of Delaware - Tenure Track
Last Known Placement: University of Notre Dame
An Essay in Favor of Property Dualism
Initial Placement: Teaching at Lion Institute of Technology
Last Known Placement: Practicing Attorney
The Fruitfulness of Dialogue: A Presentation of an Account of Intersubjectivity Appropriate for Hermeneutics
Initial Placement: Beloit College - Tenure Track
Explanation, Explanatory Success, and Realis
Initial Placement: Self-Employed
Eastern Oregon University - part time
Modes of Vision and Quality of Mind: Reflections on Mansfield Park
Initial Placement: Unknown
Last Known Placement: Unknown
Liberalism, Community and Interpretation: Ronald Dworkin's Neo-Hegelian Theory of Law and Politics
Initial Placement: Research at the America 1st Foundation
1995
Double Effect Reasoning: A Critique and Defense
Initial Placement: University of San Francisco - Tenure Track
Monde Vécu and Lebensform: Merleau-Ponty and Wittgenstein on the Roots of Linguistic Meaning
Initial Placement: Concordia College (MN) - Tenure Track
The Mathematical Objection to Mechanism
Initial Placement: Kent State University - Tenure Track
Last Known Placement: Non –academic
Probability and Nonlocality: Determinism versus Indeterminism in Quantum Mechanics Initial Placement: Indiana University - HPS - Tenure Track
1994
The Metaphysics of Moral Responsibility
Initial Placement: Calvin College
Last Known Placement: Moorehead State University - Tenure Track
A Defense of Internal Realsim: Reference, Truth, and Conceptual Schemes
Initial Placement: Eotuos Lorand University (Hungary) - Tenure Track
Thinking the Ethical Out of Time: A Pre-ethical Investigation of Temporality
Initial Placement: St. Ambrose University - Tenure Track
The Doctrine of Cause of Being in Aquinas's Summa Contra Gentiles: A Case Study in
Christian Philosophy
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow at St. Andrews University
Last Known Placement: Scholar in Residence - Cambridge University
The Emergence of the Dualism of Practical Reason in Post-Hobbesian British Moral Philosophy
Initial Placement: Self-Employed Business Consultant
Enduring Objects
Initial Placement: Virginia Commonwealth Univ. - Tenure Track
Last Known Placement: University of Virginia
Kant's Third Analogy of Experience
Initial Placement: Virginia Tech University - Tenure Track
Last Known Placement: University of California, San Diego
The Legacy of Heidegger's Account of Mitsein: An Investigation Concerning Innovation,
Difference and Community
Initial Placement: Earlham College - Tenure Track
Thinking Critically About Religion: An Investigation of the Defense of the Rationality of
Religious Commitment in Kant and Muyskens
Initial Placement: Unknown
Last Known Placement: Unknown
The Moral Philosophy of John Duns Scotus
Initial Placement: Creighton University - Tenure Track
Last Known Placement: University of Iowa - Tenure Track
1993
The Development of the Notion of Concupiscence in St. Augustine
Initial Placement: None
Last Known Placement: Teaching High School
Epistemological Issues in the Realism - Antirealism Debate: An Analysis and a Proposal Initial Placement: Messiah College - Tenure Track
Intrinsically Evil Acts According to St. Thomas Aquinas
Initial Placement: University of Mary (SD) - Tenure Track
A Thomistic Account of the Dialectical Topic
Initial Placement: Christendom College - Tenure Track
Theoretical Approaches to Medical Ethics: Virtue and its Critics
Initial Placement: Calvin College - Tenure Track
Philosophical Anarchism and the Possibility of Political Obligation
Initial Placement: University of Hawaii - Tenure Track
Last Known Placement: Georgetown University - Tenure Track
1992
Motivation, Objectivity, and Basic Goods in John Finnis's Natural Law Theory
Initial Placement: Did not seek position
Last Known Placement: Librarian at University of Pennsylvania
The Semantics of Conditionals
Initial Placement: Valparaiso University - Temporary Teaching
Last Known Placement: Concordia College (Canada), Tenure Track
The Latter Wittgenstein's Transcendentalism
Initial Placement: Simon Bolivar University - Tenure Track
Phantasia: In Defense of Thomas's Account of Imagination Allentown College of Saint Francis deSales
Initial Placement: Carrol College (MT), Tenure Track
Social and Economic Aspects of Charles Sanders Peirce's Conception of Science
Initial Placement: Asbury College - Temporary Teaching
Last Known Placement: Houghton College, Tenure Track
Rationality and the Ends of Humean Action
Initial Placement: Virginia Tech University
Last Known Placement: Knox College (IL) - Tenure Track
Thomas Reid on Moral Epistemology and the Moral Sense
Initial Placement: Mount Union College - Tenure Track
Last Known Placement: Covenant College (TN), Tenure Track
The Role of Theoria in Eudaimonia in the Aristotelian Corpus
Initial Placement: Marquette Univeristy - Tenure Track
1991
A Teleological Theory of Epistemic Rationality
Initial Placement: Goshen College - Temporary
Last Known Placement:
Messiah College - Tenure Track
Obedience as a Virtue: A Thomistic Consideration
Initial Placement: Univ. of Scranton - Temporary Teaching
The Sensus Communis and the Unity of Perception According to Saint Thomas Aquinas Initial Placement: University of St. Thomas - Tenure Track
The Second Leibnizian Labyrinth: Psychology, Theology, and Freedom
Initial Placement: Franklin and Marshall - Tenure Track
Original Intent in Constitutional Theory: A Philosophic Study
Initial Placement: King's College (PA) - Tenure Track
Plato's Dialogue Form and the Cure of the Soul
Initial Placement: Grand Valley State University - Tenure Track
What Incommensurability Claims Mean: A Study of Lugwik Fleck's Contribution to the Incommensurability Debate
Initial Placement: University of Dallas - Tenure Track
