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 2007.

2007

Work for a New Theory of Modality
Initial Placement: 2 yr. visiting at Wheaton College

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

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 Dioscursive Reason in the Philosophy of Proclus
Initial Placement: Carrelton 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

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

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 - Tenure Track

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