Recent Placements
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2012
Alex Arnold
An Essay on Evidence
Ted Warfield
Intial Placement: Templeton Foundation, non-academic (F12)
Current Placement: Templeton Foundation, non-academic
Andrew Bailey
Person and Animal
Alvin Plantinga, Michael Rea
Intial Placement: Yale University, Singapore, tenure track (F12)
Current Placement: Yale University, Singapore, tenure track
Karen Chan
The Conclusion to the Practical Syllogism: A Comparison of the Aristotelian-Thomistic and Contemporary Analytic Traditions
David Solomon
Intial Placement: St. Patrick's Seminary & University, regular faculty (S2013)
Current Placement: St. Patrick's Seminary & University, regular faculty
Daniel Hicks
Scientific Practices and their Social Context
Don Howard
Intial Placement: Notre Dame Arts and Letters Postdoc (F12)
Current Placement: Notre Dame Arts and Letters Postdoc (F12)
Lorraine Juliano Keller
Whence Structured Propositions
Marian David
Intial Placement: did not seek
Current Placement: Niagara University, adjunct professor
Richard Kim
The Nature of Well-Being: Towards a Defense of Aristotelian Perfectionsim
David Solomon
Intial Placement: City University of Hong Kong, 5 yr. Postdoc (F12)
Current Placement: City University of Hong Kong, 5 yr. Postdoc
Lee Mayo (HPS)
Simulation and Replication: How Digital Computer Simulations Serve as Scientific Experiments
Don Howard
Intial Placement: did not find
Current Placement: Lipscomb University, visiting (F13)
Thomas Mulherin
The Antinomy of Musical Meaning
Fred Rush
Intial Placement: Georgetown, 1 yr. visiting (F12)
Current Placement: Georgetown, 1 yr. visiting (F12)
Bryan Pilkington
The Problem of Human Dignity
David Solomon
Intial Placement: Notre Dame teaching Postdoc (F12)
Current Placement: Aquinas College, tenure track (F13)
Christopher Porter
Mathematical and Philosophical Perspectives on Algorithmic Randomness
Michael Detlefsen, Curtis Franks, Peter Cholak
Intial Placement: NSF research fellowship in Paris, France, 2 yr. (F12)
Current Placement: NSF research fellowship in Paris, France, 2 yr. (F12)
Luke Potter
The Incarnate Word: Philosophical Essays on the Christian Doctrine of Scripture
Intial Placement: Center for Philosophy of Religion, Notre Dame (F2012)
Current Placement: Center for Philosophy of Religion, Notre Dame (F2012)
Jennifer Rodriguez
The Ethics of War and Peace: From Pacifism to Crusade and In Between
David Solomon
Intial Placement: Notre Dame, adjunct asst. professor (F12)
Current Placement: Notre Dame, adjunct asst. professor (F12)
Iulian Toader
Objectivity Sans Intelligibility: Hermann Weyl’s Symbolic Constructivism
Michael Detlefsen, Don Howard
Intial Placement: Marie Curie Int'l Research fellowship, 3 yrs at U of Bucharest, Romania (S12)
Current Placement: Marie Curie Int'l Research fellowship, 3 yrs at U of Bucharest, Romania (S12)
2011
Barham, James
Teleological Realism in Biology
Philip Sloan
Initial Placement: None
Current Placement; None
Boeninger, Brian
Partial Freedom and Degrees of Moral Responsibility: The Metaphysics of Influence and Libertarianism
Thomas Flint
Initial Placement: Providence University, Visiting (F11)
Current Placement: Providence University Visiting
Brown, Claire
Supererogation for a Virtue Ethicist
W. David Solomon
Initial Placement: Bridgewater State College, tenure track (F10)
Current Placement: Asbury College, tenure track (F11)
Crull, Elise
Quantum Decoherence and Interlevel Relations
Don Howard
Initial Placement: St. Andrew’s University, 3 year post-doc (F11)
Current Placement: St. Andrew’s University, post-doc
Korkut-Raptis, Buket
The Narrative Nature of Ethical Discourse
David Solomon
Initial Placement: Notre Dame, post-doc, 1 year (F11)
Current Placement: Muğla University (Turkey), Tenure Track (S12)
Miller, Jason
Subjectivity in Hegel’s Aesthetics
Karl Ameriks, Fred Rush
Initial Placement: Rice University, visiting (F11)
Current Placement: Warren Wilson College, tenure track
Morris, Dolores Griffin
Physical Dualism and the Mind-Body Problem
Alvin Plantinga
Initial Placement: University of South Florida, visiting
Current Placement: University of South Florida, visiting
Schwenkler (Smith), Angela
Prolegomena to a Kantian Theory of Moral Judgment
Karl Ameriks
Initial Placement: Mount Saint Mary’s University, Adjunct and tenure track
Current Placement:
Thames, Bradley
History, Contingency, and Virtue
W. David Solomon
Initial Placement: Notre Dame, post-doc, 1 year (F11)
Current Placement: Ashford University, permanent position F13
Vande Wall, Holly
Philosophical Assumptions in U.S. Environmental and Public Health Policy: A Case Study of the Clean Water Act
Vaughn McKim
Initial Placement: Boston College, visiting (F11)
Current Placement: Boston College, visiting
Walsh, Sean
Arithmetical Knowledge and Arithmetical Definability: Four Studies
Michael Detlefsen, Peter Cholak
Initial Placement: Birkbeck, University of London, Post-doc
Current Placement: University of California, Irvine, tenure track (F12)
Wicks, Peter
Everything is What It Is: Ethical Theory and the Language of Judgment
David Solomon
Initial Placement: Princeton, postdoc (F10)
Current Placement: Villanova, visiting (F11)
2010
DiQuattro, David
Learning to Speak: A Prelude to an Augustinian Conception of Practical Reason
Michael DePaul
Initial Placement: Grove City College, tenure track (F10)
Current Placement: Grove City College, tenure track
Megan Halteman-Zwart
What Simple Description....Can Never Grasp: Heidegger and the Plato of Myth
Stephen Watson
Initial Placement: St. Mary’s College (IN) visiting (F09)
Current Placement: St. Mary’s College (IN) tenure track (F11)
Keller, John
Telling the Whole Truth: The Role of Paraphrase in Philosophical Inquiry
Peter van Inwagen
Initial Placement: Niagara University, tenure track (F10)
Current Placement: Niagara University, tenure track
Rasmussen, Joshua
What Propositions Correspond To and how They Do It
Peter van Inwagen
Initial Placement: Notre Dame, 2 year Sorin Post-doc (F10)
Current Placement: Asuza Pacific University, tenure track (F13)
Reed, Philip
The Virtue of Vanity in Hume’s Moral Theory
David Solomon
Initial Placement: Canisius College, tenure track (F10)
Current Placement: Canisius College, tenure track
Rosato, Jennifer
Opening Oneself to an Other: Sarte’s and Levinas’ Phenomenological Ethics
Gary Gutting
Initial Placement: St. Thomas University (MN), tenure track (F10)
Current Placement: College of St. Mary Magdalen, visiting (F11)
Watkins, Brian
Good Taste: Pleasure and Practice in Kant’s Critique of Aesthetic Judgment
Karl Ameriks, Anja Jauernig
Initial Placement: Duke University, Writing Program, 3 year visiting (F10)
Current Placement: Non-academic position (F13)
2009
Baldwin, Jason
A Social Requirement Theory of Moral Obligation
Michael DePaul
Initial Placement: Did not seek academic employment
Current Placement: Did not seek academic employment
Frost, Gloria
Thomas Aquinas on Necessary Truths about Contingent Beings
Alfred Freddoso
Initial Placement: University of St. Thomas (MN), tenure track (F09)
Current Placement: University of St. Thomas (MN), tenure track
Garcia, Robert
Nominalist Contituent Ontologies: A Development and Critique
Michael Loux
Initial Placement: Texas A&M Universtiy, tenure track (F09)
Current Placement: Texas A&M Universtiy, tenure track
Hain, Raymond
Practically Virtuous: Instrumental Practical Reasoning and the Virtues
Ralph McInerny and David Solomon
Initial Placement: Catholic University of America, 1 year visiting (F09)
Current Placement: Providence University, tenure track (F11)
Hebbeler, James
Critical Belief in the Unconditioned: Kant’s Antinomy as a Positive Response to Skepticism about Reason
Karl Ameriks
Initial Placement: St. Joseph’s University, tenure track (F09)
Current Placement: St. Joseph’s University
Jech, Alexander
Wholehearted Love: An Augustinian Reconstruction of Frankfurt
David O'Connor
Initial Placement: University of Virginia, post-doc, 2 years (F09)
Current Placement: University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill, 2 yr. visiting (F12)
King, Nathan
The Epistemology of Disagreement: Puzzles, Solutions, and Applications
Ted Warfield and Robert Audi
Initial Placement: Notre Dame, Sorin Post-doc, 2 years (F09)
Current Placement: Whitworth College, tenure track (F10)
Mihut, Cristian
Diachronic Agency and Narrative Understanding
David Solomon
Initial Placement: Bethel College (IN), tenure track
Current Placement: Bethel College (IN)
Zepeda, Joseph
The Problem of the Vacuum in the Rationalist Tradition
Karl Ameriks, Anja Jauernig
Initial Placement: St. Mary’s (CA), tenure track (F09)
Current Placement: St. Mary’s (CA)
2008
Fogel, Brandon
Epistemolgy of a Theory of Everything: Weyl, Einstiein, and the Unification of Physics
Don Howard
Initial Placement: Harper Fellow, University of Chicago, 4 year post-doc (F08)
Current Placement: Harper Fellow, University of Chicago
Jensen, Jennifer
The Grounding Objection to Molinism
Thomas Flint
Initial Placement: Notre Dame, Adjunct (F08)
Current Placement: University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Adjunct Instructor (S11)
Khawaja, Irfan
Foundationalism and the Foundations of Ethics
David Solomon
Initial Placement:
Current Placement: Felician College, tenure track
Morris, Michael
The Unity of Identity and Difference as the Ontological Basis of Hegel’s Social and Political Philosophy
Karl Ameriks
Initial Placement: Post-Doctoral Research Appointment – Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena (F08)
Current Placement: University of South Florida, tenure track, (F10)
Pitts, James Brian
General Covariance, Artifcial Gauge Freedom, and Empirical Equivalence
Don Howard
Initial Placement: Notre Dame, Sorin Post-doc, 2 year (F08)
Current Placement: Research Fellow in Philosophy, University of Cambridge (F13)
2007
Green, Jeffrey
Work for a New Theory of Modality
Michael Rea, Peter van Inwagen
Initial Placement: Wheaton College, visiting (F07)
Current Placement: Houston Baptist, tenure track (F09)
McKaughan, Daniel
Toward a Richer Vocabulary for Epistemic Attitudes: Mapping the Landscape of Cognitive Attitudes
Don Howard
Initial Placement: Notre Dame, Sorin Post-doc, 2 year (F07)
Current Placement: Boston College, tenure track (F08)
Walsh, Sean
Modern Moral Theory and the Indeterminacy Objection to Aristotelian Virtue Ethics
Karl Ameriks and David Solomon
Initial Placement: University of Minnesota, Duluth, tenure track (F07)
Current: : University of Minnesota, Duluth, tenure track
2006
Biddle, Justin
Socializing Science: On the Epitemic Sginificance of the Institutional Context of Science
Don Howard
Initial Placement: Post-Doctoral Appointment, Bielefeld University (F06)
Current Placement: Georgia Tech School of Public Policy (F09)
Botham, Thad
Rendering Free Will Intelligible: A Defense of Agent-Causation
Thomas Flint and Alvin Plantinga
Initial Placement: Valparaiso University, Visiting (F06)
Current Placement: Arizona State University, lecturer
Coffman, Eldon Franklin Jr.
An Essay on the Logic of Warrant
Alvin Plantinga and Ted Warfield
Initial Placement: Notre Dame, post-doctoral appointment (F06)
Current Placement: University of Tennessee, tenure track (F07)
Green, Christopher
The Epistemic Parity of Testimony, Memory, and Perception
Michael DePaul and Alvin Plantinga
Initial Placement: University of Mississippi School of Law tenure track (F06)
Current Placement: University of Mississippi School of Law
Huff, Benjamin
Friendship and the Shared Life of Virtue
David O'Connor
Initial Placement: Randolph-Macon College, tenure track (F06)
Current Placement: Randolph-Macon College, tenured
Jensen, Mark Nathan
A Theory of Civil Society
Paul Weithman
Initial Placement: Hope College – 2 year visiting (F06)
Current Placement: United States Air Force Academy, tenure track (F10)
Kennedy, Matthew John
Second Naivete: Essays on the Structure of Experience
Michael Loux and Leopold Stubenberg
Initial Placement: University of Nottingham, tenure track (F06)
Current Placement: non-academic
Ostaric, Lara
Between Insight and Judgment: Kant’s Conception of Genius and its Fate in German Idealism
Karl Ameriks
Initial Placement: Saint Michael’s College (Vermont) tenure track (F06)
Current Placement: Temple University, tenure track (F12)
Shrader, Warren
The Metaphysics of Ontological Emergence
Alvin Plantinga and Ted Warfield
Initial Placement: Indiana University South Bend tenure track (F06)
Current Placement: Indiana University South Bend