Graduate Placement
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Current Students (ABD Placements):

Osvil Acosta-Morales, "Believing Courageously: A Philosophical Analysis of Doxastic Courage" Assistant Professor (tenure track), Community College of Philadelphia.

Christopher Weaver, "Moral Sentimentalism and the Problem of Partiality." Assistant Professor, Lewis University.
2008 Graduates:

Jeremy Morris, "The Epistemic Significance of Pure Indexicality" Visiting Assistant Professor, Ohio University

Matthew Schuh, "The Epistemic Necessity and Ethical Permissibility of Randomized Clinical Trials: A Minimalist Defense" Assistant Professor (tenure track), Miami - Dade College.

Leonard Olsen, "A Groundwork for the Theory of Notation"
Assistant Professor, Philander Smith College in Little Rock Arkansas.

2006 Graduates:
Nenad Popovic, "In Search of the Best Solution to the Skeptical Puzzle: A Comparative Analysis of Possible Responses" Lecturer, Southern Methodist University.
2005 Graduates:
Hsi-Heng Cheng, "A Peircean Theory of Real Kinds" Assistant Professor (tenure track), National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.

Corina Vaida, "How Kant needs to Interpret Free Will" Visiting Assistant Professor, William and Mary.

Sheron Fraser-Burgess, "How Can a Multicultural Society Educate its Members for Pluralism?" Assistant Professor (tenure track), Ball State University.
2004 Graduates:
Shirong Luo, "Morality and Human Nature: Classical Confucian Ethics and Sentimentalist Virtue Ethics" Assistant Professor, Simmons College. Previous appointment: Visiting Assistant Professor, Mount Holyoke College.

Kiriake Xerohemona, "Liar, Language, and Truth." Lecturer (full time, renewable), Florida International University.

Melissa Bergeron, "The Ethics of Belief: Our Duty to Humanity" Assistant Professor, United States Military Academy at West Point.

2002 Graduates:

Timothy Mosteller, "Epistemological Relativism: Macintyre, Putnam and Rorty." Assistant Professor (tenure track), California Baptist University.

Eivind Balsvik, "Triangulation, Interpretation, and First-Person Authority: A Essay on the Philosophy of Donald Davidson." Lecturer, University of Oslo (Norway).

Yvette Pearson, "Procreation and Obligation." Assistant Professor, Old Dominion University.

Michael Veber, "Recent Rationalism: A Survey and Evaluation of Contemporary Theories of the A Priori." Assistant Professor (tenure track), East Carolina University.

Rosa Mayorga, "On Universals: The Scholastic Realism of John Duns Scotus and Charles Sanders Peirce." Assistant Professor (tenure track), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
2001 Graduates:
Anthony J. Kreider, "On the Likelihood of Finding a Satisfactory Naturalistic Explanation of Mental Representation." Assistant Professor, Miami-Dade Community College.

Jason Borenstein, "Expertise and the Courts." Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology.

Mark Neunder, "The Ethics of Genetic Engineering." Associate Professor, Miami-Dade Community College.
2000 Graduates:
Michael J. Shaffer, "Idealization and Empirical Testing." Assistant Professor, St. Cloud State University, Minnesota.
1999 Graduates:
Bernardo J. Cantens, "Suarez and Meinong on Beings of Reason and Non-Existent Objects." Assistant Professor, Barry University.

Fred Altieri, "Cerebral Commissurotomy, Consciousness, Minds, and Persons." Assistant Professor, North Shore Community College.

Robert B. Horner, "A Defense of Davidson's Theory of Metaphor." Assistant Professor, Barry University.
1998 Graduates:
Ruben Rabinsky, "Philosophy of Journalism: On the Theory and Practice of the News Enterprise." Lecturer, University of Miami.

Robert E. Lane, "Charles Sanders Peirce and the Principle of Bivalence." Visiting Assistant Professor, State University of West Georgia.

Christopher J. Hajec, "The Argument from Order." (Current position not known.)
1997 Graduates:
William F. Hasselberger, "Heidegger's Thinking on Art." (Non-academic career, living in Portugal.)

John C. Wingard, Jr., "Plantinga on Proper Functionalism, Knowledge, and Rationality." Associate Professor, Erskine College.

Alfredo Perez-Triff, "World Making, Praxis, and the Genealogy of Cubism." Violinist and composer; Assistant Professor, Miami-Dade Community College

Gene Ray, "The Use and the Abuse of the Sublime: Joseph Beuys and Art after Auschwitz." (Postdoctoral research in Germany; until recently Curator, Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota. Current position not known.)
1996 Graduates:

James A. Ryan, "Ethical Naturalism." Assistant Professor, University of Western Ontario, Huron College.

Shannon Krenkel, "Victims' Rights in Capital Sentencing." (Current position not known.)

Sally N. Wiedmann, "Rawlsian Justice and Environmental Ethics." Assistant Professor, North Georgia College and State University.

William Harper, "Internalism and Externalism in Epistemic Justification." Instructor, University of Alabama.

 

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