Recent
Ph.D. degrees, dissertation topics,
and employment information
2000
Michael J. Shaffer, "Idealization and Empirical Testing."
Assistant
Professor, St. Cloud State University, Minnesota.
1999
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
Ruben Rabinsky, "Philosophy of Journalism: On the Theory and
Practice of
the News Enterprise." Visiting Assistant Professor, 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
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
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.