The following tables display the placements of PhD students who have finished our MA program 1999\u2013present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2025<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Thesis Title<\/th>
Applied to Programs<\/th>
Accepted offer to<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Bearing Witness: A Point Against Functionalist Linguistic Metaethics <\/td>
Yes <\/td>
University of Texas, Austin <\/td><\/tr>
Deliberation, Rational Agency, and Responsibility for Belief <\/td>
Yes <\/td>
University of California- Riverside <\/td><\/tr>
Genres of Conversation <\/td>
Yes <\/td>
University of California- San Diego <\/td><\/tr>
Re-Examining the Ontology of Musical Improvisation <\/td>
Yes <\/td>
CUNY <\/td><\/tr>
A Normative Theory of Aesthetic Ineffability <\/td>
Yes <\/td>
University of Arizona <\/td><\/tr>
Achieving Real Freedom: Motivating a Workplace Democracy Reading of Rawls <\/td>
Yes <\/td>
University of Illinois- Chicago <\/td><\/tr>
How Others Feature in Emotional Self-Knowledge <\/td>
Yes <\/td>
University of Michigan <\/td><\/tr>
Pluralism Lost: Defending Hybridism About Being <\/td>
Yes <\/td>
University of Virgina (graduated in 2024) <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Other Schools that admitted our students in 2025: Florida State University, University of British Columbia, University of California- Davis, University of Wisconsin<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2024<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Thesis Title<\/th>
PhD Program<\/strong><\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Equally Subordinated? The Threat of a Self-subordinating Way of Life on One\u2019s Moral Powers<\/td>
CUNY<\/td><\/tr>
How to Read Intra-Mathematical Explanations: A Defense for the Epistemic Approach<\/td>
UC Davis<\/td><\/tr>
Intelligibility & the Limits of Ontology: Pluralism, Monism, & Finitude<\/td>
Applying for Fall 2025
<\/td><\/tr>
Imposter Syndrome and Self-Respect<\/td>
University of California, Riverside<\/td><\/tr>
Pluralism Lost: Defending Hybridism about Being<\/td>
Applying again for Fall 2025<\/td><\/tr>
Moral Metaphysics for Expressivists: Why We Should Be Error Theorists, Not Deflationists<\/td>
University of Edinburgh *
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Love and Personal Style <\/td>
University of Southern California<\/td><\/tr>
Race as a Symptom of Injustice<\/td>
University of Arizona <\/td><\/tr>
A Typology of Bad Characters: Understanding Moral Badness as Mental Illness<\/td>
University of Maryland College Park<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Other Schools that admitted our students in 2024<\/strong>: Carnegie Mellon University, National University of Singapore, Northwestern University, Ohio State University, Oxford University, Rice University, St. Louis University, University of Wisconsin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
*Non-funded offer<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2023<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Thesis Title<\/th>
PhD Program<\/strong><\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Rethinking Human Flourishing: A Challenge for Neo-Aristotelian Naturalism<\/td>
Syracuse University<\/td><\/tr>
A Typology of Bad Characters: Understanding Moral Badness as a Mental Illness<\/td>
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Models of Formal Semantics as Exploratory Models<\/td>
MIT (Linguistics)<\/td><\/tr>
Performative Mistakes and Practical Knowledge<\/td>
UCLA<\/td><\/tr>
What the QUD Models<\/td>
MIT<\/td><\/tr>
The Metaphysics of the Gene in the Era of CRISPR-Cas9<\/td>
University of Wisconsin<\/td><\/tr>
A Dispositional Theory of Practical Basing<\/td>
University of Wisconsin<\/td><\/tr>
Can Genealogies Vindicate?<\/td>
Syracuse University<\/td><\/tr>
\u2018The Mediator\u2019 and \u2018Reason\u2019s Forgetting\u2019: Two Questions on the Transition of Self-Consciousness to Reason in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit<\/em><\/td>
University of Chicago<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Other Schools that admitted our students in 2023:<\/strong> Cornell (Linguistics), CUNY, Florida State University, Harvard, Maryland Philosophy, Ohio State University, Rutgers University, Rice University, University of California- Riverside, University of Connecticut (Linguistics), University of Minnesota, University of Pittsburgh (History of Philosophy), University of Texas, , University of Texas- Austin, Washington University in St Louis<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2022<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Thesis Title<\/th>
PhD Program<\/strong><\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Problem for Schechtman\u2019s Narrative Self-Constitution View of Personal Identity<\/td>
McGill<\/td><\/tr>
A Challenge to Psychological and Biological Theories of Personal Identity<\/td>
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill<\/td><\/tr>
What It Means to Believe<\/td>
Princeton<\/td><\/tr>
Default Moods, Taking Defaults Out of Update of Semantics<\/td>
University of California- Los Angeles<\/td><\/tr>
Fear, Labour and the Free Will in Hegel\u2019s Phenomenology<\/em><\/td>
Riverside<\/td><\/tr>
Vivacity and Hume\u2019s Idea- Impression Distinction<\/td>
Florida State University<\/td><\/tr>
Against Identity, a Positional Approach to Resisting Identity-Based Violence<\/td>
Arizona State University<\/td><\/tr>
To Be or Not To Be, The Problem of Indeterminate Existence<\/td>
——<\/td><\/tr>
Bivalence: Open Future or Logical Fatalism<\/td>
Florida State University<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Other schools that admitted our students in 2022:<\/strong> Cornell University, CUNY, Harvard University, Rutgers, Stanford, University of California- Davis, University of California- Santa Barbara, University of Pittsburgh, University of Texas at Austin<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2021<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Thesis Title<\/th>
PhD Program<\/strong><\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
School\u2019s Out Forever: Making Room for Unschoolers in Political Liberalism<\/td>
University of Colorado-Boulder<\/td><\/tr>
Bivalence: Open Future or Logical Fatalism?<\/td>
——–<\/td><\/tr>
Imperatives as Fragment Answers<\/td>
University of Maryland<\/td><\/tr>
Locke\u2019s Qualities: Beyond the Veil of Perception<\/td>
University of Conneticut<\/td><\/tr>
An Instrumental Theory of Speech Acts<\/td>
University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill<\/td><\/tr>
Blame-Liability, Inviting Trust, & Beginning a New Account of Promising<\/td>
University of Syracuse<\/td><\/tr>
Beyond Depraved: Villainy and Self-Deception in Kant\u2019s Taxonomy of Evil<\/td>
University of California- Riverside<\/td><\/tr>
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University of Toronto<\/td><\/tr>
A Puzzle About Information, Probability and Surprise<\/td>
Harvard University<\/td><\/tr>
Slurs Are Verdicts<\/td>
University of Southern California<\/td><\/tr>
\u2019The Mediator\u2019 and \u2018Reason\u2019s Forgetting\u2019: Two questions on the transition of Self-Consciousness to Reason in Hegel\u2019s Phenomenology of Spirit<\/td>
Other schools that admitted our students in 2021: <\/strong>Boston University, Bowling Green, John Hopkins, Pittsburgh, Temple, University of California- San Diego, University of Indiana- Bloomington, University of Virginia, UW-Madison, Washington University<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Other schools that admitted our students in 2020:<\/strong> Florida State, Indiana University, Syracuse, and the University of Connecticut<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Thesis Title<\/th>
PhD Program<\/strong><\/th><\/tr>
Taking the Other to Be Itself<\/td>
University of California, Riverside<\/td><\/tr>
Humean Constructivism and Deliberative Coherence<\/td>
University of Arizona (+ Harvard Law, deferred)<\/td><\/tr>
Maximally Contiguous Studies<\/td>
University of California, Santa Barbara<\/td><\/tr>
Philosophy without Title: Hume’s Sceptical Principles in the Treatise <\/em><\/td>
University of Chicago (Philosophy and Committee on Social Thought)<\/td><\/tr>
Reasonableness and the means of Production<\/td>
Not planning to pursue PhD at present time<\/td><\/tr>
Scientific Realism and Mathematical Platonism: Strategies for Extending Scientific Realism to Mathematics<\/td>
University of Colorado, Boulder<\/td><\/tr>
Poetics, Not Pragmatics: Understanding Metaphors in a Poetic Context<\/td>
Duke University, PhD in English<\/td><\/tr>
Nominalization and Interpretation<\/td>
Ohio State<\/td><\/tr>
Games as Actions: An Active Account of Games<\/td>
Continuing for a third year<\/td><\/tr>
Defending a Modest Semantic Brutalism<\/td>
University of Massachusetts, Amherst<\/td><\/tr>
The Role of Contradiction in Hume’s Conception of Geometry<\/td>
Delaying application for one year<\/td><\/tr>
‘This is simply what I do’: Primitive Normativity in Following a Rule<\/td>
Brown University<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Other schools that admitted our students in 2019:<\/strong> Boston University, Bowling Green State University, Cornell, Duke, Florida State University, Harvard, Johns Hopkins Rochester University, Stanford, University of Kansas, University of Wisconsin<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2018<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Thesis Title<\/th>
PhD Program<\/strong><\/th><\/tr>
A Distinction Between Expectations and Demands: Towards a Wider Conception of Responsibility<\/td>
Northwestern<\/td><\/tr>
The Activity of Finite Spirits in Berkeley: Willing Sensible Ideas<\/td>
University of Western Ontario<\/td><\/tr>
Reciprocity, Reactive Attitudes, and the Value of Responsibility<\/td>
University of Arizona<\/td><\/tr>
How to Say Things Exist: Developing Peter Van Inwagen’s Philosophy of Language<\/td>
University of California, Santa Barbara<\/td><\/tr>
Hengel between Criticism and Romanticism: Love & Self Consciousness in the Phenomenology<\/td>
University of California, Berkeley (graduated in 2017)<\/td><\/tr>
Virtuous Anger and Vicious Forgiveness<\/td>
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign<\/td><\/tr>
How Conceiving Can Provide Reliable Evidence of Possibility<\/td>
Texas A&M<\/td><\/tr>
A Liberal Analysis of Religious Exemptions to Public Accommodations Law<\/td>
University of Wisconsin Law School<\/td><\/tr>
Attributability and Agency: Moral Attributability form Mental States as Possession of Care-Constitutive Desires<\/td>
May re-apply next year<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Other schools that admitted our students in 2018:<\/strong> UC-Riverside, Florida State, U-Maryland, U-Miami, U-Mass: Amherst, U-Minnesota, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Syracuse, Ohio State, Rice, Rochester, Marquette, Arizona State Law, U-Arizona Law, Creighton Law, George Mason Law, Hofstra Law, UI-Law, U-Michigan Law, Rutgers Law<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2017<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Thesis Title<\/th>
PhD Program<\/strong><\/th><\/tr>
Is it Rational to Care About the Natural Environment<\/td>
Bowling Green State University<\/td><\/tr>
Making “cinnabar”: Kant on made a posteriori concepts<\/td>
New York University<\/td><\/tr>
Hegel between Criticism and Romanticism: Love & Self Consciousness in the Phenomenology<\/td>
University of California, Riverside<\/td><\/tr>
Reading Others Well and Being Well Read<\/td>
University of Texas, Austin<\/td><\/tr>
How Conceiving Can Provide Reliable Evidence of Possibility<\/td>
May re-apply next year<\/td><\/tr>
Grounding Physicalism<\/td>
Rutgers University<\/td><\/tr>
Self-Colocation<\/td>
University of Massachusettes, Amherst<\/td><\/tr>
Nietzsche’s Eternal Recurrence as Untimeliness<\/td>
University of California, Santa Cruz<\/td><\/tr>
Routine Maintenance<\/td>
University of California, Riverside<\/td><\/tr>
Nietzsche’s Signpost for Feminism<\/td>
Fordham University (graduated in 2016)<\/td><\/tr>
Exam Option<\/td>
Fordham University (graduated in 2016)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Other schools that admitted our students in 2017:<\/strong> Arizona State, U-Miami, Florida State, UC-Davis, Indiana, Purdue, Oxford, Johns Hopkins, Boston U, Georgetown, UC-Irvine, UC-Los Angeles, UC-San Diego, U-Chicago, Harvard, Notre Dame, Ohio State, U-Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, U-Virginia, University of Rochester, CUNY Graduate Center, U-Southern California, UC-Santa Barbara<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2016<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Thesis Title<\/th>
PhD Program<\/strong><\/th><\/tr>
Earning the Right Means Paying the Costs: Metaphysical Problems for Quasi-Realism<\/td>
University of California, San Diego<\/td><\/tr>
Two Contemporary Metaethical Schemes Considered<\/td>
Florida State University (graduated in 2015)<\/td><\/tr>
Reformulating Modalism<\/td>
Syracuse University<\/td><\/tr>
Kant on Radical Evil<\/td>
University of Illinois, Chicago<\/td><\/tr>
Locutionary Disablement and Epistemic Injustice<\/td>
CUNY Graduate Center<\/td><\/tr>
Attitudinal Commitments and the Scope of Rational Requirements<\/td>
University of Pittsburgh<\/td><\/tr>
Nietzsche and the problem of nihilism<\/td>
may re-apply next year<\/td><\/tr>
What Science Doesn’t Need to Know: Scientific Realism, Anti-Realism and the Continuum of Knowledge<\/td>
may re-apply next year<\/td><\/tr>
Nietzsche’s Autonomy, Responsibility, and Will Unification<\/td>
may re-apply next year<\/td><\/tr>
Decent Peoples, Political Legitimacy, and Informed Consent<\/td>
University of Minnesota Law School (graduated in 2013)<\/td><\/tr>
Exam Option<\/td>
<\/td><\/tr>
Exam Option<\/td>
University of Texas Law School (graduated in 2015)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Other schools that admitted our students in 2016:<\/strong> U Arizona, UC-Irvine, U Cinncinnati, U Illinois-Urbana, Champaign, Ohio State, U Pennsylvania, U Texas-Austin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2015<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Thesis Title<\/th>
PhD Program<\/strong><\/th><\/tr>
Constitutive Inescapability and the Search for Normative Authority<\/td>
University of California, San Diego<\/td><\/tr>
Life and Agency: Constitutivism and the Source of Prescriptive Norms<\/td>
University of California, Riverside<\/td><\/tr>
Berkeley and the Mind of God<\/td>
University of Rochester<\/td><\/tr>
The Function of Blame<\/td>
New York University (MA in Bioethics)<\/td><\/tr>
Rethinking Responding to Raymond: Re-Replying to Reproaches of Transsexualism<\/td>
May re-apply next year<\/td><\/tr>
Kaplan’s Puzzle, Dynamic Senses, and Diachronically Individuated Propositions<\/td>
University of Illinois, Chicago (graduated in 2014)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Other schools that admitted our students in 2015:<\/strong> UC-Davis, U Minnesota (Twin Cities), Syracuse, Washington U (Seattle)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2014<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Thesis Title<\/th>
PhD Program<\/strong><\/th><\/tr>
Colocated Object? A New Challenge to the Intentionalists’ Solution to the Grounding Problem<\/td>
University of Massachusetts, Amherst<\/td><\/tr>
Grounding the Free Lunch: Can Grounding Theory Escape Ontological Commitment?<\/td>
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill<\/td><\/tr>
Freedom as Morality<\/td>
Northwestern University<\/td><\/tr>
Intentions and Advisorial Relations<\/td>
Florida State University<\/td><\/tr>
From Self-Trust to Other-Trust: The Role of Reasons and the Theoretical Insignificance of Behavioral Inconsistency<\/td>
Northwestern University<\/td><\/tr>
Two Essays On Constructivism: Lessons From Semantic Theory<\/td>
Brown University<\/td><\/tr>
The Modal Status of Kant’s Postulate of God’s Existence<\/td>
University of Pittsburgh<\/td><\/tr>
Solving the Problem of Resultant Luck: Extrapolating from Hegel<\/td>
University of California, San Diego<\/td><\/tr>
Commitment and Temporal Mediation in Korsgaard’s Self-Constitution<\/td>
University of California, Riverside (graduated in 2013)<\/td><\/tr>
The Duty of Assistance is a Liberal Duty<\/td>
University of Pennsylvania (graduated in 2012)<\/td><\/tr>
A Greater Scope for Error: Judgment, Sensation, and the Material Falsity of Sensory Ideas<\/td>
University of Notre Dame (HPS) (graduated in 2012)<\/td><\/tr>
Other schools that admitted our students in 2014:<\/strong> Alberta, Boston, Calgary, UC-Santa Barbara, Georgetown, Illinois-Chicago, Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, Johns Hopkins, Kansas, Maryland, UW-Madison, New School, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh (HPS), Purdue, Rochester, Syracuse, Virginia, Western Ontario<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2013<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Thesis Title<\/th>
PhD Program<\/strong><\/th><\/tr>
Disagreement, Dispositions, and Higher-Order Evidence<\/td>
Notre Dame<\/td><\/tr>
Second Nature in Kant’s Theory of Artistic Creativity<\/td>
Columbia University<\/td><\/tr>
Hume, Skepticism, and Induction<\/td>
University of California, Santa Barbara<\/td><\/tr>
How I Spent My Summer Defending-or-Defeating Anscombe: Anscombian Action Theory and the Possibility of Logically Complex Actions<\/td>
University of Pittsburgh (attended one year); University of California, Los Angeles (Fall 2014)<\/td><\/tr>
How to Think About Indiscernible Particles<\/td>
Ohio State University<\/td><\/tr>
The Starry Heavens Above Me and the Starmaking Power Within Me<\/td>
Marquette University<\/td><\/tr>
“Just Perceiv’d & Next Door to Nothing:” An investigation of Minima in the Work of George Berkeley<\/td>
Western Ontario University<\/td><\/tr>
The Supersubstantivalist Response to the Argument from Vagueness<\/td>
Notre Dame<\/td><\/tr>
The Myth of Given Reasons<\/td>
University of Pittsburgh<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Other schools that admitted our students in 2013:<\/strong> Boston, Brown, UCLA, UC-Riverside, UC-San Diego, U Chicago, Georgetown, Illinois-Chicago, U Iowa, Johns Hopkins, UMass-Amherst, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, UNC-Chapel Hill, Princeton, Rochester, St Louis U, Syracuse, Temple, Yale<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2012<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Thesis Title<\/th>
PhD Program<\/strong><\/th><\/tr>
Intelligibility and Reliability: A Relational Conception of the Constitutive Aim of Agency<\/td>
University of California, San Diego<\/td><\/tr>
Exam Option<\/td>
University of California, Riverside (graduated in 2007)<\/td><\/tr>
Who\u2019s Counting? Cognitive Disability and Rawlsian Contractualism<\/td>
May re-apply to PhD programs in the future<\/td><\/tr>
Sympathy and Causal Inference: Hume on Other Minds<\/td>
Pepperdine Law School (attended one year); Washington University, St. Louis School of Law (Fall 2013)<\/td><\/tr>
The Moral Status of the Deceased in Kant’s Ethics<\/td>
University of Chicago Law School (graduated in 2011)<\/td><\/tr>
Other schools that admitted our students in 2012:<\/strong> UC-Irvine, Ohio State<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2011<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Thesis Title<\/th>
PhD Program<\/strong><\/th><\/tr>
Problems with Causal Reasoning in Cognitive Neuroscience<\/td>
Arizona State University (HPS)<\/td><\/tr>
The Problem From Memory and Moral Responsibility<\/td>
University of California, Irvine<\/td><\/tr>
Deliberating to Believe: A Critical Examination of How Truth Functions as a Normative Constraint on Belief<\/td>
Northwestern<\/td><\/tr>
Essence and Modality: the alleged conflict between Actualism and Kind Essentialism<\/td>
Purdue University<\/td><\/tr>
The A Priority of the Intelligible<\/td>
Stanford University<\/td><\/tr>
The Prole Machine: Politics and Revolution in the Cramped Conditions of Capital<\/td>
University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Political Science)<\/td><\/tr>
A Defense of Rawls’s Account of Toleration in The Law of Peoples<\/td>
University of Illinois, Chicago<\/td><\/tr>
Justice for the Cognitively Disabled: Obligations to Those at the Margins of Our Moral Community<\/td>
University of California, Riverside<\/td><\/tr>
Idealism in Kant and Berkeley: A Defense of Berkeley’s Concept of Objectivity<\/td>
Ohio State University<\/td><\/tr>
Moral Requirements, Moral Reasoning, and the First Two Formulations of the Categorical Imperative<\/td>
University of Pennsylvania (graduated in 2010)<\/td><\/tr>
Taking the “Peep-Show” Public: Intersubjectivity, Psychologism, and Conceptual Realism<\/td>
Yale University (graduated in 2010)<\/td><\/tr>
The Case for Government Anti-Obesity Legislation<\/td>
Federal Judicial Clerk<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Other schools that admitted our students in 2011:<\/strong> Alberta, CUNY Graduate Center, Iowa, Maryland, Miami, Michigan State, Minnesota, New School, North Texas, Notre Dame, Utah, Washington-Seattle, Vanderbilt<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2010<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Thesis Title<\/th>
PhD Program<\/strong><\/th><\/tr>
Quantifier Variance, Classical Logic, and Neo-Fregeanism<\/td>
University of Virginia<\/td><\/tr>
Making Sense of Intelligibility: A Discussion of Velleman’s Constitutive Aim of Action<\/td>
University of California, Riverside<\/td><\/tr>
Necessary Identity Statements Trivialized<\/td>
University of British Columbia<\/td><\/tr>
Free Citizens and the Coercive Account of the Site of Justice<\/td>
University of Arizona<\/td><\/tr>
Moral Incentive and Respect in Kant’s Ethics<\/td>
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign<\/td><\/tr>
A Dilemma for Hellman’s Modal Structuralism<\/td>
University of California, Irvine<\/td><\/tr>
Autonomy, Estrangement, and External Reasons<\/td>
University of Pittsburgh (graduated in 2008)<\/td><\/tr>
The Role of Emotions in Akrasia<\/td>
Cornell Law School<\/td><\/tr>
Intimates, Self-Trust and Self-Awareness in Autonomous Decision Making<\/td>
Other schools that admitted our students in 2010:<\/strong> Alberta, UC-Davis, UC-Santa Barbara, Connecticut, Florida State, Illinois-Chicago, Indiana, Maryland, McGill (Political Science), Miami, SUNY-Buffalo, Purdue, Rochester, St. Louis U, Syracuse, Toronto, Washington-Seattle, Western Ontario, UW-Madison<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2009<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Thesis Title<\/th>
PhD Program<\/strong><\/th><\/tr>
Can We Contextualize Skepticism?<\/td>
CUNY Graduate Center<\/td><\/tr>
Kant\u2019s Derivation of the Formula of Universal Law<\/td>
Harvard University<\/td><\/tr>
The Implications of Special Relativity for Persistence<\/td>
Syracuse University<\/td><\/tr>
Inquiry, Attention and Relevance: An Account of Knowledge and its Role in Discourse<\/td>
University of Massachusetts, Amherst<\/td><\/tr>
Incentives and Goodness in Kant\u2019s Ethics<\/td>
University of California, Los Angeles<\/td><\/tr>
The Concept of Belief and Epistemic Rationality<\/td>
University of Texas, Austin<\/td><\/tr>
Agency and the Theoretical View of Persons<\/td>
University of Miami<\/td><\/tr>
Self-Deception & Culpable Ignorance<\/td>
University of California, Riverside (graduated in 2008)<\/td><\/tr>
Exam Option<\/td>
\u2014<\/td><\/tr>
Moore, Dewey, and the Reconstruction of Ethics<\/td>
Other schools that admitted our students in 2009:<\/strong> Arizona State, Bowling Green, UC-San Diego, UC-Santa Barbara, Colorado-Boulder, Connecticut, Indiana, Ohio State, Michigan, Missouri, UNC-Chapel Hill, Stanford, Washington U, Yale<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2008<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Thesis Title<\/th>
PhD Program<\/strong><\/th><\/tr>
The Tractarian Operation N<\/em>: Its Role and Expressive Capacity<\/td>
University of Illinois, Chicago<\/td><\/tr>
A Pragmatic Account of the Referential Use of Definite Descriptions<\/td>
University of California, Davis<\/td><\/tr>
Shame and the Self<\/td>
Harvard University<\/td><\/tr>
Disagreeing About Modal Disagreement<\/td>
Syracuse University<\/td><\/tr>
The Development of Kant’s Conception of Respect for the Moral Law<\/td>
Stanford University<\/td><\/tr>
Agency and Morality<\/td>
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill<\/td><\/tr>
G.E. Moore on Common Sense and Analysis<\/td>
Vanderbilt University (graduated in 2007)<\/td><\/tr>
Systematicity and Mental Content<\/td>
Duke University (Center for Cognitive Neuroscience PhD) (graduated in 2007)<\/td><\/tr>
A Defense of Gilbert Harman’s Moral Relativism<\/td>
University of Florida (graduated in 2004)<\/td><\/tr>
A Critical Analysis of John Hick’s Pluralist Hypothesis<\/td>
Marquette University (graduated in 2003)<\/td><\/tr>
Boundaries of the Self: A Critical Discussion of Harry Frankfurt’s Conception of Identification<\/td>
Other schools that admitted our students in 2008:<\/strong> Brown, Connecticut, Florida State, Fordham, Illinois-Chicago, Indiana, Loyola, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio State, Rochester, UC-Berkeley, UC-Riverside, UC-San Diego, UC-Santa Barbara<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2007<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Thesis Title<\/th>
PhD Program<\/strong><\/th><\/tr>
G.E. Moore and E.M. Forster<\/td>
Johns Hopkins University (English PhD Program)<\/td><\/tr>
Can Humean supervenience be reconciled with the Principal Principle?<\/td>
Princeton University<\/td><\/tr>
J.G.H. Feder’s Simultaneity Objection to Kant’s Claim to the Apriority of Space<\/td>
University of Pennsylvania<\/td><\/tr>
Kant’s Idea of Pure Morality and Hegel’s Critique<\/td>
University of California, Riverside<\/td><\/tr>
Nietzsche’s Weapon of War: the Method of Science<\/td>
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign<\/td><\/tr>
Exam Option<\/td>
Harvard Law School<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Other schools that admitted our students in 2007:<\/strong> Arizona State, Bowling Green, Cincinnati, Connecticut, Cornell, Miami, Ohio State, Pittsburgh, Purdue, UC-Irvine<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2006<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Thesis Title<\/th>
PhD Program<\/strong><\/th><\/tr>
The Demands of Incompatibilism Upon Libertarian Theories of Free Will<\/td>
Florida State University<\/td><\/tr>
The Ideas of the Kingdom of Ends and the Highest Good in Kant’s Moral Theory<\/td>
Harvard University<\/td><\/tr>
Exam Option<\/td>
Rice University<\/td><\/tr>
Performativity and Social Kinds: Race, Gender, and the Pursuit of Justice<\/td>
Rutgers University (Women’s & Gender Studies PhD Program)<\/td><\/tr>
Can Accounts of Naturalistic Virtue Ethics Survive?<\/td>
University of Missouri (non-funded)<\/td><\/tr>
Epistemic Responsibility and the Concept of Belief<\/td>
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill<\/td><\/tr>
A Look at the Conception of Care in Three Ethical Theories<\/td>
University of Kentucky (graduated in 2004)<\/td><\/tr>
The Fold in the Other Night: Foucault on Desubjective Technologies of the Self<\/td>
Lecturer at 51ÁÔÆæ<\/td><\/tr>
Justifying Morality: An Essay on the Rationality of Moral Actions<\/td>
\u2014<\/td><\/tr>
The Nature of Mental Existence in Anselm’s Ontological Argument<\/td>
\u2014<\/td><\/tr>
On Constructing an Argument Against Tyler Burge’s Preservative Theory of Memory Based on Memory Construed as an Inferential Communicative Process<\/td>