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PhD placement, 1993–present
The department has a very strong record of placement for its PhD students. The charts in the following collection list every PhD recipient in the department from January 1993 through the present. "TT" indicates a tenure-track appointment.
2023
2023
Dissertation Title | Initial Appointment | Current Appointment |
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Dissertation: Representing Qualia: An Epistemic Path out of the Hard Problem | Instructor, University of Iowa | Instructor, University of Iowa |
2022
2022
Dissertation Title | Initial Appointment | Current Appointment |
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How Equality Matters: Relational Egalitarianism, Distributive Justice, and the Concept of Equality | Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor, William and Mary College | Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor, William and Mary College |
2021
2021
Dissertation Title | Initial Appointment | Current Appointment |
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Dissertation: The Problematization of Benefits | Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Optimae LifeServices Inc. | Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Optimae LifeServices Inc. |
2019
2019
Dissertation Title | Initial Appointment | Current Appointment |
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In Defense of Exploitable Information | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Macao | TT, Sunchon National University |
Black Oppression, White Domination | Cision Software | Cision Software |
2018
2018
Dissertation Title | Initial Appointment | Current Appointment |
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A Metaphilosophy of Naturalism | Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa | Lecturer, Ferris State University |
God and the Grounding of Morality: Must Theists Adopt a Theistic Metaethic? | TT, Northeast Iowa Community College | TT, Northeast Iowa Community College |
The Search for Logical Forms: In Defense of Logical Atomism | Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Alberta | TT, Western Kentucky University |
2017
2017
Dissertation Title | Initial Appointment | Current Appointment |
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A Theory of Resistance | Business Manager, Beautiful Land Products | Business Manager, Beautiful Land Products |
2016
2016
Dissertation Title | Initial Appointment | Current Appointment |
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Knowledge, Infallibility, and Skepticism | Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Idaho | Lecturer, York College of Pennsylvania |
What Motive to Virtue? Early Modern Empirical Naturalist Theories of Moral Obligation | Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa | Academic Advisor, Zovio |
Inference to the Best Explanation and the Challenge of Skepticism | Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa | Philosophy Teacher, Xavier Academy High School |
Dissolving Dilemmas for Acquaintance Foundationalism | Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa | Account Manager at U.S. Small Business Administration |
Necessitarianism and Unrealized Possibility in the Philosophy of Spinoza | Instructor, Temple College | Instructor, Temple College |
2014
2014
Dissertation Title | Initial Appointment | Current Appointment |
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Cartesian Modality: God's Nature and the Creation of Eternal and Contingent Truth | Visiting Assistant Professor, Central Michigan University | TT, Southern Utah University |
Remembering without Storing: Beyond Archival Models in the Science and Philosophy of Human Memory | Visiting Assistant Professor, Pacific University | TT, Pacific University |
A Utilitarian Account of Political Obligation | Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa | TT, Cal Lutheran University |
2013
2013
Dissertation Title | Initial Appointment | Current Appointment |
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The Problem of Easy Justification: An Investigation of Evidence, Justification, and Reliability | Visiting Assistant Professor, Auburn University | TT, Tuskegee University |
A Methodologically Naturalist Defense of Ethical Non-Naturalism | Visiting Assistant Professor, Western Illinois University | TT, University of Texas, San Antonio |
Musical Understanding: Studies in Philosophy and Phenomenological Psychology | Kirkwood College | Kirkwood College |
2012
2012
Dissertation Title | Initial Appointment | Current Appointment |
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Achieving Epistemic Descent | Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, Duluth | TT, Tuskegee University |
A Phenomenological Account of Practices | Critical Thinking Specialist, A.C.T., Iowa City | Critical Thinking Specialist, A.C.T., Iowa City |
Does The State Have Moral Duties? State Duty-Claims and The Possibility of Institutionally Held Moral Obligations | Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa | TT, Loras College |
Internalism, Externalism, and External Source Circularity | Professional Test Developer, A.C.T., Iowa City | Professional Test Developer, A.C.T., Iowa City |
Modality, Compatibilism, and Leibniz: A Critical Defense | Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa | TT, University of Alaska, Fairbanks |
2011
2011
Dissertation Title | Initial Appointment | Current Appointment |
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A Defense of Internalist Foundations: Direct Awareness of Fit as the Solution to All Sellarsian Dilemmas | TT, The College at Southwestern | TT, The College at Southwestern |
Property Possession as Identity: An Essay in Metaphysics | TT, Doane College | TT, Doane College |
The Skeptic's Dogmatism: A Non-Concessive Reply to the Skeptical Problem | Emmanuel College | Visiting Assistant Professor, Emmanuel College |
From A Structural Point of View | Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa | TT, Volunteer State Community College |
2010
2010
Dissertation Title | Initial Appointment | Current Appointment |
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A Defense of the Knowledge Argument | Instructor, Black Hawk College | TT, Marywood University |
The Irrational Project: Toward a Different Understanding of Self-Deception | post-doc, University of Konstanz | Margarete von Wrangell Research Fellow & Lecturer, University of Konstanz |
Expressivist Theories of First-Person Privilege | University of Iowa, Visiting Assistant Professor | University of Iowa, Visiting Assistant Professor |
Evil Perpetrators, or Cultural Victims? An Examination of the Link | Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa | Librarian |
The Phenomenology of Movement: Action, Proprioception, and Embodied Knowledge | Iowa City Fire Department, firefighter | Iowa City Fire Department, firefighter |
2009
2009
Dissertation Title | Initial Appointment | Current Appointment |
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A View From the Armchair: A Defense of Traditional Philosophy | TT, South Central College | TT, South Central College |
The Ontology of the Epistemic Act: An Explication of Intentionality and the Possibility of Epistemological Realism | Visiting Assistant Professor, Luther College | Assistant Professor and Director of the Center of Ethics in Public Life, Luther College |
Spacetime Gaps and the Persistence of Objects Through Time | Cornell College | Cornell College |
Spinoza's Realist and Four-dimensionalist Theory of Physical Individuation | Kirkwood College | TT, Bakersfield College |
2008
2008
Dissertation Title | Initial Appointment | Current Appointment |
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Real Appearances: The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Direct Realism | Lecturer, Iowa State University | Lecturer, Iowa State University |
Realism and Conceptual Relativity | Texas Lutheran University | TT, North Georgia College and State University |
2007
2007
Dissertation Title | Initial Appointment | Current Appointment |
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Augstine's Rejection of Pagan Moral Philosophy in the City of God | Visiting Assistant Professor, Southwest Minnesota State University | TT, Southwest Minnesota State University |
Logical Form and Linguistic Form: On Descriptions as Quantifiers | Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa | TT, New York Institute of Technology, Nanjing |
Persons as Artifacts: An Exploration of Social Ontology | Lecturer, Arizona State University | Senior Lecturer, Arizona State University |
Philosophical Mentorship and Plato's Two Faces of Eros | TT, Saint Ambrose University | TT, Saint Ambrose University |
2006
2006
Dissertation Title | Initial Appointment | Current Appointment |
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Perdurance and Foundation: An Husserlian Theory of Identity Through Time | TT, Clarke College | TT, Clarke College |
Naturalism, Rationalism, and Rethinking the A Priori/A Posteriori Distinction | TT, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth | TT, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth |
A Neurophilosophical Study of the Taxonomy and Epistemology of Memory | Kenyon College | Baruch College - CUNY |
2005
2005
Dissertation Title | Initial Appointment | Current Appointment |
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Idealism : A Brief History, Taxonomy, and Nietzschean Evaluation | Philosophy Teacher, Tempe Preparatory Academy | CEO, BASIS.ed Educational Group |
Mill's Liberty Principle and the Conditions of Happiness | Cornell College | TT, Salem State College |
Hume's Account of Causation and Its Applications | TT, Iowa State University | TT, Iowa State University |
2004
2004
Dissertation Title | Initial Appointment | Current Appointment |
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When are Universals?: The Relationship between Universals and Time | West Virginia University | Attorney, Iowa City |
Thomas Reid's Providentialist Epistemology | University of Iowa, Visiting Assistant Professor | University of Wisconsin, Platteville |
2003
2003
Dissertation Title | Initial Appointment | Current Appointment |
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Studies in the Understructure: The Semiotic Basis of John Locke's Empirical Epistemology | Illinois Wesleyan University | TT, University of Western Ontario |
The Nature of Time: Tense, Indexicals, and Phenomenology | University of St. Thomas | TT, Messiah College |
The Structure of Self-Consciousness: A Phenomenological and Philosophical Investigation | University of Iowa, Visiting Assistant Professor | TT, University of Texas, Arlington |
Pragmatism, Constitutional Interpretation, and the Problem of Constitutional Change | TT, SUNY Cortland | TT, Washington and Lee University |
2002
2002
Dissertation Title | Initial Appointment | Current Appointment |
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A Theory of Literary Interpretation: The Problem of Intentionalism | left the profession |
2001
2001
Dissertation Title | Initial Appointment | Current Appointment |
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Towards a Reclamation of Substantive Liberalism | Adjunct, George Washington University | TT, College of Wooster |
2000
2000
Dissertation Title | Initial Appointment | Current Appointment |
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Redressing Frege's Failure to Develop a Logical Calculus for the Theory of Sinn and Bedeutung | TT, University of Massachusetts, Amherst | TT, University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
On Trope Theory | Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea | TT, Hanshin University, South Korea |
1999
1999
Dissertation Title | Initial Appointment | Current Appointment |
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The Problems with Internalism: Practical Deliberation and the Moral Agent | Cleveland State University | TT, Oakland University |
Quine and Davidson on Meaning and Holism | TT, National Chenci University (Taiwan) | TT, National Chenchi University (Taiwan) |
Ethical Realism: Skeptical Challenge and a Realist Response | TT, Millikin University | TT, Millikin University |
A Cartesian Sceptic: The Metaphysical Thought of Pierre Bayle | Trinity College (Hartford, CT) | TT, Trinity College (Hartford, CT) |
Kant's Transcendental and Empirical Anthropology of Cognition | TT, Marquette University | TT, Marquette University |
1998
1998
Dissertation Title | Initial Appointment | Current Appointment |
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Subjectivity, Spontaneity, and Structure: Mentality and Fundamentality in Kant, Fichte, and Schelling | James Madison University | TT James Madison University |
Quine and Davidson on Meaning and Holism | Shu Te Institute of Technology (Taiwan) | TT, Hua Fan University (Taiwan) |
1997
1997
Dissertation Title | Initial Appointment | Current Appointment |
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The Cumulative Approach to Natural Theology | University of Iowa, Visiting Assistant Professor | Northern Illinois University |
Intentionality and Scientific Naturalism | University of Iowa, Visiting Assistant Professor | left profession |
The Possibility of Practical Reason: An Essay on Kant's Justification of Ethics | University of Iowa, Visiting Assistant Professor | TT, University of Nebraska, Omaha |
Human Action and Human Freedon: Four Theories of Liberum Arbitrium in the Early Thirteenth Century | TT, Saint Louis University | TT, Saint Louis University |
1996
1996
Dissertation Title | Initial Appointment | Current Appointment |
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Liberal Impartiality and Just Distribution | TT, Saint Ambrose University | TT, Saint Ambrose University |
An Anselmian Theory of Atonement: A Defense of Anselm's Cur Deus Homo | left profession | |
Making Sense of Nonsense: Trivial Remarks on the Nature of Language | TT, California State University, Chico | TT, California State University, Chico |
Knowledge and Epistemic Certainty | University of Iowa, Visiting Assistant Professor | TT, College of Saint Mary (Omaha, NE) |
Non-Actualism | TT, National Chung Cheng University (Taiwan) | TT, National Chung Cheng University (Taiwan) |
Medieval Theories of Relations before Aquinas's Commentaries | Calvin College | TT, Purdue University |
1995
1995
Dissertation Title | Initial Appointment | Current Appointment |
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The Self, Supervenience, and Personal Identity | TT, Wartburg College | T, Wartburg College |
Moore's Revolutionary Conservatism | University of Iowa, Visiting Assistant Professor | TT, Metropolitan State College of Denver |
The True Idea of the Human Mind: Hume's Bundle Theory of the Self | TT, Ohio State University | left profession |
1994
1994
Dissertation Title | Initial Appointment | Current Appointment |
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An Examination of Fodor's Disjunction Problem and the Nature of Misrepresentation from within Natural Teleological Theories of Intentionality | TT, National Chung Cheng University (Taiwan) | T, National Chung Cheng University (Taiwan) |
1993
1993
Dissertation Title | Initial Appointment | Current Appointment |
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Kant on the System of the Mind: A Resolution to the Doubling of the Problem of Taste in the Critique of Judgement | TT, Florida State University | TT, Florida State University |
Connecting Intuitions and Concepts: Categorical Determination of the Manifold of Intuition in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason | Luther College | TT, Bradley University |
Noema. Sense, and Object in Husserl's Phenomenology | Coe College | Iowa State University |
Career resources for UI graduate students
The Graduate College offers robust professional development services, including career guidance, national grants and fellowships support, and Iowa's Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL).
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