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.

Dissertation TitleInitial AppointmentCurrent Appointment
Dissertation: Representing Qualia: An Epistemic Path out of the Hard ProblemInstructor, University of IowaInstructor, University of Iowa

Dissertation TitleInitial AppointmentCurrent Appointment
How Equality Matters: Relational Egalitarianism, Distributive Justice, and the Concept of EqualityVisiting Assistant Teaching Professor, William and Mary CollegeVisiting Assistant Teaching Professor, William and Mary College

Dissertation TitleInitial AppointmentCurrent Appointment
Dissertation: The Problematization of BenefitsDirector of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Optimae LifeServices Inc.Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Optimae LifeServices Inc.

Dissertation TitleInitial AppointmentCurrent Appointment
In Defense of Exploitable InformationPostdoctoral Research Fellow, University of MacaoTT, Sunchon National University
Black Oppression, White DominationCision SoftwareCision Software

Dissertation TitleInitial AppointmentCurrent Appointment
A Metaphilosophy of NaturalismVisiting Assistant Professor, University of IowaLecturer, Ferris State University
God and the Grounding of Morality: Must Theists Adopt a Theistic Metaethic?TT, Northeast Iowa Community CollegeTT, Northeast Iowa Community College
The Search for Logical Forms: In Defense of Logical AtomismKillam Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of AlbertaTT, Western Kentucky University

Dissertation TitleInitial AppointmentCurrent Appointment
A Theory of ResistanceBusiness Manager, Beautiful Land ProductsBusiness Manager, Beautiful Land Products

Dissertation TitleInitial AppointmentCurrent Appointment
Knowledge, Infallibility, and SkepticismVisiting Assistant Professor, University of IdahoLecturer, York College of Pennsylvania
What Motive to Virtue? Early Modern Empirical Naturalist Theories of Moral ObligationVisiting Assistant Professor, University of IowaAcademic Advisor, Zovio
Inference to the Best Explanation and the Challenge of SkepticismVisiting Assistant Professor, University of IowaPhilosophy Teacher, Xavier Academy High School
Dissolving Dilemmas for Acquaintance FoundationalismVisiting Assistant Professor, University of IowaAccount Manager at U.S. Small Business Administration
Necessitarianism and Unrealized Possibility in the Philosophy of SpinozaInstructor, Temple CollegeInstructor, Temple College

Dissertation TitleInitial AppointmentCurrent Appointment
Cartesian Modality: God's Nature and the Creation of Eternal and Contingent TruthVisiting Assistant Professor, Central Michigan UniversityTT, Southern Utah University
Remembering without Storing: Beyond Archival Models in the Science and Philosophy of Human MemoryVisiting Assistant Professor, Pacific UniversityTT, Pacific University
A Utilitarian Account of Political ObligationVisiting Assistant Professor, University of IowaTT, Cal Lutheran University

Dissertation TitleInitial AppointmentCurrent Appointment
The Problem of Easy Justification: An Investigation of Evidence, Justification, and ReliabilityVisiting Assistant Professor, Auburn UniversityTT, Tuskegee University
A Methodologically Naturalist Defense of Ethical Non-NaturalismVisiting Assistant Professor, Western Illinois UniversityTT, University of Texas, San Antonio
Musical Understanding: Studies in Philosophy and Phenomenological PsychologyKirkwood CollegeKirkwood College

Dissertation TitleInitial AppointmentCurrent Appointment
Achieving Epistemic DescentVisiting Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, DuluthTT, Tuskegee University
A Phenomenological Account of PracticesCritical Thinking Specialist, A.C.T., Iowa CityCritical Thinking Specialist, A.C.T., Iowa City
Does The State Have Moral Duties? State Duty-Claims and The Possibility of Institutionally Held Moral ObligationsVisiting Assistant Professor, University of IowaTT, Loras College
Internalism, Externalism, and External Source CircularityProfessional Test Developer, A.C.T., Iowa CityProfessional Test Developer, A.C.T., Iowa City
Modality, Compatibilism, and Leibniz: A Critical DefenseVisiting Assistant Professor, University of IowaTT, University of Alaska, Fairbanks

Dissertation TitleInitial AppointmentCurrent Appointment
A Defense of Internalist Foundations:  Direct Awareness of Fit as the Solution to All Sellarsian DilemmasTT, The College at SouthwesternTT, The College at Southwestern
Property Possession as Identity: An Essay in MetaphysicsTT, Doane CollegeTT, Doane College
The Skeptic's Dogmatism: A Non-Concessive Reply to the Skeptical ProblemEmmanuel CollegeVisiting Assistant Professor, Emmanuel College
From A Structural Point of ViewVisiting Assistant Professor, University of IowaTT, Volunteer State Community College

Dissertation TitleInitial AppointmentCurrent Appointment
A Defense of the Knowledge ArgumentInstructor, Black Hawk CollegeTT, Marywood University
The Irrational Project: Toward a Different Understanding of Self-Deceptionpost-doc, University of KonstanzMargarete von Wrangell Research Fellow & Lecturer, University of Konstanz
Expressivist Theories of First-Person PrivilegeUniversity of Iowa, Visiting Assistant ProfessorUniversity of Iowa, Visiting Assistant Professor
Evil Perpetrators, or Cultural Victims? An Examination of the LinkVisiting Assistant Professor, University of IowaLibrarian
The Phenomenology of Movement: Action, Proprioception, and Embodied KnowledgeIowa City Fire Department, firefighterIowa City Fire Department, firefighter

Dissertation TitleInitial AppointmentCurrent Appointment
A View From the Armchair: A Defense of Traditional PhilosophyTT, South Central CollegeTT, South Central College
The Ontology of the Epistemic Act: An Explication of Intentionality and the Possibility of Epistemological RealismVisiting Assistant Professor, Luther CollegeAssistant Professor and Director of the Center of Ethics in Public Life, Luther College
Spacetime Gaps and the Persistence of Objects Through TimeCornell CollegeCornell College
Spinoza's Realist and Four-dimensionalist Theory of Physical IndividuationKirkwood CollegeTT, Bakersfield College

Dissertation TitleInitial AppointmentCurrent Appointment
Real Appearances: The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Direct RealismLecturer, Iowa State UniversityLecturer, Iowa State University
Realism and Conceptual RelativityTexas Lutheran UniversityTT, North Georgia College and State University

Dissertation TitleInitial AppointmentCurrent Appointment
Augstine's Rejection of Pagan Moral Philosophy in the City of GodVisiting Assistant Professor, Southwest Minnesota State UniversityTT, Southwest Minnesota State University
Logical Form and Linguistic Form: On Descriptions as QuantifiersVisiting Assistant Professor, University of IowaTT, New York Institute of Technology, Nanjing
Persons as Artifacts: An Exploration of Social OntologyLecturer, Arizona State UniversitySenior Lecturer, Arizona State University
Philosophical Mentorship and Plato's Two Faces of ErosTT, Saint Ambrose UniversityTT, Saint Ambrose University

Dissertation TitleInitial AppointmentCurrent Appointment
Perdurance and Foundation: An Husserlian Theory of Identity Through TimeTT, Clarke CollegeTT, Clarke College
Naturalism, Rationalism, and Rethinking the A Priori/A Posteriori DistinctionTT, University of Massachusetts, DartmouthTT, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
A Neurophilosophical Study of the Taxonomy and Epistemology of MemoryKenyon CollegeBaruch College - CUNY

Dissertation TitleInitial AppointmentCurrent Appointment
Idealism : A Brief History, Taxonomy, and Nietzschean EvaluationPhilosophy Teacher, Tempe Preparatory AcademyCEO, BASIS.ed Educational Group
Mill's Liberty Principle and the Conditions of  HappinessCornell CollegeTT, Salem State College
Hume's Account of Causation and Its ApplicationsTT, Iowa State UniversityTT, Iowa State University

Dissertation TitleInitial AppointmentCurrent Appointment
When are Universals?: The Relationship between Universals and TimeWest Virginia UniversityAttorney, Iowa City
Thomas Reid's Providentialist EpistemologyUniversity of Iowa, Visiting Assistant ProfessorUniversity of Wisconsin, Platteville

Dissertation TitleInitial AppointmentCurrent Appointment
Studies in the Understructure: The Semiotic Basis of John Locke's Empirical EpistemologyIllinois Wesleyan UniversityTT, University of Western Ontario
The Nature of Time: Tense, Indexicals, and PhenomenologyUniversity of St. ThomasTT, Messiah College
The Structure of Self-Consciousness: A Phenomenological and Philosophical InvestigationUniversity of Iowa, Visiting Assistant ProfessorTT, University of Texas, Arlington
Pragmatism, Constitutional Interpretation, and the Problem of Constitutional ChangeTT, SUNY CortlandTT, Washington and Lee University

Dissertation TitleInitial AppointmentCurrent Appointment
A Theory of Literary Interpretation: The Problem of Intentionalismleft the profession 

Dissertation TitleInitial AppointmentCurrent Appointment
Towards a Reclamation of Substantive LiberalismAdjunct, George Washington UniversityTT, College of Wooster

Dissertation TitleInitial AppointmentCurrent Appointment
Redressing Frege's Failure to Develop a Logical Calculus for the Theory of Sinn and BedeutungTT, University of Massachusetts, AmherstTT, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
On Trope TheoryHankuk University of Foreign Studies, South KoreaTT, Hanshin University, South Korea

Dissertation TitleInitial AppointmentCurrent Appointment
The Problems with Internalism: Practical Deliberation and the Moral AgentCleveland State UniversityTT, Oakland University
Quine and Davidson on Meaning and HolismTT, National Chenci University (Taiwan)TT, National Chenchi University (Taiwan)
Ethical Realism: Skeptical Challenge and a Realist ResponseTT, Millikin UniversityTT, Millikin University
A Cartesian Sceptic: The Metaphysical Thought of Pierre BayleTrinity College  (Hartford, CT)TT, Trinity College (Hartford, CT)
Kant's Transcendental and Empirical Anthropology of CognitionTT, Marquette                    UniversityTT, Marquette University

Dissertation TitleInitial AppointmentCurrent Appointment
Subjectivity, Spontaneity, and Structure: Mentality and Fundamentality in Kant, Fichte, and SchellingJames Madison UniversityTT James Madison University
Quine and Davidson on Meaning and HolismShu Te Institute of Technology (Taiwan)TT, Hua Fan University (Taiwan)

Dissertation TitleInitial AppointmentCurrent Appointment
The Cumulative Approach to Natural TheologyUniversity of Iowa, Visiting Assistant ProfessorNorthern Illinois University
Intentionality and Scientific NaturalismUniversity of Iowa, Visiting Assistant Professorleft profession
The Possibility of Practical Reason: An Essay on Kant's Justification of EthicsUniversity of Iowa, Visiting Assistant ProfessorTT, University of Nebraska, Omaha
Human Action and Human Freedon: Four Theories of Liberum Arbitrium in the Early Thirteenth CenturyTT, Saint Louis UniversityTT, Saint Louis     University

Dissertation TitleInitial AppointmentCurrent Appointment
Liberal Impartiality and Just DistributionTT, Saint Ambrose UniversityTT, Saint Ambrose University
An Anselmian Theory of Atonement: A Defense of Anselm's Cur Deus Homoleft profession 
Making Sense of Nonsense: Trivial Remarks on the Nature of LanguageTT, California State University, ChicoTT, California State University, Chico
Knowledge and Epistemic CertaintyUniversity of Iowa, Visiting Assistant ProfessorTT, College of Saint Mary (Omaha, NE)
Non-ActualismTT, National Chung Cheng University (Taiwan)TT, National Chung Cheng University (Taiwan)
Medieval Theories of Relations before Aquinas's CommentariesCalvin CollegeTT, Purdue University

Dissertation TitleInitial AppointmentCurrent Appointment
The Self, Supervenience, and Personal IdentityTT, Wartburg CollegeT, Wartburg College
Moore's Revolutionary ConservatismUniversity of Iowa, Visiting Assistant ProfessorTT, Metropolitan State College of Denver
The True Idea of the Human Mind: Hume's Bundle Theory of the SelfTT, Ohio State Universityleft profession

Dissertation TitleInitial AppointmentCurrent Appointment
An Examination of Fodor's Disjunction Problem and the Nature of Misrepresentation from within Natural Teleological Theories of IntentionalityTT, National Chung Cheng University (Taiwan)T, National Chung Cheng University (Taiwan)

Dissertation TitleInitial AppointmentCurrent Appointment
Kant on the System of the Mind: A Resolution to the Doubling of the Problem of Taste in the Critique of JudgementTT, Florida State UniversityTT, Florida State University
Connecting Intuitions and Concepts: Categorical Determination of the Manifold of Intuition in Kant's Critique of Pure ReasonLuther CollegeTT, Bradley University
Noema. Sense, and Object in Husserl's PhenomenologyCoe CollegeIowa State University

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