Placement Information
Graduate Program Placement
About half of our students choose to go on in philosophy or a related discipline, while the rest go to law school or seek employment outside academe.
Since 2011, 23 of our 41 MA students have applied to PhD programs, and 20 of 23 (87%) have been accepted with funding.
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Year |
MA Thesis Title |
Applied to PhD Programs? |
Initial Placement (fully funded Philosophy PhD admissions unless otherwise specified) |
| 2020 | Nishitani Keiji's Solution to the Problem of Nihilism: The Way to Emptiness | Yes | University of Hawai'i |
| 2020 | Meliorism in the 21st Century | Yes | Texas A&M |
| 2020 | Phenomenology and Metaphysical Realism | Yes | University of Kentucky |
| 2020 | From One to All: The Evolution of Camus' Absurdism | Yes | employed outside academe (applied to only one non-philosophy program) |
| 2019 | Property Individuation | Yes | University of Nebraska |
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2019 |
On the Philosophy and Psychology of Reasoning and Rationality | Yes | University of Maryland |
| 2018 | Rethinking Truth: Re-description in Rortian Solidarity | No | Employed outside academe |
| 2018 | On Essences: Phenomenological Insights into Object Oriented Ontology | Yes | University of South Florida |
| 2018 | Consciousness Restrained: Does Consciousness Have Any Adaptive Function? | Yes | University of South Florida |
| 2017 | The Role of Intermediacy: Plato's Republic Book VI | Yes | University of Kentucky |
| 2017 | The Immanence of the Transcendental: Buber, Emerson, and the Divine in the Secular World | Yes | University of South Florida |
| 2016 | Moral Responsibility, Frankfurt-Style Cases, and Alternative Possibilities | No | Employed outside academe |
| 2016 | The Indispensability of Conscious Access | Yes | University of Kentucky |
| 2016 | Art as Negation: A Defense of Conceptual Art as Art | No | Employed outside academe |
| 2016 | Service in Business | No | Employed outside academe |
| 2015 | Schelling, Heidegger, and Evil | Yes | Duquesne University |
| 2015 | Shaffer's Priority Monism and the Problem of Junky Possible Worlds | Yes | Syracuse University |
| 2015 | Nietzsche's Ethic: Virtue for All and None? | No | Employed outside academe |
| 2015 | Buddhist Ethics is Itself and Not Another Thing | Yes | Binghamton University |
| 2014 | Phenomenology, Imagination, and Aesthetic Experience | Yes | University of Kentucky |
| 2014 | Perfect and Imperfect Character in Plato and Derrida: A Distinction with Respect to 'Universals,' and its Relevance for Feminist Thought | No | Graduate Certificate Program, College Teaching |
| 2014 | Models, Perspectives, and Scientific Realism: On Ronald Giere's Perspectival Realism | No | Instructor, Philosophy, KSU |
| 2014 | Practical Skepticism: Sextus Empiricus and Zhuangzi | No | Teaching at Belmont College |
| 2014 | Serving Strangers: Care, Compassion, and the Volunteer | No | Peace Corps Recruiter |
| 2013 | The Blame Game: An Axiological Approach to the Doctrine of Doing and Allowing | No | Nurse, Akron OH |
| 2013 | The World is not Enough: An Enquiry into Realism about Modality | No | Employed outside academe |
| 2013 | A Comparative Look at Karma and Determinism | No | Employed outside academe |
| 2013 | Railton's Reductive Moral Realism | Yes | Nebraska-Lincoln |
| 2013 | A Spectrum of Civil Disobedience: A Consideration of Violence and Jury Nullification | No | Law School |
| 2012 | The Methodology of Phenomenological Realism in The Acting Person by Karol Wojtyla | No | Independent scholar, Theology PhD |
| 2012 | Nietzsche's Naturalism as a Critique of Morality and Freedom | No | Employed outside academe |
| 2012 | Rhetorical Revolutions: Heidegger and Aristotle | No | Employed outside academe |
| 2012 | Prolegomena to a Sartrean Virtue Ethics | No | Instructor, Philosophy, Bridgewater State University |
| 2012 | Aesthetic Experience and the (Queer) Self | Yes | Purdue University |
| 2012 | Developing Conscience and Empathy from Being and Nothingness | Yes | Political Science PhD program, Brandeis University |
| 2012 | Reading Plato with Heidegger: A Study of the Allegory of the Cave | Yes | Political Science PhD program, Michigan State University |
| 2012 | Carnap Visits Canberra: Updating the Logical Positivist Criteria of Cognitive Significance | Yes | Employed outside academe |
| 2011 | Process Metaphysics in the Far West: American Indian Ontologies | Yes | Employed outside academe |
| 2011 | Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jean-Luc Nancy: A Shared Concern about Retrospection at the Art Museum | Yes | University of Ottawa |
| 2011 | Albert Camus and the Phenomenon of Solidarity | Yes | University of South Florida |
| 2011 | Deliberation and the Role of the Practical Syllogism | Yes | Department Chair, General Education, Brown-Mackey College |
| 2011 | The Emergent Self: Resonating Themes in Confucian and Meadean Concepts of Self | Yes | National University of Singapore |
| 2011 | Overcoming the Demonic: Faith, Sin, and Redemption in Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling | Yes | Baylor University |