Below is a list of all graduate students who have received a Ph.D. from our program since 1998, together with their current academic position. Please contact the placement director, Professor Shelley Weinberg, with any questions or corrections: weinberg@illinois.edu. Prospective graduate students may contact Professor Weinberg for more detailed information about placement. Information about retention and graduation may be found here.
Seungil Lee (2022)
Essays on Relations, Properties, and (Quantum) Objects?
Current Position: Lecturer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Clay Alsup (2021)
Alienation, Agency, and Identity
Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Miami University (Ohio)
Amber Polk (2020)
Towards a theory of animal rights: Adventures in metaphysics and morals
Current position: Teaching Fellow, Program inEnvironmental Law & Policy and Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School
Daniel Meyer (2020)
Natural teleology and Kant?s duties to oneself as an animal being
No longer in the profession
James Keller (2020)
Investigations linking the philosophy and psychology of mathematics
No longer in the profession
Steven Lee (2019)
Probabilistic semantics for vagueness
Current position:
Steven Rokosz (2019)
On despair in Kierkegaard's thought
No longer in the profession
Addison Ellis (2019)
Kant's Theory of Absolute Spontaneity
Current position: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (post doc)
Joseph Swenson (2018)
Nietzsche, Psychology, and the Claims of Philosophical Originality
Current Position: Hamline University, St. Paul, MN. Continuing, non tenure-track
Adam Bowen (2017)
Modeling Temporal Perception
Current Position: Teaching Associate Professor at Ball State University
Eric Schaaf (2017)
Health and Great Health: Nietzsche on Overcoming Sickness
Current Position: Lincoln College (TT)
Kristin Seemuth Whaley (2017)
Immaterialist Solutions to Puzzles in Personal Ontology
Current Position: Graceland University, Lamoni (TT)
Jordan Bohall (2016)
Mathematics, Cognition, and You!
No Longer in the Profession
Eric Mack (2016)
Models of Propositional Content
No Longer in the Profession
Joseph Spino (2016)
Matters of Character
Current Position: Le Moyne College (TT)
Ian Hegger (2015)
Nothing to Disagree About: Aristotle, Newton, and the Existence of Void as Seen through a Kuhnian Lens
Current Position: Head, Department of Humanities, Coastal Carolina Community College (Continuing Full Time Instructor)
Zachary Horne (2015)
Methodical Issues in Epistemology and Moral Psychology
Current Position: University of Edinburgh (Psychology) (TT)
Derek O'Connell (2014)
Heidegger's Authenticity
Current Position: Illinois State University (non-TT)
Christopher Hendricksen (2014)
An Analysis of the Grounding Relation
No longer in the Profession
James Jeffries (2014)
Being Out of Order: On Creativity and its Value
No longer in the profession
Ian Harmon (2014)
Epistemological Implications of Representational Pluralism
No longer in the profession.
Dan Estrada (2014)
Rethinking Machines: Artificial Intelligence Beyond the Philosophy of Mind
Current Position: New Jersey Institute of Technology (non-TT)
Andrew Higgins (2013)
The Nature of Intuitions and their Role in Material Object Metaphysics
Current Position: Illinois State University (non-TT)
Blair Goodlin (2013)
Classical Logic and its Rivals
No longer in the profession
John Evers (2013)
Taking Berkeley Seriously
Iker Garcia (2013)
Object, Standpoint, and Partial Truth: Sartre, Heidegger, and Hegel on Consciousness, Human Being and the Absolute
Current Position: No longer in the profession
Justin Remhof (2013)
Nietzsche's Reconception of Science: Overcoming Nihilism
Current Position: Old Dominion University (TT)
Gregg Strauss (2013, JD/PhD)
Basic Rights and Disagreement: Is Persistent Disagreement About Basic Rights A Reason to Specify Rights By Democratic Procedures
Current Position: University of Virginia School of Law (Tenured)
Ingrid Albrecht (2012)
Love, Self-Constitution, and Practical Necessity
Current Position: Lawrence University (Tenured)
Kyle Broom (2012)
Explication, Similarity, and Analogy: A Defense and Application of Philosophical Method
No longer in the profession
Ty Fagan (2012)
Three Problems of Folk Psychology: Meaning, Character, and Domain
Current Position: Elmhurst College (non-TT)
Aaron Harper (2012)
Nietzsche on Value Creation
Current Position: West Liberty University (tenured)
Loren Zech (2011, MD/PhD)
Clarifying the Concept of Disease: How Science Determines the Biologically Normal from the Abnormal
Current Position: Georgetown University Hospital (resident)
Brendan Shea (2011)
Concepts of Law of Nature
Current Position: Rochester Community and Technical College (tenured)
J. Michael Scoville (2011)
Environmental Values, Animals, and the Ethical Life
Current Position: Eastern Michigan University (tenured)
Nathalie Morasch (2011)
Under What Conditions are Two Utterances Performances of the Same Word?
Current Position: Colorado State University, Fort Collins - Instructor (non-TT)
Todd Kukla (2011)
Kant’s Theory of Cognition: An Interpretation of the Argument of the Transcendental Deduction
Current Position: Illinois State University (non-TT)
Brandon Polite (2010)
A Correspondence Theory of Musical Representation
Current Position: Knox College (tenured)
Uwe Plebuch (2010)
No longer in the profession
Krista Thomason (2009)
Rethinking Shame
Current Position: Swarthmore College (tenured)
Lisa Kline (2009)
An Analysis and Rejection of Arguments for Religious Accommodation
No longer in the profession
Previously: University of Alberta (non-TT)
Matthew Rukgaber (2009)
Kant's Ontology: Reality and the Formal Structure of the First Person Perspective
Eric Dickson (2008)
The Liberalism-Communitarianism Debate: A Neo-Hegelian Aufhebung
No Longer in the Profession
David Bell (2007, MD/PhD)
Casuistry: Towards a More Complete Approach
Current Position: University of Arizona School of Medicine (non-TT)
Benjamin Bayer (2007)
Varieties of Naturalized Epistemology: Criticisms and Alternatives
Current Position: Fellow, Ayn Rand Institute
Mark Sargent (2007)
Risking Belief: A Bayesian Decision Theoretic Epistemology
Current Position: Los Angeles Trade Technical College (non-TT)
Matthew Klinsky (2007)
The Pathos of Distance: Dis-ease and Eudaimonia In Nietzsche’s Writings
Peter Asaro (2006)
On the Origins of the Synthetic Mind: Working Models, Mechanisms, and Simulations
Current Position: The New School (tenured)
Bradley Pace (2006)
Nature and Law in the Philosophy of Nicolas Malebranche
No longer in the profession
Mark Reid (2006)
Nature and Origin of Moral Agency in Mammalia
Sean Stidd (2006)
Intertheoretic Reference in Mathematics
Current Position: Wayne State University (non-TT)
Reggie Williams (2005)
Berkeley’s Master Argument: Its Form and Implications
Current Position: Bakersfield College (tenured)
Erica Neely (2005)
Competence, Expertise, and Linguistic Communities
Current Position: Ohio Northern University (tenured)
Jerry Barmore (2004)
Theology and Politics in Maimonides, Spinoza, Hegel, and Nietzsche
Matthew Olsen (2004)
Kantian Questions, Leibnizian Responses
Current Position: Millikin University, Staley Library (non-TT)
Eric Wampler (2004)
Objective Morality, Subjective Agents: Justice and Agent-Based Considerations in Self-Defense and War
No longer in the profession
M G Julia Simon (2003)
Self-Awareness and Self-Interpretation
No longer in the profession
Michael Monahan (2003)
A Theory of Racial Oppression and Liberation
Current Position: Marquette University (tenured)
Steven Zusman (2003, MA)
The Ethics of Humor
Current Position: Waubonsee Community College (tenured)
T. Storm Heter (2003)
Political Commitment: A Sartrian Civic Virtue
Current Position: East Stroudsburg University (tenured)
Benjamin Dykes (2003)
The Nature and Contemporary Use of Hegel's Logic
No longer in the profession
Joseph Thompson (2002)
Nietzsche as Philosopher of Religion
Taught at University of Alaska, Fairbanks (tenured)Deceased
Brian Allen (2002)
Payback: The Nature and Morality of Revenge
Reza Lahroodi (2001)
Psychology and Virtue Epistemology: Three Studies
Current Position: University of Northern Iowa (tenured)
Stephen Finlay (2001)
What Does Value Matter? The Interest-Relational Theory of the Semantics and Metaphysics of Value
Current Position: USC (tenured), Professor and Director of the Dianoia Institute of Philosophy at Australian Catholic University
Laura Bernhardt (2001)
Current Position: Reference and Instruction Librarian at the University of Southern Indiana (TT)
L Kathy Roberts (2001)
Situated Objectivity: Ethical Judgment, Critique and Justification after Wittgenstein
No longer in the profession
Donald Moulds (2001)
The Morality of Familial Obligation
No longer in the profession
Craig Matarrese (2001)
Embracing Ethical Life: Hegel on Freedom, Solidarity and Law
Current Position: Minnesota State University, Mankato (tenured)
Lisa King (2001)
A Politics of the Everyday: Identity and Normalizing Power
Current Position: Edgewood College (tenured)
William Dickens (2000)
Eidos and Facticity in Husserl's Phenomenology of Judgment
No longer in the profession
Previously: Nicolet Area Technical College (non-TT)
Paul Hendrickson (2000)
A Social Critique of Reflexive Reason: Relocating Critical Theory after Habermas and Foucault
Current Position: Florida State College at Jacksonville (TT)
Joshua Finkler (2000)
Notes on the Mereology of Classes
No longer in the profession
Timothy Erdel (2000)
The Rationality of Christian Faith
Current Position: Bethel University, Indiana (tenured)
Jesus Ilundain-Agurruza (2000)
In the Realms of Art: A Conceptual Inquiry of the Genesis of the Work of Art
Current Position: Linfield College (tenured)
Kristie Hirschenberger (1999)
Sexual Assault and the Mens Rea Problem: The Empathic Approach
Deceased
Keith Dromm (1999)
Rules, Rationality, and Imagination: The Role of the Primitive and Natural in Wittgenstein’s Later Philosophy
Current Position: Northwestern State (tenured)
Pamela Grath (1999)
'Equivocity' and Metaphorical Meaning
No longer in the profession
Paul Saka (1998)
Meaning and the Ascription of Attitudes
Current Position: University of Texas, Rio Grande (tenured)
Kerry Ketcher (1998)
Kant and the Universal Claims of Reason
Current Position: University of St. Thomas (non-TT)
Deborah Heikes (1998)
Concepts, Content, and Consciousness: a Kantian View of Mind
Current Position: University of Alabama in Huntsville (tenured)