Our Placement Record

Our department offers a full range of placement services and support to our students. The departmental Placement Director organizes a placement workshop that meets during the spring and fall quarters for students finishing, or near finishing, their degrees. The Placement Director also advises students on preparing their CVs and assembling their dossiers and arranges practice interviews for students attending the divisional meetings of the APA.

Listed below is placement information for recent graduates of our program. Students are listed by the year in which they received their current positions. Dissertation topics, faculty advisors and previous positions, where applicable, follow.

2009

2008

2007

  • Nick Baiamonte (Ph.D. 2007)
    • De Anza College (Cupertino, CA): Instructor, tenure track
    • Dissertation title: Avoiding Evil: Motivation, Reflection, and Character Structure
    • Faculty advisor: Eric Schwitzgebel
  • Jessica Ludescher (Ph.D. 2007)
    • Seattle University, Assistant Professor in the Business School with a joint appointment in Philosophy (tenure track)
    • Dissertation title: The Logical Compatibility of CSR with Any Theory of the Firm
    • Faculty advisor: Georgia Warnke
  • Sam Page (Ph.D. 2004)
    • Concordia College (Bronxville, NY): Assistant Professor (non-tenure track) 2005–2009
    • Dissertation title: Nature’s Joints: Inherent or Imposed?
    • Faculty advisor: Peter Graham
  • Joshua Rust (Ph.D. 2005)
    • Stetson University (DeLand, FL): Assistant Professor, tenure track
    • Dissertation title: John Searle's Ideal Type: Max Weber and the Construction of Social Reality
    • Faculty advisor: Eric Schwitzgebel
  • Daniel Speak (Ph.D. 2002)
    • Loyola Marymount University (Los Angeles, CA): Assistant Professor, tenure track
    • Dissertation title: Moral Responsibility and the Irrelevance of Alternative Possibilities
    • Faculty advisor: John Martin Fischer
    • Previous positions:
      • Associate Professor, Azusa Pacific University (2002–2007)
      • Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Notre Dame (2005–2006)
  • Michael Stannard (Ph.D. 2007)
    • Clovis and Madera Centers of the State Center Community College District (Fresno, CA): Instructor of Philosophy
    • Faculty advisor: Andrews Reath
  • Matt Talbert (Ph.D. 2005)
    • West Virginia University: Assistant Professor, tenure track
    • Dissertation title: Moral Reasons and Personal History: A Normative Competence Account of Moral Responsibility
    • Faculty advisor: Gary Watson
    • Previous position: UCSD, postdoctoral fellowship (2005–2007)

2006

  • Chris Campolo (Ph.D. 2003)
    • Hendrix College (Conway, AK): Assistant Professor, four-year initial contract (2002-06), now tenure track
    • Dissertation title: The Reach of Argument
    • Faculty advisor: Georgia Warnke
  • David Long (Ph.D. 2009)
    • Bellevue College: Adjunct Professor
    • Dissertation title: Hume and Buddhism: A Comparative Study of Personal Identity, Skepticism, and Moral Sentiments
    • Faculty advisor: Paul Hoffman (with Justin McDaniel, Department of Religious Studies)
  • Hugh Marlowe (Ph.D. 2004)
    • Flagler College (St. Augustine, FL): Assistant Professor, renewable contract
    • Dissertation title: Saving the Agent: An Investigation of Agency, Explanation, and Two-Standpoint Arguments
    • Faculty advisor: Gary Watson
  • Rico Vitz (Ph.D. 2006)
    • University of North Florida (Jacksonville, FL): Assistant Professor, tenure track
    • Dissertation title: Virtuous Belief: Descartes, Hume, and the Proper Method of Belief Formation
    • Faculty advisor: Paul Hoffman
  • Jeremy Wisnewski (Ph.D. 2002)
    • Hartwick College (Oneonta, NY): Assistant Professor, tenure track
    • Dissertation title: Agency, Normativity, and Theory: Awakening from Anthropological Slumber
    • Faculty advisor: Bernd Magnus
    • Previous position: East Carolina University

2005

  • Scott Dixon
    • Minnesota State Technical and Community College (Moorhead, MN): Instructor, tenure track
    • Dissertation title: Hume (in progress)
    • Faculty advisor: Paul Hoffman
  • Dillon Emerick (Ph.D. 2005)
    • Palomar College (San Marcos, CA): Instructor, tenure track
    • Dissertation title: Critical Theory, Critical Subjects (in progress)
    • Faculty advisor: Georgia Warnke
  • Andrew Light (Ph.D. 1996)
    • University of Washington, Seattle: Associate Professor of Philosophy & Public Affairs
    • Dissertation title: Nature, Class, and the Built World: Philosophical Essays Between Political Ecology and Critical Technology
    • Faculty advisor: Bernd Magnus
    • Previous positions:
      • New York University (tenured 2005)
      • University of Montana (1996–1998): Assistant Professor, tenure track
      • State University of New York, Binghampton (1998–2000): Assistant Professor, tenure track
  • Glen Pettigrove (Ph.D. 2003)
    • The University of Auckland (Auckland, New Zealand): Lecturer in Philosophy (equivalent to Assistant Professor), tenure track
    • Dissertation title: Seeking Forgiveness: Studies in Moral and Political Philosophy
    • Faculty advisor: Georgia Warnke
    • Previous positions:
      • Massey University (Palmerston North, New Zealand): Lecturer in Philosophy
      • Santa Clara University (2003–2005)
  • Ted Preston (Ph.D. 2005)
    • Rio Hondo College (Whittier, CA): Instructor, tenure track
    • Dissertation title: Bridging the Gap between Normative Beliefs and Actions
    • Faculty advisor: Eric Schwitzgebel

2004

  • Jeff Salbato (Ph.D. 2004)
    • Albuquerque TVI College (Albuquerque, NM): tenure track
    • Dissertation title: Reading Kierkegaard’s Pseudonyms: Ironic Misunderstandings (in progress)
    • Faculty advisor: William Bracken
  • David Strauss (Ph.D. 2004)
    • Department of Defense (Washington, D.C.): Presidential Management Fellow (2004–2005)
    • Dissertation title: Understanding and Evaluating Expert Testimony in Toxic Tort Law: An Intersection of Philosophy, Science, and Law
    • Faculty advisor: Carl Cranor

2001

  • Jane Haproff (Ph.D. 2000)
    • Sierra College (Rocklin, CA): tenure track
    • Dissertation title: The Fundamentalist Challenge: Public Reason and the Religious Voice
    • Faculty advisor: Georgia Warnke
    • Previous position: California State University, San Bernardino: Adjunct Professor
  • Joseph Orosco (Ph.D. 2002)
    • Oregon State University (Corvallis, OR): tenure track
    • Dissertation title: Strong Democratic Vistas: Deliberative and Participatory Democracy in Twentieth Century American Philosophy
    • Faculty advisor: Georgia Warnke
  • Jeff Vanderpool (Ph.D. 2005)
    • Fullerton College (Fullerton, CA): tenured in 2005
    • Dissertation title: Arguments by Analogy: The Function of Comparison in Generalization and Explanatory Inference
    • Faculty advisor: Larry Wright

2000

  • Martha Burns (Ph.D. 2000)
    • Non-academic position
    • Dissertation title: Beyond “Dartmouth”: J.S. Mill’s Commonsensical Approach to Singular, General, Abstract, Connotative, and Kind Terms
    • Faculty advisor: Howard Wettstein
  • Thomas Donovan (Ph.D. 2004)
    • San Jacinto Community College: tenured (2004)
    • Dissertation title: Lukacs, Habermas and the Model of Art
    • Faculty advisor, Georgia Warnke
  • Dale Turner (Ph.D. 2000)
    • California State Polytechnic Universit, (Pomona, CA): tenure track
    • Dissertation title: Fallacies and the Concept of an Argument
    • Faculty advisor: Larry Wright

1999

  • Andrew Coats (Ph.D. 1999)
    • Non-academic position
    • Dissertation title: Approaching the Mountain of Modalities: A View of Imaginability, Conceivability, and Possibility
    • Faculty advisor: Genoveva Marti
  • Antonio Rauti (Ph.D. 2000)
    • University of Wisconsin (Madison, WI): tenure track
    • Dissertation title: The Many Faces of Semantic Compositionality
    • Faculty advisor: Genoveva Marti
    • Previous position: Auburn University (one-year initial contract)

1998

  • Sara Austin (Ph.D. 1998)
    • Riverside Community College (Riverside, CA): Adjunct Professor
    • Dissertation title: Principles and Practices of Health Care in the United States
    • Faculty advisor: Georgia Warnke
  • Christopher Blakey (Ph.D. 1998)
    • College of the Canyons (Santa Clarita, CA): tenure track
    • Dissertation title: Moral Sensibility Theory and Moral Objectivity
    • Faculty advisor: John M. Fischer
  • Andrew Eshleman (Ph.D. 1998)
    • University of Arkansas, Little Rock: tenured (2004)
    • Dissertation title: Responsibility for Character
    • Faculty advisor: John M. Fischer
  • Christopher Gilbert (Ph.D. 1998)
    • Cuesta Community College (San Luis Obispo, CA): tenured (2004)
    • Dissertation title: Grace and Reason: Freedom of the Will in Augustine, Aquinas, and Descartes
    • Faculty advisor: Paul Hoffman
  • Kerrin McMahan (Ph.D. 1998)
    • East L.A. College: Acting Dean of Academic Affairs (tenured 2002)
    • Dissertation title: The Etiology of Virtue (in progress)
    • Faculty advisor: John M. Fischer
  • Todd Weber (Ph.D. 1998)
    • Monterey Peninsula Community College (CA): tenure track
    • Dissertation title: Moral Dilemmas: Escaping Inescapable Wrongdoing
    • Faculty advisor: Andrews Reath
    • Previous positions:
      • College of St. Benedict’s
      • St. John’s University
      • Oakland University

1997

  • Dasiea Cavers-Huff (Ph.D. 1997)
    • Riverside Community College (CA): tenure track
    • Dissertation title: Cognitive Science and Metaphysics Revisited: Toward a Theory of Properties
    • Faculty advisor: Larry Wright

1996

  • Yoko Arisaka (Ph.D. 1996)
    • University of San Francisco (CA): tenured (2002)
    • Dissertation title: Space and History: Philosophy and Imperialism in Nishida and Watsuji
    • Faculty advisor: Bernd Magnus
  • Daniel Williamson (Ph.D. 1996)
    • San Jose State University (CA): Adjunct Professor
    • Dissertation title: An Ethics of Resistance: A Consideration of Foucault on Power, Subjects, and Gay Identity
    • Faculty advisor: David Glidden