Placement
Data regarding the department's record of graduate student placement appears below, with Ph.D. recipients grouped by the year their degrees were awarded. For each recipient, dissertation titles and primary advisor(s) are given, along with the recipient's initial and current employment. Where applicable, the following abbreviations have been used: T=tenured, TT=tenure-track, FT=fixed-term, PD=postdoc, PP=permanent position. (PP is used for academic placements in places where no tenure system exists, such as the UK.)
| Dissertation Title (Primary Advisor) | Ph.D. Year | Initial Employment | Current Employment |
|---|---|---|---|
The Production of Democracy (Stanczyk) | 2025 | Princeton University (TT) | Princeton University (TT) |
Self-Knowledge in Classical Sanskrit Philosophy (Siegel) | 2025 | Princeton Univeristy Center for Human Values (PD) | Princeton Univeristy Center for Human Values (PD) |
Technology and Transition (Stancyzk) | 2024 | Harvard Solar Geoengineering Research Program (PD) | Texas A&M University (TT) |
The Imagined Past (Berker) | 2024 | Washington University in St. Louis (PD) | Washington University in St. Louis (PD) |
The Human Factor (Korsgaard) | 2024 | University of Michigan, LSA | University of Michigan, LSA |
Moral Personhood (Berker) | 2024 | McKinsey & Company | McKinsey & Company |
Non-Electoral Political Representation: Roles, Duties, and Democratic Potential (Stancyzk) | 2024 | Latham & Watkins, LLP | Latham & Watkins, LLP |
Deontic Intentionality (Moran) | 2024 | Hunter College (FT) | Baruch College (FT) |
The Material Pollution of Accountability and Commemoration (Shelby) | 2023 | Brown University, PPE (PD) | Brown University, PPE (PD) |
Toward a Kantian Metaethic (Berker) | 2023 | InGenius Prep | JD candidate (2027), Boston University Law School |
Understanding Morality Together (Berker) | 2023 | University of North Carolina (FT) | University of Louvain (TT) |
Models of the Axiom of Determinacy and the Foundations of Set Theory (Woodin) | 2023 | Institute of Mathematics, Poland Academy of Science (FT) | University of Pittsburgh (TT) |
Debugging the Digital Self (Schouten) | 2023 | Private | Private |
The Ethics of Ignorance (Hall) | 2023 | Brown University (PD) | University of Vermont (PD) |
The Grounds of Law (Richard) | 2022 | Associate, Kirkland & Ellis LLP | Associate, Kirkland & Ellis LLP |
Causation in the Social World (Hall) | 2022 | Yale University (TT) | Yale University (TT) |
Responsibility for Implicitly-Biased Actions: A Strawsonian Approach (Korsgaard) | 2022 | Trustees of Reservations | Denver Museum of Science and Nature |
Perspectival Clashes: Salience as a Site of Contestation (Siegel) | 2022 | Columbia Society of Fellows (PD) | University of Pennsylvania (TT) |
Cultural Hegemony, Political Movements, and the Problem of Publicity (Richard) | 2022 | Boston University (TT) | Boston University (TT) |
Knowing With (Rinard) | 2022 | SUNY - Brockport (TT) | SUNY - Brockport (TT) |
The General Will: Rousseau, Kant, and Hegel (Korsgaard) | 2022 | Ahmedabad University (TT) | Ahmedabad University (TT) |
Coercive Proposals and Coercion's Effects (Scanlon) | 2021 | American Law Institute | American Law Institute |
Transparency and Recognition (Moran) | 2021 | University of Oxford (PD) | New York University (TT) |
Bounded Rights: Citizenship in Non-Ideal Settings (Richard) | 2021 | Stanford University (PD) | Loyola University Chicago (TT) |
Self-Righteous Sentiment: On Blame and Its Norms (Berker) | 2021 | University of Oxford (PD) | University of California, Santa Cruz (TT) |
Oppression, False Consciousness, and Emancipation (Shelby) | 2021 | Princeton University (PD) | Princeton University (TT) |
Strong Omega Consistency (Koellner) | 2021 | Pierrepont School | Pierrepont School |
Leibniz on Location (McDonough) | 2021 | Harvard College Writing Program | Bucknell University (TT) |
The Naturalism of Neo-Aristotelian Normative Naturalism (Korsgaard) | 2021 | University of Missouri, Instructional Design | University of Missouri, Instructional Design |
The Grounds of Sense: Kant's Image of Theoretical Finitude (Boyle, Kelly, Matherne) | 2021 | University of Pittsburgh (TT) | University of Chicago (TT) |
Inquiry Under Bounds (Hall) | 2020 | Kellogg College, University of Oxford (PD) | Vanderbilt University (TT) |
Three Essays on Aesthetic Experience (Moran) | 2020 | Professional Artist | Professional Artist |
Reasons and Percepts (Siegel) | 2020 | Washington University in St. Louis (TT) | Rutgers (TT) |
Political Etiquette (Shelby) | 2020 | Trinity University (TT) | Trinity University (TT) |
The Appraisal of Belief (Berker) | 2019 | Mass. Department of Public Utilities, The Transportation Network Company Division | Mass. Department of Public Utilities, The Transportation Network Company Division |
Explanation and Social Scientific Modeling (Hall) | 2019 | McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society, Stanford University (PD) | London School of Economics (PP) |
Aristotle on the Epistemic Role of Passion (Jones) | 2018 | Northwestern University (TT) | University of California, San Diego (TT) |
Dependence on Persons and Dependence on Things in Rousseau's Social, Psychological, and Aesthetic Theory (Moran) | 2018 | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (PD) | Tecnologico de Monterrey (FT) |
The Ethics and Epistemology of Empathy (Moran) | 2018 | Tulane University (TT) | University of California, Berkeley (TT) |
Informal Political Representation: Normative and Conceptual Foundations (Shelby) | 2018 | San Francisco State University (TT) | Stanford University (TT) |
Into Question: An Account of Inquiry (Hall) | 2018 | Derek Bok Center, Harvard University | Cast Iron Coding |
Matters of Life and Death (Kamm) | 2018 | Princeton University (PD) | Center for Bioethics, New York University (FT) |
Practical Cognitivism: An Essay on Normative Judgment (Korsgaard) | 2018 | Bennington College (FT) | Deerfield Academy |
Self-Consciousness in Kant's Moral Philosophy (Korsgaard) | 2018 | St. Andrew's School | Davidson Academy |
The Authority of Morality and the Recognition of Persons (Korsgaard) | 2017 | Michigan State University (FT) | Seton Hall University (TT) |
Formal Analyticity (Koellner) | 2017 | Boston University (PD) | University of Rochester (T) |
Objectivity and Intersubjectivity in Moral Philosophy (Berker) | 2017 | Private consulting firm | Private consulting firm |
Phenomenal Concepts, Transparency, and the Hard Problems of Consciousness (Hall) | 2017 | Southern Virginia University (TT) | Southern Virginia University (TT) |
Sovereign Sentiments: Conceptions of Self-Control in David Hume, Adam Smith, and Jane Austen (Simmons) | 2017 | Columbia University (PD) | Fordham University (TT) |
Acting from Thought about Action (Korsgaard) | 2016 | Auburn University (PD) | Keble College, University of Oxford (FT) |
Belief and Ameliorative Epistemology (Siegel) | 2016 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PD) | Duke Kunshan University (TT) |
Counsel and Command: An Address-Dependent Account of Authority (Korsgaard) | 2016 | University of Zurich (PD) | University of Zurich (PD) |
The Social Constitution of the Body: Bodily Alienation and Bodily Integrity (Kelly) | 2016 | Florida International University (TT) | Florida International University (TT) |
Kant's Science of the Moral World and Moral Objectivity (Korsgaard) | 2015 | University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (FT) | University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (TT) |
Loving, Valuing, Regretting, and Being Oneself (Scanlon) | 2015 | Stanford University (PD) | Hebrew University (TT) |
On Perception's Role in Aristotle's Epistemology (Jones) | 2015 | Boston University (TT) | Boston University (T) |
Rational Reconstruction and the Construction of an Interlocutor (Hall) | 2015 | University of Chicago (PD) | Lincoln College, University of Oxford (PP) |
Species, Humans, and Transformations (Hall) | 2015 | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (PD) | Tufts University (PD) |
The Self-Body Problem in Descartes and Malebranche (Simmons) | 2014 | Temple University (TT) | University College London (T) |
Wrongs without Rights (Korsgaard) | 2014 | University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School (TT) | University of Michigan, Law School (T) |
Intellectual Property Rights and Institutions: A Pluralist Account (Scanlon) | 2014 | Robbins, Russell, Englert, Orseck, Untereiner & Sauber | Morgan Lewis |
No Metaphysics within Physics? (Hall) | 2014 | Birmingham University (PP) | Brown University (TT) |
Essays on Biological Individuality (Godfrey-Smith) | 2014 | Dalhousie University (PD) | University of Utah |
Making People Happy, Not Making Happy People (Scanlon) | 2014 | Princeton University (TT) | University of California, Berkeley (T) |
The Normativity of Structural Rationality (Scanlon) | 2014 | Queen's University (PD) | University of Toronto (TT) |
Knowledge in Action (Kelly) | 2013 | Koç University (TT) | Koç University (TT) |
The Commonwealth as Agent: Group Action, the Common Good, and the General Will (Korsgaard) | 2013 | Bates College (PD) | Bates College (T) |
Global Institutions and Relations among Non-Co-Citizens (Scanlon) | 2013 | Goethe University, Frankfurt (PD) | Seoul National University (TT) |
Three Papers on and around the Access Problem (Hall) | 2013 | Australian National University (PD) | Ashoka University (T) |
The Power of Practical Conclusion and Essays in the Economic Analysis of Legal Systems (Korsgaard) | 2013 | Universidad de los Andes (PD) | University of California, Santa Barbara (T) |
Conceptualism and Objectivity in Locke's Account of Natural Kinds (Simmons) | 2013 | St. Michael's College (TT) | St. Michael's College (T) |
Duties of Rescue: A Moderate Account (Berker) | 2013 | Private employment | Private employment |
Topics in Philosophical Logic (Goldfarb) | 2012 | University of Oslo (PD) | University of Texas, Austin (T) |
Three Studies in the Theory of Function (Nickel) | 2012 | SIM University (PP) | SIM University (PP) |
Bodily Sensations: Nature, Location, and Extent (Siegel) | 2011 | Jawaharlal Nehru University (PD) | Ashoka University (T) |
The Contributions of Mathematics in Applications (Parsons) | 2011 | University of Minnesota (PD) | Carleton College (TT) |
Freedom, Authority, and Neutrality: A Kantian Account of Political Legitimacy (Korsgaard) | 2011 | University of Pittsburgh (FT) | Trinity College, University of Toronto (TT) |
Gilbert Ryle and Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Adverbialist Theory of Mind (Kelly) | 2011 | Stony Brook University (TT) | Stanford University (FT) |
Matters of Taste, Personal and Otherwise (Scanlon) | 2011 | University of Chicago, Law School (PD) | University of Chicago, Law School (T) |
Morality and Other Values: A Contractualist Perspective (Scanlon) | 2010 | Korea University (TT) | Korea University (TT) |
Justice, Unequal Talents, and the Market (Scanlon) | 2010 | Stanford University (TT) | Bowdoin College (T) |
Reasoning as Action (Siegel) | 2010 | Bard College (TT) | Private employment |
An Epistemological Argument for Moral Response-Dependence (Korsgaard) | 2010 | Oriel College, University of Oxford (PP) | Central European University (T) |
Idealization, Explanation, and Fiction (Godfrey-Smith) | 2010 | Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (PD) | Hebrew University (PP) |
Divorcing the Good and the Right (Scanlon) | 2009 | Harvard University, Program in Ethics and Health (PD) | Claremont McKenna College (T) |
Extending and Ending Life in Health Care and Beyond (Kamm) | 2009 | ||
Nonsense, Truth, and Ineffability (Goldfarb) | 2009 | University of Pittsburgh (TT) | University of Pittsburgh (T) |
Freedom, Fairness, and Responsibility (Scanlon) | 2009 | University of York (PP) | University of York (PP) |
Practical Reason and the Structure of Reflective Agency (Moran) | 2008 | University of New Mexico (TT) | Boston University (T) |
What Lies Within: Essays on Phenomenology, Psychology, and Self-knowledge (Moran) | 2008 | New College of Florida (PD) | University of Memphis (TT) |
In Defense of Phenomenalism: Why Berkeley Is Not All Wrong (Simmons) | 2008 | Syracuse University (TT) | Carleton University (T) |
Agency and the Mind-Body Problem (Moran) | 2008 | Bryn Mawr (TT) | Center for Teaching and Learning, Stanford University |
Your Money or Your Life: Coercion in Personal and Political Contexts (Korsgaard) | 2008 | New York University (TT) | University of Pittsburgh (T) |
The Problems of Skepticism (Moran) | 2008 | Willamette University (T) | |
Understanding, Reflection, and Intuition: An Essay in Rationalist Epistemology and Philosophy of Psychology (Simmons) | 2008 | University of Miami (TT) | University of Miami (T) |
The Structure of Thought (Siegel) | 2008 | Texas Tech University (TT) | York University (T) |