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 career outcome. 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) | Graduation Year | Initial Career Outcome | Current Career Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inquiry Under Bounds (Hall) | 2020 | Kellogg College, University of Oxford (PD) | Kellogg College, University of Oxford (PD) |
| Three Essays on Aesthetic Experience (Moran) | 2020 | Professional Artist | Professional Artist |
| Reasons and Percepts (Siegel) | 2020 | Washington University in St. Louis (TT) | Washington University in St. Louis (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) | Northwestern University (TT) |
| Dependence on Persons and Dependence on Things in Rousseau's Social, Psychological, and Aesthetic Theory (Moran) | 2018 | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (PD) | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (PD) |
| 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 | Derek Bok Center, Harvard University |
| Matters of Life and Death (Kamm) | 2018 | Princeton University (PD) | Princeton University (PD) |
| 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) | Miami University (FT) |
| Formal Analyticity (Koellner) | 2017 | Boston University (PD) | University of Rochester (TT) |
| 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 (PD) |
| On Perception's Role in Aristotle's Epistemology (Jones) | 2015 | Boston University (TT) | Boston University (TT) |
| 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) | Temple University (TT) |
| Wrongs without Rights (Korsgaard) | 2014 | University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School (TT) | University of Michigan, Law School (TT) |
| 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) | Princeton University (TT) |
| The Normativity of Structural Rationality (Scanlon) | 2014 | Queen's University (PD) | Centre for Clinical Ethics |
| 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 (TT) |
| 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) | Oakland University (TT) |
| The Power of Practical Conclusion and Essays in the Economic Analysis of Legal Systems (Korsgaard) | 2013 | Universidad de los Andes | University of California, Santa Barbara (TT) |
| Conceptualism and Objectivity in Locke's Account of Natural Kinds (Simmons) | 2013 | St. Michael's College (TT) | St. Michael's College (TT) |
| 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 (TT) |
| 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 (TT) |
| 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) |
| Embodied Perception (Moran) | 2011 | Stony Brook University (TT) | Stony Brook University (TT) |
| Matters of Taste, Personal and Otherwise (Scanlon) | 2011 | University of Chicago, Law School (PD) | University of Pennsylvania, Law School (TT) |
| 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 (TT) |
| 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 (TT) |
| 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) | Private employment |
| 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) |