College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Ph.D. Placement, 1993–
The department has a very strong record of placement for its Ph.D. students. This chart lists every Ph.D. recipient in the Department from January 1993 through the present. "TT" indicates a tenure-track appointment.
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Dissertation Title |
Initial Appointment |
Current Appointment |
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2018 |
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| A Metaphilosophy of Naturalism | Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa | Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa |
| God and the Grounding of Morality: Must Theists Adopt a Theistic Metaethic? |
TT, Northeast Iowa Community College |
TT, Northeast Iowa Community College |
| The Search for Logical Forms: In Defense of Logical Atomism | Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa | Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa |
2017 |
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| A Theory of Resistance |
Business Manager at Beautiful Land Products - West Branch, IA |
Business Manager at Beautiful Land Products - West Branch, IA |
2016 |
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| Knowledge, Infallibility, and Skepticism | Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Idaho | Visiting Assistant Professor, York College of Pennsylvania |
| What Motive to Virtue? Early Modern Empirical Naturalist Theories of Moral Obligation | Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa | Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa |
| Inference to the Best Explanation and the Challenge of Skepticism | Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa | Philosophy Teacher, Xavier Academy High School |
| Dissolving Dilemmas for Acquaintance Foundationalism | Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa |
Account Manager at U.S. Small Business Administration |
| Necessitarianism and Unrealized Possibility in the Philosophy of Spinoza | Instructor, Temple College | Instructor, Temple College |
2014 |
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| Cartesian Modality: God's Nature and the Creation of Eternal and Contingent Truth | Visiting Assistant Professor, Central Michigan University | TT, Southern Utah University |
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Remembering without Storing: Beyond Archival Models in the Science and Philosophy of Human Memory |
Visiting Assistant Professor, Pacific University | TT, Pacific University |
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A Utilitarian Account of Political Obligation |
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa | TT, Cal Lutheran University |
2013 |
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| The Problem of Easy Justification: An Investigation of Evidence, Justification, and Reliability | Visiting Assistant Professor, Auburn University | TT, Tuskegee University |
| A Methodologically Naturalist Defense of Ethical Non-Naturalism | Visiting Assistant Professor, Western Illinois University | TT, University of Texas, San Antonio |
| Musical Understanding: Studies in Philosophy and Phenomenological Psychology | Kirkwood College | Kirkwood College |
2012 |
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| Achieving Epistemic Descent | Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, Duluth | TT, Tuskegee University |
| A Phenomenological Account of Practices |
Critical Thinking Specialist, A.C.T., Iowa City |
Critical Thinking Specialist, A.C.T., Iowa City |
| Does The State Have Moral Duties? State Duty-Claims and The Possibility of Institutionally Held Moral Obligations | Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa | TT, Loras College |
| Internalism, Externalism, and External Source Circularity | Professional Test Developer, A.C.T., Iowa City | Professional Test Developer, A.C.T., Iowa City |
| Modality, Compatibilism, and Leibniz: A Critical Defense | Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa | Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Alaska, Fairbanks |
2011 |
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A Defense of Internalist Foundations: Direct Awareness of Fit as the Solution to All Sellarsian Dilemmas |
TT, The College at Southwestern |
TT, The College at Southwestern |
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Property Possession as Identity: An Essay in Metaphysics |
TT, Doane College |
TT, Doane College |
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The Skeptic's Dogmatism: A Non-Concessive Reply to the Skeptical Problem |
Emmanuel College |
Visiting Assistant Professor, Emmanuel College |
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From A Structural Point of View |
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa |
TT, Volunteer State Community College |
2010 |
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A Defense of the Knowledge Argument |
Instructor, Black Hawk College |
TT, Marywood University |
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The Irrational Project: Toward a Different Understanding of Self-Deception |
post-doc, University of Konstanz |
Margarete von Wrangell Research Fellow & Lecturer, University of Konstanz |
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Expressivist Theories of First-Person Privilege |
University of Iowa, Visiting Assistant Professor |
University of Iowa, Visiting Assistant Professor |
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Evil Perpetrators, or Cultural Victims? An Examination of the Link |
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa |
Librarian |
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The Phenomenology of Movement: Action, Proprioception, and Embodied Knowledge |
Iowa City Fire Dept., firefighter |
Iowa City Fire Dept., firefighter |
2009 |
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A View From the Armchair: A Defense of Traditional Philosophy |
TT, South Central College |
TT, South Central College |
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The Ontology of the Epistemic Act: An Explication of Intentionality and the Possibility of Epistemological Realism |
Visiting Assistant Professor, Luther College |
Assistant Professor and Director of the Center of Ethics in Public Life, Luther College |
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Spacetime Gaps and the Persistence of Objects Through Time |
Cornell College |
Cornell College |
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Spinoza's Realist and Four-dimensionalist Theory of Physical Individuation |
Kirkwood College |
TT, Bakersfield College |
2008 |
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Real Appearances: The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Direct Realism |
Lecturer, Iowa State University |
Lecturer, Iowa State University |
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Realism and Conceptual Relativity |
Texas Lutheran University |
TT, North Georgia College and State University |
2007 |
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Augstine's Rejection of Pagan Moral Philosophy in the City of God |
Visiting Assistant Professor, Southwest Minnesota State University |
TT, Southwest Minnesota State University |
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Logical Form and Linguistic Form: On Descriptions as Quantifiers |
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa |
TT, New York Institute of Technology, Nanjing |
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Persons as Artifacts: An Exploration of Social Ontology |
Lecturer, Arizona State University |
Senior Lecturer, Arizona State University |
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Philosophical Mentorship and Plato's Two Faces of Eros |
TT, Saint Ambrose University |
TT, Saint Ambrose University |
2006 |
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Perdurance and Foundation: An Husserlian Theory of Identity Through Time |
TT, Clarke College |
TT, Clarke College |
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Naturalism, Rationalism, and Rethinking the A Priori/A Posteriori Distinction |
TT, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth |
TT, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth |
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A Neurophilosophical Study of the Taxonomy and Epistemology of Memory |
Kenyon College |
Baruch College - CUNY |
2005 |
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Idealism : A Brief History, Taxonomy, and Nietzschean Evaluation |
Philosophy Teacher, Tempe Preparatory Academy |
CEO, BASIS.ed Educational Group |
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Mill's Liberty Principle and the Conditions of Happiness |
Cornell College |
TT, Salem State College |
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Hume's Account of Causation and Its Applications |
TT, Iowa State University |
TT, Iowa State University |
2004 |
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When are Universals?: The Relationship between Universals and Time |
West Virginia University |
attorney, Iowa City |
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Thomas Reid's Providentialist Epistemology |
University of Iowa, Visiting Assistant Professor |
University of Wisconsin, Platteville |
2003 |
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Studies in the Understructure: The Semiotic Basis of John Locke's Empirical Epistemology |
Illinois Wesleyan University |
TT, University of Western Ontario |
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The Nature of Time: Tense, Indexicals, and Phenomenology |
University of St. Thomas |
TT, Messiah College |
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The Structure of Self-Consciousness: A Phenomenological and Philosophical Investigation |
University of Iowa, Visiting Assistant Professor |
TT, University of Texas, Arlington |
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Pragmatism, Constitutional Interpretation, and the Problem of Constitutional Change |
TT, SUNY Cortland |
TT, Washington and Lee University |
2002 |
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A Theory of Literary Interpretation: The Problem of Intentionalism |
left the profession |
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2001 |
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Towards a Reclamation of Substantive Liberalism |
Adjunct, George Washington University |
TT, College of Wooster |
2000 |
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Redressing Frege's Failure to Develop a Logical Calculus for the Theory of Sinn and Bedeutung |
TT, University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
TT, University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
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On Trope Theory |
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea |
TT, Hanshin University, South Korea |
1999 |
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The Problems with Internalism: Practical Deliberation and the Moral Agent |
Cleveland State University |
TT, Oakland University |
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Quine and Davidson on Meaning and Holism |
TT, National Chenci University (Taiwan) |
TT, National Chenchi University (Taiwan) |
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Ethical Realism: Skeptical Challenge and a Realist Response |
TT, Millikin University |
TT, Millikin University |
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A Cartesian Sceptic: The Metaphysical Thought of Pierre Bayle |
Trinity College (Hartford, CT) |
TT, Trinity College (Hartford, CT) |
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Kant's Transcendental and Empirical Anthropology of Cognition |
TT, Marquette University |
TT, Marquette University |
1998 |
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Subjectivity, Spontaneity, and Structure: Mentality and Fundamentality in Kant, Fichte, and Schelling |
James Madison University |
TT James Madison University |
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Quine and Davidson on Meaning and Holism |
Shu Te Institute of Technology (Taiwan) |
TT, Hua Fan University (Taiwan) |
1997 |
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The Cumulative Approach to Natural Theology |
University of Iowa, Visiting Assistant Professor |
Northern Illinois University |
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Intentionality and Scientific Naturalism |
University of Iowa, Visiting Assistant Professor |
left profession |
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The Possibility of Practical Reason: An Essay on Kant's Justification of Ethics |
University of Iowa, Visiting Assistant Professor |
TT, University of Nebraska, Omaha |
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Human Action and Human Freedon: Four Theories of Liberum Arbitrium in the Early Thirteenth Century |
TT, Saint Louis University |
TT, Saint Louis University |
1996 |
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Liberal Impartiality and Just Distribution |
TT, Saint Ambrose University |
TT, Saint Ambrose University |
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An Anselmian Theory of Atonement: A Defense of Anselm's Cur Deus Homo |
left profession |
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Making Sense of Nonsense: Trivial Remarks on the Nature of Language |
TT, California State University, Chico |
TT, California State University, Chico |
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Knowledge and Epistemic Certainty |
University of Iowa, Visiting Assistant Professor |
TT, College of Saint Mary (Omaha, NE) |
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Non-Actualism |
TT, National Chung Cheng University (Taiwan) |
TT, National Chung Cheng University (Taiwan) |
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Medieval Theories of Relations before Aquinas's Commentaries |
Calvin College |
TT, Purdue University |
1995 |
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The Self, Supervenience, and Personal Identity |
TT, Wartburg College |
T, Wartburg College |
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Moore's Revolutionary Conservatism |
University of Iowa, Visiting Assistant Professor |
TT, Metropolitan State College of Denver |
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The True Idea of the Human Mind: Hume's Bundle Theory of the Self |
TT, Ohio State University |
left profession |
1994 |
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An Examination of Fodor's Disjunction Problem and the Nature of Misrepresentation from within Natural Teleological Theories of Intentionality |
TT, National Chung Cheng University (Taiwan) |
T, National Chung Cheng University (Taiwan) |
1993 |
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Kant on the System of the Mind: A Resolution to the Doubling of the Problem of Taste in the Critique of Judgement |
TT, Florida State University |
TT, Florida State University |
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Connecting Intuitions and Concepts: Categorical Determination of the Manifold of Intuition in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason |
Luther College |
TT, Bradley University |
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Noema. Sense, and Object in Husserl's Phenomenology |
Coe College |
Iowa State University |