Of the 56 Ph.D. graduates since the program’s inception, 46 (or 82 percent) have found secure (meaning tenured, tenure-track, or similarly secure continuing employment). Of these positions, 35 are in academic settings, 17 are in non-academic settings related to the graduate’s course of study, and 4 are unrelated to the course of study. Thus 92 percent of our Ph.D. graduates have found secure positions doing work related to their area of graduate study.  Nine graduates (16 percent) continue to find academic work in their area of doctoral study, but in jobs with less security (e.g. temporary or adjunct positions).  Almost all of those with less secure employment or who are still seeking employment have graduated within the past 3 years.

Completed PhD Dissertations and Graduate Placements

• Greg Hakos (2007)
  Experience in the World of the Living"
  Advisor: Michael Bradie
  Instructor, Kent State University, Stark Campus
• John Milliken (2007)
  "The Authority of Morality"
  Advisor: Ray Frey
  Program Manger, Social Philosophy and Policy Center
• Nicholas Maloberti (2007)
  "Individual Sovereignty and Political Legitimacy"
  Advisor: Fred Miller
  Fellow at Liberty Fund, Indianapolis, Fall 2007
• Matthew Stichter (2007)
  "The Skill of Virtue"
  Advisor: Dan Jacobson
  Assistant Professor (Tenure track) Washington State University
• Jonathan Miller (2007)
  "Mystical Experiences, Neuroscience, and the Nature of Reality"
  Advisor: Marvin Belzer
  Instructor, Bowling Green State University
  
  
• Fred Curry (2006)
  "Motivation Matters: Evaluating Evolutionary Arguments for Psychological Altruism"
  Advisor: Michael Bradie
  Instructor, Bowling Green State University
• Carolyn Council (ABD, PhD forthcoming)
  Tenure-track position, Florida A and M University, Tallahassee, Florida.
• Jason Gatliff (2006)
  "Terrorism and Just War Tradition: Issues of Compatibility"
  Advisor: Don Scherer
  One year position as William Lyon Chair in Professional Ethic, U.S. Air Force Academy (2006)
• Russell Disilvestro (2006)
  "Capacities and Moral Status"
  Advisor: R.G. Frey
  Tenure-track position, California State University, Sacramento, California.
• Jason Grinnell (2006)
  "Biology, Policy, and the Racial Contract"
  Advisor: Michael Bradie
  Assistant Professor (Tenure-track) Buffalo State College, Buffalo, New York
• Aaron Simmons (2006)
  "In Defense of an Animal's Right to Life"
  Advisor: R.G. Frey
  Instructor, Ohio Northern University, Ada, Ohio
  
  
• Pam Phillips (2005)
  "Beyond Subjective Well-Being"
  Advisor: Fred Miller
  Postdoctoral Fellow, Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green
• Ben Dixon (2005)
  "Toward a Leopoldian Theory of Moral Progress"
  Advisor: Don Scherer
  Visiting Assistant Professor as the William Lyon Chair in Professional Ethics, Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
  
  
• Amy White (2004)
  "The Obscenity of Internet Pornography: A Philosophical Analysis of the Regulation of Sexually Explicit Internet Content"
  Advisor: Loren Lomasky
  Tenure-track position at Ohio University, Zanesville, Ohio.
• Marybeth Bauer (2004)
  "Planning in Social Context: A Guide for Environmental Practitioners"
  Advisor: Donald Scherer
  Human Dimensions Specialist, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Silver Springs, Maryland
• Robert Bass (2004)
  "Toward a Constructivist Eudaemonism"
  Advisor: Ned McClennen.
  Tenure-track position at Coastal Carolina University, Conway, South Carolina. For Dr. Bass's web page, click here.
  
  
• Cecilia Nalagon(2003)
  "Poverty: Deprivation in Basic Capabilities"
  Advisor: Loren Lomasky
  Executive Publisher, Marketing Research Journal, Rotterdam, Netherlands
• Mahesh Ananth(2003)
  "Boorse and His Critics: Toward a Naturalistic Concept of Health"
  Advisor: Fred Miller
  Assistant Professor (Tenure-track), University of Indiana at South Bend, Indiana
• Kalevi Lehto(2003)
  "Functionalism and Qualia" Advisor: Sara Worley
• Karen Hornsby(2003)
  "Education in a Just Liberal Society" Advisors: Lou Katzner and Jim Child
  Tenure-track position, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro, North Carolina
• Csaba Nyiri(2003)
  "Nation State or Cosmopolis? A Liberal Approach to Sovereignty and Borders"
  Advisor: Chris Morris
  Adjunct faculty, Heidelberg College, Tiffin, Ohio
• Ana Lita(2003)
  "'Seeing' Human Goodness: Iris Murdoch: A Contemporary Inquiry into the Moral Self" Co-Advisors: Don Callen and Ned McClennen
  Executive director of the IHEU-Appignani Center for Bioethics at the United Nations in New York
• Kyle Swan(2003)
  "Republican Liberty and Needs: A Kantian Welfare State" Advisor: Loren Lomasky
  Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore. For Dr. Swan's web page, click here.

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• Jana Craig(2002)
  "Quality of Life: The Grounds for Attribution" Advisor: R. G. Frey
  Director, Clinical Ethics Center, Memorial Health System and Department of Medical Humanities, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL
• Austin Dacey(2002)
  "How To Talk About Religion in Politics" Advisor: Loren Lomasky
  Executive Editor, Philo: The Journal of the Society of Humanist Philosophers at the Center for Inquiry, SUNY Buffalo, NY
  Visiting Research Professor, The Center for Inquiry, SUNY Buffalo, NY, commencing summer 2002. For Dr Dacey's web page, click here.
• Alfred Decker(2002)
  "A Liberal Theory of Punishment" Advisor: Loren Lomasky
  Al passed away in 2003
• Carrie-Ann Biondi(2002)
  "Belonging and Becoming: Toward a Consensualist Conception of Citizenship"
  Co-advisors: Christopher Morris, Fred Miller
  Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Marymount Manhattan College, NY.
  
• Collette Palamar(2002)
  "Dwelling" Advisor: Donald Scherer
  Tenure track position heading the Environmental Studies track in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio. For Dr. Palamar's website, click here.
  
• Mario Pascalev(2002)
  "Territory: An Account of the Territorial Authority of the State"
  Advisor:Christopher Morris
  Vice-President, Global Wealth and Investment Management Technology, Bank of America, Florida
  
• Carol Powers(2002)
  "What's Wrong With Pornography?: An Argument by way of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis" Advisor: Donald Callen
  Instructor, Mount Mary College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  
  
• H.Sterling Burnett (2001)
  "Ecosystemic Goods: The Pros and Cons of a Property Rights Approach" Advisor: Fred Miller
  Senior Fellow for the National Center for Policy Analysis, Dallas TX. For Dr. Burnett's website, click here.
• Peter Found (2001)
  "Never Judge a Dutch Book by Its Cover" Advisor: Edward McClennen
  Decision Support Analysis, Canadian Tire Corporation,
• Uri Henig (2001)
  "The Logic of Desire and Deliberation" Advisor: Edward McClennen
  For Dr. Henig's website, click here.
• Alexei Marcoux (2001)
  "Legal Normativity Reconsidered: Raz, Positivism, and Political Authority" Advisors: Jim Child and Christopher Morris
  Associate Professor of Business Ethics, Graduate School of Business, Loyola University Chicago.
  Policy Advisor, the Heartland Institute (Chicago, Illinois). For Dr. Marcoux's website, click here.
• Assya Pascalev(2001)
  "Medical Metaphors of Death and Dying: An Ethical Analysis"
  Advisor: Michael Bradie
  Assistant professor (tenure track) in the dept. of philosophy at Howard University, Washington, DC. http://www.coas.howard.edu/philosophy/philosophy_at_howard.html
  Summer Director, Bulgarian Center for Bioethics, Sofia
  Consultant for European Commission's Directorate of Research, Science and Society
  For Dr. Pascalev's website, click here.
• James Spence (2001)
  "The Moral Foundations of the Duty to Rescue" Advisor: R.G. Frey
  Assistant Professor, (tenure track) Department of Philosophy and Religion, Adrian College, Adrian, Michigan.
• Gene Torisky (2001)
  "The Possibility of Supererogation Based on the Integrity of the Moral Agent"
  Advisor: Mike Robins
  Associate Professor and Philosophy Department Chair (commencing Fall 2008), St Vincent College, Latrobe, Pennsylvania.
  For Dr. Torisky's website, click here.
• Ian Young (2001)
  "Reconciling Social Unity and Cultural Diversity" Advisor: Christopher Morris
  Philosophy Department Project Coordinator and Lecturer at Bowling Green State University.
  For Dr. Young's web page, click here.
  
  
• Kathryn Bradie (2000)
  "Illuminations of Terrorism" Advisor: Donald Callen.
  Professor, Philosophy Department at Heidelberg College, Tiffin OH. For Dr. Bradie's web page, click here.
• Laura DeHelian (2000)
  "Evolutionary Theory as a Framework for Moral Psychology" Advisor: Michael Bradie
  Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing, Cleveland State University, OH
• Waldemar Hanasz (2000)
  "Between Egosim and the Common Good: Niccola Machiavelli's Model of the Political Agent" Advisors: Edward McClennen and Loren Lomasky.
  Associate Director of and faculty member in the University of Pennsylvania Program in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. For Dr. Hanasz's web page, click here.
• William Kline (2000)
  "Stability, Convention and the Sensible Knave: The Foundations of Hume's Theory of Justice"
  Advisor: James Child
• Rado Kotorov (2000)
  "Innovation, Entrepreneurship and the Firm: The Wealth of Individual"
  Advisors: Edward McClennen and James Child
  Business and Competitive Intelligence Analyst, M.F. Smith and Associates, Morristown NJ
• Laura Newhart (2000)
  "PostModern Procreation: Subjectivities and Sexual Difference Beyond Phallocentrism" Advisor: Donald Callen
  Associate Professor (tenured), Eastern Kentucky University. For Dr. Newhart's web page, click here.
• Pam Ryan (2000)
  "Sublimely Metaphysical: Kant's Politics of Revolution" Advisor: James Child.
  Instructor, Morehead State University, Kentucky. To contact Dr. Ryan, click here.
• James Taylor (2000)
  "Personal Autonomy: It's Theoretical Foundations and Role in Applied Ethics"
  Advisor: R.G. Frey
  Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Department of Philosophy and Religion, College of New Jersey. For Dr Taylor's Web Page, Click Here
  
  
• Drew Ackerman (1999)
  "Local Liberty and Respect for Individual Autonomy (A Tocquevillian Critque of Liberal Neutrality)" Advisors: James Child and Michael Bradie.
  Foundations Office, Yale University
  
  
• Peter Boltuc (1998)
  "Moral Partiality"
  Advisor: R.G. Frey
  Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Illinois, Springfield, IL. For Dr. Boltuc's web page, click here.
• Robert Hood (1998)
  "Ecosystem Health: A Critical Analysis"
  Advisor: Donald Scherer
  Assistant Director, Office of Public Health Research, Ethics and Human Research Protections Program, Florida Department of Health
  Member of Ethics Subcommittee, Advisory Committee to the Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  
  
• Lingqing Yang (1997)
  "State Activism in Late Development" Advisor: Edward McClennen
  Financial Firm in Philadelphia
• Samuel Zinaich (1997)
  "The Justification of Moral Knowledge in John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding" Advisor: Edward McClennen
  Associate Professor, Department of English and Philosophy, Purdue University, Calumet, IN. For Dr. Zinaich's contact information, click here.
  
  
• Mark Aulisio (1996)
  "Intention, Foresight, and th Doctrine of Double Effects" Advisor: R.G. Frey
  Associate Professor in the Department of Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University and Director of Clinical Ethics at the MetroHealth Hospital System, Cleveland OH
  For Dr Aulisio's Web Page, Click Here
  
  
• Steven Sheinberg (1995)
  "Kant's Theory of Political Economy" Advisor: Michael Robins. Associate Director, Anti-Defamation League, New York City. For Dr. Sheinberg's web page, click here.
• Yujian Zheng (1995)
  "Motivation, Deliberation, and Rationality for Dynamic Choice" Advisor: Edward McClennen
  Associate Professor, Philosophy department, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. For Dr. Zheng's web page, click here.
  
  
• Tom May (1994)
  "Autonomy, Authority and Moral Responsibility" Advisor: R.G. Frey
  Associate Professor and Director, Graduate Studies in Bioethics, Center for the Study of Bioethics, Medical College of Wisconsin. For Dr. May's web page, click here.
• Lynn Walkiewicz (1994)
  "Antigone: A Genealogy of the Critical Idea of Phallocentrism" Advisor: Donald Callen
  Philosophy Department, University of Southern Maine, Augusta. For Dr. Walkiewicz's web page, click here.
  
  
• Kenneth Cust (1993)
  "A Just Minimum of Health Care" Advisor: Christopher Morris
  Associate Professor and Founding Director, Center for Applied & Professional Ethics, Central Missouri State University. For Dr. Cust's web page, click here.
• Barbara Daly (1993)
  "A Philosophical Approach to Resource Allocation in Health Care" Advisor: R. G. Frey
  Associate Professor in School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University and School of Medicine, Center for Biomedical Ethics; Director of Clinical Ethics Service at University Hospitals; Chair of the Ethics Committee. For Dr. Daly's web page, click here.

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