Department of Philosophy

Of the 71 Ph.D. graduates since the program’s inception, approximately 80 percent have found secure (meaning tenured, tenure-track, or similarly secure continuing) employment. Another 11 have less secure positions (for example, one year teaching positions) and one is undertaking further graduate study. Of the 59 positions, 39 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 93 percent of our Ph.D. graduates have found positions doing work related to their area of graduate study.   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

• David Faraci (2012)
  "How to Be (And How Not to Be) a Normative Realist"
  Advisor: David Shoemaker
  Visiting Assistant Professor 2012-13, Philosophy Department, Virginia Tech, VA
  See David Faraci's web page here
• Christoph Hanisch (2012)
  "Why the Law Matters to You: Citizenship, Agency and Public Identity"
  Advisor: Fred Miller
  Post-Doctoral Fellow in Philosophy Department, University of Vienna, Austria
• Hong Lee (2012)
  "Biological Functionalism and Mental Disorder"
  Advisor: Sara Worley
  Post-Doctoral Fellow in Bioethics, University of Toronto, Canada
  
• Peter Jaworski (2011)
  "Me, Myself, and Mine: The Scope of Ownership"
  Advisor: Fred Miller
  Visiting Instructor, Georgetown University, DC
• Sangeeta Sangha (2011)
  "Neo-Aristotelian Flourishing and Tragic Dilemmas"
  Advisor: Fred Miller
  Instructor, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
  
• Carolyn Council (2010)
  "Honoring Their Services: Why Blacks in the United States Should Be Paid Reparations"
  Advisor: Lou Katzner
  Assistant Professor, Florida A and M University, Tallahassee, Florida.
• Robyn Peabody (2010)
  "John Dewey's Theory of Growth and Amy Allen's Feminist Theory of Power Applied to the Work of Domestic Violence Shelters"
  Advisor: Michael Bradie
• Fred Olwendo (2010)
  "Quasi-Unconditionality: Higher Call to the Virtue of Forgiveness"
  Advisor: Donald Callen
  
• Jonathan Miles (2009)
  "A Perfectionist Defense of Free Speech"
  Advisor: Daniel Jacobson
  Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Quincy University, Quincy, IL
• Steven Weimer (2009)
  "Autonomy and the Utilitarian State"
  Advisor: Steven Wall
  Visiting Assistant Professor, Arkansas State University
• Peter Celello (2009)
  "Desert in Context"
  Advisor: Steven Wall
  Visiting Assistant Professor, Ohio State University, Newark, OH
  
  
• Leanne Kent (2008)
  "Tragic Dilemmas, Virtue Ethics and Moral Luck"
  Advisor: Fred Miller
  Assistant Professor (Tenure track), St Norbert's College, De Pere, WI
• Katherine Erbeznik (2008)
  "Liberal Cosmopolitanism and Economic Justice"
  Advisor: Steven Wall
  Transaction Tax M&A, Ernst and Young LLP, New York, NY
• Galen Foresman (2008)
  "A Practical Distinction in Value Theory: Qualitative and Quantitative Accounts"
  Advisor: Dan Jacobson
  Assistant Professor (Tenure track), North Carolina A and T University, Greensboro, NC
  
  
• Greg Hakos (2007)
  "Experience in the World of the Living"
  Advisor: Michael Bradie
  Visiting Lecturer, 2008/9, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO
• John Milliken (2007)
  "The Authority of Morality"
  Advisor: Ray Frey
  Assistant Professor, Department of Theology, LCC International University, Klaipeda, Lithuania
• 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
• Jason Gatliff (2006)
  "Terrorism and Just War Tradition: Issues of Compatibility"
  Advisor: Don Scherer
  Integrated Ethics Program Officer, Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center
  Director of Ethics Consultation, Center for Biomedical Ethics, Metrohealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH
• 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, Bloomsburg College, Bloomsburg, PA
  
• 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
  Assistant Professor (tenure track) at Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacodoches, Texas
  
  
• 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
  Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
  
• 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
  Representative to the United Nations, International Humanist and Ethical Union; Ethicist-at-large
  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
  Associate Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Marymount Manhattan College, NY.
  
• Collette Palamar (2002)
  "Dwelling"
  Advisor: Donald Scherer
  For Dr. Palamar's website, click here.
  
• Mario Pascalev (2002)
  "Territory: An Account of the Territorial Authority of the State"
  Advisor:Christopher Morris
  Lead Information Systems Analyst at Government Employees Insurance Company, (GEICO) Washington, DC.
  
• Carol Powers (2002)
  "What's Wrong With Pornography?: An Argument by way of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis" Advisor: Donald Callen
  Raasch Professional Law Offices, 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
• 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
  Associate Professor and Director, Program in Health Care Ethics, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC.
  Summer Director, Bulgarian Center for Bioethics, Sofia
  Consultant for European Commission's Directorate of Research, Science and Society
  For Dr. Pascalev's Bulgarian website, click here.  For her contact details at Howard University, 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.
  Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA.  Email: waldemar_hanasz@uml.edu
• William Kline (2000)
  "Stability, Convention and the Sensible Knave: The Foundations of Hume's Theory of Justice"
  Advisor: James Child
  Assistant Professor (Tenure track), Department of Liberal and Integrative Studies, University of Illinois, Springfield
• Rado Kotorov (2000)
  "Innovation, Entrepreneurship and the Firm: The Wealth of Individual"
  Advisors: Edward McClennen and James Child
  Director, Strategic Product Management and Competitive Strategy, Information Builders
  New York, NY.
• 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. For Dr. Ryan's web page, 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
  Associate Director of Accreditation at the Association for Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs,
  Washington, DC.
  
  
• 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 web page, click here.
  
• Mark Aulisio (1996)
  "Intention, Foresight, and the Doctrine of Double Effect" 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.
  General Counsel and Special Assistant to the National 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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