Dissertation Students

My PhD students and what has become of them, organized by PhD year…

2021

• Sophie Dandelet (Making Up Our Minds: Ethical Norms in Epistemic Inquiry). Bersoff postdoc, NYU. Assistant Professor, Cambridge University.

2019

• Ethan Jerzak (Paradox in Thought and Natural Language). Tenure-track, National University of Singapore.

• Rachel Rudolph (Talking about Appearances: Experience, Evaluation, and Evidence in Discourse). Tenure-track, Auburn University.

2018

• James Hutchinson (A Haunting Conviction: Frege on Truth and Logic). University of Indiana, Oscar R. Ewing Visiting Assistant Professor. Simon Fraser University, Lecturer. University of Toronto, Postdoctoral Scholar. Tenure-track, Nazarbayev University (Kazhakstan).

• Erica Klempner (Beauty, Art and Testimony: Subjectivity and Objectivity in Aesthetics). Berkeley Connect Fellow.

2017

• Richard Lawrence (Nominalization, Specification, and Investigation). Berkeley Connect Fellow, UC Berkeley. Researcher, University of Tübingen. Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Vienna.

• Justin Vlasits (Platonic Division and the Origins of Aristotelian Logic). Postdoc, University of Tübingen. Tenure-track, University of Illinois, Chicago.

2016

• Ethan Nowak (Two Dogmas about Demonstratives). Two-year teaching position at University College London. Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, King’s College London. Associate Professor, Umeå University, Sweden.

2015

• Melissa Fusco (Deontic Modals and the Semantics of Choice). Tenure-track, Columbia University.

2014

• Arpy Khatchirian (Substantive Truth and Knowledge of Meaning). Lecturer, UC Berkeley. Stanford Online High School.

2013

• Justin Bledin (Logic Informed). Tenured, Johns Hopkins University.

• Michael Rieppel (Being Something: Prospects for a Property-Based Approach to Predicative Quantification). Tenured, Syracuse University.

2012

• Joseph Barnes (A Platonic Account of Epistemic Value). Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

2011

• Stanley Chen (Matters of Taste Are Not “Mere Matters of Taste”). Harvard Law School, became a lawyer.

• Michael Caie (Rationality and Semantic Paradox). Tenured, University of Toronto (after University of Pittsburgh, Syracuse University, University of Rochester).

2010

• Jessica Gelber (Causes and Kinds in Aristotle’s Embryology). Tenure-track, University of Toronto (after University of Pittsburgh and Syracuse University).

2009

• Fabrizio Cariani (The Semantics of ‘Ought’ and the Unity of Modal Discourse). Tenured, Northwestern University.

2008

• Kenny Easwaran (The Foundations of Conditional Probability). Tenure-track at USC, now tenured at Texas A&M.

• Mike Titelbaum (Quitting Certainties: A Doxastic Modeling Framework). Tenured at University of Wisconsin, Madison.

• Andreas Anagnostopoulos (Aristotle on Change and Potentiality). Akademischer Rat, LMU Munich.

2007

• Berislav Marusic (Skepticism Between Absurdity and Idleness). Tenured, Brandeis University.

2006

• Bence Nanay (How Animals See the World: A Theory of Content for Action-Oriented Perceptual States). Professor of Philosophy and BOF Research Professor, University of Antwerp, and Senior Researc Associate, Peterhouse, University of Cambridge.

2005

• Johannes Hafner (From Metamathematics to Philosophy: A Critical Assessment of Putnam’s Model-Theoretic Argument). Tenure-track at North Carolina State University.

2003

• Elizabeth Camp (Saying and Seeing-As: The Linguistic, Cognitive, and Imaginative Uses and Effects of Metaphor). Tenured at Rutgers University (after University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Society of Fellows).

• Omar Mirza (Naturalism and Darwin’s Doubt: a Study of Plantinga’s Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism). Tenured at St. Cloud State University.