Graduate Student Placement Record

Placement of all students who have finished our M.A. program 1999-Present.

Thesis Title	Applied to PhD Programs?	Results (Philosophy PhD program with full funding unless otherwise noted)
2007
Systematicity and Mental Content	Yes	Accepted into three PhD programs with funding, but decided not to attend any.
G.E. Moore and E.M. Forster	Yes	Johns Hopkins University (English PhD Program)
Can Humean supervenience be reconciled with the Principal Principle?	Yes	Princeton University
J.G.H. Feder's Simultaneity Objection to Kant's Claim to the Apriority of Space	Yes	University of Pennsylvania
Kant's Idea of Pure Morality and Hegel's Critique	Yes	University of California, Riverside
Nietzsche's Weapon of War: the Method of Science	Yes	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
G.E. Moore on Common Sense and Analysis	No
Exam Option	No	Harvard Law School
Other schools that admitted our students in 2007: Arizona State, Bowling Green, Cincinnati, Connecticut, Cornell, Miami, Ohio State, Pittsburgh, Purdue, UC-Irvine
2006
The Demands of Incompatibilism Upon Libertarian Theories of Free Will	Yes	Florida State University
The Ideas of the Kingdom of Ends and the Highest Good in Kant's Moral Theory	Yes	Harvard University
Exam Option	Yes	Rice University
Performativity and Social Kinds: Race, Gender, and the Pursuit of Justice	Yes	Rutgers University (Women's & Gender Studies PhD Program)
Can Accounts of Naturalistic Virtue Ethics Survive?	Yes	University of Missouri (non-funded)
Epistemic Responsibility and the Concept of Belief	Yes	University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
The Fold in the Other Night: Foucault on Desubjective Technologies of the Self	No	Lecturer at UWM
Justifying Morality: An Essay on the Rationality of Moral Actions	No
The Nature of Mental Existence in Anselm's Ontological Argument	No
On Constructing an Argument Against Tyler Burge's Preservative Theory of Memory Based on Memory Construed as an Inferential Communicative Process	No
Other schools that admitted our students in 2006: Arizona, Bowling Green, Cincinnati, Georgetown, Illinois-Chicago, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota (Women's Studies), Northwestern, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, Stanford, UC-Riverside, Wisconsin-Madison
2005
What Does the Scientist See? Does it Matter?	Yes	Duke University
Is Morality a Skill?	Yes	Harvard University
Exam option	Yes	Marquette University
Beyond the Meaning of 'Meaning': Rigidity and Semantic Externalism	Yes	Ohio State University
On the Nature of Value Properties and Judgments at the Intersection of Aesthetics and Ethics	Yes	SUNY-Buffalo
Saving the In-Itself World: Some Responses To Putnam's Internal Realism	Yes	University of California, Irvine
The Nature of Second Nature	Yes	University of Florida
Three Arguments for Nonconceptual Content	Yes	University of Minnesota
Reconciliation & Quasi-Realist Moral Truth & Objectivity	Yes	University of Reading (UK)
Belief and Responsibility	Yes	University of Rochester
General Laws and Causal Relations: Scientific Explanation	Yes	University of Southern California
Propositional Attitudes, Reference, and Pragmatics	Yes	University of Southern California
Signs and Generality: An Examination of the Berkeleyan Alternative to Abstract Ideas	Yes	University of Toronto
The Philosophical Basis of Clement Greenberg's Art Criticism: The Union between Kantian and Hegelian Aesthetics	Yes	University of Washington-Seattle
Other schools that admitted our students in 2005: Arizona State, Birkbeck College, London (UK), British Columbia, Cincinnati, Connecticut, CUNY, Edinburgh (UK ), Florida State, Illinois-Chicago, Indiana, Iowa, Loyola (Chicago), Maryland, Missouri, Northwestern, Sheffield (UK), St. Andrews (UK), Stirling (UK), Syracuse, Temple, UC-Davis, U-Mass, Western Ontario, Wisconsin-Madison
2004
Objecting to Objectifying Desires: An Objection to the Kantian Model of Deliberation	Yes	Cornell University
Defense of Marx's Scientific Socialism	Yes	Northwestern University
The Last Metaphysician: An Analysis of Heidegger's Interpretation of Nietzsche	Yes	University of California, Riverside
Real Selves or Bust?	Yes	University of Cincinnati
An Analysis of Kant's Treatment of Suicide	Yes	University of Illinois-Chicago
Nature, Priority and Political Animals in Aristotle's Politics	Yes	University of Illinois-Chicago
A Look at the Conception of Care in Three Ethical Theories	Yes	University of Kentucky (Fall 06 admission)
A Three-Mechanism Structure of Mind to Explain Human Language and Responsibility	Yes	University of Waterloo (Canada)
The Problem with "Self" Competition	No	Marquette Law School; Fall 07 - Clerkship with New Mexico Supreme Court
Other schools that admitted our students in 2004: Bowling Green, CUNY, Maryland, Minnesota, Ohio State, Southern California, Syracuse, UC-Irvine, UC-Santa Cruz, U-Mass, Virginia, Wisconsin-Madison
2003
The Evolution of Guilt: A Defense of Norm-Expressivism	Yes	Michigan State University
Desires and Practical Reasoning: Three Accounts Considered	Yes	University of California, Davis (attended 1 year); University of Wisconsin-Madison (Fall 05)
The Substitutional Interpretation of the Quantifiers of Predicate Logic	Yes	University of Pittsburgh
A Critical Analysis of John Hick's Pluralist Hypothesis	No	Lecturer at UWM
A Study of Nietzsche's Gay Science	No
2002
Un-blocking Our Access to the Contents of Perceptual Experience	Yes	Duke University
An Analysis of Kierkegaard's Notion of Personhood	Yes	Saint Louis University (attended 1 year); St. Louis University Law School (attended 1 year); Lehigh University (History PhD, Fall 05)
Testimonial Justification and Epistemic Individualism	Yes	University of Missouri
Colors, Values and the Possibility of Analogy	No	Works in the Criminal Defense division of the Wisconsin State Public Defender's Office
Global Theories, Local Theories, Theories of Adjudication and Ronald Dworkin's Law as Integrity	No	Professor at Marquette Law School
2001
Chardin's Cycle	Yes	Marquette University
Moral Development and the Duty of Self-Perfection	Yes	Northwestern University
The Truth in Projectivism	Yes	Ohio State University
A Theistic Defense of Natural Evils	Yes	Purdue University
Philosophy as Therapy: An Elucidation of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Method	Yes	University of Iowa
Exam option	No	Teacher in Milwaukee Public Schools
Vagueness	No	Works in Pharmaceutical Sales
2000
Taking Occasionalism Seriously	Yes	Brown University
The Personal Ethics of Sustainable Development: An Application of Kant's Notion of the Categorical Imperative	Yes	CUNY
John Rawls, Justice as Fairness and the Failure of Froperty-Owning Democracy	Yes	Marquette University
Weakness of Will: Towards a Reformed Belief/Desire Account	Yes	Northwestern University
Exam Option	No	UWM (Urban Education/Educational Psychology PhD program)
Hybrid Theories of Justice: A New Foundation Based on T. M. Scanlon's Ethics of Reasonable Rejection	No	Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Air Force Academy
Non-thesis project	No
Understanding Kant's prohibition of revolution, his support of the French revolution, and our right to revolt	No
1999
The Inductive-Statistical and Deductive-Nomologicial Models of Probabilistic Explanation and the Problem of Explaining Particular Explanada	Yes	Indiana University
Themes in Kantian Moral Psychology: Humanity, Needs, and Autonomy	Yes	University of Florida
Assuring the Fair Value of the Political Liberties: The Need for an Ethos Justice	No	Attended Law School
Ducks, Rabbits, and Dubbits: A Wittgensteinian Study of Seeing	No	NYU (Obtained Social Work MSW; Social Work PhD program)
Exam option	No	UWM (Urban Studies)
Reference, Interpretation and Clarity	No	Harvard Law School
Other schools that admitted our students who graduated from 1999-2003 include: Bowling Green, CUNY, Duquesne, Emory, Fordham University, Georgetown, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Loyola, Marquette, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio State, Penn, Rochester, UC-Davis, UC-Irvine, UCLA, UC-Riverside, UCSD, UC-Boulder, UI-Chicago, U Mass-Amherst, U Texas-Austin, U Utah, U Virginia, U Washington-Seattle, U Wisconsin-Madison, Vanderbilt
A partial list of the schools that admitted our students that graduated before 1999: Alberta, Bowling Green, Brown, UCLA, UC-San Diego, UC-Irvine, UC-Riverside, U of Chicago, Colorado, Columbia U., Cornell, CUNY, Emory, Georgetown, UI-Urbana-Champaign, UI-Chicago, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Marquette, Maryland, U Mass-Amherst, Minnesota, North Carolina, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Penn, Pittsburgh, Purdue, Rice, Rochester, St. Louis, Texas, Toronto, Vanderbilt, Virginia, UW-Madison, Washington U., and Yale