Recent Ph.D.’s
Recent Ph.D.’s (2000–present)
Our Ph.D.’s, reaching back to 2000, are listed below. We indicate current employment, where possible. However, inevitably, some employment information is unknown or not up to date. An (*) by “Present Position” indicates that the information has not been recently confirmed.
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2023 Ph.D.’s
Piera Maurizio, Ph.D. 2023
The Epistemic, Moral, and Political Significance of an Open Mind.
Advisor: Seana Shiffrin
2022 Ph.D.’s
Zachary Biondi, Ph.D. 2022
Kant’s System of Moral Law
Advisor: Barbara Herman and Tyler Burge
Ian Boon, Ph.D. 2022
Variables in Logic and Natural Language
Advisor: Sam Cumming
Christian De Leon, Ph.D. 2022
Situated Conversation: The Role of Attention in Communication
Advisors: Sam Cumming and Gabe Greenberg
Present Position (Beginning Fall 2022): Williams College (Visiting Assistant Professor)
Kim Johnston, Ph.D. 2022
Contradictions and the Structure of Reasoning.
Advisors: Josh Armstrong and Sherri Roush
Melissa Retwka, Ph.D. 2022
The Value of Recognition.
Advisor: AJ Julius
Ayana Samuel, Ph.D. 2022
Joint Action, Speech, and Asymmetric Relations
Advisor: Pamela Hieronymi & AJ Julius
Present Position (Beginning Fall 2022): York University (tenure-track)
2021 Ph.D.’s
Jenna Donohue, Ph.D. 2021
A Deliberative Conception of Moral Complicity
Advisor: AJ Julius
Present Position (Beginning Fall 2021): Postdoctoral Fellow of Embedded EthiCS, Harvard University
Andrew Flynn, Ph.D. 2021
Morality and Irony
Advisors: Barbara Herman and AJ Julius
Present Position: Dean’s Postdoctoral Scholar, Florida State University
Emily Page, Ph.D. 2021
Openness to the Development of the Relationship: A Theory of Close Relationships
Advisor: AJ Julius
Ally Peabody Smith, Ph. D. 2021
Learning from Profound Intellectual Disabililty
Advisor: Daniela Dover and AJ Julius
Present Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Medicine
Trent Teti, Ph.D. 2021
The Third Motive On Non-Hedonic, Self-Regarding Reasons for Acting
Advisor: Barbara Herman
2020 Ph.D.’s
Milo Crimi, Ph.D. 2020
Destroying the Modes of Signifying: Anti-Modism in Late Medieval Philosophy of Language
Advisors: Brian Copenhaver and Calvin Normore
Present Position: Occidental College (Visiting Assistant Professor)
William Kowalsky, Ph.D. 2020
Confidence and Objective Probability Signaling in Perceptual Systems
Advisor: Tyler Burge
Present Position: UCLA (Lecturer)
Jordan Wallace-Wolf, J.D. 2017, Ph.D. 2020
Mental Privacy
Advisor: Seana Shiffrin
Present Position: University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law (tenure-track)
2019 Ph.D.’s
Gabriel Dupre, Ph.D. 2019
Ways in the Studies of Words: The Methodology and Epistemology of Linguistic Science
Advisor: Sam Cumming
Present Position: Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, at Keele University
Michael Hansen, Ph.D. 2019
Worlds Apart: An Interpretation of Leibnizian Perceiving
Advisor: John Carriero and Calvin Normore
Present Position: Brigham Young University (tenure-track)
Antti Hiltunen, Ph.D. 2019
Spinoza: The Human Mind as an Understanding of the Nature of its Body
Advisor: John Carriero
Present Position: UCLA (Lecturer)
Gabbrielle M. Johnson, Ph.D. 2019
Cognition and the Structure of Bias
Advisors: Sam Cumming and Gabe Greenberg
Past Position: UCLA (Lecturer)
Past Position: Bersoff Faculty Fellow, NYU (post-doctoral fellowship)
Present Position: (beginning Fall 2020): Claremont McKenna College (tenure-track)
Andrew Lavin, Ph.D. 2019
Normality Judgments: Structure and Content
Advisors: Gavin Lawrence and Calvin Normore
Present Position: Butte College, Feather River College, and CSU Chico (Philosophy Instructor)
Lauren Schaeffer, Ph.D. 2019
Oppression and Resistance
Advisor: A.J. Julius
Present Position: UCLA (Lecturer)
Michael Skiles, Ph.D. 2019
First Principles to Further our Understanding of What is to be Done
Advisor: Calvin Normore
Present Position: C.E.O., HostGPO
Eric Tracey, Ph.D. 2019
The Bounds of Thought: Prospects for a Norm-Based Metasemantics
Advisors: Sam Cumming and Josh Armstrong
Past Positions: City College of New York and Fordham University (Adjunct Assistant Professor)
Present Position: Princeton University (Lecturer)
2018 Ph.D.’s
Jonathan Gingerich, Ph.D. 2018
Freedom’s Spontaneity
Advisors: Calvin Normore and Seana Shiffrin
Past Position: Washington University St. Louis (post-doc)
Present Position: King’s College London-The Dickson Poon School of Law
Future Position (beginning Fall 2023): Rutgers Law School (tenure-track)
Brian Hutler, J.D. 2014, Ph.D. 2018
Cooperation, Religious Freedom, and the Liberal State
Advisors: Barbara Herman, Seana Shiffrin
Past Position: University of Pennsylvania (Lecturer)
Past Position: Johns Hopkins University Berman Institute of Bioethics (post-doc)
Present Position: Temple University (tenure-track)
Kevin Lande, Ph.D. 2018
Parts of Perception
Advisor: Tyler Burge
Past Position: University of Antwerp (post-doc)
Present Position (beginning 2019): York University (tenure-track)
Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò, Ph.D. 2018
Autobiography
Advisors: AJ Julius
Present Position: Georgetown University (tenure-track)
Sabine Tsuruda, J.D. 2016, Ph.D. 2018
Moral Agency and the Workplace
Advisors: Seana Shiffrin
Present Position: Queens University School of Law (tenure-track)
2017 Ph.D.’s
Laura Gillespie, Ph.D. 2017
On the Possibility and Permissibility of Interpersonal Punishment
Advisor: Seana Shiffrin
Present Position: McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society, Stanford University (post-doc)
Skef Iterum, Ph.D. 2017
Technical Warrant and its Relation to Intentional Action
Advisor: AJ Julius
William Reckner, Ph.D. 2017
The Form of Law: Practical Principles and the Foundations of Kant’s Moral Theory
Advisor: Barbara Herman
Present Position: University of Richmond (tenure-track)
Tamar Weber, Ph.D. 2017
Forming Concepts and Doing it Well: A Theory and Epistemology for Empirical Concepts
Advisor: Tyler Burge
Present Position: UCLA (Lecturer)
2016 Ph.D.’s
Gregory Antill, Ph.D. 2016
The Ethics of Self-Fulfilling Beliefs
Advisor: Pamela Hieronymi
Present Position: Claremont McKenna (Visiting Assistant Professor)
Lee-Ann Chae, Ph.D. 2016
War and Peace: Towards a Just Peace
Advisor: A.J. Julius
Past Position: Wharton School of Business (post-doc)
Present Position: Temple University (tenure-track)
Lindsey Chambers, Ph.D. 2016
Role Obligations and the Morality of Reproductive Selection
Advisor: Barbara Herman
Past Position:McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society, Stanford University (post-doc)
Past Position: Harvard University (College Fellow)
Present Position: University of Kentucky (tenure-track)
Ashley Feinsinger, Ph.D. 2016
Making Words
Advisor: Sam Cumming
Past Position: University of San Diego (tenure-track)
Present Position: UCLA School of Medicine (Adjunct Assistant Professor)
Present Position: UCLA (Lecturer)
2015 Ph.D.’s
David Attanasio, Ph.D. 2015
The State Obligation to Protect
Advisor: Seana Shiffrin
Past Position: Universidad de los Andes (Visiting Professor)
Past Position: Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano (Asst Professor)
Present Position: Dechert LLP (Counsel, International Arbitration Group)
Justin Jennings, Ph.D. 2015
Right Action and Integrity
Advisor: Barbara Herman
Present Position: Wake Forest University (Assistant Teaching Professor)
Andrew Jewell, Ph.D. 2015
Believing for Reasons
Advisor: Mark Greenberg
Past Position: UCLA (Lecturer)
Aaron Mead, Ph.D. 2015
On Loving Some People More than Others
Advisor: Pamela Hieronymi
Past Position: Caltech (Lecturer)
Present Position: Exponent Engineering and Scientific Consulting (Managing Engineer)
Ingrid Steinberg, Ph.D. 2015
Paternalism and the Moral Status of Children
Advisor: Tyler Burge
Past Position: UCLA (Lecturer)
2014 Ph.D.’s
Joshua Blander, Ph.D. 2014
Dependence, Separability, and Theories of Identity and Distinction in Late Medieval Philosophy: Case Studies from Scotus and Ockham
Advisor: Calvin Normore
Present Position: The Kings College (tenure track)
Denis Bühler, Ph.D. 2014
Psychological Agency: Guidance of Visual Attention
Advisor: Tyler Burge
Past Position: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (post-doc)
Past Position: Oxford University (Lecturer)
Past Position: University of Antwerp (post doctoral fellowship)
Past Position: University of Tübingen (tenure track)
Present Position: Ecole Normale Supérieure (tenure track)
David Friedell, Ph.D. 2014
Abstract Artifacts
Advisors: Sam Cumming, Terry Parsons
Past Position: Barnard College (Visiting Assistant Professor)
Present Position: University of British Columbia (post doctoral fellowship)
Future Position (beginning Fall 2020): Union College (tenure-track)