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.

We try to keep this information accurate. If you see errors, please contact us at philcounselor@humnet.ucla.edu

2023 Ph.D.’s

Saraliza Anzaldúa, Ph.D. 2023
Monsters and Mestizos: Mestizaje as White Supremacy and the Monsterization of Indigeneity.
Advisor: AJ Julius
Present Position (beginning Fall 2023): California Institute of Integral Studies (Associate Professor)

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
Present Position: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Lecturer)

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: 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: York University (tenure-track)

2021 Ph.D.’s

Jenna Donohue, Ph.D. 2021
A Deliberative Conception of Moral Complicity
Advisor: AJ Julius
Past Position: Postdoctoral Fellow of Embedded EthiCS, Harvard University
Present Position: University of Arkansas (Tenure Track)

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 Disability
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
Past Position: UCLA (Lecturer)
Present Position: York University (Postdoctoral Fellow)

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
Past Position: Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, at Keele University
Present Position: (beginning Winter 2024): UC Davis (Assistant Professor)

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
Past Position: UCLA (Lecturer)
Present Position: Software Engineer, ISBX

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: 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 Tracy, 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: York University (tenure-track), Director of The Cognitive Science program 

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
Present Position: Senior Font Tools Developer, Adobe

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
Past Position: UCLA (Lecturer)
Present Position: Finance Budget Analyst, California Department of Finance
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)
Past Position: University of British Columbia (post doctoral fellowship)

Present Position: Union College (tenure-track)

Adam Masters, Ph.D. 2014
On Emotion
Advisor: Mark Greenberg
Present Position: Washington State Department of Transportation (Accounting)
Paul Nichols, Ph.D. 2014
The Meaning and Semantics of Singular Definite Noun Phrases
Advisors: Joseph Almog and Sam Cumming
Past Position: UCLA (Lecturer)
Present Position: University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Lecturer)
2013 Ph.D.’s
Janelle DeWitt, Ph.D. 2013
The Structure and Function of Emotion in Kant’s Moral Theory
Advisor: Barbara Herman
Past Position: King’s College PA (tenure track)
Past Position: Western Michigan University (Visiting Asst. Prof.)
Past Position: University of Indiana (post-doctoral fellowship)
Present Position: UCLA (Adjunct Assistant Professor)
Jeffrey Helmreich, Ph.D. 2013
More than Words: Stances as an Alternative Model for Apology, Forgiveness, and Other Speech Acts
Advisor: Seana Shiffrin
Present Position: University of California, Irvine (Associate Professor)
Rachel Johnson, Ph.D. 2013
What Are Practical Reasons? Explaining the Counting in Favor of Relation
Advisor: Pamela Hieronymi
Present Position: Trinity University (tenure track)
Diane Kierce, Ph.D. 2013
Deciding What Is Best for the Child: The Ethics of Different-Child Choices in Reproductive Selection
Advisor: Barbara Herman
Present Position: Nordstrom (Marketing Technology Data Analyst) 
Michael Lopez, Ph.D. 2013
The Nature of Indoctrination and Its Role in a Proper Education
Advisor: Calvin Normore
Present Position: Lopez, Bark & Schulz LLP (Partner) 
Yannig Luthra, Ph.D. 2013
Embodied Rational Agency
Advisor: Tyler Burge
Past Position: University College London (Teaching Fellow)
Youichi Matsusaka, Ph.D. 2013
A Theory of Direct Discourse: Its Semantics and Pragmatics
Advisor: David Kaplan
Present Position: Tokyo Metropolitan University (now tenured)
Eliot Michaelson, Ph.D. 2013
This and That: On the Semantics and Pragmatics of Highly Context Sensitive Terms
Advisor: Sam Cumming and David Kaplan
Past Position: McGill University (two-year post doc, Mellon)
Present Position: Kings College London (permanent post)
Eileen Nutting, Ph.D. 2013
Understanding Arithmetic through Definitions
Advisor: Tony Martin
Present Position: University of Kansas (now tenured)
Gabriel Rabin, Ph.D. 2013
Mind, Modality, and Meaning: Towards a Rationalist Physicalism
Advisor: Tyler Burge
Past Position: Australian National University (one-year post doc)
Present Position: NYU, Abu Dhabi (Associate Professor)
Ira Richardson, Ph.D. 2013
The Morality of Mental Practical Action
Advisor: Barbara Herman
Past Position: UCLA (Lecturer)
Luca Struble, Ph.D. 2013
Anti-Individualism and Epistemic Transparency: Common Sense Rationalism about Univocal Reasoning
Advisor: Tyler Burge
Past Position: UCLA (Lecturer)
Past Position: Pomona College (Visiting Asst. Prof.)
Present Position: UCLA Extension (Instructor)
2012 Ph.D.’s
Mandel Cabrera, Ph.D. 2012
Natural Unity and Human Nature
Advisor: Joseph Almog and Barbara Herman
Past Position: Auburn University (Instructor)
Past Position: UCLA (Lecturer)
Past Position: UIC, Yonsei University (Asst. Prof., renewable)
Present Position: UIC, Yonsei University (tenure track)
Tilda Cvrkel, Ph.D. 2012
Mitigation, Deliberation, and Moral Assessment
Advisor: Barbara Herman
Present Position: UCLA Dept. of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology (Lecturer)
David Goldman, Ph.D. 2012
The Justification of Antagonistic Response to Wrongdoing
Advisor: Pamela Hieronymi
Past Position: Yale University (Postdoctoral Fellow)
Past Position: The Ohio State University (Visiting Asst. Prof.)
Past Position: UCLA Extension (Program Director)
Present Position: Rutgers University (Associate Director of Undergraduate Education) 
Sarah Jansen, Ph.D. 2012
Plato and Popular Poetry
Advisor: Gavin Lawrence
Past Position: Carleton College (Visiting Asst. Prof.)
Past Position: Carleton College (tenure track)
Present Position: Northern Arizona University 
Ari Lev, Ph.D. 2012
Active Parts of the World
Advisor: Joseph Almog, John Carriero
Jessica Pepp, Ph.D. 2012
Locating Semantic Reference
Advisor: Joseph Almog
Past Position: McGill University (Lectureship)
Past Position: University of Oslo (post doc)
Present Position: Uppsala University (Researcher) 
 
Alexandru Radulescu, Ph.D. 2012
The Logic of Indexicals
Advisor: David Kaplan
Past Position: UCLA (Lecturer)
Present Position: University of Missouri (tenure track)
Stephen White, Ph.D. 2012
Friendship, Beneficence, and the Self
Advisor: Barbara Herman
Present Position: Northwestern University (tenure track)
2011 Ph.D.’s
Sarah Coolidge, Ph.D. 2011
From Concepts to Cosmos
Advisor: Joseph Almog, John Carriero
Present Position: Behavioral Health Specialist, SOME (So Others Might Eat)
Kristina Gehrman, Ph.D. 2011
Bringing Values Down to Earth
Advisor: Gavin Lawrence
Past Position: Miami University of Ohio (tenure track)
Present Position: University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Associate Professor)
Christopher Ba-Thi Nguyen, Ph.D. 2011
The Ethics of Uncertainty
Advisor: Barbara Herman
Past Position: California State University, Fullerton (Lectureship)
Present Position: Utah Valley University (Associate Professor)
Jesse Summers, Ph.D. 2011
Addiction as Compulsive Misvaluation
Advisor: Pamela Hieronymi
Past Position: Rice University (Visiting Asst. Prof.)
Present Position: Duke University (Lecturing Fellow)
Thomas Ward, Ph.D. 2011
The Hylomorphism of John Duns Scotus
Advisor: Calvin Normore
Past Position: Azusa Pacific University (Visiting Asst. Prof.)
Present Position: Baylor University (tenure track) 
Julie Wulfemeyer, Ph.D. 2011
Bound Cognition and Referential Uses of Language
Advisor: Joseph Almog
Past Position: Colgate University (Visiting Asst. Prof.)
Past Position: Minnesota State, Mankato (Visiting Asst. Prof.)
Present Position: Minnesota State, Mankato (Associate Professor)
2010 Ph.D.’s
Jorah Dannenberg, Ph.D. 2010
Promising as Paradigm
Advisors: Joseph Almog and Seana Shiffrin
Past Position: UCLA (Lecturer)
Past Position: Stanford University (two-year post doc)
Present Position: Stanford University (tenure track)
Sonny Elizondo, Ph.D. 2010
Happiness, Pleasure, and the Rational Will: An Essay on Kantian Moral Psychology
Advisor: Barbara Herman
Past Position: UC, Santa Barbara (Visiting Assistant Professor)
Past Position: Yale University (two-year post doc, ACLS)
Past Position: U of Maryland, Baltimore County (tenure track)
Present Position: UC, Santa Barbara (tenure track)
Robert Hughes, Ph.D. 2010
Governing the Good
Advisor: Seana Shiffrin
Past Position: National Institutes of Health (two-year post doc)
Past Position: UCLA Law and Philosophy (two-year post doc)
Past Position: UCLA (Lecturer)
Present Position: Wharton School of Business (tenure track)
Dawn Starr, Ph.D. 2010
Meaning and Communication: An Essay on the Boundary between Semantics and Pragmatics
Advisors: David Kaplan and Terence Parsons
Present Position: The Ohio State University, Lima (tenure track)
2009 Ph.D.’s
Ben Chan, Ph.D. 2009
Emotional Norms
Advisor: Barbara Herman
Past Position: National Institutes of Health (two-year post doc)
Past Position: Lawrence University (multi-year teaching fellowship)
Present Position: St. Norbet College (now tenured)
Brent Kious, Ph.D. 2009, M.D. 2011
The Evidentiary Account of Consent’s Moral Significance
Advisor: Pamela Hieronymi
Present Position: University of Utah Health Care (psychiatry and adult behavioral health)
James Winter, Ph.D. 2009
Human Identity: A Defense of Animalism
Advisor: Tyler Burge
Past Position: Kenyon College (visiting)
Present Position: Red Rocks Community College (tenured)
2008 Ph.D’s
Joe Hwang, Ph.D. 2008
Descartes and the Metaphysics of Sensory Perception
Advisor: John Carriero
Past Position: California State University, Chico (tenure track)
Present Position: UIC, Yonsei University (tenure track)
Present Position: Pasadena City College (Instructor) 
Matthew Lockard, Ph.D. 2008
Foundations of Epistemic Normativity
Advisor: Tyler Burge
Present Position: Southern Methodist University (now tenured)
Erin Taylor, Ph.D. 2008
The Possibility of Interagent Conflict
Advisor: Seana Shiffrin
Past Position: Cornell University (tenure track)
Present Position: Washington & Lee University (tenure track)
2007 Ph.D.’s
David Ebrey, Ph.D. 2007
Aristotle’s Motivation for Matter
Advisor: Calvin Normore
Past Position: UC Berkeley (two-year post doc)
Past Position: Northwestern University (tenure track)
Past Position: University of Wisconsin-Madison (research fellow)
Present Position: Humbolt-Universität zu Berlin
Mikkel Gerken, Ph.D. 2007
Epistemic Reasoning and the Mental
Advisor: Tyler Burge
Past Position: University of Copenhagen (multi-year post doc)
Past Position: University of Edinburgh (Lecturer, permanent post)
Present Position: University of Southern Denmark (tenured) 
Brad McHose, Ph.D. 2007
Egalitarianism, Permissible Partiality and Decency
Advisor: Seana Shiffrin
Past Position: Stanford University (two-year post doc)
Past Position: University of Washington (multi-year post doc)
Past Position: University of Washington (Instructor)
Present Position: UCLA (Lecturer)
Collin O’Neil, Ph.D. 2007
The Ethics of Communication
Advisor: Seana Shiffrin
Past Position: National Institutes of Health (two-year post doc)
Past Position: National Institutes of Health (Bioethicist)
Past Position: NYU Center for Bioethics (fixed-term Asst. Prof.)
Present Position: Lehman College (tenure track)
Oliver James Rocha, Ph.D. 2007
The Value of a Legislated Life
Advisors: Barbara Herman and Calvin Normore
Past Position: Louisiana State University (earned tenured)
Present Position: Fresno State University (tenured) 
2006 Ph.D.’s
Susan Castro, Ph.D. 2006
The Method of Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: Establishing Moral Metaphysics as a Science
Advisor: Barbara Herman
Present Position: Wichita State University (tenured)
Phil Corkum, Ph.D. 2006
Aristotle and Logical Consequence
Advisor: Calvin Normore
Past Position: University of Colorado, Boulder (Visiting Asst Prof)
Present Position: University of Alberta (now tenured)
Homero Del Pino, Ph.D. 2006
Practical Knowledge, Action, and Weakness of the Will
Advisor: Barbara Herman
Present Position: David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA (Adjunct Assistant Professor)
Imran Razi, Ph.D. 2006
The Special Moral Duties Arising from Membership in Relationships and Communities
Advisor: Calvin Normore
Present Position: Brainshark (Business and Sales Operations)
2005 Ph.D.’s
Katherine Dunlop, Ph.D. 2005
Kant on the Reality of Mathematical Definitions
Advisor: Tyler Burge
Past Position: Stanford University (two-year post doc, Humanities)
Past Position: Brown University (tenure track)
Present Position: UT Austin (now tenured)
Dave Jensen, Ph.D. 2005
Externalism About Desires
Advisor: Barbara Herman
Present Position: Brigham Young University (now tenured)
David Sanson, Ph.D 2005
Being and Time: The Metaphysics of Past and Future in a Dynamic World
Advisor: Calvin Normore
Past Position: The Ohio State University (tenure track)
Present Position: Illinois State University (tenure track)
Margaret Scharle, Ph.D. 2005
Unity in Aristotle’s Natural Teleology
Advisor: Gavin Lawrence
Present Position: Reed College (now tenured)
2004 Ph.D.’s
Franklin Bruno, Ph.D. 2004
The Role of Intentional Action in Artifactual Representation
Advisor: Tyler Burge
Past Position: Pomona College
Past Position: Northwestern University (visiting)
Past Position: Bard (visiting)
Present Position*: SUNY Purchase (Lecturer)
Jonathan Garthoff, Ph.D. 2004
The Embodiment of Morality
Advisors: Barbara Herman and Seana Shiffrin
Past Position: Northwestern University (one year post doc)
Past Position: Northwestern University (tenure track)
Present Position: University of Tennessee (now tenured)
Louis DeRosset, Ph.D. 2004
Modal Primitivism
Advisor: Joseph Almog
Present Position: University of Vermont (now tenured)
2003 Ph.D.’s
Stavroula Glezakos, Ph.D. 2003
The Cognitive Value of Language
Advisor: David Kaplan
Past Position: UCLA (Lecturer)
Past Position: Clarement McKenna College (Visiting Asst. Prof.)
Present Position: Wake Forest University (now tenured)
Tim Hall, Ph.D. 2003
Killing, Letting Die and the Denial of Resources
Advisor: Barbara Herman
Past Position: UCLA
Past Position: Yale
Past Position: University of Vermont
Past Position: Oberlin College (earned tenure)
Larry Herzberg, Ph.D. 2003
Non-inferential Emotion-based Knowledge
Advisor: Tyler Burge
Past Position: CSU Long Beach (Lecturer)
Present Position: University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh (now tenured)
2002 Ph.D.’s
Ben Caplan, Ph.D. 2002
Empty Names
Advisor: David Kaplan
Past Position: University of Manitoba (tenure track)
Past Position: Ohio State University (tenured)
Present Position: University of Kansas (tenured)
Erin Eaker, Ph.D. 2002
Reporting Attitudes
Advisor: David Kaplan
Past Position: University of Western Ontario (tenure track)
Present Position: University of Maryland, College Park (tenure track)
Present Position: University of Virginia (Assistant Professor and Assistant Dean) 
Philip Nickel, Ph.D. 2002
Moral Dependence: Reliance on Moral Testimony
Advisor: Barbara Herman
Past Position: University of California, Irvine (tenure track)
Present Position: 3TU Centre for Ethics and Technology (Senior Researcher)
Present Position: Eindhoven University of Technology (now tenured)
Julie Tannenbaum, Ph.D. 2002
Moral Motivation and Moral Action
Advisor: Barbara Herman
Past Position: University of California, Santa Cruz (tenure track)
Past Position: National Institute of Health (two-year post doc)
Past Position: California State University, Northridge (tenure track)
Present Position: Pomona College (now tenured)
2001 Ph.D.’s
Roberta Ballarin, Ph.D. 2001
Metaphysical Foundations of Modal Logic
Advisor: Joseph Almog
Past Position: UC, San Diego (Lecturer)
Past Position: Southern Methodist University (tenure track)
Present Position: University of British Columbia (now tenured)
Paul Hovda, Ph.D. 2001
The Nature and Logic of Vagueness
Advisor: David Kaplan
Past Position: Yale University (Lecturer)
Present Position: Reed College (now tenured)
Daniel Krasner, Ph.D. 2001
Reference and Fictional Names
Advisor: Kit Fine
Present Position: Metropolitan State College, Denver (now tenured)
2000 Ph.D.’s
Tim Bays, Ph.D. 2000
Reflections on Skolem’s Paradox
Advisor: Tony Martin
Past Position: Yale University (Lecturer)
Present Position: University of Notre Dame (now tenured)
Keith Kaiser, Ph.D. 2000
Realism About Freedom
Advisor: Joseph Almog
Past Position: UCLA (Lecturer)
Past Position: California State University, Los Angeles (Lecturer)
Present Position*: California State University, Long Beach (Lecturer)
Alexander Rajczi, Ph.D. 2000
Blame and the Scope of Moral Requirement
Advisor: Barbara Herman
Past Position: UCLA (Lecturer)
Past Position: Bowdoin College (Visiting Prof.)
Past Position: National Institute of Health (two-year post doc)
Present Position: Claremont McKenna (now tenured)