PhD Placement 2007–2021
2022
Justin Simpson
"Posthuman Performances in Environmental Ethics and Social Epistemology" (Chris Cuomo)
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (lecturer_
Claire Mills
Livestock in Rawls’ Basic Structure: A Novel Approach to Distributive Justice for Farmed Animals (Piers Stephens)
Michael Lindquist
An Exploration of Environmental Values in Outer Space (Piers Stephens)
Northland College, Assistant Professor (tenure-track)
2021
Laura Matthews
"Mental Illness as Inadaptivity: An Enactive Approach" (René Jagnow)
James Filler
"Heidegger's Neoplatonic Ontology: Relation as the Ground of Being" (Piers Stephens)
University of Auburn (fulltime lecturer)
Wheeling University, Adjunct Instructor
Belmont College, Adjunct Instructor
2020
Chris Byron
A New Reading of Marx’s Theory of Exploitation: Assessment and Defense (O. Bradley Bassler)
1. Barry University (FL), Visiting Instructor
Erich Christiansen
No Way to Tell from Here: Drone Strikes and the Ontology and Epistemology of the Enemy (Chris Cuomo)
Nathan Vacher
Significance and the Indefinite in Hans Blumberg’s Work on Myth (Elizabeth Brient)
2019
Graham Schuster
Truth, The Good, and the Unity of Concept and Objectivity in Hegel’s Science of Logic (Richard Dien Winfield)
1. West Texas A & M University, Visiting Assistant Professor
Ava Thomas Wright
The Duty of Veracity (Melissa Seymour Fahmy)
1. Northeastern University, Postdoctoral Research & Teaching Fellowship
2. California Polytechnic State University, Assistant Professor (tenure-track)
Michael Yudanin
Animal Choice and Freedom: On the Genealogy of the Will (Richard Dien Winfield)
1. Software Consultant
2018
Joseph Carter
Motion and Actuality of the Infinite in Aristotle’s Physics III (Richard Winfield)
1. UGA Library
Chris Lay
Personal Identity and Moral Character: How a Necessary Moral Persistence Condition Might Be Possible (René Jagnow & Sarah Wright)
1. University of Texas at El Paso, Visiting Assistant Professor
2. Young Harris College, Assistant Professor (tenure track)
John Njoroge
Objection sustained: Anscombe’s challenge to modern moral philosophy’s use of the concept of obligation (Melissa Fahmy)
1. Head of the Valley Light Home (orphanage) in Nairobi, Kenya
John Paetsch
The texture of foliated time (O. Bradley Bassler)
1. Temple University, Adjunct Instructor (temporary)
Brooke Rudow-Abouharb
At Home on Earth: A Philosophical Foundation (Beth Preston)
1. Georgia College and State University, Visiting Lecturer
2017
Tony Chackal
The internal and external dimensions of ecological autonomy (Beth Preston)
1. Missouri State University, Instructor (permanent)
Emre Ebetürk
Hegel’s idea of life in logic and nature (Richard Winfield)
Currently applying for academic positions
Clinton Johnson
Meister Eckhart’s nova et rara: His novel and unusual forms of rhetoric and the emerging modern worldview (Elizabeth Brient)
1. Kennesaw State University, Adjunct Instructor
2. Georgia State University, Senior Research Scientist
Luke Johnson
Kierkegaard and the significance of individuality (Richard Winfield)
1. Head private app-development company
Sean Meslar
Deontological epistemology (Sarah Wright)
Currently applying for academic positions
Rebecca Neher
Charles W. Mills’ “Racial Contract” (Chris Cuomo)
No current information
Bradley Patty
On honor (Edward Halper)
1. Works for a consulting firm
Jackson Schwartz
Natural goodness and normative evaluation (Melissa Seymour Fahmy)
1. University of West Georgia, Adjunct Instructor (full-time)
2. Clayton State University, Lecturer (permanent)
Nathan Wood
The problem of demarcation in contemporary virtue ethics (Piers Stephens)
1. Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC, Instructor of Philosophy (permanent)
2016
Isadora Mosh
Thinking emotions: Exploring emotion through philosophy, ethics, narrative, and grief (O. Bradley Bassler)
1. Georgia College and State University, Lecturer of Philosophy (permanent)
Nastassja Pugliese
The metaphysics of imagination in Spinoza (Edward Halper)
1. University of Sao Paulo, Post-doctorate
2. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Assistant Professor, tenure-track)
Taylor Stone
William James and John Dewey on pragmatic religion (Piers Stephens)
1. Emory & Henry College, VA, Adjunct Instructor
Tess Varner
Looking beyond linguistics: A pragmatists-(eco)feminist framework for democratic deliberation with nonhuman stakeholders (Victoria Davion)
1. Concordia College, Moorhead, MN, Assistant Professor (tenure-track)
2015
Peter Ahumada
Language: An overhaul of linguistic philosophy (Richard Winfield)
1. High School Teacher (mathematics)
Daniel Crescenzo
Nonhuman animals and the promise of the capabilities approach (Piers Stephens)
1. Stewardship Coordinator, Oconee River Land Trust.
Anthony Shiver
Parts and Plurals: Essays on the Logic and Metaphysics of Plurality (Charles Cross)
1. Test Specialist, Law School Admissions Council
Robert Scott
Ecological responsibility as an imperative and a virtue: A transcendental phenomenological approach (Piers Stephens)
1. University of North Georgia, Assistant Professor (tenure-track)
2014
Eric Helleloid
Hannah Arendt's phenomenology of the will: Contingency, temporality, and the nature of moral judgment (Elizabeth Brient)
1. Augsburg College, Instructor (temporary)
2. Immigration and Naturalization Services
Gregory Scott Moss
The being of the universal: A historical and systematic inquiry (Richard Winfield)
1. Clemson University, Lecturer (temporary)
2. Chinese University, Hong Kong, Assistant Professor (tenure-track)
2013
Anthony Jared Tiarsmith
On the outcry of mute things: Hans Jonas and The imperative of responsibility (Richard Winfield)
1. GrowNYC, Development/Grant Writing Intern (temporary)
2. City Parks Foundation, Project Coordinator (Newtown Creek)
James Martin Grindeland
On the hard problem of consciousness: An evaluation and defense of Chalmers’ two-dimensional argument against materialism (René Jagnow)
1. University of North Georgia, Lecturer (full-time)
2012
Benjamin William McCraw
A virtue-theoretic approach to religious epistemology: Faith as an act of epistemic virtue (Sarah Wright)
University of South Carolina Upstate, Adjunct Instructor
Daniel Bloom
The unity of oneness and manyness in Plato’s Theaetetus (Edward Halper)
1. University of Georgia, Instructor (temporary)
2. West Texas A & M, Assistant Professor (tenure-track)
2011
Tzuchien Tho
Leibniz’s laboratory of concepts: The status and structure of infinitesimals as metaphysical laboratory (O. Bradley Bassler)
1. Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Affiliated Researcher (temporary)
2. Centre International d’Etude de la Philosophie Française Contemporaine, Affiliated Researcher (temporary)
3. University of Bristol, Lecturer in the History of Philosophy (fulltime)
Brian Rañon Howell
Negative dialectics and political improvisation: The convergence of philosophy, politics and music in Adorno’s critique of praxis (O. Bradley Bassler)
1. Hillsborough Community College, Adjunct Instructor
2. University of Tampa, Adjunct Instructor
3. University of South Florida, Adjunct Instructor
4. Rañon, Inc., Project Engineer
2010
Matthew Lee Schneider
Self-ownership, property right and freedom: Reconceiving property in ourselves (Victoria Davion)
1. University of Georgia, Instructor (temporary)
2. Wofford College, Visiting Assistant Professor
3. Traveling Trainer at Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics, Saint Simons Island, Georgia
Laurence Bloom
Beyond the hypothesis: The unity of the soul in Plato’s Republic (Edward Halper)
1. University of Georgia, Instructor (temporary)
2. University of Cape Town, Visiting Lecturer
3. Rhodes University, Visiting Lecturer
4. University of Cape Town, Postdoctoral Fellow
5. Lecturer, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South-Africa
2009
George Miles Felis
Evolved value and the foundations of ethical theory (Scott A. Kleiner)
1. Georgia Perimeter College, Adjunct Instructor
2. Oglethorpe University, Visiting Assistant Professor
3. Northern Arizona University at Flagstaff, Instructor (temporary)
4. University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Lecturer (permanent)
2008
Chad Wiener
Final cause as the unity of sensible ousia: The compatibility of Aristotle’s metaphysical and physical definitions of a living being (Edward Halper)
1. Portland State University, Assistant Professor (tenure track)
2. Pacific University, Visiting Assistant Professor
3. Old Dominion University, Lecturer (permanent)
Whitten Sullivan Watson
On the legitimacy of democratic government (Richard Winfield)
Butler University, Adjunct Instructor
Nile Sedgwick
Sentimentalism and moral motivation (Sarah Wright)
1. Georgia State University, MS program in Professional Counseling
2. Savannah Therapy, Psychotherapist
Xon Hostetter
The trinitarian philosophy of Jonathan Edwards: An ontological and typological exposition (Elizabeth Brient)
1. Berea Reformed Evangelical Church, Pastor
2. Crawford Middle School, 8th Grade Teacher
3. University of Georgia Law School, Student
2007
Chelsea Harold Snelgrove
After humanism: Ethics and politics from an ecological point of view (Victoria Davion)
1. Georgia Perimeter College, Adjunct Instructor
2. University of West Georgia, Adjunct Instructor
3. South University, Adjunct Online Instructor
David Jeremy Hart
Helens: Autobiography at the crossroads of philosophy and literature (O. Bradley Bassler)
1. West Texas A & M, Associate Professor