Placement Information
Graduate Program Placement
About half of our students choose to go on in philosophy, while the rest go to law school, pursue a degree in another discipline, or get other employment.
This page is under development as we add previous years; the past 6 academic years are complete.
| Year |
MA Thesis Title |
Applied to PhD Programs? |
Comments (PhD admissions with funding unless specified otherwise) |
|
2013 |
"A Comparative Look at Karma and Determinism" |
No |
Employed outside academe |
|
2013 |
"Railton's Reductive Moral Realism" |
Yes |
Philosophy PhD program, Nebraska-Lincoln |
|
2013 |
"A Spectrum of Civil Disobedience: A Consideration of Violence and Jury Nullification" |
No |
Completed Law School |
|
2012 |
"The Methodology of Phenomenological Realism in The Acting Person by Karol Wojtyla" |
No |
Independent scholar, Theology PhD |
|
2012 |
"Nietzsche's Naturalism as a Critique of Morality and Freedom" |
No |
Employed outside academe |
|
2012 |
"Rhetorical Revolutions: Heidegger and Aristotle" |
Yes |
Instructor, Philosophy, KSU |
|
2012 |
"Prolegomena to a Sartrean Virtue Ethics |
No |
Instructor, Philosophy, Bridgewater State Univ. |
|
2012 |
"Aesthetic Experience and the (Queer) Self |
Yes |
Philosophy PhD program, Purdue |
|
2012 |
"Developing Conscience and Empathy from Being and Nothingness |
Yes |
Political Science PhD program, Brandeis |
|
2012 |
"Reading Plato with Heidegger: A Study of the Allegory of the Cave |
Yes |
Political Science PhD program, Michigan State |
|
2012 |
"Carnap Visits Canberra: Updating the Logical Positivist Criteria of Cognitive Significance |
Yes |
Instructor, Philosophy, KSU |
|
2011 |
"Process Metaphysics in the Far West: American Indian Ontologies |
Yes |
Employed outside academe |
|
2011 |
"Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jean-Luc Nancy: A Shared Concern about Retrospection at the Art Museum |
Yes |
Instructor, Philosophy, KSU |
|
2011 |
"Albert Camus and the Phenomenon of Solidarity |
Yes |
Philosophy PhD program, Univ. of South Florida |
|
2011 |
"Deliberation and the Role of the Practical Syllogism |
Yes |
Instructor, Philosophy, Brown-Mackey College |
|
2011 |
"The Emergent Self: Resonating Themes in Confucian and Meadean Concepts of Self |
Yes |
Philosophy PhD program, National Univ. of Singapore |
|
2011 |
"Overcoming the Demonic: Faith, Sin, and Redemption in Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling |
Yes |
Philosophy PhD program, Baylor Univ. |
|
2010 |
"From Science to Human Sacrifice: Frazer, Levi-Strauss and Wittgenstein on Understanding Foreign Ritual Practice |
Yes |
Philosophy PhD program, Univ. of Arkansas |
|
2010 |
"The 'Permanent Hegelian Deposit' in John Dewey's Theory of Inquiry |
Yes |
Philosophy PhD program, Univ. of South Florida |
|
2010 |
"From Chaos to Qualia: An Analysis of Phenomenal Character in Light of Process Philosophy and Self-Organizing Systems |
No |
Upward Bound, KSU |
|
2009 |
"The Question of Subjective Immortality |
No |
Employed outside academe |
|
2009 |
"An Exploration of the Three Major Schools of Taxonomy Using Science Fiction Examples |
No |
Employed outside academe |
|
2009 |
"Being in Place: On Unity and Body in Aristotle |
Yes |
Philosophy PhD program, Villanova Univ. |
|
2009 |
"Zen Masters At Play and On Play: A Take on Koans and Koan Practice |
No |
Employed outside academe |
|
2008 |
"Beyond True and False: An Analysis of Part I of Beyond Good and Evil |
No |
Employed outside academe |
|
2008 |
"The Throw: An Introduction to Diagrammatics |
Yes |
Philosophy PhD program, Duquesne Univ. |
|
2008 |
"The Organic Circuit: Investigations into John Dewey's Cycles of Naturalism and Instrumentalism |
Yes |
Philosophy PhD program, Duquesne Univ. |
|
2007 |
"Social Self and Religious Self: An Inquiry into Compassion and the Self-Other Dialect |
No |
Asst. Professor, Univ. of Akron Libraries |
|
2007 |
"Two Ways of Social Practice Theory: Wittgensteinian and Heideggerian |
Yes |
Philosophy PhD program, Univ. of South Florida |
|
2007 |
"The Responsible Corporation: Stockholders, Stakeholders and Aristotelian Teleology |
No |
Law school |