Placement Information
Graduate Program Placement
The majority of our students choose to go on to doctoral study in philosophy or a related discipline, while the rest go to law school or seek employment outside academe.
Since 2015, 22 of our 27 MA students who have chosen the thesis option have applied to PhD programs, and 21 of 22 (95.4%) have been accepted with funding.
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Year |
MA Thesis Title |
Applied to PhD Programs? |
Initial Placement (fully funded Philosophy PhD acceptances unless otherwise specified) |
| 2023 | Misgivings About the Given: Externalist Elements in Bonjour's Internalist Foundationalism | Yes | University of Georgia (also accepted at Iowa, Kansas, South Carolina) |
| 2023 | The Necessity of Integrity and Stare Decisis in Anglo-American Judicial Systems | Yes (PhD & MLA) | Converse University (MLA) |
| 2023 | Aproaching a Theory of Public Health Ethics | Yes | St. Louis University (Bioethics & Philosophy) |
| 2022 | The Double-Bind of the Black Scholar: How Racial Embodiment Engages with Academia | Yes | Memphis (also accepted at Purdue) |
| 2022 | Painting, Intersubjectivity, and Ethics in the Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty | Yes | Buffalo (also accepted at University of South Florida) |
| 2021 | Benevolent Politics: A Proposal for Maternal Governance | Yes | University of Hawai'i |
| 2021 | Anxiety and Death in Being and Time: An Exercise in Formal Indication | Yes | Texas A&M (also accepted at Buffalo, New Mexico, Hawai'i, and Memphis) |
| 2021 | Naming the Virtual: History through Hegel and Deleuze | Yes | Emory |
| 2020 | Nishitani Keiji's Solution to the Problem of Nihilism: The Way to Emptiness | Yes | University of Hawai'i |
| 2020 | Meliorism in the 21st Century | Yes | Texas A&M |
| 2020 | Phenomenology and Metaphysical Realism | Yes | University of Kentucky |
| 2020 | From One to All: The Evolution of Camus' Absurdism | Yes | employed outside academe (applied to only one (non-philosophy) program) |
| 2019 | Property Individuation | Yes | University of Nebraska |
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2019 |
On the Philosophy and Psychology of Reasoning and Rationality | Yes | University of Maryland |
| 2018 | Rethinking Truth: Re-description in Rortian Solidarity | No | Employed outside academe |
| 2018 | On Essences: Phenomenological Insights into Object Oriented Ontology | Yes | University of South Florida |
| 2018 | Consciousness Restrained: Does Consciousness Have Any Adaptive Function? | Yes | University of South Florida |
| 2017 | The Role of Intermediacy: Plato's Republic Book VI | Yes | University of Kentucky |
| 2017 | The Immanence of the Transcendental: Buber, Emerson, and the Divine in the Secular World | Yes | University of South Florida |
| 2016 | Moral Responsibility, Frankfurt-Style Cases, and Alternative Possibilities | No | Employed outside academe |
| 2016 | The Indispensability of Conscious Access | Yes | University of Kentucky |
| 2016 | Art as Negation: A Defense of Conceptual Art as Art | No | Employed outside academe |
| 2016 | Service in Business | No | Employed outside academe |
| 2015 | Schelling, Heidegger, and Evil | Yes | Duquesne University |
| 2015 | Shaffer's Priority Monism and the Problem of Junky Possible Worlds | Yes | Syracuse University |
| 2015 | Nietzsche's Ethic: Virtue for All and None? | No | Employed outside academe |
| 2015 | Buddhist Ethics is Itself and Not Another Thing | Yes | Binghamton University |