Placement Information

Job Placement Record

Department of Philosophy
University of Illinois at Chicago

The UIC Philosophy Department offers a full academic placement service, coordinated by our Placement Director, for its Ph.D. graduates. We make every effort to find academic employment for our Ph.D. graduates who seek academic positions. To this end, we provide close guidance in the development of a dossier, assist students in locating promising academic job openings, provide a cover letter to prospective employers, and conduct practice job interviews which are videotaped for later review by the student.

The table below lists the dissertation title and placement history (in reverse chronological order) for each UIC Ph.D. in Philosophy from 1994-present. As the American Philosophical Association explains, the job market for philosophers is tight. (Prospective students should read the American Philosophical Association’s Data on the Profession.) We strongly encourage prospective graduate students to seek recent placement information from any graduate program to which they are considering applying.

2009

Justice with Humanity: Hugo Grotius and the Ethics of International Conflict
Central Michigan University, tenure track

The Aristotelian Notions of Theoria and Praxis in Heidegger's Early Thought and Its Reverberations in Gadamer and Arendt
Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, one year

2008

Wittgenstein on Grammar and Method (from 1929 to the Philosophical Investigations)
The Federal University of Minas Gerais

2007

The Logical Interpretation and the Measurement Problem
Arizona State University, Faculty Associate

2006

Theories and Reality: Five Essays on Quine and Underdetermination
Federal University of Santa Maria, tenure track
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), collaborating professor and post-doc fellow

Wittgenstein and Myths of Meaning
California University of Pennsylvania, tenure track

A Dialogical Account of Authenticity
Oakton Community College, tenure track

Progress and Preservation: Increased Unification and The Realist's Conception of Scientific Success
East Tennessee State University, tenure track

2005

The Practice of Personhood: Understanding Individual Responsibility of Oppression
Arkansas State University, tenure track

Foundations of Arithmetical Knowledge
Visiting Professor, Boston University
University of Illinois at Chicago, one year

Choosing To Be Harmed: Autonomy and its Limits in Living Organ Donor Transplantation
Weill Medical College of Cornell Medical School, Assistant Dean of Research and Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health, Division of Bioethics
University of Chicago, Director of the Ethics, Education, Policy and Compliance, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Human Subjects Research
Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Chicago MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics

2004

Federation of Peoples: An Unorthodox Liberal Approach to Minority Nationalism
University of Wisconsin Barron County, tenure track
Wilfrid Laurier Univiersity (Canada), two years

New Directions in Scientific Observation: Theories Concepts, Objectivity, and the Analogy of Discovery
Rowan University, tenure track

A Conceptual Analysis of Ecosystem Health
Northeastern Illinois University, tenure track

Work Song! Autonomy & Authenticity From The Ground Up
College of DuPage, tenure track
University of Texas, Pan-American, tenure track

Equal Protection: Sex Equality In Liberal Democracies
University of San Diego, tenure track
Eastern Michigan University, tenure track

2003

The Phenomenal Character of Visual Consciousness
Arkansas State University, tenure track
Northwestern University, one year

2002

The Liar Paradox Self Understanding and Nietzschean Perspectivalism
Law school.

2001

Continuity, Inquiry, and the Possibility of Wisdom in John Dewey's Pragmatism
St. Olaf College, one year

2000

On the Point of What We Say: Kant, Wittgenstein, and Cavell on When Words Are Called For
Tufts University, tenure track
University of Chicago, Harper Schmidt Fellowship, three years

On Lengths of Lines and Reals
Brooklyn College, tenure track
Northwestern University, two years
University of Illinois at Chicago, one year

Motivating the Discursive Turn in Moral Theory
Jade Designs (Website Design)

1999

Language, Theory, and the Human Subject: Understanding Quine's Natural Epistemology
Washington and Lee University, tenure track
Washington and Lee University, two years
Colgate University, two years

Tractarian Mysticism: Moral Transformation through Aesthetic Contemplation in Wittgenstein's Early Philosophy
Chicago State University, one year
Ohio University, one year

1998

On Testing for the Stage Collapse in Quantum Mechanics
Bowling Green State University, one year
Colgate University, one year
Cornell University, two year

The Variety of Reasons: Justification and Requirement in Rationality and Advisability
Florida State University, tenure track
University of Missouri, St. Louis, one year
Johns Hopkins, one year

Local Time: Foundational Studies for a Theory of Temporality in a Relativistic Universe
Loyola University, one year
St. Joseph's College of Maine, tenure track

A Wittgensteinian Study of Experimental Psychology
Western Carolina University, tenure track

Moral Problems in the Provision of Environmental Goods
SPSS, Inc. (Consultant)

1997

The Dialectical Theory of Progress: A Study of Jurgen Habermas' Theory of Social Evolution
University of Louisville, tenure track
Hamline University, four years
University of Kentucky, one year

St Thomas, Molina, and Leibniz on Divine Providence and Foreknowledge
University of Virginia, one semester
Central European University, Budapest, one semester
Wake Forest University, three years
University of Colorado, Boulder, one year

1996

The Best Test Theory of Extension
University of Colorado at Boulder, tenure track
Texas Tech University, tenure track
University of Washington, Visiting Scholar
Tacoma, Green River, and Highline Community Colleges

The Design Inference: Eliminating Chance Through Small Probabilities
Discovery Institute Senior Fellow, Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture

Inequality, Vulnerability, and Morality
William Rainey Harper College, tenure track
Lake Forest College

1995

Autonomy and Desire: An Essay in Moral and Philosophical Psychology
Central Michigan University, tenure track
Florida International University, tenure track

A Deflationary Response to the Ontological Problem: In Defense of the Coherence Theory of Justification
California State University, tenure track (now tenured)

Justice and Health: The Cultural Politics of Medicine
George Washington University, Writing Program, three years
University of Maryland, one year
George Washington University, four years

Material Girls: A Game-Theoretic Revision of the Social Contract Enterprise with Women Present
Chicago-Kent School of Law

1994

Three Essays on Spinoza's Philosophy
Utah State University, tenure track (now tenured)

Unity and Uniqueness in the Early Schlick
Olive Harvey College, Humanities Department Chairperson
City Colleges of Chicago, tenure track (now tenured)

1993

Measurement and Macroscopic Quantities
University of Utah, Associate Professor with tenure
State University of New York, Buffalo, tenure track

Thresholds for Rights
University of Western Ontario, tenure track (now tenured)