Placement History (1998-2007)
Between 1998 and 2007, thirteen philosophers earned doctoral degrees in the Philosophy Graduate Program at the University of Florida. All of the thirteen sought an academic position, and twelve had found one when we compiled this information. Five had been placed in tenure-track positions. So of those who have sought an academic position, better than 90% have found a position, and of those who found a position, 40% have found tenure track positions.
The department hired a number of new faculty in the early years of this decade, so it might be useful to focus on recent placement information. In the five years beginning in 2003 and ending in 2007, ten people earned doctoral degrees, and of these, nine had found an academic position when we compiled this information. Five found tenure-track positions. Of those who sought an academic position and found one, 55% have found tenure-track positions.
The following list provides the name, dissertation title, dissertation supervisor, and placement information for each of twelve philosophers mentioned above who found employment in an academic position. For each person on the list, we provide his or her first or most recent tenure-track or tenured position, or the most recent temporary position we know of.
–Updated December 2007
2007
- Emil Badici
- Dissertation: The Inexpressibility of Truth
- Supervisor: Greg Ray
- Placement: Assistant Professor: Texas A&M, Kingsville, tenure track.
2006
- Anton Tupa
- Dissertation: Development and Defense of a Desire-Satisfaction Conception of Well-Being
- Supervisor: David Copp
- Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Auburn University
2005
- Peter Barry
- Dissertation: Wanting the bad and doing bad things: an essay in moral psychology
- Supervisor: David Copp
- Placement: Assistant Professor, Saginaw Valley State University, tenure-track.
Katherine Kanuck-Lammens
- Dissertation: A defense of conceptual analysis and thought experiments
- Supervisor: Kirk Ludwig and Gene Witmer
- Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, James Madison University.
Huiming Ren
- Dissertation: Self knowledge and narrow content
- Supervisor: Kirk Ludwig
- Placement: Research fellow at the Center for the Study of Language and Cognition in Zhejiang University of China
2004
- Daniel Boisvert
- Dissertation: Expressive-assertivism : a dual-use solution to the moral problem
- Supervisor: Kirk Ludwig and Jon Tresan
- Placement: Assistant Professor, California State University, Bakersfield, tenure-track.
Ellen Maccarone
- Dissertation: Impartiality: Its Nature and Application
- Supervisor: Robert Baum
- Placement: Assistant Professor, Gonzaga University, tenure-track.
2003
- Carlos Garcia-Duque
- Dissertation: Four central issues in Popper’s theory of science
- Supervisor: Chuang Liu
- Placement: Professor, University of Manizales, Manizales, Colombia, tenured.
Matthew Hallgarth
- Dissertation: Bernard Gert’s theory of moral rules and American professional military ethics
- Supervisor: Robert Baum
- Placement: Assistant Professor, U.S. Air Force Academy, tenure-track.
2001
- Eva Deane Kort
- Dissertation: Substance, sorts, and consciousness : Locke’s empiricism and his account of personal identity in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
- Supervisor: Kirk Ludwig and Gene Witmer
- Placement: Lecturer, University of North Carolina, Wilmington.
2000
- John Peoples:
- Dissertation: A new theory of counterfactural conditionals
- Supervisor: Kirk Ludwig and Greg Ray
- Placement: Lecturer, Open University.
1999
- Gayle Brown:
- Dissertation: Skepticism, externalism and the nature of the mind-world relation
- Supervisor: Kirk Ludwig
- Placement: Visiting Lecturer, Honors Program, University of Florida