Placements and Recently Completed PhDs
Below, listed in alphabetical order by year, you will find the names of the most recent graduates and placements in our PhD Program, the titles of their dissertations, a list of the members of their dissertation committees, and a link to a ten-page abstract of their dissertation. In some cases, you will also find a link to a website where the entire text of the dissertation may be posted.
2013
Rachel Goodman
Placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in the Philosophy of Mind at the University of Leeds in England (2013). Visiting Assistant Professorship at Franklin and Marshall College (2012)
Dissertation committee: Josef Stern (Chair), Jason Bridges, James Conant and Michael Kremer.
Dissertation: "Singular Thought: Making the Most of the Notion" Abstract (PDF) Summary (PDF)
Website: https://sites.google.com/a/fandm.edu/rachel-goodman/
Lisa Hicks
Placement:
Visiting Lecturer at the University of Tennessee (Knoxville) (2012)
Dissertation Committee: Martha Nussbaum (chair), Michael Forster, Charles Larmore
Dissertation: "The Ascetic Ideal and the Will to Power: A Reading of Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals, Essay Three" PDF
2012
Aidan Gray
Placement: University of Illinois at Chicago (TT) (2012)
Dissertation Committee: Josef Stern (chair), Michael Kremer, Chris Kennedy (Linguistics).
Dissertation: "Names and Name-bearing: An essay on the predicate view of names" Abstract PDF
Website: http://aidangray.wordpress.com/
Rafeeq Hasan
Placement: Harper and Schmidt Collegiate Assistant Professor, The University of Chicago (2012)
Dissertation Committee: Robert Pippin (chair), Daniel Brudney, and Martha Nussbaum.
Dissertation: "Obligation and Happiness in Rousseau" Abstract PDF
Ryan Long
Placement: Philadelphia University (TT) (2012)
Law & Philosophy Fellow, The University of Chicago Law School (2011)
Dissertation Committee: Martha Nussbaum, Dan Brudney, John Deigh
Dissertation: "Responsibility and Equality" - Abstract PDF
Thomas Lockhart
Placement: Auburn University (TT) (2012)
Quinnipac University (TT) (2011)
Dissertation Committee: Michael Kremer (chair), James Conant, Josef Stern.
Dissertation: "Frege, singular terms and logical objects" - Abstract PDF
Website: http://thomaslockhart.wordpress.com/
Colin Patrick
Placement: Pacific University, Visiting Assistant Professorship (2011)
Dissertation Committee: Candace Vogler (chair), Robert Pippin, Charles Larmore
Dissertation: "Internalism, Practical Relations, and Psychologism" Abstract PDF
Clark Remington
Dissertation Committee: James Conant (chair), William Blattner (Georgetown University), Michael Forster, Sebastian Rödl (Universität Leipzig)
Dissertation: "Originary Temporality: An Essay on Heidegger's 'Being and Time' and his Interpretation of Kant" Abstract PDF
Will Small
Placement: University of Illinois-Chicago (TT) (2013). Post-doctoral Researcher, Center for the Study of Mind in Nature, University of Oslo (2012)
Dissertation Title: "Two Kinds of Practical Knowledge"
Dissertation Committee: Candace Vogler(chair), Jason Bridges, Jim Conant, Anton Ford
Abstract PDF
Website: http://www.cwsmall.com/
Nate Zuckerman
Placement: Spring Hill College (TT) (2013). Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Puget Sound (2012)
Dissertation Committee: Robert Pippin (chair), Jonathan Lear, and Taylor Carman (Columbia)
Dissertation Title: "Heidegger's Notion of Originary Temporality" Abstract PDF
2011
John Hannon
Placement: Exectuive Director of Client Services, Research Pros
Dissertation Committee: Martha Nussbaum (chair), Elizabeth Asmis, Robert Richards.
Dissertation: "Aristotle's Conception of Science: The Case of On Youth and Old Age, and Life and Death, and Respiration"
- Abstract PDF
Erica Holberg
Placement: Utah State University (TT) (2011)
Dissertation Committee: Candace Vogler (chair), Gabriel Richardson Lear, Jonathan Lear
Dissertation: "Pleasure and the Nature of the Ethical Subject" - Abstract PDF
Jennifer Lockhart
Placement: Auburn University (TT) (2012)
Postdoc, Stanford University (Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities) (2011)
Dissertation Committee: Jonathan Lear (chair), Dan Brudney, Agnes Callard, James Conant
Dissertation: "Kierkegaard: Indirect Communication and Ignorant Knowledge" - Abstract PDF
Website: http://jenniferryanlockhart.wordpress.com/
Micah Lott
Placement: Boston College (TT) (2012)
Asian University for Women in Chittagong, Bangladesh (2011)
Dissertation Committee: Robert Pippin (chair), Gabriel Lear, Anton Ford, and Anselm Müller
Dissertation: "Human Form and Moral Goodness" - Abstract PDF
Website: http://micahlott.com/
Justin Shaddock
Placement: Mellon Postdoc, Williams College (2012)
Dissertation committee: Robert Pippin (chair), Michael Forster, Karl Ameriks (University of Notre Dame), and Paul Franks (University of Toronto)
Dissertation: "Kant's Transcendental Methodology: An Essay on Justification, Objectivity, and Subjectivity in Kant's Transcendental Deduction of the Categories" - Abstract PDF
Website:
http://sites.google.com/site/justinshaddock
Charles Todd
Placement: University of Chicago Priztker School of Medicine, Associate Director of Admissions and Financial Aid
Dissertation Committee: Dissertation Committee: Candace Vogler (chair), Martha Nussbaum, Gabriel Richardson Lear, Agnes Callard
Dissertation: "Life Interrupted: Akrasia, Action, and Active Irrationality" - Abstract PDF
Website: http://dastodd.com/blog/
Julio Tuma
Placement: University of Pennsylvania, Lecturer in Integrated Studies (honors) program (2012)
Dissertation: " Biological Boundaries" - Abstract PDF
Dissertation Advisors: William Wimsatt (chair), Robert Richards, Robert Perlman (Medical School), Vivian Weil (IIT)
2010
Kristin Boyce
Placement: ACLS postdoc, Johns Hopkins University (2012), Postdoc, Stanford University (2010)
Dissertation: “Why Wander into Fiction? Analytic Philosophy and the Case Study of Henry James”
Dissertation Committee: James Conant and Michael Kremer (co-chairs), Daniel Brudney, Jonathan Lear
Dissertation: "Re-examining the Philosophical Relevance of Henry James" Abstract PDF
Jay Elliot
Placement: Bard College(TT) (2013). Iona College (TT) (2012)
Mellon Postdoc, Yale University
Dissertation Committee: Candace Vogler (chair), Arnold Davidson, Jonathan Lear, Dan Brudney, Gabriel Richardson Lear
Dissertation: "Prudent Virtues" Abstract PDF
Daesuk Han
Dissertation Committee: Michael Kremer (chair), Jim Conant, Josef Stern
Dissertation: "Clarity and Silence, A Nonstandard Reading of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-philosophicus" Abstract PDF
Nathaniel Hansen
Placement: Lecturer, University of Reading, UK (2012)
Postdoc, Umeå University (Sweden) (2012)
Postdoc, Institut Jean-Nicod (Paris) (2010-2011)
Dissertation Committee: Josef Stern (chair), James Conant, Michael Kremer, Jason Bridges, David Finkelstein
Dissertation: “Radical Contextualism” Abstract PDF
Website - https://sites.google.com/site/nathanielhansen/
Karolina Huebner
University of Toronto (TT) (2010)
Dissertation Committee: Arnold Davidson (chair), Charles Larmore, Yitzhak Melamed, Steven Nadler
Dissertation:"Spinoza on Substance as Cause" Abstract PDF
Thomas Land
Postdoc Preceptor, MAPH Program, University of Chicago
Postdoc, Corpus Christi College Cambridge (2010)
Dissertation Committee: Jim Conant (chair), Robert Pippin, Michael Kremer, Daniel Sutherland (UIC)
Dissertation: "Kant's Theory of Synthesis" Abstract PDF
2009
Daniel Groll
Placement: Carleton College (TT) (2009)
Dissertation Committee: Martha Nussbaum (chair),Jason Bridges, Daniel Brudney, Richard Kraut (Northwestern) and Gabriel Richardson Lear
Dissertation:"'It's My Life and I'll Do What I Want': Valuing Autonomy" Abstract PDF
Website: https://apps.carleton.edu/people/dgroll/
David Possen
Placement: Postdoc, Yale University (2009)
Dissertation Committee: Jonathan Lear (chair), James Conant
Dissertation:“Søren Kierkegaard and the Very Idea of Advance Beyond Socrates" Abstract PDF
Irina Ruvinsky
Placement: School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2008)
Dissertation Committee: Michael Forster (chair), Charles Larmore, Thomas Pavel
Dissertation: "The Circle of Time: Hermeneutic Structure of A La Recherche du Temps Perdu"
Daniel Wack
Placement: Knox College (TT)
James Conant, Candace Vogler, Arnold Davidson
Dissertation: "
Forms of Artistic Explanation: The Gangster on the Couch" Abstract PDF
Kate Withy
Placement: Georgetown University (TT) (2009)
Dissertation Committee: Jonathan Lear (chair), John Haugeland, Arnold Davidson, Eric Santner (German dept)
Dissertation:“Heidegger on Being Uncanny” - Abstract PDF
2008-1997
Placements and Graduates of the PhD Program