Graduate
Placement Record
This is a complete list of PhD graduates from the HPS program and their first job placement. We do our best to follow their later careers, but cannot guarantee that this information is up to date.
(tt) = tenure track
(t) = tenure
(fp) = full professor
2012
| Name | Placement | Current | Advisor(s) | Dissertation Title Click title for abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benjamin Goldberg | East Tennessee State University (visiting assistant professor) | University of Southern Florida(intructor, permanent position) | Lennox, Machamer | William Harvey, Soul Searcher: Teleology and Philosophical Anatomy |
| Bryan Roberts | University of Southern California (post-doc) | London School of Economics (tt) | Earman, Norton | Time, Symmetry and Structure: Studies in the Foundations of Quantum Theory |
| Catherine Stinson | Universität Tübingen (post-doc) | Universität Tübingen (post-doc) | Machamer, Schaffner |
2011
| Name | Placement | Current | Advisor(s) | Dissertation Title Click title for abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jonathan Livengood | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (tt) | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (tt) | Spirtes, Norton | On Causal Inferences in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Actual Causation |
| Jonah Schupbach | University of Utah (tt) | University of Utah (tt) | Machery, Earman | Studies in the Logic of Explanatory Power |
2010
| Name | Placement | Current | Advisor(s) | Dissertation Title Click title for abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Justin Sytsma | East Tennessee State University (tt) | Victoria University of Wellington (lecturer, tt equivalent) | Machery, Schaffner | Phenomenal consciousness as scientific phenomenon? A Critical Investigation of the New Science of Consciousness |
2009
| Name | Placement | Current | Advisor(s) | Dissertation Title Click title for abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holly Andersen | Simon Fraser University (tt) | Simon Fraser University (tt) | Mitchell | The Causal Structure of Conscious Agency |
| Peter Gildenhuys | Lafayette College (tt) | Lafayette College (tt) | Lennox | A Causal Interpretation of Selection Theory |
| Julie Zahle | University of Copenhagen | University of Copenhagen (tt) | Machamer, Brandom | Practices, Perception, and Normative States |
2007
| Name | Placement | Current | Advisor(s) | Dissertation Title Click title for abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zvi Biener | Western Michigan University (tt) | University of Cincinnati (tt) | Machamer, McGuire |
The Unity and Structure of Knowledge: Subalternation, Demonstration, and the Geometrical Manner in Scholastic-Aristotelianism and Descartes |
| Brian Hepburn | University of British Columbia (post-doc) | Aarhus University -Denmark (post-doc) | Machamer | Equilibrium and Explanation in 18th Century Mechanics |
| Jackie Sullivan | University of Alabama at Birmingham (tt) | University of Western Ontario (tt) | Machamer | Reliability and Validity of Experiment in the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory |
| Jim Tabery | University of Utah (tt) | University of Utah (tt) | Griffiths, Mitchell | Causation in the Nature-Nurture Debate: The Case of Genotype-Environment Interaction |
2006
| Name | Placement | Current | Advisor(s) | Dissertation Title Click title for abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ingo Brigandt | University of Alberta (tt, deferred for post-doc) | University of Alberta (t) | Griffiths, Gupta | A Theory of Conceptual Advance: Explaining Conceptual Change in Evolutionary, Molecular, and Evolutionary Developmental Biology |
| Francesca DiPoppa | Texas Tech University (tt) | Texas Tech University (t) | Machamer | "God acts through the laws of his nature alone": From the Nihil ex Nihilo axiom to causation as expression in Spinoza's metaphysics. |
| Abel Franco | California State University, Northridge (tt) | California State University, Northridge (t) | Machamer, McGuire |
Descartes' theory of passions |
| Doreen Fraser | Waterloo (tt) | Waterloo (t) | Earman | Haag's theorem and the interpretation of quantum field theories with interactions |
| Greg Frost-Arnold | University of Nevada, Las Vegas (tt) | Hobart and William Smith Colleges (tt) | Ruetsche | Carnap, Tarski, and Quine’s Year Together: Logic, Science and Mathematics |
| Francis Longworth | Ohio University (tt) | Institute d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris, France (post-doc) | Norton | Causation, Counterfactual Dependence and Pluralism |
| David Miller | Yale (post-doc) | Iowa State University (tt) | Machamer, McGuire | Representations of Space in Seventeenth Century Physics |
| Christian Wüthrich | UC - San Diego (tt) | UC - San Diego (t) | Earman | Approaching the Planck Scale from a Generally Relativistic Point of View: A Philosophical Appraisal of Loop Quantum Gravity |
2005
| Name | Placement | Current | Advisor(s) | Dissertation Title Click title for abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Erik Angner | University of Alabama at Birmingham (Philosophy, Economics, tt) | George Mason University (t) | Machamer | Subjective Measures of Well-Being: A philosophical examination |
| Megan Delehanty | University of Calgary (tt) | University of Calgary (t) | Mitchell | Empiricism and the Epistemic Status of Imaging Technologies |
| Alan Love | UC Santa Cruz (tt) University of Minnesota (tt) |
University of Minnesota (t) | Lennox | Explaining Evolutionary Innovation and Novelty: A Historical and Philosophical Study of Biological Concepts |
| Andrea Scarantino | Georgia State University (tt) | Georgia State University (t) | Machamer, Griffiths. | Explicating Emotions |
2004
| Name | Placement | Current | Advisor(s) | Dissertation Title Click title for abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Armond Duwell | University of Konstanz | University of Montana (t) | Norton | Foundations of Quantum Information Theory and Quantum Computation Theory. |
2003
| Name | Placement | Current | Advisor(s) | Dissertation Title Click title for abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gualtiero Piccinini | Washington University in St Louis (post-doc) | University of Missouri at St Louis (t) | Machamer | Computations and Computers in the Sciences of Mind and Brain |
| Uljana Feest | Max Planck Institute for History of Science (post-doc) | Berlin Institute of Technology (tt) | Machamer | Operationism, Experimentation, and Concept Formation |
| Wendy Parker | Congressional Fellow | Ohio University (t) | Norton | Computer Modeling in Climate Science: Experiment, Explanation, Pluralism |
2002
| Name | Placement | Current | Advisor(s) | Dissertation Title Click title for abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel Steel | Michigan State (tt) | Michigan State (t) | Mitchell | Mechanisms and Interfering Factors: Dealing with Heterogeneity in the Biological and Social Sciences |
| Chris Smeenk | Dibner Institute (post-doc) UCLA (tt) |
University of Western Ontario (t) | Earman, Norton | Approaching the Absolute Zero of Time: Theory Development in Early Universe Cosmology |
2001
| Name | Placement | Current | Advisor(s) | Dissertation Title Click title for abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chris Martin | Indiana, HPS (tt) | Left the field | Earman, Norton | Gauging Gauge: Remarks on the Conceptual Foundations of Gauge Symmetry |
2000
| Name | Placement | Current | Advisor(s) | Dissertation Title Click title for abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Backe | Indiana (post-doc) |
Department of Public and Social Administration, City University of Hong Kong | Salmon | The divided psychology of John Dewey |
1999
| Name | Placement | Current | Advisor(s) | Dissertation Title Click title for abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benoit Desjardins | Medical Doctor |
Assistant Professor of Radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania | Glymour | On the theoretical limits to reliable causal inference |
| Elizabeth Paris | Harvard (lecturer) | Deceased | Krips, Norton | Ringing in the new physics: The politics and technology of electron colliders in the United States, 1956--1972 |
| Tom Seppalainen | Portland State U (tt) | Portland State U (t) | Machamer | The problematic nature of experiments in color science |
1998
1997
| Name | Placement | Current | Advisor(s) | Dissertation Title Click title for abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rachel Ankeny | U of Pittsburgh (tt) | U of Adelaide (t) | Lennox | The conqueror worm: An historical and philosophical examination of the use of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans as a model organism |
| Jonathan Simon | Max Planck Institute for History of Science (post-doc) | University of Lyon, France (t) | McGuire | The alchemy of identity: Pharmacy and the chemical revolution, 1777-1809 |
1996
| Name | Placement | Current | Advisor(s) | Dissertation Title Click title for abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aristides Arageorgis | Greek Military | National Technical University of Athens (tt) | Earman | Fields, Particles, and Curvature: Foundation and Philosophical Aspects of Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime |
| Keith Parsons | U of Houston, Clear Lake (tt) | U of Houston, Clear Lake (fp) | Lennox | Wrongheaded science? Rationality, constructivism, and dinosaurs |
| Ofer Gal | Ben Gurion University (tt) | U of Sydney (t) | McGuire | Producing knowledge: Robert Hooke |
| David Rudge | Texas A&M | Western Michigan (t) | Lennox | A philosophical analysis of the role of selection experiments in evolutionary biology |
1995
| Name | Placement | Current | Advisor(s) | Dissertation Title Click title for abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michel Janssen | Boston University (tt) | U of Minnesota (t) | Norton | A Comparison between Lorentz's Aether Theory and Special Relativity in the Light of the Experiments of Trouton and Noble |
| Madeline Muntersbjorn | U of Toledo (tt) | U of Toledo (t) | Manders | Albebraic Reasoning and Representation in Seventeenth Century Mathemacis: Fermat and the Treatise on Quadrature C. 1657 |
1994–1973
| Year | Name | Current | Advisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | John Culler | Earman | |
| 1992 | Corey Juhl | U of Texas (fp) | Glymour |
| 1991 | Chuang Liu | U of Florida (fp) | Earman |
| Robert Pennock | Michigan State (fp) | Wesley Salmon | |
| Hazim Murad | U of Malaysia (fp) | McGuire | |
| 1989 | Kenneth Aizawa | Centenary College (MO) (fp) | Glymour |
| Jose Chiappin | Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil (t) | Schaffner | |
| Lee Zwanziger | Designated Federal Official, US Food and Drug Administration | Schaffner | |
| 1988 | Martha Harty | CMU (t) | Machamer |
| Richard Scheines | CMU (fp) | Glymour | |
| 1987 | Sandra Mitchell | U of Pitt (fp) | Machamer |
| Joel Smith | Distinguished Career Teaching Professsor, CMU (fp) | Glymour | |
| 1986 | Kevin Kelly | CMU (fp) | Glymour |
| Tim Maudlin | NYU (fp) | ||
| 1985 | Steve Fuller | University of Warwick, England (fp) | McGuire |
| 1984 | Fred Gifford | Michigan State (t) | Schaffner |
| Mary Kathleen Okruhlik | U of Western Ontario (t) | McGuire | |
| 1982 | James Hoffman | Cal State, Fullerton (fp) | Schaffner |
| 1981 | Christopher Burch | Left the field | McGuire |
| Charles Kay | Wofford College (fp) | McGuire | |
| Peter Spirtes | CMU (fp) | Schaffner | |
| 1980 | Spyros Sakellariadis | Left the field | Machamer |
| Warren Schmaus | Illinois Inst. of Technology (fp) | Machamer | |
| 1978 | Martin Curd | Purdue (fp) | Laudan |
| Steven Wykstra | Calvin College (fp) | Laudan | |
| John Strong | Deceased | Laudan | |
| 1976
|
Thomas Cook | Left the field | McGuire |
| Fred Sawyer | Left the field | Schaffner | John Nicholas | Univ. Western Ontario (fp, emeritus) | Laudan |
| 1975 | John McEnvoy | U of Cincinnati (fp) | McGuire |
| 1973 | Wolfram Swoboda | Deceased | McGuire |
(tt) = tenure track
(t) = tenure
(fp) = full professor