Recent Graduate Student Placement
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Year |
Title of Thesis or Oral Exam Paper |
Applied to Philosophy PhD programs? |
Program that the graduate attended after the Texas Tech MA program (Philosophy unless otherwise noted)
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2012 |
A Place for Moral Theory in the Argument from Evil |
Yes |
Virginia (funded offers from Texas A&M, Rochester, and St. Louis)
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2012 |
On a Fundamental Inconsistency of the Humean Theory of Motivation |
Yes |
Wisconsin (funded offers from Florida State, Indiana, Rochester, and Baylor)
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2012 |
The Ideal Critic: Foie Gras and Twinkies |
No |
Texas Tech University History PhD program
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2012 |
The Antihero: A Special Case for Radical Moralism |
No
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2012 |
A Phenomenological Account of Conventional Truth
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No |
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2012 |
An Underdetermination Argument Against Underdetermination |
Yes |
University of Massachusetts (also offers from Baylor, Syracuse,and University of Virginia)
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2012 |
Moral Supervenience: The Problem and the Beginnings of a Solution |
Yes |
Wisconsin (also offers from Baylor, Virginia, Illinois, Rice and Purdue)
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2012 |
A Minimalist Ethics
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No |
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2012 |
Revolution, Spinoza, and Tyranny
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No |
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2011 |
A Case Study on Theoretical Strength |
Yes |
Johns Hopkins (also offers from Rice, Illinois, and Cincinnati)
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2011 |
N/A |
Yes |
University of Pennsylvania
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2011 |
The Existence of Evil: Evidence for or Against Theism
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2011 |
Van Inwagen's Theodicy From a Moral Point of View
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No |
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2011 |
Art & Moral Development in Selected Works of Plato and Aristotle
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No |
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2010 |
Interventionism, Supervenience, and Epiphenomenalism
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No |
University of Tennessee Pharmacy School |
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2010 |
Man Pain and Mollusc Pain; or Multiple Realizations as an Empirical Hypothesis
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Yes |
University of Texas |
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2010 |
Expressive Meaning and Truth Conditions
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Yes |
University of Missouri |
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2010 |
Epistemic Contextualism as an Empirical Hypothesis
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Yes |
London School of Economics |
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2010 |
A Semantic Internalist Account of Racial Epithets
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Yes |
University of Virginia |
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2010 |
Mental Illness as an Epistemic Defeater of Religious Experienced-Based Testimony
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No |
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2010 |
Fiction
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No |
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2010 |
Fearing the Monstrous: Redefining Horror
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No |
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2009 |
An Evolutionary Account of Aesthetic Experience |
Yes |
Rice University (Anthropology)
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On Demonstrating “Everything” |
Yes |
Stanford University
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2009 |
The Nature of Law and Judicial Decisions
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No |
University of California—Berkeley Law |
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2009 |
Practical Pluralism |
Yes |
University of Cincinnati
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2009 |
Rawls Law of Peoples, the Global Basic Structure and Global Poverty
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Yes |
University of Missouri |
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2009 |
The Tension Between Faith and Christian Mystical Practices
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No |
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2008 |
Expressivism and the Problem of Embedding
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Yes |
University of Rochester |
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2008 |
Formative Pruning: Trimming Growth to Increase Structural Strength
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No |
University of Houston Law School |
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2008 |
A Value-Based Environmental Ethics
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2008 |
The Truth Goal and the New Evil Demon Problem |
Yes |
University of Washington
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2008 |
Possibilities Self-Deception and Religious Insight |
Yes |
University of Rochester
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2008 |
Kant’s Respoonse to the Problem of Induction |
Yes |
University of Rochester
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2007 |
L.W. Sumner and the Perfectionist Requirement for Well-being |
Yes |
Duke University
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2007 |
Norma's Knowledge
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No |
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2007 |
An Aesthetic Theory of Art
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Yes |
University of Miami |
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2007 |
Complete Radical Skepticism |
Yes |
Bowling Green
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2007 |
A Critique of Cohen's Relational Theory of Color
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No |
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2007 |
Moralism in Aesthetics
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No |
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2006 |
The Supernatural Problem of Extended Minds
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Yes |
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2006 |
Virtue Theory and Global Poverty
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No |
Teaching ethics in TTU College of Engineering |
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2006 |
Functional Reductionism
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Yes |
University of Illinois at Chicago |
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2006 |
Games and Dilemmas in Hobbes's State of Nature
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Yes |
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2006 |
The Mystery Surrounding the Identity of the Ubermensch
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No |
University of Georgia |
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2006 |
Photography as Readymade Art
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No |
Texas Tech (fine arts PhD) |
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2006 |
The Argument from Reason
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Yes |
UC Santa Barbara |
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2006 |
Connectionism |
No |
University of Texas Law
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2006 |
Business Ethics and Moral Psychology
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No |
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2006 |
Physicalism and Qualia |
No |
University of Virginia Law
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2006 |
An Aristotelian Account of Sensory Perception
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Yes |
Florida State |
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2006 |
God's Omniscience and the Problem of Free Will
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No |
University of Kansas |
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2006 |
Hume on the Standard of Taste
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No |
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2006 |
A Comprehensive Study of Anatta and its Relative Truth Within Buddhism
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No |
Teaching math in Arlington, TX |
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2005 |
Imagination and Supposition
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Yes |
Cornell |
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2005 |
An Externalist Defense of the Practicality Requirement
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Yes |
Ohio State |
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2005 |
Content under Pressure: The Broad and Narrow of Segal's Argument against Externalism
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No |
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2005 |
The Compatibility of Causal Determinism and Moral Responsibility
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Yes |
Florida State |
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2005 |
Defensible Arbitrariness: U.S. Death Penalty Jurisprudence
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No |
Also received a degree in law from TTU (2005) |
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2004 |
INUS Abnormalism: A Semantic Theory of Singular Causal Statements
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Yes |
Duke |
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2004 |
Aristotle and the Productive Class: Did Aristotle Argue in Favor of Education for All?
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Yes |
Catholic University Law |
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2004 |
Special Predication: A Naturalistic Account of the Special Sciences
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Yes |
Florida State |
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2004 |
Rejecting Riggs: Hart, Dworkin, and the Problem of Indeterminacy
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No |
University of Texas Law |
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2004 |
Knowledge Claims and Cross-Cultural Judgements: Internal Feminism, 'Female Circumcision', and Epistemologies of Ignorance
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No |
Financial Aid Advisor at TTU |
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2004 |
An Understanding of Alcibiades Speech in the Symposium
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No |
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2004 |
Constructive Empiricism and Truthlikeness in the Context of Scientific Progress
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Yes |
St. Louis University |
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2004 |
Theory of Self and Self-Knowledge in Plato's Alcibiades 1
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No |
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2003 |
Anti-Realism, Van Fraassen, Epistemology, and Metaphysics
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No |
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2003 |
Redefining the Moving Image
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No |
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2003 |
Education, Representation, and Liberation
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No |
Teaching high school in Chicago |
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2002 |
Feminist Critiques of Rawls |
No |
University of North Texas (library science)
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2002 |
Exposing the Domination of Language
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No |
Texas A&M (sociology PhD) |
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2002 |
Color and After-Image Experiences
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Yes |
Ohio State |
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2002 |
Finding Criteria for Moral Responsibility
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Yes |
Wisconsin |
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2002 |
A Defense of Karma |
No |
Southern Illinois (anthropology PhD)
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