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Recent Graduate Student Placement

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)

2009

On Demonstrating “Everything”

Yes

Stanford University (also Washington University, University of Minnesota, Georgetown University, and University of California—Davis)

2009

 The Nature of Law and Judicial Decisions

No

University of California—Berkeley Law

2009

Practical Pluralism 

Yes

University of Cincinatti (also University of Nebraska—Lincoln, and University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign)

2008 

Expressivism and the Problem of Embedding 

Yes

University of Rochester

2008

Formative Pruning: Trimming Growth to Increase Structural Strength

No

University of Houston Law School (also Baylor Law)

2008

A Value-Based Environmental Ethics

 

 

2008

The Truth Goal and the New Evil Demon Problem

Yes

University of Washington (also University of Missouri, University of Florida, University of Rochester, and University of Oklahoma)

2008

Possibilities Self-Deception and Religious Insight

Yes

University of Rochester (also University of Illinois--Urbana Champaign)

2008

Kant’s Respoonse to the Problem of Induction 

Yes

University of Rochester (also University of Illinois--Urbana Champaign)

2007

L.W. Sumner and the Perfectionist Requirement for Well-being

Yes

Duke (also: Irvine, Ohio State, Riverside, Colorado, Florida State, Rochester, St. Louis University)

2007

Norma's Knowledge

No

 

2007

An Aesthetic Theory of Art 

Yes

University of Miami

2007

Complete Radical Skepticism

Yes

Bowling Green (also: Arizona State)

2007

A Critique of Cohen's Relational Theory of Color

No

 

2007

Moralism in Aesthetics

No

 

2006

The Supernatural Problem of Extended Minds

Yes

 

2006

Virtue Theory and Global Poverty

No

Teaching ethics in TTU College of Engineering

2006

Functional Reductionism

Yes

University of Illinois at Chicago

2006

Games and Dilemmas in Hobbes's State of Nature 

Yes

 

2006

The Mystery Surrounding the Identity of the Ubermensch

No

University of Georgia

2006

Photography as Readymade Art 

No

Texas Tech (fine arts PhD)

2006

The Argument from Reason

Yes

UC Santa Barbara

2006

Connectionism

No

University of Texas Law

2006

Business Ethics and Moral Psychology

No

 

2006

Physicalism and Qualia

No

University of Virginia Law

2006

 An Aristotelian Account of Sensory Perception

Yes

Florida State

2006

God's Omniscience and the Problem of Free Will

No

University of Kansas

2006

Hume on the Standard of Taste

No

 

2006

A Comprehensive Study of Anatta and its Relative Truth Within Buddhism

No

Teaching math in Arlington, TX

2005

Imagination and Supposition

Yes

Cornell

2005

An Externalist Defense of the Practicality Requirement

Yes

Ohio State

2005

Content under Pressure: The Broad and Narrow of Segal's Argument against Externalism

No

 

2005

The Compatibility of Causal Determinism and Moral Responsibility

Yes

Florida State

2005

Defensible Arbitrariness: U.S. Death Penalty Jurisprudence

No

Also received a degree in law from TTU (2005)

2004

INUS Abnormalism: A Semantic Theory of Singular Causal Statements

Yes

Duke

2004

Aristotle and the Productive Class: Did Aristotle Argue in Favor of Education for All? 

Yes

Catholic University Law

2004

Special Predication: A Naturalistic Account of the Special Sciences

Yes

Florida State

2004

Rejecting Riggs: Hart, Dworkin, and the Problem of Indeterminacy

No

University of Texas Law

2004

Knowledge Claims and Cross-Cultural Judgements: Internal Feminism, 'Female Circumcision', and Epistemologies of Ignorance

No

Financial Aid Advisor at TTU

2004

An Understanding of Alcibiades Speech in the Symposium

No

 

2004

Constructive Empiricism and Truthlikeness in the Context of Scientific Progress

Yes

St. Louis University

2004

Theory of Self and Self-Knowledge in Plato's Alcibiades 1

No

 

2003

Anti-Realism, Van Fraassen, Epistemology, and Metaphysics

No

 

2003

Redefining the Moving Image

No

 

2003

Education, Representation, and Liberation

No

Teaching high school in Chicago

2002

Feminist Critiques of Rawls

No

University of North Texas (library science)

2002

Exposing the Domination of Language

No

Texas A&M (sociology PhD)

2002

Color and After-Image Experiences

Yes

Ohio State

2002

 Finding Criteria for Moral Responsibility

Yes

Wisconsin

2002

A Defense of Karma 

No

Southern Illinois (anthropology PhD)

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