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 |
|
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|
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 |
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|
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 |
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|
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) |