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2009

Danile Novotny

Dissertation: Beings of Reason: A Study in Scholasticism of the Baroque Era

Director: Jorge Gracia

Placement:

Misung Jang

Dissertation: Aristotle's Doctrine of the Mean

Director: Jiyuan Yu

Placement: Adjunct Faculty, Towson University, MD

Shi Chen

Dissertation: Practical Necessity in Bernard Williams's Virtue Ethics

Director: James Lawler

Placement:

Hitoshi Arima

Dissertation: Observation, Explanation, and Intuition - Two Arguments

Director: Randall Dipert

Placement:

 

2008

Timothy Connolly

Dissertation: This Moving Being: The Role of Change in Plato

Director: Jiyuan Yu

Placement: Assistant Professor, East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania

Gerol Petruzella

Dissertation: External Goods from Socrates to the Stoics

Director: Jiyuan Yu

Placement: Teaching position Mt. Greylock Regional High School, Williamstown, MA

                 Adjunct position Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Philosophy Department

Sandro D'Onofrio

Dissertation: Aquinas as Representationalist: The Ontology of the Species Intelligibilis

Director: Jorge Gracia

Placement: Adjunct Lecturer, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru at the Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya

2007

Paul Symington

Dissertation: The Identity of the Categories: Aquinas, Scotus and Lowe

Director: Jorge Gracia

Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of San Francisco (2 years from Fall 2007)

                  Assistant Professor, Franciscan University, Steubenville, Ohio

Youngjae Jee

Dissertation: Referring

Director: John Kearns

Placement:

Ashutosh Kalsi

Dissertation: The Ending of Nihilism: From Nietzsche to Krishnamurti

Director: Kah Kyung Cho

Placement: Software Company, Vancouver BC

Nathan Heberlig

Dissertation: On the Ontological Status of Space-time: Scientific Realism and Geometrical Explanation

Director: Randall Dipert

Placement: Adjunct Instructor, Buffalo State College and RIT

Valerie Johnson Franks

Dissertation Title: Empirical Idealism:  A Modern Foundation for the Science of the Mind

Director: John Kearns

Placement: Adjunct Pulaski Technical College, Arkansas

Douglas Mayhew

Dissertation Title: An Ontology of Natural Cognition: The Substance and Structure of Everyday Thought

Director: Barry Smith

Placement: (deceased, degree awarded posthumously)

Joseph Paterno

Dissertation Title: The Problem of a Causal Account of Memory: A Solution And its Consequences

Director: Randall Dipert

Placement:

    

Brian Imiola

              AOS: Ethics

              Dissertation Title: Morality and the National Interest: A Convention Based Account to

                        Understanding International Relations

              Dissertation Committee: Randall Dipert (Chair), Kenneth Barber, Kenneth Shockley

              First Position: Assistant Professor (Ongoing), United States Military Academy,

                        West Point, New York

2005

Jeffrey F. Dueck

              AOS: Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Religion, Ethics

              Dissertation Title: Ways of Life: Their Nature and Justification

              Dissertation Committee: Peter Hare (Chair), Jorge Gracia, Carolyn Korsmeyer

              First Position: Visiting Assistant Professor (One Year), Philosophy Department,

                        Niagara University, Lewiston, New York

Suck Choi

              AOS: Asian Philosophy, Ethics, Aesthetics

              Dissertation Title: Human Nature, Mind, and Virtue in Chu Hsi's Neo-Confucianism

              Dissertation Committee: Jiyuan Yu (Chair), James Lawler, Kah Kyung Cho

              First Position: Visiting Assistant Professor (One Year), Philosophy Department,

                        Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan

              Current Position: Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Department of Philosophy and

                        Religious Studies, Towson University, Baltimore, Maryland

Rose Koch

              AOS: Early Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Education

              Dissertation Title: A Hylomorphic Account of the Origin of the Human Being At Fertilization

              Dissertation Committee: David Hershenov (Chair), Jorge Gracia, Barry Smith

              First Position: Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department, Niagara University,

                        Lewiston, New York

              Current Position: Left Academia

Lowell Vizenor

              AOS: Ontology

              Dissertation Title: Corporate Being: A Study in Realist Ontology

              Dissertation Committee: Barry Smith (Chair), Randall Dipert, John Kearns

              First Position: Post Doctoral Fellow (One Year), National Center for Biomedical

                        Communications, Washington DC

              Current Position: Ontologist (Ongoing), Ontology Works, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Scott E. Harrigan

              AOS: Philosophy of Law, Applied Ethics

              Dissertation Title: The Exception Proves the Rule: The Problem of Moral Exceptions

                        in Kantian Morality

              Dissertation Committee: James Lawler (Chair), William Baumer, Richard Hull

              First Position: Staff Assistant (Ongoing), Academic Services, SUNY at Buffalo,

                        Buffalo, New York

              Current Position: Manager (Ongoing), Student Access I, Computing Information

                        Technology, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York

George Backen

              AOS: Ethics, Logic, History of Philosophy

              Dissertation Title: A Defense of Moral Sentiment Retributivism

              Dissertation Committee: Randall Dipert (Chair), Kenneth Shockley, David Hershenov

              First Position: Assistant Professor, Department of History, Government and Philosophy,

                        Adams State College, Alamosa, Colorado

Robert Kieffer

                         

              AOS: Ethics, Ancient Philosophy, Eastern Philosophy

              Dissertation Title: Egoism and Altruism in Aristotle’s Ethics

              Dissertation Committee: Jiyuan Yu (Chair), Carolyn Korsmeyer, James Lawler

              First Position: Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department, Canisius College,

                        Buffalo, New York

Christopher Keegan

              AOS: Continental Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, History of Philosophy

              Dissertation Title: Defending Deep Democracy

              Dissertation Committee: Kah Kyung Cho (Chair), Peter Hare, James Lawler

              First Position: Assistant Professor, Philosophy and Africano and Latino Studies,

                        SUNY at Oneonta, Oneonta, New York

2004

Christopher Pacyga

              AOS: Aesthetics, Ethics, Perman Philosophy

              Dissertation Title: Kripke’s Skeptical Paradox and Semantic Normativity

              Dissertation Committee: John Kearns (Chair), Jorge Gracia, Kenneth Barber

              First Position: Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department, SUNY at Fredonia,

                        Fredonia, New York

Laura Arcila

              AOS: Logic, Epistemology, Ethics, History of Philosophy

              Dissertation Title: Philosophy and the Ordinary

              Dissertation Committee: Newton Garver (Chair), Barry Smith, John Kearns

              First Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Grand Valley State University,

                        Allendale, Michigan

Michael Walsh

              AOS: Existentialism, Philosophy of Time

              Dissertation Title: The Vagueness of Authenticity in Being and Time

              Dissertation Committee: Kah Kyung Cho (Chair), James Lawler, Rodolphe Gasché

              First Position: Grant Administrator (Ongoing), Sponsored Projects Services, SUNY

              at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York

Chienchih Chi

              AOS: Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science

              Dissertation Title: An Analysis of the Problem of the Irreducibility of the Mind

              Dissertation Committee: John Kearns (Chair), Randall Dipert, William Rapaport

              First Position: Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department, Huafan University, Taiwan

              Current Position: Foreign Language Department, Kao Yuan Institute of Technology,

                        Taiwan, Republic of China

2003

William Mandrick

              AOS: Metaphysics, Ontology, Philosophy of Art and Technology

              Dissertation Title: The Ontology of War

              Dissertation Committee: Barry Smith (Chair), Randall Dipert, David Mark

              First Position: Assistant Professor, Military Science Department, SUNY at Brockport,

                        Brockport, New York

James Delaney

              AOS: History of Philosophy

              Dissertation Title: Virtue in Rousseau’s Ethics

              Dissertation Committee: James Lawler (Chair), Jorge Gracia, Jiyuan Yu

              First Position: Assistant Professor and Chair, Philosophy Department, Niagara University,

                        Lewiston, New York

Jungin Kwon

              AOS: Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science

              Dissertation Title: Simulating the Sublime

              Dissertation Committee: Carolyn Korsmeyer (Chair), Randall Dipert, Barry Smith

              First Position: Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department, Humboldt State University,

                        Arcata, California

              Current Position: Instructor, Philosophy Department, Bakersfield College,

                        Bakersfield, California

T. Jeffrey Scott

              AOS: Ethics, Epistemology, Ontology, Political Philosophy

              Dissertation Title: Basic Human Needs, Human Rights, and Human Development

              Dissertation Committee: Newton Garver (Chair), Carolyn Korsmeyer, Claude Welch

              First Position: Africa Associate (Ongoing), Human Rights Watch, New York, New York

2002

James Henderson

              AOS: Philosophy of Science, Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics

              Dissertation Title: The Relative State Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

              Dissertation Committee: Miriam Thalos (Chair), Randall Dipert, John Kearns

              First Position: Assistant Professor (Temporary), Mathematics Department,

                        University of Pittsburgh, Titusville, Pennsylvania

David Kasper

              AOS: Logic, Philosophy of Science

              Dissertation Title: Wise Action: An Examination of Prudence and Morality

              Dissertation Committee: Barry Smith (Chair), Peter Hare, David Hershenov

              First Position: Lecturer, Philosophy Department, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada

Chad Hickox

              AOS: Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, Existentialism, Eastern Philosophy

              Dissertation Title: The Heterogeneous Construction of Emotion: Developmental Systems

                        Theory and the Role of the Imagination in Emotional Experience        

              Dissertation Committee: Carolyn Korsmeyer (Chair), Peter Hare, Jorge Gracia

              First Position: Instructor, Macomb Community College, Warren, Michigan

Vicki Toscano

              AOS: Ethics, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Science

              Dissertation Title: Misguided Retribution: The Criminalization of Pregnant Women

                        Who Take Drugs

              Dissertation Committee: James Brady (Chair), Randall Dipert, Lucinda Finley

              First Position: Visiting Lecturer (Temporary), University of Miami Law School,

                        Miami, Florida

              Current Position: Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Division Of Humanities,

                        Farquhar College Of Arts and Sciences, Nova Southeastern University,

                        Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Adrianne McEvoy

              AOS: Ethics, Philosophy of Religion, Feminist Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy

              Dissertation Title: The Role of Empathy in Pain Management Decisions:

                        An Interdisciplinary Approach

              Dissertation Committee: Barry Smith (Chair), William Baumer, Carolyn Korsmeyer

              First Position: Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Philosophy Department,

                        Mansfield State University, Mansfield, Pennsylvania

B. Steven Csaki

              AOS: Asian Philosophy and Religion

              Dissertation Title: The Plexus of Relations: An East-West Theory of the Self

              Dissertation Committee: Kah Kyung Cho (Chair), Peter Hare, Kenneth Inada

              First Position: Visiting Professor of Japanese and Philosophy, Center College,

                        Danville, Kentucky

              Current Position: Left Academia

Jason Adsit

              AOS: Logic, Analytic Philosophy, History of Philosophy

              Dissertation Title: Apologies

              Dissertation Committee: Peter H. Hare (Chair), Carolyn Korsmeyer, Pablo DeGreiff

              First Position: Assistant Dean for Institutional Research & Assessment (Ongoing),

                        School of Professional Studies in Business and Education,

                        Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland

              Current Position: Assistant Dean (Ongoing), School of Education, Johns Hopkins

                        University, Baltimore, Maryland

Eric Little

              AOS: Phenomenology, Logic, History of Logic

              Dissertation Title: Moderate Materialism: Toward a Unified Ontology of Consciousness

              Dissertation Committee: Barry Smith (Chair), Elaine Hull, Leonard Talmy

              First Position: Assistant Professor, Doctoral Programs, D’youville College,

                        Buffalo, New York

Jason Swedene

              AOS: Ancient Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Aesthetics

              Dissertation Title: How Should One Feel?: Moral Dilemmas and

                        Normative Emotion Theory

              Dissertation Committee: Carolyn Korsmeyer (Chair), Jiyuan Yu, Pablo DeGreiff

              First Position: Assistant Professor, Division of Arts and Letters,

                        and Honors Program Director, Lake Superior State University,

                        Sault Ste Marie, Michigan

David Garren

              AOS: Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Philosophy and Literature

              Dissertation Title: Whose Life Is It Anyway: The Case Against Paternalism

              Dissertation Committee: Barry Smith (Chair), James Brady, Pablo DeGreiff

              First Position: Associate Professor, Department of Leadership, Ethics and Law,

                        United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland

2001

Jonathan Sanford

              AOS: History of Philosophy

              Dissertation Title: Aristotle, Scheler, MacIntyre: The Metaphysical Foundations of Ethics

              Dissertation Committee: Jorge Gracia (Chair), Barry Smith, Jiyuan Yu

              First Position: Post Doctoral Teaching Fellow (One Year Renewable), Philosophy

                        Department, Fordham University, Bronx, New York

              Current Position: Associate Professor (Tenure Track) and Chair, Philosophy Department,

                        Franciscan University, Steubenville, Ohio

Roger Worthington

              AOS: Bioethics

              Dissertation Title: Health-Care and Distributive Justice: A Jurisprudential Account

                        of Health-Care Distribution

              Dissertation Committee: James Brady (Chair), Jiyuan Yu, Lee Albert

              First Position: Lecturer, St. George's Hospital Medical School, London, England

              Current Position: Lecturer (Tenure), Medical School, Keele University, Staffordshire,

                        England and free-lance bioethics consultant

Robert Delfino

              AOS: Metaphysics, Medieval Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Ethics

              Dissertation Title: The Ontological Status of Identity

              Dissertation Committee: Jorge Gracia (Chair), Kenneth Barber, Barry Smith

              First Position: Assistant Professor (One Year), Philosophy Department, St. John's

                        University, Staten Island, New York

              Current Position: Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Philosophy Department,

                        St. John's University, Staten Island, New York

John Marmysz

              AOS: History of Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Ethics

              Dissertation Title: Laughing at Nothing:  Humor as a Response to Nihilism

              Dissertation Committee: Pablo DeGreiff (Chair), Carolyn Korsmeyer, Miriam Thalos

              First Position: Instructor, English/Humanities Department, College of Marin,

                        Kentfield, California

2000

Michael Happold

              AOS: Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science

              Dissertation Title: Information, Computation, and the Nature of Cognition: A Critique

                        of Computational Approaches to Understanding and Creating Minds

              Dissertation Committee: Barry Smith (Chair), Peter Hare, William Rapaport

              First Position: Commercialization Specialist, National Robotic Engineering Consortium,

                        Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania

Jaime Ramos

              AOS: Contemporary Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Analytical Philosophy

              Dissertation Title: A Critical Study of the Languages of Thought Hypothesis

              Dissertation Committee: John Kearns (Chair), Kenneth Barber, William Rapaport

              First Position: Associate Professor, Philosophy Department, Universidad Nacional

                        de Colombia, Bogota, Columbia

Sriram Nambiar

              AOS: Philosophy of Science, Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics

              Dissertation Title: The Origin of Boole’s Philosophy of Logic: The Confluence

                        of Traditional Logic and Mathematics

              Dissertation Committee: John Corcoran (Chair), John kearns, Richard Vesley

              First Position: Assistant Professor, St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland

Gloria Zuniga

              AOS:

              Dissertation Title: A General Theory of Value

              Dissertation Committee: Barry Smith (Chair), Carolyn Korssmeyer, Jorge Gracia

              First Position: Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department, Grand Valley State University,

                        Allendale, Michigan

Alan Clune

              AOS: Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Metaphysics

              Dissertation Title: Using the World to Understand the Mind: Evolutionary Foundations

                        for Ecological Psychology

              Dissertation Committee: Barry Smith (Chair)

              First Position: Assistant Professor, Psychology Department, Sam Houston

                        State University, Huntsville, Texas