2025

Christian Culak (May)

Initial Placement: Instructor, Texas A&M University-San Antonio
Dissertation Title: The Limits of the Virtue of Compassion
Advisor: Johnson

Arcangelo Quintaneiro (May)

Dissertation Title: Against Moral Unconditionalism
Advisor: Weirich

2024

Chaunke Wei (May)

Initial Placement: Associate Research Fellow, Institute for Science, Technology & Society, South China Normal University
Dissertation Title: Confusions of Natural Selection
Advisor: Ariew

Sukhvinder Shahi (Dec)

Initial Placement: Instructor, University of Arizona
Dissertation Title: Contrastive Knowledge How
Advisor: Ariew

2022

Duke Cruz (July)

Initial Placement: SEC Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Missouri
Dissertation Title: Evident Yet Opaque: A Defense of the Evaluative Normativity of Logic
Advisor: Weirich

Selwyn Griffith (December)

Current Appointment: Adjunct Assistant Professor, Hofstra University
Dissertation Title: Standing and Status: A Dissertation on the Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Moral Standing and an Analysis of Moral Status
Advisor: Vallentyne

Travis Holmes (May)

Current Appointment: Visiting Teaching and Research Specialist, Gies College of Business, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Dissertation Title: Enlarging the Possibility Space for Scientific Model-Based Explanation
Advisor: Ariew

Tieying Zhou (May)

Current Appointment: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Alabama, Birmingham
Initial Placement: Adjunct Instructor, University of Missouri, Columbia
Dissertation Title: An Investigation of Aesthetic Appreciation
Advisor: Folescu

2021

Alek Willsey (March)

Dissertation Title: Authoritatively Speaking: A Speech Pragmatic Analysis of Authority and Power
Advisor: Horisk

2020

Jon Marc Asper (June)

Current Appointment: Assistant Professor, Marshalltown Community College
Dissertation Title: Why Preference Can Be Optional 
Advisor: Vallentyne

Alex Howe (April)

Current Appointment: Statewide Organizer, Oregon Education Association
Dissertation title: Citizenship Goes to the Dogs
Adviser: Vallentyne

2019

Salman Khawaja (December)

Initial Placement: Instructor, University of Memphis
Dissertation title: Naturalizing Epistemology: Reconsidering Quine and Nietzsche
Adviser: Matt McGrath

Stephen Perinchery-Herman (December)

Current Appointment: Director of Ethics, Mercy Health System, Saint Louis and Jefferson City, Missouri
Dissertation title: Defending an Indirect Normativity of Belief
Adviser: Vallentyne

2018

Eric Rowse (December)

Current Appointment: Instructor, Bellevue College
Initial Placement: Adjunct Professor, University of Missouri
Dissertation Title: Clarifying Relational Egalitarianism
Adviser: Vallentyne

Jonathan Burmeister (July)

Current Appointment: Lecturer, Mississippi State University
Initial Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Fort Lewis College
Dissertation Title: Examining the Nature of Epistemic Value
Adviser: McGrath

Seokman Kang (July)

Current Appointment: Visiting Professor, Shinhan University, Korea
Dissertation Title: The Consciousness of Visual Experience
Adviser: McGrath

Isaac Wagner (May)

Current Appointment: Associate Professor of Teaching in Bioethics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Dissertation Title: Preventing Unjust Wars and Less Aggression
Adviser: Vallentyne

Troy Hall (May)

Current Appointment: Assisstant Teaching Professor, University of Missouri
Initial Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Missouri
Dissertation Title: Three Studies in the Philosophy of Jazz
Adviser: Johnson

Paul Hamilton (May)

Current Appointment: Lecturer, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Dissertation Title: Resisting the Nudge
Adviser: Weirich

Keith Raymond Harris (May)

Current Appointment: Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy, University of Vienna
Initial Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa
Dissertation Title: The Epistemology of Group Agents
Adviser: McGrath

Tung-Ying Wu (May)

Current Appointment: Assistant Professor, Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Researcher, Fudan University
Dissertation Title: Skepticism, Reason, and Decision
Adviser: Weirich

2017

Joshua Smart (August)

Current Appointment: Instructor, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville
Dissertation Title: Epistemic Rationality and Meeting One's Own Standards
Adviser: McGrath

2016

Dustin Nelson (August)

Current Appointment: Assistant Professor, Morehead State University
Dissertation Title: Defending States and Protecting Individuals: A Critical Examination of the Principle of Nonintervention
Adviser: Vallentyne

Kenneth Shields (July)

Current Appointment: Adjunct Instructor, University of Missouri
Initial Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Indianapolis
Dissertation Title: Amoralists, Inverted Commas, and the Puzzle of Moral Internalism: An Essay in Experimental Metaethics
Adviser: Philip Robbins

Richard Lauer (May)

Current Appointment: Visiting Assistant Professor, St. Lawrence University
Dissertation Title: Explanation for the Cognitively Bounded: Psychology and the Pragmatics of Explanation
Adviser: Ariew

Phillip Zema (April)

Dissertation Title: Three Questions Concerning Reid's Moral Epistemology
Advisers: Markie and Folescu

2015

Lynn Chiu (August)

Current Appointment: International Scientific Community Manager, University of Vienna
Dissertation Title: Niche Construction and the Logic of Natural Selection Explanations
Adviser: Ariew

Devin Frank (July)

Current Appointment: Assistant Professor, Eastern Illinois University
Dissertation Title: The Metaphysics of Content: Towards a Minimalist Account of Propositions
Adviser: McGrath

Adam Koszela (May)

Current Appointment: Director of Production, Benzinga Research
Dissertation Title: Compensation as the Moral Foundation of Jus Post Bellum
Adviser: Vallentyne

Katy Shorey (May)

Current Appointment: Associate Teaching Professor, Northeastern University
Dissertation Title: A Salience Account of Explanatory Power
Adviser: Ariew

Sheng Zhang (May)

Current Appointment: Assistant Professor, Xiamen University
Dissertation Title: Epistemic Democracy and Political Legitimacy
Adviser: Vallentyne

2014

Jacob Wright (December)

Current Appointment: Senior Lecturer, University of Minnesota-Rochester
Dissertation Title: Toward a Virtue Account of Science
Adviser: Ariew

Wenwen Fan (May)

Dissertation Title: Moral Wrongness and Reactive Attitudes
Adviser: Vallentyne

Christopher Gadsden (May)

Current Appointment: Adjunct Professor, University of Missouri
Dissertation Title: Epistemic Duties and Blameworthiness for Beliefs
Adviser: McGrath

Kok Yong Lee (May)

Current Appointment: Professor, National Chung Cheng University (Taiwan)
Dissertation Title: A Solution to Skeptical Puzzles
Adviser: McGrath

Dan Marshall (May)

Dissertation Title: Skill-Based Reliabilism
Adviser: Weirich

2012

Crystal Allen (May)

Current Appointment: Associate Professor, Principia College
Dissertation Title: Justifying War: An Account of Just and Merely Justifying Causes for War
Adviser: Vallentyne

Xiaofei Liu (May)

Current Appointment: Professor, Wuhan University (China)
Dissertation Title: Choice, Control, and Moral Responsibility
Adviser: Vallentyne

Brian Montgomery (May)

Current Appointment: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Texas El Paso
Dissertation Title: A New Defense of the Knowledge Norm of Assertion
Adviser: McGrath

Collin Rice (May)

Current Appointment: Associate Professor at Colorado State
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Lycoming College
Dissertation Title: Optimality Explanations: A New Approach
Adviser: Ariew

Yasha Rohwer (May)

Current Appointment: Professor, Oregon Tech
Dissertation Title: Rethinking the Evolution of Human Intelligence
Adviser: Ernst

2011

Darin Finke (May)

Current Appointment: Associate Teaching Professor, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Initial Appointment: Assistant Teaching Professor, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Dissertation Title: Van Fraassen and a Defense of Inference to the Best Explanation
Adviser: Weirich

Ashton Sperry (May)

Current Appointment: Research Scholar, Ronin Institute
Dissertation Title: Bounded Rationality in Games of Strategy
Adviser: Weirich

2010

Joel Dittmer (May)

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Dissertation Title: Rawlsian Ethical Act Contractarianism
Adviser: Kierland and Vallentyne

Michael Hartsock (December)

Current Appointment: Professor and Director of Honors and Director of Recruiting Strategy, College of Arts and Sciences, Millikin University
Dissertation Title: Absences as Causes: A Defense of Negative Causation
Adviser: Ariew

Andrew Moon (August)

Current Appointment: Associate Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University
Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Missouri
Dissertation Title: The Nonepistemic Psychological Requirements for Knowledge
Adviser: Markie

Brandon Schmidly (May)

Current Appointment: Professor and Chair, Evangel University
Dissertation Title: A Proprietarian Theory of Custodial Rights Over Children
Adviser: Vallentyne