Brown University ~ Department of Philosophy

Job Placement Information

This page contains information on the placement record of the philosophy program over the last decade or so. The directory is organized by the year in which our students defended their dissertations.

2011

2010

Kevin Morris

Dissertation: Physicalism and A Priori Connections, Realization, and Reduction: Two Issues in the Metaphysics of Mind (Jaegwon Kim)
Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Tulane University
Visit Kevin on the web.

2009

Jason D'Cruz

Dissertation: Imagination and Emotion in Action (Nomy Arpaly)
Current Position: Assistant Professor, SUNY Albany

Ben Jarvis

Dissertation: Teleology and Intentionality: A Challenge to the Deflationary View (Richard Heck)
Current Position: Lecturer, Queen's University, Belfast

Nick Treanor

Dissertation: The World in Mind (Jaegwon Kim)
Current Position: Newton Trust Lecturer in Philosophy, Cambridge University
Visit Nick on the web.

2008

Benjamin Fiedor

Dissertation: Doxastic Involuntarism and Epistemic Deontology (Ernest Sosa)
Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, College of William and Mary
Visit Benjamin on the web.

Rebekah Rice

Dissertation: A Causal Approach to the Nature of Human Action (Jaegwon Kim)
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Seattle Pacific University

Jerry Steinhofer

Dissertation: Epistemic Desert and the Value of Knowledge (Ernest Sosa)
Current Position: Visiting Lecturer, Bridgewater State College
Visit Jerry on the web.

2007

Teresa Celada

Dissertation: Procreative Liberty and its Critics (James Dreier)
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Wheaton College

Simon Feldman

Dissertation: Reason and the Limits of Morality (James Dreier)
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Connecticut College
Visit Simon on the web.

2006

John Turri

Dissertation: Epistemic Reasons (Ernest Sosa)
Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo
Visit John on the web.

2005

Allan Hazlett

Dissertation: Grice's Razoe and Moore's Gambit (Ernest Sosa)
Current Position: Lecturer in Epistemology, University of Edinburgh
Visit Allan on the web.

Alyssa Ney

Dissertation: The Metaphysics of Unified Science (Jaegwon Kim)
Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Rochester

Lilian O'Brien

Dissertation: A Non-Causalist Theory of Rationalization (Jaegwon Kim)
Current Position: Lecturer (Tenure Track), University College Cork

2004

Michael Pace

Dissertation: Perceptual Consciousness and Epistemic Justification (Ernest Sosa)
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Chapman University
Visit Michael on the web.

2003

Juan Comesaña

Dissertation: The Ways of Reason (Ernest Sosa)
Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Arizona
Visit Juan on the web.

Jordi Fernandez

Dissertation: Externalism and Self-Knowledge (Jaegwon Kim)
Current Position: Lecturer, University of Adelaide

2002

John Abruzzese

Dissertation: True and Immutable Natures in Descartes' Ontological Proof (James Van Cleve)
Current Position: Associate Professor, Providence College

Robert Howell

Dissertation: Self-Knowledge and Self-Reference (Jaegwon Kim and Ernest Sosa)
Current Position: Associate Professor, Southern Methodist University
Visit Robert on the web.

Uriah Kriegel

Dissertation: Conscious Content (Jaegwon Kim)
Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Arizona
Visit Uriah on the web.

David Matheson

Dissertation: Understanding, Validation and the Everyday in Epistemology (Ernest Sosa)
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Carleton University

David Prentiss

Dissertation: Doing What a Good Person Would Do: An Exploration of Pure Virtue Theory (John Ladd)
Current Position: Lecturer, University of Rhode Island

Baron Reed

Dissertation: Knowledge, Agency, and Personhood (Ernest Sosa)
Current Position: Associate Professor, Northwestern University
Visit Baron on the web.

Joseph Shieber

Dissertation: The Reasons Others Give Us: The Norms of Assertion Account of the Epistemic Status of Testimony (Ernest Sosa)
Current Position: Associate Professor, Lafayette University
Visit Joseph on the web.

All and only students who currently have some form of academic employment are listed above. Therefore, students who sought jobs before finishing their degrees but have not yet secured a position and have not yet finished their degrees are not listed above.

For privacy reasons, we do not list students who completed their degrees but do not have academic appointments. So that the foregoing should not be misleading however, we list the number of such students in each year here: 2011: 1 student; 2010: 1 student; 2008: 2 students; 2007: 1 student; 2005: 1 student.

By the way, no assumptions should be made about the students who have left philosophy. In particular, it should not be assumed that they have not been "successful". They are teachers, doctors, lawyers, and business people, among other things.