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Philosophy

Graduate News


Graduate Student Placements

  • 2011: Shawn Welnak - Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, C. W. Post College
  • 2011: Jonny Anomaly - Visiting Assistant Professor, UNC Chapel Hill
  • 2010: Michael Madary - Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Virtual Embodiment and Robotic Re-Embodiment (VERE), Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz
  • 2009: Shane Courtland - Assistant Professor, Dept. of Philosophy, Merrimack College
  • 2009: Bill Glod - Philosophy Program Officer, Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University
  • 2007: Drew Chastain - Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of Philosophy, Xavier Univ., N.O.
  • 2006: Julinna Oxley - Assistant Professor, Coastal Carolina University (tenure-track)
  • 2005: Paul Haught - Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Ethics, Newberry College
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Recent Awards

  • Gwenda-lin Grewal, Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Whitney Center for the Humanities, Yale University, 2010-2012
  • Travis Mulroy, Murphy Institute Graduate Fellowship, 2010-2011
  • Alexandre Priou, Freie Universitat, Berlin, Exchange Fellowship, 2010-11
  • Mark Pryor, Freie Universitat, Berlin, Exchange Fellowship, 2010-11

Recent Dissertations

Jennifer Beers

Socrates Meets Aristophanes: Philosophy and Poetry in Plato's Symposium

Ronna Burger

Shawn Welnack

Philosophy and The Cave of Opinion: The Graeco-Arabic Tradition

Ronna Burger

Gwenda-lin Grewal

On Plato's Euthydemus

Ronna Burger

Hans Gruenig

Heidegger, Death, and Personal Transformation

Michael Zimmerman

Shane Courtland

Hobbesian Public Reason

Eric Mack

William Glod

Liberalism's Case against Legal Paternalism

Eric Mack

Quian (Sophy) Wang

John Rawls on Human Rights

Bruce Brower

Michael Madary

The Perspectival Content of Perception

Radu Bogdan

Julinna Oxley

A Theory of Benevolence

Jerry Gaus

Jonny Anomaly

An Internalist Theory of Practical Reason

Jerry Gaus

Matthew Oberrieder

The Significance of Socrates' Quotations of Homer in Plato's Protagoras

Ronna Burger

Ben Crowe

Destroying the Wisdom of the Wise: The Origins and Development of Heidegger's Concept of Destruction

Michael Zimmerman

Paul Haught

David Hume's Moral Philosophy and Environmental Ethics

Michael Zimmerman

Drew Chastain

Interpreting Metaphor

Graeme Forbes

Jason Tipton

The Paradigm of Organic Unity: On Aristotle's De Partibus Animalium

Ronna Burger



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