Dissertation Students

My PhD students and what has become of them, organized by PhD year…

2026

• Madeleine Levac (Having Things in Mind). Visiting Assistant Professor, Amherst College.

2025

• Elek Lane (Metaphor in Mind and Language). Postdoc, University of Vienna. Received but declined a tenure-track offer from Texas A&M.

2024

• Mathias Boehm (Updating the Common Ground). Junior Research Fellowship, Humboldt University Berlin. Akademischer Rat auf Zeit, University of Heidelberg.

2023

• Sven Neth (Non-Ideal Decision Theory). Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh.

2021

• Sophie Dandelet (Making Up Our Minds: Ethical Norms in Epistemic Inquiry). Bersoff postdoc, NYU. Assistant Professor, Cambridge University. Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

2019

• Ethan Jerzak (Paradox in Thought and Natural Language). Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore.

• Rachel Rudolph (Talking about Appearances: Experience, Evaluation, and Evidence in Discourse). Assistant Professor, Auburn University. Associate Professor, UCSD.

2018

• James Hutchinson (A Haunting Conviction: Frege on Truth and Logic). University of Indiana, Oscar R. Ewing Visiting Assistant Professor. Simon Fraser University, Lecturer. University of Toronto, Postdoctoral Scholar. Assistant Professor, Nazarbayev University (Kazhakstan).

• Erica Klempner (Beauty, Art and Testimony: Subjectivity and Objectivity in Aesthetics). Berkeley Connect Fellow.

2017

• Richard Lawrence (Nominalization, Specification, and Investigation). Berkeley Connect Fellow, UC Berkeley. Researcher, University of Tübingen. Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Vienna.

• Justin Vlasits (Platonic Division and the Origins of Aristotelian Logic). Postdoc, University of Tübingen. Associate Professor, University of Illinois, Chicago.

2016

• Ethan Nowak (Two Dogmas about Demonstratives). Two-year teaching position at University College London. Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, King’s College London. Associate Professor, Umeå University, Sweden. Assistant Professor, Stanford University.

2015

• Melissa Fusco (Deontic Modals and the Semantics of Choice). Assistant Professor, Columbia University.

2014

• Arpy Khatchirian (Substantive Truth and Knowledge of Meaning). Lecturer, UC Berkeley. Stanford Online High School.

2013

• Justin Bledin (Logic Informed). Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University.

• Michael Rieppel (Being Something: Prospects for a Property-Based Approach to Predicative Quantification). Associate Professor, Syracuse University.

2012

• Joseph Barnes (A Platonic Account of Epistemic Value). Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

2011

• Stanley Chen (Matters of Taste Are Not “Mere Matters of Taste”). Harvard Law School, now a lawyer.

• Michael Caie (Rationality and Semantic Paradox). Assistant Professor, University of Rochester. Assistant Professor, Syracuse University. Assistant and Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh, Associate Professor, University of Toronto.

2010

• Jessica Gelber (Causes and Kinds in Aristotle’s Embryology). Assistant Professor, Syracuse University. Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh. Associate Professor, University of Toronto.

2009

• Fabrizio Cariani (The Semantics of ‘Ought’ and the Unity of Modal Discourse). Assistant and Associate Professor, Northwestern University. Professor, University of Maryland.

2008

• Kenny Easwaran (The Foundations of Conditional Probability). Assistant Professor, USC. Associate Professor, Texas A&M. Associate Professor, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, UC Irvine.

• Mike Titelbaum (Quitting Certainties: A Doxastic Modeling Framework). Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

• Andreas Anagnostopoulos (Aristotle on Change and Potentiality). Akademischer Rat, LMU Munich.

2007

• Berislav Marusic (Skepticism Between Absurdity and Idleness). Assistant and Associate Professor, Brandeis University. Professor of Moral Philosophy and Epistemology, University of Edinburgh.

2006

• Bence Nanay (How Animals See the World: A Theory of Content for Action-Oriented Perceptual States). Professor of Philosophy and BOF Research Professor, University of Antwerp, and Senior Researc Associate, Peterhouse, University of Cambridge.

2005

• Johannes Hafner (From Metamathematics to Philosophy: A Critical Assessment of Putnam’s Model-Theoretic Argument). Was Assistant Professor at North Carolina State University.

2003

• Elizabeth Camp (Saying and Seeing-As: The Linguistic, Cognitive, and Imaginative Uses and Effects of Metaphor). Harvard Society of Fellows. Assistant and Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania. Professor, Rutgers University.

• Omar Mirza (Naturalism and Darwin’s Doubt: a Study of Plantinga’s Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism). Was Associate Professor, St. Cloud State University. Now a software engineer.