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Philosophy Department Graduate Placement Record

The list below includes all graduate students who have received the Ph.D. since the graduate program was restarted in 1997 as well as current Ph.D. students who hold positions at other universities. Post-doctoral fellowships in the NYU philosophy department are omitted. All positions are tenure track unless otherwise noted.

PhD	Name	First Position / Current Position	AOS	Committee
2013	Dean Chapman	University of Cape Town (2 years)	Epistemology	Boghossian, Pryor, Wright
2012	David James Barnett	Union College	Epistemology	Boghossian, Garrett, Pryor
2012	Jonathan David Cottrell	Wayne State University	Early Modern	Garrett, Longuenesse, Velleman, Winkler (Yale)
2012	Alex Guerrero	University of Pennsylvania (joint appointment in the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy)	Political Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Law	Nagel, Pallikkathayil, Scheffler
2012	Hyunseop Kim	Stanford University (Centre for Ethics in Society), Postdoctoral Scholar (2 years)	Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy	Nagel, Parfit, Scheffler, Velleman
2012	Jonathan Simon	Australian National University (18 Months)	Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Metaethics	Block, Boghossian, Chalmers, Street
2011	Justin Clarke-Doane	Monash University (fixed-term) / Joint Appointment at the University of Birmingham (tenured with 5 years of research) and Monash University (Honorary Research Fellow)	Metaethics, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mathematics	Field, Nagel, Parfit, Schiffer
2011	Shieva Kleinschmidt	University of Southern California	Metaphysics	Fine, Sider, Varzi (Columbia), Zimmerman (Rutgers)
2011	Jeff Sanford Russell	Magdalen College, Oxford	Metaphysics, Philosophical Logic, Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of Language	Field, Fine, Sider, Strevens
2011	Regina A. Rini	University of Oxford (Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics), Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2 years)	Philosophy of Psychology, Ethics, Philosophy of Mind	Block, Knobe (Yale), Nagel, Strevens
2011	Jeff Sebo	New York University, Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow of Animal Studies; Environmental Studies (3 years)	Ethics	Parfit, Richardson, Street, Velleman
2010	Colin Marshall	University of Melbourne, Gerry Higgins Lectureship (3 years)/University of Washington	Kant, Early Modern, Metaethics	Garrett, Longuenesse, Velleman
2010	Erica Preston-Roedder	North Carolina Hospital Association, public health analyst	Philosophy of Psychology, Bioethics	G. Harman (Princeton), Richardson, Street
2009	Shamik Dasgupta	Princeton University	Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science	Field, Fine, Schiffer
2009	Sinan Dogramaci	University of Texas, Austin	Epistemology	Boghossian, Field, Pryor
2009	Geoffrey Lee	University of California, Berkeley	Philosophy of Mind, Foundations of Cognitive Science and Neuroscience, Metaphysics	Block, Horwich, Nagel, Shoemaker (Cornell)
2009	John Morrison	Barnard College, Columbia University	Philosophy of Mind, Early Modern Philosophy	Block, Garrett, Pryor, Schiffer
2009	Michael Raven	University of Victoria	Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language	Fine, Sider, Wright
2008	Yuval Avnur	Scripps College	Epistemology	Pryor, Schiffer, Garrett
2008	Anne Barnhill	Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard (faculty fellow, 2 years) / University of Pennsylvania Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy	Ethics, Feminist Philosophy	Parfit, Richardson, Street, Velleman
2008	Sharon Hewitt	Florence Levy Kay Fellowship in Ethics, Brandeis (2 years)	Metaethics, Normative Ethics	Garrett, Nagel, Street, Velleman
2008	Matthew Kotzen	UNC, Chapel Hill	Epistemology, Philosophy of Science	Field, Pryor, White
2008	Anna-Sara Malmgren	University of Texas, Austin / Stanford University	Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind	Boghossian, Schiffer, Wright
2008	Karl Schafer	University of Pittsburgh	Ethics, Epistemology, Early Modern, Kant	Garrett, Longuenesse, Nagel, Velleman
2007	Ray Buchanan	University of Texas, Austin	Philosophy of Language	Boghossian, Pryor, Schiffer
2007	Ryan Preston	UNC, Chapel Hill	Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion	Nagel, Parfit, Street
2007	Zsofia Zvolensky	Logic Department at Eötvös University (ELTE), Philosophy Institute, Humanities Faculty, Budapest	Philosophy of Language	Fine, Neale, Schiffer, Szabolcsi, (non-reading member: Field)
2006	Pete Graham	University of Massachusetts, Amherst	Ethics, Metaphysics	Dorr, Harman, Nagel
2006	Josh Schechter	Brown University	Epistemology, Philosophy of Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics	Field, Boghossian, Fine
2006	Jeremy Simon	Columbia University, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine and Scholar in Residence at The Center for Bioethics	Philosophy of Medicine, Philosophy of Science, Medical Ethics	Kitcher (Columbia), Richardson, Ruddick
2006	Declan Smithies	Ohio State University, ANU postdoc	Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind	Block, Boghossian, Peacocke, Wright
2005	Winston Chiong	Returned to medical training at the University of California, San Francisco	Medical Ethics, Ethics	Murphy, Nagel, Parfit
2005	Brad Skow	University of Massachusetts, Amherst / MIT	Metaphysics, Philosophy of Physics	Field, Dorr, Belot
2005	Masahiro Yamada	Claremont Graduate University	Epistemology, Metaphysics	Boghossian, Foley, Parfit
2004	Peter Kung	Pomona College	Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology	Block, Boghossian, Nagel
2004	Adam Pautz	University of Texas, Austin	Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics	Block, Boghossian, Peacocke, Schiffer
2003	David Barnett	Davidson College / CU Boulder	Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language	Fine, Field, Parfit, Schiffer
2003	David Enoch	Hebrew University, Joint Appointment in Philosophy and the Law School	Moral and Political Philosophy	Field, Nagel, Parfit