MA Placement Information

Since 2002, over fifty students have graduated from our department with an M.A. Philosophy.  Roughly half of these former students continued their graduate education in Ph.D. programs across the country, while a good number of the graduates from our M.A. program leave academia to pursue other career paths.  Some, for instance, have earned certificates in education and are now teaching in high schools. 

Below we list the titles of the M.A. papers defended by some of the students who pursued their doctorates after graduating from our program.  We also list their advisors and the schools at which continued their graduate education.  All the placements listed below were accompanied by full funding unless otherwise noted. 

In addition to the schools listed below, graduates from our M.A. program have also been accepted into Philosophy Ph.D programs at the New School for Social Research in New York City and the University of California – San Diego.

NOTE: This page was last updated in May 2019 and is accurate to the best of our knowledge.  We will continue to update the current positions of our graduates as information becomes available to us. 

Our Graduates

Title and Year of M.A. Paper

Placement

(Philosophy Ph.D. program with full funding unless otherwise noted)

"‘Soyons Tout!’ On Undecidable Theorems and the Formalization of Subjective Overdetermination." [2019]

Advisor:
Adrian Johnston

"On the Way to Conversation:  Heidegger and Transformative Language" [2019]

Advisor:
Iain Thomson

Texas A&M University

"Sense and Life" [2019]

Advisor:
Paul Livingston

Purdue University

"The Value of Exchange" [2018]

Advisor:
Adrian Johnston

"Do Multiple Ethical Theories Compete for Integrity in Research?" [2018]

Advisor:
Ann Murphy

"Ethical Translation of Who We Are: Celebrating the Psychic Vulnerability and Pre-Subject Relation of 'You' and 'I' in Judith Butler's Corpus" [2018]

Advisor:
Ann Murphy

"The Imports of Description and Explanation:  Pleasure, Pain, and Consciousness in Sartrean Phenomenology and Freudian Metapsychology" [2018]

Advisor:
Adrian Johnston

University of New Mexico

"Levinas's Critique of Phenomenology: A Kantian Reading" [2018]

Advisor:
Ann Murphy

University of New Mexico

"Thinking with Images" [2018]

Advisor:
Paul Livingston

""Normativity and Intersubjectivity in the German Idealist Tradition"" [2017]

Advisor:
Adrian Johnston

Purdue University

Ph.D. Program

"Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis: Towards a Politics of the Brain" [2016]

Advisor:
Adrian Johnston

Emory University

"Politics of Poisis: Postmodern Polysemy as World" [2015]

Advisor:
Iain Thomson

Emory University

"Situating the Encounter with a Work of Art within Dasein's Ontological Structure" [2015]

Advisor:
Iain Thomson

University of South Florida

"Environmental Philosophy" [2014]

Advisor:
Ann Murphy

University of Montana, Forestry Ph.D. Program

"Tracing Historical Horizons through Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Emerson" [2014]

Advisor:
Iain Thomson

DePaul University

"Kripke and Hegel on the Actual Ground of Modal Statements" [2012]

Advisor:
Paul Livingston

Loyola University Chicago

"Mathematized Truth: Badiou and Tarski" [2012]

Advisor:
Paul Livingston

University of New Mexico

Earned Ph.D. in 2015

"Arguing About Silence: The Ineffable Ethic of the Resolute Wittgenstein" [2011]

Advisor:
Russell Goodman

University of Oregon

"Spatiality and Attunements in Heidegger's Early Thought" [2011]

Advisor:
Iain Thomson

Loyola University Chicago

"Aesthetic Shock of the Divine: Plotinus and the Orthodox Christian Iconography" [2010]

Advisor:
John Bussanich

University of Iowa, Ph.D. Program in Religious Studies

Earned Ph.D. in 2012

"Kant, Kierkegaard, and the Roots of Hope and Despair" [2007]

Advisor:
Andrew Burgess

Fordham University

Earned Ph.D. in 2013

"Strife and Death: Heidegger's Debt to Heraclitus" [2006]

Advisor:
Iain Thomson

Hired as Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Principia College

"Suffering Tragedy: Hegel, Kierkegaard, and the Tragedy of Antigone" [2006]

Advisor:
Andrew Burgess

SUNY - Binghamton

Earned Ph.D. in 2013

"Living with Death: Kierkegaard and the Samurai" [2005]

Advisor:
Andrew Burgess

University of South Florida

Earned Ph.D. in 2011

"Schlegel and the Limits of Philosophy" [2005]

Advisor:
John Taber

University of South Florida

Earned Ph.D. in 2012

"Mourning Mourning Itself (on Derrida)" [2004]

Advisor:
Iain Thomson

University of South Florida

Earned Ph.D. in 2008

"The Problem of Psychologism in Wittgenstein's Tractatus" [2004]

Advisor:
Russell Goodman

University of Nebraska

Earned Ph.D. in 2016

"The Birth of Vitalism out of Pessimism: An Examination of Nietzsche's Break with Schopenhauer in the Birth of Tragedy" [2003]

Advisor:
Iain Thomson

Duquesne University

Left academia in 2004

"Dewey, Ramos, and the Individual" [2002]

Advisor:
Fred Sturm

Texas A&M

Earned Ph.D. in 2012

"Søren Kierkegaard and Paul Martin Möller and the Debate on Immortality" [2002]

Advisor:
Andrew Burgess

Florida State University

Ph.D. program in the Department of Religion