Philosophy Department Graduate Placement Record

The following list includes all job placements for Ph.D. recipients since 1997. Where a current position differs from previous position(s), the previous position(s) are also included. Unless otherwise stated, all positions are tenure-track or tenured/permanent.

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Tienmu Ma | 2022

  • Current Political Advisor to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kosova
  • AOS Moral Philosophy, Political Philosophy
  • Committee Scheffler (advisor), Appiah, Murphy

Jennifer Judge | 2022

  • Current Postdoctoral Associate at the Center for Bioethics, NYU
  • AOS Philosophy of Mind, Aesthetics, Ethics of AI
  • Committee Hopkins (advisor), Block, Jauernig

Mala Chatterjee | 2022

  • Current Associate Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
  • AOS Law and Philosophy
  • Committee Murphy (advisor), Scheffler, Waldron

Daniel Brinkerhoff Young | 2022

  • Current NYU Philosophy Futures Postdoctoral Lecturer
  • AOS Social and Political Philosophy, 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy
  • Committee Viehoff (advisor), Longuenesse, Richardson, Neuhouser (Columbia)

Daniel Sharp | 2021

  • Current Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • AOS Political Philosophy, Ethics, Wittgenstein
  • Committee Viehoff (advisor), Appiah, Scheffler

Adam Lovett | 2021

  • Current London School of Economics Fellow in Philosophy
  • Upcoming Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy Postdoctoral Fellow (starting Fall 2022)
  • AOS Political Philosophy, Metaphysics
  • Committee Scheffler (advisor), Appiah, Viehoff

Chris Scambler | 2021

  • Current Postdoctoral Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford University
  • AOS Logic, Philosophy of Maths, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics
  • Committee Field (advisor), Fine, Wright

Samuel Lee | 2020

  • Current Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Philosophy of Science, Linköping University
  • AOS Metaphysics, Ethics, Philosophy of Action, Philosophy of Science
  • Committee Strevens (advisor), Dorr, Franklin-Hall

David Storrs-Fox | 2020

  • Current Exceptional Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • AOS Moral Philosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Action, Early Modern Philosophy
  • Committee Velleman (advisor), Dorr, Pryor

Andreas Ditter | 2020

  • Current Career Development Fellow in Philosophy at the Queen's College, Oxford University
  • Previous Stalnaker Postdoctoral Associate, MIT
  • AOS Metaphysics, Philosophical Logic, Philosophy of Language, History of Logic
  • Committee Dorr (co-advisor), Fine (co-advisor), Malink

Arden Koehler | 2020

  • Current Website Director, 80,000 Hours
  • AOS Value Theory, Time Preferences, Mortality
  • Committee Street (advisor), Richardson, Scheffler

Annette Martín | 2020

  • Current University of Illinois in Chicago
  • Previous Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Bridge to the Faculty Program at the University of Illinois in Chicago
  • AOS Social and Political Philosophy, Epistemology, Philosophy of Race and Gender
  • Committee Appiah (co-advisor), Friedman (co-advisor), Viehoff

Trevor Teitel | 2020

  • Current University of Toronto
  • AOS Metaphysics, Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of Science
  • Committee Dorr (advisor), Field, Maudlin, David Albert (Columbia)

KYLE BLUMBERG | 2019

  • Current The Dianoia Institute of Philosophy, Australian Catholic University
  • Previous Research Fellow at the University of Johannesburg
  • AOS Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind
  • Committee Dorr (advisor), Pryor, Schiffer, Chris Barker (NYU Linguistics)

Vera Flocke | 2019

  • Current Indiana University, Bloomington
  • AOS Metaphysics, History of Analytic Philosophy, Philosophy of Language
  • Committee Chalmers (advisor), Dorr, Jauernig, Gary Ebbs (Indiana University, Bloomington)

Daniël Hoek | 2019

  • Current Virginia Tech
  • Previous Louis Skolnick Postdoctoral Associateship at Princeton
  • AOS Philosophy of Language, Decision Theory, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mathematics
  • Committee Dorr (advisor), Chalmers, Chris Barker (NYU Linguistics)

Ben Holguín | 2019

  • Current Johns Hopkins University
  • Previous Louis Skolnick Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton; Postdoctoral Lecturer, NYU
  • AOS Epistemology, Philosophy of Language
  • Committee Pryor (advisor), Dorr, Friedman

Andrew Y. Lee | 2019

  • Current Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Australian National University
  • Upcoming University of Toronto (starting Fall 2023)
  • Previous Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at University of Oslo
  • AOS Philosophy of Mind
  • Committee Chalmers (advisor), Block, Nagel

Jake Nebel | 2019

  • Current University of Southern California
  • AOS Value, Rationality, Morality, Language
  • Committee Scheffler (advisor), Dorr, Johann Frick (Princeton)

Martín Abreu Zavaleta | 2018

  • Current Syracuse University
  • Previous Postdoctoral Researcher at Umeå University; Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Investigaciones Filosóficas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
  • AOS Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind
  • Committee Pryor (advisor), Dorr, Schiffer

Ian Grubb | 2018

  • Current Software Developer
  • Previous Philosophy Futures Postdoctoral Lectureship, NYU
  • AOS Philosophy of Logic, Metaethics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Language
  • Committee Wright (advisor), Pryor, Street

Amanda Askell | 2018

  • Current Research Scientist (Alignment) at Anthropic
  • Previous OpenAI, Research Scientist (Policy)
  • AOS Ethics, Rationality, Decision Theory
  • Committee Dorr, Chalmers, Shelly Kagan (Yale)

Rosa Cao | 2018

  • Current Stanford University
  • Previous Indiana University
  • AOS Philosophy of Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Biology
  • Committee Block (advisor), Chalmers, Strevens

Michelle Dyke | 2018

  • Current Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow, NYU Center for Bioethics (fixed term)
  • AOS Ethics, Metaethics, Epistemology
  • Committee Boghossian (advisor), Street, Horwich

Emilio Mora | 2018

  • Current Harvard University (lectureship)
  • AOS Moral and Political Philosophy
  • Committee Scheffler (advisor), Murphy, Nagel

Chelsea Rosenthal | 2018

  • Current Simon Fraser University
  • Previous Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow, NYU Center for Bioethics (fixed term)
  • AOS Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Ethics
  • Committee Scheffler (advisor), Liao, Murphy, Street

Mike Zhao | 2018

  • Current University of Notre Dame
  • Previous Postdoctoral Lecturer, NYU
  • AOS Normative Ethics, Metaethics, Moral Psychology
  • Committee Scheffler (advisor), Appiah, Street

Christopher Prodoehl | 2017

  • Current Term Assistant Professor, Barnard College
  • Previous Adjunct Instructor, NYU
  • AOS Philosophy of Mind and Action, Kant, Aesthetics
  • Committee Longuenesse (advisor), Hopkins, Velleman

Harjit Bhogal | 2017

  • Current University of Maryland, College Park
  • AOS Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics, Epistemology
  • Committee Strevens (Advisor), Franklin-Hall, Maudlin

Mihailis Diamantis | 2017

  • Current University of Iowa, College of Law
  • AOS Action, Moral Psychology, Ethics, Mind, Law
  • Committee Velleman (Advisor), Block, Street

Camil Golub | 2017

  • Current Rutgers University, Newark
  • AOS Ethics, Metaethics, Moral Psychology
  • Committee Field (Advisor), Nagel, Street

Daniel Waxman | 2017

  • Current National University of Singapore
  • Previous Lingnan University, Hong Kong; Junior Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
  • AOS Philosophy of Mathematics, Logic, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Political Philosophy
  • Committee Wright (Advisor), Dorr, Field

Jeremy Goodman | 2017

  • Current University of Southern California
  • AOS Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind
  • Committee Dorr (Advisor), Fine, Malink

Asya Passinsky | 2016

  • Current Central European University
  • Previous Dartmouth College, Lecturer
  • AOS Metaphysics, Social and Political Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy
  • Committee Fine (Advisor), Boghossian, Dorr

Zee Perry | 2016

  • Current NYU Shanghai (Visiting Assistant Professor)
  • Previous Rutgers, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Associate (2 years)
  • AOS Metaphysics, Philosophy of Physics
  • Committee Maudlin (Advisor), Dorr, Field

Daniela Dover | 2016

  • Current University of Oxford,
  • Previous UCLA; UCLA Postdoctoral Fellowship in Law and Philosophy
  • AOS Ethics
  • Committee Velleman (Advisor), Scheffler, Street

Daniel Fogal | 2016

  • Current NYU Bioethics
  • Previous Uppsala University (3-year postdoc in association with the Varieties of Normativity project)
  • AOS Epistemology, Ethics, Philosophy of Language
  • Committee Pryor (Advisor), Schiffer, Wright

Max Barkhausen | 2016

  • Current Lead Data Scientist/Project Leader, Boston Consulting Group
  • AOS Metaethics
  • Committee Velleman (Advisor), Field, Wright

Ang Tong | 2016

  • Current Non-Academic Position
  • Previous Lecturer, NYU
  • AOS Epistemology, Ethics
  • Committee Nagel (advisor), Pryor, Scheffler

Martin Glazier | 2015

  • Current Scientific Collaborator, University of Geneva
  • Previous University of North Carolina -Chapel Hill (postdoc); Institute of Philosophical Research at UNAM (postdoc); University of Hamburg (postdoc)
  • AOS Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science
  • Committee Fine (Advisor), Sider, Strevens

Grace Helton | 2015

  • Current Princeton University
  • Previous University of Antwerp (postdoc)
  • AOS Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Epistemology Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy
  • Committee Block (Advisor), Chalmers, Strevens

Jed Lewinsohn | 2015

  • Current University of Pittsburgh
  • Previous Harvard Society of Fellows
  • AOS Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy
  • Committee Scheffler (Advisor), Garrett, Murphy, Nagel

Erica Shumener | 2015

  • Current Syracuse University
  • Previous University of Pittsburgh
  • AOS Metaphysics
  • Committee Fine (Advisor), Chalmers, Sider

Olla Solomyak | 2015

  • Current Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Jewish Thought at Shalem College / Rabbinical Fellow at Beit Midrash Har’el
  • Previous Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Polonsky Postdoctoral Fellow
  • AOS Metaphysics
  • Committee Sider (Advisor), Chalmers, Fine

Jared Warren | 2015

  • Current Stanford University
  • AOS Mind and Language, Metaphysics and Epistemology, Mathematics and Logic
  • Committee Field (Advisor), Chalmers, Wright

Eli Alshanetsky | 2014

  • Current Temple University
  • Previous Andrew W. Mellon fellow in the Humanities, Stanford University
  • AOS Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science
  • Committee Boghossian (Advisor), Block, Pryor, Wright

Philippe Lusson | 2014

  • Current Lecturer in Philosophy at NYU Paris
  • Previous Institut Jean Nicod (associate postdoc)
  • AOS Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Action
  • Committee Block (Advisor), Strevens, Velleman

Hsueh Qu | 2014

  • Current National University of Singapore
  • AOS Hume
  • Committee Garrett (Advisor), Longuenesse, Pryor

Dean Chapman | 2013

  • Current University of Cape Town
  • AOS Epistemology
  • Committee Wright (Advisor), Boghossian, Pryor

Melis Erdur | 2013

  • Current Independent Scholar
  • Previous Edmond Safra Center for Ethics, Tel Aviv University, Postdoctoral Fellowship; The Herzi Institute, Jerusalem, Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • AOS Ethics, Metaethics
  • Commitee Velleman (Advisor), Field, Street

Nicholas Riggle | 2013

  • Current University of San Diego
  • Previous Lafayette College
  • AOS Aesthetics, Moral Psychology
  • Committee Velleman (Advisor), Boghossian, Hopkins, Longuenesse

Matthew Seligman | 2013

  • Current Lawyer and Fellow at Yale University
  • Previous Harvard Law School, Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law / Practiced law at Kellogg Huber
  • AOS Moral Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Metaethics
  • Committee Nagel (Advisor), Parfit, Street

Knut Skarsaune | 2013

  • Current Lillehammer University
  • Previous Postoctoral Research Fellow, University of Oslo
  • AOS Ethics
  • Committee Street (Advisor), Nagel, Sider

David James Barnett | 2012

  • Current University of Toronto
  • Previous Union College
  • AOS Epistemology
  • Committee Boghossian (Advisor), Garrett, Pryor

Jonathan Cottrell | 2012

  • Current University of Edinburgh
  • Previous Wayne State University
  • AOS Early Modern
  • Committee Garrett (Advisor), Longuenesse, Velleman, Winkler (Yale)

Alex Guerrero | 2012

  • Current Rutgers University
  • Previous University of Pennsylvania (joint appointment in the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy)
  • AOS Political Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Law
  • Committee Scheffler (Advisor), Nagel, Pallikkathayil

Hyunseop Kim | 2012

  • Current Seoul National University
  • Previous Postdoctoral scholar, Stanford University
  • AOS Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy
  • Committee Scheffler (Advisor), Nagel, Parfit, Velleman

Jonathan Simon | 2012

  • Current Université de Montréal
  • Previous Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Consciousness, Australian National University; Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Tulane University; Postdoctoral Associate for Mind, Brain and Consciousness, NYU
  • AOS Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Metaethics
  • Committee Boghossian (Advisor), Block, Chalmers, Street

Helena Wright | 2012

  • Current Civil service (UK)
  • AOS Language, Ethics
  • Committee Nagel (Advisor), Parfit, Street

Justin Clarke-Doane | 2011

  • Current Columbia University
  • Previous Permanent Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham; Monash University
  • AOS Metaethics, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mathematics
  • Committee Field (Advisor), Nagel, Parfit, Schiffer

Greg Epstein | 2011

  • Current Practicing law at Epstein, Becker, Green
  • AOS Legal and political philosophy
  • Committee Scheffler (Advisor), Nagel, Street

Shieva Kleinschmidt | 2011

  • Current University of Southern California
  • AOS Metaphysics
  • Committee Sider (Advisor), Fine, Varzi (Columbia), Zimmerman (Rutgers)

Jeff Sanford Russell | 2011

  • Current University of Southern California
  • Previous Magdalen College, Oxford
  • AOS Metaphysics, Philosophical Logic, Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of Language
  • Committee Sider (Advisor), Field, Fine, Strevens

Regina A. Rini | 2011

  • Current York University (Toronto), Canada Research Chair
  • Previous University of Oxford (Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics)
  • AOS Philosophy of Psychology, Ethics, Philosophy of Mind
  • Committee Block (Advisor), Nagel, Strevens, Knobe (Yale)

Jeff Sebo | 2011

  • Current NYU, Animal Studies and Environmental Studies
  • Previous NYU, Faculty Fellow of Animal Studies (3 year postdoc)
  • AOS Ethics
  • Committee Velleman (Advisor), Parfit, Richardson, Street

Colin Marshall | 2010

  • Current University of Washington
  • Previous University of Melbourne, Gerry Higgins Lectureship (3 years)
  • AOS Kant, Early Modern, Metaethics
  • Committee Longuenesse (Advisor), Garrett, Velleman

Erica Preston-Roedder | 2010

  • Current Occidental College (postdoc)
  • Previous North Carolina Hospital Association, Public Health Analyst
  • AOS Philosophy of Psychology, Bioethics
  • Committee Street (Advisor), Richardson, G. Harman (Princeton)

Shamik Dasgupta | 2009

  • Current University of California, Berkeley
  • Previous Princeton University
  • AOS Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science
  • Committee Fine (Advisor), Field, Schiffer

Sinan Dogramaci | 2009

  • Current University of Texas, Austin
  • AOS Epistemology
  • Committee Pryor (Advisor), Boghossian, Field

Geoffrey Lee | 2009

  • Current University of California, Berkeley
  • AOS Philosophy of Mind, Foundations of Cognitive Science and Neuroscience, Metaphysics
  • Committee Block (Advisor), Horwich, Nagel, Shoemaker (Cornell)

John Morrison i 2009

  • Current Barnard College, Columbia University
  • AOS Philosophy of Mind, Early Modern Philosophy
  • Committee Schiffer (Advisor), Block, Garrett, Pryor

Michael Raven | 2009

  • Current University of Victoria
  • AOS Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language
  • Committee Fine (Advisor) Sider, Wright

Yuval Avnur | 2008

  • Current Scripps College
  • AOS Epistemology
  • Committee Pryor (Advisor), Garrett, Schiffer

Anne Barnhill | 2008

  • Current University of Pennsylvania, Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy
  • Previous Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard (Faculty Fellow, 2 years)
  • AOS Ethics, Feminist Philosophy
  • Committee Velleman (Advisor), Parfit, Richardson, Street

Sharon Hewitt Rawlette | 2008

  • Current Author and Independent Researcher
  • Previous Florence Levy Kay Fellowship in Ethics, Brandeis (2 years)
  • AOS Metaethics, Normative Ethics
  • Committee Nagel (Advisor), Garrett, Street, Velleman

Matthew Kotzen | 2008

  • Current UNC, Chapel Hill
  • AOS Epistemology, Philosophy of Science
  • Committee White (Advisor), Field, Pryor

Anna-Sara Malmgren | 2008

  • Current Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences
  • Previous Stanford University; University of Texas, Austin
  • AOS Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind
  • Committee Boghossian (Advisor), Schiffer, Wright

Karl Schafer | 2008

  • Current University of Texas at Austin
  • Previous University of California, Irvine; University of Pittsburgh
  • AOS Ethics, Epistemology, Early Modern, Kant
  • Committee Garrett (co-advisor), Longuenesse (co-advisor), Nagel (co-advisor), Velleman

Ray Buchanan | 2007

  • Current University of Texas, Austin
  • AOS Philosophy of Language
  • Committee Schiffer (Advisor), Boghossian, Pryor

Ryan Preston | 2007

  • Current Occidental College
  • Previous UNC, Chapel Hill
  • AOS Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
  • Committee Nagel (Advisor), Parfit, Street

Zsofia Zvolensky | 2007

  • Current Logic Department at Eötvös University (ELTE), Philosophy Institute, Humanities Faculty, Budapest
  • AOS Philosophy of Language
  • Committee Fine (Advisor), Neale, Schiffer, Szabolcsi (NYU Linguistics)

Pete Graham | 2006

  • Current University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  • AOS Ethics, Metaphysics
  • Committee Harman (Advisor), Dorr, Nagel

Josh Schechter | 2006

  • Current Brown University
  • AOS Epistemology, Philosophy of Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics
  • Committee Field (Advisor), Boghossian, Fine

Jeremy Simon | 2006

  • Current Columbia University, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine and Scholar in Residence at The Center for Bioethics
  • AOS Philosophy of Medicine, Philosophy of Science, Medical Ethics
  • Committee Ruddick (Advisor), Richardson, Kitcher (Columbia)

Declan Smithies | 2006

  • Current Ohio State University
  • Previous ANU Postdoc
  • AOS Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind
  • Committee Boghossian (Advisor), Block, Peacocke, Wright

Winston Chiong | 2005

  • Current University of California, San Francisco (Department of Neurology)
  • Previous Returned to medical training at the University of California, San Francisco
  • AOS Medical Ethics, Ethics
  • Committee Nagel (Advisor), Murphy, Parfit

Brad Skow | 2005

  • Current MIT
  • Previous University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  • AOS Metaphysics, Philosophy of Physics
  • Committee Field (Advisor), Dorr, Belot

Masahiro Yamada | 2005

  • Current Claremont Graduate University
  • AOS Epistemology, Metaphysics
  • Committee Boghossian (Advisor), Foley, Parfit

Peter Kung | 2004

  • Current Pomona College
  • AOS Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology
  • Committee Block (Advisor), Boghossian, Nagel

Adam Pautz | 2004

  • Current Brown University
  • Previous University of Texas, Austin
  • AOS Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics
  • Committee Block (Advisor), Boghossian, Peacocke, Schiffer

David Barnett | 2003

  • Current CEO, PopSockets LLC
  • Previous Davidson College
  • AOS Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language
  • Committee Fine (Advisor), Field, Parfit, Schiffer

David Enoch | 2003

  • Current Hebrew University, Joint Appointment in Philosophy and the Law School
  • AOS Moral and Political Philosophy
  • Committee Field, Nagel, Parfit