Philosophy Department Graduate Placement Record

The following is a list of current positions of all graduate students who have received the Ph.D. and left NYU since the graduate program was restarted in 1997 as well as current Ph.D. students who hold positions at other universities. Where a current position differs from a first position, the first position is also included. Intermediate positions and post-doctoral positions in the NYU philosophy department are omitted. All academic positions are tenure track unless otherwise noted.

See also: Year-by-year Cohort Statistics

To report an update to this page, email Amy at akm411[at]nyu.edu

Andreas Ditter

  • First Stalnaker Postdoctoral Associate, MIT
  • AOS Metaphysics, Philosophical Logic, Philosophy of Language, History of Logic
  • Committee Cian Dorr (co-chair), Kit Fine (co-chair), Marko Malink

Annette Martín

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

Trevor Teitel | 2020

  • First University of Toronto (starting Fall 2020)
  • AOS Metaphysics, Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of Science
  • Committee Cian Dorr (Advisor), Hartry Field, Tim Maudlin, David Albert (Columbia)

KYLE BLUMBERG | 2019

  • First The Dianoia Institute of Philosophy, Australian Catholic University. To be preceded by research fellowship at the University of Johannesburg.
  • AOS Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind
  • Committee Cian Dorr (advisor), Jim Pryor, Stephen Schiffer, and Chris Barker (NYU Linguistics)

Vera Flocke | 2019

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

Daniël Hoek | 2019

  • First Virginia Tech. To be preceded by Louis Skolnick Postdoctoral Associateship at Princeton.
  • AOS Philosophy of Language, Decision Theory, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mathematics
  • Committee Cian Dorr (Advisor), David Chalmers, Chris Barker (NYU Linguistics)

Ben Holguín | 2019

  • First Louis Skolnick Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University. Preceded by Postdoctoral Lecturer position at New York University.
  • AOS Epistemology, Philosophy of Language
  • Committee Cian Dorr, Jane Friedman, Jim Pryor (advisor)

Andrew Y. Lee | 2019

  • Current Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Australian National University. To be followed by Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at University of Oslo
  • AOS Philosophy of Mind
  • Committee David Chalmers (Advisor), Ned Block, Thomas Nagel

Jake Nebel | 2019

  • First University of Southern California (starting Fall 2019)
  • AOS Value, Rationality, Morality, Language
  • Committee Scheffler (Advisor), Cian Dorr, Johann Frick (Princeton)

Martín Abreu Zavaleta | 2018

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

Amanda Askell | 2018

  • Current OpenAI, Research Scientist (Policy)
  • AOS Ethics, Rationality, Decision Theory
  • Committee Cian Dorr, David Chalmers, Shelly Kagan (Yale)

Rosa Cao | 2018

  • Current Stanford University
  • First Indiana University
  • AOS Philosophy of Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Biology
  • Committee Ned Block (Advisor), David Chalmers, Michael Strevens

Michelle Dyke | 2018

  • First Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow, NYU Center for Bioethics (fixed term, starting Fall 2019)
  • AOS Ethics, Meta-ethics, Epistemology
  • Committee Paul Boghossian (Advisor), Sharon Street, Paul Horwich

Emilio Mora | 2018

  • Current Harvard University (one-year lectureship)
  • AOS Moral and Political Philosophy
  • Committee Samuel Scheffler (Advisor), Thomas Nagel, Liam Murphy

Chelsea Rosenthal | 2018

  • Current Simon Fraser University
  • First Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow, NYU Center for Bioethics (fixed term)
  • AOS Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Ethics
  • Committee Samuel Scheffler (Advisor), Sharon Street, Liam Murphy, Matthew Liao

Mike Zhao | 2018

  • First University of Notre Dame. Preceded by Postdoctoral Lecturer position at New York University.
  • AOS Normative Ethics, Meta-Ethics, Moral Psychology
  • Committee Samuel Scheffler (advisor), Kwame Anthony Appiah, Sharon Street

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

Jeremy Goodman | 2017

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

Asya Passinsky | 2016

  • Current University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Postdoc
  • First Dartmouth College, Lecturer
  • AOS Metaphysics, Philosophy of Social Science, Social Philosophy
  • Committee Fine (Advisor), Boghossian, Dorr

Zee Perry | 2016

  • Current CU Boulder (Lecturer)
  • First Rutgers, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Associate (2 years)
  • AOS Metaphysics, Philosophy of Physics
  • Committee Maudlin (Advisor), Dorr, Field

Daniela Dover | 2016

  • Current UCLA. To be preceded by UCLA Postdoctoral Fellowship in Law and Philosophy
  • AOS Ethics
  • Committee Velleman (Advisor), Scheffler, Street

Daniel Fogal | 2016

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

Martin Glazier | 2015

  • Current University of Hamburg (postdoc)
  • First University of North Carolina (postdoc)
  • AOS Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science
  • Committee Fine (Advisor), Sider, Strevens

Grace Helton | 2015

  • Current Princeton University
  • First 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. To be preceded by Harvard Society of Fellows
  • AOS Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy
  • Committee Scheffler (Advisor), Garrett, Murphy, Nagel

Erica Shumener | 2015

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

Olla Solomyak | 2015

  • Current Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Polonsky Post-doctoral Fellow (5-years)
  • 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
  • First 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 Institut Jean Nicod (associate post-doc)
  • 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), Longueness, Pryor

Dean Chapman | 2013

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

Melis Erdur | 2013

  • Current Edmond Safra Center for Ethics, Tel Aviv University, Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • First The Herzi Institute, Jerusalem, Postdoctoral Fellowship (1 year)
  • AOS Ethics, Meta-ethics
  • Commitee Velleman (Advisor), Street, Field

Nicholas Riggle | 2013

  • Current University of San Diego
  • First Lafayette College (1 year)
  • AOS Aesthetics, Moral Psychology
  • Committee Velleman (Advisor), Boghossian, Hopkins, Longuenesse

Matthew Seligman | 2013

  • Current Harvard Law School, Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law (2 years)
  • First Practiced law at Kellogg Huber (3 years)
  • AOS Moral Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Metaethics
  • Committee Nagel (Advisor), Parfit, Street

Knut Skarsaune | 2013

  • Current Lillehammer University
  • First Postoctoral Research Fellow, University of Oslo (3 years)
  • AOS Ethics
  • Committee Nagel, Sider, Street (Advisor)

David James Barnett | 2012

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

Jonathan Cottrell | 2012

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

Alex Guerrero | 2012

  • Current Rutgers University
  • First 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 Nagel, Pallikkathayil, Scheffler (Advisor)

Hyunseop Kim | 2012

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

Jonathan Simon | 2012

  • Current Université de Montréal (starting Fall 2019)
  • First Tulane University, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow (two years) / Australian National University (18 Months)
  • AOS Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Metaethics
  • Committee Block, Boghossian (Advisor), Chalmers, Street

Helena Wright | 2012

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

Justin Clarke-Doane | 2011

  • Current Columbia University
  • First Monash University (fixed-term)
  • 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 Fine, Sider (Advisor), Varzi (Columbia), Zimmerman (Rutgers)

Jeff Sanford Russell | 2011

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

Regina A. Rini | 2011

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

Jeff Sebo | 2011

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

Colin Marshall | 2010

  • Current University of Washington
  • First 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)
  • First North Carolina Hospital Association, Public Health Analyst
  • AOS Philosophy of Psychology, Bioethics
  • Committee Street (Advisor), G. Harman (Princeton), Richardson

Shamik Dasgupta | 2009

  • Current University of California, Berkeley
  • First 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, Nage, Shoemaker (Cornell)

John Morrison

  • 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) Schiffer, Garrett

Anne Barnhill | 2008

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

Sharon Hewitt | 2008

  • Current 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 Stanford University
  • First University of Texas, Austin
  • AOS Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind
  • Committee Boghossian (Advisor), Schiffer, Wright

Karl Schafer | 2008

  • Current University of California, Irvine
  • First University of Pittsburgh
  • AOS Ethics, Epistemology, Early Modern, Kant
  • Committee Garrett, Longuenesse, Nagel, Velleman

Ray Buchanan | 2007

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

Ryan Preston | 2007

  • Current Occidental College
  • First 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, (non-reading member: Field)

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), Kitcher (Columbia), Richardson

Declan Smithies | 2006

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

Winston Chiong | 2005

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

David Barnett | 2003

  • Current CEO, PopSockets LLC
  • First 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