MIT philosophy: program: placement
The following list supplies our latest information about the employment status of each of the 54 students who have received (or anticipate receiving) their Ph.D. in our Philosophy Program since 1995 (names have been omitted). All regular tenure-track positions are noted with a TT. Some recent data on hirings at top-ranked departments are available here (note that MIT's Graduate Program is smaller than its competitors).
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year started first job |
current job |
first job (if different from current job) |
field |
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2008 |
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| Post-Doc, St. Andrews | philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology | ||
| NYU, TT | philosophy of language, philosophy of mind | ||
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2007 |
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| Wellesley College, TT | Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University | political philosophy, ethics | |
| University of Kentucky, TT | philosophy of mind | ||
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attending medical school, Stanford University |
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2006 |
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| attending law school, Stanford University | |||
|
PhD awarded 2007 |
Harvard University, TT |
ethics, metaphysics | |
|
PhD awarded 2007 |
Assistant Professor, Carleton College, TT |
Visiting Professor, College of the Holy Cross | philosophy of language |
| University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, TT | philosopy of language | ||
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2005 |
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| Harvard University, TT | Lecturer, Tufts University | philosophy of science, philosophy of language | |
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2004 |
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| San Francisco State University, TT | metaphysics | ||
| Dartmouth College, TT | philosophy of mind, cognitive science | ||
| University of Toronto, TT | University of Iowa | philosophy of mind | |
| University of Vermont, TT | ethics, metaphysics | ||
| Fellow at Harvard University's Program in Ethics and Health | Visiting Scholar, MIT | ethics | |
| University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, TT | philosophy of mind, philosophy of language | ||
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2003 |
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| Hong Kong University, TT | epistemology | ||
| Visiting Professor, University of Western Ontario | political philosophy | ||
| Princeton University, TT | New York University | ethics, metaphysics | |
| Duke University, TT | metaphysics, philosophy of language | ||
| University of Wisconsin, Madison, TT | ethics, metaphysics | ||
| Harvard University, TT | philosophy of mathematics, logic | ||
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2002 |
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Lecturer, Tufts Unversity |
philosophy of mind |
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| Princeton University, TT | College of the Holy Cross | ethics, metaphysics | |
| Rutgers University at New Brunswick and Newark, TT | Syracuse University | philosophy of language, feminist philosophy | |
| Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Open University of Israel | Research Fellow, University of St. Andrews | metaphysics | |
| Non-academic position | |||
| NIH | |||
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2001 |
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| Visiting Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, epistemology | ||
| Colgate University, TT | |||
| Princeton University, TT | philosophy of science, philosophy of physics, decision theory | ||
| University of Iceland | |||
| MIT, TT | Research Fellow, University of St. Andrews | philosophy of logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language | |
| Non-academic position | |||
| Residential Life Associate, MIT | |||
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2000 |
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| MIT, Tenured | New York University | philosophy of science, epistemology, metaphysics | |
| Cornell University, Tenured | University of Colorado, Boulder | metaphysics, philosophy of langauge, philosophy of logic | |
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1999 |
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| Oxford University | University of Rochester | philosophical logic, philosophy of mathematics, metaphysics | |
| University of Wisconsin, Madison, Tenured | bioethics, ethical theory, metaethics | ||
| University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Tenured | University of Alabama at Birmingham | metaphysics, philosophy of science | |
| Lawyer | McGill University | ||
| Non-academic position | |||
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1998 |
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| Howard University, Tenured | philosophy of language, metaphysics, philosophy of mind | ||
| University of Western Ontario, TT | Sonoma State University | philosophy of law, metaphysics, philosophy of mind | |
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1997 |
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| Princeton University, Tenured | Cornell University | philosophy of language, philosophical logic, metaphysics, epistemology | |
| University of Barcelona | |||
| Non-academic position | |||
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1996 |
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| University of Alberta | |||
| North Carolina State University, Tenured | political philosophy, ethics, history of philosophy | ||
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1995 |
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| Australian National University, Tenured | philosophy of mind, metaphysics, metaethics | ||
| Yale University, Tenured | Cornell University | philosophy of language, metaphysics | |
| Rutgers, Tenured | Cornell University | philosophy of language, phil. logic, epistemology | |
| University of Colorado, Boulder, Tenured | Tulane University | metaphysics, the philosophy of language | |
| Dartmouth College | ethics, philosophy of action, philosophy of mind | ||
| Florida State University, Tallahassee | |||