Placement of M.A. Graduates

Over the past decade, the department has awarded approximately 122 M.A. degrees. Eighty-six (86) of those graduates chose to apply to Ph.D. programs in philosophy, and 74 of them (86%) were admitted to a Ph.D. program in philosophy with full funding. Nine (9) entered other graduate or professional programs, and at least six (6) found employment in teaching positions. The remainder have pursued a variety of career paths, having been enriched by their study of philosophy.


Detailed Placement Record, 2007-present

Each table below provides placement outcomes for a year. The column on the left indicates whether a graduate applied to Ph.D. programs in philosophy. Unless otherwise indicated, doctoral admission included full funding.

2023

App? Title of Writing Sample Philosophy Ph.D. Program Entered Other Career Path or Comment

Yes

Successful Equivocation

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

 

Yes1

The E-Function of Assertion and its Norms

University of British Columbia

 

Yes2

The Cost of the Open Future: A Pathway to Eternalism

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

 

Yes

Is Modal Personism a Mere Prejudice?

Rice University

 

Yes

Living without Hard Incompatibilism

Dianoia Institute, Australian Catholic University

 

Yes

The (Naive) Truth about Revising Your Logic

University of Pittsburgh

 

Yes3

Dialectical Theosis

University of South Florida

 

Yes

This Street Fits No Pat Trick: In Defense of the Evolutionary Debunking Argument

Rice University

 

No

 

 

Freelance cinematography

No

 

 

Currently office coordinator at community college; plans to teach and pursue administrative position at community college.

Yes

Against Cognitive Monism: Beginning to Appreciate the Evidence for Pluralism

University of Western Ontario

 

Yes

Accounting for the Fluidity of Human Desires

 

Pursuing teaching at community colleges; plans to apply to doctoral programs for fall 2024.

2023 applicants were also admitted to philosophy Ph.D. programs at: Arizona State University, Syracuse University, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, York University (Canada)

 

2022

App? Title of Writing Sample Philosophy Ph.D. Program Entered Other Career Path or Comment
Yes1 A Defense of Subjective Justification for Self-Defense Purdue University
Yes2 Realist Worries About Ideally Coherent Eccentrics Indiana University
No TBA
Yes On Pragmatic Encroachment and the Knowledge-Action Principle Washington University, St. Louis Deferred for one year
Yes Relational Equality or Distributive Equality? Two Approaches to Social Justice University of Maryland
No

Plans to apply to doctoral programs in philosophy for fall 2023 and listed in 2023 as 1

No Teaching in Mexico
Yes3 Right Action from Competences University of Kansas
No Plans to apply to doctoral programs in philosophy for fall 2023 and listed in 2023 as 2
Yes4 When Standard Use Does Not Imply Literal Use: A Defense of Kripke’s Test Plans to apply for graduate/professional programs
Yes The Equivalency of Standard Consequentialism and Rational Requirements Rice University
Yes Essay in the philosophy of mind

Plans to apply to doctoral programs for fall 2023 and listed in 2023 as 3

2022 applicants were also admitted to philosophy Ph.D. programs at (numbers in parentheses indicate admissions in addition to those listed above): Arizona State University, Bowling Green State University (2), St. Louis University, University at Albany, University of Arizona, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2), University of Nebraska, University of St. Andrews/Stirling (unfunded).

2021
App? Title of Writing Sample Philosophy Ph.D. Program Entered Other Career Path or Comment

Yes

Public Reason, Self-Defeat and the Corollaries of a Commitment to Social Cooperation

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

No

 

 

Plans to apply to doctoral programs in philosophy for fall 2022 and listed in 2022 as 1

Yes1

The Benefit of the Doubt and the Presumption of Trust

St. Louis University

 

No

 

 

Plans to pursue teaching opportunities

Yes

Free Will in Madhyamaka Buddhist Philosophy

University of Chicago (Divinity School)

 

No

 

 

Plans to apply to doctoral programs in philosophy for fall 2022 and listed in 2022 as 3

No

 

 

Internship in art museum; plans to apply to doctoral programs in art history and/or philosophy for fall 2022

No

 

 

Plans to apply to law schools

Yes

Against Positism

Indiana University at Bloomington

 

Yes

Civic Friendship in a Pluralistic Society: Consensus or Convergence?

 

Plans to reapply to doctoral programs in philosophy for fall 2022 and listed in 2022 as 5.

Yes

What Slurs do not Mean: In Defense of a Prohibitionist Account

Georgetown University

 

No

 

 

Plans to work at a bank and apply to doctoral programs in philosophy for fall 2022

No

 

 

Plans to work full-time and apply to doctoral programs in philosophy in the future

2021 applicants were also admitted to philosophy Ph.D. programs at (numbers in parentheses indicate admissions in addition to those listed above): Georgetown University (1, without full funding), Indiana University (1), Ohio State University, University of Arizona, University of California at Davis, University of California at Riverside, University of Notre Dame

2020
App? Title of Writing Sample Philosophy Ph.D. Program Entered Other Career Path or Comment
Yes1 Realist Worries About Ideally Coherent Eccentrics   Admitted to a doctoral program with full funding, but declined admission; teaching at community colleges; plans to reapply to doctoral programs in philosophy and listed in 2022 as 2.
Yes The Metaphysics of Chaos Theory University of Pittsburgh (HPS)  
Yes The Benefit of the Doubt and the Presumption of Trust   Working at a day program for adults with disabilities; plans to reapply to doctoral programs in philosophy for fall 2021 and listed in 2021 as 1.
Yes Mysteries and Free Will: Cracking the Case with Counterfactuals Florida State University  
No     Accepted a fully funded offer to the Ph.D. program in Agricultural and Applied Economics at Texas Tech University
Yes2 Error 403: Epistemic Accessibility in the Best Systems Account of Lawhood University of Washington (Seattle)  
Yes A Rawlsian Argument for Universal Healthcare: A Multi-Principle Alternative to the Normal Function Account University of Utah  
No     Also completed J.D. program at NIU; currently working as a licensed attorney
Yes Desire as a Normative Concept University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill  
No     Teaching at Clarke University; plans to apply to doctoral programs in philosophy in the future
Yes That’s Not What a Brain Is: Brains, Philosophical Methodology, and What We Are Cornell University  
No     Accepted position as a software engineer in the private sector
No     Plans to apply to doctoral programs in philosophy for fall 2021
Yes Informed Consent to Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Transference, Paternalism, and the Relations Between Them Rice University  
Yes Conciliationism and the Poverty of Reasons   Plans to reapply to doctoral programs in philosophy, and to apply to doctoral programs in political science and to J.D. programs for fall 2021
Yes Naturalistic and Existential Responsibility   Admitted to a doctoral program with full funding, but declined admission; plans to reapply to doctoral programs in philosophy and listed in 2022 as 4

2020 applicants were also admitted to philosophy Ph.D. programs at (numbers in parentheses indicate admissions in addition to those listed above): Fordham University, Georgetown University (without full funding), Ohio State University, University of Arizona, University of California at Riverside, University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Maryland (2), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1), Western University (Ontario, Canada)

2019
App? Title of Writing Sample Philosophy Ph.D. Program Entered Other Career Path or Comment
Yes Can “Scale” Replace “Level” in Scientific Practice? Western University (Ontario, Canada)  
Yes What “Must” and “May” Must Not and May Not Mean Massachusetts Institute of Technology  
Yes The Counterfactual Analysis — With a Twist University of Notre Dame  
No     Adjunct teaching at area community colleges; applied to doctoral programs in philosophy for fall 2020 and listed in 2020 as 1
No     Plans to apply to doctoral programs in philosophy for fall 2020
Yes Two Objections to Goble’s Logic of “Good, Should, and Would” University of Arizona  
Yes Partiality, Attachments and Consequentialism University of Maryland  
Yes1 The Synthesized Self: Ismael, Kant, and the Self as a Collection   Plans to reapply to doctoral programs in philosophy in fall 2020
Yes2 Love and the Worthy Intellectual Life University of Oklahoma  
No3     Master of Divinity, Fuller Theological Seminary
Yes Plato on Education: Political Matters Matter   Admitted to a doctoral program with full funding, but declined admission; plans to apply to doctoral programs in philosophy in Japan for fall 2020

2019 applicants were also admitted to philosophy Ph.D. programs at (numbers in parentheses indicate admissions in addition to those listed above): Cornell University, Fordham University, St. Louis University, University of California at Irvine (Logic and Philosophy of Science), University of California at San Diego, University of Maryland (2), University of Nebraska, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Rochester, University of St. Andrews (without full funding), University of Texas at Austin

2018
App? Title of Writing Sample Philosophy Ph.D. Program Entered Other Career Path or Comment
No     Plans to apply to programs in veterinary medicine in the future
Yes Wave Function Anti-Realism Indiana University, History and Philosophy of Science  
Yes Future Bias and Presentism University of California at Irvine  
Yes1 Conversational Implicature as Atypical Coordination Equilibrium Carnegie Mellon University  
Yes On Being a Rational Animal and Public Reasons Purdue University  
Yes How (Not) to Handle Selfless Assertions Rutgers University  
No2     Entering M.S. in Public Policy program, Carnegie Mellon University
No     Working as Financial Planner
Yes3 Loosening the Connection Between Virtue and Well-Being University of Notre Dame  
No     Entering J.D. program, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
Yes Defending a Mind-Dependent Account of the Context of Conversation University of Iowa  
No     working in software development in the private sector
Yes Is Someone Out There? On Metzinger’s No-Self Alternative University of British Columbia  
No     Applied to doctoral programs in philosophy for fall 2020; listed in 2020 as 2
No     Plans to apply to doctoral programs in philosophy for fall 2019; listed in 2019 as 1
Yes4 Intellectual Love   Entering M.Litt. program in analytic theology at University of St. Andrews; applied to doctoral programs in philosophy for fall 2019 and listed in 2019 as 2
Yes     Applied to law schools for fall 2019; listed in 2019 as 4
No     Applied to programs in social work for fall 2019; listed in 2019 as 5

2018 applicants were also admitted to philosophy Ph.D. programs at (numbers in parentheses indicate admissions in addition to those listed above): Bowling Green State University, Northwestern University, Syracuse University, University of California at Davis, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Notre Dame (1), University of Pittsburgh, University of Rochester, University of Southern California, Washington University St. Louis, Yale University

2017
App? Title of Writing Sample Philosophy Ph.D. Program Entered Other Career Path or Comment
Yes Lexical Sarcasm, Grice, and Camp’s Theory University of California at Santa Barbara  
Yes Resurrecting Davidson’s Case Against Minimalism Ohio State University  
Yes1 Motivation, Normative Pragmatics, and Moral Discourse University of Arizona  
Yes Can Infinitists Handle the Finite Mind Objection and the Distinction Objection? A Dilemma for Infinitism Rice University  
Yes     GRE tutor; plans to reapply to doctoral programs for fall 2018
Yes2 Committed Uses and Faultless Disagreement University of Texas at Austin  
Yes Slurs, At-Issueness, and Questions Under Discussion Rutgers University  
Yes What’s Wrong with Explaining Essence in Terms of Necessity?   Admitted to a doctoral program with full funding, but declined admission and will apply again in a year or two
Yes Consequentialism, Convention, and Character: How a Different Decision Procedure Aids Consequentialism Washington University in St. Louis  
Yes Getting Leibniz Out on the Cheap University of Southern California  
Yes Explanation and Similarity: Boris Kment and Meghan Sullivan’s Competing Accounts of Closeness University of Virginia  
No     Position with AmeriCorps VISTA at Western Illinois University at Quad Cities; applied to doctoral programs in philosophy for fall 2018 and listed ins 2018 as 3
Yes Culpability and Moral Ignorance: When We Should Have Known Better CUNY Graduate Center  
No     Plans to apply to doctoral programs in 2017-2018 and listed in 2018 as 4
Yes The Semantics and Pragmatics of Epistemic Possibility: Why Contextualism Might Be Right University of Toronto  
Yes The Viability of an Epistemic Constraint on Truth   Reapplied to doctoral programs in philosophy in 2018 and listed there as 1
No     Plans to apply for positions in community colleges teaching philosophy
Yes The Generation of Knowledge and Justification Through Testimony University of Miami  
Yes Modified Molinism and Compatibilist Middle Knowledge   Entering Ph.D. program in theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Yes3 Dispositional Essentialism, Directedness, and Final Causation St. Louis University  
No4     Entering J.D. program at University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

2017 applicants were also admitted to philosophy Ph.D. programs at (numbers in parentheses indicate admissions in addition to those listed above): Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell University (2), Georgetown University (4), Indiana University (2), Johns Hopkins University, Marquette University, Northwestern University (2), Ohio State University, Oxford University, Purdue University, Rice University (2), St. Louis University (3), SUNY Buffalo (2), University of Arizona, University of California at Davis (3), University of California at Irvine, University of California at Los Angeles, University of California at San Diego (2), University of Connecticut, University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Edinburgh, University of Iowa, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (2), University of Miami, University of Missouri (2), University of Nebraska, University of Reading, University of Rochester, University of Texas at Austin, University of Wisconsin at Madison (2), Washington University St. Louis

2016
App? Title of Writing Sample Philosophy Ph.D. Program Entered Other Career Path or Comment
Yes Dialectical Justification, Sensitivity and Skepticism University of California at Los Angeles  
Yes Ethics, Intuitions, and Equilibrium: A Response to Peter Singer Rice University  
Yes* Situationism and the Discerning Situation: The Need for Robust Character Traits Washington University in St. Louis  
Yes The Inheritors of Thieves: Settling the Debt Marquette University  
No     Working as chess instructor
Yes Neuroscience, Psychology, and Causation: What Searle Got Right and Wrong About Neuroscience and the Problem of Consciousness   Applied to law schools for fall 2017; listed in 2017 as 4
Yes The Moral Precautionary Principle St. Louis University  
Yes Safe at Last: Extra-Safety and Closure Indiana University at Bloomington  
Yes Predicates of Personal Taste and Hare’s Paradox   Reapplied to philosophy doctoral programs in 2017 and listed there as 2
No     Was admitted to several J.D. programs, but declined admissions; applied to seminaries for fall 2019 and is listed in 2019 as 3
No     Applied to philosophy doctoral programs for fall 2017; listed in 2017 as 1
Yes Hi-Phi: Setting the Record Straight on the Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness   TBD

2016 graduates were also admitted to philosophy Ph.D. programs at: Bowling Green State University, Northwestern University, Rice University (2), St. Louis University (3), University of Arizona, University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Iowa, University of Maryland at College Park, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, University of Miami, University of Missouri, University of Notre Dame

2015
App? Title of Writing Sample Philosophy Ph.D. Program Entered Other Career Path or Comment
Yes Agent-Causal Libertarianism and Control Indiana University at Bloomington  
Yes Contextualism Without Representation: A Response to the Meaning-Intention Problem University of Arizona  
Yes Trolleys and Transplants: Derailing the Distinction Between Doing and Allowing University of California at San Diego  
Yes Quasi-Realism and Objectivity Georgetown University  
Yes Does Moral Discourse Satisfy Cognitive Command? Indiana University at Bloomington  
Yes On Truth and Lies in a Non-normative Sense: A Reply to the Inflationary Argument University of Connecticut  
Yes Why the Totality State of Affairs is Not a Truthmaker for Negative Existential Truths Cornell University  
Yes Wielding the Self-Defeatingness Objection Against Consequentialism   Private sector (probably information technology)
Yes* On Subset-Realization: Kim’s Dilemma and the Problem of Mismatching Powers Washington University in St. Louis  
Yes The Illusion of Freedom: Agent-Causation and Self-Deception   Entered M.Phil. program in philosophy at KU Leuven, Belgium; subsequently entered Ph.D. program in philosophy at KU Leuven
No     TBD
Yes The Failure of Non-Cartesian Substance Dualism University of Colorado at Boulder  

2015 graduates were also admitted to philosophy Ph.D. programs at: Baylor University, Indiana University at Bloomington (6), Purdue University, Syracuse University (3), University of California at Davis, University of California at Irvine, University of California at Santa Barbara (2), University of Colorado at Boulder (2), University of Maryland at College Park, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (2), University of Miami, University of Minnesota at Twin Cities, University of Missouri at Columbia, University of Notre Dame, University of Southern California, University of Washington at Seattle

2014
App? Title of Writing Sample Philosophy Ph.D. Program Entered Other Career Path or Comment
Yes Epistemological Disjunctivism, Internalism, and Accessibility University of Massachusetts at Amherst  
No     Pursuing a vocation with the Catholic Church (most likely attending seminary)
Yes Truth We Can Aim At: Deflationism and Objective Norms of Assertion University of Toronto  
Yes The Structure of Complex Intentions: Responding to Bratman's Denial of the Simple View Indiana University at Bloomington  
Yes A Scenic Route to Visual Representation University of Southern California  
No     Private sector
Yes Truth-Conditional Pragmatics and Meaning Shift University of Connecticut  
No     Private sector (information technology)
No     Teaching at Assumption Catholic High School (WI); applied to doctoral programs in 2016 and listed there as *
Yes Minds Can Be Multiply Realized and (Globally) Reduced   Reapplied to doctoral programs in 2015 and listed there as *

2014 graduates were also admitted to philosophy Ph.D. programs at: Brown University, Cornell University, Indiana University at Bloomington (2), Northwestern University, Ohio State University, Syracuse University, University of California at Los Angeles, University of California at Santa Barbara, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (2), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Notre Dame (2), University of Southern California (2), University of Virginia, Washington University in St. Louis

2013
App? Title of Writing Sample Philosophy Ph.D. Program Entered Other Career Path or Comment
Yes1 Against Nelson's Proposal for Descriptivists> University of Colorado at Boulder  
No     Teaching English at Zirve University in Turkey
Yes Ockhamism and Causal Determinism University of Toronto  
Yes Descriptions, Communication, and Shared Content Indiana University at Bloomington  
Yes2 How to Resolve the Justification Problem for Gibbardian Expressivism Without Going Hybrid Brown University  
Yes The Cognitive Realist Account of Propositions University of California at Santa Barbara  
Yes Intention and Resolution in a Two-Stage Newcomb's Problem University of Southern California  
No     Entered a Catholic Benedictine Monastery; applied to doctoral programs in philosophy in 2017 and listed there as 3
Yes3 Redundancy, Prosententialism, Actuality, Non-Redundancy University of Toronto  
Yes Hitchhiker's Guide to Time Travel University of Illinois at Chicago  
Yes Knowledge in an Ontologically Minimal World University of Colorado at Boulder Deferred admission for one year
Yes Are Psychological Theories of Personal Identity Supplemented with Constitution a Viable Account of Human Persons' Deeper Kind?   Pursuing a career in health care

2013 graduates were also admitted to philosophy Ph.D. programs at: Carnegie Mellon University, City University of New York, Georgetown University, Northwestern University (3), Ohio State University, Purdue University, Rice University, SUNY Buffalo, University of California at Davis, University of California at Los Angeles, University of California at San Diego, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (3), University of Missouri at Columbia, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, University of Notre Dame (2), University of Wisconsin at Madison, Washington University in St. Louis (2)

2012
App? Title of Writing Sample Philosophy Ph.D. Program Entered Other Career Path or Comment
Yes A Prosententialist Account of Vagueness University of Southern California  
Yes Intrinsicality for the Metaphysically Grounded Rutgers University  
No     Private sector
Yes The Semantics and Pragmatics of Empty Names University of Maryland  
No     Waited to apply to doctoral programs in philosophy in 2013 and listed there as 2
Yes Against the Minimalistic Reading of Epistemic Contextualism University of Southern California  
No     Private sector
Yes From Internalism to Instrumentalism and Its Normative Implications Rice University  
No     Waited to apply to doctoral programs in philosophy in 2013 and listed there as 3
Yes Knowledge and Explanation Indiana University at Bloomington  
Yes Can Moral Value and Obligation Be Determined By Merely Possible Gods?   Entered M.A. program in theology at University of Chicago Divinity School

2012 graduates were also admitted to philosophy Ph.D. programs at: Cornell University, University of Texas at Austin, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (3), Northwestern University, Washington University in St. Louis, University of California at Santa Barbara, University of Virginia, University of Toronto, University of Calgary, University of California at Davis

2011
App? Title of Writing Sample Philosophy Ph.D. Program Entered Other Career Path or Comment
Yes Questioning Schaffer’s Aristotelian Metaontology University of Massachusetts at Amherst  
Yes Assertion, Knowledge, and the Belief that One Knows Indiana University at Bloomington  
No     Taught philosophy at University of Montevallo; applied to doctoral programs in philosophy in 2013 and listed there as 1
Yes A Case for the World State   Entered M.A. program in international relations at Columbia University
Yes Throwing the Game: Causation as Influence and the Problem of Preemption University of Virginia  
Yes Title not available University of Wisconsin at Madison  
Yes Intuition Skepticism: Against Arguments from Disagreement Ohio State University  
No     Private sector; applied to a variety of graduate programs in 2018 and listed there as 2
Yes Determinates, Determinables, and Realization: Two Scientific Cases Considered University of California at San Diego  
No     Law school
No     Private sector

2011 graduates were also admitted to philosophy Ph.D. programs at: University of Maryland, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of British Columbia, Northwestern University, Purdue University, Syracuse University, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Miami, University of Calgary, University of Connecticut

2010
App? Title of Writing Sample Philosophy Ph.D. Program Entered Other Career Path or Comment
Yes Against the No Past Objection University of California at Riverside  
Yes Whatever Could Be Caused Must Actually Be Caused Rutgers University  
Yes How the Mind Can Survive a (Total) Change of Its Parts University of Southern California  
Yes Quietism Is a Humanism: Putnam Against Unconscious Absolutism Johns Hopkins University  
Yes An Old Problem for Pritchard’s New Anti-Luck Epistemology University of Colorado at Boulder  
Yes Art, Meaning, and Allusion: Strengthening Hypothetical Intentionalism University of Maryland  
Yes Modality and the Mind-Body Problem University of Nebraska  
No      

2010 graduates were also admitted to philosophy Ph.D. programs at: University of Maryland, Syracuse University, Florida State University, Ohio State University, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Northwestern University, University of California at Santa Barbara, University of Washington

2009
App? Title of Writing Sample Philosophy Ph.D. Program Entered Other Career Path or Comment
Yes Worldbound Individuals in Armstrong's Truthmaker Theory University of Texas at Austin  
Yes Reflective Reasons and Valuable Justification: Against the Knowledge Norm of Assertion University of Colorado at Boulder  
No     Entered M.A. program in anthropology at NIU
Yes A Consistent Triad: The Possibility of God's Libertarian Freedom in Creating the World University of Notre Dame  
Yes Which Duty? Which Conception of Humanity? A Critique of Christine Korsgaard's The Sources of Normativity Purdue University (declined) Entered Ph.D. program in political science at NIU
Yes Kant's Limited Retributive Thesis   Entered Ph.D. program in political science at NIU
No     Teaching at Hiawatha High School (IL)
Yes The Normativity of Truth University of Utah  
No     Contributing Editor, News and Stories, Calvin College
Yes Overcoming Explanatory Exclusion University of Arizona  
Yes Minimalism and the Value of Truth: A Reply to Lynch University of Colorado at Boulder  
Yes A Minimalist Response to Wright’s Inflationary Argument University of California at Riverside  

2009 graduates were also admitted to philosophy Ph.D. programs at: University of Southern California, University of California at Irvine, University of California at San Diego, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Washington University (St. Louis), City University of New York, Georgetown University, University of Virginia, University of Maryland, Syracuse University, University of Miami, University of California at Davis, Florida State University, University at Buffalo, Temple University, University of Cincinnati, and Southern Illinois University

2008
App? Title of Writing Sample Philosophy Ph.D. Program Entered Other Career Path or Comment
Yes The Dimensional View of Realization: Successes and Failures University of California at San Diego (deferred)  
Yes Does the Theist Have an Epistemic Advantage Over the Atheist: Plantinga and Descartes on Theism, Atheism, and Skepticism Rutgers University  
Yes God, Evil, and Closure University of Notre Dame  
Yes Justification, Truth, and Bergmann's Theory of Justification Ohio State University  
Yes The Attenuated Ramblings of a Madman: Feyerabend's Anarchy Examined University of California at Davis  
Yes Title not Available   Entered Th.D. program in theology at Boston University
Yes Epistemic Choice and the Consequence Argument University of Nebraska at Lincoln  
Yes An Internalist Commitment to Morality Syracuse University  
No     Permanent faculty member at Hinsdale Central High School (IL)
No     Teaching at Kishwaukee Community College (IL)
Yes Title not available Florida State University  
Yes Berkeley's Notions, Perception, and Method University of South Florida  
No     Entered Ph.D. program in physics at NIU
Yes Mental Causation and B Emergentism University of Maryland at College Park  
Yes Essentialism and the Necessity of Identity University of Arizona (transferred to UNC Chapel Hill)  

2008 graduates were also admitted to philosophy Ph.D. programs at: Indiana University at Bloomington, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Brown University, Cornell University, University of Southern California, University of Wisconsin at Madison, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Northwestern University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Rochester, University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Miami, City University of New York, University of Florida, Purdue University, Arizona State University

2007
App? Title of Writing Sample Philosophy Ph.D. Program Entered Other Career Path or Comment
Yes Knowledge and Certainty: The Case Against Dogmatism Indiana University at Bloomington  
Yes Freedom Doesn't Come Cheap: The Problem of Properly Ignoring Causal Explanations within a Contextualist Account of Freedom University of Wisconsin at Madison  
No     Teaching full time at Waubonsee Community College (IL)
Yes Keeping Utilitarians Honest: Why Utilitarianism Fails as a Normative Theory Florida State University  
Yes Integrity in Kant's Moral Philosophy Tulane University  
Yes We Know Not of What We Speak: Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Religion   Entered Ph.D. program in theology at Marquette University
Yes Contextualist Accounts of Freedom Cannot Solve the Problem of Free Will University of Washington  
No     Teaching at Hinckley-Big Rock High School (IL)

2007 graduates were also admitted to philosophy Ph.D. programs at: University of Maryland at College Park, University of Rochester, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Purdue University, University of Kansas, Marquette University, Loyola University of Chicago, University of California at Davis, Syracuse University