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Placement Record

Previous Students

The following information concerns placement into Philosophy graduate programs only. A number of our graduates — including some of those listed — have pursued graduate and professional degrees in fields other than Philosophy.

Students who applied in multiple years are listed in their most recent year of application only. Previous results are given in brackets.

Application Year
Interests or Thesis Title
Accepted
 2023-2024
Ethics and moral psychology
UC Riverside
 
Moral psychology, value, philosophy of mind, and emotion
UT Austin
Applied ethics, feminist epistemology, social and political philosophy
U. Washington
Ethics and moral psychology Ohio State
Bioethics and applied ethics M.D. Anderson Bioethics Internship
Ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of action   --
Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science, AI   --
Moral psychology, applied ethics, and metaphysics   --
 

There were a total of eight MA applicants to PhD programs this year.  Four placed with full funding in philosophy PhD programs, and another accepted a bioethics internship at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Other PhD offers not accepted by this group include: Minnesota, ASU (2x), Maryland, Georgetown, Western Ontario, and Wisconsin.

 2022-2023
Ethics, Women of Color Feminisms, and Latin American Philosophy
Michigan
 
Ethics, epistemology
UMass Amherst
 

There were a total of eight philosophy PhD applicants this year. Additional funded offers included NYU, Rutgers, Harvard, UCSD, Penn, Colorado, and OSU. Two other MA grads applied to non-philosophy programs; one accepted an offer at LSU Law School on scholarship and another to seminary school.

 2021-2022
Philosophy of AI, Philosophy of Cognitive Neuroscience, AI Ethics, Moral Psychology
Duke
 
Philosophical Theology
Duke (Program for Master's of Theological Studies in Church History, with partial funding)
 

There were a total of two MA applicants to PhD programs this year.  One placed with full funding in a philosophy PhD program, and the other accepted an offer for a Master's degree in Theological Studies with partial funding, both at Duke.

 2020-2021
Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of AI, Philosophy of Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Epistemology
Cambridge
(Gates-Cambridge Fellowship)
 
Epistemology, Aesthetics
Colorado
 
Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Continental, Animal Cognition
UC Santa Cruz
 
Continental, Aesthetics
UC Riverside
 
Philosophy of Mind
---
 
Epistemology, Ethics, Mind
---
Continental
---
 

There were a total of seven MA applicants to PhD programs this year; four placed at philosophy PhD programs with full funding (one with a prestigious Gates-Cambridge fellowship, the first ever awarded to a student from the University of Houston).  Additional offers with funding included:  UW Madison, Wash U (St. Louis), and the University of Cincinnati.

 2019-2020
Ethics, Moral Psychology
Michigan
 
Metaethics, Moral Psychology
Ohio State
 
Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science
Northwestern
 

There were a total of three MA applicants to PhD programs this year; all placed with full funding.  Other offers with funding for these three include UCSD, UC Riverside, and University of Buffalo.

 2018-2019
Ethics
UCSD
 
Mind/Cognitive Science
Wisconsin
 
Epistemology, Ethics
Syracuse
 
Ethics
Rice
 
Action
Rice
 

There were a total of six MA applicants to PhD programs this year; five placed at philosophy PhD programs with full funding.  Additional offers with funding included:  Wisconsin, Ohio State, Cincinnatti.  Also, an undergrad from our program was accepted with funding at Michigan.

 2017-2018
Ethics, Phil Bio
UCSD
 
Ethics
UCSD
 
Ethics
UCSD
 
Logic, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Mathematics
UC Irvine LPS
 
Mind/Language/Epistemology
Northwestern
 
Metaphysics, Metaethics, History of Philosophy
Rice
 
Aesthetics, Philosophy of Mind
Albany
 
History of Philosophy
---
 

There were a total of eight MA applicants to PhD programs this year; seven placed at philosophy PhD programs with full funding.  Additional offers with funding include:  Arizona, Maryland (x2), Georgetown, Ohio State, UMass Amherst, Rice, Syracuse (x2), Fordham, and the University at Albany.  Also, two undergraduates from our program accepted funded offers to philosophy PhD programs, one at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and another at Iowa.

2016-2017
Philosophy of Mind & Language, Science
UT Austin
 
Philosophy of Science, Logic
UC Irvine LPS
 
Aesthetics, Ethics
Rice
 
Aesthetics, Ethics
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There were a total of four UH applicants to Philosophy PhD programs this year. Of those four, three received funded offers (including an additional funded offer to Arizona), and an additional student received a non-funded acceptance offer to Arizona. The student who did not receive a funded offer went on to teach as an instructor in philosophy.  Additionally, an undergraduate from our program accepted a funded offer from Michigan, with other funded offers from Brown and UCSD.

2015-2016
Early Modern Philosophy, Metaphysics
Rutgers
 
Metaethics
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
 
Philosophy of Mind
University of Wisconsin, Madison
 

There were a total of three applicants for PhD programs this year.  All placed at top schools with full funding.  Other offers (with funding) for these three students include at Toronto, UT Austin, UCSD, Wisconsin (x1 additional), UC Riverside, Indiana, Maryland (x2), Washington University St. Louis (x2), Colorado, and non-philosophy PhD acceptances at Stanford and Berkeley.  
 

2014-2015
Philosophy of Mind & Language
Princeton
 
Ethics
Duke
 
Ethics, Free Will
UC Riverside
 
Ethics
UC Irvine
 
Ethics
Wash U. St. Louis
 
Philosophy of Cognitive Science
York (Toronto)
 
Philosophy of Mind & Language
-----
 

There were a total of seven UH applicants to Philosophy PhD programs this year. Of those seven, six received funded offers.  Other student offers with funding include Georgetown, Ohio State, Florida State, University of Washington, and Rice, as well as a prestigious Olin Fellowship at Washington University St. Louis. (Non philosophy placements:  One student applied to and was accepted with funding to Syracuse University's graduate program in Information Security.)

2013-2014
Epistemology, Political
Loyola University, Chicago
 
Philosophy of Law, Ethics
Bowling Green University
 
Ancient, 19th Century German
Vanderbilt University
Philosophy of Religion
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary


There were a total of six UH applicants to Philosophy PhD programs this year, all of whom had already completed the graduate program and received the M.A. in Philosophy. Of those six, four received funded offers.
(Non philosophy placements:  One student applied to and was accepted to University of Pittsburgh's graduate program in Information Security.)

2012-2013
Early Modern, Logic
University of California, San Diego
 
Epistemology, Early Modern
Princeton University
 
Moral Psychology, Early Modern
University of Missouri, Columbia
 
Ethics, Philosophy of Science
University of Oklahoma
 
Ethics, Political Philosophy
Bowling Green State University
 
Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind
University of Miami
 
Aesthetics, Logic
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Of the seven students who applied to PhD programs 2012-2013, all seven placed with full funding.  Other PhD Programs to which our students were admitted (w/Full Funding in 2013):  Fordham University, Johns Hopkins University, Northwestern University, Rice University, Texas A&M University, University of Arizona, University of Arkansas, University of Massachusetts, University of South Florida, University of North Carolina, University of Notre Dame, University of Wisconsin, University of Pennsylvania, University of South Carolina, University of Southern California, University of Washington
 
2011/2012 Political philosophy, ethics Georgetown
Philosophy of mind, cognitive science Washington University, St. Louis
Other schools from which the students received offers:  Missouri, Virginia, Rice, Ohio State
(Non-Philosophy Placements:  one student was offered a spot at and attended Harvard Law School.)
 
2010/2011
Epistemic Katharsis: The Purification of the Tripartite Soul in Plato's Phaedrus
King's College London
 
Medieval, Philosophical Theology
Fordham
(Non-Philosophy placements: one student was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship (Germany) and one student will be attending law school, with funding.)
 
2009/2010
Francis Bacon's Eclectic View of Matter in the De Principiis
Cornell
 
Does Contrastivism Solve the Skeptical Paradox?
Oklahoma
 
Mind, Language, Logic
Maryland
 
Mind
U. of Miami
 
Ethics
Rice
 
Free Will, Ethics, Science
Florida State
 
Metaphysics, Mind
Nebraska
 
Continental, Aesthetics, Ancient
--
 
Ethics
--

Other schools from which students received offers:  UC Santa Barbara, Missouri, Illinois, Buffalo, Carnegie Mellon, Michigan, Toronto, Washington University, Western Ontario.
(Non-Philosophy placements: one student was admitted to law school; two students were admitted to PhD programs in Clinical Psychology; one student was admitted to a PhD program in Asian Studies.)

 

2008/2009
Medieval, Metaphysics
Toronto 
 
Bioethics, Mind
U. of Miami
 
Ethics as an Empty House: The Intersection of Art and Place in Late Heidegger
Kentucky
 
Mind
British Columbia
 
Continental
Stony Brook 
 
G. Lakoff and M. Johnson's Theory of the Embodied Mind and its Philosophical Consequences
--


Other schools from which students received offers:  
Purdue, Fordham, Bowling Green, Fordham, Stony Brook, Maryland, Temple 

 

2007/2008
Bayesianism and the Epistemology of Science
Princeton
 
Simple-Substance Idealism and the De Volder Borrowed-Reality Argument in Leibniz
Rice
 
Information and Nonconceptual Content
Indiana
 
Ethics
--

Other schools from which students received offers:  Cincinnati

 

2006/2007
Temkin's Torture over Transitivity
Purdue
 
Towards a Revisionist Just War Theory: An Account of Combatant Moral Responsibility
U. of Washington
 
Leibniz on Infinity and the Structure of Matter
Rice
 
Mind, Cognitive Science
Washington U.
 
Ethics, Political
Tulane
 
Ethics, Law
--
 
Logic
--

Other schools from which students received offers:  UC Irvine, Cincinnati, Florida State

 

2005/2006
Feminist Epistemology, Naturalized Epistemology, and the Bias Paradox
UMass
 
Ethics, Political
Utah
 
Mind
Texas A&M
 
Ethics, Political
Buffalo (dual program in Philosophy and Law)
 
History of Philosophy, Aesthetics
--
 
The Useless Perfection of Pornography: Baudrillard's Critique of Sexual Reason
--

Other schools from which students received offers:  Colorado, UConn

 

2004/2005
The Original Position, the Ideal Speech Situation, and Cake Cutting: Rawls and Habermas Respond to a Liberal Democratic Dilemma
Colorado
 
Continental
UC Riverside
 
Ancient
Nebraska
 
Metaphysics
Temple

 

2003/2004
Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science
Rutgers
 
Rethinking Abduction
Stanford
 
Mind
Cincinnati
 
Metaphysics, Mind
UC Irvine
 
Ethics, Political, Religion
--

The above information is, to the best of our knowledge, complete and accurate. However, if you suspect a mistake or omission, or if you have any questions, please e-mail the departmental webmaster.