2022
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Vincenza Berardo
University of Massachusetts, Lowell – Lecturer (2022-present)
Advisor: Dr. Nathanael Stein
Dissertation: TBD
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Marshall Bierson
Catholic University of America – Assistant Professor (2022-present)
Advisor: Dr. John Schwenkler
Dissertation: “Moral Worth as the Formal Excellence of Practical Reason”
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Robert Bishop
California State University, San Bernardino – Assistant Professor (2022-present)
Advisor: Dr. John Schwenkler
Dissertation: “Essays on Virtue and Practical Reason”
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Matthew C. Taylor
Florida A&M University – Assistant Professor (2022-present)
Advisor: Dr. Alfred Mele
Dissertation: “Moral Agency and Situationism”
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Michael Albert
Advisor: Dr. Edward Hinchman and Dr. Michael Bishop
Dissertation: “The Variable Weight View: An Alternative to Peer-Oriented Accounts in the Epistemology of Disagreement”
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Jorge Oseguera Gamba
Autonomous University of the State of Morelos – Research Professor (2022 – Present)
Advisor: Dr. Michael Bishop
Dissertation: “Letting a Hundred Flowers Bloom: The Diversity of Good Lives and Their Dynamics”
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2021
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Aron Vadakin
Delaware State University - Visiting Lecturer (2021- Present)
Advisor: Dr. Alfred Mele
Dissertation: “Against Reason: A Defense of Moderate Normative Skepticism” |
Francis Caruso
Georgia Tech – MA program (2021-Present)
Advisor: Dr. Randolph Clarke
Dissertation: “An Alternative Approach to Analyzing Disposition Ascriptions” |
Jay Spitzley
Convival Brands – Planning Analyst (2021-Present)
Advisor: Dr. Alfred Mele
Dissertation: “Moral Responsibility Intuitions and Their Explanations: Problems for Retributivism and Desert” |
Mathew Taylor
Florida State University – Visiting Teaching Faculty (2021-Present
Advisor: Dr. Alfred Mele
Dissertation: “Moral Agency and Situationism” |
Paul Rezkalla
Hillsdale College – Post-doctoral fellow (2021-Present)
Advisor: Michael Ruse
Dissertation: “Survival of the Ethicist: A Neo-Aristotelian Solution to Evolutionary Debunking Arguments” |
2020
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Brad Stockdale
University of West Florida – Visiting Instructor (2020-Present)
Advisor: Alfred Mele
Dissertation: “On Challenges to Free Will: Contemporary Debates in the Metaphysics and Science of Free Will” |
Nick Byrd
Stevens Institute of Technology – Assistant Professor (2021 - Present )
Intelligence Community Research Fellowship Program – Fellow (2020 - Present)
Advisor: John Schwenkler
Dissertation: “Reflective Reasoning For Real People”
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2019
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Joshua Turkewitz
William Woods University – Assistant Professor (2019 - Present)
Advisor: Stephen Kearns
Dissertation: “A Defense of Semantic Vagueness”
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Kyle Boerstler
Data Science Resident – Data Scientist/Data Ethicist (2020 - Present
Florida State University – Teaching Faculty I (2019 - 2019)
Advisor: Stephen Kearns
Dissertation: “The Value of Emotion in the Advance Directive Debate”
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Aaron Brooks
Durham Tech - Instructor (2020-Present)
Tallahassee Community College – Assistant Professor (2017 – Present)
Advisor: David McNaughton
Dissertation: “The Meaning of Life: What We Mean by “Meaning””
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2018
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John Stigall
Howard University – Lecturer (2022-present)
Advisor: Randolph Clarke
Dissertation: “Omission Impossible? It Depends”
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Gabriel De Marco
Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford – Research Fellow in Applied Moral Philosophy (2018 – Present)
Advisor: Alfred Mele
Dissertation: "Manipulation, Moral Responsibility, and History"
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Mirja Pérez de Calleja
University of Los Andes – Postdoctoral Fellow (2020 - Present)
Philosophical Research Institute, National Autonomous University of Mexico – Post-Doctoral Fellow (2018 – 2020)
Advisor: Alfred Mele
Dissertation: "Free Will, Luck, and Indoctrination"
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2017
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Martha Lang
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Grants Management Specialist – Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (2019-Present)
Florida State University – Teaching Faculty I (2019-2020)
Philosophy & Zen - President, Philosopher, and Consultant (2017-Present)
Advisor: Michael Bishop
Dissertation: “The Network Theory of Well-Being, Revamped” |
Benjamin Kimmell
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Cavalry Baptist Church – Full-time Pastor (2017 – Present)
Advisor: David McNaughton
Dissertation: “Modified Molinism: A Source-Based Solution to the Problem of Human Freedom and Divine Foreknowledge” |
Peter Takacs
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The University of Sydney – Postdoctoral Research Associate (2018 – Present)
Advisor: Michael Ruse
Dissertation: “Philosophical, Historical, and Empirical Investigations into the Concept of Biological Fitness” |
2016
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Matthew Flummer
Porterville College – Assistant Professor (2016 – Present)
Advisor: Alfred Mele
Dissertation: "In Defense of Historicism: An Essay on the Metaphysics of Moral Responsibility"
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Kyle Fritz
University of Mississippi
• Assistant Professor (2017-Present)
• Visiting Assistant Professor (2016-2017)
Advisor: Randolph Clarke
Dissertation: "Responsibility, Control, and the Nonvoluntary"
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Daniel Miller
West Virginia University – Assistant Professor (2022 – Present)
West Virginia University – Visiting Assistant Professor (2018 – 2022)
Fayetteville State University – Visiting Assistant Professor (2017 – 2018)
Florida State University – Visiting Assistant Professor (2016 – 2017)
Advisor: Randolph Clarke
Dissertation: "Blameworthiness and Ignorance"
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2015
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Richard Cordero
Tallahassee Community College – Adjunct Professor (2015 – 2016)
Advisor: David McNaughton
Dissertation: “Particularism and Holism: Not a Necessary Marriage”
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Daniel Deen
Christ College, Concordia University – Assistant Professor (2010 – Present)
Major Professor: Michael Ruse
Dissertation: "Science, Religion, and Virtue: Toward Excellence In Dialogue"
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Katherine Guin
SUNY Brockport – Adjunct Professor (2015 – Present)
Advisor: David McNaughton
Dissertation: “An Aristotelian Approach to Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park”
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Megan McGrew
The Autism Learning Center – Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) (2013 – Present)
Advisor: Randolph Clarke
Dissertation: “Moral Responsibility and Mental Health: An Interdisciplinary Project in Philosophy, Psychology, and Applied Behavioral Analysis”
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James Quigley
Software Engineer – CoverHound (2016 – present)
Junior Software Engineer – Avant (2016)
Web Developer (2015 – Present)
Advisor: David McNaughton
Dissertation: "Caring and the Apprehension of Value"
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2014
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Robyn Repko Waller
Iona College – Assistant Professor (tenure track) (2018 – Present)
Franklin & Marshall – Visiting Assistant Professor (2017 – 2018)
King’s College London – Lecturer (2015 – 2017)
University of Alabama – Visiting Professor (2014 – 2015)
Advisor: Al Mele
Dissertation: "A Response to Some Conceptual and Scientific Threats to Compatibilist Free Will."
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Zachary Martin
Law School Admission Council – Test Specialist (2015 – Present)
Ashford University – Adjunct Instructor (2014 – 2015)
Advisor: Randolph Clarke
Dissertation: "Are We Free? Psychology's Challenges to Free Will."
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2013
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Joshua Shepherd
Carleton University – Assistant Professor of Philosophy (2017 – 2020), Associate Professor of Philosophy (2020 – Present)
Oxford Uehiro Centre – Wellcome Trust Research Fellow (2014 – 2017)
Jesus College – Junior Research Fellow (2014 – Present)
Oxford Martin School – James Martin Fellow (2014 – Present)
University of Oxford– Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Neuroethics (2013 – 2014)
Advisor: Al Mele
Dissertation: "Intentional Control and Consciousness" |
Heather Perez
Broward College – Assistant Professor (2018 – Present)
Ashford University – Adjunct Professor (2014 – 2018)
Advisor: Michael Bishop
Dissertation: "Norms and Normativity"
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Michael Robinson
Chapman University – Assistant Professor (2016 – Present)
Florida State University – Big Questions in Free Will Postdoctoral Fellow (2015 – 2016)
Washington and Jefferson College – Visiting Assistant Professor (2014 – 2015)
Florida State University – Big Questions in Free Will Postdoctoral Fellow (2013 – 2014)
Lecturer– Grand Valley State University – Visiting Assistant Professor (2010 – 2013)
Advisor: Al Mele
Dissertation: "Moral Responsibility and Its Alternatives"
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Daniel Haas
Red Deer College – Instructor (2012 – 2013), (2014 – Present) Idaho State University – Visiting Assistant Professor, Philosophy (2014 – Present)
Advisor: Randolph Clarke
Dissertation: "Source Incompatibilism, Manipulation, and Basic Desert"
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Jason S. Miller
Law School Admission Council – Test Specialist (2013 – Present)
Advisor: Alfred Mele
Dissertation: “Free Will in Context: A Defense of Descriptive Variantism”
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Tina Talsma
UNC Charlotte – Adjunct Instructor (2014 – Present)
Florida State University – Adjunct Instructor
Advisor: David McNaughton
Dissertation: "Free Will and Divine Omniscience"
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Steven McFarlane
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University of Minnesota Morris – Assistant Professor (2016 – Present)
Advisor: David McNaughton
Dissertation: “Can Value Properties Earn Their Keep? The Metaphysics of Value”
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2012
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John Carpenter
Florida Department of Transportation – IT project coordinator (2014 – Present)
Evergreen Solutions, LLC – Senior Analyst (2013 – 2014)
Advisor: Russell Dancy
Dissertation: "Remedying Some Defects in the History of Analyticity"
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Melissa Lammey
Miami Dade College – Associate Professor (2006 – Present)
Advisor: Michael Ruse
Dissertation: "Distinguishing Science from Philosophy: A Critical Assessment of Thomas Nagel's Recommendations for Public Education"
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Michael B. Miller
Spokane Community College – Associate Registrar (2020 - Present)
University of California, Santa Cruz – Graduate Program Coordinator, Department of Physics (2017 – 2020)
Florida State University
• Adjunct Instructor, Academic Program Specialist (2014 – 2017)
• Adjunct Instructor, Academic Program Assistant (2013 – 2014)
Advisor: Michael Bishop Dissertation: "The Utility of the Illusion of Character"
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2011
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Amirah Albahri
Kuwait University – Professor
Advisor: Michael Bishop
Dissertation: "Framework for Understanding Naturalized Epistemology"
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Justin Capes
Flagler College
• Assistant Professor (2017 – Present)
• Visiting Assistant Professor (2016 – 2017)
East Tennessee State University – Lecturer (2012 – 2016)
Florida State University– Big Questions in Free Will Postdoctoral Fellow (2011– 2012)
Advisor: Alfred Mele
Dissertation: "I Couldn't Help It! Essays on Moral Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities"
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Shidan Lotfi
University of Tennessee, Knoxville – Lecturer (2010 – Present)
Advisor: David McNaughton
Dissertation: "A Theory of Flourishing"
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Travis Rodgers
Valencia College – Assistant Professor (2014 – Present)
University of Central Florida – Lecturer (2012 – 2014)
Advisor: Randolph Clarke
Dissertation: "Accounting for Character"
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Clifford Sosis
Coastal Carolina University – Lecturer (2013 – Present)
Mississippi State University, Meridian – Visiting Lecturer (2012 – 2013)
Advisor: Michael Bishop
Dissertation: "Well–Being: The Good Syndrome"
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Christopher Zarpentine
Wilkes University – Visiting Assistant Professor (2013 – Present)
University of Utah – Visiting Professor (2011 – 2013)
Advisor: Alfred Mele
Dissertation: "The Fragmentation of Moral Psychology: Reason, Emotion, Motivation and Moral Judgment in Ethics and Science"
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2010
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Charles Alt
Faculty at Greenwich Academy, Duff Center for STEM Initiatives (2006 – Present)
Fairfield University – Adjunct Professor (2011 – Present)
Advisor: Michael Ruse Dissertation: "Refining the Boundary Conditions of the Darwinian concept of Adaptation: The Affirmation of Darwinism"
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Alison Brown
San Diego State University – Adjunct Lecturer (Present)
Dependency Legal Group of San Diego – Attorney (2014 – Present)
Hanna Brophy Law Firm – Associate Attorney (2013 – 2014)
San Diego County Office of the Alternate Public Defender – Certified Legal Intern (2012)
University of San Diego, School of Law – Research Assistant (2010 – 2012)
Advisor: Randolph Clarke
Dissertation: “Moral Luck and Moral Responsibility”
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Tracie Mahaffey
Florida State University
• Teaching Faculty II (2014 – Present)
• Assistant-in-Teaching (2010 – 2014)
University of North Florida, Visiting Instructor (2009 – 2010)
Advisor: Alfred Mele
Dissertation: "Socialization and Psychological Autonomy"
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Scott Mueller
Freelance Editor and Proofreader (2011– Present)
University of Wisconsin Press – Editorial Assistant (2011 – 2013)
Advisor: Alfred Mele
Dissertation: "The Phenomenology of Action and the Problem of Free Will."
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2009
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Joseph Long
The College of Brockport, SUNY
• Assistant Professor (2014 – Present)
• Visiting Assistant Professor (2011 – 2014)
Florida State University– Visiting Instructor (2010 – 2011)
Advisor: J. Piers Rawling
Dissertation: "Kinds and their Terms: On the Language and Ontology of the Normative and the Empirical"
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Jamie Watson
Assistant Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (2020 – Present)
Clinical Ethicist at Arkansas Children's Hospital (2020 – Present)
Broward College – Assistant Professor (2014 – Present)
Young Harris College – Assistant Professor (2009 – 2014)
Advisor: Michael Bishop
Dissertation: "A Priori Justification and Experience"
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2008
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Adam Feltz
Michigan Technological University – Assistant Professor (2013 – Present)
Max Planck Center for Human Development Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition– (2009 – 2012)
Schreiner University – Assistant Professor, Director of Behavioral Philosophy Lab (2008 – 2013)
Advisor: Alfred Mele
Dissertation: "The Relevance of Folk Intuitions to Philosophical Debates"
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2007
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Lisa Liseno
Florida State University
• Assistant Dean of the Graduate School (2014 – Present)
• Academic Center for Excellence, Instructor (2008 – 2014)
Advisor: Alfred Mele
Dissertation: "The Problem of Akratic Action"
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Jason Zinser
University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point – Assistant Professor (2017 – Present)
University of Wisconsin, Marathon County – Senior Lecturer (2010 – Present)
University of North Florida – Visiting Assistant Professor (2007 – 2010)
Advisor: Michael Ruse
Dissertation: "Modal Concepts in the Biological Sciences"
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2006
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Charles Hermes
University of Texas–Arlington – Undergraduate Adviser and Visiting Assistant Professor (2007 – Present)
Advisor: Alfred Mele
Dissertation: "Scientific Essentialism and the Lewis/Ramsey Account of Laws of Nature"
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Elizabeth Kanon
Texas State University – Lecturer (2010 – Present)
University of North Florida – Visiting Assistant Professor (2006 – 2009)
Advisor: Peter Dalton
Dissertation: "Stipulating Moral Status"
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2005
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George Abaunza
Felician College – Associate Professor and Chair (2000 – Present)
Bergen Community College – Lecturer/Instructor (1996 – 2000)
Advisor: C. David Gruender
Dissertation: "Making Artists of Us All: The Evolution of An Educational Aesthetic"
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Jeremy Kirby
Albion College – Assistant Professor (2006 – Present)
Advisor: Russell Dancy
Dissertation: "Material Migration and Aristotelian Metaphysics"
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Thomas Nadelhoffer
College of Charleston
• Associate Professor of Philosophy (2016 – Present)
• Assistant Professor of Philosophy (2012 – 2016)
• Affiliate Faculty of Psychology (2014 – Present)
• Roster Faculty of Neuroscience Program (2015 – Present)
Dickinson College
• Assistant Professor of Philosophy (2006 – 2012)
• Roster Faculty of Law and Policy Program (2006 – 2012)
Advisor: Alfred Mele
Dissertation: "Intentions and Intentional Actions in Ordinary Language and the Criminal Law"
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2004
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Stephen Morris
College of Staten Island – Assistant Professor (2009 – Present)
Western Missouri State University – Assistant Professor (2005 – 2009)
Florida A & M University – Instructor (2004 – 2005)
Florida State University – Instructor (2004 – 2005)
Advisor: Michael Ruse
Dissertation: "Deciphering the Secret Chain: An Evolutionary Perspective on Enlightened Self-Interest"
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Deena Hurst
Research Associate for the Florida Institute of Government at Florida State University (2005 – Present)
Advisor: Donald Hodges
Dissertation: “America’s National Interest: Politics of Deceit”
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2003
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Christopher Pynes
Western Illinois University
• Professor of Philosophy (2014 – Present)
• Associate Professor of Philosophy (2009 – 2014)
• Assistant Professor of Philosophy (2005 – 2009)
University of Tennessee, Knoxville – Lecturer of Philosophy (2003 – 2005)
Advisor: Michael Ruse
Dissertation: "Human Cloning and Moral Status"
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2002
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Justin Barnard
Union University – Associate Professor and Director of the Carl F.H. Henry Institute for Intellectual Discipleship (2007 – Present)
Crichton College – Assistant Professor (2005 – 2007)
Messiah College – Lecturer (2002 – 2004)
Advisor: Alfred Mele
Dissertation: "Rationally Justified Belief and Mental Causation: An Epistemic Argument Against Physicalism"
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Gregory Smith
Patrick Henry College – Professor of Philosophy
Advisor: Russell Dancy
Dissertation: "Aristotle and Cognitive Intentionality"
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2001
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John Farnum
Portland Community College – Instructor (2000 – Present)
Advisor: Peter Dalton
Dissertation: "Habermas and the American Context: Toward a Theory of a Substantive Democracy"
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Bradford Hadaway
Georgetown College – Professor (2001 – Present)
Advisor: Maria Morales
Dissertation: "Hobbesian Individualism and the Self: Bringing Hobbes to Bear on the Communitarian Critique of Liberalism"
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