Ph.D. Student Placement Record

2026

Dissertation title: Essays on Free Will, Moral Responsibility, and Alternative Possibilities

• Advisor: Randolph Clarke
• Initial career outcome: John Chambers College of Business and Economics at West Virginia University (C)

Dissertation title: Scientific Kinds, Knowledge, and Ontology

• Advisor: Courtney Fugate
• Initial career outcome: Department of Philosophy and Institute for Artificial Intelligence at the University of Georgia (Joint appointment) (C) 

Dissertation title: The Convergence-Construction Account of Identity: Making Sense of Identity and Bipolar Disorder

• Advisor: Andrea Westlund
• Initial career outcome: (U)

2025

Dissertation title: Stoic Moderation and the Pursuit of a Meaningful Life

• Advisor: Edward Hinchman
• Initial career outcome: FSU (G)

Dissertation title: Historical Compatibilism: Essays in Defense of a Novel Positive Historical Approach to Moral Responsibility Regarding Little Agents

• Advisor: Alfred Mele
• Initial career outcome: (U)

Dissertation title: Manipulative Action and Razian Autonomy

• Advisor: Simon May
• Initial career outcome: (U)

Dissertation title: Freedom and Control: Essays on the Metaphysics of Free Will

• Advisor: Alfred Mele
• Initial career outcome: FSU (G)

Dissertation title: How Death Harms Us: A Defense of Fear

• Advisor: Mark LeBar
• Initial career outcome: Broward College (V)

Dissertation title: Autonomy and External Constraint

• Advisor: Andrea Westlund
• Initial career outcome: FSU and FSU Florence study center (V)

Dissertation title: Conceptual Jurisprudence: Engineering Legal Concepts

• Advisor: Simon May
• Initial career outcome: First Circuit of Florida (G)

2024

Dissertation title: Socratic Wisdom in the Apology and Charmides

• Advisor: Nathanael Stein
• Initial career outcome: University of Massachusetts at Lowell (V)

Dissertation title: Agency and Equanimity: Neo-Pyhrrhonian Reflections on Action, Free Will, and Moral Responsibility

• Advisor: Alfred Mele
• Initial career outcome: Chapman University (V) and Loyola Marymount University (V)

Dissertation title: Essays at the Intersection of Population Ethics and Animal Ethics

• Advisor: Piers Rawling
• Initial career outcome: (U)

Dissertation title: Evaluating Values: Understanding the Epistemic Worth of Values in Science

• Advisor: Piers Rawling
• Initial career outcome: Adelanto Healthcare Ventures (PS)

Dissertation title: Charity as a Foundation of Ethics

• Advisor: Andrea Westlund
• Initial career outcome: Fellow in the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University (PD)

2023

Dissertation title: Reasons, Causes, and Self-Determination

• Advisor: Randolph Clarke
• Initial career outcome: Glendale Preparatory Academy (ANC)

Dissertation title: Tracing Principles and Self-Inflicted Constitutive Luck

• Advisor: Alfred Mele
• Initial career outcome: Maritime Philosophy Friends (ANC)

Dissertation title: Why Not Luck?

• Advisor: Piers Rawling, Simon May (co-chairs)
• Initial career outcome: (U)

Dissertation title: Virtuous Knowers: A Virtue-Theoretic Analysis of the Intersection of Doxastic Agency, Doxastic Obligations, and Doxastic Justification

• Advisor: Edward Hinchman
• Initial career outcome: FSU (V)
• Most recent: Dean of Students at Christ Classical Academy (ANC)

2022

Dissertation title: The Most General Rightive Activity: Moral Worth as the Formal Excellence of Practical Reason

• Advisor: John Schwenkler
• Initial career outcome: Catholic University of America (TT)

Dissertation title: Essays on Virtue and Practical Reason

• Advisor: John Schwenkler
• Initial career outcome: California State University, San Bernardino (TT)

Dissertation title: Belief and Its Discontents

• Advisor: Piers Rawling
• Initial career outcome: (U)

Dissertation title: Philosophy, Out of Bounds: The Method and Mysticism of Simone Weil

• Advisor: Simon May
• Initial career outcome: FSU (G)

Dissertation title: Abilities and Powers and Masks, Oh My

• Advisor: Randolph Clarke
• Initial career outcome: FSU (V)
• Most recent: University of Central Florida (V)

2021

Dissertation title: The Variable Weight View: An Alternative to Peer-Oriented Accounts in the Epistemology of Disagreement

• Advisor: Edward Hinchman
• Initial career outcome: (U)

Dissertation title: Letting a Hundred Flowers Bloom: Pluralism and the Dynamics of Good Lives

• Advisor: Michael A Bishop
• Initial career outcome: Research Professor at Autonomous University of the State of Morelos (T)

Dissertation title: Survival of the Ethicist: A Neo-Aristotelian Solution to Evolutionary Debunking Arguments

• Advisor: Michael Ruse
• Initial career outcome: Hillsdale College (PD)
• Most recent: U.S. Air Force Academy (TT) and Fellow in Ethics & Politics at University of Vita-Salute San Raffaele (in Milan) (V)

Dissertation title: Moral Responsibility Intuitions and Their Explanations: Problems for Retributivism and Desert

• Advisor: Alfred Mele
• Initial career outcome: Convival Brands (PS)

Dissertation title: Moral Agency and Situationism

• Advisor: Alfred Mele
• Initial career outcome: Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University (TT)

2020

Dissertation title: Reflective Reasoning for Real People

• Advisor: John Schwenkler
• Initial career outcome: Carnegie Mellon University (PD)
• Most recent: Geisinger College of Health Sciences (Cognitive Science) (TT)

Dissertation title: On Challenges to Free Will: Contemporary Debates in the Metaphysics and Science of Free Will

• Advisor: Alfred Mele
• Initial career outcome: University of West Florida (V)
• Most recent: University of West Florida (C)

2019

Dissertation title: The Value of Emotion in the Advance Directive Debate

• Advisor: Stephen Kearns
• Initial career outcome: FSU (V)
• Most recent: Activision (PS)

Dissertation title: The Meaning of Life: What We Mean by 'Meaning'

• Advisor: David McNaughton
• Initial career outcome: Durham Technical Community College (C)

Dissertation title: A Defense of Semantic Vagueness

• Advisor: Stephen Kearns
• Initial career outcome: William Woods University (TT)
• Most recent: William Woods University (TT)

2018

Dissertation title: An Alternative Approach to Analyzing Disposition Ascriptions

• Advisor: Randolphe Clarke
• Initial career outcome: Georgia Institute of Technology (Analytics) (O)
• Most recent: Options Clearing Corporation (PS)

Dissertation title: Manipulation, Moral Responsibility, and History

• Advisor: Alfred Mele
• Initial career outcome: Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford (PD)
• Most recent: Uehiro Oxford Institute, University of Oxford (T)

Dissertation title: Reading Nietzsche in Light of Emerson

• Advisor: Michael Ruse
• Initial career outcome: (U)

Dissertation title: Free Will, Luck, and Indoctrination

• Advisor: Alfred Mele
• Initial career outcome: Philosophical Research Institute, National Autonomous University of Mexico (PD)
• Most recent: University of Los Andes - Postdoctoral Fellow (PD)