PLACEMENT RECORD
The Department feels that prospective students (and others) deserve to know what our M.A. students do after graduation. The following tables report the placement of every student who has earned the M.A. at Georgia State since 1999, sorted by academic year. We also encourage interested parties to look over our retention, progression, and graduation data. Since 2011, well over 90% of entering students have earned their degree.
Note: 2024 data is incomplete.
MA Thesis Title | Applied to Ph.D. Programs? | Comments (all Ph.D. program admissions are with funding unless otherwise noted) |
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Practical Contemplation and Happiness in Aristotle |
Yes (philosophy) | Enrolling at Columbia. Also accepted into Brown, Washington University at St. Louis, and Wisconsin. |
Luminosity and the Phenomenal |
Yes (philosophy) | Enrolling at the University of Chicago |
The Philosopher and the Beetle: Attention, Self-Representation, and the Fate of Predictive Processing |
Yes (philosophy) | Enrolling at Washington University at St. Louis (PNP program). Also accepted into Ohio State. |
On Essentially Intentional Actions |
Yes (philosophy) | Enrolling at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Also accepted into Florida State |
Inference, Interpretation, and Closure: Problems for Narrative as Testimony |
Yes (philosophy) | Enrolling at Northwestern. Also accepted into Connecticut |
Playing the Game of Praise and Blame: On the Justification of Our Moral Responsibility Practices |
Yes (philosophy) | Enrolling at Florida State |
What’s Wrong With Suicide? | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolling at Temple. Also accepted into SUNY Binghamton. |
Evidence as Dictator: When Arrow's Impossibility Theorem Meets the Ethics of Belief | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolling at Rice |
Ethics of Acceptance and Its Rational Dynamics | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolling at Rochester |
MA Thesis Title | Applied to Ph.D. Programs? | Comments (all Ph.D. program admissions are with funding unless otherwise noted) |
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Social Kind Generics and the Dichotomizing Perspective |
Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at UCLA. Also accepted into UC San Diego (philosophy and cognitive science), UC Irvine, and the University of British Columbia |
The Politics of Anger |
Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at UC-Riverside |
In Defense of Emotion-Based Approaches to Moral Motivation |
Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania Ethics and Legal Studies program in the Wharton Business School. Also accepted into York University and the University of Virginia. |
The Overcoming of the Idea of Life in Hegel's Science of Logic |
Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Northwestern. Also accepted into Toronto. |
Together After All: Competition And Joint Action |
Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at the University of Indiana. Also accepted into the University of Illinois Chicago, the University of British Columbia, UC Santa Barbara, Florida State University, Syracuse, and the University of Western Ontario. |
Credal Encroachment in a Two-stage Model | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at NYU law school. Accepted into Maryland philosophy Ph.D. Also accepted into law school at Berkeley, Cornell, Toronto, and Washington University at St. Louis. |
The Model Minority Stereotype as a Hermeneutical Injustice | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolling at the University of British Columbia (deferred admission). Also accepted into Virginia. |
Believing rationally given your actual beliefs: on one objection to Susanna Rinard’s theory of rational beliefs | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Oklahoma. |
A Moral-Epistemic Argument Against Capitalistic Labor Contracts | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Binghamton. Also accepted into Tennessee. |
Equal Respect, Accountability, and Democracy | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Virginia. Also accepted into Florida State. |
Closing the Roads to Immanence in the Phaedo. | Yes (creative writing) | Enrolled at the University of Louisiana - Lafayette. Also accepted into Georgia State. |
Choice Paralysis: A Challenge from the Indeterminacy of Intentional Content | No | Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Nightingale College. |
Adam Smith, Virtue, and Sympathy for Animals | No | Working for the Atlanta Fire Department |
The Time of Life and the Life of Time: An Articulation of the Problem of Time and Eternity in Hegel and Two Attempts to Resolve It | No | |
Non-thesis option | No | Full-time Visiting Instructor of Philosophy for Georgia State |
Non-thesis option | No | Interning for an Atlanta law firm and preparing to apply to law school. |
Non-thesis option | No | Attending a coding bootcamp at MIT and pursuing a career in computer science. |
MA Thesis Title | Applied to Ph.D. Programs? | Comments (all Ph.D. program admissions are with funding unless otherwise noted) |
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Self-identification |
Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at CUNY. |
Infinite Monkeys: Nietzsche and the Cruel Optimism of Personal Immortality |
Yes (philosophy) |
Enrolled at UC-Davis. Also accepted into Florida State and Western Ontario. |
Should private property rights have term limits? |
Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Northwestern. Also accepted into Maryland and Binghamton University. |
A Practical Conception of the Kantian Bifurcation |
Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Florida State. |
An Explanation of the Formal-Substantive Freedom Distinction (and Why it Matters) |
Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at CUNY. Also accepted into Bowling Green State University. |
Nietzsche’s Metaethics, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Appropriation |
Yes (philosophy) |
Enrolled at University of Hawaii at Manoa. Previously received Master of Art in Teaching in Social Studies Education from Georgia State. (No tuition because of Squier Family Foundation funding.) |
Nature, Spirit, and the Question of Subjectivism in Hegel: Two Key Aspects of Hegel’s Treatment of Nature |
Yes (philosophy) | Full-time Visiting Instructor of Philosophy at Georgia State |
Nietzsche's Scala Amoris: Nietzsche and Diotima on Eros and Philosophy |
Yes (philosophy) | Consultant at Censeo Consulting Group in Washington D.C. |
A Defense of Algorithmic Homuncularism | Yes (neuroscience) | Enrolled at Georgia State. |
Non-thesis option |
Yes (psychology) | Enrolled at Emory. Also accepted into Penn State. |
Non-thesis option |
Yes (health care ethics) | Enrolled at St. Louis University. |
Moral Solidarity, Relationships and Relational Egalitarianism |
No |
Librarian in Charleston SC. |
The Moralization of Nietzsche |
No |
Operations manager for organization which assists incarcerated individuals to file motions to shorten or end their sentences, motions for clemency, etc. |
Does Anti-Imperialism Entail Anti-Paternalism? | No |
Enrolled at law school at New York University. |
Being Moved: Heideggerian Authenticity and Wolf's Nameless Virtue | No |
Full-time Visiting Instructor of Philosophy at Georgia State. |
Non-thesis option | No |
Enrolled in Georgia State's Master of Art in Teaching program in Social Studies Education. (No tuition because of Squier Family Foundation funding.) |
Innocent Preferences in Hume's Morality | No |
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Kantian Assent in a Practical Relation | No |
Accepted to law school at the University of Florida, University of Minnesota, and Emory University. |
MA Thesis Title | Applied to Ph.D. Programs? | Comments (all Ph.D. program admissions are with funding unless otherwise noted) |
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Masked Abilities and Manipulation Arguments |
Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Cornell. Also accepted into Florida State, the University of British Columbia, and the University of Virginia. |
Habituation, Transformation, and Conflict: Hegel and Transformative Theories of Rationality. |
Yes (philosophy) |
Enrolled at the University of Toronto. |
Aristotle on the role of practical intellect in supplying the ends |
Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at UC-Santa Barbara. Also accepted into the University of British Columbia, Florida State, and Tennessee. |
Ingroup Attitudes: A Reliance-Based Analysis |
Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Washington University in St. Louis. Also accepted into the University of British Columbia and Arizona State. |
Moral Attitudes: Why Attitude Matters in Characterizing the Psychology of Moral Judgements. |
Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at the University of California, Santa Cruz. |
Adam Smith and the Problem of Parochialism: Can the Impartial Spectator Engage in Social Critique? |
Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Indiana University, Bloomington. Also accepted into Tulane University. |
Protections without Rights: A Liberal Indictment of Factory Farming. |
Yes (philosophy) |
Enrolled at the University of Colorado, Boulder. |
Implicit Biases and Byrne’s Epistemic Rule for Self-Knowledge of Beliefs | Yes (philosophy) |
Enrolled at Peking University. |
What Can an Evolutionary Explanation Bring to The Demarcation of The Normal from The Pathological in Psychiatry? Nesse’s Case of Depression |
Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at the University of Edinburgh |
The Dual-Process Model and Moral Dilemmas: Reflection Does Not Drive Self-Sacrifice |
Yes (psychology) |
Enrolled at the University of Alberta. Also accepted into the University of Waterloo. |
Moved By Sad Music |
Yes (psychology) | Enrolled at the University of Michigan. Also accepted into the University of Delaware. |
Vivisection and Moral Introspection in Nietzsche |
Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at the University of South Florida. Also accepted into SUNY Binghamton, Temple University, and the University of Georgia. Previously full-time instructor of philosophy at BYU. |
In Defense of Sex Work Decriminalization: A Case Against the Nordic Model |
Yes (health care ethics) | Enrolled at Duquesne |
Why Ralph Waldo Emerson is a Virtue Ethicist |
Yes (philosophy and other fields) | Accepted into the University of Georgia (philosophy). Declined offer; working as a free-lance writer. |
Philosophy as Bad Poetry: Schopenhauer and Nietzsche on the Ancient Quarrel |
Yes (philosophy) | Accepted into Boston College. (Applying in 2024, final results pending) Previously academic advisor at Georgia State and full-time Visiting Instructor of Philosophy at Georgia State. |
Reincarnation and Rehabilitation: the Theodicy of Plato's Timaeus |
Yes (philosophy) | English teacher at a charter school in New York City. |
What Is Wrong With Self-effacing Ethical Theories? |
No | Enrolled in law school at Harvard. Previously a paralegal working in IP litigation in New York City. |
Nietzsche's Critique of "Absolute" Music |
No | Instructor of philosophy at Mercer University |
Religion and Two-Level Utilitarianism in Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments |
No | Enrolled in law school at Washington and Lee University. |
Til Death (or Divorce) Do Us Part: A Defense of Divorce as a Morally Permissible Instance of Promise-Breaking |
No | Admissions recruiter for Midway University in Kentucky. |
Challenges to Causal Classification in Psychiatry |
No | Grant proposal writer for a non-profit in Los Angeles. |
What Is Wrong with Statistical Discrimination? |
No | Designing and managing academic programs for an international education company. |
What We Can't and Won't Believe: Rethinking Belief Polarization as Political Acceptance |
No | |
Non-thesis option |
No | Physics teacher at Palmetto Scholars Academy in Charleston, SC. |
Non-thesis option |
No | Finishing an M.A. at Bielefeld University and working as an undertaker. |
MA Thesis Title | Applied to Ph.D. Programs? | Comments (all Ph.D. program admissions are with funding unless otherwise noted) |
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Towards a Distinction between Gender Identity and Gender Orientation | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at CUNY. Also accepted into Georgetown and Boston University. |
Delusions as Hetero-Dynamic Property Clusters |
Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at UC-Irvine. Also accepted into Washington University at St. Louis PNP program. |
Historical Injustices and the State Endurance Thesis | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at UC-Santa Barbara. Also accepted into Nebraska |
Sex Work and Empowerment |
Yes (philosophy) | Working as full-time instructor of philosophy at Fresno City College. |
Free Will Experiences and Higher-Order Thoughts |
Yes (linguistics) No | Enrolled at University of Georgia. Previously senior iOS Developer for an IT company. |
Opting-In: A Further Justification of Robin Zheng’s Role-Ideal Model |
No | Development Specialist at a new New England healthcare nonprofit. Was a Development Coordinator for a think tank in Albany, NY. |
Joseph Butler on Self-Reverence as a Moral Duty |
No | U.S. Air Force Intelligence Officer |
A Critique of Practice-Based Directives for Personal Relationship Law |
No | Contract analyst with the California department of social services. |
Thinking Beyond Democracy for a Future Cosmopolitan Legal Order | No | Enrolled at Law School at UCLA. |
Experience without Memory: Optogenetics, the Self, and the Ethics of Forgetting |
No | Enrolled in medical school at Northwestern. |
Educational Adequacy, Capability, And Basic Educational Justice: A Revision Of Anderson and Satz, | No | Tour guide at Sprecher Brewing Co. in Milwaukee. |
Empirical Information and Kant's Moral Laws | No | Copyediting for Mercer University Press and teaching classes at Mercer University. |
Politics and Products: An Arendtian Analysis of Modern Humans' Concern for Immortality |
No | Instructor of Philosophy at Point Park University in Pittsburgh. Was Educational Youth Coach at Small Seeds Development. |
Public Reason and Moral Repair | No | |
MA Thesis Title | Applied to Ph.D. Programs? | Comments (all Ph.D. program admissions are with funding unless otherwise noted) |
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Niche Construction Theory: Difficulties for a Practice Approach to Theoretical Pluralism | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Duke. Also accepted into UC-Davis, University of British Columbia, Utah, and Cambridge (final funding decision never made). |
Experience-Based Intuitions | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at UC-Irvine. Also accepted into Miami, UC-Santa Barbara, Florida State, and University of Cincinnati. |
Kant and Butler on Morality and Human Nature | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Duke. Also accepted into Connecticut. |
Finding prejudice in unexpected places: racially biased perception | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at University of British Columbia. Also accepted into Ohio State and University of Cincinnati. |
Epistemic Injustice in Sexual Assault Trials | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at University of British Columbia. Also accepted into UMass Amherst, Maryland, and Georgetown (waitlisted for funding). |
The Problem of Coercion in State Apologies | Yes (philosophy) | Accepted into Maryland, Florida State, Tulane, and Bowling Green. Declined offers and currently working with two non-profit firms. |
The Limits of Rationality: Aristotle on the Possibility of Practical Reason | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at UC-Berkeley. Also accepted into UT-Austin and Georgetown (waitlisted for funding). |
Understanding Other Conscious Minds | Yes (philosophy and cognitive science) | Enrolled at UC-Irvine (cognitive science). Also accepted into Maryland (philosophy) |
The Body of Ideas: Nietzsche, Embodiment, and the Genealogical Method | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolling at Michigan State. Also accepted into Saint Louis University and Memorial University of Newfoundland. Previously worked for Washington University at St. Louis' Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities. |
Assymetric Epistemic Labor as Hermeneutical Injustice | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Syracuse. Also accepted into Nebraska and Oklahoma. |
Naturalized Metaphysics and Scientific Constraint: A Model-Building Approach | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at University of Illinois - Chicago. |
Dismantling Rape Culture: The Need for a Comprehensive Educational Approach | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Michigan State. |
Kant and Joseph Butler on Autonomy, Moral Obligation, and Stoic Virtue | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Memphis |
Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Religion and his Critique of German Idealism | Yes (philosophy) | Director of Risk, Compliance, and Business Operations at a Washington D.C. law firm |
Respecting an Incompetent Person's Autonomy | Yes (Healthcare Ethics) | Enrolling at Duquesne University |
Arguments for Banning Autonomous Weapon Systems: A Critique | No | Instructor of philosophy, United States Military Academy. |
Hegel's Empty Formalism Critique | No | Office Coordinator of Center for Student Leadership and Engagement at Bloomfield College |
A (Partial) Rehabilitation of Euthyphro | No | Copyeditor and freelance writer. |
Children Of Genius: Affirmation Of Will In Schopenhauer's Aesthetics | No | Legal services assistant in a Chicago law firm |
Marxism, Racism, & Capitalism: A Critical Examination of Nancy Fraser | No | English teacher in a Vermont high school. |
Convergence Liberalism and the Limits of State Coercive Power: A Case Against the Public Justification Principle | No |
MA Thesis Title | Applied to Ph.D. Programs? | Comments (all Ph.D. program admissions are with funding unless otherwise noted) |
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Hegelian Freedom and the Communitarian Critique of the Market | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Brown. Also accepted into UC-Riverside and Purdue. |
Aristotle's Appeal to Nature and the Internal Point of View | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Baylor. Also accepted into Florida State and Oklahoma. |
Aristotle on Virtuous Disharmony: Mixed Actions and the Virtue/Continence Distinction | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at UT-Austin. Also accepted into Georgetown. |
Feminist Aims and a Trans-Inclusive Definition of 'Woman' | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Arizona State. Also accepted into the University of Illinois at Chicago and Michigan State. |
The Cost of Integration: Grounding the Integration Debate in Black Experience | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Northwestern. Also accepted into Memphis. |
Rawls’s Political Liberalism: Historicist or Kantian? | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Tennessee. |
Same-Sex Marriage as a Waste of Time: The Importance of Norms and the Impotence of Law | Yes (philosophy) | Accepted into Oregon. Declined offer; working in software development in Chicago. |
Machine Automation and the Necessity of Labor in Hegel's Social Theory | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Toronto. Also accepted into Fordham. |
Language, Memory, and the Speculative Sentence in Hegel | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at University of Georgia. Also accepted into University of South Florida.. |
Schopenhauer on Aesthetic Experience | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at University of New Mexico. |
The Problem(s) of Impartiality: Attention, Deliberation, and Having "One Thought Too Many" | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at the University of Virginia. |
Reining in the Passions: The Role of Emotions in Understanding Self-Control | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolling at Pittsburgh (HPS program). Also accepted into Wisconsin, UC-San Diego, and Washington University at St. Louis (PNP program). |
Legal Marriage and Political Liberalism | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolling at Arizona State. Also accepted into SUNY-Binghamton |
Is Representational Content Determinable? A Conceptualist Response to Travis | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolling at University of Georgia. Also accepted into Guelph. |
Nietzsche’s Art of Interpretation: The Role of the Epigraph in GM III | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolling at Kentucky. |
Epistemic Entrapment: The Right of Exit | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolling at Arizona State |
Metaethical Contextualism and the problem of disagreement: when somebody must be wrong | Yes (philosophy) | Working as a software engineer in Portland |
A Marxian Critique of Nonideal Theory | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolling at Kentucky |
Nietzsche on Realism in Art and the Role of Illusion in Life-Affirmation | Yes (philosophy and government / political science) | Enrolled at Boston University (philosophy). Also accepted into Georgetown (philosophy) and Georgetown and UC-Riverside (government / political science). |
The Puzzle of Faith | Yes (Theology) | Enrolled at St. Andrews. |
Can Global Workspace Theory Solve the Frame Problem? | Yes (cognitive sciences) | Accepted into MS in Artificial Intelligence at University of Georgia and MS in Logic, Computation, and Methodology at Carnegie Mellon. |
A Critique of Compatibilist-Libertarianism | No | Enrolled at MS in Artificial Intelligence at University of Georgia. |
Civil Disobedience and the Duty to Obey the Law: A Critical Assessment of Lefkowitz’s View | No | Enrolled at NYU Law. |
Need evolutionary debunking arguments rely on a particular metaphysical construal of evaluative facts? | No | Software engineer |
Epistemic Injustice in White Academic Feminism | No | Working as a paralegal for the Children's Protection Project at the National Immigrant Justice Center. |
Isolated Sacred Value Theory: An Account of Moral Conative Attitudes |
No | Teaching English and writing freelance in Sarajevo. |
Non-thesis option | Yes (environ. policy / management) | Enrolling in MA environ. policy at Science Po Paris |
MA Thesis Title | Applied to Ph.D. Programs? | Comments (all Ph.D. program admissions are with funding unless otherwise noted) |
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Dignity and Disability: Toward a Relational Approach | Yes (philosophy and political science) | Enrolled at Pennsylvania State University, dual-degree program in Philosophy and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Also accepted at Georgetown, Stony Brook, and University of Virginia (philosophy), and UCLA and University of Pennsylvania (political science) |
Rights, Alienation & Forfeiture | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Michigan. Originally enrolled at Illinois Champaign-Urbana, and then transferred. Also accepted into Florida State and Bowling Green State University. |
National Identity, Social Justice, and Internal Minorities: A Critique of David Miller’s Liberal Nationalism | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Villanova. Also accepted into Vanderbilt |
Kant's Singularity Thesis | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Illinois Champaign-Urbana. |
On Nietzsche, Homer, and Dissimulation | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Boston University |
The Role of the 'Subject's Power' in Kant's Account of Desire | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Brown. Also accepted into Boston University, |
In Defense of the State-Based Account of Harming | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Baylor. Also accepted into Florida State. |
Is Moral Anger Justified? A Functionalist Defense Of Feeling And Expressing Moral Anger |
Yes (psychology) | Enrolled at UCLA. |
A Critique of Catharine MacKinnon's Sex-Based Theory of Rape | Yes (English) | Enrolled at Georgia State (rhetoric and composition concentration). Also accepted into Florida State and UNC-Greensboro. |
Darwinian Domain Generality: The Role of Evolutionary Psychology in the Modularity Debate | Yes (cognitive science & psychology) | Enrolled at UT-Dallas (cog sci) |
Luck and the Limits of Equality | Yes (philosophy) | Staffing analyst at financial services company in Connecticut. |
Is Kant's Account of Free Will Coherent? |
No | Musician and filmmaker |
Vicious Virtues: The Role Of Naturalism and Irreligion in Hume's Treatise |
No | Visiting Instructor at Georgia State University |
Political Chemicals: Drugs, Rights, and the Good Life |
No | |
Too Tired to be Fair: Reactive Attitudes and Irrelevant Influences |
No | Research assistant in a Neuroscience lab studying mTBI and PTSD. |
Toward a Marxist Environmental Ethic: Restoration and Preservation in Focus |
No | Teaching Introduction to Ethics at the University of West Georgia |
Non-thesis option | No | Enrolled at University of Iowa law school |
Non-thesis option | No | Teaching philosophy classes at Mercer University |
Non-thesis option | No |
MA Thesis Title | Applied to Ph.D. Programs? | Comments (all Ph.D. program admissions are with funding unless otherwise noted) |
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Agency and Resentment: Reinterpreting Strawson's Compatibilism | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Duke University. Also accepted into the University of California San Diego. |
A Nietzschean Diagnosis of Philosophers | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at University of Toronto. Also accepted into Georgetown University and the University of Miami. |
Why Does Kant Believe that Moral Requirements are Categorical Imperatives? | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Also accepted into the University of California, Riverside, Boston University, and the University of Maryland. |
The False Promise of Ideal Guidance on the Target View | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at the University of Virginia. Also accepted into the University of Maryland. |
Self-Consciousness, Self-Ascription, and the Mental Self | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at the University of British Columbia. Also accepted into the University of Miami. |
Thought Experiments and the Myth of Intuitive Content | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at the University of California San Diego. |
Nietzsche on Honor and Empathy | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at the University of California Riverside. Also accepted into Boston University. |
A Benefit Argument for Responsibilities to Rectify Injustice | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Michigan State University. Also accepted into the University of Missouri. |
Aristotle on Practical Wisdom and the End of Action | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at the University of Colorado - Boulder. Also accepted into the University of Maryland. |
Kant and the Ground(s) of Dignity: The Centrality of the Fact of Reason | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at the University of Memphis. |
Knowing How You Feel: The Structure and Importance of Emotional Self-Knowledge | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. |
Gender Justice and Fraser's Universal Caregiver | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at the University of Connecticut. Also accepted into the University of Utah. |
Moral Discourse: Categorical or Institutional? | Yes (philosophy) | Accepted into the University of Connecticut. Working as a New Client Setup Specialist for a software company. |
Metaphorical Facts | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at the University of Missouri. Also accepted into the University of Arkansas. |
Overcoming Diminished Motivation | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at the University of Osnabrueck. |
Reconciling New Mechanism and Psychological Explanation: A Pragmatic Approach | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Florida State. Previously taught philosophy at SUNY-Cortland. |
A Group-Based Approach to Reparation | Yes (philosophy) | Accepted into the University of Missouri, but did not enroll. |
Make Me Gay: What Neuro-interventions tell us about Sexual Orientation and Why it Matters for Gay Rights | Yes (philosophy) | Studied psychopathy and criminal law at the University of Hamburg on a Fulbright research grant for one year, then enrolled at Michigan law school (on Dean's scholarship). Also accepted into Duke, University of Texas, Cornell, Washington University at St. Louis, Vanderbilt, and University of Colorado. |
The Duty To Truthfulness: Why What We Care About Is A Moral Matter | Yes (philosophy and theology) | Product Manager for a tech startup, then test developer for Law School Admission Council. Accepted into MTS program at Emory University but did not enroll. |
Feminist Perspectivism: A Revised Standpoint Theory | Yes (philosophy) | New York City Teaching Fellow. |
Diagnosing Verbal Disputes: The Case of Ontology | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled in MS in Data Analytics at GSU |
The unity of higher cognition: the case against dual process theory | Yes (philosophy) | Teaching Introduction to Philosophy and Critical Thinking at a community college. |
Adam Smith's Circle of Ambition | No | Teacher of History at Amphitheater High School in Tucson, AZ. |
Individualism, the Total State and Race in the Views of Carl Schmitt | No | Instructor of philosophy at Perimeter College, Georgia State University, and jewelry maker. |
Beyond the State: The Early Nietzsche's Post-Political Rhetoric | No | Graduate student in English education at Syracuse University. |
Parents, Politicians, and the Public: Hume's Natural History of Justice is Humean Enough | No | Free lance editor |
Non-thesis option | No | Associate Professor of Religion at Morehouse College (had position prior to enrollment at GSU) |
Non-thesis option | No | Adjunct instructor of philosophy at Portland State University. |
MA Thesis Title | Applied to Ph.D. Programs? | Comments (all Ph.D. program admissions are with funding unless otherwise noted) |
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Can Tracking Representationalism Make Sense of Synesthesia? | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at University of Miami. Also accepted into University of British Columbia, University of Maryland, and University of Cincinnati. |
Aristotle, Determinism, and Moral Responsibility | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Yale University. Also accepted into University of Michigan, University of Arizona, Brown University, and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. |
Human Flourishing and Autonomy as Passive | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Georgetown University. Also accepted into Florida State University and Ohio State University. |
Kant and the Problems of Sex | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Boston University. Also accepted into University of Illinois–Chicago. |
Is Gender Needed for Justice? | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at University of Virginia. |
Deliberative Democratic Equality | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at University of Missouri. |
Why Pereboom's Four-Case Manipulation Argument is Manipulative | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Florida State University. |
Folk Intuition and Thought Experiments in Science | Yes (philosophy) | Received M.S. in Human-Computer Interaction program at Georgia Tech. Currently Software Engineer at digital health services software company. Accepted into Ph.D. programs at Washington University at St. Louis (PNP program) and the University of Maryland. |
Does a Veridical Libertarian Experience Require Quantum Indeterminacy? | Yes (neuroscience) | Enrolled at Georgia State University. |
Extending Pereboom's Quarantine System | Yes (philosophy) | Accepted into Florida State University with funding, but did not enroll. Enrolled in the M.S. in Clinical and Counseling Psychology program at Chestnut Hill College. |
Bell's Curve: Why the Arc of American History Does Not Bend Toward Racial Equality |
No | Working for Internal Revenue Service |
Pre-College Causes of Women's Underrepresentation in Philosophy | No | Working for Georgia Humanities Council |
A Moral Reconciliation With Aristotle's Intellectualism | No | Taught high school in New Orleans; now working in New Orleans public library |
Freedom and Equality in Education: A Private School - Publicly Funded Voucher Education System | No | Program Analyst at the Georgia Senate Budget & Evaluation Office |
Nietzsche’s Constructive Philosophy: Self-Understanding and the Sovereign Individual | No | Retired |
Hegel on Marriage: The Importance of the Wedding Ceremony | No | |
Non-Thesis Option | No | Enrolled at the Law School of Washington University at St. Louis. Also accepted into the law schools at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities |
Non-Thesis Option | No | Working as an editorial assistant for a medical software system company in Massachusetts |
MA Thesis Title | Applied to Ph.D. Programs? | Comments (all Ph.D. program admissions are with funding unless otherwise noted) |
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Kant's Logic and the Completeness of his Table of Judgments | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Stanford |
Sleeping Beauty: A Problem for Halfers | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Columbia. Also accepted into University of California Irvine (Logic and Philosophy of Science program) and University of Maryland |
The Progress of the Sentiments in Hume's Political Philosophy | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Boston University |
When Simulations Conflict: Problems with the External Validation of Computer Simulations | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Indiana (History and Philosophy of Science program). Also accepted into University of Minnesota |
Is It Wrong to Assume Full Compliance in Ideal Theory? A Response to Schmidtz | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at University of Pennsylvania. Also accepted into Australian National University (funding decision pending) |
Teleofunctionalism and the Normativity of Practical Rationality | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at University of Miami. Also accepted into Florida State University |
Public Reasons, Comprehensive Reasons, and the Integrity Objection |
Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at University of Missouri. Also accepted into Bowling Green State University |
On the Unity and Continuity of Science: Structural Realism's Underdetermination Problem and Reductive Structuralism's Solution | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at University of Western Ontario |
Global Poverty, Migration, and Guest Worker Programs | Yes (business) | Enrolled at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (business ethics and legal studies). Also accepted into Penn State University (management and organization) |
The Unity of Happiness and Reason in Hegel | Yes (philosophy) | Teaching at Corwin-Russell School, a private high school, in Sudbury, MA. |
On the Possibility of Robots Having Emotions | No | Received Masters in Artificial Intelligence the University of Georgia. Currently Chief Data Scientist at financial services software company. |
Targeted Killing: Modern Solution or Modern Problem? | No | Intelligence officer for the United States Air Force |
How The Cognitive Penetrability Of Emotions Undermines Rational Sentimentalism | No | Working in operations management for a retailer in Atlanta |
Stiltz and Simmons on Justification, Legitimacy, and Coercion | No | Teaching philosophy and humanities classes at Tulsa Community College |
Why Immoral Art Cannot Morally Harm Us | No | Working as a coder for a tech startup in Philadelphia |
Philosophical Pessimism: A Study In The Philosophy Of Arthur Schopenhauer | No | Sales representative at building materials company |
Non-thesis option | No | Professor of English and Philosophy, Collegiate Traveling Faculty, University of Maryland, Overseas Europe |
Non-thesis option | No | Enrolled in a Masters in Teaching program at the University of Louisville and teaching 8th grade English |
Non-thesis option | No | Executive Assistant to the Dean, School of Public Health, Georgia State University |
MA Thesis Title | Applied to Ph.D. Programs? | Comments (all Ph.D. program admissions are with funding unless otherwise noted) |
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Libertarian Paternalism and the Authority of the Autonomous Person | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at University of California San Diego. Also accepted into University of Colorado, University of California Davis, University of Maryland, University of Minnesota, and Syracuse (waitlisted for funding) |
The Visual Experience of Kinds | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at University of Virginia (awarded Jefferson Fellowship). Also accepted into University of Arizona, University of California San Diego, Wisconsin, and Washington University at St. Louis PNP program |
Kant's Humanity Formula in the Groundwork | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Cornell. Also accepted into University of Illinois at Chicago |
Can Adam Smith Answer the Normative Question? | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at University of California Riverside. Also accepted into University of California Santa Cruz |
The Thought Experiments are Rigged: Mechanistic Understanding Impedes Mentalistic Understanding | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at University of California San Diego. Also accepted into University of Connecticut |
Adam Smith: A Relational Egalitarian Interpretation | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at University of California San Diego. Also accepted into Georgetown, University of Pennsylvania, Indiana University and Tulane |
Causal Compatibilism: A Non-Reductive Physicalist Solution to the Exclusion Problem | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at University of Pittsburgh HPS program. Also accepted into University of California San Diego, Washington University at St. Louis PNP program, University of Connecticut, and University of Massachusetts (waitlisted for funding) |
Kant and the Priority of Self-Knowledge | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at University of California San Diego |
Willpower and Ego-Depletion: How I Do What I Don’t Want to Do, and Why It’s Not (Completely) My Fault When I Don’t | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Florida State |
Global Egalitarianism and The State: On the Justice of Borders and Justice Beyond Borders | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at University of California Irvine. Also accepted into University of California Davis, University of Washington and University of Minnesota |
Do Political Liberals Need the Truth? | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at University of Pennsylvania. Also accepted into University of Missouri and Georgetown (waitlisted for funding) |
Thomas Pogge And The Two Types Of Libertarian | Yes (philosophy) | Entered into Teach for America program in Kansas City |
From Negative Rights to Positive Law: Natural Law in Hegel's Outlines of the Philosophy of Right | No | Enrolled in the law school of George Washington University. Also accepted into the law school of Emory University |
Resolving Conflicts within The Mind: Internal Warfare In Non-Human Primates | No | Working as a clinical psychology intern in Washington D.C. |
The Practical Impossibility of Cohen’s Rescuing Justice & Equality | No | Account Manager at Atlanta computer printer equipment company and musician |
Stoic Moral Psychology: The Implications of Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Damage | No | Manager at an indoor rock climbing gym |
Extending Tomas Kulka’s Aesthetic Dualism: Value, Not Meaning, in the Case of Absolute Music | No | Hot yoga instructor in Portland |
Betrayal of Love and Volitional Necessity | No | |
Smith on Self-Command and Moral Judgment | No | Assistant Director of Development at Our Generation Speaks, Brandeis University. |
The Effects of Learning on Moral Education for Rousseau | No | |
Non-thesis option | Yes (economics) | Enrolled at Syracuse University |
Non-thesis option | No |
MA Thesis Title | Applied to Ph.D. Programs? | Comments (all Ph.D. program admissions are with funding unless otherwise noted) |
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Against the Linguistic Analogy of Moral Cognition | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at University of California San Diego. Also accepted into University of California Santa Cruz |
The Expanded Cluster Account of Art | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at McGill |
The Failure of Desire: A Critique of Kantian Cognitive Autonomy in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at University of California Riverside. Also accepted into Memphis |
On the Pernicious Influence of the Ideal/Non-Ideal Distinction in Political Philosophy | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at University of Wisconsin Madison. Also accepted into University of California San Diego, Washington University at St. Louis, Syracuse University, and University of Nebraska |
The Abstract/Concrete Paradox in Moral Psychology | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Washington University at St. Louis PNP program (accepted prior to enrolling at GSU and deferred admission) |
Why Not Penal Torture? | Yes (philosophy) | Accepted into University of Virginia, Rice University and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Patient-Relativity and the Efficacy of Epicurean Therapy | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at University of California Santa Barbara. Also accepted into University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Purdue |
Content and Contrastive Self-Knowledge | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
Multiple realizability, universality, and dynamical kinds | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at University of Wisconsin Madiso |
Hume on the Nature of Moral Freedom | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Boston University |
Physics and Faith in Kant's First Critique | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at St. Louis University. Also accepted into Purdue and Tulane |
In Defense of Valence: How to Solve Hume's Puzzle About Emotions | Yes (psychology) | Enrolled at New York University. Also accepted into University of California San Diego and University of Denver |
A Test of Prinz's AIR Theory: Is Attention Sufficient for Conscious Emotion? | Yes (psychology) | Enrolled at Emory (received Woodruff Fellowship). Also accepted into University of California San Diego, University of Georgia and University of Kansas |
Hegel's Critique of Ancient Skepticism | Yes (communication) | Enrolled at Georgia State (Rhetoric and Politics program) |
Utility, Character, and Mill's Argument for Representative Government | No | Senior Implementation Consultant for an insurance software company |
How Music Makes Us Feel | No | Enrolled at Brierley Price Prior (BPP) Law School (in London) and has been awarded full funding by Travers Smith LLP (a law firm). |
Moral Responsibility 'Expressivism,' Luck, and Revision. | No | Instructor of interns at Washington D.C. think tank |
Against Collective Consequentialism | No | Working for the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office |
International Luck Egalitarianism | No | High school math teacher in Florida |
A Problem Of Access: Autism, Other Minds, And Interpersonal Relations | No |
MA Thesis Title | Applied to Ph.D. Programs? | Comments (all Ph.D. program admissions are with funding unless otherwise noted) |
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Autonomy, de facto and de jure | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Stanford. Also accepted into Brown, University of California-Riverside, Georgetown, Boston University, Johns Hopkins, and Utah |
Rescuing Hart and Inclusive Legal Positivism from the Charge of Inconsistency | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Maryland. Also accepted into McMaster |
Friends with Benefits: Other-regard in Epicurean Ethics | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Also accepted into Purdue (no funding) |
Can the Contextualist Win the Free Will Debate? | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Wisconsin. Also accepted into Indiana, Oxford (BPhil, no funding) and Cincinnati |
Probabilistic Causation in Kane's Libertarian Free Will | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Cincinnati. Also accepted into York |
The Role of Poetry and Language in Hegel's Philosophy of Art | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Guelph. Also accepted into Purdue (joint program in philosophy and literature, no funding) |
Nietzsche on Copernicus | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at University of South Florida. Previously taught philosophy at Spelman and Georgia Perimeter College. |
The Promise and Limits of Natural Normativity in a Neo-Aristotelian Virtue Ethics | Yes (philosophy) | Accepted into Memphis. Enrolled at Georgetown Law School and teaching philosophy part-time at Marymount University and Northern Virginia Community College |
Normative Judgments, 'Deep Self' Judgments, and Intentional Action | Yes (psychology) | Enrolled at Emory |
Non-Cooperative Communication and the Origins of Human Language | Yes (cognitive psychology) | Enrolled at Delaware |
The Many Faces of Besire Theory | Yes (health care ethics) | Enrolled at Duquesne. Previously a monk at Saint Meinrad Archabbey |
Bayle’s Theory of Toleration | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at NYU Law (partial scholarship). Also accepted into law school at Cardozo, Colorado, Georgetown, and Texas at Austin |
Providing Assurance on Scanlon's Account of Promises | Yes (philosophy) | Entered into Teach for America program in Denver, Colorado |
Rethinking Legal Retribution | No | Enrolled at University of Virginia Law |
Dignified Animals: How "Non-Kantian" is Nussbaum's Conception of Dignity? | No | Enrolled at John Marshall Law School (full scholarship). Also accepted into Loyola Chicago, Chicago-Kent, William Mitchell (half scholarship), and University of St. Thomas (Dean's Scholarship). |
A Defense of Moral Error Theory | No | Enrolled at Masters programs in Counseling Psychology at University of Denver. Also accepted into Counseling Psychology programs at University of Minnesota, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle University and Adler School. |
Rational Requirements for Moral Motivation: The Psychopath's Open Question | No | Teaching mathematics and philosophy at the Royal University of Phnom Penh |
Secular Foundations of Liberal Multiculturalism | No | Lecturer of Philosophy, UN Alliance of Civilizations Institute, Fatih Sultan Mehmet University in Istanbul, Turkey |
Nietzsche's Causally Efficacious Account of Consciousness | No | Project Manager/Implementation Consultant for a healthcare software company in Madison, WI |
But What Kind of Badness? An Inquiry into the Ethical Significance of Pain | No | Teaching philosophy at Oxford College of Emory University |
Consciousness, Self Control and Free Will in Nietzsche | No | Currently a tenure-track faculty member in the Department of English and Philosophy at Bakersfield College |
Considering a Human Right to Democracy | No | |
The Fundamental Naturalistic Impulse: Extending the Reach of Methodological Naturalism | No |
MA Thesis Title | Applied to Ph.D. Programs? | Comments (all Ph.D. program admissions are with funding unless otherwise noted) |
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Mindreading, Language and Simulation | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at City University of New York. Also accepted into University of Pittsburgh (HPS), University of California-San Diego, Indiana University (HPS/CogSci), Washington University at St. Louis (PNP), University of British Columbia, University of Maryland, and University of Pennsylvania |
Can Bayesianism and Inference to the Best Explanation Be Friends? | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Columbia. Also accepted into Brown and University of California - Irvine (LPS) |
Decisions as Performatives | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at University of California-Berkeley. Also accepted into Brown, UC-San Diego, Cornell, Washington University at St. Louis (PNP), and City University of New York |
The Justificatory Role of Habit in Hegel's Theory of Ethical Life | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Georgetown. Also accepted into University of Illinois - Chicago |
Foucauldian Genealogy as Situated Critique, or Why is Sexuality so Dangerous? | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Boston University |
Literature and the Moral Imagination: Smithean Sympathy and the Construction of Imagined Experience through Readership | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Monash University |
Can Consciousness Be Taken Seriously When it Comes to Personal Identity? | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at University of Virginia. Currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Rhode Island College. |
Marx, Economic Sustainability, and Ideal Capital | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at SUNY-Binghamton |
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Seeking Natural Kinds in a Controversial Diagnosis | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at UC-Hastings Law. Also accepted into Emory Law, UC-Davis Law, and Santa Clara Law |
Autism, Social Comprehension, and Cognitive Impenetrability | Yes (cognitive psychology) | Enrolled at University of Georgia. Also accepted into University of Alabama and Georgia State University |
Moral Injury and the Puzzle of Immunity-Violation | No | Enrolled at NYU Law. Previously enrolled at Emory Law (with fellowship). Also accepted into Northwestern Law, Fordham Law, and George Washington University Law. |
Dworkian Liberalism and Gay Rights: A Defense of Same-Sex Relations | No | Enrolled at NYU Law. Also accepted into law school at Georgetown, University of Virginia, and University of Michigan. Previously worked for U.S. Department of Justice. |
Pogge's Institutional Cosmopolitanism | No | Enrolled in Master of Public Affairs program at Indiana University - Bloomington |
Special Problems for Democratic Government in Leveraging Cognitive Bias: Ethical, Political, and Policy Considerations for Implementing Libertarian Paternalism | No | |
Kant's Use of Transcendental Arguments | No | |
Subjectivity and Fallibility in the Instrumental and Epistemic Defenses of a "Right to Do Wrong" | No |
MA Thesis Title | Applied to Ph.D. Programs? | Comments (all Ph.D. program admissions are with funding unless otherwise noted) |
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Motivating Emotional Content | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at University of California-San Diego. Also accepted into Brown University, University of Maryland, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Ohio State, University of British Columbia, University of Miami, and University of Alberta |
Raz and His Critics: Defending Razian Authority | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at University of Virginia. Also accepted into University of Minnesota, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and University of Missouri |
Teleosemantics, Externalism, and the Content of Theoretical Concepts | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at University of California-San Diego. Also accepted into University of Maryland and University of British Columbia. Currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Tulane University. |
The Ethical Significance of Plato's Afterlife Myths | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at University of Pennsylvania |
Kantian Conceptualism and Apperception | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Ohio State. Also accepted into University of Illinois-Chicago |
Personal Responsibility and Drug Addiction | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at University of Missouri |
Defending Noe's Enactive Theory of Perception | Yes (psychology) | Enrolled at University of Kansas. Also accepted into York University |
The Moral Reality of War: Defensive Force and Just War Theory | Yes (philosophy and political science) | Enrolled at Oxford (DPhil program). Also accepted to University of California - San Diego (Philosophy) and Baylor (Political Science). Previously was Philosophy Instructor, in the Department of English, USMA at West Point |
The Proper Metric of Justice in Justice as Fairness | No | Enrolled at GSU Law School |
An Incompatibility between Intentionalism and Multiple Authorship in Film | No | Enrolled at law school |
Epicurean Friendship: Are Friends Really Pleasurable? | No | Enrolled at high school teaching certification program |
MA Thesis Title | Applied to Ph.D. Programs? | Comments (all Ph.D. program admissions are with funding unless otherwise noted) |
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Sextus was no Eudaimonist | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at University of Texas at Austin. Also accepted into University of Colorado at Boulder, Washington University at St. Louis, Northwestern, and Emory |
Retribution Requires Rehabilitation | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Rice. Also accepted into University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
The Concept "Woman": Feminism after the Essentialism Critique | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at University of Western Ontario. Also accepted into Utah. Currently Sophia Libman Professor in the Humanities at Hood College |
Freedom and Forfeiture: Responding to Galen Strawson's Basic Argument | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Florida State University |
Kim's Pairing Problem and the Viability of Substance Dualism | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at St. Louis University |
Freedom and the Ideal Republican State | Yes (philosophy) | Accepted into University of South Carolina and University of Kentucky |
The Non-Moral Basis of Cognitive Biases of Moral Intuitions | Yes (neuroscience) | Enrolled at University of Iowa |
Aristotelian Liberal Virtues | No | Residence Hall Director at Georgia Tech |
The Aesthetic Idea and the Unity of Cognitive Faculties in Kant's Aesthetics | No | Instructor of Philosophy at Clayton State |
Facing the Problems of Feminism: Working Toward Resolution | No | Teaching high school |
Is Core Affect a Natural Kind? | No | Taught at Georgia State as a Visiting Instructor. Enrolled in law school at Georgia State. |
Against Pyrrhonian Equipollence | No | Working for government contractor |
Child Abuse, Racism and the State | No | |
A Description of the Natural Place of Magic in Philosophy and Religious Studies | No | |
A Comparative Study of the Ethics of Christine M. Korsgaard and Jean-Paul Sarte | No |
MA Thesis Title | Applied to Ph.D. Programs? | Comments (all Ph.D. program admissions are with funding unless otherwise noted) |
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Naturalism and Moral Realism | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Also accepted into Florida State, University of Wisconsin - Madison, and Bowling Green State University. Currrently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Dickinson College |
Hard Compatibilism and the Varieties of Manipulation | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at University of California - Riverside; also accepted into Florida State and Rochester. Currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Houston |
Under Pressure from the Empirical Data: Does Externalism Rest on a Mistaken Psychological Theory? | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Johns Hopkins. Also accepted into University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Washington University at St. Louis (PNP), University of South Florida, and University of Western Ontario |
Eudaimonistic Agent-Relativity and Moore's Criticisms of Naturalism | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Bowling Green State University |
In Defense of Rawlsian Constructivism | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at University of Memphis |
Perspectives on Perspectivism: Nietzsche and His Commentators | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at University of Kentucky |
Neuroeconomics and the Rationality Debate | Yes (psychology with philosophy minor) | Enrolled at the University of Arizona |
Resting in the Court of Reason: Kant's Resolution to the Antinomy of Pure Reason | Yes (religion) | Enrolled at Emory. Also accepted into Boston University |
Father Knows Best: A Critique of Joel Feinberg's Soft Paternalism | No | Teaching high school |
Irony, Finitude and the Good Life: A Reading of Plato’s Symposium | No | |
Defending Lucretius’Symmetry Argument against the Fear of Death | No | Working in Human Resources for the IBM China Beijing Office |
Contextualist Responses to Skepticism | No | Project manager in Washington D.C. |
Nietzsche on Naturalism, Egoism, and Altruism | No | Enrolled in an MA in Counseling Psychology program and teaching philosophy part time |
Between Being and Nothingness: the Metaphysical Foundations Underlying Augustine’s Solution to the Problem of Evil | No | Working at Georgia State's library as the subject specialist and liaison for Philosophy, Religious Studies and Middle East Institute |
MA Thesis Title | Applied to Ph.D. Programs? | Comments (all Ph.D. program admissions are with funding unless otherwise noted) |
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Rawls' Cosmopolitan Law of Peoples? The Place of Persons in a Peoples' World | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Brown University. Also accepted to University of Pennsylvania. |
The Impossibility of Evil Qua Evil: Kantian Limitations on Human Immorality | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at the University of Illinois - Chicago. Also accepted into Emory and the University of Washington |
Liberalism and the Worst-Result Principle: Preventing Tyranny, Protecting Civil Liberty | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Boston University. Also accepted to Washington University at St. Louis. Currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Clemson University |
Wittgenstein and Religion | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Claremont Graduate University |
Marriage as Unconstitutional: How Not Allowing Homosexual Marriage Violates the First Amendment | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Vanderbilt |
Nietzsche on the Future and Value | Yes (philosophy) | Accepted to the University of South Florida and Marquette University, but declined offers |
A Defense of Moral Realism | Yes (health care ethics) | Enrolled at Saint Louis University |
A Defense of Soft Positivism: Justice and Principle Processes | No | Enrolled at George Washington University Law School to obtain a Master's of Law (LLM) in International and Comparative Law |
Bonjour's Positions on Justification: From Coherentism to Foundationalism | No | |
Rossian Moral Pluralism: A (Partial) Defense | No | Enrolled at Catholic University of America Law school |
The Female Voices of Islam | No | Working for a non-profit agency for human rights advocacy |
On the Stephen Macedo and John Finnis Exchange: Natural Law, Liberalism, and Homosexuality | No | Teaching high school |
MA Thesis Title | Applied to Ph.D. Programs? | Comments (all Ph.D. program admissions are with funding unless otherwise noted) |
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Ways to skin the zombie-cat: a look at the problems associated with Chalmers's zombie-argument | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at University of Washington |
A defense of the principle of alternative possibilities and a critique of Humean compatibilism | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at University of California, Riverside |
The role of self-interest in Aristotle's moral theory | Yes (philosophy) | Enrolled at Rice University. Currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Lone Star College |
Defining the human being: personhood as a first principle of human teleology in Wojtyla's Aristotelian-Thomistic anthropology | Yes (theology) | Enrolled at Ave Maria University |
Scepticism and contextualism | No | |
Teaching Creation Science in public schools: an examination of the creation/evolution controversy | No | Critical thinking instructor at Clayton State University |
MA Thesis Title | Applied to Ph.D. Programs? | Comments (all Ph.D. program admissions are with funding unless otherwise noted) |
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The Deontological Conception of Justification | Yes | Enrolled at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
Anti-Reductionism and Reversibility in Merleau-Ponty's Rejection of Dualism | Yes | Applied to Ph.D. program in Shanghai, acceptance and matriculation status unknown |
Shadows of Things to Come: The Theological Implications of Intelligent Life on Other Worlds | Yes | Instructor in Philosophy at Georgia Perimeter College and enrolled in MA program (English) at Georgia State |
Reassessing Feinberg's View of Abortion | Yes | Accepted into the PhD program in Philosophy at Purdue University and the PhD in Religious and Theological Studies Joint Ph.D. Program at the University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology, but declined these offers to pursue law school |
The "Unfolding" of Everlasting Torment in Hell? Assessing the Role of Outside Influence and Interpretive Assumptions in the Formation of the Traditional and Annihilationist Christian Views of Hell | No | Enrolled in graduate degree in Library Sciences in the Alabama state university system. |
The Ideology of Freedom: An Immanent Critique of the Latent Theory of Human Nature in the Frankfurt School | No | Enrolled at Emory Law School |
Violent Benevolence: An Ethical Assessment of Humanitarian Military Intervention | No | Enrolled at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Boston for MA |
Willing the Overman: An Analysis of Friedrich Nietzsche's Will to Power, Eternal Recurrence, and Overman | No | |
"Who Does Karma For This Body?" Death and Dying in Hindu Communities in Metropolitan Atlanta | No | Working at departments of philosophy and religious studies |
MA Thesis Title | Applied to Ph.D. Programs? | Comments (all Ph.D. program admissions are with funding unless otherwise noted) |
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Passionate Entanglements, Desire, Fear, and Perception of Coercive Power | Yes (Philosophy) | Enrolled at Emory University |
Goldman’s Reliabilist Theory of Epistemic Justification: Is It Viable? | Yes | Enrolled at St. Louis University |
Nothingness and the Possibility of Responsible Choice in Jean-Paul Sartre's Phenomenological Ontology | Yes (Philosophy) | Enrolled at Duquesne University |
A Wittgensteinian Resolution of the Debtor's Paradox | No | Has since taught as an instructor in Philosophy at Georgia State |
The Problem of Induction: A Critical Review of Recent Proposals | No | |
Evil and the Human Experience | No | Now teaches religion and philosophy courses at a community college in Florida |
Do I Know What I Know?: Knowledge in Moral and Scientific Epistemology | No | Has since taught as an instructor in Philosophy at Georgia State |
Bell’s Theorem and the Metaphysical Implications of Quantum Physics | No | |
Data Monitoring in Clinical Trials and the Ethics of Human Experimentation | No | |
On the Law of Peoples and Its Aims: Machiavelli Writ Large? | No | Enrolled at Georgia State Law School |
Authenticity as Idiosyncratic Interpretive Comportment | No | Currently enrolled in a program in advertising in Milan, Italy |
MA Thesis Title | Applied to Ph.D. Programs? | Comments (all Ph.D. program admissions are with funding unless otherwise noted) |
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A Pragmatic Meta-Ethics for Environmental Ethics | Yes (Philosophy) | Enrolled at the University of Washington |
What is Good-Sense Pragmatism? | No | |
Environmental Aesthetics and the Protection of the Perceptual Resource | No | |
Tolstoy on Art | Yes (Philosophy) | Enrolled at Emory. Currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York-Oneonta. |
A Moral Defense of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research | Yes (Philosophy) | Accepted at University of Utah |
Genealogy and Rhetoric | No | |
Against Coincident Entities | Yes (Philosophy) | Enrolled at CUNY Graduate Center |
MA Thesis Title | Applied to Ph.D. Programs? | Comments (all Ph.D. program admissions are with funding unless otherwise noted) |
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Emotion as Action and Transformation: A View of Emotion Through the Thought of Sartre and Gordon | No | |
The Question of Human Cloning: Are We Thinking It Through | No | |
Voluntariness with a Vengeance: Miranda and a Modern Alternative | No | |
The Ethics of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research | Yes (History) | Enrolled at Georgia State University |
The Philosophy of Henry Suso: A Modern Appraisal | No | |
Pluralism, Religious Freedom, and Fringe Religions in a Liberal Society | Yes (Philosophy) | Enrolled at Washington University; also accepted at University of Virginia |
Reliability Theories of Justification and the Notion of Warrant | Yes (Philosophy) | Enrolled at UC-Santa Barbara. |
MA Thesis Title | Applied to Ph.D. Programs? | Comments (all Ph.D. program admissions are with funding unless otherwise noted) |
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A Common Misunderstanding Regarding Criteria and Knowledge of the Sensations of Others in Wittgenstein's Philosophy | Yes (Architecture) | Studying architecture at New Jersey Institute of Technology (support status unknown) |
A Prolegomena to Information Ethics | No | |
The Ethical Analysis of Advanced Care Planning in Georgia | No | |
Degrees of Terrorism: An Applied Examination of Terrorism as a Mean to Political Ends | No | |
What Is Wrong With Indeterminate Identity? | Yes (Philosophy) | Enrolled at U Mass-Amherst |
Wittgenstein on Grammar and Essence | Yes (Philosophy) | Enrolled at University of Reading (in the UK). Later received his PhD from Universidade Nova in Lisbon and is a postdoctoral research fellow at Ifilnova. |
Nelson Goodman's Theory of Representation | No |
MA Thesis Title | Applied to Ph.D. Programs? | Comments (all Ph.D. program admissions are with funding unless otherwise noted) |
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The Intended Audience of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics | Yes (Philosophy) | Enrolled at University of Georgia |
A Critique of Chalmers' Theory of Naturalistic Dualism and the Objections Stemming From Epiphenomenalism | No | |
David Chalmers and the Hard Problem of Consciousness: Criticism from Type-B Materialism | No | |
Mental Physical Logical Supervenience: Ontological Definitions and Analysis of Concepts | No | |
Aristotle's Method: Fact or Belief | Yes (Philosophy) | Enrolled at University of Calfornia, Davis |
Non-Relativist Perspectives and Abortion Disagreements: Considering the Ideas of Bambrough and Stout | Yes (Philosophy) | Enrolled at University of Tennessee. Currently Lecturer of Philosophy Clayton State University. |
Without Prejudice: A Wittgensteinian Approach to Socrates' "What is F?" Question | Yes (Philosophy) | Attended Florida State University; currently a tenure-track faculty member at Dickinson College. |
Toward A Conception of Moral Agency Based on Unconditional Love, Compassion and Altruism | No |
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