PhD Placement 2007–2023 2024 Cindy Ren In Search of the Concept of Life: Lessons from Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel in Interface with Modern Science (Richard Dien Winfield) 2023 Josué Piñeiro Knowing and Being Known: Failures, Injustices, and Reparations (Chris Cuomo) Kennesaw State University, Lecturer2023 Michael Starling The Civic and Political Function of Plato’s Philosophical Praxis (Rohan Sikri) San Joaquin Delta College, Associate Professor (tenure track) Nucharee Wongsamut Some Ethical Questions Regarding Genome Editing (Melissa Seymour Fahmy) Thammasat University, Thailand, Lecturer (tenure-track) 2022 Justin Simpson "Posthuman Performances in Environmental Ethics and Social Epistemology" (Chris Cuomo) University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Lecturer (permanent) Claire Mills Livestock in Rawls’ Basic Structure: A Novel Approach to Distributive Justice for Farmed Animals (Piers Stephens) Cottey College, Assistant Professor (tenure-track) Michael Lindquist An Exploration of Environmental Values in Outer Space (Piers Stephens) Northland College, Assistant Professor (tenure-track) 2021 Laura Matthews Mental Illness as Inadaptivity: An Enactive Approach (René Jagnow) University of Auburn, Lecturer (full-time) Pittsburgh University, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Teaching Assistant Professor James Filler Heidegger's Neoplatonic Ontology: Relation as the Ground of Being (Piers Stephens) Wheeling University, Adjunct Instructor Belmont College, Adjunct Instructor 2020 Chris Byron A New Reading of Marx’s Theory of Exploitation: Assessment and Defense (O. Bradley Bassler) Barry University (FL), Visiting Instructor Snead State Community College (AL) (tenure-track) Erich Christiansen No Way to Tell from Here: Drone Strikes and the Ontology and Epistemology of the Enemy (Chris Cuomo) University of Washington-Bothell Campus, Adjunct Instructor (temporary) Nathan Vacher Significance and the Indefinite in Hans Blumberg’s Work on Myth (Elizabeth Brient) Sales Coordinator, TSAV 2019 Graham Schuster Truth, The Good, and the Unity of Concept and Objectivity in Hegel’s Science of Logic (Richard Dien Winfield) West Texas A & M University, Visiting Assistant Professor Ava Thomas Wright The Duty of Veracity (Melissa Seymour Fahmy) Northeastern University, Postdoctoral Research & Teaching Fellowship California Polytechnic State University, Assistant Professor (tenure-track) Michael Yudanin Animal Choice and Freedom: On the Genealogy of the Will (Richard Dien Winfield) 2019 Conflair Inc.Software Consultant 2021 Natera 2023 Director of Engineering, Olo 2018 Joseph Carter Motion and Actuality of the Infinite in Aristotle’s Physics III (Richard Winfield) UGA Library Chris Lay Personal Identity and Moral Character: How a Necessary Moral Persistence Condition Might Be Possible (René Jagnow & Sarah Wright) University of Texas at El Paso, Visiting Assistant Professor Young Harris College, Assistant Professor (tenure track) John Njoroge Objection sustained: Anscombe’s challenge to modern moral philosophy’s use of the concept of obligation (Melissa Fahmy) Head of the Valley Light Home (orphanage) in Nairobi, Kenya John Paetsch The texture of foliated time (O. Bradley Bassler) Temple University, Adjunct Assistant Professor Brooke Rudow-Abouharb At Home on Earth: A Philosophical Foundation (Beth Preston) Georgia College and State University, Visiting Lecturer University of Central Florida, Assistant Professor (tenure-track) 2017 Tony Chackal The internal and external dimensions of ecological autonomy (Beth Preston) Missouri State University, Instructor (permanent) Augusta University, Assistant Professor (tenure track) Emre Ebetürk Hegel’s idea of life in logic and nature (Richard Winfield) Currently applying for academic positions Clinton Johnson Meister Eckhart’s nova et rara: His novel and unusual forms of rhetoric and the emerging modern worldview (Elizabeth Brient) Kennesaw State University, Adjunct Instructor Georgia State University, Senior Research Scientist Florida State University at Panama City, Adjunct Instructor Luke Johnson Kierkegaard and the significance of individuality (Richard Winfield) Head private app-development company Sean Meslar Deontological epistemology (Sarah Wright) Currently applying for academic positions Rebecca Neher Charles W. Mills’ “Racial Contract” (Chris Cuomo) No current information Bradley Patty On honor (Edward Halper) Consulting firm (Security Studies Group) Jackson Schwartz Natural goodness and normative evaluation (Melissa Seymour Fahmy) University of West Georgia, Adjunct Instructor (full-time) Clayton State University, Lecturer (permanent) Nathan Wood The problem of demarcation in contemporary virtue ethics (Piers Stephens) Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC, Instructor of Philosophy (permanent) 2016 Isadora Mosh Thinking emotions: Exploring emotion through philosophy, ethics, narrative, and grief (O. Bradley Bassler) Georgia College and State University, Lecturer of Philosophy (permanent) Nastassja Pugliese The metaphysics of imagination in Spinoza (Edward Halper) University of Sao Paulo, Post-doctorate Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Assistant Professor, tenure-track) Taylor Stone William James and John Dewey on pragmatic religion (Piers Stephens) Emory & Henry College, VA, Adjunct Instructor Tess Varner Looking beyond linguistics: A pragmatists-(eco)feminist framework for democratic deliberation with nonhuman stakeholders (Victoria Davion) Concordia College, Moorhead, MN, Assistant Professor (tenure-track) Anne Portman Ecological Feminism and Place-based Food Ethics (Victoria Davion) 2015 Peter Ahumada Language: An overhaul of linguistic philosophy (Richard Winfield) High School Teacher (mathematics) Daniel Crescenzo Nonhuman animals and the promise of the capabilities approach (Piers Stephens) Stewardship Coordinator, Oconee River Land Trust. Anthony Shiver Parts and Plurals: Essays on the Logic and Metaphysics of Plurality (Charles Cross) Test Specialist, Law School Admissions Council Robert Scott Ecological responsibility as an imperative and a virtue: A transcendental phenomenological approach (Piers Stephens) University of North Georgia, Assistant Professor (tenure-track) 2014 Eric Helleloid Hannah Arendt's phenomenology of the will: Contingency, temporality, and the nature of moral judgment (Elizabeth Brient) Augsburg College, Instructor (temporary) Citizenship and Immigration Services Gregory Scott Moss The being of the universal: A historical and systematic inquiry (Richard Winfield) Clemson University, Lecturer (temporary) Chinese University, Hong Kong, Assistant Professor (tenure-track) 2013 Anthony Jared Tiarsmith On the outcry of mute things: Hans Jonas and The imperative of responsibility (Richard Winfield) GrowNYC, Development/Grant Writing Intern (temporary) City Parks Foundation, Project Coordinator (Newtown Creek) James Martin Grindeland On the hard problem of consciousness: An evaluation and defense of Chalmers’ two-dimensional argument against materialism (René Jagnow) University of North Georgia, Lecturer (full-time) 2012 Benjamin William McCraw A virtue-theoretic approach to religious epistemology: Faith as an act of epistemic virtue (Sarah Wright) University of South Carolina Upstate, Adjunct Instructor Daniel Bloom The unity of oneness and manyness in Plato’s Theaetetus (Edward Halper) University of Georgia, Instructor (temporary) West Texas A & M, Assistant Professor (tenure-track) 2011 Tzuchien Tho Leibniz’s laboratory of concepts: The status and structure of infinitesimals as metaphysical laboratory (O. Bradley Bassler) Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Affiliated Researcher (temporary) Centre International d’Etude de la Philosophie Française Contemporaine, Affiliated Researcher (temporary) University of Bristol, Lecturer in the History of Philosophy (fulltime) Brian Rañon Howell Negative dialectics and political improvisation: The convergence of philosophy, politics and music in Adorno’s critique of praxis (O. Bradley Bassler) 1. Hillsborough Community College, Adjunct Instructor 2. University of Tampa, Adjunct Instructor 3. University of South Florida, Adjunct Instructor 4. Rañon, Inc., Project Engineer 2010 Matthew Lee Schneider Self-ownership, property right and freedom: Reconceiving property in ourselves (Victoria Davion) 1. University of Georgia, Instructor (temporary) 2. Wofford College, Visiting Assistant Professor 3. Traveling Trainer at Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics, Saint Simons Island, Georgia Laurence Bloom Beyond the hypothesis: The unity of the soul in Plato’s Republic (Edward Halper) 1. University of Georgia, Instructor (temporary) 2. University of Cape Town, Visiting Lecturer 3. Rhodes University, Visiting Lecturer 4. University of Cape Town, Postdoctoral Fellow 5. Lecturer, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South-Africa 2009 George Miles Felis Evolved value and the foundations of ethical theory (Scott A. Kleiner) 1. Georgia Perimeter College, Adjunct Instructor 2. Oglethorpe University, Visiting Assistant Professor 3. Northern Arizona University at Flagstaff, Instructor (temporary) 4. University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Lecturer (permanent) 2008 Chad Wiener Final cause as the unity of sensible ousia: The compatibility of Aristotle’s metaphysical and physical definitions of a living being (Edward Halper) 1. Portland State University, Assistant Professor (tenure track) 2. Pacific University, Visiting Assistant Professor 3. Old Dominion University, Lecturer (permanent) Whitten Sullivan Watson On the legitimacy of democratic government (Richard Winfield) Butler University, Adjunct Instructor Nile Sedgwick Sentimentalism and moral motivation (Sarah Wright) 1. Georgia State University, MS program in Professional Counseling 2. Savannah Therapy, Psychotherapist Xon Hostetter The trinitarian philosophy of Jonathan Edwards: An ontological and typological exposition (Elizabeth Brient) 1. Berea Reformed Evangelical Church, Pastor 2. Crawford Middle School, 8th Grade Teacher 3. University of Georgia Law School, Student 2007 Chelsea Harold Snelgrove After humanism: Ethics and politics from an ecological point of view (Victoria Davion) 1. Georgia Perimeter College, Adjunct Instructor 2. University of West Georgia, Adjunct Instructor 3. South University, Adjunct Online Instructor David Jeremy Hart Helens: Autobiography at the crossroads of philosophy and literature (O. Bradley Bassler) 1. West Texas A & M, Associate Professor
