University of Washington Philosophy Job Placement

This list represents the initial job for all graduating students who entered the academic job market (unless otherwise noted)Several individuals have since moved to different institutions; these moves are listed for recent graduates.

Year PhD Earned	Dissertation	Chair & Committee	Initial Position	Subsequent Position(s)
2012	Troubling Others and Tormenting Ourselves: The Nature and Moral Significance of Jealousy	Stephen Gardiner (chair) Jean roberts Carole Lee Ingra Schellenberg	One year assistant professor at Fort Lewis College, CO	Tenure track Asst. Professor at Sawyer-Colby College in New London, New Hampshire
2012	Feeling Pride, Being Proud: An Inquiry into the Moral Psychology of Personal Ideals"	Angela Smith (chair) David Keyt Ingra Schellenberg William Talbott	Two-year visiting assistant professor at University of Calgary, CANADA
2012	"The Significance of Unintentional Omission: Moral Responsibility for the Failure to Act."	Angela Smith (chair) Ann Baker Larry BonJour Stephen Gardiner	Limited job market search. Part-time instructor at Bellevue CC, and Univ. of Washington
2012	"Beyond the Basic/Nonbasic Interests Distinction: A Feminist Approach to Inter-Species Moral Conflict and Moral Repair."	Sara Goering (chair) Stephen Gardiner Lori Gruen Jean Roberts	Did not go on academic job market. Part-time instructor Univ of Washington, and Philosophy for Children
2010	Listening in Public: Duties of Civility in a Pluralistic Democracy	Michael Blake (chair) M. Alison Wylie William Talbott Michael Rosenthal	Queen's Postdoctoral Fellowship in Democracy and Diversity at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario	Three-year renewable Lectureship at Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois
2010	Values in Science: The Distinction between the Context of Discovery and the Context of Justification	Arthur Fine Stephen Gardiner Lynn Hankinson Nelson Andrea Woody M. Alison Wylie	One year visiting lecturer position at Simon Fraser Univ, Burnaby, BC	Tenure track Asst. Professor at Linfield College, McMinnville, Oregon
2010	Putting Judgment in Context: Moral Particularism and the Structure of Practical Reason	Cass Weller (chair) Jean Roberts Angela Smith	Visiting lecturer position at Otterbein in Columbus, OH
2009	Expert Testimony and the Social Transmission of Scientific Knowledge	Arthur Fine (chair) Laurence BonJour Lynn Hankinson Nelson M. Alison Wylie	Tenure track College of Lake County, Grayslake, Illinois	Tenure track Governors State University, University Park, Illinois
2009	A Logic for Disorderly Domains	Arthur Fine (co-chair) David Keyt (co-chair) S. Marc Cohen	Did not go on the academic job market.	Research Scholar in the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at George Mason University
2009	Hume's Moral Realism	Michael Rosenthal (chair) William Talbott Cass Weller	University of Washington (non tenure track) and various Washington State Community Colleges
2009	On the Significance of an Overlapping Consensus on Human Rights	William Talbott (chair) Michael Blake Andrew Light Angela Smith	Tenure track Asst. Professor at Wayne State University, Michigan
2009	The Art of Remaking Dances: A Philosophical Analysis of Dancework Reconstruction	Ron Moore (chair) Ann Baker Laurence BonJour Andrea Woody	Tenure track Asst. Professor at Purdue University, Calumet
2008	Skepticism and the Foundation of Empirical Justification	Laurence BonJour (chair) Ann Baker William Talbott Andrea Woody	Tenure-track Asst. Professor, University of Iowa
2008	Virtuous Circles: A Defense of Limited Epistemic Circularity	Laurence BonJour (chair) Ann Baker Arthur Fine William Talbott	Tenure track Asst. Professor, Iowa State University
2007	On a Cladistic Taxonomy of Organismic Traits	Marc Lange (chair) Arthur Fine Lynn Hankinson Nelson Andrea Woody	Tenure track Asst. Professor, Southern Illinois University
2007	The Most Important Thing of All: Piety, Virtue, and Politics in Plato's Laws	Jean Roberts (chair) Ruby Blondell S. Marc Cohen David Keyt	Loyola Marymount University, California (non tenure track)
2006	Toward a Linguistic Conception of Thought	Cass Weller (chair) Lynn Hankinson Nelson Andrea Woody	University of Washington Writing Program (non tenure track)	Western Oregon University (non tenure track)
2006	One More Apt Feeling: A Defense of a Modified Version of Allen Gibbard's Account of the Meaning of Our Putative Wrongness Judgments	William Talbott (chair) Ken Clatterbaugh Angela Smith	Did not go on academic job market.
2006	Should We Feel Bad About Feeling Good About Immoral Art? An Argument in Favor of Minimal Moralism	Paul Taylor (co-chair) Ron Moore (co-chair) Jean Roberts Angela Smith Cass Weller	Tenure track Asst. Professor, Otterbein College, Ohio
2005	Virtue and Reason in Nature	William Talbott (chair) Robert Coburn Jean Roberts	Virginia Commonwealth University (non tenure track)	Clemson University, SC
2004	An Examination of Robert Boyle's Conception of Physical Causes	Ken Clatterbaugh (chair) Michael Rosenthal Cass Weller Andrea Woody	Did not go on academic job market
2004	Perceptual Knowledge: Explorations and Extensions of the Sellarsian Framework	Cass Weller (chair) Robert Coburn Marc Lange William Talbott	Coastal Carolina University, South Carolina (non tenure track)	Washington State Community Colleges (non tenure track)
2004	Should Science Be Value-Free? Rethinking the Role of Ethical and Political Values in the Justification of Scientific Theories	Jean Roberts (co-chair) Andrea Woody (co-chair) Arthur Fine Lynn Hankinson Nelson	Tenure-track Asst. Professor, Coastal Carolina University, South Carolina	Tenure track Asst. Professor, Montana State University, Bozeman
2004	Aristotle On Sexual Differentiation and Family Resemblances	Marc Cohen (chair) Ruby Blondell David Keyt Jean Roberts Cass Weller	Did not go on academic job market.
2004	Expanding the Child's Range of Open Futures: A proposed basis for the ethical assessment of parental genetic trait selection	Ron Moore (chair) Wylie Burke Sara Goering Nancy Jecker Andrea Woody	Did not go on academic job market.
2004	Intrinsically Semantic Concepts and the Intentionality of Propositional Attitudes	Laurence BonJour (chair) Ann Baker S. Marc Cohen	Limited one-year academic job search.
2004	Physical Systems: Conceptual Pathways Between Spacetime and Matter	Arthur Fine (chair) Marc Lange Andrea Woody	Western Ontario University (post-doc)	Tenure track Asst. Professor, University of Richmond, Virginia
2003	Rationality and Moral Responsibility in Romantic Love	Ken Clatterbaugh (chair) Angela Smith Robert Solomon Paul Taylor	Humboldt State University, California (non tenure track)	Ethicist for Weyerhaeuser
2003	A Controversy About Animal Consciousness	Charles Marks (chair) Ken Clatterbaugh S. Marc Cohen William Talbott	Did not go on academic job market.
2002	The Epistemological Role of the Intellectual Virtues	Laurence BonJour (chair) Ann Baker Angela Smith William Talbott	Baylor University, Texas	Tenure-track Asst. Professor, Loyola Marymount University, California
2001	A Positivist Account of Legal Principles	Ronald Moore (chair) Laurence BonJour Robert Coburn William Talbott	University of Washington Information School (non tenure track)	Tenure track Asst. Professor, Seattle Pacific University
2001	Precedent Autonomy, Surviving Interest, and Advance Medical Decisionmaking	Albert Jonsen (co-chair) Ronald Moore (co-chair) Laurence BonJour Nancy Jecker William Talbott	University of North Carolina School of Medicine	University of Tennessee California State University, Fullerton
1999	Time in Physics IV: Aristotle's Reductionistic Vision in Four Movements	S. Marc Cohen (chair) David Keyt Jean Roberts Cass Weller	Ohio State University (non tenure track)	Tenure track Asst. Professor, Boise State University, Idaho
1999	On the Continuation of Material Being	S. Marc Cohen (chair) John Boler Ken Clatterbaugh James Mish'alani	Seattle Pacific University (non tenure track)	University of Puget Sound (non tenure track) Winthrop University, South Carolina
1999	Peter Abelard's Theory of the Proposition	Ken Clatterbaugh (chair) John Boler David Keyt Charles Marks	University of Akron, Ohio	Carroll University, Wisconsin