Placement
The Philosophy Department offers guidance and support to its Ph.D. students when they seek academic employment. The Department's placement committee holds informational meetings for job candidates, offers advice about their C.V.'s and writing samples, and oversees the assembly of their dossiers. The committee also gives candidates practice interviews and committee members travel to the meetings of the American Philosophical Association to provide on-the-spot advice and support for Berkeley candidates being interviewed there. The Department covers the costs of travel to the APA meetings for candidates who have prearranged interviews.
Placements for Ph.D. recipients from the last ten years are listed below.
1998
| Steven Arkonovich PhD, Philosophy |
Reasons for Action & the Roles of Desire Reed College (tenure-track) |
| Andrew Carpenter PhD, Philosophy |
Kant's Earliest Solution to the Mind/Body Problem Antioch College (tenure-track) |
| Joshua Dever PhD, Philosophy |
Variables University of Texas, Austin (tenure-track) |
| Eli Dresner PhD, Logic |
Formal Semantics & the Algebraic View of Meaning Tel Aviv University (tenure-track) |
| Mathias Frisch PhD, Philosophy |
Theories, Models, and Explanation University of Maryland (tenure-track) |
| Sean Kelly PhD, Philosophy |
The Relevance of Phenomenology to the Philosophy of Language & Mind Princeton University (tenure-track) |
| Robert Gorton PhD, Philosophy |
Meaning Without Theory UC Berkeley (lecturer) |
1999
| Ursula Coope PhD, Philosophy |
Time As a Number of Change: Aristotle's Physics IV, 10-14 Birkbeck College, University of London (tenure-track) |
| John Holbo PhD, Philosophy |
Prolegomena to Wittgenstein's Tractatus National University of Singapore (tenure-track) |
| Maria Merritt PhD, Philosophy |
Virtue Ethics & the Social Psychology of Character College of William and Mary (tenure-track) |
2000
| Strefan Fauble PhD, Philosophy |
Interpretation, Function, and Metaphysics of Works of Art UC Irvine (postdoc) |
2001
| Jason Bridges PhD, Philosophy |
Locating Thought: Externalism & Naturalism about Mental Content University of Chicago (tenure-track) |
| Casey Perin PhD, Philosophy |
Rationality and Ancient Scepticism University of Massachusetts, Amherst (tenure-track) |
| Wai-hung Wong PhD, Philosophy |
Rational Resistance to Skepticism California State University, Chico (tenure-track) |
| Richard Zach PhD, Logic |
Hilbert's Finitism: Historical & Philosophical Perspectives University of Calgary (tenure-track) |
2002
| Peter Hanks PhD, Philosophy |
The Unity of the Proposition University of Minnesota (tenure-track) |
| Cheryl Chen PhD, Philosophy |
Perception and Empirical Thought Bryn Mawr College (tenure-track) |
| Edward Cushman PhD, Philosophy |
Normativity and the Prospects of Naturalism Reed College |
| Jonathan Ellis PhD, Philosophy |
Psychological Conditions for Psychological Awareness UC Santa Cruz (tenure-track) |
| Brendan O'Sullivan PhD, Philosophy |
Causal Relevance and Mental Properties Rhodes College (tenure-track) |
| Christopher Pincock PhD, Philosophy |
A Structuralist Approach to Applying Mathematics Purdue University (tenure-track) |
2003
| Elizabeth Camp PhD, Philosophy |
Saying and Seeing-As: The Linguistic, Cognitive, and Imaginative Uses and Effects of Metaphor Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows; University of Pennsylvania (tenure-track) |
| Diana Fleming PhD, Philosophy |
Virtue and Right Action Indiana University, South Bend (tenure-track) |
| Niko Kolodny PhD, Philosophy |
Relationships as Reasons Harvard University; UC Berkeley (tenure-track) |
| Omar Mirza PhD, Logic |
Naturalism and Darwin's Doubt: a Study of Plantinga's Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism St. Cloud State University (tenure-track) |
| W. Mark Goodwin PhD, Logic |
Kant's Philosophy of Geometry Visiting Assistant Professor, Swarthmore College |
2004
| Tim Crockett PhD, Philosophy |
Leibniz on Shape and the Reality of Body Marquette University (tenure-track) |
| Suzanne Obdrzalek PhD, Philosophy |
The Philosopher's Eros — Reason and Passion in Plato's Middle Dialogues Claremont McKenna (after two-year postdoc at Yale) (tenure-track) |
2005
| Johannes Hafner PhD, Logic |
From Metamathematics to Philosophy: A Critical Assessment of
Putnam's Model-Theoretic Argument North Carolina State University (tenure-track) |
| Shoshana Smith PhD, Philosophy |
Clear and Distinct Perception in Descartes' Philosophy Colgate University (two-year) |
| Wayne Wu PhD, Philosophy |
What's Attention Got to Do with Action? An Essay on Perception and Action Ohio State University (tenure-track) |
2006
| Bence Nanay PhD, Philosophy |
How Animals See the World: A Theory of Content for Action-Oriented Perceptual States Syracuse University (tenure-track) |
| Hui-chieh Loy PhD, Philosophy |
The Moral Philosophy of the Mozi "Core Chapters" National University of Singapore (tenure-track) |
2007
| Berislav Marusic PhD, Philosophy |
Skepticism Between Absurdity and Idleness Brandeis University (tenure-track) |
| Benjamin Callard PhD, Philosophy |
Ignorance and Innocence Lehman College, CUNY; now lecturer, University of Chicago (tenure-track) |
| Richard Canedo PhD, Philosophy |
Understanding an Independent World from the Human Point of View: A Response to Rorty, Williams, and Dreyfus Non-academic (management consulting) |
2008
| Joel Yurdin PhD, Philosophy |
Aristotle: From Sense to Science Haverford College (tenure-track) |
| Agnes Callard PhD, Philosophy |
An Incomparabilist Account of Akrasia University of Chicago (tenure-track) |
| Andreas Anagnostopoulos PhD, Philosophy |
Aristotle on Change and Potentiality Wissenschaeftlicher Mitarbeiter, Humboldt University, Berlin |
| Kenny Easwaran PhD, Philosophy |
The Foundations of Conditional Probability University of Southern California (tenure-track) |
| Michael Titelbaum PhD, Philosophy |
Quitting Certainties: A Doxastic Modeling Framework University of Wisconsin, Madison (tenure-track) |