Department of Philosophy
The University of Houston
513 Agnes Arnold Hall
Houston, TX 77204-3004
Phone: 713-743-3010
Fax: 713-743-5162

Ph.D. Placement Record

Previous Students

The following information concerns placement into Philosophy graduate programs only. A number of our graduates — including some of those listed — have pursued graduate and professional degrees in fields other than Philosophy.

Students who applied in multiple years are listed in their most recent year of application only. Previous results are given in brackets.

Application Year	Interests or Thesis Title	Accepted
2012-2013	Early Modern, Logic	University of California, San Diego
	Epistemology, Early Modern	Princeton University
	Moral Psychology, Early Modern	University of Missouri, Columbia
	Ethics, Philosophy of Science	University of Oklahoma
	Ethics, Political Philosophy	Bowling Green State University
	Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind	University of Miami
	Aesthetics, Logic	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Of the seven students who applied to PhD programs 2012-2013, all seven placed with full funding. Other PhD Programs to which our students were admitted (w/Full Funding in 2013): Fordham University, Johns Hopkins University, Northwestern University, Rice University, Texas A&M University, University of Arizona, University of Arkansas, University of Massachusetts, University of South Florida, University of North Carolina, University of Notre Dame, University of Wisconsin, University of Pennsylvania, University of South Carolina, University of Southern California, University of Washington
2011/2012	Political philosophy, ethics	Georgetown
	Philosophy of mind, cognitive science	Washington University, St. Louis
Other schools at which students were accepted: Missouri, Virginia, Rice, Ohio State (Non-Philosophy Placements: one student was accepted to and attended Harvard Law School.)
2010/2011	Epistemic Katharsis: The Purification of the Tripartite Soul in Plato's Phaedrus	King's College London
	Medieval, Philosophical Theology	Fordham
(Non-Philosophy placements: one student was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship (Germany) and one student will be attending law school, with funding.)
2009/2010	Francis Bacon's Eclectic View of Matter in the De Principiis	Cornell
	Does Contrastivism Solve the Skeptical Paradox?	Oklahoma
	Mind, Language, Logic	Maryland
	Mind	U. of Miami
	Ethics	Rice
	Free Will, Ethics, Science	Florida State
	Metaphysics, Mind	Nebraska
	Continental, Aesthetics, Ancient	--
	Ethics	--
Other schools at which students were accepted: UC Santa Barbara, Missouri, Illinois, Buffalo, Carnegie Mellon, Michigan, Toronto, Washington University, Western Ontario. (Non-Philosophy placements: one student was admitted to law school; two students were admitted to PhD programs in Clinical Psychology; one student was admitted to a PhD program in Asian Studies.)
2008/2009	Medieval, Metaphysics	Toronto,
	Bioethics, Mind	U. of Miami
	Ethics as an Empty House: The Intersection of Art and Place in Late Heidegger	Kentucky
	Mind	British Columbia
	Continental	Stony Brook
	G. Lakoff and M. Johnson's Theory of the Embodied Mind and its Philosophical Consequences	--
Other schools at which students were accepted: Purdue, Fordham, Bowling Green, Fordham, Stony Brook, Maryland, Temple
2007/2008	Bayesianism and the Epistemology of Science	Princeton
	Simple-Substance Idealism and the De Volder Borrowed-Reality Argument in Leibniz	Rice
	Information and Nonconceptual Content	Indiana
	Ethics	--
Other schools at which students were accepted: Cincinnati
2006/2007	Temkin's Torture over Transitivity	Purdue
	Towards a Revisionist Just War Theory: An Account of Combatant Moral Responsibility	U. of Washington
	Leibniz on Infinity and the Structure of Matter	Rice
	Mind, Cognitive Science	Washington U.
	Ethics, Political	Tulane
	Ethics, Law	--
	Logic	--
Other schools at which students were accepted: UC Irvine, Cincinnati, Florida State
2005/2006	Feminist Epistemology, Naturalized Epistemology, and the Bias Paradox	UMass
	Ethics, Political	Utah
	Mind	Texas A&M
	Ethics, Political	Buffalo (dual program in Philosophy and Law)
	History of Philosophy, Aesthetics	--
	The Useless Perfection of Pornography: Baudrillard's Critique of Sexual Reason	--
Other schools at which students were accepted: Colorado, UConn
2004/2005	The Original Position, the Ideal Speech Situation, and Cake Cutting: Rawls and Habermas Respond to a Liberal Democratic Dilemma	Colorado
	Continental	UC Riverside
	Ancient	Nebraska
	Metaphysics	Temple

2003/2004	Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science	Rutgers
	Rethinking Abduction	Stanford
	Mind	Cincinnati
	Metaphysics, Mind	UC Irvine
	Ethics, Political, Religion	--

The above information is, to the best of our knowledge, complete and accurate. However, if you suspect a mistake or omission, or if you have any questions, please e-mail Professor Christy Mag Uidhir, Graduate Placement Coordinator, at cmaguidhir@gmail.com.