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
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Interests or Thesis Title
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Accepted
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2023-2024
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Ethics and moral psychology
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UC Riverside
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Moral psychology, value, philosophy of mind, and emotion
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UT Austin
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Applied ethics, feminist epistemology, social and political philosophy
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U. Washington
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Ethics and moral psychology | Ohio State | |
Bioethics and applied ethics | M.D. Anderson Bioethics Internship | |
Ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of action | -- | |
Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science, AI | -- | |
Moral psychology, applied ethics, and metaphysics | -- | |
There were a total of eight MA applicants to PhD programs this year. Four placed with full funding in philosophy PhD programs, and another accepted a bioethics internship at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Other PhD offers not accepted by this group include: Minnesota, ASU (2x), Maryland, Georgetown, Western Ontario, and Wisconsin. |
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2022-2023
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Ethics, Women of Color Feminisms, and Latin American Philosophy
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Michigan
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Ethics, epistemology
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UMass Amherst
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There were a total of eight philosophy PhD applicants this year. Additional funded offers included NYU, Rutgers, Harvard, UCSD, Penn, Colorado, and OSU. Two other MA grads applied to non-philosophy programs; one accepted an offer at LSU Law School on scholarship and another to seminary school. |
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2021-2022
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Philosophy of AI, Philosophy of Cognitive Neuroscience, AI Ethics, Moral Psychology
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Duke
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Philosophical Theology
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Duke (Program for Master's of Theological Studies in Church History, with partial funding)
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There were a total of two MA applicants to PhD programs this year. One placed with full funding in a philosophy PhD program, and the other accepted an offer for a Master's degree in Theological Studies with partial funding, both at Duke. |
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2020-2021
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Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of AI, Philosophy of Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Epistemology
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Cambridge
(Gates-Cambridge Fellowship) |
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Epistemology, Aesthetics
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Colorado
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Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Continental, Animal Cognition
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UC Santa Cruz
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Continental, Aesthetics
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UC Riverside
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Philosophy of Mind
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Epistemology, Ethics, Mind
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Continental
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There were a total of seven MA applicants to PhD programs this year; four placed at philosophy PhD programs with full funding (one with a prestigious Gates-Cambridge fellowship, the first ever awarded to a student from the University of Houston). Additional offers with funding included: UW Madison, Wash U (St. Louis), and the University of Cincinnati. |
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2019-2020
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Ethics, Moral Psychology
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Michigan
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Metaethics, Moral Psychology
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Ohio State
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Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science
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Northwestern
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There were a total of three MA applicants to PhD programs this year; all placed with full funding. Other offers with funding for these three include UCSD, UC Riverside, and University of Buffalo. |
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2018-2019
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Ethics
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UCSD
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Mind/Cognitive Science
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Wisconsin
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Epistemology, Ethics
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Syracuse
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Ethics
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Rice
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Action
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Rice
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There were a total of six MA applicants to PhD programs this year; five placed at philosophy PhD programs with full funding. Additional offers with funding included: Wisconsin, Ohio State, Cincinnatti. Also, an undergrad from our program was accepted with funding at Michigan. |
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2017-2018
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Ethics, Phil Bio
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UCSD
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Ethics
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UCSD
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Ethics
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UCSD
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Logic, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Mathematics
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UC Irvine LPS
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Mind/Language/Epistemology
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Northwestern
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Metaphysics, Metaethics, History of Philosophy
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Rice
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Aesthetics, Philosophy of Mind
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Albany
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History of Philosophy
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There were a total of eight MA applicants to PhD programs this year; seven placed at philosophy PhD programs with full funding. Additional offers with funding include: Arizona, Maryland (x2), Georgetown, Ohio State, UMass Amherst, Rice, Syracuse (x2), Fordham, and the University at Albany. Also, two undergraduates from our program accepted funded offers to philosophy PhD programs, one at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and another at Iowa. |
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2016-2017
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Philosophy of Mind & Language, Science
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UT Austin |
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Philosophy of Science, Logic
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UC Irvine LPS
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Aesthetics, Ethics
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Rice
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Aesthetics, Ethics
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There were a total of four UH applicants to Philosophy PhD programs this year. Of those four, three received funded offers (including an additional funded offer to Arizona), and an additional student received a non-funded acceptance offer to Arizona. The student who did not receive a funded offer went on to teach as an instructor in philosophy. Additionally, an undergraduate from our program accepted a funded offer from Michigan, with other funded offers from Brown and UCSD. |
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2015-2016
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Early Modern Philosophy, Metaphysics
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Rutgers |
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Metaethics
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University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Philosophy of Mind
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University of Wisconsin, Madison
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There were a total of three applicants for PhD programs this year. All placed at top schools with full funding. Other offers (with funding) for these three students include at Toronto, UT Austin, UCSD, Wisconsin (x1 additional), UC Riverside, Indiana, Maryland (x2), Washington University St. Louis (x2), Colorado, and non-philosophy PhD acceptances at Stanford and Berkeley. |
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2014-2015
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Philosophy of Mind & Language
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Princeton |
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Ethics
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Duke
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Ethics, Free Will
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UC Riverside
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Ethics
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UC Irvine
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Ethics
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Wash U. St. Louis
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Philosophy of Cognitive Science
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York (Toronto)
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Philosophy of Mind & Language
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There were a total of seven UH applicants to Philosophy PhD programs this year. Of those seven, six received funded offers. Other student offers with funding include Georgetown, Ohio State, Florida State, University of Washington, and Rice, as well as a prestigious Olin Fellowship at Washington University St. Louis. (Non philosophy placements: One student applied to and was accepted with funding to Syracuse University's graduate program in Information Security.) |
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2013-2014
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Epistemology, Political
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Loyola University, Chicago
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Philosophy of Law, Ethics
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Bowling Green University
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Ancient, 19th Century German
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Vanderbilt University
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Philosophy of Religion
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Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
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2012-2013
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Early Modern, Logic
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University of California, San Diego
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Epistemology, Early Modern
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Princeton University
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Moral Psychology, Early Modern
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University of Missouri, Columbia
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Ethics, Philosophy of Science
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University of Oklahoma
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Ethics, Political Philosophy
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Bowling Green State University
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Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind
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University of Miami
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Aesthetics, Logic
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University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
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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 |
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2011/2012 | Political philosophy, ethics | Georgetown |
Philosophy of mind, cognitive science | Washington University, St. Louis | |
Other schools from which the students received offers: Missouri, Virginia, Rice, Ohio State (Non-Philosophy Placements: one student was offered a spot at and attended Harvard Law School.) |
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2010/2011
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Epistemic Katharsis: The Purification of the Tripartite Soul in Plato's Phaedrus
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King's College London
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Medieval, Philosophical Theology
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Fordham
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(Non-Philosophy placements: one student was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship (Germany) and one student will be attending law school, with funding.) |
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2009/2010
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Francis Bacon's Eclectic View of Matter in the De Principiis
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Cornell
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Does Contrastivism Solve the Skeptical Paradox?
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Oklahoma
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Mind, Language, Logic
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Maryland
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Mind
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U. of Miami
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Ethics
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Rice
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Free Will, Ethics, Science
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Florida State
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Metaphysics, Mind
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Nebraska
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Continental, Aesthetics, Ancient
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Ethics
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Other schools from which students received offers: UC Santa Barbara, Missouri, Illinois, Buffalo, Carnegie Mellon, Michigan, Toronto, Washington University, Western Ontario. |
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2008/2009
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Medieval, Metaphysics
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Toronto
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Bioethics, Mind
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U. of Miami
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Ethics as an Empty House: The Intersection of Art and Place in Late Heidegger
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Kentucky
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Mind
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British Columbia
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Continental
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Stony Brook
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G. Lakoff and M. Johnson's Theory of the Embodied Mind and its Philosophical Consequences
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2007/2008
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Bayesianism and the Epistemology of Science
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Princeton
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Simple-Substance Idealism and the De Volder Borrowed-Reality Argument in Leibniz
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Rice
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Information and Nonconceptual Content
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Indiana
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Ethics
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Other schools from which students received offers: Cincinnati |
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2006/2007
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Temkin's Torture over Transitivity
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Purdue
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Towards a Revisionist Just War Theory: An Account of Combatant Moral Responsibility
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U. of Washington
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Leibniz on Infinity and the Structure of Matter
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Rice
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Mind, Cognitive Science
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Washington U.
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Ethics, Political
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Tulane
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Ethics, Law
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Logic
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Other schools from which students received offers: UC Irvine, Cincinnati, Florida State |
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2005/2006
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Feminist Epistemology, Naturalized Epistemology, and the Bias Paradox
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UMass
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Ethics, Political
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Utah
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Mind
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Texas A&M
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Ethics, Political
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Buffalo (dual program in Philosophy and Law)
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History of Philosophy, Aesthetics
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The Useless Perfection of Pornography: Baudrillard's Critique of Sexual Reason
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Other schools from which students received offers: Colorado, UConn |
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2004/2005
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The Original Position, the Ideal Speech Situation, and Cake Cutting: Rawls and Habermas Respond to a Liberal Democratic Dilemma
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Colorado
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Continental
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UC Riverside
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Ancient
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Nebraska
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Metaphysics
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Temple
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2003/2004
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Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science
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Rutgers
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Rethinking Abduction
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Stanford
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Mind
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Cincinnati
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Metaphysics, Mind
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UC Irvine
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Ethics, Political, Religion
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