PLACEMENT DATA
Below is the placement data for graduates of the M.A. program since 2017, organized by year. Unless otherwise specified, the position is in Philosophy.
| MA Thesis Title | Position After Completion of MA |
|---|---|
| Necessity in Early Greek Philosophy: A New Historiographical Approach | PhD Program, Saint Louis University |
| Perceptual Architecture, Cognitive Penetration, and the Epistemology of Perception | PhD Program, University of Colorado, Boulder |
| Packing a Hunch: Modal Collapse and the Algorithmic Gap | MS Program, Oklahoma State University (Interdisciplinary Studies with a focus on Philosophy and Cognitive Science; will reapply for PhDs next year) |
| Vindicating the Reasons Approach to Good Reasoning | PhD Program, University of Connecticut |
Our graduates in 2026 also received offers from the following PhD programs: University of California, Santa Cruz; University of Cincinnati; University of Kansas, University of Kentucky; University of Oklahoma; University of Nebraska, Lincoln; University of Tennessee, Knoxville; University of Washington
| M.A. Thesis Title | Position After Completion of M.A. |
|---|---|
| Can We Do without Absolute Goodness? | Position After Completion of M.A.
Ph.D. program, University of Kansas
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| Mindshaping and Mindreading: Reexamining their Roles in Social Cognition | Position After Completion of M.A.
Ph.D. program, University of Arkansas
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| Peer Disagreement, Permissivism, and Deference | Position After Completion of M.A.
Ph.D. program, University of Connecticut
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| Worldviews and Enactivism in Hinge Epistemology | Position After Completion of M.A.
Ph.D. program, Utah State University (Kinesiology, working on Philosophy of Sport)
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Our graduates in 2025 also received offers from the following PhD programs: Florida State University, University of California Santa Cruz, and University of South Carolina
| M.A. Thesis Title | Position After Completion of M.A. |
|---|---|
| Conspiracy Theories as a Value Game | Position After Completion of M.A.
Ph.D. program, York University, Toronto
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| Digital Dialectics* | Position After Completion of M.A.
University of Tulsa (Law)
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| Unconscious Belief, Unconscious imagination | Position After Completion of M.A.
Ph.D. program, University of Southern California
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| What Can We See? About the Role of Phenomenology in Determining the Contents of Visual Perception | Position After Completion of M.A.
Ph.D. program, University of Cincinnati
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Our graduates in 2024 also received offers from the following PhD programs: City University of New York, Florida State University, Southern Illinois University, University of Arkansas, University of Massachussetts Amherst, University of Maryland, University of Oklahoma, University of Virginia, and Washington University in St. Louis.
| M.A. Thesis Title | Position After Completion of M.A. |
|---|---|
| Grounding: An Abstract Factive Approach | Position After Completion of M.A.
Ph.D. program, Purdue University (2024)
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| Heraclitus the Priority Monist | Position After Completion of M.A.
Ph.D. program, Oklahoma University
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| Socially Extended Mind Hypothesis | Position After Completion of M.A.
M.A. program, Oklahoma State University (Political Science)
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| Transworld Depravity and God's Goodness | Position After Completion of M.A.
M.A. program, Iowa State University (Writing and Rhetoric; 2024)
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Our graduates in 2023 also received offers from the following PhD programs: University of Arkansas, University of Kansas, University of Florida, Florida State University, and Saint Louis University.
| M.A. Thesis Title | Position After Completion of M.A. |
|---|---|
| Conceptual Engineering and The Subject Continuity | Position After Completion of M.A.
Ph.D. program, University of Iowa
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| M.A. Thesis Title | Position After Completion of M.A. |
|---|---|
| Pluralistic Conceptualization | Position After Completion of M.A.
Ph.D. program, University of Arkansas
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| The Good, The Bad and The Excellent: An Exploration of Moral Exemplarism Theory | Position After Completion of M.A.
Ph.D. program, Saint Louis University
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Our graduates in 2021 also received offers from the following PhD programs: Bowling Green State University, and the University of Tennesse, Knoxville.
| M.A. Thesis Title | Position After Completion of M.A. |
|---|---|
| The Self and Schizophrenia: Learning about The Self Through Self-Disturbances | Position After Completion of M.A.
Ph.D. program, Purdue University
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| Absurd Angst and Metaethical Pain: The Externalist Moral Paradigm and Its Production of Angst over The Normative Force of Ultimate Reasons | Position After Completion of M.A.
Lecturer at Oklahoma State University
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Our graduates in 2021 also received offers from the following PhD programs: University of Arkansas.
| M.A. Thesis Title | Position After Completion of M.A. |
|---|---|
| Just The Facts? Intelligent Design, Culture Wars, and a Broad Construal of Science | Position After Completion of M.A.
Ph.D. program, University of Colorado, Boulder
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| Passionate Interest: Hilary Putnam's Reading of Kierkegaard on Religious Belief | Position After Completion of M.A.
Lecturer at University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley
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| The Metaphysics of Plotinus and Advaita Vedanta | Position After Completion of M.A.
Ph.D. program (Religious Studies)
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| A Subjective Role-Based Account of Epistemic Diligence with Implications for Large Groups | Position After Completion of M.A.
High school math teacher
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| The placement data for 2018 is incomplete, but our graduates received offers from the following programs: University of Kansas, and University of Nebraska, Lincoln. |
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| M.A. Thesis Title | Position After Completion of M.A. |
|---|---|
| The Evolution of Religious Belief and Naturalism: Agency, Character and Adaptation in Christian Belief | Position After Completion of M.A.
Ph.D. program, Saint Louis University
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| The Problem of Doctrinal Decidability: Methods for Evaluating Purported Divine Revelations | Position After Completion of M.A.
M.A. program, Ave Maria University (Theology)
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| Nietzsche's Artist Metaphysics | Position After Completion of M.A.
High school art teacher |