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.
| M.A. Thesis Title | Position After Completion of M.A. |
|---|---|
| Can We Do without Absolute Goodness? | Ph.D. program, University of Kansas |
| Mindshaping and Mindreading: Reexamining their Roles in Social Cognition | Ph.D. program, University of Arkansas |
| Peer Disagreement, Permissivism, and Deference | Ph.D. program, University of Connecticut |
| Worldviews and Enactivism in Hinge Epistemology | Ph.D. program, Utah State University (Kinesiology, working on Philosophy of Sport) |
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 | Ph.D. program, York University, Toronto |
| Digital Dialectics* | University of Tulsa (Law) |
| Unconscious Belief, Unconscious imagination | Ph.D. program, University of Southern California |
| What Can We See? About the Role of Phenomenology in Determining the Contents of Visual Perception | Ph.D. program, University of Cincinnati |
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 | Ph.D. program, Purdue University (2024) |
| Heraclitus the Priority Monist | Ph.D. program, Oklahoma University |
| Socially Extended Mind Hypothesis | M.A. program, Oklahoma State University (Political Science) |
| Transworld Depravity and God's Goodness | M.A. program, Iowa State University (Writing and Rhetoric; 2024) |
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 | Ph.D. program, University of Iowa |
| M.A. Thesis Title | Position After Completion of M.A. |
|---|---|
| Pluralistic Conceptualization | Ph.D. program, University of Arkansas |
| The Good, The Bad and The Excellent: An Exploration of Moral Exemplarism Theory | Ph.D. program, Saint Louis University |
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 | Ph.D. program, Purdue University |
| Absurd Angst and Metaethical Pain: The Externalist Moral Paradigm and Its Production of Angst over The Normative Force of Ultimate Reasons | Lecturer at Oklahoma State University |
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 | Ph.D. program, University of Colorado, Boulder |
| Passionate Interest: Hilary Putnam's Reading of Kierkegaard on Religious Belief | Lecturer at University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley |
| The Metaphysics of Plotinus and Advaita Vedanta | Ph.D. program (Religious Studies) |
| A Subjective Role-Based Account of Epistemic Diligence with Implications for Large Groups | High school math teacher |
| The placement data for 2018 is incomplete, but our graduates received offers from the following programs: University of Kansas, and University of Nebraska, Lincoln. |
|---|
| M.A. Thesis Title | Position After Completion of M.A. |
|---|---|
| The Evolution of Religious Belief and Naturalism: Agency, Character and Adaptation in Christian Belief | Ph.D. program, Saint Louis University |
| The Problem of Doctrinal Decidability: Methods for Evaluating Purported Divine Revelations | M.A. program, Ave Maria University (Theology) |
| Nietzsche's Artist Metaphysics | High school art teacher |