MIT philosophy: program: placement etc.
The following list supplies our latest information about the employment status of each of the students who have received (or anticipate receiving) their Ph.D. in our Philosophy Program since 1995 (names have been omitted). All regular tenure-track positions are noted with a TT. Some recent data on hirings at top-ranked departments are available here (note that MIT's Graduate Program is smaller than its competitors).
|
year started first job |
current job |
first job (if different from current job) |
field |
|---|---|---|---|
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2012 |
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| Bersoff Fellowship, NYU; Yale University, TT | epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of mind | ||
| Post-Doc, Oxford | epistemology, practical rationality | ||
| Brown University, TT | metaphysics, philosophy of science, philosophy of physics | ||
| UT-Austin, TT | epistemology, ethics, | ||
| Cambridge University (United Kingdom), TT | ethics, epistemology | ||
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2011 |
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University of Chicago, Illinois, TT |
Lecturer, University of London, Birkbeck College | philosophy of language, metaphysics | |
| UM-Kansas City, TT | metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language | ||
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Harvard Society of Fellows; Cornell University, TT |
logic, moral philosophy, epistemology, feminist theory | ||
| Post-Doc, USC | mathematical and philosophical logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of math | ||
| UM-Kansas City, TT | epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of biology | ||
| University of Leeds, TT | Post-Doc, ANU | philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, epistemology | |
| Dartmouth College, TT | ethics, epistemology, Kant | ||
| Lecturer, Harvard University Kennedy School | epistemology, metaphysics, ethics | ||
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2010 |
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Post-Doc, Stanford University; University of Sydney, TT | moral and political philosophy, responsibility, philosophy of mind | |
| Visiting Fellow, University of Pittsburgh | philosophy of science | ||
| Adjunct Faculty, UMass Lowell | epistemology | ||
| Post-doc, at University of Sydney | |||
| Lecturer, Tufts University | moral philosophy | ||
| Post-Doc, Amherst College; Mt. Holyoke, TT | epistemology, ethics, history of philosophy | ||
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2009 |
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| Bates College, TT | metaphysics, philosophy of mind, moral psychology | ||
| University of St. Andrews, TT | Lecturer, MIT | philosophy of language, philosophy of mind | |
| St. Joseph's University (Philadelphia), TT | Loyola University New Orleans, TT | biomedical ethics, philosophy of psychiatry, moral psychology | |
| Non-academic position | |||
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University of Colorado-Boulder, TT |
Law & Philosophy Fellow, University of Chicago | ethics, political philosophy | |
| University of Leeds, TT | philosophy of mind, epistemology | ||
| University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, TT | philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology | ||
| ANU, TT | Post-Doc, University of Sydney | metaphysics, epistemology, decision theory | |
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2008 |
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| Post-Doc, University of Groningen | language and mind, meta-ethics, formal epistemology | ||
| Tufts University, TT | Post-Doc, St. Andrews | philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology | |
| UC Berkeley, TT | NYU, TT | philosophy of language, philosophy of mind | |
| University of Illinois-Springfield, TT | political philosophy, social philosophy, ethics, metaphysics | ||
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2007 |
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| Wellesley College, TT | Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University | political philosophy, ethics | |
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Harvard University, TT |
ethics, metaphysics | ||
| University of Kentucky, TT | philosophy of mind | ||
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Carleton College, TT |
Visiting Professor, College of the Holy Cross | philosophy of language | |
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attending medical school, Stanford University |
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| Non-academic position | |||
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2006 |
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| Attorney | |||
| University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, TT | philosophy of language | ||
| Non-academic Position | |||
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2005 |
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| Harvard University, Tenured | Lecturer, Tufts University | philosophy of science, philosophy of language | |
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2004 |
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| San Francisco State University, Tenured | metaphysics | ||
| Dartmouth College, Tenured | philosophy of mind, cognitive science | ||
| University of Toronto, TT | University of Iowa | philosophy of mind | |
| University of Vermont, TT | ethics, metaphysics | ||
| Research Staff, King's College London | Visiting Scholar, MIT | ethics | |
| Rutgers University, Tenured | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | philosophy of mind, philosophy of language | |
|
2003 |
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| Hong Kong University, TT | epistemology | ||
| Visiting Professor, University of Western Ontario | political philosophy | ||
| Princeton University, Tenured | New York University | ethics, metaphysics | |
| Duke University, TT | metaphysics, philosophy of language | ||
| University of Arizona, Tenured | University of Wisconsin, Madison | ethics, metaphysics | |
| Harvard University, Tenured | philosophy of mathematics, logic | ||
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2002 |
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Non-academic position |
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| Princeton University, TT | College of the Holy Cross | ethics, metaphysics | |
| Rutgers University at New Brunswick and Newark, TT | Syracuse University | philosophy of language, feminist philosophy | |
| Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Open University of Israel | Research Fellow, University of St. Andrews | metaphysics | |
| Non-academic position | |||
| NIH | |||
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2001 |
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| Visiting Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, epistemology | ||
| Colgate University, Tenured | |||
| Princeton University, Tenured | philosophy of science, philosophy of physics, decision theory | ||
| University of Iceland | |||
| MIT, Tenured | Research Fellow, University of St. Andrews | philosophy of logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language | |
| Non-academic position | |||
| Non-academic position | |||
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2000 |
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| MIT, Tenured | New York University | philosophy of science, epistemology, metaphysics | |
| Cornell University, Tenured | University of Colorado, Boulder | metaphysics, philosophy of langauge, philosophy of logic | |
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1999 |
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| Oxford University | University of Rochester | philosophical logic, philosophy of mathematics, metaphysics | |
| University of Wisconsin, Madison, Tenured | bioethics, ethical theory, metaethics | ||
| University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Tenured | University of Alabama at Birmingham | metaphysics, philosophy of science | |
| Lawyer | McGill University | ||
| Non-academic position | |||
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1998 |
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| Howard University, Tenured | philosophy of language, metaphysics, philosophy of mind | ||
| University of Western Ontario, TT | Sonoma State University | philosophy of law, metaphysics, philosophy of mind | |
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1997 |
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| Princeton University, Tenured | Cornell University | philosophy of language, philosophical logic, metaphysics, epistemology | |
| University of Barcelona | |||
| Non-academic position | |||
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1996 |
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| University of Alberta | |||
| North Carolina State University, Tenured | political philosophy, ethics, history of philosophy | ||
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1995 |
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| Australian National University, Tenured | philosophy of mind, metaphysics, metaethics | ||
| Yale University, Tenured | Cornell University | philosophy of language, metaphysics | |
| Rutgers, Tenured | Cornell University | philosophy of language, phil. logic, epistemology | |
| University of Colorado, Boulder, Tenured | Tulane University | metaphysics, the philosophy of language | |
| Dartmouth College | ethics, philosophy of action, philosophy of mind | ||
| Florida State University, Tallahassee | |||
average time to degree: median time to completion, 5 years; mean time, just over 5.6 years
retention data 1996-2006
|
|
entering class |
graduated |
withdrew |
still enrolled |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
2006
|
6 |
3 |
1 |
2 |
|
2005
|
6 |
6 |
0 |
0 |
|
2004
|
5 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
|
2003
|
5 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
|
2002
|
5 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
|
2001
|
5 |
4 |
1 |
0 |
|
2000
|
5 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
|
1999
|
5 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
|
1998
|
6 |
5 |
1 |
0 |
|
1997
|
5 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
|
1996
|
7 |
7 |
0 |
0 |