University of Wyoming

Graduate Placement

 The department actively assists graduates from the M.A. program in their search for employment or further education. Many of our graduates have elected to pursue the Ph.D. in philosophy (in boldface below). A healthy percentage of these students have been admitted with full funding to “top-50” programs or programs with specialties in particular areas. Other graduates have elected not to pursue the Ph.D. in philosophy. Such students have gone on to use their philosophical skills in a variety of academic and non-academic professions (e.g., psychology, law, medicine, social work, business, and education).

As our placement record suggests, while many of our students come to the University of Wyoming intending to pursue the Ph.D. in philosophy, many come simply because they love philosophy or desire to advance their careers. Here are some statistics on what our graduates have done since 1995:

Total graduates 25
Ph.D. in Philosophy 12
Graduate work in another field 6
Law 3
Teaching 1
Unknown/TBA 4

Year

Thesis Title

Graduate School/Professional Institution (Discipline)

 

2008    

Faultless Disagreement and the Semantics of Personal Taste
Rutgers University (full funding)
[Also had offers from University of Texas; University of California, Davis]

 

Problems with Presentism

University of California Davis (full funding)
[Also had offers from University of Nebraska.]

 

Wants and Reasons
Ohio State University (full funding)
[Also had offers from University of Florida, Florida State University (full funding); Georgetown University, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, University of Washington - Seattle, Arizona State University (without funding)]

 

2007    

Spinoza on the Relation between Substance and Attribute
Rice University (full funding)
[Also accepted at University of California, Irvine (no funding).]

 

Groundwork for a Concept-based Theory of Confirmation
University of Nebraska (full funding)
 

2005    

Authenticity and Ecosophy-T
TBA

The Problem of Prior Probabilities in Bayesian Confirmation Theory
 University of Nevada, Reno

Philosophy Ph.D. programs that admitted students graduating in 2005 were: University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale; Purdue University.

 

2004

From Inner Perception to Direct Attention
University of Texas, Austin (Philosophy)

Other philosophy Ph.D. programs that admitted students graduating in 2004 were: University of California, Irvine; University of Wisconsin, Madison; University of California, Riverside; University of Colorado, Boulder; University of Florida; Boston University; New School University.

 

2003

Functionalism as a Reductive Explanation

University of California, Davis (Philosophy)

Establishing a Foundation for Environmental Rights 

University of Wisconsin, Madison (Law), now University of Utah (Philosophy and Law)

Other philosophy Ph.D. programs that admitted students graduating in 2003 were: City University of New York (CUNY); University of Maryland; University of California, Santa Barbara; University of Miami. 

 

2002

Species as Individuals: A Critical Analysis

Appalachian State University (MSW)

 

2001

Science without the Independent World

Boston University (Philosophy)

The Epistemic Limits of a Semantic Theory of Indexicals and Demonstratives

Wake Forest (MBA)

Aristotle and Nietzsche: A Comparison of Virtue

University of Wyoming (Education)

Other philosophy Ph.D. programs that admitted students graduating in 2001 were: University of Maryland; University of Colorado, Boulder; Loyola University; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

 

2000

Consciousness and Reducibility

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Philosophy)

Other philosophy Ph.D. programs that admitted students graduating in 2000 were: University of California, San Diego; University of Maryland; Washington University, St. Louis.

 

1999

Deflationism

Syracuse, now Rutgers (Philosophy)

Tensegrity and Biological Laws

University of Indiana (Philosophy)

The Limits of Biocentric Individualism

University of Wyoming (Education)

Nietzsche and the Truth in Language

Unknown 

Other philosophy Ph.D. programs that admitted students graduating in 1999 were: University of California, Davis; University of California, Santa Barbara.

 

1998

An Investigation of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations

University of Arkansas (Philosophy)

Zarathustra's Descent: Of Art and Mountains

WyoTech (Instructor)

Nietzsche's Changing Aesthetic

University of Wyoming (Law)

Berkeley's Archetypes

University of Wyoming (Law)

Wittgenstein on Certainty: Action and Justification

Unknown

A Pragmatic Theory of Parable

Unknown

 

1996

Toward an Alternative Interpretation of Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling

University of Utah (Philosophy)

Assertion Hunting in Forrester's New Deontic Logic

Vanderbilt (Psychology)

 

1995

Wittgenstein on Logical Necessity

Temple (Philosophy)

Hobbes' Leviathan, Chapter 16 and Gauthierian Authorization

University of Nebraska, Lincoln (Philosophy)

A Little Something About Old Evidence

Unknown