This list represents the initial job for all graduating students who entered the academic job market (unless otherwise noted). Several individuals have since moved to different institutions; these moves are listed for recent graduates.
| Year PhD Earned | Dissertation | Chair & Committee | Initial Appointment | Current Appointment (if different from initial position) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | The Ethics of Persuasion | Colin Marshall (chair), Jose Mendoza, Michael Blake | Full-Time Instructor of Philosophy, Lamar University | |
| 2025 | Schopenhauer on Character, Cognition, and Moral Responsibility | Colin Marshall (chair), Paul Franco, Shawn Wang | Assistant Professor, Minot State University | |
| 2025 | Deflationary Challenges and Essentialism | Colin Marshall (chair), Paul Franco, Shawn Wang | Visiting Assistant Professor, Pacific Lutheran University | |
| 2024 | A Study of Plato's Treatment of Injustice in The Republic | Jean Roberts (chair), Paul Franco, Stephen Gardiner, Cass Weller | Philosophy Instructor, Northwest Vista College | |
| 2023 | Wilderness for wilderness: Saving the Wild in a Post-Natural World | Stephen Gardiner (chair), Michael Blake, Sara Goering, Dale Jamieson (NYU) | Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University | |
| 2023 | Understanding White Superagency | Michael Blake (chair), Sara Goering, Colin Marshall | Postdoctoral Fellow, Rutgers University | |
| 2023 | Fat – Therefore, Unhealthy? Oppressing Fat People in the Name of Health | Sara Goering (chair), Paul Franco, Carina Fourie, Carole Lee, Amelia Wirts | Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University Berman Institute of Bioethics | |
| 2023 | Narrative Stewardship & Story Building in Medical Spaces | Sara Goering (chair), Timothy Brown, Carina Fourie, Amelia Wirts | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School Brain Bioethics Lab | |
| 2022 | Science and the Structure of Social Experiment: A Socio-political Study of Climate Data Infrastructure | Andrea Woody (Chair), Bruce Hevly, Carole Lee, Stephen Gardiner, Conor Mayo-Wilson | ||
| 2022 | Immigration in a Global Economy: Why the Left Should Embrace Open Borders | Michael Blake (chair), Stephen Gardiner, Jose Mendoza, Amelia Wirts, Desiree Lim (Penn State) | Postdoctoral Fellow, McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society, Stanford University | Assistant Profesor of Philosophy, UT El Paso |
| 2021 | Disability, Identity, and the Body as a Context of Choice: Making Space for the Mere Difference View in Healthcare Justice | Sara Goering (chair), Michael Blake, Carina Fourie | Assistant Professor, Georgia Southern University | |
| 2021 | Balance and Belonging: Harmony and its Role in Understanding Morality | Colin Marshall (chair), Carole Lee, William Talbott | Philosophy Instructor, Elon University | |
| 2021 | Tower to Agora: Insularity and Philosophical Methodology | Carole Lee (chair), William Talbott, Alison Wylie | Director of Programs, Humanities Washington | |
| 2021 | The Mismeasure of Woman: The Epistemic and Social Impacts of Gendered Citation Practices | Carole Lee (chair), Conor Mayo-Wilson, William Talbott | Did not go on academic job market. | |
| 2020 | Facing the Genocidal Present | Michael Blake (chair), William Talbott, José Jorge Mendoza, José Antonio (Tony) Lucero, Jack Turner | Visiting Assistant Professor, Hobart and William Smith College | Assistant Professor (TT), University of Houston – Clear Lake |
| 2020 | Constructing and Being Constructed: Relational Trans Identity and Responsibility for Microaggressions | Carole Lee (chair), Sara Goering, Carina Fourie | Vice President, UAW Local 4121 | |
| 2020 | Consensus and Collaboration in Contemporary Scientific Practice | Andrea Woody (chair), Carole Lee, Conor Mayo-Wilson | Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Neurosurgery, University of California, Los Angeles | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School |
| 2020 | Love in Descartes' Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy | Michael Rosenthal (chair), Colin Marshall, Cass Weller | Adjunct (temporary), University of California, Berkeley | Adjunct, University of San Francisco |
| 2019 | A Relational Account of Exploitation in Clinical Research | Michael Blake (chair), Sara Goering, Alison Drake | Postdoctoral Researcher, Biomedical Ethics Unit, McGill University | |
| 2019 | Modulating Agency: the Moral & Aesthetic Import of Closed-Loop Deep-Brain Stimulation | Sara Goering (chair), Andrea Woody, Carina Fourie | NIH Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Washington | Assistant Professor, Department of Bioethics and Humanities, UW |
| 2019 | The Resurrection of Radical Pacifism: A Defense | Michael Blake (chair), Stephen Gardiner, Carina Fourie, Colin Marshall | Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Massachusetts, Lowell |
| 2019 | Equitably Ending the Fossil Fuel Era: Climate Justice, Capital, and the Carbon Budget | Stephen Gardiner (chair), Michael Blake, Michael Lazarus, Aseem Prakash, Carina Fourie | South African Climate Justice Campaigner, 350.org | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Development Studies, Nelson Mandela University |
| 2018 | Toward a Pragmatic Ontology of Scientific Concepts | Andrea Woody (chair), Arthur Fine, John Manchak, Cass Weller, Joseph Rouse | Taxonomy Analyst, Indeed.com | |
| 2016 | Modal Truth: Integrating the Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Semantics of the Necessary and the Possible | Arthur Fine (chair), Cass Weller, Ann Baker | Adjunct (permanent) Grand Valley State University | |
| 2016 | Blaming Appropriately | Jean Roberts (chair), Michael Blake, William Talbott, Sara Goering, Angela Smith | Full-time Instructor, Seattle University | |
| 2016 | A Nontraditional Sufficiency Thesis: Virtuous Activity is Sufficient for Happiness and Some Minimally Favorable Circumstances are Necessary for Virtuous Activity | Stephen Gardiner (chair), William Talbott, Sara Goering | Lecturer, Integrated Social Sciences program, University of Washington, Seattle; Lecturer, Northeastern University's Global Pathways Program, Seattle, Washington; Adjunct Faculty, Bellevue College, Washington | Assistant Professor, Marywood University |
| 2016 | Intelligent Automaticity in Moral Judgment and Decision-Making | Alison Wylie (chair), William Talbott, Carole Lee, Sara Goering, Nancy Snow | Visiting Assistant Professor, Kansas State University | American University (TT) |
| 2016 | Evaluating Neural Futures: Good Technoscience and the Challenge of Co-Production | Alison Wylie (chair), Sara Goering, Andrea Woody, Sheila Jasanoff | Neuroethics research post-doc, Institut de Rescherches Cliniques de Montréal, Canada | University of Hannover, Germany (TT) |
| 2015 | Intertheoretic Relations in Context: Details, Purpose, and Practice | Andrea Woody (chair), Alison Wylie, Arthur Fine, John Manchak | Instructor, Seattle Central College | |
| 2015 | The Aesthetic Appreciation of Ruins | Ron Moore (chair), Jean Roberts, Michael Rosenthal, Alison Wylie | Adjunct (temporary), Portland State University | Instructor (permanent), Florida International University |
| 2015 | Scientific Practice and Analogical Reasoning: The Problem of Ingrained Analogy | Alison Wylie (chair), Andrea Woody, Lynn Hankinson Nelson, Carole Lee, Paul Bartha | Adjunct (temporary), Pacific Lutheran University | University of Windsor (TT) |
| 2014 | The Normative Dimensions of State Action | Michael Blake (chair), Jason Mayerfeld, William Talbott, Stephen Gardiner | Did not go on academic job market. Part-time lecturer Univ. of Washington | |
| 2014 | Immigrant Oppression and Social Justice | Michael Blake (chair) Sara Goering, José Antonio Lucero, William Talbott, Shelley Wilcox | Assistant Professor, University of Texas, El Paso | University of Nevada, Las Vegas (TT) |
| 2014 | Retributive Hatred as a Reactive Moral Attitude | Jean Roberts (chair), Deborah Kamen, Stephen Gardiner, Cass Weller, Ingra Schellenberg | Full-time lecturer in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the Univ. of Washington Tacoma | |
| 2013 | Seduced into Caring: Virtue in the Life of the Reader | Ron Moore (chair) Michael Blake Carole Lee Andrea Woody | Visiting Assistant Professor, College of Charleston, South Carolina | |
| 2013 | A Leap Into Darkness: The Normative Structure of International Politics | Michael Blake (chair) William Talbott Stephen Gardiner | 2-year Post Doc, Bowen H. McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society, Stanford University; then National University Singapore (TT) | University of Twente, Netherlands (TT) |
| 2012 | Feeling Proud and Being Proud: An Investigation into the Moral Psychology of Personal Ideals | Angela Smith (chair), David Keyt, Ingra Schellenberg, and William Talbott | Fixed term assistant professor at University of Calgary | University of Alabama, Huntsville (TT) |
| 2012 | Troubling Others and Tormenting Ourselves: The Nature and Moral Significance of Jealousy | Stephen Gardiner (chair), Jean Roberts, Carole Lee, Ingra Schellenberg | One year assistant professor at Fort Lewis College, Colorado; then Colby Sawyer College, New London, NH | Ball State University (TT) |
| 2012 | The Significance of Unintentional Omission: Moral Responsibility for the Failure to Act | Angela Smith (chair), Ann Baker, Larry BonJour, Stephen Gardiner | Limited job market search. Part-time instructor at Bellevue CC, and Univ. of Washington | Adjunct (temporary), Sonoma State University |
| 2012 | Beyond the Basic/Nonbasic Interests Distinction: A Feminist Approach to Inter-Species Moral Conflict and Moral Repair | Sara Goering (chair), Stephen Gardiner, Lori Gruen, Jean Roberts | Did not go on academic job market. Part-time instructor Univ of Washington, and Philosophy for Children | Philosopher in Residence, John Muir Elementary (non-academic) |
| 2010 | Listening in Public: Duties of Civility in a Pluralistic Democracy | Michael Blake (chair), M. Alison Wylie, William Talbott, Michael Rosenthal | Queen's Postdoctoral Fellowship in Democracy and Diversity at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario | Instructor (permanent), Loyola University Chicago |
| 2010 | Values in Science: The Distinction between the Context of Discovery and the Context of Justification | Arthur Fine (chair), Stephen Gardiner, Lynn Hankinson Nelson, Andrea Woody, M. Alison Wylie | One year visiting lecturer position at Simon Fraser Univ, Burnaby, BC; Linden College, OR (TT) | Instructor, Bellevue College & Seattle Central College |
| 2010 | Putting Judgment in Context: Moral Particularism and the Structure of Practical Reason | Cass Weller (chair), Jean Roberts, Angela Smith | Visiting lecturer position at Otterbein in Columbus, OH | |
| 2009 | Expert Testimony and the Social Transmission of Scientific Knowledge | Arthur Fine (chair), Laurence BonJour, Lynn Hankinson Nelson, M. Alison Wylie | College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL (TT) | Governors State University, Chicago (TT) |
| 2009 | A Logic for Disorderly Domains | Arthur Fine (co-chair), David Keyt (co-chair), S. Marc Cohen | Research Scholar in the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at George Mason University, Washington DC | Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Philosophy and Policy, George Mason University |
| 2009 | Hume's Moral Realism | Michael Rosenthal (chair), William Talbott, Cass Weller | University of Washington (non tenure track) and various Washington State Community Colleges | |
| 2009 | On the Significance of an Overlapping Consensus on Human Rights | William Talbott (chair), Michael Blake, Andrew Light, Angela Smith | Tenure track assistant professor, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan | |
| 2009 | The Art of Remaking Dances: A Philosophical Analysis of Dancework Reconstruction | Ron Moore (chair), Ann Baker, Laurence BonJour, Andrea Woody | Tenure-track assistant professor, Purdue University, Calumet, Indiana | |
| 2008 | Skepticism and the Foundation of Empirical Justification | Laurence BonJour (chair), Ann Baker, William Talbott, Andrea Woody | Tenure track assistant professor, University of Iowa | |
| 2008 | Virtuous Circles: A Defense of Limited Epistemic Circularity | Laurence BonJour (chair), Ann Baker, Arthur Fine, William Talbott | Tenure track assistant professor, Iowa State University | |
| 2007 | On a Cladistic Taxonomy of Organismic Traits | Marc Lange (chair), Arthur Fine, Lynn Hankinson Nelson, Andrea Woody | Tenure track assistant professor Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville | |
| 2007 | The Most Important Thing of All: Piety, Virtue, and Politics in Plato's Laws | Jean Roberts (chair), Ruby Blondell, S. Marc Cohen, David Keyt | Loyola Marymount University, California (non tenure track) | |
| 2006 | Toward a Linguistic Conception of Thought | Cass Weller (chair), Lynn Hankinson Nelson, Andrea Woody | University of Washington Writing Program (non tenure track) | Western Oregon University (non tenure track) |
| 2006 | One More Apt Feeling: A Defense of a Modified Version of Allen Gibbard's Account of the Meaning of Our Putative Wrongness Judgments | William Talbott (chair), Ken Clatterbaugh, Angela Smith | Did not go on academic job market. | |
| 2006 | Should We Feel Bad About Feeling Good About Immoral Art? An Argument in Favor of Minimal Moralism | Paul Taylor (co-chair), Ron Moore (co-chair), Jean Roberts, Angela Smith, Cass Weller | Tenure track assistant professor, Otterbein College, Ohio | |
| 2005 | Virtue and Reason in Nature | William Talbott (chair), Robert Coburn, Jean Roberts | Virginia Commonwealth University (non tenure track) | Oregon State University (tenured) |
| 2004 | An Examination of Robert Boyle's Conception of Physical Causes | Ken Clatterbaugh (chair), Michael Rosenthal, Cass Weller, Andrea Woody | Did not go on academic job market | |
| 2004 | Perceptual Knowledge: Explorations and Extensions of the Sellarsian Framework | Cass Weller (chair), Robert Coburn, Marc Lange, William Talbott | Coastal Carolina University, South Carolina (non tenure track) | Washington State Community Colleges (non tenure track) |
| 2004 | Should Science Be Value-Free? Rethinking the Role of Ethical and Political Values in the Justification of Scientific Theories | Jean Roberts (co-chair), Andrea Woody (co-chair), Arthur Fine, Lynn Hankinson Nelson | Coastal Carolina University, South Carolina (TT) | Montana State University, Bozeman (tenured) |
| 2004 | Aristotle On Sexual Differentiation and Family Resemblances | Marc Cohen (chair), Ruby Blondell, David Keyt, Jean Roberts, Cass Weller | Did not go on academic job market. | |
| 2004 | Expanding the Child's Range of Open Futures: A proposed basis for the ethical assessment of parental genetic trait selection | Ron Moore (chair), Wylie Burke, Sara Goering, Nancy Jecker, Andrea Woody | Judge for State of Washington (prior to and post-PhD) | |
| 2004 | Intrinsically Semantic Concepts and the Intentionality of Propositional Attitudes | Laurence BonJour (chair), Ann Baker, S. Marc Cohen | Limited one-year academic job search. | |
| 2004 | Physical Systems: Conceptual Pathways Between Spacetime and Matter | Arthur Fine (chair), Marc Lange, Andrea Woody | Western Ontario University (post-doc) | University of Virginia, Richmond (TT) |
| 2003 | Rationality and Moral Responsibility in Romantic Love | Ken Clatterbaugh (chair), Angela Smith, Robert Solomon, Paul Taylor | Humboldt State University, California (non tenure track) | Ethicist for Weyerhaeuser |
| 2003 | A Controversy About Animal Consciousness | Charles Marks (chair), Ken Clatterbaugh, S. Marc Cohen, William Talbott | Did not go on academic job market. | |
| 2002 | The Epistemological Role of the Intellectual Virtues | Laurence BonJour (chair), Ann Baker, Angela Smith, William Talbott | Baylor University, Texas | Loyola Marymount University, California |
| 2001 | A Positivist Account of Legal Principles | Ronald Moore (chair), Laurence BonJour, Robert Coburn, William Talbott | University of Washington Information School (non tenure track) | Seattle Pacific University |
| 2001 | Precedent Autonomy, Surviving Interest, and Advance Medical Decisionmaking | Albert Jonsen (co-chair), Ronald Moore (co-chair), Laurence BonJour, Nancy Jecker, William Talbott | University of North Carolina School of Medicine | University of Tennessee, California State University, Fullerton |
| 1999 | Time in Physics IV: Aristotle's Reductionistic Vision in Four Movements | S. Marc Cohen (chair), David Keyt, Jean Roberts, Cass Weller | Ohio State University (non tenure track) | Boise State University, Idaho |
| 1999 | On the Continuation of Material Being | S. Marc Cohen (chair), John Boler, Ken Clatterbaugh, James Mish'alani | Seattle Pacific University (non tenure track) | University of Puget Sound (non tenure track), Winthrop University, South Carolina |
| 1999 | Peter Abelard's Theory of the Proposition | Ken Clatterbaugh (chair), John Boler, David Keyt, Charles Marks | University of Akron, Ohio | Carroll University, Wisconsin |