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Dissertation - Navigating Morality, Agency and Emotion in Interpersonal Contexts
Advisor - Peter Carruthers 
Position - Visiting Assistant Professor, Philosophy, Purdue University 
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Dissertation - Cares in Action 
Advisor - Peter Carruthers 
Position - Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Philosophy, Tel Aviv University 
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Dissertation - Deliberation, Learning Conditional Probability, and Risk 
Advisor - Eric Pacuit 
Position - Assistant Professor, Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing)
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Dissertation - On Voting and Polarization 
Advisor - Dan Moller 
Current Position - Adjunct Professor, Montgomery College; Tennis and pickleball coach.

Dissertation - Social Media and the Epistemic Environment: How Individuals Navigate the Impact 
Advisor - Hallie Liberto 
Position - Lecturer, Georgia State University 
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Dissertation - An Inquiry into Honor
Advisor - Dan Moller
Position - Permanent Military Professor of Philosophy, Department of Leadership, Ethics and Law, U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis
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Dissertation - Unawareness and its Effect on Beliefs, Learning, and Group Decision Making 
Advisor - Eric Pacuit 
Position - (Japan)
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Dissertation - Love and Other Emotions Over Time 
Advisor - Dan Moller  
Position - Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Luther College (Iowa) 
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Dissertation - The Defeasibility of Rights 
Advisor - Jeff Horty 
Position - Riley Scholar-in-Residence, Philosophy, Colorado College 
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Dissertation - Moral Transformation in Theory, Practice, and Application
Advisor - Rachel Singpurwalla
Position - Robert T. Herres Distinguished Military Professor of Ethics, U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis 
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Dissertation - Local Information in Discourse 
Advisors - Alexander Williams, Fabrizio Cariani and Paolo Santorio  
Position - Lecturer, Cognitive Science, Dartmouth University 
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Dissertation - A Theory of Leadership and Its Applications 
Advisor - Jeff Horty 
Position - US Army deployment

Dissertation - Constructing Our Moral World: Agency, Teleology, and Korsgaard 
Advisor - Samuel Kerstein  
Position - Visiting Assistant Professor, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul 
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Dissertation - Subjectivity and Cognitive Science: A Defense of the Representational Theory of Consciousness 
Advisor - Peter Carruthers 
Position - Clinical Bioethicist, Community Health Network, Indianapolis 
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Dissertation - Memory, Time, and Temporal Experience 
Advisor - Peter Carruthers 
Position - Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine 
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Dissertation - Repositioning Cognitive Kinds 
Advisor - Peter Carruthers 
Position - Assistant Professor, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
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Dissertation - New Perspective on Inquisitive Semantics 
Advisors - Eric Pacuit and Paolo Santorio 
Position - Postdoctoral Researcher, Düsseldorf University 
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Dissertation - A New Theory of Individualized Evidence 
Advisor - Jeff Horty 
Position - Adjunct Faculty, Department of Philosophy, George Mason University

Dissertation - A Groundwork for Perspectival Quantum Mechanics 
Advisor - Jeff Bub 
Position - Quantum Product Manager at Fidelity (2021 - present)

Dissertation - On the Activities and Parts of the Mechanisms of Life 
Advisor - Lindley Darden 
Position - Assistant Professor (Lecturer), Department of Philosophy, Leeds University 
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Dissertation - Semantics and Pragmatics in a Modular Mind 
Advisor - Alexander Williams 
Position - Visiting Assistant Professor, Grand Valley State University
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Dissertation -  Philosophy and Translatability
Advisor - Georges Rey 
Position -  Master Instructor, Indian River State College 
 

Dissertation - What Emotion Does: Affect in Empathy, Art, and Beyond 
Advisor - Peter Carruthers 
Position - Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, Colorado College (2024-)
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Dissertation - The Existence of Time and Its Relationship to the Reality of Temporal Passage
Advisor - Allen Stairs 
Position - Visiting Assistant Prof at the University of Regina, Fall 2020 - present 

Dissertation - Defeasibility in Epistemology 
Advisor - John Horty 
Position - Post-doc, University of Luxembourg, Individual and Collective Reasoning Group 
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Dissertation - Epistemic Might: A Non-Epistemic Analysis 
Advisor - Alexander Williams 
Position - Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Grand Valley State University 
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Dissertation - Some Epistemological and Practical Challenges to Moral Realism 
Advisor - Peter Carruthers 
Position - Assistant Teaching Professor, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Arizona State University 
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Dissertation - Disadvantage in Context: From Microaggressions to Healthcare Policy
Advisor - Samuel Kerstein 
Position - Assoicate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Marquette University 
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Dissertation - The Nature of Governmental Authority 
Advisor - Christopher Morris

Dissertation - Mindreading for Cooperation: A Moderately Minimalist Approach 
Advisor - Peter Carruthers 
Position - Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Peking University 
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Dissertation - Art, Fiction, and Explanation 
Advisor - Jerrold Levinson 
Position - Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, National University of Singapore 
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Dissertation - Novels and Their Instances: A Metaphysical Exploration
Advisor - Jerrold Levinson
Position - Associate Professor, School of Philosophy and Cultural Studies, Moscow Higher School of Economics 
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Dissertation - Vulnerable Patients, Autonomy, Well-Being, and Death 
Advisor - Samuel Kerstein 
Position - Clinical Bioethicist at Sutter Health
 

Dissertation - Relative and Objective, On Balance: Detailing the Best Systems Analysis of Laws
Advisor - Aidan Lyon
Position - Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University
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Dissertation - An Essay on the Nature of Visual Perception 
Advisor - Peter Carruthers 
Position - Adjunct Professor, Minnesota State University, Mankat, 2017-Present

Dissertation - Rationality and Moral Risk: A Moderate Defense of Hedging 
Advisor - Dan Moller 
Position - Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy Philosophy, University of Toronto 
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Dissertation - The Architecture and Development of Mindreading: Beliefs, perspectives, and character  
Advisor - Peter Carruthers 
Position - Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Purdue University 
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Dissertation - Visual Insight in Geometry 
Advisor - Peter Carruthers and Jerrold Levinson 
Position - SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Philosophy, University of British Columbia, 2016 - 2018; Visting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of the Pacific, 2018 -; Sessional Instructor, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto

Dissertation - Are Videogames Art?
Advisor - Jerrold Levinson 
Position - Associate Director, Guidehouse Consulting

Dissertation -  Deutsch’s CTC Model and its Implications for the Foundations of Quantum Theory
Advisor -  Jeffrey Bub
Position - Associate Professor Educator, Department of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati; Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Foundations of Physics, Rotman Institute of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario, 2015 - 2017
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Dissertation - Innateness in the Sciences: Separating Nature, Nurture, and Nativism
Advisor -  Georges Rey
Position -  Independent Research Consultant in International Development (2016-); Senior Analyst for Education Practices , Hanover Research, 2014 - 2015

Dissertation - Why Fiction Matters
Advisor -  Jerrold Levinson
Position - Go-to-Market Manager, Zenda; Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Stanford University (2018-2023)
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Dissertation - The Explanatory Role of Intentional Content in Cognitive Science
Advisor - Georges Rey
Position - Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Grand Valley State University (2018 -)
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Dissertation - Representational Content and the Science of Vision
Advisor - Peter Carruthers
Position - Assistant Professor, Canadian Centre for Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge (Canada); Post-Doctoral Scholar National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH),  2020 - 2025. Post-Doctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Biological Psychology, KU Leuven, 2016 - 2020
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Dissertation - Internalist Deflationism: On the Limits of Ontological Investigation
Advisor - Paul Pietroski
Position - Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, UC San Diego; Assistant Professor, Shandong University, (2019-2025)
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Dissertation - From Social Choice to System Choice: A Problem for Lewis's Best System Analysis
Advisor - Aidan Lyon
Position - Lecturer, University of Maryland (2016 -)

Dissertation - Public Opinion, Political Representation, and Democratic Choice  
Advisor - Eric Pacuit and Christopher Morris
Position - Curriculum and Policy Analyst, College of Letters and Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Dissertation -  Mechanism and Chance: Toward an Account of Stochastic Mechanism for the Life Sciences
Advisor -  Lindley Darden
Position - Associate Professor of Philosophy, Missouri Western State University
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Dissertation -  Consciousness and Mental Quotation: An Intrinsic Higher-order Account
Advisor - Peter Carruthers
Position - Financial Advisor, Morgan Stanley (2017-); Business Analyst, Distributed Solution (2015 - 2017); Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa (2014-2015)

Dissertation -  Global Justice as Fairness: Non-domination, Human Rights and the Basic Global Structure
Advisor - Christopher Morris
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Dissertation - B-Coming: Time's Passage in the B-theory Blockworld
Advisor - Mathias Frisch
Position - Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Hobart and William Smith Colleges 
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Dissertation -  The Metaphysics of Multi-Level Explanation
Advisor -  Mathias Frisch
Position -  Instructor, Arizona State University (2013) 
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Dissertation -  The Experience of Fiction
Advisor -  Peter Carruthers and Jerrold Levinson
Position -  Contributor, The Daily Beast (2014-); Adjunct Professor, University of Maryland Baltimore County (2013 - 2016)

Dissertation - Two-Dimensionalism and the Problem of Informativity
Advisor -  Paul Pietroski
Position -  Instructor and On-line Coordinator (open-ended), University of Memphis, 2012 - present 
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Dissertation -  On Utterance Interpretation and Metalinguistic-Semantic Competence
Advisor -  Paul Pietroski
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Dissertation - The Semantics of Proper Names and Other Bare Nominals
Advisor - Paul Pietroski
Position - Associate Professor and Director, Centre for Linguistics, Nanzan University
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Dissertation - Overly-Great Expectations: Why Political Voluntarism is Impossible, Why Philosophical Anarchism is Unnecessary, and Why That's Not a Problem
Advisor - Christopher Morris
Position -  Academic Advisor II, College of Liberal Arts/Department of Sociology, Texas A & M University 2014 - present

Dissertation - On the Representation of Objects in the Visual System
Advisor - Georges Rey
Position - Instructor, University of Maryland, George Washington University, George Mason University, and Howard University, 2012 - present

Dissertation - Environmental Human Rights, Natural Law Theory, and Nature's Aesthetic Value
Advisor - Jerrold Levinson
Position - Instructor, Department of Philosophy, University of Arkansas; previously Visiting Assistant Professor, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Dissertation - The Disunity of Moral Judgment: An Essay in Moral Psychology
Advisor - Susan Dwyer
Position -  Professor, Department of Philosophy, Seattle Pacific University
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Dissertation - Moral Intuitions and their Role in Justification
Advisor - Samuel Kerstein
Position - Associate Professor of Teaching, Philosophy, Wayne State University
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Dissertation - An East and West Debate on Human Rights
Advisor - Christopher Morris
Position - Associate Professor, Philosophy, Hong Kong Baptist University; previously Assistant Professor, Hang Seng Management College (2012-2015), and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Tulane University (2011-2012)
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Dissertation - Freud, Modularity, and the Principle of Charity
Advisor - Georges Rey
Position - Instructor, Philosophy Department, University of Maryland (2010 - 2012)

Dissertation - Action, Perception, and the Living Body: Aristotle on the Physiological Foundations of Moral Psychology
Advisor - Rachel Singpurwalla
Position - Adjunct Associate Professor, Long Island University C.W. Campus 

Dissertation - Structuralism and Natural Philosophy: Method, Metaphysics and Explanation
Advisor - Jeffrey Bub
Position - Founder and CEO, Society for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena; previously Adjunct Assistant Professor in Philosophy at CUNY-Bronx and St. John's College Queens; Adjunct Professor, University of San Francisco (2011 - 2014) 
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Dissertation - Topic-Sensitive Belief Revision
Advisor - John Horty
Position - Reader, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, England, 2014 - present; previously Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester (2007-2012) 
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Dissertation - Frame Problems, Fodor's Challenge, and Practical Reason
Advisor - Peter Carruthers
Position - Software Engineer, Wayfair (2010-)

Dissertation - How Many Minds: Individuating Mental Tokens in the Split-Brain Subject
Advisor - Peter Carruthers
Position - Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland
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Dissertation - Entanglement and Information in Algebraic Quantum Theories
Advisor - Jeffrey Bub
Position - Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science, Department of Mathematics, Polytechnic University of Milan; Research Meitner Fellow (2017-2018), Humboldt Fellow in the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians University at Munich (2015-2017), and Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department, University of Pittsburgh (2010 - 2017)
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Dissertation - Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information Theory
Advisor - Jeffrey Bub
Position - Instructor, Philosophy Department, George Mason University (2008 - 2012); Visiting Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech University (2012 - 2013); Adjunct Professor, Department of Art and Music Prince George's Community College (2014-) 

Dissertation - Diversity, Modesty, Liberty: an Essay on State Neutrality
Advisor - William Galston and Christopher Morris
Position - Associate Professor, Philosophy, Texas State University; previously Instructor, University of Maryland School of Public Policy (2011-2016), Analyst, U.S Government Accountability Office (2013-2016),Presidential Management Fellow, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (2009 - 2013), and Visiting Assistant Professor, Bowling Green State University, (2008-2009)  
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Dissertation - On Popular Sovereignty
Advisor - Christopher Morris
Position - Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department, Soochow University Taiwan (2010-); previously Postdoctoral Fellow, Humanities Research Center, National Science Council, Taiwan (2008-2010)
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Dissertation - Views of God and Evil: A Perspectival Approach to the Argument from Evil
Advisor - Allen Stairs
Position -  Instructor, Philosophy Department, Western Washington University; Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Addis Ababa University - present 

Dissertation - Consciousness, Concepts and Content
Advisor - Peter Carruthers
Position - Associate Professor, Philosophy Department, University of Michigan at Flint 
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Dissertation - The Metaphysics and Ethics of Copyright
Advisor -  Jerrold Levinson
Position - Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Furman University
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Dissertation - Clifford Algebra: A Case for Geometric and Ontological Simplification  
Advisor -  Jeffrey Bub and Michael Silberstein
Position -  Instructor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion, Mississippi State University (2010-); previously Visiting Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department, New Mexico State University (2009-2010) and Research Fellow, Center for Philosophy and Natural Science, Fetzer-Franklin Foundation (2008-2009)
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Dissertation - Authoring Events: An Attributive Theory of Responsibility
Advisor -  Mark Schroeder
Position - Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Alabama at Birmingham; previously Postdoctoral Fellowship, UCLA (2012 - 2013), Visiting Assistant Professor in Philosophy at St. Bonaventure University (2011- 2012) and Virginia Tech University (2010-2011)
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Dissertation - It's Just Semantics: What Fiction Reveals about Proper Names
Advisor -  Paul Pietroski
Position -  Postdoctoral Research Associate, Philosophy Department, University of Maryland, 2008-2010; Visiting Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department, St. Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2010-2011; Visiting Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department, University of Rochester, 2011 - 2012; Visiting Assistant Professor, SUNY Geneseo, 2012-2014; Assistant Professor (tenure-track), SUNY Geneseo, 2014 - present.
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Dissertation - Empowerment and International Development
Advisor - Judith Lichtenberg and David Crocker
Position - Professor, Philosophy Department, New Mexico State University (2007-)
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Dissertation - Rwanda and the Moral Obligation of Humanitarian Intervention
Advisor - Christopher Morris
Position - Faculty Associate, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Baltimore (2007-)
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Dissertation - An Investigation into Popular Art
Advisor - Jerrold Levinson
Position - Assistant (2007-) and Associate Professor, Cal State University East Bay; previously Instructor, The University of Victoria and Camosun College (2006-2007)
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Dissertation - Thermodynamics, Irreversibility, and Jaynes' Approach to Statistical Mechanics
Advisor - Jeffrey Bub
Position - Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Philosophy Department, Virginia Tech (2006 - 2012)

Dissertation - Memorable Moments: A Philosophy of Poetry
Advisor - Jerrold Levinson
Position - Assistant, Associate and Full Professor, Department of Philosophy, Texas Tech University (2006-)
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Dissertation - Bee-ing There: The Systematicity of Honeybee Navigation Supports a Classical Theory of Honeybee Cognition
Advisor - Peter Carruthers and Georges Rey
Position - Post-Doc, Physics Department, Technion Israel Institute of Technology

Dissertation - The Very Idea of Hispanic Identity
Advisor - Christopher Morris
Position - Director, Editorial and Information Services Office, Federal Judicial Center; Adjunct Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland at College Park
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Dissertation - Reason for Rescue: An Essay on Beneficence
Advisor - Christopher Morris
Position - Associate Professor, Philosophy Department, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
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Dissertation - Pieces of Music: The Ontology of Classical, Rock, and Jazz Music
Advisor - Jerrold Levinson
Position - Assistant (2005-11), Associate (2011-2017) and Full Professor (2017-), Philosophy Department, Trinity University (San Antonio)
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Dissertation - Identifying and Eliminating the Problem with Einstein's Cosmological Constant
Advisor - Jeffrey Bub and James Mattingly
Position - Ph.D. in Astrophysics, Technion, Israel (2010)

Dissertation - Concepts: Taking Psychological Explanation Seriously
Advisor - Georges Rey
Position - Assistant (2005-2011), Associate and Full Professor, Philosophy Department, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
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Dissertation - Identification and Autonomy: A Meditation on th e Philosophy of Harry Frankfurt
Advisor - Raymond Martin
Position - Lecturer, Philosophy Department, California State University at Long Beach (2004-?)

Dissertation - Artistic and Ethical Values in the Experience of Narratives
Advisor - Jerrold Levinson
Position - Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Philosophy Department, Lafayette College, 2004 - 10; Associate Professor (tenured), Philosophy Department, Lafayette College, 2010 - present.
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Dissertation - A Moral Contractualist Defense of Political Obligation
Advisor - William Galston
Position - Associate (2009-2019) and Full Professor (2019-), Department of Philosophy, University of Richmond; previously Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department, University of North Carolina at Greenboro (2004-2009)
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Dissertation - R. A. Fisher and Randomized Experimental Design
Advisor - Lindley Darden
Position - Associate Professor, Philosophy Department, University of Delaware, 2002 - 2022 [deceased]

Dissertation - Socialization of Epistemology: For a Better Relationship Between Epistemology and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
Advisor - Frederick Suppe
Position - Associate (2008-2022) and Full Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University (2008-); previously Tenured Lecturer, School of Informatics and Sciences, Nagoya University (2000-2008)
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Dissertation - Ethical Caring and the Physician-Patient Relationship: A Dual Defense of a Virtue Ethics of Care
Advisor - Michael Slote
Position - Assistant and Associate Professor (tenure-track), Department of Philosophy and Religion, Washington College (2005-)
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Dissertation - Scientific Theory Testing Through Computer Model Validation
Advisor - Frederick Suppe
Position - Lead Engineer, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Mitre Corporation (2000-)

Dissertation - The R. A. Fisher-Sewall Wright Controversy in Philosophical Focus: Theory Evaluation in Population Genetics
Advisor - Lindley Darden
Position - Associate and Full Professor, Philosophy Department, University of Cincinnati (2007-)
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Dissertation - Semantic Nativism and the Language of Thought: Some Implications of the American Sign Language for Fodor's Innateness Hypothesis
Advisor - Michael Devitt
Position - Associate Professor (tenured), Philosophy Department, Gallaudet University, 1999-2004 [deceased]
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Dissertation - Time-Symmetrized Quantum Theory: A Critique
Advisor - Jeffrey Bub
Position - Research Associate, University of Maryland; Senior Research Fellow at the New School of Advanced Studies, University of Tyumen, Russia (1999-)
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Dissertation - Scientific Observation: Image and Reality
Advisor - Frederick Suppe
Position - Assistant Research Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham (1999-)

Dissertation - Art as Communication: A Philosophical Inquiry
Advisor - Jerrold Levinson
Position - Associate and Full Professor, Philosophy Department, Brooklyn College (2005-)
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Dissertation - Balancing Human Rights and Prerogatives
Advisor - Michael Slote
Position - Senior Lecturer (tenured), School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand (1999-)
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Dissertation - Meaningful Lives and the Meaning of Life
Advisor - S. Jack Odell
Position - Freelance writer; previously Adjunct Professor, York College (2000) and Instructor, Philosophy Department, Wilkes University (2004 - 2006)
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Dissertation - The Virtues of Sharing
Advisor - Michael Slote
Position - Associate and Full Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Northern Colorado (2007-); previously Lecturer and Subject Matter Expert, Center for Ethical Deliberation, University of Denver (1999-2007)
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Dissertation - Morality and Justice as Restricted Benevolence
Advisor - Michael Slote
Position - Associate Professor [Emeritus], Philosophy Department, Oklahoma State University (1997-)
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Dissertation - Aesthetic Experiences and Their Place in the Mind
Advisor - Jerrold Levinson
Position - Professor and Chair, Philosophy of Art and Culture, University of Amsterdam
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