List of Ph.D. Programs to which our students were accepted

Central European University

Indiana University at Bloomington

Johns Hopkins

Northwestern

Princeton University

Purdue University

Rice University

St. Louis University

State University of New  York, Stonybrook

Tulane University

University of Arizona

University of British Columbia

University of California -- Los Angeles

University of California -- Riverside

University of California -- San Diego

University of Cincinnati

University of Connecticut

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne

University of Massachusetts -- Amherst

University of Miami

University of Missouri

University of Memphis

University of Nebraska

University of Rochester

University of Wisconsin -- Madison

Vanderbilt University

Graduate Placement

Summary

The M.A. in Philosophy Program at Brandeis University was launched in the Fall of 2009. The first class of 18 students have graduated with an M.A. in Philosophy and 9 out of the 10 who applied to Ph.D. Programs have been admitted with funding. The Table below displays the details:

Year

 

Thesis Title

 

Applied to Ph.D.Program

 

Ph.D. Program/Employment

 

2011

 

 

"Echoes of Hegel in Nietzsche's Zur Genealogie der Moral: Discord as Structure, Error as Progress"

 

Yes

 

Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

2011

 

 

"Dodging the Darwinian Dilemma Via a Genuinely Realist Version of Value Naturalism"

 

Yes

 

University of Arizona

 

2011

 

 

"Mixed Objects, Metaphysical Ordering, and Ontological Dependence: An Appeal to Dependence Pluralism"

 

Yes

 

Indiana University at Bloomington

 

2011

 

 

"Gratitude and Hume's Conventional Morality"

 

Yes

 

University of Chicago -- Doctoral Program in Political Science

 

2011

 

 

"On Unicorns, British Detectives, and Armageddon Operas"

 

Yes

 

University of North Carolina

 

2011

 

 

"Realizing Functions?: An Argument from Underdetermination"

 

Yes

 

UCLA

 

2011

 

 

"Justifying Falsehoods"

 

Yes

 

Northwestern

 

2011

 

 

"Reid on the Heterogeneity Thesis: A Response to Molyneux's Problem"

 

Yes

 

University of Pittsburgh School of Law

 

2011

 

"Representing Tastes"

 

Yes

 

 

University of British Columbia

 

2011

 

 

"Unity Lost and Found – Locke’s Substratum as a Genuine Idea"

 

Yes

 

Central European University

 

 

2010

 

 

"Facts About Fiction"

 

 

No

 

 

Publishing field

 

2010

 

 

"Handle with Fear: The Death of Art and the Art of Death"

 

Yes

 

SUNY Stonybrook

 

2010

 

 

"The Extended Mind Revised and Broad Functionalism"

 

No

 

Employed in China

 

2010

 

 

"Imperialism and the Moral Concept of Authority"

 

No

 

Resumed career in law, clerking for a Superior Court Judge

 

2010

 

 

"Avoiding infinitely-many last words: The pragmatic case for logical anti-realism"

 

No

 

Going on  in the field of Cognitive Neuro-psychology

2010

 

 

"Infinity and Innateness: Plato and Locke on a Fundamental of Mathematical Psychology"

 

No

 

Law School in Colorado