University of Connecticut Department of Philosophy
Doctoral Degrees and Placements 1990-2009
Colin Caret (advisor: JC Beall)
Dissertation: The Interpretation of Partitioned Frame Semantics
First appointment: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Arché Research Centre (St. Andrews)
Brian Leahy (advisor: John Troyer)
Dissertation: Fantasy, Fiction, Forecast
First appointment: Post-doctoral research fellowship in Conditional Semantics at University of Konstanz
Gustavus Alexus Mcleod (advisor: Joel Kupperman)
Disserration: Moral Personhood in Confucius and Aristotle
First appointment: Assistant Professor, University of Dayton (tenure-track)
Andrea Jean Purton (advisor: Austen Clark)
Dissertation: The Role of the Body in Perceptual Spatial Representation
Franklin Scott (advisor: Austen Clark)
Dissertation: Teleosemantics and Color.
First appointment: Cincinnati
Steven Todd (advisor: Austen Clark)
Dissertation: Unmasking Consciousness: A case study demonstrating the impact of empirical data on theories of consciousness
First appointment: Associate Professor, Kingwood College (tenure-track)
Qiong Wang (advisor: Joel Kupperman)
Dissertation: The Ethics of Family Relationships
Frst appointment: University of Oklahoma
Brian Rockwood (advisor: Samuel Wheeler)
Dissertation: The Limits of Ethical Disagreement: A Davidsonian Approach to Ethics.
David Slutsky (advisor: Joel Kupperman)
Dissertation: What in the World Could Show Whether Moral Realism is True?
First appointment: Assistant Professor, Ithaca College
Current appointment: Assistant Professor, Eastern Connecticut State University
Patrick Fleming (advisor: Joel Kupperman)
Dissertation: Reasons, Desires and Ends
First appointment: Visiting Assistant Professor, James Maddison University
Adam Q. Potthast (advisor: Joel Kupperman)
Dissertation: Morality, Identity, and Continuity: Reductionism about Personal Identity
over Time and Utilitarianism
First appointment:
Daniel Blair (advisor:
Samuel Wheeler)
Dissertation: Parataxis and Logical Form
First appointment: Post-Doctoral Fellow,
Timothy Nulty (advisor:
Samuel Wheeler)
Dissertation: Davidson and Heidegger on the Nature of Truth
First appointment: UMass,
Weimin Sun (advisor: John Troyer)
Dissertation: The Concept of Probability.
First appointment:
William Cornwell III (advisor: Ruth Millikan)
Dissertation: Knowledge Without Justification.
First appointment:
Current appointment: Salem State College (tenure track)
Lisa Cassidy (advisor:
Dissertation: Different Bodies
First appointment:
Christopher Panza (advisor: Donald Baxter)
Dissertation: Ideas, General Reference and Abstraction in Locke's Essay.
First appointment:
Erik Anderson (advisor:
Dissertation: Believers and Citizens: Religious Freedom in a Deliberative
Democracy.
First appointment:
Paula Droege
(advisor:
Dissertation: Second Sense: A Theory of Consciousness.
First appointment:
Current appointment:
Gordon Stevenson (advisor: Ruth Millikan)
Dissertation: The Naturalistic Foundations of Intentional Action.
First appointment:
Elise Springer (advisor:
Dissertation: Critical Virtue: Evaluative Moves and the Emergence of Moral
Agency.
First appointment:
Current appointment:
Virgil Whitmyer
(advisor: Ruth Millikan)
Dissertation: Isomorphism in Mind.
First appointment: Post-Doctoral Fellow,
Keya Maitra
(advisor: Ruth Millikan)
Dissertation: Our Knowledge About Our Own Mental
States: An Externalist Account.
First appointment: CUNY Staten Island (tenure track)
Current appointment:
Andrew Aavatsmark
(advisor: Ruth Millikan)
Dissertation: Individualism and Explanation in Cognitive Psychology.
First appointment:
Matthew Berry (advisor:
Dissertation: Perception and Intention.
First appointment: Computer analyst,
Jessica Prata
Miller (advisor:
Dissertation: Trust, Moral Ties, and Social Responsibility.
First appointment:
Current appointment:
Xinli Wang (advisor:
Dissertation: Truth-Value Gaps, Ontological Commitment, and Incommensurability.
First appointment:
Beth Ann Dobie
(advisor:
Dissertation: Images as Speech Acts.
First appointment:
Stephen Lahey
(advisor: A.S. McGrade)
Dissertation: The Universal Dominion: Metaphyusics
and Politics in the Thought of John Wyclif.
First appointment:
Subsequent appointment: University of Nebraska-Lincoln (tenure track)
Shannon O'Rourke (advisor:
Dissertation: Gratitude and the Creation of Value.
First appointment:
Subsequent appointment:
Andrew Beedle (advisor:
Dissertation: Necessity Naturalized: A Critique of Modal Realism.
First appointment:
Matthew McKeon (advisor: Scott Lehmann)
Dissertation: Logic, Semantics, and Possible Worlds.
First appointment:
Current appointment:
Timothy Eves (advisor:
Dissertation: Integrating the Care and Justice Perspectives: A Contribution to
the Feminist Ethic of Carol Gilligan.
First appointment:
Chenyang Li (advisor:
Dissertation: Toward a Contextual Approach to the Question of Being.
First appointment:
Current appointment:
Peimin Ni (advisor:
Dissertation: Hume and the Definition of "Cause".
First appointment:
Current appointment:
David Schejbal
(advisor:
Dissertation: Facts, Values, and Moral Realism.
First appointment: Assistant Dean, Northwestern University
Current appointment: Associate Dean University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana