Placement etc.
placement 1996-2024
The following list supplies our latest information about the employment status of each of the students who have received (or anticipate receiving) their Ph.D. in our Philosophy Program since 1996 (names have been omitted). All regular tenure-track positions are noted with a TT. Some recent data on hirings at top-ranked departments are available here (note that MIT’s Graduate Program is smaller than its competitors).
| year started first job (ph.d. date if different) | current job | first job (if different from current job) | field | gender | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | |||||
| Post-Doc, MIT | philosophy of mind, metaphysics | f | |||
| Post-Doc, MIT | epistemology | m | |||
| MA Student, Library Science | ethics, epistemology, philosophy of language | f | |||
| Ontologist, CyCorp | metaphysics, logic and philosophy of logic, applied ethics | f | |||
| 2023 | |||||
| Assistant Professor, Yale | Bersoff Faculty Fellow, NYU | philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and AI | m | ||
| Lecturer, University of Florida | ethics, metaethics, and philosophy of mind | f | |||
| Post-doc, Ruhr-Universität Bochum | Post-Doc, MIT | philosophy of language and ethics | m | ||
| 2022 | |||||
| Research Affiliate, MIT | epistemology | f | |||
| Tatelbaum Scholar in Ethics and Technology, Phillips Academy | ethics, bioethics, ethics of technology, metaphysics | m | |||
| Visiting Assistant Professor, Oberlin | Post-Doc, MIT | ethics and epistemology | f | ||
| Google CCAI Conversational Architect, Capgemini | Post-Doc, MIT | metaphysics and philosophy of language | f | ||
| Assistant Professor, LSE | Post-Doc, University of Bristol | philosophical logic, mathematical logic, metaphysics, philosophy of language | f | ||
| University Assistant, University of Vienna | Post-Doc, Harvard | moral philosophy | f | ||
| 2021 | |||||
| Social Sciences Research Fellow, Charles Sturt University | social philosophy, feminist philosophy, ethics, critical theory, queer theory, and STS studies | f | |||
| University of Edinburgh, TT | Post-Doc, MIT | ethics of technology, philosophy of science, and bioethics | f | ||
| Texas Tech University, TT | Post-Doc, UCLA | ethics, applied ethics | m | ||
| 2020 | |||||
| Lethbridge University, TT | Post-Doc, MIT | philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, metaphysics | m | ||
| Post-Doc, Freie Universität Berlin | Post-Doc, MIT | metaphysics, action theory, and ethics | m | ||
| Research Director, Jain Family Institute | philosophy of science and social philosophy | m | |||
| UC Irvine, TT | philosophy of language, feminist philosophy | f | |||
| Princeton University, TT | Bersoff Faculty Fellow, NYU | metaphysics and epistemology | m | ||
| 2019 | |||||
| MIT, TT | JRF, Oxford University | epistemology, logic, philosophy of language | m | ||
| Software Engineer | Instructor/Digital Learning Lab Fellow | epistemology, decision and game theory, philosophy of science | m | ||
| Boston University, TT | philosophy of language, social & political philosophy, feminist philosophy | f | |||
| University of Edinburgh, TT | Post-Doc, Ethics & Technology, MIT | ethics of technology | m | ||
| Tenant Organizer, Tenant Power Toolkit | Post-Doc, UCLA | social and political philosophy | f | ||
| Harvard University, TT | Post-Doc, MIT | ethics, applied ethics, meta-ethics | m | ||
| UNC at Chapel Hill, TT | Monash University, TT | ethics, philosophy of action | m | ||
| 2018 | |||||
| Lecturer, University of Glasgow | Mellon Postdoc, Rutgers University, New Brunswick | philosophy of language, epistemology | m | ||
| University of Florida, TT | Post-Doc, Harvard University | ethics and governance of artificial intelligence, practical ethics, philosophy of mind | m | ||
| Post-Doc Apple/Stanford University | Post-Doc, MIT | ethics and politics of technology | f | ||
| University of Chicago, TT | Bersoff Faculty Fellow, NYU | epistemology, philosophy of language | f | ||
| 2017 | |||||
| University of Toronto, TT | Fellow, Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University | ethics, moral psychology | m | ||
| Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Boston | Enrolled in MSW Program, Boston College | philosophy of action, philosophy of mind | m | ||
| Software Engineer | Teacher Assistant and Software Engineer | philosophical logic, philosophy of language | m | ||
| North Carolina State University, TT | Teacher Assistant and Software Engineer | metaphysics, philosophy of language | m | ||
| NYU, TT | Post-Doc, All Souls College, Oxford | philosophy of language, semantics, pragmatic | m | ||
| Research Analyst | epistemology | m | |||
| 2016 | |||||
| Clark University, TT | Visiting Lecturer, Mt. Holyoke College | ethics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of law | m | ||
| Lawyer | Law School, Yale University | f | |||
| Univ of Toronto, TT | Post-Doc, UNC- Chapel Hill (one year) | epistemology, ethics | m | ||
| Brown University, TT | Post-Doc, Hebrew University | epistemology, decision theory, philosophy of economics | m | ||
| Director of Research, Financial Life Cycle Education Corp | Project Manager | m | |||
| Resident Artist, VerticalCrypto Art Residency Program | Lecturer, University of Rhode Island | aesthetics and the philosophy of art, metaphysics | f | ||
| Vassar College, TT | Post-Doc, Vassar College | philosophy of mind, epistemology | f | ||
| 2015 | |||||
| Senior Research Fellow, Oxford | Post-Doc, Oxford | m | |||
| Oxford, TT | JRF, Trinity College, Cambridge | epistemology, philosophy of language | m | ||
| Curriculum Writer | Teacher, Buxton School | philosophy of science, philosophy of math/logic | f | ||
| 2014 | |||||
| UMass-Amherst TT | Rice University, TT | epistemology | f | ||
| 2013 | |||||
| UC-San Diego TT | Post-Doc, University of Leeds | epistemology, philosophy of language | f | ||
| Advisor, University of Oregon | Lecturer, MIT & Mt. Holyoke | ancient philosophy, ethics, philosophy of language | m | ||
| Software Engineer | Post-Doc, MIT | philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, epistemology | m | ||
| 2012 | |||||
| Yale University, TT | Bersoff Fellowship, NYU | epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of mind | m | ||
| ANU, TT | Post-Doc, Oxford | epistemology, practical rationality | m | ||
| Mt. Holyoke, TT | Brown University, TT | metaphysics, philosophy of science, philosophy of physics | f | ||
| UT-Austin, TT | epistemology, ethics, | f | |||
| University of Vienna, Tenured | Cambridge University (United Kingdom), TT | ethics, epistemology | f | ||
| 2011 | |||||
| University of Edinburgh, TT | Lecturer, University of London, Birkbeck College | philosophy of language, metaphysics | m | ||
| UM-Kansas City, TT | metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language | m | |||
| Cornell University, TT | Harvard Society of Fellows | logic, moral philosophy, epistemology, feminist theory | f | ||
| University of Massachusetts-Amherst, TT | Post-Doc, USC | mathematical and philosophical logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of math | m | ||
| Harvard University, TT | UM-Kansas City, TT | epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of biology | f | ||
| University of Maryland, TT | Post-Doc, ANU | philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, epistemology | m | ||
| Dartmouth College, TT | ethics, epistemology, Kant | m | |||
| Lecturer, Harvard University Kennedy School | epistemology, metaphysics, ethics | m | |||
| 2010 | |||||
| UNC, Chapel Hill, Tenured | Post-Doc, Stanford University | moral and political philosophy, responsibility, philosophy of mind | m | ||
| University of Groningen, TT | Visiting Fellow, University of Pittsburgh | philosophy of science | f | ||
| Berkeley City College, TT | Adjunct Faculty, UMass Lowell | epistemology | m | ||
| Post-Doc, at University of Sydney | m | ||||
| Lecturer, Tufts University | moral philosophy | f | |||
| Mt. Holyoke, TT | Post-Doc, Amherst College | epistemology, ethics, history of philosophy | f | ||
| 2009 | |||||
| Bates College, TT | metaphysics, philosophy of mind, moral psychology | f | |||
| University of St. Andrews, TT | Lecturer, MIT | philosophy of language, philosophy of mind | m | ||
| St. Joseph's University (Philadelphia), TT | Loyola University New Orleans, TT | biomedical ethics, philosophy of psychiatry, moral psychology | f | ||
| Non-academic position | m | ||||
| Northeastern University, TT | Law & Philosophy Fellow, University of Chicago | ethics, political philosophy | m | ||
| University of Leeds, TT | philosophy of mind, epistemology | f | |||
| University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, TT | philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology | f | |||
| Stanford University, Tenured | Post-Doc, University of Sydney | metaphysics, epistemology, decision theory | f | ||
| 2008 | |||||
| Visiting Lecturer, Northeastern University | Lecturer, Tufts University | l anguage and mind, meta-ethics, formal epistemology | m | ||
| Tufts University, TT | Post-Doc, St. Andrews | philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology | m | ||
| UC Berkeley, TT | NYU, TT | philosophy of language, philosophy of mind | m | ||
| University of Illinois-Springfield, TT | political philosophy, social philosophy, ethics, metaphysics | f | |||
| 2007 | |||||
| Wellesley College, TT | Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University | political philosophy, ethics | f | ||
| Harvard University, TT | ethics, metaphysics | m | |||
| University of Kentucky, TT | philosophy of mind | f | |||
| Carleton College, TT | Visiting Professor, College of the Holy Cross | philosophy of language | m | ||
| attending medical school, Stanford University | f | ||||
| Non-academic position | f | ||||
| 2006 | |||||
| Attorney | m | ||||
| University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, TT | philosophy of language | m | |||
| Non-academic Position | m | ||||
| 2005 | |||||
| Harvard University, Tenured | Lecturer, Tufts University | philosophy of science, philosophy of language | m | ||
| 2004 | |||||
| San Francisco State University, Tenured | metaphysics | f | |||
| Dartmouth College, Tenured | philosophy of mind, cognitive science | f | |||
| University of Toronto, TT | University of Iowa | philosophy of mind | m | ||
| University of Vermont, TT | ethics, metaphysics | m | |||
| Research Staff, King's College London | Visiting Scholar, MIT | ethics | f | ||
| Rutgers University, Tenured | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | philosophy of mind, philosophy of language | m | ||
| 2003 | |||||
| Hong Kong University, TT | epistemology | m | |||
| Visiting Professor, University of Western Ontario | political philosophy | m | |||
| Princeton University, Tenured | New York University | ethics, metaphysics | f | ||
| Duke University, TT | metaphysics, philosophy of language | f | |||
| University of Arizona, Tenured | University of Wisconsin, Madison | ethics, metaphysics | f | ||
| Harvard University, Tenured | philosophy of mathematics, logic | m | |||
| 2002 | |||||
| Non-academic position | m | ||||
| Princeton University, TT | College of the Holy Cross | ethics, metaphysics | f | ||
| University of Michigan, Tenured | Syracuse University | philosophy of language, feminist philosophy | f | ||
| Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Open University of Israel | Research Fellow, University of St. Andrews | metaphysics | m | ||
| Non-academic position | m | ||||
| NIH | m | ||||
| 2001 | |||||
| Visiting Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, epistemology | m | |||
| Colgate University, Tenured | m | ||||
| Princeton University, Tenured | philosophy of science, philosophy of physics, decision theory | m | |||
| University of Iceland | m | ||||
| MIT, Tenured | Research Fellow, University of St. Andrews | philosophy of logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language | m | ||
| Non-academic position | m | ||||
| Non-academic position | m | ||||
| 2000 | |||||
| MIT, Tenured | New York University | philosophy of science, epistemology, metaphysics | m | ||
| Cornell University, Tenured | University of Colorado, Boulder | metaphysics, philosophy of langauge, philosophy of logic | m | ||
| 1999 | |||||
| USC, Tenured | University of Rochester | philosophical logic, philosophy of mathematics, metaphysics | m | ||
| University of Wisconsin, Madison, Tenured | bioethics, ethical theory, metaethics | m | |||
| University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Tenured | University of Alabama at Birmingham | metaphysics, philosophy of science | f | ||
| Lawyer | McGill University | f | |||
| Non-academic position | f | ||||
| 1998 | |||||
| Howard University, Tenured | philosophy of language, metaphysics, philosophy of mind | f | |||
| University of Western Ontario, TT | Sonoma State University | philosophy of law, metaphysics, philosophy of mind | m | ||
| 1997 | |||||
| Princeton University, Tenured | Cornell University | philosophy of language, philosophical logic, metaphysics, epistemology | f | ||
| University of Barcelona | m | ||||
| Non-academic position | f | ||||
| 1996 | |||||
| University of Alberta | m | ||||
| North Carolina State University, Tenured | political philosophy, ethics, history of philosophy | m |
average time to degree and retention data 1996-2017
average time to degree: median time to completion, 5 years; mean time, 5.7 years
retention data 1996-2017
| entering class | graduated | withdrew | still enrolled | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 8 4F/4M | 6 4F/2M | 2 0F/2M | 0 |
| 2016 | 5 3F/2M | 3 1F/2M | 0 | 2 2F/0M |
| 2015 | 7 6F/1M | 5 4F/1M | 1 1F | 1 1F/0M |
| 2014 | 5 0F/5M | 4 0F/4M | 1 1M | 0 |
| 2013 | 5 3F/2M | 5 3F/2M | 0 | 0 |
| 2012 | 5 1F/4M | 5 1F/4M | 0 | 0 |
| 2011 | 8 3F/5M | 7 3F/5M | 0 | 0 |
| 2010 | 5 1F/4M | 4 1F/3M | 1 1M | 0 |
| 2009 | 5 3F/2M | 2 2F/0M | 3 1F/2M | 0 |
| 2008 | 4 1F/3M | 4 1F/3M | 0 | 0 |
| 2007 | 5 2F/3M | 5 2F/3M | 0 | 0 |
| 2006 | 6 4F/2M | 5 3F/2M | 1 1F | 0 |
| 2005 | 6 1F/5M | 6 1F/5M | 0 | 0 |
| 2004 | 5 2F/3M | 5 2F/3M | 0 | 0 |
| 2003 | 5 5F | 5 5F | 0 | 0 |
| 2002 | 5 2F/3M | 5 2F/3M | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | 5 1F/4M | 4 4M | 1 1F | 0 |
| 2000 | 5 2F/3M | 5 2F/3M | 0 | 0 |
| 1999 | 5 2F/3M | 5 2F/3M | 0 | 0 |
| 1998 | 6 4F/2M | 5 3F/2M | 1 1F | 0 |
| 1997 | 5 2F/3M | 5 2F/3M | 0 | 0 |
| 1996 | 7 1F/6M | 7 1F/6M | 0 | 0 |