Placement etc.

placement 1996-2022

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).

average time to degree and retention data 1996-2017

year started first job/(ph.d. date if different)	current job	first job (if different from current job)	field	gender
2022
	Research Affiliate, MIT		epistemology	f
	Visiting Scholar, Phillips Academy		ethics, bioethics, ethics of technology, metaphysics	m
	Post-Doc, MIT		ethics and epistemology	f
	Post-Doc, MIT		metaphysics and philosophy of language	f
	Post-Doc, University of Bristol		philosophical logic, mathematical logic, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language	f
	Post-Doc, Harvard	Post-Doc, MIT	moral philosophy	f
2021
	University of Edinburgh, TT	Post-Doc and Director, MIT	ethics of technology, philosophy of science, and bioethics	f
	Post-Doc, UCLA	Post-Doc, MIT	ethics, applied ethics	m
2020
	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
	Post-Doc, Amherst College	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
	Texas Tech University, TT	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
	Senior Editor	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; Duke University, TT		metaphysics, philosophy of language	m
	(beginning fall 2021)		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
	University College London, TT	Post-Doc, UNC- Chapel Hill (one year)	epistemology, ethics	m
	University of San Diego, TT	Post-Doc, Hebrew University	epistemology, decision theory, philosophy of economics	m
	Director of Research	Project Manager		m
	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
	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
	University of Colorado-Boulder, 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	5 4F/1M	2 0F/2M	1 0F/1M
2016	5 3F/2M	2 0F/2M	0	3 3F/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 2F/5M	0	1F
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