This is a complete list of PhD graduates from the HPS program and their initial jobs. We do our best to follow their later careers, but cannot guarantee that this information is up to date.
key: (tt) = tenure track : (t) = tenure : (fp) = full professor
2024
| Name | First Job | Current | Advisor(s) | Dissertation Title Click title for abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gal Ben Porath | University of Bonn, Postdoc | University of Bonn, Postdoc | Norton | Conceptual and Ontological Foundations of Stochastic Dynamics |
| Brendan Fleig-Goldstein | Columbia University | Columbia University | Allen | Philosophical Foundations of Resource Rational Analysis |
| JP Gamboa | University of Minnesota, Postdoc | University of Minnesota, Postdoc | Allen/ Chirimuuta | Where Is My Mind? Against Mental Localization in Neuroscience |
| Bixin Guo | Macalaster College (ts) | Malacaster College (ts) | Wallace | The Layered World |
2023
| Name | First Job | Current | Advisor(s) | Dissertation Title Click title for abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marina DiMarco | Northeastern University (tt) | Washington University, St. Louis (tt) | Dietrich | Explaining and Intervening in Biosocial Science |
| Dasha Pruss | Harvard University, Postdoc | George Mason (tt) | Allen (U. of California/Santa Barbara) | Carceral Machines: Algorithmic Risk Assessment and the Reshaping of Crime and Punishment |
| Dana Matthiessen | University of Minnesota, 2-yr Postdoc | University of Pittsburgh | Mitchell | Empirical and Pragmatic Grounds of Scientific Representation |
| Jennifer Whyte | Duke University, 2-yr Postdoc | Duke University, 2-yr Postdoc | Norton | A New Function for Thought Experiments in Science |
| Tom Wysocki | University of Heidelberg, 2-yr Postdoc | University of Heidelberg, 2-yr Postdoc | Woodward | Underdeterministic Causation |
2022
| Name | First Job | Current | Advisor(s) | Dissertation Title Click title for abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nedah Nemati | Columbia University, 3-yr postdoc | Columbia University, 3-yr postdoc | Allen (U. of California/Santa Barbara) | Lived Experience in the Behavioral Neuroscience of Sleep: Conceptual, Methodological, and Ethical Implications |
| Katherine Morrow | University of Bielefeld, postdoc | University of Bielefeld, postdoc | Dietrich | Function in Ecology: Concepts, Values, and Management |
2021
| Name | First Job | Current | Advisor(s) | Dissertation Title Click title for abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kathleen Creel | Stanford University, 2-yr postdoc | Northeastern University (tt) | Batterman | Opening the Black Box: Explanation and Transparency in Machine Learning |
| Mahi Hardalupas | Rotman Institute of Philosohy at Western University, 2-yr Postdoc | Researcher, Ada Lovelace Institute | Allen (U. of California/Santa Barbara)/Chirimuuta (U. of Edinburgh) | How Neural is a Neural Net? Bio-inspired computational models and their impact on the multiple realization debate |
| Jacob Neal | Rotman Institute of Philosohy at Western University, 2-yr Postdoc | University of Oregon (tt) | Dietrich/Woodward | Protein Structure, Dynamics, and Functions: A Philosophical Account of Representation an Explanation in Structural Biology |
| William Penn | University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (Lecturer) | University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (Lecturer) | Norton | What's Really Going On: Process Realism in Science |
| Shahin Kaveh | University Pittsburgh (Visiting Scholar) | Philosophical Counselor (https://philosophytherapy.net) | Norton | A Prescriptivist Account of Physical Theories |
2020
| Name | First Job | Current | Advisor(s) | Dissertation Title Click title for abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zina Ward | Florida State University (tt) | Florida State University (tt) | Machery | Individual Differences in Cognitive Science: Conceptual and Methodologial Issues |
| Morgan Thompson | University of Bielefeld, 4-yr Postdoc | Northwestern University (tt) | Machery | Robustness in the Life Sciences: Issues in Modeling and Explanation |
| Siska de Baerdemaeker | Stockholm University, 2-yr Postdoc | Stockholm University, 2-yr Postdoc | Norton | Cosmology: The Impossible Integration? |
| George Borg | Science History Institute, 2-yr Postdoc | Science History Institute, 2-yr Postdoc | Dietrich/Norton | Science, Labor, and Scientific Progress |
| Trey Boone | Duke University, Visiting Fellow | University of Virginia (tt) | Machery | Functional Robustness: A New Account of Multiple Realization and its Epistemic Consequences |
2019
| Name | First Job | Current | Advisor(s) | Dissertation Title Click title for abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Haixin Dang | Leeds University, 4-year Postdoc | Leeds University postdoc; University of Nebraska at Omaha (tt) from Fall 2021 | Mitchell/Woodward | Epistemology of Scientific Collaborations |
| David Colaco | Mississippi State University, Postdoc | 2-year Humboldt Postdoc at LMU Munich | Machery | An Investigation of Scientific Phenomena |
| Jeff Sykora | Pursuing Medical Training | Pursuing Medical Training | Woodward | Fluid Mechanics, Models, and Realism: Philosophy at the Boundaries of Fluid Systems |
2018
| Name | First Job | Current | Advisor(s) | Dissertation Title Click title for abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nora Boyd | Sienna College (tt) | Sienna College (tt) | Norton | Scientific Progress at the Boundaries of Experience |
| Rose Novick | Dalhousie University (postdoc) | University of Washington (tt) | Lennox | The Prodigal Genetics Returns: Integrating Gene Regulatory Network Theory Into Evolutionary Theory |
| Marina Baldissera Pacchetti | Ohio University (Research Assistant, American Electric Power Project) | University of Leeds (Research Fellow in Climate Information for Adaptation) | Batterman | Spatiotemporal Scales in Scientific Modeling: Identifying Target Systems |
2017
| Name | First Job | Current | Advisor(s) | Dissertation Title Click title for abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Miller | University of Toronto (tt) | University of Toronto (tt) | Batterman | The structure and interpretation of quantum field theory |
2016
| Name | First Job | Current | Advisor(s) | Dissertation Title Click title for abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph McCaffrey | Washington University in St. Louis (Post Doctoral Research Fellow) | University of Nebraska (tt) | Machery, Machamer | Mental function and cerebral cartography: Functional localization in fMRI research |
| Lauren Ross | University of California, Irvine (tt) deferred; 1yr U. Calgary postdoc | University of California at Irvine (tt) | Woodward, Schaffner | Explanation in Contexts of Causal Complexity |
2015
| Name | First job | Current | Advisor(s) | Dissertation Title Click title for abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth O'Neill | Eindhoven University of Technology (tt) | Eindhoven University of Technology (tt) | Machery | The Epistemological Implications of the Causes of Moral Beliefs |
| Greg Gandenberger | University of Bristol (Postdoctoral Fellowship) | Data Scientist, Uptake, Chicago (non-academic) | Machery | Two Principles of Evidence and Their Implications for the Philosophy of Scientific Method |
| Julia Bursten | San Francisco State University (tt) | University of Kentucky (tt) | Batterman | Surfaces, Scales, and Synthesis: Scientific Reasoning at the Nanoscale |
| Leif Hancox-Li | University of Southern California (Provost's Postdoctoral Scholar) | University of Southern California (Provost's Postdoctoral Scholar) | Batterman | Moving Beyond 'Theory T': The Case of Quantum Field Theory |
| Aleta Quinn | Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study (Distinguished Fellow) | University of Idaho (tt) | Lennox | Biological Systematics and Evolutionary Theory |
| Elay Shech | Auburn University (tt) | Auburn University (tt) | Earman, Norton | Assume a Spherical Cow: Studies on Representation and Idealizations |
| Kathryn Tabb | Columbia University (tt) | Bard College (tt) | Machamer, Wilson | Mad Errors: Associated Ideas, Enthusiasm, and Personal Identity in Locke |
2014
| Name | First job | Current | Advisor(s) | Dissertation Title Click title for abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karen Zwier | Drake University (Adjunct Professor Part-time) | Iowa State University (Lecturer) | Mitchell | Interventionist Causation in Physical Science |
| Marcus Adams | SUNY Albany (tt) | SUNY Albany (tt) | Machamer | Mechanical Epistemology and Mixed Mathematics: Descartes’s Problems and Hobbes’s Unity |
| Yoichi Ishida | Ohio University (tt) | Ohio University (tt) | Mitchell, Lennox | Models in Scientific Practice |
| Thomas Pashby | USC, Provost's Postdoctoral Scholarship in the Humanities | University of Chicago (tt) | Earman, Norton | Time and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics |
| Keith Bemer | Winchester Thurston School (science teacher) | Winchester Thurston School (science teacher) | Lennox | A Philosophical Examination of Aristotle's Historia Animalium |
| Eric Hatleback | University of Pittsburgh (research associate professor) | University of Pittsburgh, School of Computing and Informatics (research associate professor); Software Engineering Institute CERT Division, Carnegie Mellon University (security analysis researcher) | Norton | Chimera of the Cosmos |
2013
| Name | First Job | Current | Advisor(s) | Dissertation Title Click title for abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Cunningham | University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (tt) | Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles (Bioethics Director) | Machamer, Schaffner | Socializing Medical Practice: A Normative Model of Medical Decision-Making |
| Peter Distelzweig | Western Michigan University (visiting assistant professor) | University of St. Thomas, Minnesota (t) | Lennox, Machamer | Descartes' Teleomechanics in Medical Context: Approaches to Integrating Mechanism and Teleology |
| Balázs Gyenis | Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Assistant Research Fellow) | Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Research Fellow); London School of Economics (Research Fellow) | Earman, Norton | Well posedness and physical possibility |
| Catherine Stinson | Universität Tübingen (post-doc) | Unviersity of Bonn and University of Cambridge (post-doc) | Machamer, Schaffner | Cognitive Mechanisms and Computational Models: Explanation in Cognitive Neuroscience |
2012
| Name | First Job | Current | Advisor(s) | Dissertation Title Click title for abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benjamin Goldberg | East Tennessee State University (visiting assistant professor) | University of Southern Florida (instructor, permanent position) | Lennox, Machamer | William Harvey, Soul Searcher: Teleology and Philosophical Anatomy |
| Bryan Roberts | University of Southern California (post-doc) | London School of Economics (t) | Earman, Norton | Time, Symmetry and Structure: Studies in the Foundations of Quantum Theory |
2011
| Name | First Job | Current | Advisor(s) | Dissertation Title Click title for abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jonathan Livengood | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (tt) | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (t) | Spirtes, Norton | On Causal Inferences in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Actual Causation |
| Jonah Schupbach | University of Utah (tt) | University of Utah (t) | Machery, Earman | Studies in the Logic of Explanatory Power |
2010
| Name | First Job | Current | Advisor(s) | Dissertation Title Click title for abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Justin Sytsma | East Tennessee State University (tt) | Victoria University of Wellington (t) | Machery, Schaffner | Phenomenal consciousness as scientific phenomenon? A Critical Investigation of the New Science of Consciousness |
2009
| Name | First Job | Current | Advisor(s) | Dissertation Title Click title for abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holly Andersen | Simon Fraser University (tt) | Simon Fraser University (t) | Mitchell | The Causal Structure of Conscious Agency |
| Peter Gildenhuys | Lafayette College (tt) | Lafayette College (t) | Lennox | A Causal Interpretation of Selection Theory |
| Julie Zahle | University of Copenhagen (tt) | University of Bergen | Machamer, Brandom | Practices, Perception, and Normative States |
2007
| Name | First Job | Current | Advisor(s) | Dissertation Title Click title for abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zvi Biener | Western Michigan University (tt) | University of Cincinnati (t) | Machamer, McGuire | The Unity and Structure of Knowledge: Subalternation, Demonstration, and the Geometrical Manner in Scholastic-Aristotelianism and Descartes |
| Brian Hepburn | University of British Columbia (post-doc) | Wichita State University (t) | Machamer | Equilibrium and Explanation in 18th Century Mechanics |
| Jackie Sullivan | University of Alabama at Birmingham (tt) | University of Western Ontario (t) | Machamer | Reliability and Validity of Experiment in the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory |
| Jim Tabery | University of Utah (tt) | University of Utah (t) | Griffiths, Mitchell | Causation in the Nature-Nurture Debate: The Case of Genotype-Environment Interaction |
2006
| Name | First Job | Current | Advisor(s) | Dissertation Title Click title for abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ingo Brigandt | University of Alberta (tt), deferred for U. of Alberta post-doc | University of Alberta (t) | Griffiths, Gupta | A Theory of Conceptual Advance: Explaining Conceptual Change in Evolutionary, Molecular, and Evolutionary Developmental Biology |
| Francesca DiPoppa | Texas Tech University (tt) | Texas Tech University (t) | Machamer | "God acts through the laws of his nature alone": From the Nihil ex Nihilo axiom to causation as expression in Spinoza's metaphysics. |
| Abel Franco | California State University, Northridge (tt) | California State University, Northridge (t) | Machamer, McGuire | Descartes' theory of passions |
| Doreen Fraser | Waterloo (tt) | Waterloo (t) | Earman | Haag's theorem and the interpretation of quantum field theories with interactions |
| Greg Frost-Arnold | University of Nevada, Las Vegas (tt) | Hobart and William Smith Colleges (t) | Ruetsche | Carnap, Tarski, and Quine’s Year Together: Logic, Science and Mathematics |
| Francis Longworth | Ohio University (tt) | Institute d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris, France (post-doc) | Norton | Causation, Counterfactual Dependence and Pluralism |
| David Miller | Yale (post-doc) | Iowa State University (t) | Machamer, McGuire | Representations of Space in Seventeenth Century Physics |
| Christian Wüthrich | UC - San Diego (tt) | University of Geneva (t) | Earman | Approaching the Planck Scale from a Generally Relativistic Point of View: A Philosophical Appraisal of Loop Quantum Gravity |
2005
| Name | First Job | Current | Advisor(s) | Dissertation Title Click title for abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Erik Angner | University of Alabama at Birmingham (Philosophy, Economics, tt) | George Mason University (t) | Machamer | Subjective Measures of Well-Being: A philosophical examination |
| Megan Delehanty | University of Calgary (tt) | University of Calgary (t) | Mitchell | Empiricism and the Epistemic Status of Imaging Technologies |
| Alan Love | UC Santa Cruz (tt) University of Minnesota (tt) | University of Minnesota (t) | Lennox | Explaining Evolutionary Innovation and Novelty: A Historical and Philosophical Study of Biological Concepts |
| Andrea Scarantino | Georgia State University (tt) | Georgia State University (t) | Machamer, Griffiths. | Explicating Emotions |
2004
| Name | First Job | Current | Advisor(s) | Dissertation Title Click title for abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Armond Duwell | University of Konstanz | University of Montana (t) | Norton | Foundations of Quantum Information Theory and Quantum Computation Theory. |
2003
| Name | First Job | Current | Advisor(s) | Dissertation Title Click title for abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gualtiero Piccinini | Washington University in St Louis (post-doc) | University of Missouri at St Louis (t) | Machamer | Computations and Computers in the Sciences of Mind and Brain |
| Uljana Feest | Max Planck Institute for History of Science (post-doc) | University of Hanover (t) | Machamer | Operationism, Experimentation, and Concept Formation |
| Wendy Parker | Congressional Fellow | University of Durham (t) | Norton | Computer Modeling in Climate Science: Experiment, Explanation, Pluralism |
2002
| Name | First Job | Current | Advisor(s) | Dissertation Title Click title for abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel Steel | Michigan State (tt) | Michigan State (t) | Mitchell | Mechanisms and Interfering Factors: Dealing with Heterogeneity in the Biological and Social Sciences |
| Chris Smeenk | Dibner Institute (post-doc) UCLA (tt) | University of Western Ontario (t) | Earman, Norton | Approaching the Absolute Zero of Time: Theory Development in Early Universe Cosmology |
2001
| Name | First Job | Current | Advisor(s) | Dissertation Title Click title for abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chris Martin | Indiana, HPS (tt) | Left the field | Earman, Norton | Gauging Gauge: Remarks on the Conceptual Foundations of Gauge Symmetry |
2000
| Name | First Job | Current | Advisor(s) | Dissertation Title Click title for abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Backe | Indiana (post-doc) | National Science Foundation (retired) | Salmon | The divided psychology of John Dewey |
1999
| Name | First Job | Current | Advisor(s) | Dissertation Title Click title for abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benoit Desjardins | Medical Doctor | Assistant Professor of Radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania | Glymour | On the theoretical limits to reliable causal inference |
| Elizabeth Paris | Harvard (lecturer) | Deceased | Krips, Norton | Ringing in the new physics: The politics and technology of electron colliders in the United States, 1956--1972 |
| Tom Seppalainen | Portland State U (tt) | Portland State U (t) | Machamer | The problematic nature of experiments in color science |
1998
1997
| Name | First Job | Current | Advisor(s) | Dissertation Title Click title for abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rachel Ankeny | U of Pittsburgh (tt) | U of Adelaide (t) | Lennox | The conqueror worm: An historical and philosophical examination of the use of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans as a model organism |
| Jonathan Simon | Max Planck Institute for History of Science (post-doc) | University of Lyon, France (t) | McGuire | The alchemy of identity: Pharmacy and the chemical revolution, 1777-1809 |
1996
| Name | First Job | Current | Advisor(s) | Dissertation Title Click title for abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aristides Arageorgis | Greek Military | [deceased, 2018] prev. National Technical University of Athens (tt) | Earman | Fields, Particles, and Curvature: Foundation and Philosophical Aspects of Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime |
| Keith Parsons | U of Houston, Clear Lake (tt) | U of Houston, Clear Lake (fp) | Lennox | Wrongheaded science? Rationality, constructivism, and dinosaurs |
| Ofer Gal | Ben Gurion University (tt) | U of Sydney (t) | McGuire | Producing knowledge: Robert Hooke |
| David Rudge | Texas A&M | Western Michigan (t) | Lennox | A philosophical analysis of the role of selection experiments in evolutionary biology |
1995
| Name | First Job | Current | Advisor(s) | Dissertation Title Click title for abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michel Janssen | Boston University (tt) | U of Minnesota (t) | Norton | A Comparison between Lorentz's Aether Theory and Special Relativity in the Light of the Experiments of Trouton and Noble |
| Madeline Muntersbjorn | U of Toledo (tt) | U of Toledo (t) | Manders | Albebraic Reasoning and Representation in Seventeenth Century Mathemacis: Fermat and the Treatise on Quadrature C. 1657 |
1994–1973
| Year | Name | Current | Advisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | John Culler | Earman | |
| 1992 | Corey Juhl | U of Texas (fp) | Glymour |
| 1991 | Chuang Liu | U of Florida (fp) | Earman |
| Robert Pennock | Michigan State (fp) | Wesley Salmon | |
| Hazim Murad | U of Malaysia (fp) | McGuire | |
| 1989 | Kenneth Aizawa | Centenary College (MO) (fp) | Glymour |
| Jose Chiappin | Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil (t) | Schaffner | |
| Lee Zwanziger | Designated Federal Official, US Food and Drug Administration | Schaffner | |
| 1988 | Martha Harty | CMU (t) | Machamer |
| Richard Scheines | CMU (fp) | Glymour | |
| 1987 | Sandra Mitchell | U of Pitt (fp) | Machamer |
| Joel Smith | Distinguished Career Teaching Professsor, CMU (fp) | Glymour | |
| 1986 | Kevin Kelly | CMU (fp) | Glymour |
| Tim Maudlin | NYU (fp) | ||
| 1985 | Steve Fuller | University of Warwick, England (fp) | McGuire |
| 1984 | Fred Gifford | Michigan State (t) | Schaffner |
| Mary Kathleen Okruhlik | U of Western Ontario (t) | McGuire | |
| 1982 | James Hoffman | Cal State, Fullerton (fp) | Schaffner |
| 1981 | Christopher Burch | Left the field | McGuire |
| Charles Kay | Wofford College (fp) | McGuire | |
| Peter Spirtes | CMU (fp) | Schaffner | |
| 1980 | Spyros Sakellariadis | Left the field | Machamer |
| Warren Schmaus | Illinois Inst. of Technology (fp) | Machamer | |
| 1978 | Martin Curd | Purdue (fp) | Laudan |
| Steven Wykstra | Calvin College (fp) | Laudan | |
| John Strong | Deceased | Laudan | |
| 1976 | Thomas Cook | Left the field | McGuire |
| Fred Sawyer | Left the field | Schaffner | |
| John Nicholas | Univ. Western Ontario (fp, emeritus) | Laudan | |
| 1975 | John McEnvoy | U of Cincinnati (fp) | McGuire |
| 1973 | Wolfram Swoboda | Deceased | McGuire |
key: (tt) = tenure track : (t) = tenure : (fp) = full professor