Placement Record
Please note: This page provides information only about those who have studied for the D. Phil. Many of the students who completed their doctoral studies at other universities after first completing the B. Phil. have also obtained permanent academic positions.
Placement 2008-09
Damian Caluori (AOS: Ancient Philosophy) - Tenure-track at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas
Tom Douglas (AOS: Applied and Normative Ethics) - Wellcome Trust Research Felllowship, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
Luke Glynn (AOS: Metaphysics; Philosophy of Science) - Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Konstanz
Eleanor Knox (AOS: Philosophy of Physics; Philosophy of Science) - Chandaria Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Institute of Philosophy, University of London
Dennis Lehmkuhl (AOS: Philosophy of Physics) - 5 year Assistant Professorship at University of Wuppertal, Germany
Julia Markovits (AOS: Ethics) – Tenure-track at MIT
Toby Ord (AOS: Normative Ethics; Practical Ethics; Philosophy of Computation) British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, Balliol College, University of Oxford
Nathanael Stein (AOS: Ancient Philosophy) - TOPOS Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
David Tester (AOS: Ethics, Moral Psychology) - Greenwall Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgetown University and Johns Hopkins University
Bruno Whittle (AOS: Logic; Philosophy of Language; Philosophy of Mathematics; Metaphysics) - Tenure-track at Yale University
Placement 2007-08
Stephan Blatti (AOS: Metaphysics; Philosophy of Mind) - Tenure-track at University of Memphis
Michael Blome-Tillmann (AOS: Epistemology, Philosophy of Logic & Language) – Tenure-track at McGill University (commencing 2009)
Anil Gomes (AOS: Philosophy of Mind) – Lectureship at Birkbeck College, London
Stephen Kearns (AOS: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Action) Visiting Assistant Professorship at Cornell University
Thomas Kroedel (AOS: Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind) – 6 year Lectureship at University of Konstanz
Rory Madden (AOS: Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics) - Lectureship at University College, London
Daniel Morgan (AOS: Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind) – Junior Research Fellowship at New College, University of Oxford
Bradley Murray (AOS: Aesthetics, Metaphysics) - Visiting Assistant Professorship at University of British Columbia
Sebastian Sequoiah-Grayson (AOS: Formal Philosophy) - Postdoctoral Fellowship, Formal Epistemology Project, University of Leuven
Daniel Star (AOS: Ethics, Epistemology) - Tenure-track at Boston University
Placement 2006-07
Wylie Breckenridge (AOS: Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics, Epistemology) - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Cornell University
John Callanan (AOS: Kant, Early Modern Philosophy) - Lectureship at King's College, London
Timothy Chan (AOS: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language) - 2 year Lectureship at the University of East Anglia
Dorothea Debus (AOS: Philosophy of Mind and Psychology) - Lectureship at the University of York
Antonio Donato (AOS: Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy) - Tenure-track at CUNY, Queens College
Owen Greenhall (AOS: Philosophy of Language) - Postdoctoral Fellowship, CSMN, University of Oslo
Keith Hyams (AOS: Political Philosophy) - Lectureship at the University of Exeter
Leonard Kahn (AOS: Ethics, Applied Ethics) - Assistant Professor of Philosophy at United States Air Force Academy, Colorado
Stephen Kearns (AOS: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Action) - Visiting Assistant Professorship at Florida State University
Maria Lasonen-Aarnio (AOS: Epistemology) Fitzjames Research Fellowship, Merton College, University of Oxford
Ofra Magidor (AOS: Philosophy of Logic and Language) CUF Lectureship and Tutorial Fellowship at Balliol College, University of Oxford
James Morauta (AOS: Ethics, Legal Philosophy) - Junior Research Fellowship at University College, Oxford
Anders Nes (AOS: Philosophy of Mind) - Career Development Fellowship at Christ Church, University of Oxford
Jeremy Watkins (AOS: Ethics, Legal Philosophy) Lectureship at Queen's University, Belfast
Placement 2005-06
Corine Besson (AOS: Philosophy of Logic and Language) - 4 year Tutorial Fellowship at St. Hugh's College, University of Oxford.
Stephan Blatti (AOS: Metaphysics) - Visiting Assistant Professorship at Duke University.
Michael Blome-Tillmann (AOS: Epistemology, Philosophy of Logic & Language) -
Junior Research Fellowship at University College, Oxford.
Mario Brandhorst (AOS: Ethics) - 3 year post as Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the University of Goettingen.
Gordon Davies (AOS: Ethics, Political Philosophy) - Tenure-track at Carleton University, Ottawa.
Oskari Kuusela (AOS: Wittgenstein) - Lectureship at the University of East Anglia.
Gerald Lang (AOS: Ethics) - Lecureship at the University of Leeds.
Matthew Liao (AOS: Ethics, Bioethics) - Senior Research Fellowship and the Deputy Directorship of the Programme on Ethics of the New Biosciences at the University of Oxford (also received tenure-track offers from the Universities of Kansas and South Carolina).
Julia Markovits (AOS: Ethics) - Fellowship at the Harvard Society of Fellows (also received a tenure-track offer from Cornell University).
Michail Peramatzis (AOS: Ancient Philosophy) - Junior Research Fellowship at Christ Church, University of Oxford.
Markus Schrenk (AOS: Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science) - AHRC Research Fellowship at the University of Nottingham.
Nico Silins (AOS: Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind) - Tenure-track Cornell University.
Daniel Star (AOS: Ethics) - Research Fellowship at the Australian National University (ANU).
Placement 2000-05
Among the 69 students who completed D. Phils. between 2000 and 2005, 45 were known to be employed in academic positions at the beginning of the academic year 2005-06 and 2 additional students, who had not yet defended their theses, had already obtained permanent posts.
These positions include:
12 Lectureships (i.e., permanent positions) at the following UK universities: Birmingham, Glasgow, King's College London, Lancaster, Leeds, Manchester, Oxford (2), St. Andrews (2), Sussex, and York;
11 Tenure-track positions in North America at McGill, Notre Dame, Ottawa, Pittsburgh, Princeton, Simon Fraser, Toronto, Tulane, UCLA, U. Mass. Boston, and Vassar;
13 Research Fellowships at Oxford (6), St. Andrews (2), Warwick (2), Oslo, NYU, and Johns Hopkins.