Thesis topics and placement of recent graduates of MA and PhD programs in philosophy at the University of Arkansas:
MA:
Philip Antin (2008). "There's a Place for 'Us': The Need for the Notion of Collective Responsibility"
PhD program at University of Arkansas.
David Barrett (2008). "Universalizability and Resultance: An Argument Against Dancey's Particularism"
PhD program at University of Arkansas.
Chad Bogosian (2008)."MacIntyre's Virtue Theory: A Critical Appraisal"
PhD program at University of Arkansas.
Charlie Coil (2008). "Primum Non Nocere--First Do No Harm: Finding Common Ground for Human Indignity"
Teaching at John Brown University.
Joshua Kenyon (2008). "Global Skepticism: Descartes, Wittgenstein, and the Limits of Inquiry"
PhD program at University of Arkansas; teaching part-time at Northwest Arkansas Community College.
Joshua Packwood (2008). "Mysticism and Conversion in Plotinus"
PhD program at University of Arkansas; teaching part-time at NWACC.
Dawna Shin (2008). "Wittgenstein and the Grammar of 'Human Being'"
PhD program at University of Arkansas.
Jeffery Byrnes (2007)."Dasein, Skepticism, and Authenticity: Getting from Being and Time to a Lived Life"
PhD program at Essex.
Bryan Cwik (2007). "Perceptual Content, Nonconceptual Content, and Perceptual Experience"
PhD program at University of Virginia.
Adam Grasser (2007). "Understanding Pretense: A Look at Theories of Motivation"
University of Arkansas Law School.
Larry Duran (2006)."Has Alvin Plantiga 'Undercut' the De Jure Objection in Warranted Christian Belief?"
MDiv program at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Keith Harvey (2006). "What is Enlightenment?: Foucault's Genealogical Historiography and the Concept of Danger"
University of Arkansas Law School.
Roman Briggs (2005). "Red Worlds of Red Prisms: A Cordial Humbing of Marxian Dialectics"
PhD program at University of Arkansas.
DJ Murphy (2005). "Heidegger, Artwork, and Truth"
In a band, living and teaching part-time in Nashville, TN.
Shannon Spaulding (2005). "Belief-Desire Thesis Defended: The Causal Motivation of Pretence"
PhD program at University of Wisconsin.
Tony Woodside (2005). "Faith and Silence in Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling"
Teaching Junior High English in Harrison, AR.
Heath Bradley (2004). "To Hell with Freedom?"
MDiv program at Perkins School of Theology/SMU. Now minister in Huntsville, AR.
Lisa Cook (2004). "Rousseau, Mill, and Medium Censorship"
PhD program at University of Arkansas.
John Humphrey (2004). "Further Reanimation of Great Philosophical Monster : Species, Logico-Philosophicus, Or the Ontological Implications of Wittgenstein's View of Truth in the Tractatus"
PhD program at University of Arkansas.
Matt Pianalto (2004). "Suicide and the Self"
PhD program at University of Arkansas. Now tenure-track at Eastern Kentucky.
Alexei Zarnitsyn (2004). "Cavell and Rorty on Skepticism (Two Analyses of Philosophical Skepticism)"
PhD program at University of Illinois.
Aaron Champene (2003). "The Possibility of Basic Beliefs"
PhD program at University of Arkansas; teaching part time at Coe College in Iowa.
Megan Wallace (2003). "Chisholm's Paradox: An Analysis"
PhD program at Syracuse. Now at UNC Chapel Hill.
Kyle Russell (2002). "On Talbot's Universalism"
PhD program at University of Arkansas.
Hansen Wendlandt (2002). "Inter-Species Moral Consideration"
MDiv at Boston University--Director of Christian Education.
Kevin Kimble (2001). "Two Arguments Against Moral Dilemmas"
PhD program at Indiana University. Now tenure-track at National Chung-Cheng University in Taiwan.
Christopher Ott (2001). "Refutations of Idealism"
no information available .
Charles Urban (2001). "On the Rationality of Christianity : An Examination of Two Contemporary Accounts"
PhD program at University of Arkansas.
E. J. Coffman (2000). "Three Recent Causalist Accounts of Free Agency"
PhD program at University of Notre Dame. Now tenure-track at Tennessee.
Michael Holland (2000). "On Aquinas' Theodicy"
no information available.
Sonjoruri Trisakti (2000). "Thomas Kuhn and the Rationality of Scientific Movement"
Lecturer in Indonesia.
PhD:
Jeremy Williams (2008). "Is Knowing Only Half the Battle in Moral Decision Making? An Analysis of the Development of Moral Psychology through the Platonic Tradition into Late Antiquity with Special Emphasis upon the Unity of Virtue and Akrasia"
Teaching at William Carey College.
Andy Kelso (2007). "The Duty to Aid: A Kantian View of Physician-Assisted Suicide"
Adjunct teaching in Knoxville, TN.
Matt Pianalto (2007). "Subjectivism, Realism, and Morality"
Asst. Professor at Eastern Kentucky University, tenure-track.
Lisa Cook (2006). "The Land Ethic"
Teaching English in Japan.
Richard Howe (2004). "A Defense of Thomas Aquinas' Second Way"
Professor of Philosophy and Apologetics and Director of the Ph.D. program at Southern Evangelical Seminary in Charlotte, NC.
John Gulley (2003). "Ludwig Binswanger's Existential Psychology"
Asst. Professor at Winston-Salem State University, tenure-track.
Ronald Hustwit (2003). "Meaning As Use: Why Wittgenstein Was Not an Empiricist"
US Air Force.
William Eakin (2002). "A Rational Ecstasy: Language and Mystical Experience in Plotinus"
Associate Prof of Philosophy at University of the Ozarks, Clarksville, AR.
Darren Hibbs (2001). "Eriugena, Berkeley, and Hegel: The Variety of Idealisms in the Western Philosophical Tradition"
Tenure-track at Nova Southeastern State University, Fort Lauderdale FL.
Donald Merrell (2001). "Contemporary Conceivability Arguments in Philsophy of Mind: A Critique"
Visiting Asst. Prof. at Arkansas State University.
In addition to these listed, a number of our PhD students have gotten jobs before finishing their dissertations. Among them are:
Douglas Krueger: Northwest Arkansas Community College (permanent job)
Leonard Schulte: Northwest Arkansas Community College (permanent job)
Michael Harper: Tenure-track at Southwestern College in Kansas
David Leonard: Part-time at Northwest Arkansas Community College