Department of Philosophy - University of Missouri-Columbia

  PhDs Awarded and Placement History

2008

Melanie Johnson-Moxley (May)
Initial Appointment: Adjunct Instructor, University of Missouri
Current Appointment: Same
Dissertation title: Vasubandhu's Consciousness Trilogy: A Yogacara Buddhist Process Idealism
Advisor: Gupta

James McBain (May)
Initial Appointment: Instructor, Kansas State University
Current Appointment: Assistant Professor, Pittsburgh State University
Dissertation title: Philosophical Intuitions – Philosophical Analysis
Advisor: Markie

Justin McBrayer (May)
Initial Appointment: Assistant Professor, Fort Lewis College
Current Appointment: Same
Dissertation title: A Defense of Moral Perception
Advisor: Markie

Eric Roark (May)
Initial Appointment: Assistant Professor, Millikin University
Current Appointment: Same
Dissertation title: Using and Coming to Own: A Left-Proprietarian Treatment of the Appropriation and Just Use of Common Resources
Advisor: Vallentyne

2007

Jason Berntsen (August)
Initial Appointment: Assistant Professor, Xavier University
Current Appointment: Same
Dissertation title: Moral Arguments and Moral Motivation in a Non-Cognitivist Framework
Advisor: Johnson

Brian Casey (December)
Initial Appointment: Associate at Covington and Burling LLP, Washington DC
Current Appointment: Assistant US Attorney, Kansas City
Dissertation title: Natural Law and the Challenge of Legal Positivism
Advisor: Johnson

Clanton Dawson (December)
Initial Appointment: Visiting Fellow, Colorado College
Current Appointment: Same
Dissertation title: A Philosophical Analysis of Four Concepts of Race
Advisor: Bien

Mat Konieczka (August)
Initial Appointment: Visiting Assistant Professor, Hampden-Sydney College
Current Appointment: Visiting Assistant Professor, Saint Anselm College
Dissertation title: Critical Pluralism: Religious Models and Approximate Truth
Advisor: Kultgen

Alan Nichols (December)
Initial Appointment: Visiting Assistant Professor, Georgia State University
Current Appointment: Assistant Professor, Georgia Highlands College
Dissertation title: Foucault, Governmentality and the Absurd
Advisor: Bien

Ronald Novy (August)
Initial Appointment: Visiting Instructor and College Advisor, University of Central Arkansas
Current Appointment: Same
Advisor: Bien

Jon Trerise (August)
Initial Appointment: Lecturer (renewable), Florida International University
Current Appointment: Same
Dissertation title: Intellectual Property Rights and the Type/Token Distinction
Advisor: Vallentyne

2006

Lily Chang (August)
Initial Appointment: Visiting Instructor, University of Texas-Pan American
Current Appointment: Instructor, University of Texas-Pan American
Dissertation title: Aristotle on Happiness: A Comparison with Confucius
Advisor: Gupta

Ted Poston (May)
Initial Appointment: Assistant Professor, University of South Alabama
Current Appointment: Same
Dissertation title: Sellars and Socrates: An Investigation of the Sellars Problem for a Socratic Epistemology
Advisor: Kvanvig

Jeffrey White (August)
No academic position found
Dissertation title: Conscience: Mechanics of Morality
Advisor: Kultgen

2005

Regine Lamboy (December)
Initial Appointment: None
Current Appointment: Adjunct Professor, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Dissertation title: Hannah Arendt on Thought and Political Action
Advisor: Bien

Troy Nunley (May)
Initial Appointment: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Texas-Pan American
Current Appointment: Assistant Professor, Denver Seminary
Dissertation title: Alvin Plantinga's Argument Against Evolutionary Naturalism
Advisor: Kvanvig

2003

Edward Omar Moad (August)
Initial Appointment: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Texas-Pan American
Current Appointment: Post-Doctoral Fellow, National University of Singapore
Dissertation title: Prolegomena to an Occasionalist Metaphysics
Advisor: Kvanvig

Brian Lang (August)
Initial Appointment: Assistant Professor, Jamestown College
Current Appointment: Associate Professor, Jamestown College
Dissertation title: Cartesian Simplicity
Advisor: Markie/Sievert

2002

Yeongseo Yeo (December)
Initial Appointment: Assistant Professor, Dongduk Women's University
Current Appointment: Same
Dissertation title: Bayesian Scientific Methodology: A Naturalistic Approach
Advisor: Weirich

2001

Jeffrey Freelin
Initial Appointment: Visiting Assistant Professor, Drake University
Current Appointment: Assistant Professor, Lincoln University
Dissertation title: Toward a Complete Virtue Ethic
Advisor: Gupta

2000

Frances Gill
Initial Appointment: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Missouri
Current Appointment: Same
Dissertation title: Self-Determination as a Goal of Correctional Counseling
Advisor: Kultgen

Jared Bates
Initial Appointment: Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota-Duluth
Current Appointment: Assistant Professor, Hanover College
Dissertation title: Epistemic norms and epistemological methods
Advisor: Weirich

Mark Price
Initial Appointment: Assistant Professor, Columbia College
Current Appointment: Associate Professor, Columbia College
Dissertation title: Life and Death Issues: A Practical Approach to Moral Theory
Advisor: Kultgen

Cynthia McWilliams
Initial Appointment: Assistant Professor, University of Texas-Pan American
Current Appointment: Assistant Professor and Philosophy Program Coordinator, University of Texas-Pan American
Dissertation title: Competent Persons, Identity, and Moral Decisions
Advisor: Bondeson

1999

Gary Thiher
Lecturer I, University of Central Arkansas
Dissertation title: The Concept of Need
Advisor: Bien

1998

Lori Underwood
Associate Professor, Christopher Newport University
Dissertation title: Kant on Truth
Advisor: von Schönborn

Jamie Phillips
Initial Appointment: Assistant Professor, Clarion University
Current Appointment: Associate Professor, Clarion University
Dissertation title: The Problem of Adhocness in Epistemology
Advisor: Melnyk

1997

Jordan L. Lindbeg
Assistant Professor, Central Michigan University
Dissertation title: Language, Logic, Knowledge, and Reality: The Logical Atomisms of Russell and Wittgenstein
Advisors: Markie and Sievert

1996

Young-Ran Roh
Initial Appointment: Professor, Jeonju University
Current Appointment: Professor, Gwangju National University of Education
Dissertation title: A Justification of Morality within the Rational Choice
Advisor: Kultgen

1995

Laurence Rohrer
Initial Appointment: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska-Kearney
Current Appointment: Visiting Assistant Professor, Lincoln University
Dissertation title: Psychological Bases of the Present Condition of Ethics
Advisor: Kultgen

Elizabeth Van Mil
Grants Specialist and Part-time Philosophy Instructor, University of New Mexico
Dissertation title: Antinomies of a Monological Use of Language
Advisor: Sievert

1994

Lavonna Lovern-Beckman
Initial Appointment: Assistant Professor, Central Methodist University
Current Appointment: Unknown
Dissertation title: Rousseau on Equality
Advisor: Bien

Matthew Swanson
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Misericordia University
Dissertation title: The Social Contract Tradition and the Question of Political Legitimacy
Advisor: Bien

1993

Eugene Jones
Initial Appointment: Full-time Faculty, Social Science Division, Mohidal University International College
Current Appointment: Unknown
Dissertation title: International Law and the Necessity for World Government
Advisor: Sievert

1992

Carl Hasler
Professor of Philosophy, Collin County Community College (Spring Creek Campus)
Dissertation title: The Concept of Dread
Advisor: von Schönborn

Mark Painter
Professor, Misericordia University
Dissertation title: The Philosophical Appropriation of Protestantism in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Thought
Advisor: Bien

Cathryn Bailey
Associate Professor and Department Chair, University of Minnesota Mankato
Dissertation title: Feminism, Objectivity and Science
Advisor: Kultgen

1991

Timothy Patrick
Assistant Professor of Health Informatics Health Management & Informatics and Associate Director Biomedical and Health Informatics Training Program, University of Missouri
Dissertation title: Lewis-Style Semantics for Conditional Logic of Obligation
Advisor: Weirich

George Mummert
Minister
Dissertation title: The Altruism of Mysticism
Advisor: Kultgen

1990

Thomas Manig
Visiting Assistant Professor, Auburn University
Dissertation title: A Socialist Theory of Distributive Justice
Advisor: Markie

Rory Conces
Assistant Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs, University of Nebraska-Omaha
Dissertation title: A Study of Intractable Ideological Disputes
Advisor: Kultgen

Thomas Huffman
Unknown
Dissertation title: Personhood, Personality, and Abortion
Advisor: Markie

1989

David Raithel
Unknown
Dissertation title: Rational Self-Interest and Gauthier's Proviso
Advisor: Markie

1987

Albert Messner
Unknown
Dissertation title: Aristotle's Theory of Moral Weakness
Advisor: Markie

Kam-Lun Kwong
Unknown
Dissertation title: Hegel's Critique of Kantian Morality
Advisor: von Schönborn

1986

Stephen Ben Wall-Smith
Coordinator, Office of Campus Religious Life, Harris-Stowe State University
Dissertation title: Magic and Mechanism in Current Peruvian Thought
Advisor: Berndtson

1985

Edward MacAlmon
Divisional Social Services Director for the Salvation Army, St. Louis
Dissertation title: Transactional Analysis as Good Social Science
Advisor: Kultgen

Thomas Martin
Professor, Midland Lutheran College/University of Nebraska-Kearney
Dissertation title: Dostoyevsky's Concept of a Nation
Advisor: Bien

Gilburt Goffstein
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Radford University
Dissertation title: The Origin and Nature of the Self
Advisor: Bien

Charles Schofield
Unknown
Dissertation title: Argument and Unity in the Political and Moral Teachings of Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan
Advisor: Bien

Mohamed Elrai
Unknown
Dissertation title: Individual vs. State in Locke's and Rousseau's Theories of Justice
Advisor: Bien

1983

Alexander Hooke
Professor, Villa Julie College
Dissertation title: Masters and Slaves: Studies in a Theory of Intersubjectivity
Advisor: Kultgen

David Dye
deceased
Dissertation title: Belief, Certainty, and Incorrigible Foundations: An Examination of Panayot Butchvarov's The Concept of Knowledge
Advisor: Markie

Richard McCarty
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Eastern Carolina University
Dissertation title: Aesthetic Experience and Value
Advisor: Berndtson

Sandra Reeves †
Pasadena City College
Dissertation title: Nietzsche's Doctrine of Eternal Recurrence: The Most Scientific of all Possible Hypothesis
Advisor: Berndtson

1982

Lawrence Howe
Associate Professor, University of West Florida
Dissertation title: The Idea of Endosmosis in Bergson's Philosophy
Advisor: Berndtson

Lisa Isaacson
Pastor, The Word Church
Dissertation title: A Dialogue on Human Freedom: Sartre and the Coherence/Stability Theory
Advisor: Kultgen

1981

Willis Van Groningen
Chaplain, Trinity Christian College
Dissertation title: A Logico-Ontological Synthesis
Advisor: Kultgen

Jane Uebelhoer
Professor of Business Administration, Marymount University
Dissertation title: Paternalism, Professionalsim and Ethics
Advisor: Kultgen

1980

Dean Cook
Former Appointment: Towson University
Current Appointment: Unknown
Dissertation title: Chomsky: A Rationalist Philosophy of Science
Advisor: Kultgen

1979

Charles Harris
Former Appointment: Health Care Administrator
Current Appointment: Unknown
Dissertation title: Justice and Health Care Delivery
Advisor: Bondeson

1977

O. A. Robinson
Former Appointment: Professor, Central Methodist College
Current Appointment: Unknown
Dissertation title: Pattern and Social Decision
Advisor: Bien

Donald Baldwin
Former Appointment: Professor, Vangard University of Southern California
Current Appointment: Unknown
Dissertation title: The Divine Visual Language Argument in George Berkeley's Alciphron
Advisor: Kultgen

1976

John Shudy
Unknown
Dissertation title: Justification of Induction: Primordial Induction
Advisor: Kultgen

Roger Gibson
Professor, Washington University-St. Louis
Dissertation title: The Logical Structure of Quine's Philosophy
Advisor: Kultgen

1975

Francis Baumli
Professor Emeritius, Missouri Western College
Dissertation title: Laughter, Comedy and Morals: A Bergsonian Synthesis
Advisor: Berndtson

1974

Eugene Hargrove
Professor, University of North Texas
Editor, Environmental Ethics
Dissertation title: Wittgenstein and Ethics
Advisor: Kultgen

Douglas Huff
Professor, Gustavus Adolphus College
Dissertation title: General Terms
Advisor: Wilcox

Anthony Waters
deceased
University of Louisiana-New Orleans
Dissertation title: Alienation in the Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre
Advisor: Berndtson

1973

Eugene Bales
Professor of Philosophy and Academic Vice-President, Bethany College
Dissertation title: Plotinus: A Critical Examination
Advisor: Kultgen

John Bardi
Lecturer in Philosophy, Penn State Mont Alto
Dissertation title: Philosophy and the Phenomenon of Political Obligation
Advisor: Wilcox

George Georgacarakos
Initial Appointment: Professor, Kansas State University
Current Appointment: Professor, Gustavus Adolphus College
Dissertation title: A Study in the Modal Extensions of Lewis S4
Advisor: Wilcox

John Richter
Unknown
Dissertation title: New Light on Spinoza
Advisor: Kultgen

Ralph Nichols
deceased
Minisiter, Ft. Worth TX
Adjunct Professor, Texas Christian University
Dissertation title: Being and Symbol in Paul Tillich
Advisor: Berndtson

1972

Phyllis Walden
Director of Continuing Learning, Morton College/Depaul University School for New Learning
Dissertation title: The Phenomenology of Loneliness
Advisor: Kultgen

Michael Boudreaux
deceased
Dissertation title: Nothingness: The Adventure of the In-Itself
Advisor: Berndtson

Chere Shawer
Unknown
Dissertation title: Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Zakariya Al-Razi on Reason and Nature
Advisor: Kultgen

1971

Muhammed Harun-ar-Rashid
deceased
Dawson College
Dissertation title: Alexander's Theory of Value and Its Foundations
Advisor: Kultgen

Karon Jack Turner
Unknown
Dissertation title: Mind as a Principle of Order in the Philosophy of C. S. Pierce
Advisor: Oliver

Jeanne St. Amour
Glendale Community College
Dissertation title: Transcendence in Teilhard and Blondel
Advisor: Kultgen

1970

Henry Smits
deceased
Professor, Truman State University
Dissertation title: Some Aspects of the Ontological Argument
Advisor: Kultgen

George Yoos
Former Appointment: St. Cloud State University
Current Appointment: Unknown
Dissertation title: An Analysis of Three Studies of Pictorial Representation
Advisor: Berndtson

Kathryn Cadigan (now Blair)
Professor Emeritus, Truman State University
Dissertation title: Neutrality in Metaethics
Advisor: Kultgen

Ronald Aichele
Professor and Program Chair, Colorado State University-Pueblo
Dissertation title: Dewey's Philosophy of Education
Advisor: Wilcox

1969

Frederick Aitken
Unknown
Dissertation title: The Concept of Power in Nietzsche's Ethics
Advisor: Berndtson

Scott Yeargain
Former Appointment: Professor, Johnson City Community College
Current Appointment: Unknown
Dissertation title: Freedom in Being and Nothingness
Advisor: Berndtson

William Blizek
Professor, University of Nebraska-Omaha
Dissertation title: Toward an Expressional Aesthetic
Advisor: Berndtson

Theodore Panish
Former Appointment: University of South Carolina
Current Appointment: Unknown
Dissertation title: Phenomenology and the Human Body
Advisor: Kultgen

Anima Bhattacharya
Former Appointment: Oklahoma State College
Current Appointment: Adjunct Professor, Collin County Community College
Dissertation title: Schopenhauer's Pessimism and Its Foundations
Advisor: Berndtson

1968

Sylvia Crocker
Former Appointment: Marquette/University of Wyoming
Current Appointment: Gestalt Therapist
Dissertation title: Ontology and the Ontological Argument
Advisor: Berndtson

Duane Voskui
Former Appointment: University of North Dakota/Bismarck State College
Current Appointment: Violin maker
Dissertation title: Whitehead's Metaphysical Aesthetic
Advisor: Berndtson

Delores Sweet
Former Appointment: California State Polytechnic University
Current Appointment: Unknown
Dissertation title: Unity, Determinism and the Universe
Advisor: Kultgen

Kay Bikson
Former Appointment: University of Missouri-St. Louis
Current Appointment: Unknown
Dissertation Title: Peirce's Logic Treated as Semiotic
Advisor: Oliver

Charles Brown
Professor Emeritus, Auburn University
Dissertation title: Analyticity and Synonymy within the Framework of Conceptual Meaning
Advisor: Oliver

Wayne Cogel
Professor Emeritus, University of Missouri-Rolla
Dissertation title: The Foundation of Bertrand Russell's Philosophy of Value
Advisor: Berndtson

William Jaquette
Professor Emeritus, Southwest Missouri State College
Dissertation title: Value, Nothingness, and Sartre
Advisor: Berndtson

1967

David Higgins
Former Appointment: Southeast Georgia State College
Current Appointment: Unknown
Dissertation title: Possibility in Peirce and Heidegger
Advisor: Oliver

Inez Byer
Professor Emeritus, Cottey College
Dissertation title: Tillich's Theory of God
Advisor: Berndtson

Richard Cording
Professor, Sam Houston State University
Dissertation title: Sartre's Theory of Freedom
Advisor: Kultgen

1966

Thomas Bikson
Former Appointment: Webster College
Current Appointment: Unknown
Dissertation title: The Logical Atomism of Bertrand Russell
Advisors: Oliver and Scheer

William Brown
Professor, Missouri State University
Dissertation title: The Last Materialist: The Ontology of George Santayana
Advisor: Berndston

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