Graduate Placement
Amena Coronado and Professor Daniel Guevara, Commencement 2016
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2023
Jordan Dopkins:
Advisors: Nico Orlandi & Jon Ellis
Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Georgia State University, Perimeter College
Ana Pedroso:
Advisor: Abe Stone
Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College
2022
Tyler Olsson: Natural Goodness and the Affective Ground of Judgement
Advisor: Daniel Guevara
Postdoctoral Fellow at Auburn University
Travis Raymond: Remorse and Punishment: Approaches, Problems and New Ideas
Advisor: Daniel Guevara
2021
Alexandra Grundler: The Life of the Aesthetically Virtuous
Advisor: Abe Stone
Permanent Lecturer in Philosophy at Auburn University
Mariana Imaz-Sheinbaum: Narrative Philosophy of History: En Epistemic Approach
Advisor: Paul Roth
Postdoctoral Scholar at the The Institute of Philosophical Research at UNAM, Mexico City (Mexico)
Thomas Rule: The Homely and The Foreign: Heidegger and Thinking the Question of Existential Meaning
Advisor: Daniel Guevara
Visiting Assistant Professor, The American University in Cairo (Egypt)
2020
Aaron Franklin: Metaethical Minimalism: A Demarcation, Defense, and Development
Advisor: Daniel Guevara
UCLA Law School, Los Angeles
Abraham Joyal: Epistemic Injustinc, Responsibility and the Rise of Pseudoscience: Contextually Sensitive Duties to Practice Scientific Literacy
Advisor: Daniel Guevara
Cynthia Tibbetts: Subjectivity as Conflict: Taking Responsibility for Ethical Dilemmas
Advisor: Abe Stone
Wells Fargo, Instructional Designer
2019
David Donley: Mitigating Biased Political Cognition Through Friendship
Advisors: Daniel Guevara & Jonathan Ellis
California State University, Fullerton (Adjunct Faculty)
Steven Haug: Art and a People
Advisor: Abe Stone
Nickolas Knightly: Revisioning Philosophy: An Inquiry into Better Ways of Knowing—in the Humanities, in the Arts, in the Sciences, and in the World
Advisor: Jonathan Ellis
Linda Kealey: Frontiers of Plant-Human Collaboration
Advisor: Nico Orlandi
2017
Lourdes Ortiz Bautista: Making Up People and Styles of Scientific Reasoning: An Articulation of Hacking's Philosophy of the Human Sciences
Advisor: Paul Roth
Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Study 2015-2019 (Bilingual Field Interviewer/Data Collector/Assessor)
2016
Alexis Mourenza (Dis)appearing Minds: Methodological Assumptions and Epistemological Biases in Animal Behavior and Cognition Research
Advisor: Daniel Guevara
Amena Coronado: Suffering and The Value of Life
Advisor: Daniel Guevara
Riverside City College (Assistant Professor)
2015
Kyle Robertson: Virtue and Empirical Psychology
Advisor: Daniel Guevara
UC Santa Cruz (Lecturer)
UC Santa Cruz Center for Public Philosophy (Co-Director)
2014
Javier Cardoza-Kon: Heidegger: From Ontological Politics to Technological Politics
Advisor: David Hoy
Notre Dame de Namur University (Lecturer)
Portland State University (Adjunct Professor)
2013
Brian Prosser: Conscientious Subjectivity in Kierkegaard and Levinas
Advisor: Abe Stone
Evergreen Valley College (Adjunct Instructor)
San Jose State University (Adjunct Instructor)
Ryan Scherbart: Determinism, Alief, and Observer-Dependent Freedom: How to Mitigate the Consequesnces of Deterministic Thinking
Advisor: Jonathan Ellis
Cabrillo College (Philosophy Instructor)
Chabot College (Assistant Professor)
2012
Brian Axel: Of Wonder and Waking
Advisor: Richard Otte
Reed College (Visiting Associate Professor)
Christoph Durt: The Paradox of the Modern Primary-Secondary Quality Disctinction, and Husserl 's Genealogy of the Mathematization of Natureon
Advisor: David Hoy
UC Berkeley (Visiting Lecturer, Visiting Researcher)
University of Heidelberg and European Union (Postdoctoral Research Associate)
Sandra Dreisbach: The Impact of Psychological Research on Moral Decision Making: Prospect Theory and the Doctrine of Doing and Allowing
Advisor: Daniel Guevara
UC Santa Cruz (Lecturer)
Ethical Resolve (Founding Partner)
Lucas McGranahan: Evolutionary Pragmatism: The Darwinian Structure of William James' Thought
Advisor: Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther
UC Santa Cruz (Kresge College Lecturer)
University of Chicago (Development Writer)
Benjamin Roome: Forging Psychiatric Categories: A Philosophical Examination of the Creation and Stabilization of Diagnostic Knowledge
Advisor: Paul Roth
Education Technology and Assessment Expert: Knowledgestreem (Owner)
Singularity University (Consultant; curriculum and pedagogy development)
Ethical Resolve (Founding Partner)
2011
Kaija Marie Wycisk Mortensen: Intuition as a Source of Philosophical Insight: A Critical Examination of Some Contemporary Views
Advisor: Paul Roth
Davidson College (Visiting Assistant Professor)
Randolph College (Assistant Professor)
Jessica Samuels: An Examination of the Role of Emotions in Strengthening the Internalist Picture
Advisor: Daniel Guevara
UC Santa Cruz (Stevenson College Lecturer)
Dharma Realm Buddhist University (Assistant Professor)
2010
Jacob Metcalf: Ethics in the Open: Applied Ethics for Lively Worlds
Advisor: David Hoy
UC Santa Cruz (Postdoctoral Fellow, Science & Justice Training Program)
Ethical Resolve (Founding Partner)
Sara Rettus: A Groundwork for the Ethical and Social Implications of Intimacy
Advisor: Ellen Suckiel
De Anza College (Lecturer)
Mission College (Associate Faculty)
2009
Alan Petrie: A Nature of Value
Advisor: Daniel Guevara
Milhous Children's Services, Nevada City (Outdoor Program Coordinator)
Dr. Roome and Dr. McGranahan, 2012 Commencement
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MA Placement
Mary Garcia and Zack Feigenbaum, 2014 Commencement
Master Degree Recipient Name: Program/Employment Location
2020
Lisa M. Martinez, University of Pennsylvania PhD Program
James McCord, University of Pittsburgh PhD Program
2019
Juan Ruiz Cortes
2016
James Gray
2015
Sawyer Hardie
2014
Zachary Feigenbaum
Mary Garcia
James Sutter
2012
Kamal Dhah
2010
Craig Davis
Matthew Frise: Philosophy Ph.D. program, University of Rochester
2009
Paul Guernsey: Philosophy Ph.D. program, University of Oregon
Daniel Pilchman: Philosophy Ph.D. program, UC Irvine
Bryan Quintero
2008
Jason Bennet
2007
Nathalie Nya: Philosophy Ph.D program, Penn State
Timothy Wong
2006
Daniel Turner
2005
Gregory Klein: High School Teacher, Philadelphia, PA
Megan Gendreau: Philosophy Ph.D. program, UC Riverside
Camen McDonald: Philosophy Ph.D. program, UC Santa Barbara
2004
Zachary Fruhling: Senior Content Developer at Cengage Learning/Aplia Inc
- ZacharyFruhling.com
- College of Eastern Idaho (Adjunct Instructor)
- HotChalk, Inc. (Instructional Designer)
Alexandra Plakais: Philosophy Ph.D. program, University of Michigan
Jesse Slavens
Bradley Thompson
2003
Peter Murray
Bryan Telegin
James Sutter, Summer 2014
