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Hatfield PhD Graduates

    1. Arthur Weissman, Environmental Change from the Perspectives of Aesthetics and Geomorphology, Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, JHU, 1982 (181 pp.). (De facto supervisor.)
      Dr. Weisman is President and CEO of Green Seal, Inc.

    2. Lawrence A. Shapiro, Representational Content in Cognitive Psychology, 1992 (245 pp.).
      Dr. Shapiro is now Berent Enc Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin--Madison.

    3. Blake Dutton, Descartes' Theistic Metaphysics in Its Scholastic Context, 1993 (212 pp.). Co-supervised.
      Dr. Dutton is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University, Chicago.

    4. Lanier Anderson, The Influence of Perspective: An Interpretation and Defense of Nietzsche's Epistemology, 1993 (410 pp.). Co-supervised.
      Dr. Anderson is now J. E. Wallace Sterling Professor in Humanities at Stanford University.

    5. Alison Simmons, Making sense: The Problem of Phenomenal Qualities in Late Scholastic Aristotelianism and Descartes, 1994 (343 pp.).
      Dr. Simmons is now Samuel H. Wolcott Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University.

    6. Lisa Shabel, Kant's Philosophy of Mathematics, 1998 (278 pp.).
      Dr. Shabel is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Ohio State University.

    7. Peter Schwartz, Function, Dysfunction, and Disease in Biology and Medicine, 1999 (389 pp.).
      Dr. Schwartz, who also received the M.D., pursued his residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and was half-time in the Department of Philosophy, Boston University, 2001-04. He now holds professoral appoinments at Indiana University in medicine and philosophy, and is Director of the IU Center for Bioethics.

    8. Gary Purpura, Comparing Animals: How to Investigate the Uniqueness of the Human Mind, 1999 (192 pp.).
      Dr. Purpura is Associate Vice Provost for Education and Academic Planning at Penn.

    9. Anya Plutynski, Modeling Evolution, 2001 (275 pp.).
      Dr. Plutynski now Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis.

    10. Marc Cohen, Self-Interpretation and Emotion, 2002 (193 pp.).
      Dr. Cohen is Professor of Management and Professor of Philosophy at Seattle University.

    11. Allison Crapo, Making It External: Continu'd and Distinct Body in Hume's Treatise on Human Nature, 2003 (162 pp.).
      Dr. Crapo has obtained the J.D. and after serving as Attorney Of Counsel at the National Center for Youth Law in San Francisco, she is now Executive Director of the Skytown Pre-School in Richmond, California.

    12. Morgan Wallhagen, Attention to Consciousness, 2004 (371 pp.).
      Dr. Wallhagen now teaches for the Stanford University Online High School.

    13. Yumiko Inukai, The Bundling of the Self: The Empirical Basis for the Unity of the Self in Hume and James, 2005 (202 pp.).
      Dr. Inukai is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

    14. Jeffrey Scarborough, Perception in Action, 2005 (223 pp.).
      Dr. Scarborough taught in the Stanford University Online High School and is now an Educational Consultant.

    15. Scott Edgar, Anti-Psychologism, Objectivity, and the Marburg School Neo-Kantians, 2008.
      Dr. Edgar is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada.

    16. Louise Daoust, Seeing Things as We Do: Ecological Psychology and the Normativity of Visual Perception, 2017.
      Dr. Daoust is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida.

    17. Devin Sanchez Curry, How Beliefs are Like Colors, 2018.
      After a year as Visiting Assistant Professor and Perry-Williams Postdoctoral Fellow at Wooster College, Ohio, Dr. Curry is now Associate Professor of Philosophy at West Virginia University.

    18. Nabeel Hamid, Being and the Good: Natural Teleology in Early Modern German Philosophy, 2018.
      Dr. Hamid is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Concordia University, Montreal.

    19. Jordan Taylor, Actually Embodied Emotions, 2018.
      Dr. Taylor has a postdoctoral position as a Full-Time Lecturer in the Critical Writing Program at Penn.

    20. Ben Baker, Cognition in Nature: Information, Explanation, Embodiment, 2020. Co-supervised.
      Dr. Baker is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and a member of the Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence at Colby College.

    21. Tiina Rosenqvist, Color, Competence, and Correctness, 2023.
      Dr. Rosenqvist has a three-year post-doctoral appointment at Dartmouth College.

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