Philosophy Postgraduate Destinations
Below we give information, where known, about the destinations of recent graduates of our higher degree programs after leaving us. We would appreciate any updates or corrections to this information, and would love to keep in touch with our graduate alumni.
Completion of postgraduate research is a necessary step for pursuit of an academic career in philosophy, and a number of our students have continued in the profession after graduating, in highly ranked PhD programs as well as in postdoctoral and faculty positions. But we have many students who pursue masters and doctoral degrees for other reasons too.
All of the graduates of our program have found themselves able to draw on the skills that they develop while pursuing their postgraduate degrees, in careers inside and outside academia. Successful completion of a research thesis displays a range of competencies – in research, analysis, and time management – that all employers value.
2022
- Margaret Penhall-Jones, MPhil, Self-deception and Wilful Ignorance: 'self-induced, purported ignorance?'.
- James Vlachoulis, MPhil, A Defence of the B-Theory of Time with Respect to the Problem of Change.
2021
- Riley Harris, MPhil, Moral Uncertainty: Knowledge, Decision and Deliberation, Research Assistant at the Global Priorities Institute, Oxford.
- Samuel Hutchinson, MPhil, Refugee Right from a Kantian Perspective.
- Danny Wardle, MPhil, Opening a Can of Spacetime Worms: The Metaphysics of Persistence, PhD candidate at ACU.
2020
- Atheer Al-Khalfa, MPhil, Donnellan’s Referential/Attributive Distinction, PhD candidate at ACU.
- Brigitte Everett, MPhil, Temporal Passage: Dynamic Experiences and the B-theory, PhD candidate at Sydney.
- Michael Lazarou, MPhil, Vindicating Vague Objects, Coordinator of the Writing Centre, University of Adelaide.
- Rebecca Randell, MPhil, Beyond Dualism: The Challenge for Feminist Theory.
2019
- Robert Farquharson, MPhil, The Role of Analog Computation in Path Integrating Behaviour of the Desert Ant: A Defence of the Explanatory Credentials of Connectionism in Cognitive Science, PhD student at ANU.
- Dominic Newnham, MPhil, A Critique of Evolutionary Debunking Arguments in Moral Philosophy.
2018
- Karen Bland, PhD, The Good, the right and the Exigencies of Life: John Dewey and the value of moral disagreement, now lecturer A, University of Western Australia.
2017
- Alex Greville, PhD, A Consequentialist Evaluation of Industry Funding and Commercialisation of Public Biomedical Research, Assistant Director, Australian Government Department of Education, Skills and Employment
- Chris Letheby, PhD, The Philosophy of Psychedelic Transformation, Lecturer, University of Western Australia
- Andy Mckilliam, MPhil, Emergence and experience: systemic emergence and the prospects for a mechanistic explanation of the existence of experience, PhD candidate at Monash
2016
- Mark Coleman, MPhil, Realist and Anti-Realist Approaches in Philosophy of Science: Perspective and Representational Pluralism in Scientific Discovery, clinical pathologist
2014
- Diane Stringer, PhD, Constructing time: temporal experience and its future directed aspects, casual teaching, University of Adelaide
- Jason Tillett, MPhil, The value of benevolence: Spinoza and perfectionism, Solicitor, SA Crown Solicitor's Office; PhD candidate at University of Queensland.
2013
- Chris Letheby, MPhil, Understanding is simulating : a defence of embodied linguistic comprehension, continued to PhD.
2010
- Esther Speight, PhD, Autonomy and chronic condition self-management programs, teaching lecturer at University of Adelaide College.
2009
- Matthew Fisher, PhD, The science of social reasoning and decision making: foundations of a new social-liberal theory, Senior Research Fellow in Public Health, Stretton Health Equity research unit, University of Adelaide.
2008
- Rosemary Lowry, PhD, Reasons, capacities and the motivational requirement, Senior Consultant, Allen & Clarke.
2007
- Andrew Turner, PhD, The C+A theory of time: explaining the difference between the experience of time and the understanding of time, policy advisor, Department of Health.
- Nicole A. Vincent, PhD, Responsibility, compensation and accident law reform, Senior Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney
2006
- Matthew Harvey, PhD, Indeterminacy and personal identity.