Careers and Placement
A postgraduate degree in Philosophy can be useful in pursuing many careers, because many employers will value the evidence of independent thought and capacity for research that such a degree provides.
It is important that those who hope to make a career out of philosophy should be thinking about their CV from the start of their graduate work - in terms of choice of a range of courses, obtaining teaching experience, and publishing papers. The Department has a Postgraduate Careers Officer, who handles placement. Recent graduates have obtained positions at the Universities of Aberdeen, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Cork, East Anglia, Edinburgh, Essex, Hong Kong, Keele, Kent, Leeds, Liverpool, Macquarie (Australia), Manchester, Manitoba (Canada), Minas Gerais (Brazil), Nottingham, Open, Sheffield, Stirling, Trinity College Dublin and UNAM (Mexico).
The information given here is as complete, accurate and up to date as we have been able to make it. Any corrections or updates gratefully received. Please send to: j.lenman@sheffield.ac.uk
Year & Person |
PhD & Supervisors |
Initial Placement |
Current Placement |
2011David Ekstrand |
Reciprocity and the State: A Liberal Theory of Legitimacy Lenman/Sleat/Shemmer |
Columnist/Leaderwriter, Liberala Nyhetsbyran, Stockholm | Columnist/Leaderwriter, Liberala Nyhersbyran, Stockholm |
2011Laura Beeby |
Communicative Injustice | Temporary lecturer, California State Univeristy at Fullerton | Temporary Lecturer, California State University at Fullerton |
2011Matt Jones |
"Semantic Scepticism: Normativity and Naturalism" Hale/Hookway |
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2011Tatjana von Solodkoff |
"Grounding Fiction" Olson/Gregory |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Philosophy, University of Barcelona | Wissenshaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Humboldt University, Berlin |
2011Graeme Forbes |
"The Times They Are A'Changin': Rehabilitating the Growing Block Theory of Time" Olson/Makin |
Teaching Fellow in Philosophy, Sheffield | Visting Lectureship, Southwestern College,. Kansas |
2011Victor Canero Flores |
The Source of Broadly Logical Necessity Hale/Gregory |
Postdoctoral fellowship, UMAN, Mexico | POstdoctoral fellowship, UNAM, Mexico |
2011Robin Scaife |
"Agency and Freedom of the Will: the Challenge from Psychology" Botterill/Laurence |
Fixed term lectureship, Sheffield | Fixed Term Lectureship, Sheffield |
2011Heather Arnold |
"Taking the Abolition of the Family Seriously" Saul/Lenman |
Online Distance Learning Development Officer in Applied and Professional Ethics at the Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied Centre (IDEA), Leeds | |
2011Jessica Leech |
"The Varieties of Modality: Kantian Prospects for a Relativist Account" Bob Hale (Sheffield)/Fabrice Correia (Geneva) |
Research Fellow, King's College, Cambridge | Lecturer in Philosophy, Sheffield |
2011Daniel Herbert |
"Kant, Pierce and the Transcendetal Deduction" Stern/Hookway |
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2011Suilin Lavelle |
"Understanding Folk Psychology, Theory, Understanding and Explanation in Social Cognition" Laurence/Hopkins |
Teaching Fellow in Philosophy, Edinburgh | Teaching Fellow in Philosophy, Edinburgh |
2011Tom O'Shea |
"Autonomy ande the Foundations of Normativity" Stern/Hookway |
Research Fellow in Philosophy, Essex | Research Fellow in Philosophy, Essex |
2011Katie Harrington |
"Responding to the Scandal of Scepticism: Kant's Fourth Paralogism and the Refutation of Idealism" Stern/Hopkins |
Fixed Term Lecturer in Philosophy, Sheffield | Fixed Term Lecturer in Philosophy, St Andrews |
2010Julien Murzi |
"Intuitionism and logical revisionism" Hale / Gregory |
Analysis studentship | Lecturer in Philosophy, Kent |
2010Megan Kime |
"Theories of global justice: relational and non-relational approaches" Bennett / Stern |
Online Distance Learning Development Officer in Applied and Professional Ethics at the Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied Centre (IDEA), Leeds | Online Distance Learning Development Officer in Applied and Professional Ethics at the Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied Centre (IDEA) |
2010Sean Cordell |
"Virtue ethics in the contemporary social and political realm" Bennett / Stern |
Research fellow in the Department of Global Ethics, University of Birmingham | Research fellow in the Department of Global Ethics, University of Birmingham |
2009Jonathan Smith |
"Atheism and moral scepticism" Lenman / Shemmer |
At home with the kids | |
2009Giles Banning-Lover |
"Davidson and scepticism" Hookway / Hopkins |
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2009Cristina Carestiato |
"A transcendental argument from externalism" Stern / Hopkins |
Teacher at Istituto d'Istruzione Superiore "I. Newton", Camposampiero, Padova, Italy | Teacher at Istituto d'Istruzione Superiore "I. Newton", Camposampiero, Padova, Italy |
2008Andrew Thomas |
"Truth-making and Deflationism" Keefe / Hale |
Civil Service, London | Civil Service, London |
2008Leonardo Ribeiro |
"Desires, Agency and Self-Determination" Botterill / Owens |
Lecturer, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil | Lecturer, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil |
2008Jose E Gonzalez Varela |
"Quinean scepticism about de re modalizing and non-cognitivism" Hale / Makin |
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, UNAM, Mexico | Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, UNAM, Mexico |
2008Davide Rizza |
"Applicability, Idealization, and Mathematization" Hale / Keefe |
Two year post as Tutor in Philosophy, University of East Anglia | Lecturer in Philosophy, University of East Anglia |
2008Jules Holroyd |
"Autonomy" Saul / Lenman |
Junior Research Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge | Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Nottingham |
2008Paul Sludds |
"Hedonism, Wellbeing and Death" Lenman / Shemmer |
Preceptorship, Expository Writing, Harvard | Preceptorship, Expository Writing, Harvard |
2007Suzanne Lock |
"Content, Causation and Relational Properties" Laurence / Botterill |
Lecturer (fixed term), Department of Philosophy, University of Glasgow | Lecturer (fixed term), Department of Philosophy, University of Glasgow |
2007Stellios Tavoularis |
"Hegel, Plotinus and Jacobi: Idealism and Two Varieties of Mysticism" Stern / Makin |
Military Service, Greece | Military Service, Greece |
2007Lina Papadaki |
"Sexual Objectification: from Kant to Contemporary Feminism" Saul / Wenar |
Lecturer (fixed term), Dept. of Philosophy, Birbeck College London | Lecturer, Dept. of Philosophy, Uni. of Crete, Rethymno, Crete. |
2007Joe Morrison |
"The Evidence of Holism" Faulkner / Hookway |
Teaching Fellow (fixed term), Dept. of Philosophy, Uni. of Aberdeen | Lecturer, Dept. of Philosophy, Queen's University, Belfast. |
2007Andre Abath |
"Challenging Conceptualism About Perceptual Experience" Laurence / Hopkins |
Postdoctoral Researcher, Federal University of Paraiba, Brazil | Postdoctoral Researcher, Federal University of Paraiba, Brazil |
2007Andrew Howat |
"Pragmatism and Response Dependence" Hookway / Hopkins |
Teaching Fellow (fixed term), Dept. of Philosophy, Uni. of Sheffield | Assistant Professor of Philosophy, California State University, Fullerton |
2007Anna Wilkinson |
"Issues in Ethical Naturalism: Motivation, Explanation and Semantics" Bennett / Lenman |
Unknown | Unknown |
2007Esa Diaz-Leon |
"Consciousness, Conceivability and Concepts" Laurence / Keefe |
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Dept. of Philosophy, Uni. of Manitoba | Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Dept. of Philosophy, Uni. of Manitoba |
2007Richard Woodward |
"The Case of the Moral Fictionalist" Divers / Gregory |
Analysis Trust Fellowship, University of Leeds | Fellow, Logos Research Group, Barcelona |
2006Kathryn Wilkinson |
"Hegel, The Sacrifice of Personality and Marriage" Stern / Hookway |
Teacher, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Dame Allan's School, Newcastle | Teacher and Head of Department, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Dame Allan's School, Newcastle |
2006Naomi Rosenberg |
"Moore's Paradox and the Conditions of Honest Assertion" Keefe / Bell |
Sheffield University, Dept of Estates | Sheffield University, Dept of Estates |
2006Simon Fitzpatrick |
"Simplicity, Science and Mind" Laurence / Faulkner |
AHRC Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dept. of Philosophy, Uni. of Sheffield | Tenure track position, John Carroll University, Cleveland, Ohio |
2005Kristina Mussgnug-Barratt |
"Hegel's Critique of Kant's Paralogism" Stern / Bell |
Teaching Fellow (fixed term), Dept. of Philosophy, Uni. of Sheffield | At home with the kids |
2005Tom Walker |
"Moral Agents: Our Inbuilt Capacity for Unselfish Behaviour" Laurence / Owens |
Lecturer, Centre for Professional Ethics, Uni. of Keele | Lecturer, Centre for Professional Ethics, Uni. of Keele |
2005Doug Ryan |
"Two Realist Accounts of Colour" Hopkins / Hookway |
Adjunct Faculty, University of Alaska at Anchorage | Adjunct Faculty, University of Alaska at Anchorage |
2005Mari Mikkola |
"Classifying Women: A Solution to the Feminist Problem of Universals" Saul / Stern |
Lecturer (fixed term), Dept. of Philosophy, Uni. of Stirling | Junior Professorship in Practical Philosophy, Humboldt University |
2005Albert Atkin |
"Peirce, Reference and Indexicals" Hookway / Saul |
Lecturer (fixed term), Dept. of Philosophy, Uni. of Glasgow | Lecturer, Dept. of Philosophy, Uni. of Macquarie |
2005Sarah Parker |
"Reason, Emotion and Rationality: A NEAT Theory of Emotion" Laurence / Owens |
Assistant Curator, Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, UCL |
Managing Director of Lamplight Database Systems Ltd Honorary Research Associate, Dept. of Biology, UCL |
2005Anna Mahtani |
"New Objections to the Epistemic Theory of Vagueness" Keefe / Saul |
Lecturer (fixed term), Dept. of Philosophy, Uni. of Sheffield | British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Uni. of Oxford |
2005Gerry Hough |
"Quine's Dilemma" Hookway / Faulkner |
Teaching Fellow (fixed term), Dept. of Philosophy, Uni. of Aberdeen | Lecturer, Dept. of Philosophy, Uni. of Aberdeen |
2005David Liggins |
"Nominalist Accounts of Mathematics" Keefe / Hookway |
Analysis Trust Studentship at Uni. of Cambridge | Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Philosophy, Uni. of Manchester |
2005Dominique Kuenzle |
"Referring Performances: Towards an Account of Singular Terms" Hookway / Saul |
Research Assistant, Dept. of Philosophy, Uni. of Zurich | Research Assistant, Dept. of Philosophy, Uni. of Zurich |
2005Fabian Freyenhagen |
"Adorno's Negativistic Ethics" Stern / Wenar |
Lecturer (fixed term), Dept. of Philosophy, Uni. of Cambridge | Lecturer, Dept. of Philosophy, Uni. of Essex |
2004Harry Witzhum |
"Reasoning Across Domains: An Essay in Evolutionary Psychology" Laurence / Hopkins |
Unknown | Unknown |
2004Thom Brooks |
"Taking the System Seriously: Themes in Hegel's Philosophy of Right" Stern / Wenar |
Lecturer, Dept. of Politics, Uni. of Newcastle | Reader, Dept. of Politics, Uni. of Newcastle |
2004Dimitris Galanakis |
"The Problem of Proper Name Reference Determination" Saul / Keefe |
At home with the kids | |
2003Dan Watts |
"Constrained Spontaneity: Kierkegaard and Rule-Following" Bell / Stern |
Research Fellow, Dept. of Philosophy, Trinity College, Dublin | Lecturer, Dept. of Philosophy, Uni. of Essex |
2003Mark Day |
"Competing Explanations: Exclusion and Importance in Historical Accounts" Botterill / Makin |
Lecturer (fixed term), Dept. of Philosophy, Uni. of Leeds |
Part-time Lecturer, Nottingham Trent University Businessman: runs "Sesame" catering company |
2003Marek Dalibor |
"The Content of Social Institutions: An Attempt at Reconciling the Political Philosophies of J.Rawls and G.W.F.Hegel" Stern / Wenar |
Unknown | Unknown |
2003Stefano Manfredi |
"A Dilemma About Thoughts" Bell / Hookway |
Unknown | Unknown |
2003James Barratt |
"Self-Knowledge and Intentional States" Owens / Hookway |
Unknown | Unknown |
2003Abolghasem Fanaei |
"The Methods of Moral Inquiry: An Inquiry into the Problem of Justification in Moral Epistemology" Joyce / Stern |
Unknown | Unknown |
2003Komarine Romdenh-Romluc |
"First-Person Thought and the First-Person Pronoun: A Critique" Bell / Stern |
Lecturer, Dept. of Philosophy, Uni. of Nottingham | Lecturer, Dept. of Philosophy, Uni. of Nottingham |
2002Anna Sherratt |
"The Prospects for Modal Reduction" Keefe / Makin |
Postdoctoral Researcher, UNAM, Mexico | Civil Servant, HEFCE |
2002Simon Bostock |
"The Necessity of Natural Laws" Makin / Keefe |
Civil Servant, Home Office, Borders and Immigration Agency | Civil Servant, Home Office, Borders and Immigration Agency |
2002David Hemp |
"Evidentialism, Scepticism and Belief in God" Makin / Hookway |
Unknown | Unknown |
2002Susan Granger |
"The Weak and Strong Levels of State-Consciousness" Carruthers / Saul |
Unknown | Unknown |
2002Tom Simpson |
"The Role of Environment in Cognitive Development: Implications for the Nativist / Empiricist Debate" Botterill / Laurence |
AHRC Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dept. of Philosophy, Uni. of Sheffield | Manager, Higher Education Academy Psychology Network, Dept. of Psychology, Uni. of York |
2002Keith Frankish |
"Mind and Supermind: A Two-Level Framework for Folk Psychology" Carruthers / Hookway |
Lecturer (fixed term), Dept. of Philosophy, Uni. of Sheffield | Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Philosophy, Open University |
2002Demian Whiting |
"The Emotional Theory of Insanity" Stern / Makin |
Lecturer in Health Care Ethics, School of Population, Community and Behavioural Sciences, Uni. of Liverpool | Lecturer in Health Care Ethics, School of Population, Community and Behavioural Sciences, Uni. of Liverpool |
2001Betty-Ann Muir |
"A Defence of the Doctrine of Double Effect" Carruthers / Joyce |
Unknown | Therapist, The Porterbrook Clinic, Sheffield |
2001Harriet Cook (née Read) |
"Music, Emotion and Auditory Processing: Towards New Models of Musical Expression and Cognition" Botterill / Carruthers |
Unknown | Audiologist, Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield |
2001Lucy Burroughs |
"Relevant Alternatives and Philosophical Scepticism" Hookway / Saul |
Civil Servant | Civil Servant |
2000Christopher Bennett |
"On the Right to be Punished: Responsibility, Blame and Reintergration" Stern / Wenar |
Lecturer (fixed term), Dept. of Philosophy, Uni. of Edinburgh | Lecturer, Dept. of Philosophy, Uni. of Sheffield |
2000Simon Kirchin |
"The Metaphysics of Ethical Value" Bell / Joyce |
Lecturer (fixed term), Uni. of Bristol | Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Philosophy, Uni. of Kent |
2000David Harrison |
"Connectionism: Folk Psychology and Cognitive Architecture" Botterill / Smith |
Unknown | Research Associate, Faculty of Education, Uni. of Cambridge. |
2000Simon Tomlinson |
"Pride and Jealousy" Owens / Hookway |
Civil Servant | Civil Servant, Dept. of Work and Pensions, Sheffield |
2000Mandy Wood |
"Transcendental Method and Transcendental Idealism in Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason'" Bell / Stern |
Unknown | Unknown |
1999Christopher Goodman |
"Beyond Objectivism and Subjectivism: The Post-Critical Philosophy of Michael Polanyi" Stern / Bell |
Unknown | Unknown |
1998Stephen de Wijze |
"Political Liberalism: A Consolidation, Reconstruction and Defence" Stern / Saul |
Lecturer (fixed term), Dept. of Government, Uni. of Manchester | Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Politics, Uni. of Manchester |