2014 Report
Penn State University
Website
Department name
www.psu.edu
Philosophy
Department chair
John Christman, Interim Head
Faculty
Robert Bernasconi, Professor • Vincent Colapietro, Professor • Nancy Tuana, Professor • Chris Long, Professor • Paul Taylor, Associate Professor
• Kathryn Gines, Associate Professor • Leonard Lawlor, Professor • Emily Grosholz, Professor • Irene Harvey, Associate Professor • Sarah C.
Miller, Associate Professor • Brady Bowman, Associate Professor • Mark Sentesy, Assistant Professor • John Christman, Professor • Dennis
Schmidt, Professor
Efforts to increase inclusiveness
The Penn State Philosophy Doctoral Program enrolls the most African-American students in the country: 12. It also enrolls one African student,
and we recruited an African-Canadian for this year's cohort. The Rock Ethics Institute also houses the Critical Philosophy of Race journal and
critical philosophy of race is one of the Philosophy Department's research-teaching areas.
Additional Information
Faculty
Degrees offered:
Ph.D.
Master's
Tenured
Tenure-track
Non-tenure
track
Women
5
0
0
Financial Aid
Men
9
1
3
Teaching fellowships
Other gender
0
0
0
Non-teaching fellowships
Unknown gender
0
0
0
Teaching assistantships
African,
African-American
2
0
0
Scholarships
Asian
0
0
0
Students teaching their own classes 25
Native American
0
0
0
Other financial information
Hispanic or Latino
0
0
0
We provide summer funding and travel money.
Pacific Islander
0
0
0
White
0
0
0
Multi-racial
0
0
0
Other race
0
0
0
Unknown race
0
0
0
LGBT
N/A
N/A
N/A
Disablity status
N/A
N/A
N/A
Total women
Total men
Total unknown/
other gender
Total faculty
5
13
0
18
4
2
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Penn State University
Ph.D. program strengths
The philosophy department’s mission for the next five years is to coordinate its longstanding strength in continental philosophy with its
emerging specialties in feminist philosophy and critical philosophy of race. Our signature style of pursuing these strengths involves
engagement with and reflection on the history of philosophy. It also integrates our strengths with the study of ethics richly informed by a
historical approach. We understand Continental philosophy to be a family of traditions of philosophy, while feminist philosophy and critical
philosophy of race could be described as problematics (focusing on gender and race, respectively) that necessarily draw from multiple
traditions, including analytic and American as well as Continental philosophy. Likewise, the field of ethics draws on multiple traditions, and the
history of philosophy can be and is pursued by means of different problematics and diverse philosophical traditions. Our department does
not aim to cover all of these areas, but we affirm that our mission statement constitutes a commitment to train our graduate students in
multiple traditions, helping produce a new generation of diverse students who are philosophically “multilingual.”
Ph.D. Students 2013 - 2014 Year
Ph.D. tuition
In state: 18270
Out of state: 31246
Women
Men
Other
Unknown
African,
African-American
9
3
0
0
Asian
0
0
0
0
Native American
0
0
0
0
Hispanic or Latino
0
0
0
0
Pacific Islander
0
0
0
0
Online Courses
White
7
11
0
0
We do not offer Ph.D. courses online.
Multi-racial
0
0
0
0
Other race
0
0
0
0
Ph.D. program entry requirements
Unknown race
0
0
0
0
16
14
0
0
Totals
LGBT identifying
Total Ph.D.
Students 2013
N/A
Disability identifying
Total Ph.D.
Students 2014
23
Number of courses required for Ph.D. 50
Transcripts: Yes
Writing sample: Yes
GPA: 3
TOEFL score: 12
Letters of recommendation: 3
GRE score: 150
Other requirements:
0
30
We also require a statement of purpose.
Degrees awarded
2010
2011
2012
2013
Degrees awarded
6
4
5
4
2014
2
Time to completion
7
7
6
7
6.5
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Placement
Summary of Ph.D. Students 2009 to 2014
Women
Men
Other gender
Unknown gender
Entered the marketplace
5
13
0
0
Left without receiving a degree
0
0
0
0
Placed in a non-tenure track position
2
7
0
0
Placed in a tenure-track position
2
5
0
0
Were not placed
1
0
0
0
Placed in a non-academic job
0
0
0
0
Summary of MA Students 2009 to 2014
Data not provided
Individual Placements for the 2013-2014 Academic Year
Degree Program
Ph.D.
Employer
Goergia College and University
Type of position
Tenure track.
Degree Program
Ph.D.
Employer
UC-Irvine
Type of position
Fellowship (e.g., post-doctoral fellowship). Duration: 1 year
Degree Program
Ph.D.
Details
Sweet Briar College
Type of position
Non-tenure track, continuing.
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