Over the last 10 years or so, about 60% of our PhD students have ended up in full-time academic positions and over 70% in good jobs related to their research work in philosophy.

Listed below are the recent (last 10 years or so) philosophy PhD graduates from the University of Sydney. (We do not give names, for privacy reasons.) The year of the award of the PhD is given along with the thesis topic and the current employment of the graduate. We have made every effort to ensure that this list is a complete list of PhD graduates since 1997.

1996: feminist ethics; Lecturer in Gender Studies, University of Sydney.

1997: Hegel and self-consciousnes; Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, UNSW.

1997: Kant's aesthetics; Lecturer in Critical Theory, Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Monash University.

1997: Nietzsche on Morality; currently a practicing architect.

1997: history of philosophy; Professor of Early Modern Philosophy, University of Otago.

1998: continental philosophy and ethics; Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Queensland.

1999: Levinas; whereabouts unknown.

1999: Lyotard on deliberation and the will; Lecturer in Legal Studies, The Sydney Institute of Technology.

2001: philosophy of logic; Associate Lecturer in Philosophy, Macquarie University.

2001: German philosophy; Lecturer in Philosophy, Macquarie University.

2001: Greek philosophy; Administrative Officer, School of Philosophy, UNSW.

2002: epistemology and ethics; Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Sydney.

2003: continental and early modern philosophy; ARC Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Sydney.

2004: Deleuze; Lecturer in Architecture, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne.

2004: Kant and Deleuze; Fixed-Term Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, North Western University.

2004: Greek philosophy; Lecturer, University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney Campus.

2005: Nietzsche on responsibility; Fixed-Term Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Sydney.

2005: theories of truth; Assistant Professor in Philosophy, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan.

2005: personal identity; Lecturer in Philosophy, Macquarie University.

2005: philosophy of art; Casual Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Sydney.

2006: political philosophy; Attorney General's Department in Canberra.

2006: social and political philosophy; currently on the academic job market.

2006: philosophy of language; whereabouts unknown.

2006: idealist theories of punishment; Contract Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney.

2006: Hegal and social theory; Contract Lecturer in Philosophy at Macquarie University.

2006: social philosophy; currently working in the University of Sydney Fisher Library and tutoring in philosophy at the University of Sydney.

2006: Foucault; currently on the job market.

2006: philosophy of statistics; Lecturer in Philosophy and Research Fellow in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, ANU.

2006: environmental ethics; Lecturer, University of Western Sydney.

2006: philosophy of science; Assistant Professor in Philosophy, University of Rochester.

2007: history of philosophy; currently on the job market.

2007: Greek philosophy; deceased.

2007: philosophy of music; Associate Professor, Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney.

2007: decision theory; Lecturer at the London School of Economics.

2008: environmental ethics; currently on the job market.

2008: history of philosophy; currently on the job market.

2008: history of philosophy; currently on the job market.

2009: philosophy of statistics; Lecturer, University of Queensland.

Some of our more notable PhD graduates include (names used with permission): Peter Anstey (Professor of Early Modern Philosophy, University of Otago), Phil Dowe (Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Queensland), Kim Sterelny (Professor of Philosophy in the RSSS at ANU and at Victoria University Wellington), and John Sutton (Professor in the Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Macquarie University).

As well as the above PhDs, the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sydney has had many successful MA students who have gone on to pursue graduate work in some of the best universities in the world, such as University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Oxford, Chicago, Cambridge, and Columbia.

Many of our honours students have also gone on to pursue academic careers. University of Sydney philosophy honours students can be found in various academic positions at universities such as Caltech, Harvard and Sydney. Our honours students have also been accepted into graduate programs at UCSD, Oxford, Princeton, Pittsburgh, Harvard, Columbia and Chicago (and include Rhodes scholarship winners).