Placement

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Alice Huang (PhD, 2024) is now Assistant Professor and the Duncanson Chair in Ethics at Western University, jointly appointed in computer science and in philosophy.

Departmental Job Placement Record
Current Placement Candidates
About the department’s Placement Officer
Planning for the academic job market
Departmental Placement Statistics

Departmental Placement Record

The job Placement Record lists the current/first positions of all students that completed a PhD in philosophy at the University of Toronto since 1970:

Every effort is made to ensure that our record is accurate; we welcome any corrections or updates (please email Evan Drapeau with any relevant information).

Current Placement Candidates (2026-2027)

AOS: Area of specialization
AOC: Area of competence

Spencer Albert, PhD

AOS: Political Philosophy, Social Ontology, Moral Responsibility
AOC: Marxism, Metaethics, Normative Ethics, Business Ethics, Bioethics, Meta-Philosophy

Kristen Beard, PhD

AOS: Philosophy of Communication, Social & Political Philosophy
AOC: Feminism, Ethics, Applied Philosophy
Link to personal website

Andriy Bilenkyy, PhD

AOS: Aesthetics, Philosophy of Language
AOC: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ancient Greek Philosophy

Joshua Brecka, PhD

AOS: Epistemology (Social and Traditional), AI Ethics, Philosophy of Religion
AOC: Aesthetics, Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics

Jovy Chan, PhD

AOS: Social and Political Philosophy, Social Epistemology, Philosophy of Technology
AOC: Legal Philosophy, Ethics

Martin Dimitrov, PhD

AOS: Normative Ethics, Metaethics, Philosophy of Mind
AOC: Bioethics

Matthew J. Delhey, PhD

AOS: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy (especially German Idealism), Social and Political Philosophy
AOC: Early Modern Philosophy, 20th Century Continental Philosophy, Frankfurt School Critical Theory, Philosophy of Technology, Ethics (including AI Ethics)
Link to personal website

Andrew Doppenberg, PhD

AOS: Computational Philosophy, Formal Social Epistemology, Philosophy of Religion
AOC: Technology Ethics, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Logic

Alexander Drusda

AOS: 19th Century Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy
AOC: Kant, 20th Century Continental Philosophy, Ethics

Patrick Fraser

AOS: Philosophy of Physics, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science
AOC: Philosophy of Language, Logic, Epistemology
Link to personal website

Ismaël Kettani, PhD

AOS: Ancient Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy

Michael Kirley, PhD

AOS: Philosophy of Mind and Action
AOC: Ethics, Moral Psychology, Epistemology
Link to personal website

Henry Krahn, PhD

AOS: Political Philosophy, Moral Philosophy
AOC: Philosophy of Law, Metaethics, Applied Ethics
Link to personal website

Yi-Cheng Lin

AOS: Epistemology, Metaphysics
AOC: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Science
Link to personal website

Schuyler Pringle, PhD

AOS: Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics, Bioethics
AOC: Early Modern, 19th century Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, Law
Link to personal website

David Rattray

AOS: Philosophy of Biology & Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Action
AOC: Feminist Philosophy, General Philosophy of Science
Link to personal website

Zain Raza, PhD

AOS: Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind
AOC: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Biology, Ancient Greek Philosophy, 20th C. Analytic Philosophy
Link to personal website

Cameron Yetman

AOS: Philosophy of Cognitive Science and AI
AOC: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science, History of Analytic Philosophy
Link to personal website

About the department’s Placement Director

The department appoints a Placement Director to counsel students at any stage of the doctoral program, and also to provide assistance especially to those nearing completion and preparing to enter the job market in philosophy. The Placement Director for 2026-27 is Professor Owen Ware, and the Placement staff person is Evan Drapeau.

The Placement Director provides general information about this market and about how to determine one’s readiness for it. The Placement Director also oversees the job application process by, among other things, reviewing the students’ completed dossiers; arranging practice job talks and mock interviews; and advising students who are interviewing for jobs via Skype and during campus visits.

Planning for the academic job market

Although many of the Department’s job candidates compete successfully each year for teaching positions that are listed by colleges and universities throughout North America (and beyond), the department cannot guarantee a job for those who complete the PhD.

Since the doctoral program is a period of both academic and professional training, the department urges its students to plan for the marketplace in a careful and gradual way as they advance through the program (for example, by attending local conferences, publishing papers, submitting a paper to the organizers of a conference as well as volunteering to prepare a commentary for an accepted paper, and becoming a member of the Canadian Philosophical and American Philosophical Associations).

Throughout the placement process, students should seek regular advice from graduate faculty with common interests, and particularly from the members of their Qualifying and Thesis Committees.

Departmental Placement Statistics

The following tables show the various sectors in which percentages of our PhD graduates are employed, as well as the locations of their employment, and the average time to the first tenure-track position of academically-employed alumni. The department’s alumni are contrasted with other U of T alumni, alumni from the Faculty of Arts & Science, and alumni from other humanities programs/departments.