- Departmental Job Placement Record:
- Current Placement Candidates (2018-2019)
- Departmental Placement Statistics
- About the department’s Placement Officer
- Planning for the academic job market
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 Mary Frances Ellison with any relevant information).
Current Placement Candidates (2018-2019)
Charlie Cooper-Simpson, PhD
AOS: Kant, Hegel, 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy
AOC: Early Modern (17th-18th C) Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics
Links to CV and personal website
James Davies, PhD
AOS: Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics
AOC: Philosophy of Science, Logic, Philosophy of Mind, History of Early Analytic Philosophy
Links to CV and personal website
Jeremy Davis, PhD
AOS: Ethics, Political Philosophy
AOC: Bioethics, Philosophy of Law
Links to CV and personal website
Marion Durand, PhD (CPAMP)
AOS: Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy of Language
AOC: Introductory Logic, History of Analytic Philosophy, Philosophy of Biology
Links to CV and personal website
Mark Fortney, PhD
AOS: Philosophy of Mind/Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Language
AOC: Philosophy of Love & Sex, Early Analytic Philosophy, Epistemology
Links to CV and personal website
Renaud-Philippe Garner, PhD
AOS: Ethics, Political Philosophy
AOC: Metaethics, Philosophy of Law
Links to CV and personal website
Daniel Hooley, PhD
AOS: Ethics, Animal Ethics
AOC: Bioethics, Environmental Ethics, Political Philosophy
Links to CV and personal website
Eric Mathison, PhD
AOS: Normative Ethics, Bioethics
AOC: Applied Ethics, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
Links to CV and personal website
Owen Pikkert, PhD
AOS: Early Modern Philosophy
AOC: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion, Ancient Philosophy
Link to personal website.
Bryan Reece, PhD
AOS: Ancient Philosophy, Action Theory
AOC: Early Modern, Ethics (incl. Bioethics), Medieval (incl. Islamic), Metaphysics
Links to CV and personal website
Devlin Russell, PhD
AOS: Ethics; Action Theory
AOC: Applied Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology
Links to CV and personal website
Jacob Stump, PhD
AOS: Ancient Philosophy, Ethics
AOC: Moral Psychology, Environmental Ethics, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Emotions
Links to CV and personal website
Michael Szlachta, PhD
AOS: Medieval Philosophy
AOC: Early Modern Philosophy, Ethics, Free Will & Action Theory
Links to CV and personal website
Simona Vucu, PhD (CPAMP)
AOS:
AOC:
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Benjamin Wald, PhD
AOS: Ethics, Philosophy of Action and Practical Reason
AOC: Bioethics, Business Ethics, Legal and Political Philosophy, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind
Links to CV and personal website
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.
Main Employment Sectors of All PhD Graduates, 2000-2015
| Department/Division/Faculty/UofT | Total Graduates | Post-secondary Education (PSE): Tenure-Track | Post-secondary Education (PSE): Other PSE | Private Sector | Public Sector | Charitable | Individual | Other (Deceased) | Unknown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Department of Philosophy | 157 | 80 (50.96%) | 41 (26.11%) | 10 (6.31%) | 5 (3.18%) | 2 (1.27%) | 4 (2.55%) | 0 (0.00%) | 15 (9.55%) |
| Faculty of Arts & Science | 4259 | 1353 (31.77%) | 1178 (27.66%) | 661 (15.52%) | 244 (5.73%) | 123 (2.89%) | 100 (2.35%) | 13 (0.31%) | 587 (13.78%) |
| Humanities | 1588 | 568 (35.77%) | 502 (31.61%) | 77 (4.85%) | 62 (3.90%) | 54 (3.40%) | 71 (4.47%) | 6 (0.38%) | 248 (15.62%) |
| U of T | 10886 | 2850 (26.18%) | 2711 (24.90%) | 1996 (18.34%) | 1051 (9.65%) | 313 (2.88%) | 286 (2.63%) | 36 (0.33%) | 1643 (15.09%) |
Current Employment Location of PhD Graduates, 2000-2015
| Department/Division/Faculty/U of T | Total Graduates | Total Found Graduates | Employed in Canada | Employed in USA | Employed Outside Canada/USA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Department of Philosophy | 157 | 142 | 67 (41.18%) | 52 (36.62%) | 23 (16.20%) |
| Faculty of Arts & Science | 4259 | 3672 | 2159 (24.75%) | 909 (24.33%) | 604 (15.45%) |
| Humanities | 1588 | 1340 | 837 (62.46%) | 326 (24.33%) | 117 (13.21%) |
| U of T | 10886 | 9243 | 6136 (66.39%) | 1918 (20.75%) | 1189 (12.86%) |
Average Time to First Tenure-Track (TT) Position, 2000-2015
| Department/Division/Faculty/U of T | Total TT Professors | Total TT Professors w. Identified Date of Appointment (Excluding Outliers) | Average Time to TT in Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Department of Philosophy | 80 | 33 (41.25%) | 1.64 |
| Faculty of Arts & Science | 1353 | 587 (43.39%) | 2.34 |
| Humanities | 568 | 218 (38.38%) | 2.05 |
| U of T | 2850 | 1201 (42.14%) | 2.50 |
About the department’s Placement Officer
The department appoints a Placement Officer 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 Officer for 2019-20 is Professor Tom Hurka, and the Placement Staff person is Mary Frances Ellison.