- Departmental Job Placement Record:
- Current Placement Candidates
- 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 Belinda Piercy with any relevant information).
Current Placement Candidates (2023-2024)
AOS: Area of specialization
AOC: Area of competence
Jack Beaulieu, PhD
AOS: Indian Philosophy
AOC: Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Disability, Metaphysics
Link to personal website
C. Dalrymple-Fraser, PhD
AOS: Bioethics, Ethics, and Philosophy of Disability
AOC: Epistemology, Global Philosophy, Philosophy of Medicine, Queer & Trans Philosophy
Link to personal website
Lisa Doerksen, PhD
AOS: Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology
AOC: Early Modern Philosophy, Kant, Metaphysics
Eliran Haziza, PhD
AOS: Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind
AOC: Ethics, Logic, Metaphysics, History of Analytic Philosophy
Alice Huang
AOS: AI Ethics, Formal Social Epistemology, Decision Theory
AOC: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind
Griffin Klemick, PhD
AOS: Pragmatism, History of Analytic Philosophy, Epistemology
AOC: Continental Philosophy, Metaethics, Feminist Philosophy, History of Western Philosophy
Link to personal website
Michaela Manson, PhD
AOS: History of Ethics, Feminism, Philosophy of Human Sexuality
AOC: Early Modern Philosophy
Link to personal website
Daniel Munro, PhD
AOS: Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science
AOC: Philosophy of Technology, Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysics
Link to personal website
Dylan Shaul, PhD
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy (esp. German Idealism), Jewish Philosophy
AOC: Early Modern Philosophy, 20th Century Continental Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of Religion
Link to personal website
Zachary Weinstein
AOS: Aesthetics, Philosophy of Art, Mind, and Language
AOC: Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Post-Kantian Continental Philosophy, Philosophy of Technology, Applied Ethics
Mason Westfall, PhD
AOS: Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Philosophy of Cognitive Science
AOC: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Sexuality, Business Ethics, Environmental Ethics
Links to personal website
Seyed Yarandi, PhD
AOS: Ethics, Epistemology, Islamic Philosophy
AOC: Logic, Bioethics, Philosophy of Language, History of Analytic Philosophy
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 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 2023-24 is Professor Donald Ainslie, and the Placement staff person is Evan Drapeau.