- 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 Mary Frances Ellison with any relevant information).
Current Placement Candidates (2019-2020)
AOS: Area of specialization
AOC: Area of competence
Jeremy Davis, PhD
AOS: Ethics, Political Philosophy
AOC: Bioethics, Philosophy of Law
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
Aaron Henry, PhD
AOS: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology
AOC: Philosophy of Action, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Applied Ethics (esp. Environmental Ethics)
Links to CV and personal website
Parisa Moosavi, PhD
AOS: Ethics, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
AOC: Logic, Applied Ethics, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Technology
Links to CV and personal website
Manish Oza
AOS: Philosophy of Logic, Legal Theory
AOC: German Idealism (especially Hegel), Philosophy of Language
Links to CV and personal website
Jonathan Payton, PhD
AOS: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Action
AOC: Early Modern Philosophy, Ethics/Meta-ethics, Philosophy of Language
Links to CV and personal website
Francesco Pica, PhD (CPAMP)
AOS: Medieval Philosophy
AOC: Bioethics, Philosophy of Law, Free Will
Links to CV and personal website
Owen Pikkert, PhD
AOS: Early Modern Philosophy
AOC: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion, Ancient Philosophy
Link to personal website.
Julia Smith
AOS: Epistemology
AOC: Bioethics, Normative Ethics, Metaethics, and Psychology of Human Reasoning
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
Jessica Wright
AOS: Philosophy of Mind, Ethics
AOC: Cognitive Science, Bioethics, Environmental Ethics, Epistemology, Pragmatism
Links to CV and personal website
Matthew Wurst, PhD
AOS: Early Modern Philosophy
AOC: Bioethics, Medieval Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
Links to CV and personal website
Stephen Zylstra, PhD
AOS:
AOC:
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.