The Department of Philosophy aims to keep detailed records of the careers of our alumni, but our information is not always complete. If you have any information to share about where our alumni are today, or if you are an alumnus yourself and wish to have your current position updated on this page, please contact Mary Frances Ellison.
Abbreviations:(TT) = tenure track or equivalent
(T) = tenured or equivalent
(P) = post-doc or fellowship
(V) = visiting assistant professor, lecturer, adjunct or equivalent
•••
| Year | Name | Dissertation Title | Supervisor(s) | Current Position | First Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Kisilevsky, Sari | Legal Rules and Legal Reasoning | Ripstein, Arthur | Queens College, City University of New York (TT) | |
| 2009 | Polley, Joanna | Opportunities of Contact: Derrida and Deleuze/Guattari on Translation | Comay, Rebecca, Gibbs, Robert B. | Philosophical Therapist in private practice (Toronto) | |
| 2009 | Bialystok, Lauren | Being Your Self: Identity, Metaphysics, and the Search for Authenticity | Kingwell, Mark | Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (TT) | |
| 2009 | Nichols, Joshua | The Mark of the State: Reading the Writing of 'Right' in Hegel's Political Philosophy | Gibbs, Robert B. | McGill University - Faculty of Law + Office of Indigenous Initiatives (TT) | UBC (JD) |
| 2008 | Beillard, Julien C | Davidson on Conceptual Schemes | Katz, Bernard | Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University) (V) | |
| 2008 | Borgerson, Kirstin | Valuing and Evaluating Evidence in Medicine | Morrison, Margaret | Dalhousie University (TT) | |
| 2008 | Bronstein, David | Learning and Meno's Paradox in Aristotle's Posterior Analytics | Whiting, Jennifer | Notre Dame, Australia (TT) | University of Oxford (P) / University of Oxford (V) |
| 2008 | Miller, Paul Baron | Essays Toward A Theory of Fiduciary Law | Ripstein, Arthur | Notre Dame, Faculty of Law + Associate Dean (T) | Faculty of Law, Queens University (TT) |
| 2008 | Panitch, Vida | Back to Basics: Equality, Neutrality, and the Welfare State | Heath, Joseph | Carleton University (TT) | |
| 2008 | Peterson, Jonathan | Liberalism and the Public Interest in Art | Ripstein, Arthur | Rice University, Associate Director, Office of Faculty Development | University of Toronto Mississauga (V) |
| 2008 | Turmel, Patrick | La ville comme objet de la justice | Heath, Joseph | Université Laval (T) | |
| 2008 | Weinberg, Shelley | Consciousness in Locke's Essay | Ainslie, Donald | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (TT) | |
| 2008 | Angier, Thomas Peter Stephen | Aristotle's Ethics and the Crafts: A Critique | Barney, Rachel | University of Cape Town (South Africa) (TT) | University of Leeds (UK) (V) |
| 2008 | Bromwich , Danielle Nicole | Belief Internalism | Tenenbaum, Sergio | University of Leeds (UK) (TT) | National Institutes of Health (P) |
| 2008 | Dinishak, Janette | Wittgenstein and Kohler on Seeing and Seeing Aspects: A Comparative Study | Canfield, John | UC Santa Cruz (TT) | UC Santa Cruz (V) |
| 2008 | Lajevardi, Kaave | Against Modalities: On the Presumed Coherence and Alleged Indispensability of Some Modal Notions | Chakravartty, Anjan | Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (Iran) (P) | |
| 2008 | Rand, Tom | Intuition as Evidence in Philosophical Analysis: Taking Connectionism Seriously | Sedivy, Sonia | ArcTern Ventures, Managing Partner | |
| 2008 | Richardson, Kara | The Metaphysics of Agency: Avicenna and his Legacy | Black, Deborah, Rozemond, Marleen | Syracuse University (T) | |
| 2007 | Nasim, Omar Waqas | Constructing the World: Russell and the Edwardian Philosophers | Urquhart, Alasdair | University of Regensburg (Germany) (TT) | Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (P) |
| 2007 | Ashooh, Michael Xavier | The History of the Rational Reconstruction of Science | Morrison, Margaret | University of Vermont (V) | |
| 2007 | Levin , Abigail | Rethinking Rights: Equality, Power, and the Oppression in the Liberal State | Sumner, Wayne | Niagara University (TT) | |
| 2007 | Stock, Timothy Edward | You Had to be there: Reading Kierkegaard and Heidegger from a Comic Possibility to the Necessity of Love | Gibbs, Robert B. | Salisbury University (T) | Sarah Lawrence College (V) |
| 2006 | Dobell, Brian Mark | From Presumption to Confession: A Study of Augustine's Intellectual Development | King, Peter, J. Magee | Lebanese Arabic Institute, Program Administrator | |
| 2006 | Fuller, Lisa Laurine | Allocating Aid: Justification, Fairness and Deliberation in International Aid Organizations | Sumner, Wayne | The National Judicial College, Senior Researcher (Reno, NV) | University of Sheffield (UK)(P) |
| 2006 | Taylor, Chloe Marie Isadora | The Culture of Confession | Comay, Rebecca | University of Alberta, Women's and Gender Studies (TT) | McGill University (P) |
| 2006 | Johnston, Rebekah Mae | Dunamis in Book IX of Aristotle's Metaphysics: The Sphere of Motion and the Sphere of Being | Gerson, Lloyd | Wilfred Laurier University (TT) | |
| 2006 | Vinx, Lars | Legality and Legitimacy in Hans Kelsen's Pure Theory of Law | Dyzenhaus, David | University of Cambridge. Faculty of Law (T) | European University Institute (Italy) (P) |
| 2006 | Watson, Brandon Scott | Reason and the External World: Malebranche's Account of our Knowledge of the Existence of Bodies | Ainslie, Donald C. | Austin Community College (V) | |
| 2006 | Angelova , Emilia | Transgressing Limits: Kant's Dialectic and the Problem of Metaphysics | Comay, Rebecca | Concordia University (TT) | Trent University (TT) |
| 2006 | Garnett, Michael | Agency, Liberty, Autonomy | Whiting, Jennifer | King's College London (UK) (TT) | Wadham College, Oxford University (V) |
| 2006 | Liptay, John | The Role of Natural Law and Virtue in the Moral Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas | Boyle, Joseph | St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan (TT) | |
| 2006 | Millum , Joseph Richard | The Adaptation of Morality | Thompson, Paul | University of St. Andrews (UK) (TT) | University of Toronto (P) |
| 2006 | Niculescu, Mihai-Vlad | Intentionality and its Vicissitudes: A Study of the Solipsistic and the Relational Aspects of the Freudian Psychoanalytic Cure | Gibbs, Robert B. | Bradley University (TT) | |
| 2006 | Varden, Helga | The Liberal Ideal of Political Obligations: The Lockean Voluntarist vs. Kant's Non-Voluntarist Ideal of Political Obligations | Ripstein, Arthur | University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign - Philosophy, Political Science and Gender and Women Studies (T) | University of Oslo (V) |
| 2006 | Warren, Marika Dawn | Beyond Autonomy: Justifying Equality Rights for People with Cognitive Disabilities | Sumner, Wayne | Dalhousie University, Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine (TT) | |
| 2006 | Arnason , Gardar Agust | The Politics of Truth, A Critique of Science and Power with Constant Reference to Michel Foucault | A. Gombay | University of Akureyri (Iceland), Faculty of Education (TT) | University of Iceland (V) |
| 2006 | Bangu, Sorin | On the Pythagoreanism of Modern Physics | Morrison, Margaret | University of Bergen (Norway) (T) | University of Toronto (P) |
| 2006 | Brown , David | The Moral Sense in Hume's Treatise and Cicero's De Officiis | J. Boyle | Lindenwood University (T) | |
| 2005 | Burns, Lawrence | The Ethics of Corporeality: A Study of Phenomenological and Pragmatic Significance of the Human Body | Gibbs, Robert B. | Lawson Health Research Institute, Senior Contract Officer | University of Western Ontario (Kings) (V) |
| 2005 | Cameron, Margaret | What's in a Name? William of Champeaux and Early Twelfth Century Dialectic | King, Peter, J. Magee | University of Melbourne (T) | Hunter College (CUNY)(TT) |
| 2005 | Cline , Cheryl Ann | Beyond Ethics: Animals, Law and Politics | Sumner, Wayne | Queens University (T) | |
| 2005 | Custeau, Julie | The Sense of Injustice and Its Pervasiveness : An Inquiry into Human Misery | Gibbs, Robert B. | College Montmorency (V) | |
| 2005 | Kirsch, Julie | What's so Great About Reality? | A. Gombay | D'Youville College (TT) | Marymount (TT) |
| 2005 | Ozon, Marc | The Emergence of Theories of Mental Language in Early Fourteenth Century Philosophy as Explanations of Complex Cognition | C. Normore | Senior Advisor for Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada | |
| 2005 | Skelton, Anthony | Reasoning Towards Utilitarianism: Learning from Sidgwick | Sumner, Wayne | University of Western Ontario (TT) | University of Michigan (P) |
| 2005 | Lee Richard Churchman | Plato on Mental Representation | Gerson, Lloyd | ||
| 2005 | Austin, Lisa Michelle | Privacy, Law, and the Question of Technology | Gibbs, Robert B. | University of Toronto, Faculty of Law (T) | |
| 2005 | Kwong, Jack | Conceptual Atomism: Towards a Plausible Theory of Concepts | Seager, William E. | Appalachian State University (TT) | |
| 2005 | Walmsley, Joel Vincent | Mind out of Time: Emergence and Explanation in Dynamical cognitive Science | Smith, Cantwell Brian | University College Cork (Ireland) (T) | |
| 2004 | Cale, Gita | Responsibility Between Persons | Ripstein, Arthur | ||
| 2004 | Fox-Decent, Evan | Sovereignty's Promise: The State as Fiduciary | Dyzenhaus, David | McGill University, Faculty of Law (T) | McGill University (P) |
| 2004 | Green, Christopher | (How) Do Connectionist Networks Model Cognition? | Seager, William E. | York University, Department of Psychology (T) | |
| 2004 | Miyasaki , Donovan | Freud or Nietzsche: The Drives, Pleasure and Social Happiness | A. Gombay | Wright State University (T) | |
| 2003 | Allen-Hermanson, Sean Jack | A Vindication of the Minds of Brutes | de Sousa, Ronald, Seager, William E. | Florida International University (TT) | |
| 2003 | Singh Bali, Rajinder Paul | Certainty and Religious Experience | Nicholson, Graeme, Goldstick, Daniel | Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University) (V) | |
| 2003 | D'Arcy, Stephen | Rethinking the Political Morality of Poverty | Hacking, Ian | University of Western Ontario, Huron College (TT) | |
| 2003 | Hoffman, Glen Adam | Truth: The Deflationary Theory vs. the Semantic Theory | Misak, Cheryl | Our Kids Media | York University (V) |
| 2003 | Johnson, Monte | Aristotle on the Ends and Limits of Teleology | Inwood, Brad | University of California San Diego (T) | |
| 2003 | Los, Paul | "The First Wave": Wittgenstein's Early Influence Upon Russell's Philosophy | Tully, Robert E. | ||
| 2003 | Tabah, Joshua | Government and Culture: Social Capital and the Consolidation of Democracy | Cunningham, Frank | Ambassador, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia | Canadian International Development Agency |
| 2003 | Thomson, Katherine | The Ethics of Aesthetic Form | Mullin, Amy | Oberlin College (TT) | University of St. Andrews (Scotland) (P) |
| 2003 | Wheat, David | Hildard's Hidden Observer | Stevenson, Jack, Seager, William E. | Practicing Hypnotherapist (United Kingdom) | |
| 2002 | Byers , Sarah | Augustine's Theory of Affectivity | J. Rist, Inwood, Brad | Boston College (TT) | |
| 2002 | Cook, John Russell | Is there Such a Thing as a Language? An Examination of Donald Davidson's "A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs" | L. Forguson | St. Francis Xavier University (V) | |
| 2002 | Francois, Any Marie-Gerard | Race and Other Morally Relevant Categories: A Philosophical Reflection on Sociopolitical Identification and Social Justice | Hacking, Ian | York University, School of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies (TT) | |
| 2002 | Gibson , Jennifer | Philosophical Approaches to Health Care Priority Setting: Moral Obligations, Practical Realities | P. Singer, Cunningham, Frank | University of Toronto, Joint Centre for Bioethics (TT) | |
| 2002 | Guenther, Lisa | Birth, Time and Ethics | Gibbs, Robert B. | Queen's University (T) | Vanderbilt University (T) |
| 2002 | Koritansky, Peter | The Question of Punishment and the Contemporary Relevance of Thomas Aquinas | J. Boyle, Novak, David | University of Prince Edward Island (T) | |
| 2002 | Kraay, Klaas | Possible Worlds and the Problem of Evil | Katz, Bernard | Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University) (T) | University of Toronto (P) |
| 2002 | Leng, Mary | Proof, Practice and Progress | Brown, James, Hacking, Ian | University of York (UK) (T) | |
| 2002 | McGrath, Sean | God and the Being That We Are: Martin Heidegger's Readings of Scholasticism | Nicholson, Graeme | Memorial University (T) | |
| 2002 | Miller, Jon | Spinoza and the Stoics | C. Normore, Inwood, Brad | Queen's University (T) | |
| 2002 | Nemoianu, Martin | Blaise Pascal on Skepticism and Order | Novak, David | Loyola Marymount University (TT) | |
| 2002 | Peetush, Ashwani Kumar | Multiculturalism, Recognition and Dialogue | Cunningham, Frank | Wilfrid Laurier University (TT) | |
| 2002 | Perelmuter, Zeev | Doxa Versus Episteme: A Study in Aristotle's Epistemology and Scientific Thought | Inwood, Brad, Robinson, Thomas | Humber College (V) | |
| 2002 | Byers, Sarah | Augustine's Theory of Affectivity | Rist, J and Inwood, B | Boston College (TT) | |
| 2001 | Wright, Douglas | Ghost Writers: Theories and Strategies of communication in the Autobiographies of Augustine, Descartes, Rousseau and Nietzsche | Mullin, A. | Humber College | |
| 2001 | Woodcock, Scott | The Genealogy of Moral Memes - A New Synthesis for Evolutionary Ethics | Thompson, P. | University of Victoria (TT) | University of Calgary (TT) |
| 2001 | Ulrich, George | Unforgiving Remembrance: the Concept and Practice of Eingedenken in Walter Benjamin's Late Work | Comay, R | Riga Graduate School of Law (T) (Latvia) | |
| 2001 | Thomson, Christopher | On the Burden of Proof in Ordinary Argumentation | Stevenson, J. | Mount Saint Vincent University (V) | The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education, Toronto Metropolitan University(V) |
| 2001 | Secker, Barbara | Medico-Legal Jurisdiction over Human Decision-making: A philosophical Constructionist Analysis of Mental Competence | Harvey, W.R.C. | Lanark County Community Justice, Volunteer Facilitator | University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, Associate Director |
| 2001 | O'Hagan, Emer Mary | Practical Reason and the Myth of the Given | Ripstein, A | University of Saskatchewan (T) | |
| 2001 | Morin, Benoit | Revisiting Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: The Issue of Suffering | Sumner, L.Wayne | NIROM Services conseil | |
| 2001 | Mayeda, Graham | Ethics and Difference: Time, Space and Ethics in the Philosophy of Watsuji Tetsurō, Kuki Shuzo, and Martin Heidegger | Stefanovic, I. | University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law (T) | |
| 2001 | Marquardt, Sarah | The Freedom, Equality and Dignity of Human Reason: A Reconsideration of Cartesian Dualism | Gombay, A | University of Southern Maine (TT) - deceased | |
| 2001 | Krein, Kevin | Thoughts Animals Can Think: Attributing Beliefs and Describing Content | de Sousa, R. | University of Alaska Southeast (TT) | |
| 2001 | Jamieson, Paul | Cognition and Emotion: A New Approach | de Sousa, R. | Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, Foreign Service Officer | |
| 2001 | Igneski, Violetta | Rescue and the Duty to Aid | Ripstein, A | McMaster University (TT) | |
| 2001 | Gupta, Jay Apollo | Hegel's Critique of the Concept of consciousness: Its Relevance to Contemporary Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind | Sedivy, S | Northeastern University, Mills College (TT) | |
| 2001 | Gomez-Holtved, Francisco | Russell on Logical Form | Urquhart, A | York University (V) | |
| 2001 | Gibson, John Christopher | Fiction and the Weave of Life: Scepticism and Humanism in the Philosophy of Literature | Sedivy, S. | University of Louisville (T) | |
| 2001 | Freedman, Karyn | Naturalized Epistemology and The Construction of Normativity | Brown, J | University of Guelph (TT) | |
| 2001 | Detlefsen, Karen | Generation and the Individual in Descartes, Malebranche and Leibniz | Gombay, A | University of Pennsylvania (T) | |
| 2000 | Tiller, Glen | Peirce, Santayana, and The Presuppositions of Belief | Misak, C. | Texas A&M University - Corpus Christie | |
| 2000 | Sztybel, David | Empathy and Rationality in Ethics | Sumner, L.Wayne | Durham District School Board, Teacher | University of Vienna (P) |
| 2000 | Switzer, Michelle | Moral Sense and Objective interests: Facing the Problem of False consciousness | Cunningham, F. | Whittier College (T) | |
| 2000 | Potter, Jeremy | Individuals, Thick and Thin | de Sousa, R. | ||
| 2000 | Macleod, Donald | Norms and Nature: Resituating the Mental Causation Debate | Sedivy, S. | ||
| 2000 | Lee, Jackyung | Aquinas and Siger in the Thirteenth Century-Monopsychism Controversy | Black, D. | ||
| 2000 | Kumar, Chandra Kant | Power, Freedom, Ideology and Explanation: Marxian View | Goldstick, D. | York University (V) | |
| 2000 | Huemer, Wolfgang | The Constitution of Consciousness. A Study in Analytic Phenomenology | Sedivy, S. | Universita Di Parma (TT) | |
| 2000 | Harris, Jennifer | Flowers of Grace: A Philosophical Study of Real Presences by George Steiner | Nicholson, G. | ||
| 2000 | Balinski, Marek Pawel | Self-Affirmation and the Ultimate Ground of Knowledge in Lonergan's Insight: An Interpretation | Vertin, M. | Lewis & Associates, LLP (Kingston), Lawyer | |
| 2000 | Arrhenius, Gustaf | Population Axiology | Sumner, L.Wayne | Institute for Futures Studies (Sweden), Director & Professor |