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
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| Year | Name | Dissertation Title | Supervisor(s) | Current Position | First Position |
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| 2019 | Wurst, Matthew | Free Will in Malebranche and Leibniz | Rozemond, Marleen | University of Texas School of Law (JD student) | |
| 2014 | Sinclair, Susan Emma | Beauty and Ethics: Three Relations | Sedivy, Sonia, Mullin, Amy | University of New Brunswick, English Department (TT) | |
| 2011 | Riegel, Nicholas | Beauty (τὸ καλόν) and its Relation to the Good in the Works of Plato | Gerson, Lloyd | Educator/Consultant: English/Communications/Business (Bern, Switzerland) | Universidad di Brasilia (Brazil) (P) |
| 2018 | Pikkert, Owen | Leibniz and the Principle of Sufficient Reason | Rozemond, Marleen | University of Toronto, Mississauga (V) | University of Toronto, St. George (V) |
| 2011 | Kim, Doil | Xunxi's Ethical Thought and Moral Psychology | Shen, Vincent | Sungkyunkwan University (Seoul) (TT) | Institute of Philosophy at Seoul National University (Korea)(V) |
| 2011 | Howard, Scott Alexander | The Normativity of Nonstandard Emotions: An Essay on Poignancy and Sentimentality | de Sousa, Ronald | University of Toronto, St. George (V) | Harvard University (P) /University of Toronto Mississauga (V) |
| 2015 | Emmett, Kelin | Kant's Hypothetical Imperative | Tenenbaum, Sergio | McGill University (P) |
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| 2015 | Davies, James | How to Refer to Abstract Objects | Dickie, Imogen, and Kremer, Philip | University of Toronto, St George (V) | |
| 2019 | Carter, Elliot | Perceiving Temporal Structures | Matthen, Mohan | University of Toronto, Scarborough (V) | |
| 2018 | Bryant, Rachel | Tragic Moral Conflict and Endangered Species Recovery | Walsh, Denis, and Sumner, Wayne | University of Toronto, Scarborough (V) | |
| 2015 | Bonello, Alessandro | Aristotle on Spontaneity | Whiting, Jennifer | University of Pittsburgh (P) | |
| 2012 | Schwebel, Paula Louise | Walter Benjamin's Monadology | Comay, Rebecca, Gibbs, Robert B. | Ryerson University (TT) | Duquesne University (V) |
| 2014 | Dosanjh, Ranpal | A Defense of Reductive Physicalism | Wilson, Jessica | Iowa State University (TT) | |
| 2010 | Dufner, Annette | The Normative Implications of Personal Identity Theory | Hurka, Thomas | University of Bonn (Germany) (P) | |
| 2013 | Pouryousefi, Sareh | A Normative Model of Professionalization: Implications for Business Ethics | Heath, Joseph | University of Nottingham (UK) (TT) | International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (P) |
| 2010 | Raponi, Sandra | The Global Rule of Law: Between a State of Nature and a World State | Heath, Joseph | Merrimack College (TT) | York University (V) |
| 2012 | Thierman, Stephen | Vulnerability, Care, Power, and Virtue: Thinking Other Animals Anew | Morgan, Kathryn, Stefanovic, Ingrid Leman | International Psychoanalytical Association (London, UK) | |
| 2010 | Thompson, Samantha Elizabeth | Augustine on Suffering and Order: Punishment in Context | Inwood, Brad | Archivist, Peel Art Gallery (Brampton) | |
| 2011 | Beaton, Ryan | Anti-utilitarians: Kant, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche on Motivation, Agency and the Formation of a Higher Self | Mullin, Amy | Ontario Court Of Appeal - Law Clerk | Harvard Law School (JD) |
| 2014 | Siebert, Michael | Platonic Recollection and Illumination in Augustine's Early Writing | University of Toronto Mississauga (V) | ||
| 2014 | Schranz, Mark | Towards a Radical Republican Conception of Power | Heath, Joseph | Seneca College, Student Adviser | University of Toronto St George (V) |
| 2011 | Eldred, Kevin James | A Phenomenological Analysis of Massively Multiplayer Online Games | Smith, Cantwell Brian | Senior Program Manager - Learning, Engagement & Performance at Electronic Arts, Vancouver | |
| 2015 | Drummond, Ian | John Duns Scotus on the Role of the Moral Virtues | King, Peter | Self-employed translator, copyeditor, proofreader | |
| 2011 | Likwornik, Helena | Bayes Rules - A Bayesian-Intuit Approach to Legal Evidence | Ripstein, Arthur, Heath, Joseph | Staff Lawyer, Ontario Court of Appeal | Faculty of Law, University of Toronto (V) |
| 2010 | Bader, Daniel W. | Platonic Craft and Medical Ethics | Barney, Rachel | Psychotherapy and Mediation (private practice), Waterloo | St. Michael's College (University of Toronto), Faculty of Theology (V) |
| 2011 | Dimitriu, Cristian | Odious Debts and Global Justice | Ripstein, Arthur | Goethe University of Frankfurt (Justitia Amplificata) (P) | University of Kansas (V)/University of Guelph (P) |
| 2013 | Gofton, Brett Tyson | Analysis, Systematicity, and the Transcendental in Hermann Cohen's System of Critical Idealism | P. Franks, Giibs, Robert | Lakehead University, Natural Science, Engineering and Health Research Facilitator | Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen (V)/Fairfield University (V) |
| 2011 | Sinha, Alex | The Justification of Deontology | Hurka, Thomas | Arnold & Porter, Kaye, Scholer (Associate) | NYU School of Law (JD) |
| 2012 | Browne, Katharine | Reason, Evolution, and The Possibility of Cooperation | Thompson, Paul | Langara College (V) | University of Oslo (Norway), Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature (P) |
| 2013 | Hunter, Johannes Hugh | Berkeley's Bodies | Ainslie, Donald | Policy Analyst (Security), Government of Canada | Humboldt Universität (Germany) (P)/Tyndale University College (V) |
| 2018 | Davis, Jeremy | National Partiality and War | Hurka, Thomas | University of Georgia (TT) | United States Military Academy at West Point (V) |
| 2018 | Mathison, Eric | Asymmetries and Ill-Being | Hurka, Thomas | University of Lethbridge (V) | Baylor College of Medicine (P) |
| 2013 | Baghai, Farshid | The Epigenesis of Pure Reason: Systematicity in Kant's Critical Philosophy | P. Franks | Villanova University (TT) | University of Toronto at Mississauga (V) |
| 2015 | Costello, Willie | From Causes to Forms: The Phaedo and the foundations of Platonic metaphysics | Barney, Rachel | University of Toronto, St. George (P) | Stanford University (P) |
| 2015 | Bermudez-Rey, Juan Pablo | Automaticity and Control in Human Action | Kingwell, Mark | University of Neuchâtel (P) | Universidad Externado de Columbia (V) |
| 2010 | Singleton, Bronwyn Corinne | For the First Time - A Phenomenology of Virginity | Kingwell, Mark | Self-employed writer/editor/trainer/facilitator | |
| 2010 | Fulkerson, Matthew | The Sense of Touch | Matthen, Mohan | UC San Diego (TT) | University of British Columbia (P) |
| 2016 | Payton, Jonathan | The Metaphysics of Negative Action | Tenenbaum, Sergio, and Wilson, Jessica | Bilkent University (TT) | University of Toronto, St. George (V) |
| 2012 | Tal, Eran | The Epistemology of Measurement: A Model-based Account | Morrison, Margaret | McGill University (TT) | Beilefeld University (Germany) (P) |
| 2011 | O`Madagain, Cathal | The Public Dimension of Meaning | Sedivy, Sonia | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Germany) (P | University College Dublin (Ireland) (P) |
| 2010 | Millar, Boyd | A Defense of Separatism | Seager, William E. | Loyola University Chicago (V) | University of Buffalo (V) |
| 2018 | Smith, Sean | The Affective Point of View: Cross-Cultural Philosophical Investigation of Embodiment, Feeling, and Consciousness | Thompson, Evan | University of Hawai'i at Manoa (TT) | |
| 2018 | Garner, Renaud-Philippe | Allons Enfants de la Patrie: An Analysis and Defence of Patriotism and the Social Self | Clark, Phil, and Hurka, Thomas | University of British Columbia (Okanagan) (TT) | University of Colorado Boulder (V) |
| 2018 | Zylstra, Stephen | The Immanent Causation in Spinoza and Scholasticism | Rozemond, Marleen | University of California, Santa Barbara (V) | |
| 2014 | Roelofs, Luke | Combining Minds | Seager, William E. | Australian National University (P) | |
| 2014 | Kühle, Lana | Embodiment and Subjectivity: the Origins of Bodily SelfAwareness | E. Thompson | Illinois State University (TT) | |
| 2019 | Moosavi, Parisa | From Function to Flourishing: Neo-Aristotelian Ethics and the Science of Life | Tenenbaum, Sergio , and Walsh, Denis | York University (TT) | |
| 2019 | Szlachta, Michael | A Defense of Intellectualism: Will, Intellect, and Control in Late 13th Century Philosophy | Pickavé, Martin | St. Francis Xavier University (TT) | University of Toronto, St. George (V) |
| 2014 | Siebert, Matthew Kent | Knowing and Trusting: the Medieval Social Epistemologies of Augustine and Aquinas | King, Peter | Belmont Abbey College, NC (TT) | St. Louis University (P) |
| 2016 | Fortney, Mark | The Attentive Mind | Rattan, Gurpreet | University of Toronto, UTM (V) | University of Toronto Scarborough (V) |
| 2013 | Weinrib, Jacob | Authority, Justice, and Public Law: A Unified Theory | Ripstein, Arthur | Queen's University, School of Law (TT) | New York University (P) |
| 2014 | Boyd, Kenneth | Epistemically Responsible Action | Nagel, Jennifer | University of Toronto Scarborough (V) | Dalhouse University (V) |
| 2017 | Thoma, Johanna | Advice for the Steady: Decision Theory and the Requirements of Instrumental Rationality | Tenenbaum, Sergio | London School of Economics (TT) | |
| 2014 | Kriegstein, Hasko von | Shaping the World in One's Image | Hurka, Thomas | Ryerson University (TT) | Ryerson University (P) |
| 2013 | Harmer, Adam Christopher | Mereological Nihilism: Substance and Matter in Leibniz's Metaphysics | Rozemond, Marleen | University of California, Riverside (TT) | University of Toronto St. George (V) |
| 2014 | Heney, Diana | Ethics & Experience: Toward a Pragmatist Ethics | Misak, Cheryl | Fordham (TT) | Fordham(V) |
| 2015 | Suarez, David | Thinking Nature: Towards a Phenomenological Naturalism | Thompson, Evan | University of Toronto, St George (V) | University of California, Berkeley (P,V) |
| 2013 | Repp, Charles Brandon | Truth, Justification, and Literary Merit | Hurka, Thomas, Mullin, Amy | Longwood University (TT) | University of Toronto at Mississauga (V) |
| 2016 | Wald, Benjamin | Judging the Guise of Good by Its Fruit | Tenenbaum, Sergio | Ontario Ministry of Health, Senior Policy Advisor | University of Toronto, St George (V) |
| 2019 | Henry, Aaron | An Agent of Attention: An Inquiry into the Source of Our Control | Dickie, Imogen | University of British Columbia (V) | University of British Columbia (P) |
| 2015 | Irving, Zachary | Mind-Wandering is Unguided Attention | Raffman, Diana, and Thompson, Evan | University of Virginia (TT) | University of California, Berkeley (P) |
| 2013 | Nisenbaum, Karin Alina | For the Love of Metaphysics: From the Revolution in Thinking towards the Renewal of Thinking | P. Franks | Colgate University (TT) | Hebrew University, Jerusalem (P) |
| 2017 | Stump, Jacob | Socratic Method and Moral Motivation | Barney, Rachel | University of Toronto, Scarborough (V) | University of Toronto, St. George (V) |
| 2016 | Alford-Duguid, Dominic | Getting Properties in Mind | Dickie, Imogen | University of British Columbia (TT) | King's College London (P) |
| 2015 | Devlin Russell | A Developmental Theory of Intention | Clark, Phil | University of Buffalo (V) | University of Toronto Mississauga (V) |
| 2018 | Hooley, Daniel | The Political Status of Nonhuman Animals | Hurka, Thomas, Mullin, Amy, and Sumner, Wayne | Simon Fraser University (V) | |
| 2015 | Embry, Brian | Truth and Truthmaking in 17th- Century Scholasticism | Pickave, Martin | Software Engineer, Google Inc., Boulder, CO | University of Toronto, St George (V) |
| 2013 | Zylberman, Ariel | The Relationship of Right: A Constitutive Vindication of Human Rights | Ripstein, Arthur | SUNY Albany (TT) | McGill University (P)/ UCLA (P) |
| 2013 | Poyraz, Suzan Yasemin | Morality of Personal Punishment: Deterrence and Revenge | Mullin, Amy | AET Group Inc. (Environmental Consultants), Waste Management Consultant; Researcher, Dalla Lana School of Public Health | |
| 2017 | Murray, Adam | Perspectives on Modal Metaphysics | Hellie, Benj and Wilson, Jessica | University of Manitoba (TT) | University of Toronto, St George (V) |
| 2016 | Howton, Robert | Aristotle's Case for Perceptual Knowledge | Whiting, Jennifer | Koç University (TT) | University of Pittsburgh (P) |
| 2010 | Ware, Owen | Kant, Skepticism, and Moral Sensibility | Franks, Paul | University of Toronto, Mississauga (TT) | Simon Fraser University (TT) /Temple University (TT)/ UCLA (P) |
| 2015 | Piercy, Belinda | Disagreement About Beauty: The Role of the Plural First Person | Rattan, Gurpreet and Sedivy, Sonia | University of Toronto, St. George (V) | |
| 2011 | Jimenez, Marta | The Virtues of Shame: Aristotle on the Positive Role of Shame in Moral Development | J. Whiting | Emory University (TT) | |
| 2014 | Gelinas, Luke | Virtuous Action, Inside and Out | Hurka, Thomas | Petrie-Flom Center-Harvard Catalyst Fellow in Clinical Research Ethics, Harvard Law School (P) | National Institutes of Health (NIH) (P) |
| 2013 | Arnold, Patricia-Ann | Reasonable Hope: A Philosophical Counsellor's Approach to Therapy and Post-traumatic Stress | Lange, Lynda | Therapist in private practice | |
| 2011 | Connolly, Kevin | The Role of Concepts in Perception | Matthen, Mohan | Minerva Schools at KGI (TT) | University of Pennsylvania (P) / Bryn Mawr College (V) |
| 2017 | Brandt, Joshua | The Ethics of Enmity: Partiality's Negative Analogue | Hurka, Thomas | University of Toronto, Scarborough (V) | |
| 2016 | Reece, Bryan | The Ontology, Etiology, and Moral Psychology of Action: Aristotle and Today | Gerson, Lloyd | Baylor University (TT) | University of Toronto, St. George (V) |
| 2014 | Sommerville, Brooks Albert | Plato, The Hedonist? | Barney, Rachel | Haverford College (V) | Colgate University (V) |
| 2013 | Bruno, Anthony | The Bounds of Life: The Role of Death in Schelling's Internal Critique of German Idealism | P. Franks | Royal Holloway University of London (TT) | Universität Bonn, Institut für Philosophie (P) |
| 2014 | Horne, L. Chad | Health, Risk and Justice | Heath, Joseph | Northwestern University (TT) | Hebrew University, Jerusalem (P) |
| 2011 | MacKay, Douglas Paul | Political Authority and Distributive Justice | Ripstein, Arthur | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (TT) | University of Toronto (V) |
| 2017 | Cooper-Simpson, Charlie | The Idealism of Life: Hegel and Kant on the Ontology of Living Individuals | Comay, Rebecca | University of Toronto, St George (V) | |
| 2010 | Richardson, Carolyn Ann | Belief & Linguistic Agency | Franks, Paul | College of the Holy Cross (V) | College of the Holy Cross (P) |
| 2013 | Prettyman, Adrienne | Attention and Conscious Perception | E. Thompson | Bryn Mawr College (TT) |