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 | Carter, Elliot | Perceiving Temporal Structures | Matthen, Mohan | University of Toronto, Scarborough (V) | |
| 2019 | Wurst, Matthew | Free Will in Malebranche and Leibniz | Rozemond, Marleen | University of Texas School of Law (JD student) | |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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 | Davis, Jeremy | National Partiality and War | Hurka, Thomas | University of Georgia (TT) | United States Military Academy at West Point (V) |
| 2018 | Pikkert, Owen | Leibniz and the Principle of Sufficient Reason | Rozemond, Marleen | University of Toronto, Mississauga (V) | University of Toronto, St. George (V) |
| 2018 | Zylstra, Stephen | The Immanent Causation in Spinoza and Scholasticism | Rozemond, Marleen | University of California, Santa Barbara (V) | |
| 2018 | Mathison, Eric | Asymmetries and Ill-Being | Hurka, Thomas | University of Lethbridge (V) | Baylor College of Medicine (P) |
| 2018 | Bryant, Rachel | Tragic Moral Conflict and Endangered Species Recovery | Walsh, Denis, and Sumner, Wayne | University of Toronto, Scarborough (V) | |
| 2018 | Hooley, Daniel | The Political Status of Nonhuman Animals | Hurka, Thomas, Mullin, Amy, and Sumner, Wayne | Simon Fraser University (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) | |
| 2017 | Murray, Adam | Perspectives on Modal Metaphysics | Hellie, Benj and Wilson, Jessica | University of Manitoba (TT) | University of Toronto, St George (V) |
| 2017 | Stump, Jacob | Socratic Method and Moral Motivation | Barney, Rachel | University of Toronto, Scarborough (V) | University of Toronto, St. George (V) |
| 2017 | Thoma, Johanna | Advice for the Steady: Decision Theory and the Requirements of Instrumental Rationality | Tenenbaum, Sergio | London School of Economics (TT) | |
| 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) | |
| 2017 | Brandt, Joshua | The Ethics of Enmity: Partiality's Negative Analogue | Hurka, Thomas | University of Toronto, Scarborough (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) |
| 2016 | Fortney, Mark | The Attentive Mind | Rattan, Gurpreet | University of Toronto, UTM (V) | University of Toronto Scarborough (V) |
| 2016 | Howton, Robert | Aristotle's Case for Perceptual Knowledge | Whiting, Jennifer | Koç University (TT) | University of Pittsburgh (P) |
| 2016 | Payton, Jonathan | The Metaphysics of Negative Action | Tenenbaum, Sergio, and Wilson, Jessica | Bilkent University (TT) | University of Toronto, St. George (V) |
| 2016 | Reece, Bryan | The Ontology, Etiology, and Moral Psychology of Action: Aristotle and Today | Gerson, Lloyd | University of Arkansas (TT) | 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 | Irving, Zachary | Mind-Wandering is Unguided Attention | Raffman, Diana, and Thompson, Evan | University of Virginia (TT) | University of California, Berkeley (P) |
| 2015 | Davies, James | How to Refer to Abstract Objects | Dickie, Imogen, and Kremer, Philip | University of Toronto, St George (V) | |
| 2015 | Emmett, Kelin | Kant's Hypothetical Imperative | Tenenbaum, Sergio | McGill University (P) |
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| 2015 | Bermudez-Rey, Juan Pablo | Automaticity and Control in Human Action | Kingwell, Mark | University of Neuchâtel (P) | Universidad Externado de Columbia (V) |
| 2015 | Suarez, David | Thinking Nature: Towards a Phenomenological Naturalism | Thompson, Evan | University of Toronto, St George (V) | University of California, Berkeley (P,V) |
| 2015 | Drummond, Ian | John Duns Scotus on the Role of the Moral Virtues | King, Peter | Self-employed translator, copyeditor, proofreader | |
| 2015 | Devlin Russell | A Developmental Theory of Intention | Clark, Phil | University of Buffalo (V) | University of Toronto Mississauga (V) |
| 2015 | Piercy, Belinda | Disagreement About Beauty: The Role of the Plural First Person | Rattan, Gurpreet and Sedivy, Sonia | University of Toronto, St. George (V) | |
| 2015 | Bonello, Alessandro | Aristotle on Spontaneity | Whiting, Jennifer | University of Pittsburgh (P) | |
| 2015 | Embry, Brian | Truth and Truthmaking in 17th- Century Scholasticism | Pickave, Martin | Software Engineer, Google Inc., Boulder, CO | University of Toronto, St George (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) |
| 2014 | Roelofs, Luke | Combining Minds | Seager, William E. | Australian National University (P) | |
| 2014 | Kriegstein, Hasko von | Shaping the World in One's Image | Hurka, Thomas | Ryerson University (TT) | Ryerson University (P) |
| 2014 | Dosanjh, Ranpal | A Defense of Reductive Physicalism | Wilson, Jessica | Iowa State University (TT) | |
| 2014 | Kühle, Lana | Embodiment and Subjectivity: the Origins of Bodily SelfAwareness | E. Thompson | Illinois State University (TT) | |
| 2014 | Horne, L. Chad | Health, Risk and Justice | Heath, Joseph | SUNY Albany (V) | Hebrew University, Jerusalem (P) |
| 2014 | Boyd, Kenneth | Epistemically Responsible Action | Nagel, Jennifer | University of Toronto Scarborough (V) | Dalhouse University (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) |
| 2014 | Siebert, Michael | Platonic Recollection and Illumination in Augustine's Early Writing | University of Toronto Mississauga (V) | ||
| 2014 | Heney, Diana | Ethics & Experience: Toward a Pragmatist Ethics | Misak, Cheryl | Fordham (TT) | Fordham(V) |
| 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) |
| 2014 | Schranz, Mark | Towards a Radical Republican Conception of Power | Heath, Joseph | Seneca College, Student Adviser | University of Toronto St George (V) |
| 2014 | Sinclair, Susan Emma | Beauty and Ethics: Three Relations | Sedivy, Sonia, Mullin, Amy | University of New Brunswick, English Department (TT) | |
| 2014 | Sommerville, Brooks Albert | Plato, The Hedonist? | Barney, Rachel | Haverford College (V) | Colgate University (V) |
| 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 | |
| 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) |
| 2013 | Prettyman, Adrienne | Attention and Conscious Perception | E. Thompson | Bryn Mawr College (TT) | |
| 2013 | Arnold, Patricia-Ann | Reasonable Hope: A Philosophical Counsellor's Approach to Therapy and Post-traumatic Stress | Lange, Lynda | Therapist in private practice | |
| 2013 | Repp, Charles Brandon | Truth, Justification, and Literary Merit | Hurka, Thomas, Mullin, Amy | Longwood University (TT) | University of Toronto at Mississauga (V) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 2013 | Hunter, Johannes Hugh | Berkeley's Bodies | Ainslie, Donald | Policy Analyst (Security), Government of Canada | Humboldt Universität (Germany) (P)/Tyndale University College (V) |
| 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) |
| 2013 | Weinrib, Jacob | Authority, Justice, and Public Law: A Unified Theory | Ripstein, Arthur | Queen's University, School of Law (TT) | New York University (P) |
| 2013 | Zylberman, Ariel | The Relationship of Right: A Constitutive Vindication of Human Rights | Ripstein, Arthur | SUNY Albany (TT) | McGill University (P)/ UCLA (P) |
| 2012 | Schwebel, Paula Louise | Walter Benjamin's Monadology | Comay, Rebecca, Gibbs, Robert B. | Ryerson University (TT) | Duquesne University (V) |
| 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) |
| 2012 | Tal, Eran | The Epistemology of Measurement: A Model-based Account | Morrison, Margaret | McGill University (TT) | Beilefeld University (Germany) (P) |
| 2012 | Thierman, Stephen | Vulnerability, Care, Power, and Virtue: Thinking Other Animals Anew | Morgan, Kathryn, Stefanovic, Ingrid Leman | International Psychoanalytical Association (London, UK) | |
| 2011 | Sinha, Alex | The Justification of Deontology | Hurka, Thomas | Arnold & Porter, Kaye, Scholer (Associate) | NYU School of Law (JD) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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 | |
| 2011 | Jimenez, Marta | The Virtues of Shame: Aristotle on the Positive Role of Shame in Moral Development | J. Whiting | Emory University (TT) | |
| 2011 | O`Madagain, Cathal | The Public Dimension of Meaning | Sedivy, Sonia | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Germany) (P | University College Dublin (Ireland) (P) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 2011 | MacKay, Douglas Paul | Political Authority and Distributive Justice | Ripstein, Arthur | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (TT) | University of Toronto (V) |
| 2011 | Connolly, Kevin | The Role of Concepts in Perception | Matthen, Mohan | Minerva Schools at KGI (TT) | University of Pennsylvania (P) / Bryn Mawr College (V) |
| 2010 | Dufner, Annette | The Normative Implications of Personal Identity Theory | Hurka, Thomas | University of Bonn (Germany) (P) | |
| 2010 | Singleton, Bronwyn Corinne | For the First Time - A Phenomenology of Virginity | Kingwell, Mark | Self-employed writer/editor/trainer/facilitator | |
| 2010 | Millar, Boyd | A Defense of Separatism | Seager, William E. | Loyola University Chicago (V) | University of Buffalo (V) |
| 2010 | Fulkerson, Matthew | The Sense of Touch | Matthen, Mohan | UC San Diego (TT) | University of British Columbia (P) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 2010 | Thompson, Samantha Elizabeth | Augustine on Suffering and Order: Punishment in Context | Inwood, Brad | Archivist, Peel Art Gallery (Brampton) | |
| 2010 | Ware, Owen | Kant, Skepticism, and Moral Sensibility | Franks, Paul | University of Toronto, Mississauga (TT) | Simon Fraser University (TT) /Temple University (TT)/ UCLA (P) |
| 2010 | Richardson, Carolyn Ann | Belief & Linguistic Agency | Franks, Paul | College of the Holy Cross (V) | College of the Holy Cross (P) |