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 Evan Drapeau.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Beard, Kristen | How to Say Things Without Words: Social Dynamics and Inferential Communication | Misak, Cheryl and Charlow, Nathan | University of Toronto, UTSC (V) | |
| 2025 | Rattray, David | Getting Purposes in Mind | Walsh, Denis | ||
| 2025 | Dimitrov, Martin | Essays on Pleasure and Its Value | Clark, Philip | University of Toronto, St. George (P) | |
| 2025 | Miller, John | Wahkootowin Ethics: A Métis Approach to the Ethics of Kinship | Franklin-Hall, Andrew | ||
| 2025 | Chan, Jovy | Managing the Human Herd in the Digital World | Heath, Joseph | Stanford University (P) | |
| 2024 | Lavigne, Andrew | Topics in the Semantics of Colour Language | Caie, Michael | ||
| 2024 | Chan, Bowen | The Spectrum of Virtue: From the Decent to the Excellent | Hurka, Tom | University of Guelph (TT) | |
| 2024 | Gustafson, Alexandra | Arrested Attention: Essays on the Phenomenology of Love | Franklin-Hall, Andrew | University of Toronto, UTSC (V) | University of Toronto, STG (V) |
| 2024 | Raza, Zain | Reasoning and the Experience of Validity | Rattan, Gurpreet | University of Toronto, UTM (V) | University of Toronto, STG (P) |
| 2024 | Delhey, Matthew | Hegel's Theory of Institutions: A Study of Sittlichkeit | Comay, Rebecca | University of Toronto, UTM (V) | University of Toronto, STG (P) |
| 2024 | Wiebe, Kayla | Reconceptualizing Autonomy and Respect in Clinical Ethics | Mullin, Amy | Sick Kids, Clinical Position | |
| 2024 | Hamblin-Yule, Caitlin | Kant on Personhood | Stang, Nick | University of Toronto, UTSC (V) | |
| 2024 | Weinstein, Zachary | The Galleristic Encounter: Communication as the Intrinsic End of Modern Art | Hellie, Benj | Auburn University (P) | |
| 2024 | Shoemaker, Eric | The Rule of Ordinary People: The Case for a Sortition-Based Democracy without Elections | Moreau, Sophia | Lycoming College (TT) | New York University, Hauser Global Scholars (P) |
| 2024 | Huang, Alice C.W. | Diversity in the Time of Data | Weisberg, Jonathan | Western University, Duncanson Chair in Ethics and Technology (TT) | Harvard University (P) |
| 2024 | Lambrecht, Felix | Between Groups and Across Time: A Relational Group-Based Account of Reparative Justice for Historical Injustice | Ripstein, Arthur | Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (P) | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (P) |
| 2024 | Krahn, Henry | Protest as Holding Others Accountable | Moreau, Sophia | Justitia Center for Advanced Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt (P) | New York University, Hauser Global Scholars (P) |
| 2024 | Kirley, Michael | The Cognitive Conception of Intentional Action | Tenenbaum, Sergio and Clark, Philip | University of Toronto, UTSC (V) | |
| 2023 | Dalrymple-Fraser, C | Silence and Oppression in Narrative Approaches to Healthcare | Misak, Cheryl | University of Toronto, St. George (V) | University of Toronto, St. George (P) |
| 2023 | Bernard, Valerie | Disjunctive Dreams: An Analysis of Jean-Paul Sartre's Influence on the Modern Imagination Model of Dreaming and Why Modern Disjunctivism Would Improve the Case | Sedivy, Sonia | St. Francis Xavier University, Administrative Assistant to the University Librarian | University of New Brunswick (V) |
| 2023 | Haziza, Eliran | Inquiry and its Norms | Charlow, Nathan | Hebrew University of Jerusalem (TT) | |
| 2023 | Riggs, Jared | A Pragmatic Approach to Metaethics | Sepielli, Andrew | JD Program at Yale School of Law | |
| 2023 | Shaul, Dylan | Hegel's Concept of Reconciliation: On Absolute Spirit | Comay, Rebecca | University of California, Riverside (TT) | Yale University (P) |
| 2023 | Rehman, Rashad | The Ethics of Intersex Pediatric Surgery | Mullin, Amy | Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio (TT) | |
| 2023 | Dunford, Lu-Vada | Terrorism: Killing Bodies to Kill Ideas | Ripstein, Arthur | University of Toronto, Mississauga (V) | St. Francis Xavier University (V) |
| 2022 | Manson, Michaela | Mind and Prejudice: Cognitive Improvement in the Philosophies of Rene Descartes and Mary Astell | Ainslie, Donald | Simon Fraser University (V) | Monash University (P) |
| 2022 | Doerksen, Lisa | Finding Oneself in the World | Rattan, Gurpreet | Central European University Vienna (P) | University of Toronto, Mississauga (P) |
| 2022 | Yarandi, Seyed | Moral Words: Masks for Many Faces | Rattan, Gurpreet | Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (P) | University of Toronto, Scarborough (V) |
| 2022 | Beaulieu, Jack | Absence in Nyāya and Mīmāṃsā | Ganeri, Jonardon | Oxford University, Magdalen College (V) | University of Toronto, St. George (P) |
| 2022 | Rees, Melissa | Placebos - Their Nature and Ethical Implications | Misak, Cheryl | Sienna College (TT) | University of Toronto, St. George (P) |
| 2022 | Bunke, John | Metaphysics in Context | Rattan, Gurpreet | College of the Holy Cross (V) | |
| 2022 | Russell, Hamish | Roles and the Filtering of Reasons | Heath, Joseph | University of Western Australia (TT) | University of Western Australia (V) |
| 2022 | Klemick, Griffin | How to Be a Pragmatist in the End: Objectivity, Skepticism, and the Demands of Agency | Misak, Cheryl | Hope College (TT) | University of Toronto, St. George (V) |
| 2022 | Majcherek, Kamil | Medieval Metaphysics of Artifacts, 1250-1500 | Pickave, Martin | Trinity College, Cambridge (P) | University of Notre Dame (P) |
| 2022 | Harder, Rory | Joint Action and Communication, With a Focus on Demonstratives | Dickie, Imogen and Charlow, Nate | Collège de France (P) | University College Dublin (P) |
| 2022 | Helberg, Natalie | Catherine Malabou's Dangerous Supplement | Comay, Rebecca | University of Toronto, St. George (V) | Concordia University (V) |
| 2021 | McClure, Emma | Microaggressions, Blame, and Moral Responsibility | Mullin, Amy | St. Mary's University (TT) | |
| 2021 | Coyne, Steven | Liberal Theories of Political Authority | Dyzenhaus, David | University of Toronto, St. George in Philosophy and Computer Science Depts. (V) | University of Toronto, Mississauga, (V) |
| 2021 | Melamedoff, Damian | The Grounds of Transcendental Idealism | Stang, Nick | New York University Shanghai (TT) | University of Manitoba (V) |
| 2021 | O'Keefe, Rachel | A χαλεπὸν καὶ ἀμυδρὸν εἶδος: Plotinus’ Theory of Matter | Gerson, Lloyd | St Thomas University (V) | University of Toronto, St. George, Assistant to the Chair |
| 2021 | Munro, Daniel | Imagining the Actual | Nagel, Jennifer | Boston University (TT) | York University (P) |
| 2021 | Mason, Robert | Leibniz's Modal Metaphysics | Rozemond, Marleen | Faire, Backend Engineer | University of Toronto, St. George and Mississauga (V) |
| 2021 | Steinberg, Etye | Unthinkability and the Self | Clark, Phil | Hebrew University of Jerusalem (P) | University of Toronto , UTM (V) |
| 2021 | Matyasi, Robert | Spinoza's Metaphysics of the Finite: Composition, Essence, Modality | Hubner, Karolina | Saint Joseph's University (V) | University of Pennsylvania (P) |
| 2021 | (Byrne) Hatherly, Celia | Avicenna's Modal Metaphysics: The Necessity of the Actual | Black, Deborah | MacEwan University (TT) | |
| 2021 | Granieri, Roberto | Being as a Kind in Plato's Sophist | Gerson, Lloyd | Roma Tre University (TT) | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (P) |
| 2020 | McComb, Geordie | Thought Experiments and Literary Learning | Brown, James Robert | University of Victoria (V) | University of Saskatchewan (V) |
| 2020 | Blezy, Michael | Kant and Heidegger on Judgment and Understanding | Stang, Nick | University of Toronto, Scarborough (V) | |
| 2020 | Campbell, Douglas | Circles and Rivets: Cosmology and Teleology in Plato's Theory of the Soul | Barney, Rachel | Alma College (TT) | University of Toronto, Scarborough and St. George (V) |
| 2020 | Walsh, Daniel | Action, Causation, and Discretion: An Essay on the Metaphysics of Intentional Action | Clark, Phil | Alberta Classical Academy, Teacher | |
| 2020 | Oza, Manish | Logical Form and the Limits of Thought | Rattan, Gurpreet | University of Western Ontario, Faculty of Law (TT) | |
| 2020 | Smith, Julia Jael | Unacknowledged Permissivism | Nagel, Jennifer | Hope College (TT) | University of Calgary (P) |
| 2020 | Taylor, Evan | Knowledge and Anxious Thought | Nagel, Jennifer | Consultant, Voluble: Insights for Litigation | University of Toronto, St. George (P) |
| 2020 | Westfall, Mason | Understanding Minds: Essays on Social Cognition | Nagel, Jennifer | John Hopkins University (P) | Washington University in St. Louis (P) |
| 2020 | Rabinoff, Daniel | Making Sense of Relativized Identity | Wilson, Jessica | City of Winnipeg - Data Scientist/Visualist | |
| 2020 | Wright, Jessica | Owning Implicit Attitudes | Nagel, Jennifer | Canada - Innovation, Science and Economic Development, Senior Policy Analyst | |
| 2020 | Rioux, Catherine | Rational Hope | Tenenbaum, Sergio | Université Laval (TT) |