| Student Name | Dissertation Title (Supervisor) | Placement Information |
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2018 |
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| Xavier Scott | Religion and Secularism-Towards a Reconciliatio (M. Giudice) | |
| Khamaiel Al-Tamimi | A Narrative Account of Argumentation (M.Gilbert) | |
2017 |
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| Elisabeth Paquette | From Indifference to Difference: Theorizing Emancipation through Sylvia Wynter and Alain Badiou (J. Vernon) | Assistant Professor, Women's and Gender Studies, and Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
| Vanessa Dawn Streisel | Justification for a Probabilistic Account of Conditionals (J. Pelham) | |
2016 |
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| Vitaly Kiryushchenko | The Social and the Real: The Idea of Objectivity in Peirce, Brandom, and Mcdowell (H. Jackman) | Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Philosophy, York University |
| Craig Roxborough | Putting the Folk Back Into Folk Psychology: The Social, Cultural and Moral Character of Folk Psychology (K. Andrews) | Senior Policy Analyst, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario |
| Matthew Schaeffer | Thomistic Personalism: Clarifying and Advancing the Project (M. Giudice) | Instructor, Religion and Philosophy, De La Salle College (Oaklands) |
| William Woof | A Kantian Program for Contemporary Issues in Business Ethics (W. Cragg) | |
| Abigail Klassen | Social Construction and the Possibility of Emancipation (M. A. Khalidi) | |
2015 |
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| Alessandro Angelo Manduca-Barone | The Ethically Required Level of Mental Capacity Needed for Consent to Participate in Clinical Research on the Terminally Ill (D. Waring) | |
| Jill Cumby | Concepts, Cases, and Compbellingness: Exploring the Role of Intuitive Analysis in Philosophical Inquiry (H. Jackman) | Sessional Instructor, Department of Philosophy, York University |
| Burcu Erciyes | Situating Objectivity: A Feminist Conceptualization (L. Code) | |
| Joshua Mugg | How Many Minds do We Need? Toward a One-System Account of Human Reasoning (M.A. Khalidi) | Assistant Professor (TT), Park University (Kansas City) Director of Interdisciplinary Studies & Director of Philosophy & Religion |
| Alcibiades Julio Malapi-Nelson | Merging the Natural with the Artificial: The Nature of a Machine and the Collapse of Cybernetics (J.Hattiangadi ) | |
2014 |
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| Alex Wilson | A Pyrrhonist Examination of Scientific Knowledge (J.Hattiangadi) | Instructor, Seneca College |
| Brandon Fenton | Autonomy, Automaticity, Attention and Conscious Unity: Why Empirical Research on the Unity of Consciousness Matter for Autonomy (S. Dimock) | Victim's Rights Caseworker, Aboriginal Legal Services of Toronto. |
| Michelle Ciurria | Situationism and Moral Responsibility: An Externalist Account (R. Myers) | Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology, Department of Philosophy, Washington University in St. Louis |
| Marc Champagne | The Semiotic Mind: A Fundamental Theory of Consciousness (H. Jackman) | Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Kwantlen Polytechnic University. |
| Aaron Landry | Plato's Conception of Divination (G. Nadaff) | |
| Diane Gall | Commonsense Psychology: Fodor, Dennett, Baker (J. Baker) | Instructor, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Medicine Hat College |
| Allan Randall | An Algorithmic Interpretation of Quantum Probability (J.Hattiangadi) | |
2013 |
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| Debbie Roberts | A Kantian Defence of Regulatory Law and Penalty: Consumer Protection in the Canadian Automotive Industry (S. Dimock) | Instructor: ABSC students Law and Ethics for the Automotive Industry |
2012 |
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| Teresa Segal | The Ethics of Reproductive Technology Clinics Selecting Against Disability: PGD and Discarding Abnormal Embryos (S. Dimock) | |
| Olaf Ellefson | Truth, Reference, and Intuition (C. Verheggen) | Sessional Instructor, Department of Philosophy, York University. |
| Ryan Tonkens | The Virtues and Vices of Rigging the Natural Lottery: A Character-Based Evaluation of Prenatal Genetic Alteration (D. Waring) | Visiting Lecturer in Human Bioethics, Monash University |
| Jeremy Petch | A Health Policy Ethics Approach Developing Recommendations for Regulation of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis in Canada (D. Waring) | Manager of the Li Ka Shing Centre for Healthcare Analytics Research and Training, St. Michael’s Hospital, and Assistant Professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto. |
| Dale Matthew | Racial Discrimination and the Site of Distributive Justice (E. Morera) | Sessional Instructor, Department of Philosophy, York University |
| Mohamad Al-Hakim | Uneasy Relations: Minorities, Comprehensive Doctrines, Rawls's Political Liberalism (S. Dimock and M. Giudice) | Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and Philosophy, Florida Gulf Coast University (permanent position) |
2011 |
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| Adam Rawlings | How Reasons Explain Actions (R. Myers) | |
| Viola Cleo Bradshaw | Soul-Shaping: Spatial Metaphors in the Development of Subjectivity in Plato (G. Naddaf) | |
| Shereen Hassanein | Linguistic Representationalism Magnified: A Detailed Analysis of Innateness Versus Social Features and Rational Versus Empirical Arguments for Linguistic Representations and Language as a Whole (S. Shanker) | Jr. Lecturer, Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology (TT) |
| Sara Applebaum * | Self-knowledge, Emotions, and Eternity in Spinoza's Ethics (D. Jopling) | |
2010 |
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| Joshua Paul | A Living Colonialsim: Reconceptualizing Anti-Colonial Philosophy (E. Morera) | Sessional Instructor, Department of Philosophy, York University |
| Susan Dieleman | Revisiting Rorty: A Pragmatist Feminist Solution to the Problem of Epistemic Exclusion (L. Code) | Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. |
| Anna Mudde | Thoughtful Theory and the Possibility of Reflexive Subjectivity (L. Code) | Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Regina (TT) |
| Serife Tekin | Mad Narratives: Exploring Self-Constitutions Through The Diagnostic Looking Glass (D. Jopling) | Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy and Classics, University of Texas at San Antonio (TT). |
| Matthew Crippen | Art and Pragmatism: James and Dewey on the Reconstructive Presuppositions of Experience (E. Cameron) | Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, American University in Cairo |
2009 |
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| Wayne Ross Allen | The Origins of Moral Distinctions (S. Tweyman) | |
| Linda Carozza | The Emotional Mode of Argumentation: Descriptive, People-Centered, and Process-Oriented (M. Gilbert) | Sessional Instructor, Department of Philosophy, York University |
| Maria Botero | Primate Mother and Infant Interaction: Methods and Mind (S. Shanker) | Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Sam Houston State University (TT) |
2008 |
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| James Connelly | Wittgenstein and Early Analytic Semantics: Towards a Phenomenology of Truth (H. Jackman) | Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Trent University (TT). |
2007 |
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| James Pratt | From an Ethics of Virtue to an Ethics of Character: Character and Moral Psychology (R. Myers) | Manager, Faculty Governance and Policy, Office of the Dean, School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design, York University |
| Shyam Ranganathan | Translating Evaluation Discourse: The Semantics of Thick and Thin Concepts (R. Myers) | Sessional Instructor, Department of Philosophy, York University |
| Peter Krek | Empathy: An Embodied Approach (K. Andrews) | Learning Specialist, Human Resources, Northbridge Financial Corporation. |
| Jorge Rodriguez | The Ethical Dimensions of Human Rights (E. Morera) | |
| Kevin Buzinski | The Hinges of Morality: An Investigation of Moral Particularism, Wittgenstein, and Euthanasia (R. Myers) | |
2006 |
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| Darren Domsky | Extending Beyond Ethical Extensionism: A Search for the Most Plausible Theoretical Basis for any Non-Anthropocentric, Non-Sentientist Environmental Ethic (R. Myers) | Associate Professor, Department of Liberal Studies (Philosophy), Texas A&M University, Galveston (T). |
| Ramsey McNabb | Induction and Moral Particularism: A Bottom-Up to Approach to Moral Thought (R. Myers) | |
2005 |
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| Matthew King | Being and Fittingness: Heidegger and Happiness (S. Mallin) | |
| Richard Friemann | Intractable Quarrels in Argumentation Theory: Integrating Argument and Therapy (M. Gilbert) | |
| Ljiliana Radenovic | The Roots of Empathy: Toward an Integrative Model of Empathetic Development (S. Shanker) | Sr. Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Belgrade (T) |
| Kei Yoshida | Towards a Rational Philosophy of the Social Sciences: Interpretivism and the Rationality of other Cultures (I. Jarvie) | Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Waseda University (TT) |
| Slobodan Perovic | Ontologies for the Complex Physical World: Holism, Emergence, & Physicialist Dualism (J. Hattiangadi) | Sr. Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Belgrade (T) |
2004 |
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| Denise Wales | Almost Emancipation: Autonomy and Coercion in Feminist Psychotherapy (L. Code) | Professor, Program Coordinator, Liberal Arts, Seneca College (Newnham campus) |
| Hakam Al-Shawi | On the Philosophical Foundations of Insight-Oriented Psychotherapies (D. Jopling) | Employment and Social Development Canada. |
| Patrick Phillips | Investigating Relativism (L. Code) | Sessional Instructor, Department of Philosophy, York University |
2003 |
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| Majid Behrouzi | Conceptualizing Democracy as the Empowerment of the individual (L. Jacobs) | |
| Ian Gerrie | Phenomenology as a Resource for Emancipatory Epistemologies (L. Code) | |
| Tony Goulem | Kant and Hagel on Meaning, Justice and the Meaning of Justice (H. Adelman) | |
| Joseph Keeping | Emotions in the Flesh: A Phenomenology of Emotion (S. Mallin) | Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, York University (T) |
| Frances Latchford | Family in the Absence of Blood (S. Dimock) | Associate Professor, School of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, York University (T) |
| Darlene Rigo | The Second Sex as a Phenomenological Study (L. Code) | |
2002 |
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| Alex Smith | Unity in Diversity: Problems of Stability for Nationally Diverse States (L. Jacobs) | |
2001 |
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| Kristjan Arngrimsson | The Sun Still Sets: Gadamer on Prejudice and Tradition (D. Jopling) | Adjunct Professor in Business, Bifrost University, Iceland. |
| Nikolaj Richers | Wittgenstein's Jukundus: Language Pathology & Therapy (J. Hattiangadi) | |
| Duff Waring | Medical Benefit and the Human Lottery (L. Jacobs) | Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, York University (T) |
2000 |
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| Ellen Miller | Releasing Philosophy, Thinking Art (S. Mallin) | |
| Nick Ashby | A Musical Theory of Experience (J. Hattiangadi) | |
| Jeannette Bicknell | The Mind Hears: An Examination of Some Phil. Perspec. of Musical Exp. (E. Cameron) | Mediator, Bicknell Mediation. |
| Roberta Morris | On Film: a Philosophic Inquiry into the Aesthetics of Movies (H. Adelman) | Art Institute of California. |
| Alex Wellington | The Ethics of Owning Ideas: Applied Ethics & Intellectual Property (L. Jacobs) | Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Ryerson University. |
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