2014
Natalie Evans (PhD)
Agency and Autonomy: A New Direction for Animal Ethics
Initial position after PhD: Sessional Instructor, University of Guelph, Humber College campus
Tracy Finn (PhD)
Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Case Study in Causation and Explanation in Psychiatric Conditions
Initial position after PhD: Sessional Instructor, Conestoga College
Paul Simard Smith (PhD)
Logic in Context: An Essay on the Contextual Foundations of Logic
Initial position after PhD: Sessional Instructor, Campion College at the University of Regina
Subsequent position: Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Connecticut
2013
Wendy O'Brien-Ewara (PhD)
Simone de Beauvoir and the Problem of the Other's Consciousness: Risk, Responsibility and Recognition
Initial position after PhD: Instructor, Humber College
Ashley Keefner (MA)
Do Birds Have a Theory of Mind
After completing MA: entered the PhD program at University of Waterloo
Janet Michaud (MA)
A Hybrid Theory of Evidence
After completing MA: entered the PhD program at University of Waterloo
2012
Eric Hochstein, (PhD)
Intentionality as Methodology
Initial position after PhD: Sessional Instructor, University of Waterloo
Subsequent position: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Washington University in St. Louis
Rachel McKinnon, (PhD)
Reasonable Assertions: Norms of Assertion and Why You Don't Need to Know What You're Talking About
Initial position after PhD: Sessional Instructor, University of Waterloo
Subsequent position: Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the College of Charleston
Christine Heffernan (MA)
Everything is Going to be Okay, Right: Kindness, Compassion and the Moral Responsibility of Self-deception
After completing MA: completing Bachelor of Education at the University of Ottawa with plans to teach at an international school
Ryan Huckle (MA)
Knowledge, First Aid and the Moral Requirements of Rescue
After completing MA: was hired as new program research assistant at Conestoga College
James Tigwell (MA)
The Lions and the Little Bird; Authenticity and Social Media
After completing MA: was hired as communications coordinator for the Faculty Association at University of Waterloo
Jessey Wright (MA)
Quantum Field Theory: Motivating the Axiom of Microcausality
After completing MA: entered the PhD program at University of Western Ontario
Leila Zanouzani Azad (MA)
Fairness through Legal Literacy: A Case for Active Involvement
After completing MA: entered the law program at Université Laval
2011
Jill Oliver, (PhD)
A Multidimensional Model of Biological Sex
Initial position after PhD: Community Ethicist, William Osler Health System
Tommy Blanchard (MA)
Moral Responsibility and the Self
After completing MA: entered the Brain and Cognitive Sciences PhD program at the University of Rochester
Peter Blouw (MA)
A Dynamic Account of the Structure of Concepts
After completing MA: entered the PhD program at University of Waterloo
Nathan Haydon (MA)
Moral Encroachment
After completing MA: entered the PhD program at University of Waterloo
Lindsay Weir (MA)
Virtue Ethics and Rational Disabilities: A Problem of Exclusion and the Need for Revised Standards
After completing MA: entered the Human Resources Management (graduate certificate) program at Conestoga College
2010
Marcia Sokolowski, (PhD)
An Examination of the Moral Authority of Use of Advance Directives with the Alzheimer's Dementia Population
Initial position after PhD: Clinical Ethicist, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care
Subsequent position: Co-Director of Ethics, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care and Assistant Professor, Dept. of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Ethan Wilding, (PhD)
The Ethics of Nuclear Waste in Canada
Initial position after PhD: Sessional Instructor, University of Waterloo and Photographer
Subsequent position: Sessional Instructor, Wilfrid Laurier University
Allen Wiseman, (PhD)
A Contemporary Examination of the A Fortiori Argument Involving Jewish Traditions
Nora Boyd (MA)
A Role for Partial Representations in the Explanatory Applicability of Mathematics
After completing MA: entered the History and Philosophy of Science PhD program in the University of Pittsburgh
Dorothy Chapman (MA)
Ficino's Efforts to Reunite Philosophy and Religion
After completing MA: was hired in the Registrars office at the University of Waterloo
Christopher Grisdale (MA)
Conceptual Change: Gods, Elements and Water
After completing MA: entered Osgoode Hall Law School at York University
Sasha Lecours (MA)
In Defense of the Systems Reply: Self-formation as Revealed by Depersonalization
After completing MA: was hired as a web administrator and supervisor at the University of Waterloo
2009
Grahame Booker, (PhD)
Coercion, Authority, and Democracy
Initial position after PhD: Independent Researcher
Rosalind Abdool (MA)
The Ethics of Deception in Care-Giving: A Patient-Centered Approach
After completing MA: entered PhD program at University of Waterloo and was hired as clinical ethicist at Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital
Brad Schubert (MA)
A Realist Critique of Structural Empiricism
After completing MA: entered PhD program at McMaster University
Jeremy Seitz (MA)
Foundations of Deduction's Pedigree: A Non-Inferental Account
After completing MA: was hired as senior product manager for new segment growth at Interac Association
Rosilee Sherwood (MA)
The Pregnant Self
After completing MA: was hired as occasional teacher at the District School Board of Niagara
Edward Skelton (MA)
Common Sense Within the Bounds of Philosophy: Reid's Philosophy of Common Sense Defended
After completing MA: was hired as communications consultant at Bell Canada
Zac Munroe (MA)
The Emergence of Life?
After completing MA: was hired as course instructor at University of Western Ontario
2008
Poonam Dohutia, (PhD)
Thinking the Impossible: Thought Experiments, Counterfactual Conditionals, and Impossible Cases
Initial position after PhD: Policy Analyst, Health Canada
Neil Haddow, (PhD)
Human Rights: Reconciling Rights with Value Pluralism
Andrew Stumpf, (PhD)
From Objects to Individuals: An Essay in Analytic Ontology
Initial position after PhD: Sessional Instructor, University of Waterloo and St. Jerome's University
2007
Nancy Davies, (PhD)
A Defense of Semantic Conventionalism
Sharon Lee, (PhD)
Education in the 21st Century: Human Rights & Individual Actions
Initial position after PhD: Import Product Manager, Oxford University Press
Subsequent position: Territory Manager, Pearson
Joseph Mikhael, (PhD)
Philosophy of Bioinformatics: Extended Cognition, Analogies and Mechanisms
Initial position after PhD: Policy Analyst, Health Canada
Subsequent position: Business Analyst, Health Canada
2006
Hanan Al-Khalaf, (PhD)
On Merleau-Ponty and the Preconceptions of Human Experience
Initial position after PhD: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Kuwait University
Subsequent position: same
Jeff Brown, (PhD)
Offensive Ethics: Alterity and Alternative Modes of Philosophical Discourse
Initial position after PhD: ESL Teacher at Canadian College of Business and English
Subsequent position: Sessional instructor, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, (Philosophy), Humber College
2004
Christine Freeman-Roth, (PhD)
Emotivating Justice: The Role of Emotion in Moral Theory and Practice
Initial position after PhD: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Trent University
Subsequent position: Course Instructor & Senior Academic Advisor, Lady Eaton College, Trent University
Hendrik van der Breggen, (PhD)
Miracle Reports, Moral Philosophy, and Contemporary Science
Initial position after PhD: Adjunct in Philosophy, Emmanuel Bible College, Heritage College and lecturer in Philosophy, St. Jerome's University
Subsequent position: Associate Professor of Philosophy, Providence University College
2003
Jason West, (MA/PhD)
Thomas Aquinas' Use of Metaphysics: Natura, Suppositum and Esse
Initial position after PhD: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Newman Theological College
Subsequent position: President, Newman Theological College
Jing Zhu, (PhD)
The Cognitive Mind: Volition and Action
Initial position after PhD: Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities,
Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Subsequent position: Professor, Department of Philosophy and Institute of Logic & Cognition, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China and Professor, Institute of Philosophy of Mind and Cognition of the National Yang Ming University in Taipei, Taiwan
2002
Gary Foster, (MA/PhD)
Narrative and the Ethics of Reconciliation
Initial position after PhD: Sessional Instructor in Philosophy, Wilfrid Laurier University
Subsequent position: Assistant Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University
2000
Paul Groarke, (PhD)
Legitimacy, Legality and Sucession
Andrew Reeve, (PhD)
Incommensurability in Ethics and in the Philosophy of Science
Initial position after PhD: President, Reeve and Company Ltd.
Subsequent position: same
Christopher Tucker, (PhD)
Tractable Contractianism
Initial position after PhD: Gerst Post-doctoral fellowship at Duke University
Subsequent position: Lawyer
