PhD
2017
Peter Blouw
Inferential Role Semantics for Natural Language
Initial position after PhD: Research Scientist, Applied Brain Research, Inc
Nathan Haydon
The Continuity of Explanation: Peircean Pragmatism, Reason, and Developing Reasonable Behavior
Initial position after PhD: Sessional Instructor, University of Waterloo
Ashley Keefner
How Prejudice Affects the Study of Animal Minds
Initial position after PhD: Master of Business student, Entrepreneurship and Technology Program at the University of Waterloo & Co-Founder, Business Strategy at CataLight
G V Ramesh Prasad
The Emergence of a New Human Superorganism after Organ Transplantation
Position after PhD: Staff Nephrologist, St. Michael's Hospital (ongoing throughout degree) & Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto
2016
Catherine Gee
Authenticity and Enhancement
Benjamin Nelson
The Depiction of Unwritten Law
Initial position after PhD: Online Course Facilatator, University of Waterloo
2015
Rosalind Abdool
The Ethics of Deception in Caregiving: A Patient-Centered Approach
Initial position after PhD: Ethicist, Trillium Health Partners
Corey Edward Mulvihill
Existence Assumptions and Logical Principles: Choice Operators in Intuitionistic Logic
Position after PhD: Replacement Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa
2014
Natalie Evans
Agency and Autonomy: A New Direction for Animal Ethics
Initial position after PhD: Sessional Instructor, University of Guelph, Humber College campus
Current position: Professor of Media Studies & Philosophy, University of Guelph-Humber
Tracy Finn
Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Case Study in Causation and Explanation in Psychiatric Conditions
Initial position after PhD: Sessional Instructor, Conestoga College
Current position: Corporate Trainer, Arvato Bertelsmann North America
Kurt Holukoff
Politics, Principles and Pluralism: On Why Liberalism Must be Inconsistent if Correct
Michael Joseph McEwan
A Study of the Discursive Aspect of Scientific Theorizing and Modeling
2013
Wendy O'Brien-Ewara
Simone de Beauvoir and the Problem of the Other's Consciousness: Risk, Responsibility and Recognition
Current position: Professor, Humber College
Paul Simard Smith
Logic in Context: An Essay on the Contextual Foundations of Logic
Initial position after PhD: Sessional Instructor, Campion College at the University of Regina
Current position: Limited term Assistant Professor, University of Windsor
2012
Eric Hochstein
Intentionality as Methodology
Initial position after PhD: Sessional Instructor, University of Waterloo
Subsequent position: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Washington University in St. Louis
Current position: Assistant Professor, University of Victoria
Rachel McKinnon
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
Current position: Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the College of Charleston
Jill Oliver
A Multidimensional Model of Biological Sex
Current position: Community Ethicist, William Osler Health System
2010
Marcia Sokolowski
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
Current position: Co-Director of Ethics, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care and Assistant Professor, Dept. of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Ethan Wilding
The Ethics of Nuclear Waste in Canada
Initial position after PhD: Sessional Instructor, University of Waterloo and Photographer
Current position: Co-founder of L4 Inc.
Allen Wiseman
A Contemporary Examination of the A Fortiori Argument Involving Jewish Traditions
2009
Grahame Booker
Coercion, Authority, and Democracy
Initial position after PhD: Independent Researcher
Poonam Dohutia
Thinking the Impossible: Thought Experiments, Counterfactual Conditionals, and Impossible Cases
Initial position after PhD: Policy Analyst, Health Canada
Current position: Policy Analyst, Temporary Foreign Workers Directoirate @ Employment & Social Development Canada
2008
Andrew Stumpf
From Objects to Individuals: An Essay in Analytic Ontology
Initial position after PhD: Sessional Instructor, University of Waterloo and St. Jerome's University
Sharon Lee
Education in the 21st Century: Human Rights & Individual Actions
Initial position after PhD: Import Product Manager, Oxford University Press
Subsequent position: Territory Manager, Pearson
MA
2017
Sajad Abdallah
The Evolution of Reason
Eric Nicholas Bohner
A Defense of the Public Health-Quarantine Model of Punishment in Light of Obligations of the State to the Wrongdoer
Samantha Hersey
Ethical Pluralism and Informed Consent in Canadian Health Care: Exploring Accommodations and Limitations
Jonathan Simard
Psychological and Phenomenological Perspectives on the Hard Problem of Consciousness
2016
Vanessa Lam
Ethical Leadership for Machiavellians in Business
After completing MA: entered the PhD program at University of Waterloo
2015
Ananya Chattoraj
The Role of Concrete Models in the Revolution in Superconductivity
David Issac
Values and Co-production: Examining the Interface of Indigenous Peoples’ Understandings and Scientific Understandings
Catherine Klausen
Autonomy and Moral Obligation: People with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities
After completing MA: entered the PhD program at University of Waterloo
Alexandra Kraushaar
The Nature of Pluralism in Economics: A Case Study of the Gender Wage Gap
Emily Metcalfe
Crime Prevention in a World without Free Will: Derk Pereboom’s Quarantine Analogy
Kathryn Morrison
Disciplinary Inequality, Collective Agency, and Interprofessional Collaboration in Health Care
After completing MA: entered the PhD program at University of Waterloo
Jody Tomchishen
In Defense of Moral Responsibility Skepticism
2014
Teresa Branch-Smith
Reducing the Emergence of the Gaps: Computation for Weak Emergence
After completing MA: entered the PhD program at University of Waterloo
Nicholas Ferenz
A Preservationist Approach to Relevant Logic
Christine Liebig
On Brands - An Investigation into the Nature of Consumer Brands: Are They Real or Constructed?
Ayokunle Ogunshola
Private Property Rights: An Indispensable Moral Foundation of Society
G V Ramesh Prasad
Transplantation and the Nature of the Immune Self
After completing MA: entered the PhD program at University of Waterloo
2013
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
Amanda Plain
Renaturalizing the Individual with Borderline Personality Disorder
