PhD
2019
Teresa Branch-Smith
Contextualizing Science for Value-Conscious Communication
Supervisor: Doreen Fraser and Heather Douglas
Initial position after PhD: Post-doctoral fellow at the Institut Jean Nicod (France)
Ian MacDonald
Communal Inferentialism: Charles S. Pierce's Critique of Epistemic Individualism
Supervisor: Shannon Dea
Initial position after PhD: Sessional Instructor, University of Waterloo
Catherine Klausen
Knowledge, Justice, and Subjects with Cognitive or Developmental Disability
Supervisor: David DeVidi
Initial position after PhD: Project Coordinator, The/La Collaborative
Matthew Silk
Evaluation and Value Management in Science
Supervisor: Shannon Dea
Initial position after PhD: Sessional Instructor, University of Waterloo
2018
Andria Bianchi
Sex, Dementia, and Consent
Supervisor: Patricia Marino
Initial position after PhD: Bioethicist and Clinician-Scientist, UHN
Nathan Haydon
The Continuity of Explanation: Peircean Pragmatism, Reason, and Developing Reasonable Behavior
Supervisor: Shannon Dea
Initial position after PhD: Sessional Instructor, University of Waterloo
Sara Weaver
A Constructive Critical Assessment of Feminist Evolutionary Psychology
Supervisor: Carla Fehr
Initial position after PhD: Senior Research Analyst, Department of Education, Culture and Employment, Government of the Northwest Territories
2017
Peter Blouw
Inferential Role Semantics for Natural Language
Supervisor: Chris Eliasmith
Initial position after PhD: Research Scientist, Applied Brain Research, Inc
Ashley Keefner
How Prejudice Affects the Study of Animal Minds
Supervisor: Paul Thagard (retired)
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
Supervisor: Paul Thagard (retired)
Position after PhD: Staff Nephrologist, St. Michael's Hospital (ongoing throughout degree) & Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto
2016
Catherine Gee
Authenticity and Enhancement
Supervisor: Matt Doucet
Benjamin Nelson
The Depiction of Unwritten Law
Supervisor: Brian Orend
Initial position after PhD: Online Course Facilatator, University of Waterloo
2015
Rosalind Abdool
The Ethics of Deception in Caregiving: A Patient-Centered Approach
Supervisor: Patricia Marino
Initial position after PhD: Ethicist, Trillium Health Partners
Corey Edward Mulvihill
Existence Assumptions and Logical Principles: Choice Operators in Intuitionistic Logic
Supervisor: Dave DeVidi
Position after PhD: Replacement Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa
2014
Natalie Evans
Agency and Autonomy: A New Direction for Animal Ethics
Supervisor: Patricia Marino
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
Supervisor: Paul Thagard (retired)
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
Supervisor: Dave DeVidi
Micheal Joseph McEwan
A Study of the Discursive Aspect of Scientific Theorizing and Modeling
Supervisor: Patricia Marino
2013
Wendy O'Brien-Ewara
Simone de Beauvoir and the Problem of the Other's Consciousness: Risk, Responsibility and Recognition
Supervisor: Richard Holmes (retired)
Current position: Professor, Humber College
Paul Simard Smith
Logic in Context: An Essay on the Contextual Foundations of Logic
Supervisor: Dave DeVidi
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
Supervisor: Chris Eliasmith
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
Supervisor: Tim Kenyon
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
Supervisor: Paul Thagard (retired)
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
Supervisor: Tim Kenyon
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
Supervisor: Brian Orend
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
Supervisor: Joe Novak (retired)
2009
Grahame Booker
Coercion, Authority, and Democracy
Supervisor: Jan Narveson (retired)
Initial position after PhD: Independent Researcher
Poonam Dohutia
Thinking the Impossible: Thought Experiments, Counterfactual Conditionals, and Impossible Cases
Supervisor: Dave DeVidi
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
Supervisor: Dave DeVidi
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
Supervisor: Brian Orend
Initial position after PhD: Import Product Manager, Oxford University Press
Subsequent position: Territory Manager, Pearson
MA
2018
Oliver Oxton
Skeptics and Unruly Connectives: A Defence of and Amendment to the Non-Factualist Justification of Logic
Haider Riaz
The Phenomenological Origins of Property
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 Hershey
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
