PhD Placement

2013

Bagg, Sara 

2012

Anderson, Ardis

Playing by the Rules: A Theory of Embodied Human Rights
Supervisor: Mark Migotti
External Examiner: Roger Shiner (British Columbia)
Currently: Instructor, Philosophy Department, University of Lethbridge 

Dagsson, Jóhannes 

Mansur, Mostofa

Bertrand Russell's Theory of Definite Descriptions: An Examination"
Supervisor: Ali Kazmi
External Examiner: Bernie Linsky (Alberta) 

Payette, Gillman

A Study in the Logic of Institutions
Supervisor: Richard Zach
External Examiner: Allen Hazen (Alberta)
Recipient of the Governor General's Gold Medal
Fall 2012:  Killam Postdoctoral Fellow, Dalhousie University

2011

Guerrero, David

Against Naturalist Conceptions of Health: In Defence of Constrained Normativism
Co-Supervisors:  John Baker and Walter Glannon
External Examiner:  Glenn Griener (Alberta)

Murphy, Matthew

Why Not Be an Amoralist?
Supervisor:  John Baker
External Examiner:  Eldon Soifer (Regina)
Currently:  Sessional Instructor, Mount Royal University, Calgary

Steiner, Michael

An Anti-Realist Theory of Natural Kinds
Supervisor:  Marc Ereshefsky
External Examiner:  Alexander Bird (Bristol)
Currently:  Business Analyst, TransCanada Pipelines

Tanner, Ryan

Reasons, Final Value, and Relative Value
Supervisor:  John Baker
External Examiner:  Emer O'Hagan (Saskatchewan)
Fall 2012:  Law School, University of Toronto

2010

Dumsday, Travis

Defending an Essentialist Ontology of Kinds, Laws, and Biological Taxa
Supervisor:  Marc Ereshefsky
External Examiner:  Crawford Elder (Connecticut)
Fall 2012:  Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Concordia University College (Edmonton, AB)

Strasbourg, Tina

Feminist Hobbesian Contractarianism: A Defense
Supervisor:  Elizabeth Brake
External Examiner:  Ann Cudd (Kansas)
Currently:  Sessional Instructor, Mount Royal College

2009

Folk Psychology, Cognitive Ethology and Artificial Agents
Co-Supervisors: John Baker, James Parker
External Examiner: Eric Neufeld (Saskatchewan)
Currently: Instructor, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Dolgetta, Speranza

The Moral Status of Germ Line Gene Manipulation: Practical Considerations
Supervisor:  John Baker
External Examiner:  Elisabeth Gedge (McMaster)
Completed joint MD/PhD at University of Calgary.
Currently:  Medical Residency, Saskatoon

Immigration, Rights, and Equality
Co-Supervisors:  Dennis McKerlie, Kai Nielsen
External Examiner:  Michael Blake (Washington)
Currently:  Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Department of Philosophy, Portland State University (Oregon).

2008

Deciphering the World: A Study in Schopenhauer's Metaphysics
Supervisor:  Mark Migotti
External Examiner: Chris Janaway (Southampton)
Currently:  Philosophy Instructor, Athabasca University.

Runke, Jennifer 

The Ineliminability of Metaphors in Biology
Supervisor:  Marc Ereshefsky
External Examiner:  Richard Boyd (Cornell)
Currently:  Senior Researcher, Alberta Legislature.

Urbaniak, Rafal 

Leśniewski's Systems of Logic and Mereology: History and Reevaluation
Supervisor:  Richard Zach
External Examiner: John Kearns (University at Buffalo)
Currently:  Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Department of Philosophy, Sociology and Journalism, University of Gdańsk (Poland); Associate Researcher, Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Ghent University (Belgium). 

2007

Fenton, Andrew

Aping the substantive epistemic subject? In search of epistemic equals in the genus Pan
Supervisor: John Baker
External Examiner: Bruce Hunter (University of Alberta)
Currently: Post-doctoral Fellow (since 2007), Novel Tech Ethics, Dalhousie University
Fall 2011:  Assistant Professor (tenure track), Department of Philosophy, California State University at Fresno

Meinong Plus
Supervisor:  Ali Kazmi
External Examiner: David Kaplan (UCLA)
Currently:  Sessional Instructor, University of Calgary.

2006

Explanation and Inheritance
Supervisor: Marc Ereshefsky
External Examiner: James Griesemer (UC Davis)
Currently:  Educational Research Associate, Bachelor of Health Sciences Program, University of Calgary.

2005

The Human Stem Cell Debate and the Commodification of Women: Ethical Considerations
Supervisor: Dennis McKerlie
External Examiner: Elisabeth Gedge (McMaster) 
Currently:  Assistant Professor of Health Care Ethics and Philosophy,  Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Boston, MA.

The Reflexive Nature of Consciousness
Supervisor: John Baker
External Examiner: William Seager (Toronto)
Currently:  Sessional Instructor, University of Calgary

The Two-Tiered Illusion of Self
Supervisor: John Baker
External Examiner: Uriah Kriegel (Arizona)
Currently: Lecturer (tenure-track) at the University of Western Australia

2003

A Critique of Just War Theory
Supervisor: Thomas Hurka, Dennis McKerlie
External Examiner: Jeff McMahan (Rutgers) 

2002

Searching for Patterns, Hunting for Causes: A Philosophical Examination of Mathematical Modeling in Theoretical Ecology
Supervisor: Marc Ereshefsky
External Examiner: William Wimsatt (Chicago)
Currently:  Assistant Professor (tenure track), Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon. 

2000

The Influence of Mathematics on Plato's Moral Theory
Supervisor: John Baker
External:  David Hitchcock (McMaster)
Currently:  Sessional Instructor at Mount Royal College. 

1999

Aspects of Independence and Determinacy in Quantum Mechanics and Realism
Supervisors: C. B. Martin and W. Sharp (Alberta)
Externa Examinerl:  J. R. Brown (Toronto)
Currently:  Associate Dean, Southern Alberta Institute of Technology

1998

Phenomenal Properties: The Epistemology and Metaphysics of Qualia
Supervisor: John Baker
External Examiner:  William Seager (Toronto)
Currently:  Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Guelph (Ontario). 

The Argument from Conflicting Appearances
Supervisor: Dennis McKerlie 
External Examiner:  Paul Snowdon (Oxford)
Currently:  Works as writer and researcher outside academia. 

Belief Revision and Epistemic Value
Supervisor: Ali Kazmi
External:  Bruce Hunter (Alberta)
Currently:  Sessional Instructor, Mount Royal College

1997

A Goal-Oriented Theory of Science
Supervisor: Marc Ereshefsky 
External:  Ronald Giere (Minnesota)
Currently:  Held postdoc at University of Witwatersrand, South Africa after graduation. Has now left the profession.

1996

A Coherentist View of Theory Acceptance and Change
Supervisor: Marc Ereshefsky
External Examiner:  J. R. Brown (Toronto)
Currently:  Instructor, Southeast Missouri State University.

1995

The Nature of Intentions
Supervisor: C. B. Martin
External Examiner:  John Heil (Davidson)
Last Known:  Postdoctoral Fellow, NYU School of Medicine.

Morality and Marx's Theory of Exploitation
Supervisor: Robert Ware
External Examiner:  Rodney Peffer (San Diego)

1993

Transcendental Naturalism
Supervisor: John Baker
External Examiner:  James Bogen (Pittsburgh)

John Dewey and Democracy
Supervisor: Robert Ware
External Examiner:  D. J. C. Carmichael (Alberta)

1992

Currently: Maryvale Institute, England.

Currently:  Associate Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean (Academic) of Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Western Ontario.

1991

Curently:  Senior Faculty Advisor in Philosophy, Senior University International ( Wyoming).

1989

Last Known: Associate Professor, Okanagan College (British Columbia)

1988

1986

Currently:  Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Old Dominion University (Norfolk, Virginia)

1983

Subjective Ethical Naturalism
Supervisor: Kai Nielsen
External Examiner:  Rodger Beehler (Victoria)

Rights and Interests
Supervisor: Kai Nielsen
External Examiner:  David Lyons (Boston)
Currently:  Professor, St. Andrew's College (Saskatoon); politician

1982

Normal K-5 Logics
Supervisor: Brian Chellas
External Examiner:  S. K. Thomason (Simon Fraser)

1981

Kant and the Metaphysics of Reference
Supervisor: Jack MacIntosh
External Examiner:  R. B. Bradley (Simon Fraser)

1980

Thinking, Doing and Feeling
Supervisor: C. B. Martin
External Examiner:  Frithjoff Bergmann (Michigan)
Deceased September 2011

On the Possibility of Social Welfare Function
Supervisor: John Baker
External Examiner:  Allan Gibbard (Michigan)

Responsibility Under Criminal Law
Supervisor: Gordon Greig
External Examiner:  Richard Wasserstrom (California)
Currently:  Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary.

Events, Individuation and Identity
Supervisor: John Baker
External Examiner:  Irving Thalberg (Illinois)
Currently:  Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Saskatchewan.

1978

Word-Use and Meaning-Change
Supervisor: Gordon Greig

A Theory of Warranted Assertion
Supervisor: John Heintz

Literature and Intention
Supervisor: Terry Penelhum

1977

Materialism and the Mind/Body Problem
Supervisor: John Baker
Currently:  Professor of Philosophy, University of Alberta.

Thought, Belief and the Will
Supervisor: Terry Penelhum

Judicial Discretion
Supervisor:  Marsha Hanen

1976

The Evolution of Persons
Supervisor: John Heintz
Currently:  Instructor, Faculty of Language, Literature and Performing Arts, Douglas College (British Columbia).

1975

Psychopaths and Responsibility
Supervisor: Brenda Baker
Currently:  Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, McMaster University

Other Worlds: On The Possiblity of Alternate Adequate Theories
Supervisor: Marsha Hanen

Vagueness and Precision
Supervisor: John Baker

1974

Incorporeal Identity
Supervisor: Terry Penelhum

1973

Reference and Reportage
Supervisor: Gordon Greig

Theories of Belief
Supervisor: Robert Jewell

Transcendental Illusions
Supervisor: Kai Nielsen

Self-Deception
Supervisor: Terry Penelhum

Meaning and Communication
Supervisor: B. Lohr

The Ontological Status of Social Institutions
Supervisor: Kai Nielsen
Currently:  Professor Emeritus in Environmental Design, University of Calgary.

The Linguistic Critique of Religion
Supervisor: Kai Nielsen

1972

Moral Life
Supervisor: Kai Nielsen
Professor Emeritus, University of Victoria (deceased). 

The Possibilities of Imagination
Supervisor: Robert Ware

Rationality in Science
Supervisor: Jack MacIntosh

Self-Deception and Its Paradoxes
Supervisor: Gordon Greig
Currently:  Professor, University of Regina

1971

Analysis and the Foundation of Esthetics
Supervisor: Marsha Hanen