PhD placement

2024

Beasley, Brandon
Pragmatism and the Problem of Mind in Nature
Supervisor: Mark Migotti
External Examiner: Robert B. Talisse (Vanderbilt)
Lecturer, Mount Royal University

Craig, Jared
The Criminal Brain: Neurointervention and Mental Freedom
Supervisor: Allen Habib
External examiner: Jennifer Chandler (University of Ottawa)
Practicing lawyer, Calgary

Kerklaan, Nicholas
The Making of a Philosopher: A Reading of Plato's 'Theaetetus'
Supervisor: Mark Migotti
External Examiner: Brad Inwood (Yale)

2023

Kiani, Amir
Ramification, Structure, and Ground
Supervisor: Richard Zach
External Examiner: Bernie Linsky (Alberta)
Senior Analyst, Canadian Institute for Health Information (Toronto)

Bohner, Eric
Responsibility Scepticism and the Reactive Attitudes
Supervisor: Ish Haji
External Examiner: Joseph Campbell (Washington State University)
Data Analyst, Western Canada Lottery Corporation

Chattoraj, Ananya
What is Data?
Supervisor: Ken Waters
External Examiner: James Griesemer (University of California, Davis)

2022

Daniel, Arlin
Technology, Heidegger, Craft
Supervisor: Ann Levey
External Examiner: Kate Withy (Georgetown)
Sessional Instructor, North Island College, Vancouver Island

2021

Ahn, Soohyun
How Non-Epistemic Values Can Be Epistemically Beneficial in Scientific Classification
Supervisor: Marc Ereshefsky
External Examiner: David Ludwig (Wageningen University)
Instructor (full-time permanent), Southern Alberta Institute of Technology

Fields, Archie III
Integrating Models and Narratives to Better Explain the Evolution of Cooperation
Supervisor: Marc Ereshefsky, Megan Delehanty
External Examiner: John Birch (LSE)
Philosophy Editor, Broadview Press

Hanley, Brian
A Pragmatic Epistemology of Causal Selection in Safety Science
Supervisor: Waters
External Examiner: James Woodward (Pittsburgh)
Adjunct Lecturer, Merrimack College (Andover, MA, USA)

Stein, Joshua
Making Up Reasons: Constructivism, Functionalism, and Reasons
Supervisor: Baker, Liebesman
External Examiner: Daniel Star (Boston University)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Georgetown University

2020

Alves Neto, Celso
Biological Lineages in Philosophical Focus
Supervisor: Marc Ereshefsky
External Examiner: Matt Haber (Utah)
Lecturer in Philosophy (permanent), University of Exeter (UK)

Khodabandeh, Nima
Social Phenomenal Conservatism: Justification of Beliefs Through Self and Community
Supervisor: Fantl
External Examiner: Chris Tucker (William & Mary)
Program Officer, Canada Revenue Agency

2019

Sencan, Sinan
Scientific Pluralism from a Biological Perspective
Supervisor: Marc Ereshefsky

Caouette, Justin
Assessing the Moral Evaluations of Pharmacological Enhancements
Supervisor: Walter Glannon
Visiting Assistant Professor, Providence College

2018

Hayashi, Teppei
The Continuum: History, Mathematics, and Philosophy
Supervisor: Richard Zach
External Examiner: Bernard Linsky (Alberta)
Sessional Instructor, University of Calgary

Hulbert-Smith, Shelley
Amor Fati: Nietzsche's Formula for Human Greatness (A Philosophical Guide to Saying Yes! to life)
Supervisor: Mark Migotti
External Examiner: R. Lanier Anderson (Stanford)
Sessional Instructor, University of Calgary

Kary, Daniel
Direct Moral Standing and Regan's Lifeboat Cases
Supervisor: Christopher Framarin
External Examiner: Katie McShane (Colorado State)
Sessional Instructor, University of Calgary

Thomas-Bolduc, Aaron
New Directions for Neo-Logicism
Supervisor: Richard Zach
External Examiner: Roy T. Cook (Minnesota)
Sessional Instructor, College of the Rockies, Cranbrook, BC

2017

Boutland, C. David
Liberalism and Pluralism: Assessing the Affinity
Supervisor: Allen Habib
External Examiner: Cindy Holder (Victoria)
Adjunct Assistant Professor (Teaching), University of Calgary

McConwell, Alison
Individuality, the Major Transitions, and the Evolutionary Contingency Thesis
Supervisor: Marc Ereshefsky
External Examiner: John Beatty (UBC)
Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Puszczalowski, Philip
Creativity, Culture, and Genius: Nietzsche's Ethics of the Creative Life
Supervisor: Mark Migotti
External Examiner: Jessica Berry (Georgia State)
Instructor (full-time permanent), Camosun College, Victoria

2016

Hebert, Ryan
Telelogism Full Stop: A General Theory of Ability, Agency, Obligation, and Justification
Supervisor: Jeremy Fantl
External Examiner: Timothy Williamson (Oxford)

Jankunis, Frank
Rethinking Environment: The Ethics of a Constructionist View of Our Relation to Nature
Supervisor: Allen Habib
External Examiner: Katie McShane (Colorado State)
Instructor, Camosun College, Victoria

Lee, Caleb
The Nature of Belief and Its Normative Implications
Supervisor: Jeremy Fantl
External Examiner: J. David Velleman (NYU)
Adjunct Assistant Professor (Teaching), University of Calgary

2014

Holter, Brandon
The Epistemic Significance of Values in Science
Supervisor: Marc Ereshefsky
External Examiner: Heather Douglas (Waterloo)
Lecturer, Philosophy, East Tennessee State University 

Nordal, Salvör
Privacy as a Social Concept 
Supervisor: Ann Levey
External Examiner: Trudy Govier (Lethbridge)
Director, Centre for Ethics, University of Iceland 

2013

Bagg, Sara 
Sitting in Judgement: Moral Constraints on Judicial Reasoning within the Bounds of Law
Supervisor: John Baker
External Examiner: Eldon Soifer (Regina)
Completed joint PhD/JD
Environmental Lawyer, Calgary.

2012

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

Dagsson, Jóhannes 
Meaning, Perception, and Works of Art
Supervisor: Jack MacIntosh
External Examiner: Peter Alward (Lethbridge) 
Associate Professor, Iceland University of the Arts

Mansur, Mostofa
Bertrand Russell's Theory of Definite Descriptions: An Examination"
Supervisor: Ali Kazmi
External Examiner: Bernie Linsky (Alberta) 
Professor, Jahangirnagar University

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
Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Calgary

Pedroso, Makmiller
A Critique of Modern Biological Essentialism
Supervisor: Marc Ereshefsky
External Examiner: John Beatty (British Columbia)
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Towson 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)
Sessional Instructor, Mount Royal University, Calgary

Steiner, Michael
An Anti-Realist Theory of Natural Kinds
Supervisor:  Marc Ereshefsky
External Examiner:  Alexander Bird (Bristol)
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)
Canada Research Chair, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Concordia University College (Edmonton, AB)

Kasaki, Masashi
Contextualism and the Reference Class Problem
Supervisor:  Jeremy Fantl
External Examiner:  Jonathan Vogel (Amherst)
Designated Associate Professor, Department of Academic Writing Education,  Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Nagoya University

Strasbourg, Tina
Feminist Hobbesian Contractarianism: A Defense
Supervisor:  Elizabeth Brake
External Examiner:  Ann Cudd (Kansas)
Instructor, Northwestern Polytechnic, Grand Prairie