PHILOSOPHY MA GRADUATES and PhD PLACEMENT
The following tables list all MA students who applied for doctoral programs in philosophy during their time at Ryerson.
Many of our graduates pursue other opportunities after completing our program. Some go directly into the workforce; others continue their education in other
areas. In recent years, for example, some of our students have gone on to teacher’s college, to law school, and to pursue advanced degrees in other areas, such
as environmental studies. For a complete list of our graduates, see: www.ryerson.ca/philosophy/programs/graduate/program.html.
CLASS OF 2015
NAME
MAJOR RESEARCH PAPER / THESIS TITLE
Job Morales
Bayes and Base-Rates: Why a Probabilistic No-Miracles
Argument is Successful
Luke Teeninga
The Puzzle of Assertion
SUPERVISOR
ACCEPTED INTO DOCTORAL PROGRAMS AT
Parsons
Western
D. Hunter
Oxford University (Faculty of Philosophy);
Oxford University (Faculty of Theology)
SUPERVISOR
ACCEPTED INTO DOCTORAL PROGRAMS AT
CLASS OF 2014
NAME
MAJOR RESEARCH PAPER / THESIS TITLE
Erik Bormanis
Reconciling Freedom and Contingency in Hegel’s
Philosophy
Ciavatta
Stony Brook
Ryan Froese
Derrida's Aporetic Ethics and the Urgency of the
Impossible
Caruana
DePaul
Michael Brienza
Panpsychism and the Subject Combination Problem
D. Hunter
King’s College, Nottingham
Chandra
Kavanaugh
Accommodation or Cure: A Synthesis of Neurodiverse and
Cure Theory Recommendations for Autism Action
Schwartz
Western, McMaster
David Collins
Collingwood's Philosophy of Art as a Basis for Virtue
Aesthetics
Trott
McGill; Southhampton
Kirk Lougheed
Disagreement and the Rationality of Religious Belief
Anna Shevchenko
Emotion And Transformation Of Experience
Kraay
Monash; Purdue; McMaster
Maclaren
Duquesne; University of New Mexico,
Memphis, SIU (Carbondale)
SUPERVISOR
ACCEPTED INTO DOCTORAL PROGRAMS AT
D. Hunter
Rochester, UMass (Amherst), Syracuse, Toronto,
UWO
CLASS OF 2013
NAME
MAJOR RESEARCH PAPER / THESIS TITLE
Elena Derksen
Reasons to Believe
Catherine Fullarton
The Phenomenology of Pain as a Shared Experience
Maclaren
Vanderbilt University; SUNY Stony Brook; DePaul
University; University of Guelph; Emory
University; Fordham University; University of
Memphis, University of New Mexico, SIU
Carbondale, Duquesne University.
Antonio Dos Santos
Psychopaths and Practical Knowledge
D. Hunter
McMaster, York
Veronica Majewski
She’s Lost Control: Feminine Bodies and Iris Marion
Young’s Communicative Democracy
Schwartz
Guelph
Ben Nogas
Enactive Perception
Maclaren
McGill
Ayana Samuel
The Ability Condition
Murray
UCLA
SUPERVISOR
ACCEPTED INTO DOCTORAL PROGRAMS AT
CLASS OF 2012
NAME
MAJOR RESEARCH PAPER / THESIS TITLE
Michael Butler
Freedom in Sartre and Merleau-Ponty
Ciavatta
Marquette, Memphis, SIU (Carbondale), York
Jeffrey D'Souza
The Importance of Considering the Cultivation of Character
When Evaluating Moral Dispositions: An Absolutist
Argument for Why Aristotle’s Virtuous Man is the Most
Admirable
Kornegay
McMaster, Waterloo, York
Ioan (Chris)
Dragos
Reconciling Realism and the Strong Programme
Parsons
Birmingham, Toronto (IHPST), Oxford.
Leland Harper
Evaluating the Fales/Gellman Debate on the Epistemic
Status of Theistic Mystical Experiences
Kraay
Arkansas, Birmingham, USF (Philosophy),
USF (Philosophy and Religion). Wayne State
Brian Ohlman
Kingdom of Nature, Kingdom of Ends: Teleology and the
‘Two Standpoints’ in Kant
Murray
Purdue, UWO
Thomas Posie
Learning in Merleau-Ponty
Maclaren
Institute for Christian Studies, OISE (PhD), York