Below is a list of recent graduates from our M.A. program, with titles of their M.A. theses or Major Research Papers. For students who have moved on in philosophy, or to other positions, we give their placement. Unless otherwise stated, PhD Program
refers to a doctoral program in philosophy.
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Student |
Major Research Paper or Thesis Title |
Placement |
| Myketiak, Tara | "Global Distributive Justice and the Human Right of economic Migration" (September 2012, Major Research Paper) | Political Science PhD Program, McGill University |
| Torfehnezhad, Parzhad | "Understanding Carnap’s Language" (2012, Major Research Paper) | Philosophy PhD Program, Université de Montréal |
| Daher, Yasmin | "Humanity as Interpersonal Becoming" (September 2012, Major Research Paper) | Philosophy PhD Program, Université de Montréal |
Hadisi, Mohammad Reza Karim |
"Kant’s Revisionary Metaphysics: The Role of Non-Conceptual Contents of Cognition in Transcendental Idealism" (August 2012, Major Research Paper) |
Philosophy PhD Program, University Illinois at Chicago |
| Medeiros, Darren | "The Phenomenology of Minimal Actions: Merleau-Ponty on Habit and the Prepersonal." (August 2012, Major Research Paper) | Philosophy PhD Program, Rice University |
| Landreville, Danielle | "Sleep, Lateral Passivity and Divergence in Merleau Ponty's Passivity Lectures" (August 2012, Major Research Paper) |
Philosophy PhD Program, University of Guelph |
Corneli, Mauro Massimo |
"Frege's Ceasar Objection and Hilbert's Model -Theoretic Standpoint" (March 2012, Major Research Paper) | Philosophy PhD Program, Ohio State University |
| Dean, Brendan | "Experiencing Affliction: Rethinking Chronic Illness through Gadamer's Account of the Work of Art" (August 2012, Major Research Paper) | |
| Lutzuk, Eric James | "Interests, Identity and Collective Movements for Social Change" (April 2012, Major Research Paper) | |
| Worthy, Jay | "The Spatial and Temporal Conditions of Dasein as Deseverance: A question of Priority " (2011, Major Research Paper) | Philosophy PhD Program, University of Alberta |
| Leroux, Craig | "Philosophy of Ernst Cassirer" (2011) | Development Officer, Bishops University |
| Pillon, Marc | "Empathy and Solidarity" (2011, Major Research Paper) | |
| Schnaase, Philipp | "Drone & Pulse: A Philosophical Interpretation of American minimal Music withContinual Reference to Schopenhaur's Music Aesthetics" (2011, Major Research Paper) | |
| Martin Rubio, Tristana | "Learning to Dwell: The Role of Lived Space in Experiences of Ageing" (2010, Major Research Paper) |
Philosophy PhD Program, Duquesne University; awarded Masters in Architecture, Cultural Meditations and Technology, McGill University (2010-11) |
| Garau, Rodolfo | Research Paper (2010) | Philosophy PhD Program, Universities of Turin & Aberdeen |
| Ng, Charles | “The Relevance of Particularity in an Ethics of Alterity: An Investigation of Heidegger, Levinas, and Derrida” (2010) | School of Law, University of Ottawa |
| Blaikie, Daniel | “The Notion of Hypergoods in Charles Taylor: Diagnosis, not Social Ontology” (2010) | |
| Feuer, Jenny | “The Role of 'Genius' in Kant's Critique of Judgment” (2010) | |
| Fuchs, Renée | “Gandhi’s Satyagraha: Exploring Non‐Violent Conflict Resolution” (2010) | Law Program, University of Ottawa |
| Klassen, Abigail | . (2010) | Philosophy PhD Program, York University |
| O’Brien, Mike | “Hobbes, Schmitt, and the Mythological Unification of Sovereignty” (2010) | Instructor, Dawson and Vanier Colleges |
| Buchanan, ONeil | (2009) | Philosophy PhD Program, McGill University |
| Michiels, Adam | "The Origins of Collective Responsibility and Autonomous Organization" (2009, Major Research Paper) | |
| Oliver, Nicole | "Reviving Rawls" (Fall 2009) | School of Social Work, McGill University |
| Stephens, Robert | “How to Stop Thinking: A Massively Modular Response to the Frame Problem” (2008) | Philosophy PhD Program, McGill |
| Raddatz, Rosalind | Two papers on Global Justice (2008) | Political Science PhD Program, University of Ottawa |
| Cuffaro, Michael | “A Metaphysically Neutral Theory of Singular Scientific Explanation” (2008) | PhD in Philosophy, University of Western Ontario Postdoc at LMU Munich |
| Yehudai, Amit | “Wittgenstein: Showing and Ethical Expression.” (2008) | |
| Tomalty, Jesse | "Remedial Responsability for Global Poverty: Individual Motivation and Institutional Capacity" (2007) | Ph.D in Philosophy, University of St. Andrews, Scotland; Postdoc at Nuffield College, University of Oxford |
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McDonald, Dan |
"Responding to Technology: Heidegger and Marcuse on Thinking and Acting at the Technological Turning" (2007) |
Philosophy PhD Program, University of Guelph |
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Perez, Alex |
"The Concept of Understanding in Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics: Between Moral Hazard and Ethical Formation" (2007) |
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Filotas, Zoli |
"Power and Friendship: Plato and Aristotle on Rule in Interpersonal Relationships" (2007) |
Philosophy PhD Program, McGill University |
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Hawkins, Michelle |
"T.W. Adorno, Iris Murdoch, and the Important of Art for Ethics" (2006) |
Philosophy PhD Program, University of Ottawa |
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Field, Tyler |
"An Aesthetic Challenge to Manipulation: A Study on the Pragmatics of Communication" (2006) |
Philosophy PhD Program, McMaster University |
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Racine, Valerie |
"The Form and Function of Analycity: Meaning Holism & Semantic Atomism" (2007) |
Ph.D Program, University of Western Ontario |
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Shufelt, James |
"The Fog of Terrorism: A Philosophical Analysis into the Veracity of the Terrorism Lexicon" (2007) |
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Verkerk, Willow |
"For the Love of Ariadne: Nietzsche's Dionysian Relationship with the Woman Question" (2007) |
Ph.D Program, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium |
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Harbin , Ami |
"Ownmost Responsability: Singularity, Relationality and Caregiving" (2007) |
PhD in Philosophy, Dalhousie University |
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di Summa, Laura |
"Naturalizing Artifacts" (2007) |
Ph.D Program City University of New York, USA |
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Kurstak, Daniel |
"A Phenomenological Examination of Esoteric States of Consciousness" (2006) |
Philosophy Phd Program, Université de Montréal |
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Cochrane, Linda |
"Kant, Newton and the Conditions of Possible Experience" (2006) |
PhD Program (SIP), Concordia University |
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Houlihan, Connor |
"Knowledge and Acknowledgement: Wittgenstein's Therapy of Acceptance" (2006) |
PhD in Humanities, Concordia University |
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McGinnis, Nic |
"Wittgenstein's Influence on the Development of Virtue Ethics" (2006) |
PhD Program, University of Western Ontario |
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McCain, Kevin |
"Derrida's General Economy" (2006) |
PhD Program, York University |
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Furlong, Matthew |
"Wittgenstein and Derrida: Ethics of the Name" (2006) |
PhD in Philosophy, University of Guelph Faculty Fellow, U Kings College, Halifax |
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Baetu, Tudor |
"Truth, Falsity, and Experimental Science" (2005) |
PhD in Philosophy, Université de Montréal Post-doctoral Fellow, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research and University of Vienna |
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Burke, Mark |
"Emotional Formation" |
PhD Program, University of Ottawa |
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Ion, Octavian |
"Restructuring Fodor's Concepts" (2005) |
PhD Program, University of Alberta |
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Mercier, Isabelle |
"Virtue in Client-Centered Care: A Philosophical Investigation of Virtue and Nursing in Canadian Healthcare" (2005) |
PhD Program, University of Ottawa |
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Tkach, David |
"Decisionism at the Intersection of Ontology and Politics: A Study in the Thought of Heidegger and Schmitt" (2005) |
PhD in Philosophy, University of Ottawa |
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Zavediuk, Nicholas |
"Consensus between Discourse Ethics and Democracy: Habermas on Compromise" (2005) |
PhD Program, Saint Louis University |
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Gardner, Sean |
"Aristotle Contra Nietzsche: A Study of Megalopsuchia"(2004) |
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Martinuk, Matthew J.M. |
"Eriugena and the Re-enchantment of Nature" (2004) |
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McKenna, Iain |
"Temporality, Technology, and the Aporia of Narrative Identity" (2004) |
PhD Program, University of Ottawa |
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Yorke, Christopher |
"The Mystic and the Ineffable: Some Epistemological, Political, and Metaphilosophical Concerns" (2004) |
PhD Program, University of Glasgow (Scotland) |
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Rondel, David |
"The Possibility of Irony: Richard Rorty's Liberal Ironist and the Phenomenology of the Self" (2004) |
PhD in Philosophy, McMaster University |
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Bronstetter, Timothy |
"On Wittgenstein, Meaning, and Methodology" (2003) |
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Kerkhoven, John |
"Simone Weil: A Study in Moral Psychology and Observations on Religious Life" (2003) |
Non-academic Employment |
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Kiraly, Stephan |
"The Philosophical Implications of Zoophilia: A Response to Peter Singer and his Critics" (2003) |
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Mailly, Pierre |
"Language and Ethics: A Wittgensteinian Perspective" (2003) |
PhD program, University of Toronto |
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Wenning, Mario |
"Justification in Critical Theory" (2003) |
PhD in Philosophy, New School (New York) Assistant Prof. of Philosophy, Tenure Track, U Macau |
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Braiden, Michelle |
"Immanuel Kant, John Rawls and Jurgen Habermas on the Problem of the Possibility of Perpetual Peace" (2002) |
PhD program, Université de Montréal |
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Malapi-Nelson, Alcibiades |
"Formalization of the Cognitive Mind: Towards the Completion of the History of Thoughts" (2002) |
PhD program, York University |
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Mewes, Frank |
"On the Human Park" (2002) |
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Morneau, Frederic |
"Rawls on Global Distributional Justice" (2002) |
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Snooks, Rodney |
"Better Realism Through Chemistry" (2002) |
PhD program, University of Toronto |
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Anderson, Marc |
"Exploring Mortality Through Pascalian Intuition" (2001) |
PhD, Katholische Universiteit Leuven |
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Bellusci, David |
"Interpreting Aristotle's God" (2001) |
PhD program, University of Ottawa |
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Rose, Stephen |
"Consciousness and Reductive Explanation: Has Materialism Been Refuted?" (2001) |
PhD program (S.I.P.), Concordia University |
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Boucher, Denise |
"On the Concept of a Heedful Frame of Mind in the Work of Gilbert Ryle: The Problems of the Episodic Nature and its Relation to the Issue of Voluntariness" (2000) |
Non-academic Employment |
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Coates, Edmund |
"The Dreamer Awakes: Semantic and Metaphysical Presuppositions in Skepticism about Knowledge of the External World" (2000) |
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Daigneault, Pierre |
"Sartre's Early Moral Theory" (2000) |
PhD program, York University |
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Zhu, Xiaoyu |
"Peter Railton's Moral Realism" (2000) |
PhD program, University of Southern California |
Page Title: Graduates & Placements - Concordia University - Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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