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MA outcomes (thesis-based)






Year Thesis Title Name Supervisor(s) Current Occupation
2026 "Seeing Through the Lens of Belief: A New Account of Philosophical Intuition"  Ethan Lyons Mark McCullagh  

2026

"Writing of a Transsexual Body: Auto-Theory in a Lacanian Orientation" Olivia Flora Grew Rowan Bell, John Russon  
2026 "Toward a Pragmatic Metaphysics" Alexander Griggs-Burr Andrew Bailey Writer
2024 "What Freedom Needs: Democracy and Philosophy in Plato's Republic" Matthew Craig John Russon PhD Student, Memorial University
2024 "What Do Veterinarians Owe To Animals?" Nicola Cribb Maya Goldenberg Large Animal Surgeon, University of Guelph
2024 "The Organic Crisis of Neoliberalism" Chelsea Emery Monique Deveaux Unknown
2023 "Pictures of Self in Iris Murdoch’s Unselfing" Amy Ward John Hacker-Wright Journalist
2022 "Neo-Aristotelian Virtue Ethics and Children’s Flourishing" Jacob Fehr Samantha Brennan, John Hacker-Wright Unknown
2022 "Existential & Relational Considerations on End of Life in Canada" Camille Irvine Maya Goldenberg JD Candidate, University of Ottawa
2022 "Vulnerable Heroes: Nurses During the COVID-19 Pandemic" Vanita Fernandes Maya Goldenberg PhD Student, University of Waterloo
2022 "Agency and Practical Reason" Justin Vriend John Hacker-Wright, Joshua Skorburg Unknown
2022 "Renewing the Precautionary Principle for the Development of Complex Systems Technologies" Lukas Nicholson Stefan Linquist, Andrew Wayne Unknown
2021 "Creative Supplementation" Brian Gilmour Mark McCullagh PhD Student, University of Guelph
2021 "Justifying an Enforceable Right to Migrate" Austin Blackwell Omid Payrow Shabani PhD Student, McMaster University
2021 "Seeking Uncertainty: Predictive Processing and Enactive Curiosity" Dylan White Don Dedrick AI Strategy & Governance Lead, Government of Newfoundland & Labrador
2020 "Heterosexist Suspicion of a Queer Outsider" Quinn McGlade-Ferentzy Samantha Brennan Core Consulting Partner; Masters of Information Program, University of Toronto (Fall 2026)
2020 "Twin Studies and the Equal Environments Assumption" Lillian Wood Don Dedrick, Stefan Linquist Library Assistant, Peterborough Law Library
2020 "Myth and Mysticism In Plato's Phaedo" Nour Abu Husan John Hacker-Wright PhD Student, University of Guelph
2020 "Public Space and the Limits of Liberalism" Mary King Karyn Freedman Writer, marketer, & researcher for GovTech B2B
2019 "The Ethical Role of Aesthetic Experience in Levinas" James Vander Zaag John Hacker-Wright Unknown
2019 "Cruelty and Callousness in Virtue Ethics" Michael Furac John Hacker-Wright Senior Associate, Ikaso Consulting
2019 "The Combination Problem of Panpsychism" Ritika Pal Andrew Bailey Unknown
2019 "A Trade-Off Analysis of the Normative Values of Deliberative Democracy" Peter Copeland Omid Payrow Shabani, Monique Deveaux Deputy Director of Domestic Policy, MacDonald Laurier Institute
2018 "The Unhappy Consciousness in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit" Sahand Farivar John Russon Unknown
2018 "Human Form, Phronesis, and Euboulia" Tiger Zheng John Hacker-Wright Lawyer, Associate at Sullivan & Cromwell
2018 "Moral Foundation, Mere Horizon" Lucelle Schmitz Andrew Bailey Unknown
2018 "On Becoming a Nomad Scientist" Thomas Doerksen Karen Houle Poet; Law Student, University of Victoria
2016 "Doing Phenomenology" Balraj Persaud John Russon Yogin & Private Executive Advisor
2016 "The Familiar and Unfamiliar" Joshua Barry Karen Houle Unknown
2016 "The 'Best Interest of the Child'" Angela Van Arragon Karen Houle Senior Manager, Facilities Hear Canada