AV俱乐部

 
 

Department of Philosophy

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

PhD Alumni

Please find below our PhD graduates, with a brief biography

Derek Andrews 鈥� PhD AV俱乐部 2025

Derek will be starting a postdoc position on October 1st at the Goethe University Frankfurt in the Normative Orders research institute鈥檚 global health justice program.
Thesis: Psychiatric Natural Kinds: Implications for Nosology, Practice, and Policymaking

Tiffany Gordon 鈥� PhD AV俱乐部 2024

Tiffany is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at AV俱乐部. She formally manages the African Nova Scotian Justice Institute鈥檚 (ANSJI) 鈥淒ata Collection and Justice System Accountability Unit.鈥� Her daily work was to manage research projects, including a restorative justice project that is catered to the Black community.听
Thesis:听A Black Feminist鈥檚 Defence of Retribution, Incarceration and Reform

Erik Nelson 鈥� PhD AV俱乐部 2024

Erik is a visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Mount Allison University
Thesis:听The Nonlinguistic Mind: Nonlinguistic Concepts, Normativity and Animal Cognition

Emily Bingeman - PhD AV俱乐部 2020

Emily is the McCain Post-Doctoral Fellow at Mount Allison University.
Thesis: Epistemic Responsibility: on the Relevance of Feminist Epistemology to Mainstream Epistemology

Katie Stockdale - PhD AV俱乐部 2017

Katie is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at .
Thesis: Oppression and the Struggle for Hope

Samantha Copeland - PhD AV俱乐部 2015

Samantha is an Assistant Professor in the Ethics Philosophy of Technology section of the department of Values, Innovation and Technology at Delft University of Technology听
Thesis: The Case of the Triggered Memory: Serendipitous Discovery and the Ethics of Clinical Research

Eve Roberts - PhD AV俱乐部 2015

Eve is an .听
Thesis: System-driven research: legitimate experimental design for biological/biomedical research.

Warren Heiti - PhD AV俱乐部 2014


Warren is a Professor in Liberal Studies and Philosophy at .
Thesis: An Ethics of Attention

Michael Doan - PhD AV俱乐部 2014

Michael is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at .
Thesis: Complacency and Motivational Vice

Adam Auch - PhD AV俱乐部 2012

Adam is a Writing Advisor at the AV俱乐部 Writing Centre
Thesis: "Show Me How You Do that Trick" Reconciling Linguistic Naturalism and Normativism

Meredith Schwartz - PhD AV俱乐部 2011

Meredith is a Clinical and Organizational Ethics Councillor for the Montreal West Island Integrated University Health and Social Services. (Formerly Meredith was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Ryerson University).听听
Thesis: "Respect and Health Care Ethics: Respect, Social Power and Health Policy"

Christina Behme - PhD AV俱乐部 2011

Christina is a faculty member in the
Thesis: "Cartesian Linguistics: From Historical Antecedents to Computational Modeling"

Ami Harbin - PhD AV俱乐部 2011

Ami is an .
Thesis: "Disorienting Responsibility"

Lisa Kretz - PhD AV俱乐部 2008

Lisa was an Associate Professor in the
Thesis: "Reconceptualizing the Ecological Self"

Victoria Seavilleklein - PhD AV俱乐部 2008

Victoria is a Clinical Ethicist in 鈥� Central Zone and a Clinical Lecturer with the John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre.
Thesis: "The Values and Practice of Prenatal Screening in Canada"

James Anderson - PhD AV俱乐部 2007

James Anderson is a Bioethicist for , Toronto, Canada; and an Assistant Professor in the
Thesis: Clinical Research in Context"

Jenna Woodrow - PhD AV俱乐部 2007

Jenna is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Thompson Rivers University.
Thesis: "Luck and Responsibility"

Kira Tomsons - PhD AV俱乐部 2006

Kira is a faculty member in the .
Thesis: "Oppression: A Conceptual Analysis"

Christy Simpson - PhD AV俱乐部 2001

Christy is an Associate Professor in the
Thesis: "The Intersections of Hope, Health, and Illness: Moral Responsibilities of Health Care Providers"

Carolyn McLeod - PhD AV俱乐部, 1999

Carolyn is a Professor in the She is also an affiliate member of the Department of Women's Studies and Feminist Research, and a member of Rotman Institute of Science and Values.
Thesis: "Self-Trust and Reproductive Autonomy"

Nancy Salay - PhD AV俱乐部, 1998

Nancy is Continuing Associate Professor in the听
Thesis: "Reconciling a Naturalistic Theory of Meaning with Intentions: The Causal/Conceptual Approach"

Wayne Fenske - PhD AV俱乐部, 1995

Wayne is a faculty member in the .听
Thesis: "A New Theory of Noncognitivism"

Susan Dimock - PhD AV俱乐部 1994

Susan is a University Professor in the .听
Thesis: "Personal Autonomy"

Bob Bright - PhD AV俱乐部 1991

Bob was an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Manitoba until 2006.听
Thesis: "Foundations of Utilitarianism"