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PhD Alumni

Please find below our PhD graduates, with a brief biography

Tiffany Gordon – PhD ʹڲapp 2024

Tiffany manages the African Nova Scotian Justice Institute’s (ANSJI) “Data Collection and Justice System Accountability Unit.” Her daily work involves managing research projects, including a restorative justice project that is catered to the Black community. Dr. Gordon is also teaching “Philosophy of Race” at ʹڲapp in Winter 2025.
Thesis:A Black Feminist’s Defence of Retribution, Incarceration and Reform

Erik Nelson – PhD ʹڲapp 2024

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

Emily Bingeman - PhD ʹڲapp 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 ʹڲapp 2017

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

Samantha Copeland - PhD ʹڲapp 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
Thesis: The Case of the Triggered Memory: Serendipitous Discovery and the Ethics of Clinical Research

Eve Roberts - PhD ʹڲapp 2015

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

Warren Heiti - PhD ʹڲapp 2014


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

Michael Doan - PhD ʹڲapp 2014

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

Adam Auch - PhD ʹڲapp 2012

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

Meredith Schwartz - PhD ʹڲapp 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).
Thesis:
"Respect and Health Care Ethics: Respect, Social Power and Health Policy"

Christina Behme - PhD ʹڲapp 2011

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

Ami Harbin - PhD ʹڲapp 2011

Ami is an .
Thesis: "Disorienting Responsibility"

Lisa Kretz - PhD ʹڲapp 2008

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

Victoria Seavilleklein - PhD ʹڲapp 2008

Victoria is a Clinical Ethicist in ’ 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 ʹڲapp 2007

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

Jenna Woodrow - PhD ʹڲapp 2007

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

Kira Tomsons - PhD ʹڲapp 2006

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

Christy Simpson - PhD ʹڲapp 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 ʹڲapp, 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 ʹڲapp, 1998

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

Wayne Fenske - PhD ʹڲapp, 1995

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

Susan Dimock - PhD ʹڲapp 1994

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

Bob Bright - PhD ʹڲapp 1991

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