Graduate Supervision

Dissertations and Theses Supervised

  • 1992: MA Alex Zieba, Onward Through the Fog.  Morality and Postmodernism.  Queen’s.
  • 1992: MA Robert Olson, Scientism and Meaning Holism in the Work of V.W. Quine.  Queen’s.
  • 1994: MA Deborah Therrian, Autonomy, Community and Justice as Fairness.  Queen’s.
  • 1994: MA John Hinchcliffe, Charles Taylor’s Moral Ontology: An Examination.  Queen’s.
  • 1995: PhD J. Nathan, Philosophy and the Limits of Mechanistic Explanation.  Queen’s.
  • 1996: MA Allison Dawe, Values, Objectivity and the Furniture of the World: John McDowell on Morality and Mathematics. Queen’s.
  • 1996: MA Angela Fernandez, On the Future of Ethical Theory: Bernard Williams vs. Neo-Aristotelianism.  Queen’s.
  • 1997: PhD Jianwu Guo, Contemporary Chinese Marxism.  Queen’s (co-supervisor with M. Fox)
  • 1998: MA K. Jane Forsey, Interpretation, Identity, and Moral Realism: Taylor’s Ontology of the Self.  Queen’s.
  • 1999: MA Kevin Armstrong, Ethics/Aesthetics: Two Modern Views.  Queen’s.
  • 1999: MA Sean Finn, Being Interpreted: Third-person Perspectives on the Self.  Queen’s.
  • 1999: PhD Andrew Sneddon, Agents and Actions: Causation and Responsibility.  Queen’s.
  • 2000: MA Sheri Coombs, Perspectives on Perception: The Debate Between Davidson and McDowell Concerning the Nature of Experience. Queen’s.
  • 2000: MA Rachel Sheffrin, A Question of Priority: Finding the Place of the Self-Concept Through Transcendental Argument. Queen’s.
  • 2001: MA Ying Lok (Faustus) Tang, An Attempt to Bridge the Fact/Value Distinction.  Queen’s (co-supervisor with Stephen Leighton).
  • 2002: PhD K. Jane Forsey, Overcoming Aesthetics: Creative Expression and Human Agency.  Queen’s.
  • 2002: PhD Shaun Perceval-Maxwell, Information and Consciousness.  Queen’s (co-supervisor with Sergio Sismondo).
  • 2004: MA Brian Lawson, Rescuing Kant from Coldness: An Examination of the Place of Inclinations in Kantian Deontology.  Queen’s.
  • 2004: MA Paula Schwebel, Guiding Concepts: The Ethics of Articulacy.  Queen’s.
  • 2005: MA Nicole Bernhardt, Nietzsche Contra Kant. Queen’s. (co-supervisor with Albert Fell).
  • 2005: MA Efrat Shapir, Aesthetic Particularism: A Study from Dancy to Gadamer.  Queen’s.
  • 2006: MA Shane Gallagher, Sympathy as a Moral Resource: An Analysis of Jonathan Glover’s Concept of Sympathy.  Queen’s.
  • 2006: PhD Rachel Fern, Interpretation and the Written Word: the Intentional Fallacy.  Queen’s.
  • 2007: PhD Rachel Sheffrin, Thinking Beyond the Bounds of Sense.  Queen’s.
  • 2007: MA Katy Allen, Moral Responsibility and the Natural Order. Queen’s.
  • 2007: MA G. Anthony Bruno, The Bounds of Justification. Queen’s.
  • 2007: MA Octavian Busuioc, Returning to Our Senses. Queen’s.
  • 2007: MA John Symons, The Structure of Perceptual Content.  Queen’s.
  • 2009: MA Ryan McInerney, The Meaning(lessness) of our (Un)certainty: A Study of Wittgenstein, Skepticism, and the Aspirations of Philosophy.  Queen’s.
  • 2010: MA Tom Brannen, Sensations as Reasons: A Study in Self-Knowledge.  Queen’s.
  • 2010: MA Katie Howe, Wittgenstein and the Appeal to our Practices. Queen’s.
  • 2011: MA Colin Conrad, Making Sense of Moral Relativism, Queen’s.
  • 2012: MA Melaina Weiss, Transforming Philosophy: A Call for Somatic Cultivation. Queen’s.
  • 2013: PhD Octavian Busuioc, Taking the World In. Queen’s.  Winner of the C. G. Prado Dissertation Prize.
  • 2014: MA Lesley Jamieson, Perceptual Intuitionism Without Moral Perception.  Queen’s.
  • 2015: MA Andrew Puzzo, Against Epistemic Agency. Queen’s.
  • 2016: MA Matthew Cull, Bipartite Assertion: A New Account of Assertion, Defined in Terms
  • of Responsibility and Explicit Presentation. Queen’s.
  • 2016: PhD Ryan McInerney, Waking to Thinking Being: A Study of Education, Metaphysics, Mind, and Language. Queen’s. Winner of the C. G. Prado Dissertation Prize.
  • 2016: MA Aaron Morgulis, Language, Logos, and Social Ontology: Naturalist and Post-Naturalist Narratives on Human Rationality and Social Reality. Queen’s.
  • 2017: PhD Michael Vossen, Acting in the Light of One’s Acting. Queen’s.  Winner of the C. G. Prado Dissertation Prize.
  • 2017: MA Nicolas Nicola, Understanding the Role and Nature of Intuition in Philosophical Inquiry. Queen’s.
  • 2018: MA William Egri, Epistemic Disjunctivism: A New Story About a Familiar Picture. Queen’s.
  • 2019: MA MA Alex Cousins, Reasons, Agency and the Demise of Mental Health (area: philosophy of psychiatry)
  • 2021: PhD Lesley Jamieson, Iris Murdoch’s Philosophical Methodology, 1950–1961: Philosophy on the Borders of Literature and Politics. Winner of the C. G. Prado Dissertation Prize.
  • 2023: PhD Rogney Piedra Arencibia, Theoretical Thought and the Method of Idealization: Revealing the Epistemological Potential of Activity Theory, Queen’s.
  • On-going: PhD Jacquelyn Maxwell (area: moral philosophy)
  • On-going: PhD Johanna Chalupiak (area: philosophy of history)
  • On-going: MA Jake Beale (area: philosophy of psychiatry, Stoicism)

Post-Doctoral Supervision

  • Dr. Siyaves Azeri (2011–2013)
  • Dr. Ilya Shodjaee-Zrudlo (2023–25)