Placement History & Past MA Theses
Past MA Theses/Research Essays and Placement Record from 2010 to Present
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MA Thesis / Research Essay Title Supervisor Placement The Limits of Existential Freedom: An Exploration of the Efficacy of Philosophical Literature in Existentialism Kyla Bruff -
MA Thesis / Research Essay Title Supervisor Placement Ethical Sex: Lessons from BDSM Christine Koggel Enrolled in Ethics and Public Affairs PhD Program at Carleton University Global Equitable Vaccine Distribution: A Plan for Next Time Vida Panitch Health Justice and Basic Income Vida Panitch Normative Model for Justified Public Blame Myrto Mylopoulos and Andrew Brook Mindreading in Great Apes: Dissolving the Logical Problem and a New Multiple Soft-Indicators Model Myrto Mylopoulos and Andrew Brook Enrolled in PhD program at Purdue University Why Business Incentives Backfire Gabriele Contessa -
MA Thesis / Research Essay Title Supervisor Placement Remembering Together: Examining Epistemic Injustice Through The Lens of Relational Remembering Christine Koggel Enrolled in Carleton’s Ethics and Public Affairs PhD Program Bounded Rationality and Moral Luck David Matheson Innovation & the Text: A Philosophical Investigation into the Prospects for Improving the Educational Value of the Text through Technological Innovation Annie Larivée Major Research Paper on Hindu Philosophy and Environmental Philosophy (title unavailable) Gordon Davis -
MA Thesis / Research Essay Title Supervisor Placement Accelerated Epistemic Harm: Understanding the Role of Social Media Engagement Algorithms in Online Radicalization David Matheson Program Coordinator at Public Safety Canada Conceptualizing Consciousness: What Must We Explain? Andrew Brook PhD student at York University (Philosophy) Spinoza and Self-Destruction: Oppression and Suicide Christine Koggel & Melissa Frankel PhD student at York University (Philosophy) Major Research Paper on Buddhist Philosophy (title unavailable) Gordon Davis PhD at McMaster (Religious Studies) Narrative Identity and the ‘Quebec Question’: Can we Look to Charles Taylor for a Solution? Gordon Davis Marx in the Colonies: The Case of India Jay Drydyk PhD student at York University (Social & Political Thought) -
MA Thesis / Research Essay Title Supervisor Placement A Relational Analysis of Willful Hermeneutical Ignorance in Canada’s Settler-Colonial Context Christine Koggel Enrolled in Carleton’s Ethics and Public Affairs PhD Program Hard to Believe: The Unreliability of Eyewitness Testimony David Matheson Major Research Paper (title unavailable) Myrto Mylopoulos -
MA Thesis / Research Essay Title Supervisor Placement Stand-Up Comedy and Social Justice: A Discussion of Freedom of Speech and Inclusive Democracy Christine Koggel Consciousness, Representation, and Flexibility Andrew Brook Enrolled in PhD in Philosophy at York University Flow and Meaning in Life: Some Empirically Informed Practical Lessons David Matheson -
MA Thesis / Research Essay Title Supervisor Placement The Extension of Personal Identity and Personhood Myrto Mylopoulos Research and Analysis Officer with Transport Canada Nietzsche’s Subjectivism about Life’s Meaning David Matheson Wittgenstein’s Anti-Realism about Meaning, Mathematics, and Ethics David Matheson Music and Language: A Necessary Co-Evolution Joshua Shepherd Aristotle on the Preparatory Role of Habits in Education Annie Larivée Unknown Evils: Revisiting the Psychopathy/Responsibility Debate with Epistemic Injustice Joshua Shepherd Teacher at Cégep Heritage College Consent, Abuse, and Social Values in the Ontario Health Curriculum Vida Panitch -
MA Thesis / Research Essay Title Supervisor Placement Original Intentionality: Origins of Representational Mind. Myrto Mylopoulos An Analysis of Spinoza, Aristotle, and Epicurus’s Accounts of Pleasure Annie Larivée & Melissa Frankel Enrolled in PhD in Philosophy at McGill University Disability Friendly Virtue Ethics Christine Koggel and Annie Larivée Enrolled in PhD, Ethics and Public Affairs, at Carleton Humean Scepticism as an Alternative in the Moral Realism and Moral Anti-Realism Debate Melissa Frankel & Gordon Davis Senior Executive Assistant, City of Ottawa Justified Anger Myrto Mylopoulos The Power of Non-Literal Language: An Enquiry Into the Meaning of Metaphor Eros Corazza Death and Destruction in Psychoanalysis: Decoding Three Prominent Theories of the Death Drive from Speilrein, Freud, and Klein. Andrew Brook Courseware Developer at Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) -
MA Thesis / Research Essay Title Supervisor Placement Personhood, Persistence and Constitution Andrew Brook Enrolled at York University Tragic Disclosure: Stoic Diagnostics in Senecan Drama Annie Larivée Enrolled at Queen’s University Embodied and Emotional Knowledge of Oppression: Positive Contributions of a Relational Feminist Standpoint Theory Christine Koggel Enrolled at Western University A Relationship Focused Approach to Epistemic Injustice in Global Development Theory and Practice Christine Koggel Enrolled at Vanderbilt University, now Philosophy Instructor at Kwantlen Polytechnic University Slurs: Their Use and Cognitive Impact Eros Corazza The Moral Status of Automatic Behavior Myrto Mylopoulos Enrolled at McGill University Political Cosmopolitanism: A Humanized and Socialized Account of Global Citizenship in Action Jay Drydyk Must the Market be a Morally-Free Zone Gabriele Contessa The Neo-stoic Empath and the Capabilities Approach Jay Drydyk Enrolled at Western University -
MA Thesis / Research Essay Title Supervisor Placement A Referential Analysis of Fictional Names Eros Corazza Enrolled at Western University Spiritual Exercises in Epictetus: Difficult but Justified Annie Larivée Enrolled at Queen’s University, now Management Consultant at Nous Group Immanuel Kant’s Response to David Hume’s Regarding Cause and Effect Melissa Frankel Enrolled in Master of Cognitive Science, Carleton University Effective Expressions of Agency in a Broad Network of Relationships Christine Koggel Dennett’s Verificationism and Attack on Cartesian Materialism Andrew Brook Hope: What have you done for us lately Annie Larivée Enrolled at Guelph University Who do you think you are? Gordon Davis Enrolled at Bowling Green State University Representational base of Psychological States: Filling the gap in Dennett’s account Andrew Brook Overlapping Consensus, Public Reason, and the Possibility of Exclusion Jay Drydyk Enrolled at Western University (PhD in Theory and Criticism) An Inside Job: Agency, Unity, and the Moral Law Gordon Davis -
MA Thesis / Research Essay Title Supervisor Placement On Relationality in Virtue Ethics: Accounting for Injustices in a Global Context Christine Koggel Enrolled at Carleton University Are Student-Athletes in the NCAA Exploited? Vida Panitch Enrolled at Carleton University Relationship, Particularism, and a Case Study of Africville: an Argument for Relational Principles Christine Koggel Enrolled at Carleton University Reference and Grammar: Reasserting Wittgenstein’s Picture David Matheson, Eros Corazza -
MA Thesis / Research Essay Title Supervisor Placement Dignity of the Other, A Mimimal and Common Perspective Toward Equal Respect Jay Drydyk Enrolled at University of Ottawa A Participatory Approach to Philosophical Anarchism Jay Drydyk Enrolled at Waterloo University Color Physicalism and the Problem of Metamers Andrew Brook
Gabriele ContessaEnrolled at Rutgers University Embracing the Long Run: Defending Empirical Propensities from the Problems of Finite Frequencies and Humphreys’ Paradox Gabriele Contessa The Ethics of Biomedical Enhancement Research Vida Panitch Enrolled at Carleton University -
MA Thesis / Research Essay Title Supervisor Placement Viewing Health as a Human Right: On the Normative Framework Linking Health to Human Rights Jay Drydyk Enrolled at Waterloo University Towards a Defense of Moderate Naturalism David Matheson Enrolled at University of British Columbia Political Fictionalism Gordon Davis
Gabriele ContessaEnrolled at University of British Columbia Massive Modularity: Why it is wrong, and what it can teach us anyway Andrew Brook Enrolled at Carleton University, Institute of Cognitive Science Grounding Responsibility: Helen Steward’s Libertarianism and a Hemi-Incompatibilist Alternative Gordon Davis Enrolled at Brown University Beyond the Uncanny Valley: A Cognitive and Perceptual Theory of Eeriness for Android Science Research Heidi Maibom Enrolled at Carleton University, Institute of Cognitive Science The Human Right to Health Vida Panitch Enrolled at Western University Moral Training: East/West Gordon Davis Ethics of the Foucauldian Body Geraldine Finn Synchronicity and Sensation: the causal theory of Lady Mary Shepherd Melissa Frankel Enrolled in Law School, University of New Brunswick Moral Realism and Evolution Heidi Maibom Enrolled in Philosophy Ph.D. program, McGill University -
MA Thesis / Research Essay Title Supervisor Placement The Metaethical Ramifications of Empirical Moral Psychology: Examining the Cognitivist/Non-Cognitivist Debate Gordon Davis Enrolled in Philosophy B.Phil program, University of Oxford The Problem of Parmenides: An Analysis of the Dialogue with a View Towards its Ethical Implications Annie Larivée Enrolled at Brown University Cartesian Self Representation Andrew Brook Enrolled at University of Calgary Global Justice and Water Rights Vida Panitch Employed by Citizenship and Immigration Canada Aging with Dignity Jay Drydyk Enrolled at Carleton University, Department of Sociology and Political Economy The Foundations of Human Morality: A Critical Analysis of Moral Nativis Andrew Brook Enrolled at Carleton University, Department of Cognitive Science -
MA Thesis / Research Essay Title Supervisor Placement Exploited Workers in Developing Countries and Fairness in International Trade and Labour Jay Drydyk / Vida Panitch Enrolled at Georgetown University Mortality, Immortality, and Meaningfulness in Life David Matheson Current occupation unknown The Furniture of the World Includes no Furniture: A Defense of Mereological Nihilism from Sparse Properties Andrew Brook / David Matheson Enrolled at City University of New York Graduate Center Can Non-epistemic Reasons for Belief be Normative? David Matheson Freelance writer and editor How Can I Help? Christine Koggel Employed by Government of Canada in the Department of Justice, Centre for Ethics, Conflict Management and Wellness Aristotle on the Education of Desire and Emotion Annie Larivée Enrolled at University of Toronto Broadening Multicultural Theory: Addressing Horizontal Inequalities and the Need for Group Mobilization Jay Drydyk Enrolled at Queen’s University -
MA Thesis / Research Essay Title Supervisor Placement Autonomy and Solidarity in J.S. Mill Wendy Donner / Jay Drydyk Enrolled at University of Ottawa Epistemic Injustice and the Role of Testimony in Psychiatry David Matheson Employed by Canadian Mental Health Association as a Human Resources Generalist Capabilities for future generations: An intergenerational account of justice Gordon Davis Enrolled at Carleton University, Institute of Cognitive Science Authenticity and Identity in Liberal Political Philosophy Wendy Donner Enrolled at York University There is No Truthmaking for Negative Truths Gabriele Contessa Constituent Accountability: Legitimizing Participatory Development Efforts Jay Drydyk Employed in the private sector Thought, Meaning and Reference: Cognitive and Contextualist Challenges to the Truth-Conditional View of Meaning Eros Corazza Works in marketing and advertising for a media company Naturalized Theories of Representation Andrew Brook Enrolled at the University of Edinburgh Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach and Microfinance in Bolivia: Exploring the Link Between Theory and Practice Jay Drydyk Went to CUSO-VSO, a development NGO Towards an Alternative Theory of Political Ideology Geraldine Finn Enrolled in MA Public and International Affairs at University of Ottawa Nietzsche and the Individual Gordon Davis Enrolled at McMaster University