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MA outcomes

We list the initial outcomes, that is, what students went on to do right after completing their MA with us, as well as present occupation (where we know it).





Year of completion Thesis/Guided Research Project title Initial outcome Current occupation
2020 "Public Space and the Limits of Liberalism" Broadview Press, Inside Sales Representative  
2020 "Myth and Mysticism in Plato's Phaedo" Started a PhD program  
2020 "Developing Social Robots for the Future" Started a PhD program  
2019 "A Trade-Off Analysis of the Normative Values of Deliberative Democracy" Senior Policy Advisor  
2019 "Cruelty and Callousness in Virtue Ethics: Why the Virtuous Agent Acts Well Towards Animals" Brown University - Master of Public Administration    
2018 "Philosophical definition of freedom as opportunity sets" Legal Assistant  
2018 "On Becoming a Nomad Scientist" Started a PhD program in 2019  
2018 "A Critical Analysis of Chalmers' Theory of Conceivability" Entered Legal Assistant/Paralegal program at Seneca College  
2018 "Neoaristotelian Ethics/Workplace Democracy/A Recommendation" Translation Consultant  
2016 "What are Future Humans Really Owed? Climate Change, Democracy and the Right to Justification" Interpreter and Translator, Chile  
2016 "A Foucauldian Critique of Fricker's Allocation of Blame and the Proposal of a Genealogical Resentment of Disappointment" Test Technician, ResearchLink, Office of Research, University of Guelph Research Ethics Officer, Simon Fraser University
2016 "Does Art Bring Us Together? An Empirical Approach to the Evolutionary Aesthetics of Ellen Dissanayake" Freelance Writer Started a PhD program in Fall 2017

2015

"Shame and the Self: An Exploration of Self-Knowledge and Emotional Engagement" Pursue music  
2014 "A Heideggarian Reconciliation of Theories of Emotion" Graduate Teaching Assistant at Toronto university Research Assistant, King's University College
2014 "Understanding Freedom and Responsibility Through Recognizing One Another" Working in family business Starting a small business
2013 "Physicalism and Its Prospects" Doctoral Program at King's College (UK)  
2013 "Words or Worlds: The Metaphysics within Kuhn's Picture of Science" Worked in Administration Started a PhD program at University of South Carolina
2013 "Theology as the limit of science: Anaximander's discovery of metaphysics and the Milesian concept of divinity" Doctoral program at McGill University  
2013 "A Defence of the Life of Philosophy: An Interpretation of Plato's Apology" Doctoral program at the University of Ottawa  
2012 "The Path to Legitimacy: The Human Right to Free Movement and International Borders" Working at a restaurant Started a PhD program in Fall 2014
2011 “On the concept of the gene from Mendel to personalized genomics” Doctoral program at the University of Leeds (UK)  
2011 “Welcoming the Other" Encouragement in Education" Personal painting business  
2011 “Work proper: a psychoanalytic 'reinvention' of Marxist labour”    
2011 “The ethics of insults” Sales Representative for publishing company Consultant for grantmaking organizations
2011 “The moral value of literature: defending a Diamondian realist approach”    
2011 “A case for decision-maker based justification of environmental policy” Researcher, Conservation Authority Coordinator, Ethics Centre, University of Sudbury
2010 “Grappling with the question 'What is the political Subject?' through the transindividual” Doctoral program at York University Doctoral program at York University
2010 “Analogy as the core of consciousness” Doctoral program in cognitive science, University of Hawaii Senior Data Scientist (California)
2010 “From desire to conscience: an examination of the essential role that conscience plays in the fulfillment of human desire” Doctoral program at the University of Kentucky Sessional Instructor, Thompson Rivers University
2010 “Cosmetic surgery through feminist and cultural narratives: shifting the focus toward account-giving within doctor-patient relationality” Law school at York University Law school at York University
2010 “Toward a Levinasian politics of the animal” Doctoral program at the University of Guelph Doctoral program at the University of Guelph