Teaching

Recent Undergraduate Courses

  • PHIL 121 (previously PHIL 220): Moral Issues (2022, 2020, 2017, 2014, 2012, 2009)
  • PHIL 206: Philosophy of Sport (2021, 2019, 2016)
  • PHIL 221: Ethics (2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016, 2014, 2012, 2011, 2010)
  • PHIL 271: Special Topics– Philosophy of Sport (2014)
  • PHIL 320: Topics in Moral Philosophy– Moral Psychology (2017)
  • PHIL 324: Social and Political Philosophy (2013, 2012)
  • PHIL 328: Philosophy of Law (2013)
  • PHIL 331: Philosophy of Art (2012)
  • PHIL 371: Special Topics– Pandemic Ethics (2020)
  • PHIL 110B: Introduction to Ethics and Values (2015, 2011, 2010×2, 2009)
  • PHIL 202: Gender Issues (2010)

Recent Graduate Seminars

  • Politics in a Non-Ideal World (2021)
  • Addiction (2020)
  • Self-Knowledge (2018)
  • Luck (Departmental Pro-Seminar) (2015-16)
  • Ignorance and Responsibility (2015)
  • Responsibility and Punishment (2014)
  • Virtues and Vices (2012)
  • Weakness of Will (2011)
  • Harry Frankfurt (2009)

Graduate Supervision (Completed)

  • Kathryn Morrison (2021). PhD Dissertation: Mature Minor Eligibility for Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD): An Ethical Analysis
  • W Jim Jordan (2021) PhD Dissertation: Controlling Cyberwarfare: International Laws of Armed Conflict and Human Rights in the Cyber Realm
  • Caitlin O’Donnell (2020). PhD Dissertation:  Supporting Palliative Care in a Post-Carter World
  • Cathy Gee (2016). PhD Dissertation: Enhancement and Authenticity

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  • MA Supervisor, Greg Cote (2021). MA Thesis: Utilitarian Cops: Jeremy Bentham and the Rise of Modern Policing.
  • MA Supervisor, Eric Bohner (2017). MA Thesis: Justification of Punishment and Obligations to the Wrongdoer
  • MA Supervisor, Vanessa Lam (2016). MA Thesis:  Ethical Leadership for Machiavellians in Business
  • MA Supervisor, Kathryn Morrison (2015). MA Thesis: Disciplinary Inequality, Collective Agency, and Inter-professional Collaboration in Healthcare
  • MA Supervisor, Jody Tomchishen (2015). MA Thesis: In Defense of Moral Responsibility Skepticism
  • MA Supervisor, Ryan Huckle, (2012). MA Thesis: Knowledge, First Aid, and the Moral Requirement of Rescue
  • MA Supervisor, Lindsay Weir, (2011). MA Thesis: Virtue Ethics and Rational Disabilities: A Problem of Exclusion and the Need for Revised Standards
  • MA Supervisor, Tommy Blanchard (2011). MA Thesis: Moral Responsibility and the Self

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  • PhD Research Area Supervisor, Leanne Woodward (2021). ‘The Ethical Collection and Use of Demographic Data in Human Participant Research.’ (Applied Philosophy PhD Program)
  • PhD Research Area Supervisor, Lynne Sargent (2020). ‘Social Media Use, Vulnerability, and Long Term Care.’ (Applied Philosophy PhD Program)
  • PhD Research Area Supervisor, Caitlin O’Donnell (2018). ‘Medical Assistance in Dying and Conscientious Objection.’ (Applied Philosophy PhD Program)
  • PhD Research Area Supervisor, Phillipe Bériault (2017). ‘Meta-ethics and Politics’
  • PhD Research Area Supervisor, Dylon McChesney (2017). ‘The Epistemic Dimensions of Moral Responsibility’
  • PhD Research Area Supervisor, Kathryn Morrison (2016). ‘Medical Assistance in Dying’
  • PhD Research Area Supervisor, W. Jim Jordan. (2016). ‘The Ethics of Cyber-warfare’
  • PhD Research Area Supervisor, Sara Weaver (2015). ‘Experimental Philosophy: Personal Identity and Self-Understanding’
  •  PhD Research Area Supervisor, Ian MacDonald (2014). ‘Virtue and the Situationist Challenge’
  • PhD Research Area Supervisor, Rosalind Abdool (2012). ‘Personal Identity and Problems of the Self’
  • PhD Research Area Supervisor, Kurt Holukoff (2011). ‘Morality and Rationality’

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  • MA Research Paper Supervisor, Jim Tigwell (2012). ‘The Game’s the Thing: An Examination of Ethics in Dungeons and Dragons’
  • MA  Research Paper Supervisor, Bhakta Rai (2012). ‘Multiculturalism and the French Headscarf Ban’
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