Recent & Current Graduate Seminars:


2000            Aristotle's Cognitive Psychology

2001            Celebrated Texts of Aristotle

                    The Infinite in Ancient Thought

2002            Explorations in Neoplatonism

2003            The Ancient Science of Music

2004            Plato's Theory of Forms

2005            Topics in Stoic & Epicurean Philosophy

2006            Aristotle's Worst Idea

2007            Aristotle's Logic

                    Contemporary Theodicy (Faculty of Theology)

2008            Aristotle's de Anima

2010            Topics in the Philosophy of Time

2011            Free Will

                    Celebrated Texts of Aristotle

2013            The Pre-Socratics



Recent & Current Graduate Students:


PhD Students (Philosophy)


Byron STOYLES

  1. 'Epicurean Arguments on the Value of Death' completed 2004 (joint with Samantha Brennan) (now tenured at Trent University)

Dwayne RAYMOND

  1. 'Qua: Reinterpreting Aristotle's Logic' completed 2006 (now tenure-track at Texas A&M University)

Julie PONESSE

  1. 'Aristotle on Moral Luck' completed 2007 (now tenure-track at SUNY, Brockport)

Sean MULLIGAN

  1. 'Thought Experiments in Aristotle', completed 2007 (now Intelligence Officer in the Royal Canadian Navy)

Alain DUCHARME

  1. 'Aristotle's Naïve Somatism' completed 2011 (now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of South Carolina)

Nick FAWCETT

  1. 'The Idea of Nature in Greek Philosophy' completed 2011 (now teaching at Fanshawe College)

Jason MARSH

  1. 'Creating & Raising Humans: Essays on Procreation, Upbringing & Harm' (joint with Samantha Brennan) completed 2012 (now tenure-track at St Olaf College)

Shawn BARTLETT

  1. 'Libertarianism in Folk Psychology', in progress



MA Students (Philosophy: Summer Research Project)


Melissa MACAULAY

  1. 'The "Illusion" of Temporal Passage', 2010

Shawn BARTLETT

  1. 'The Problem of Agent Control in Event Causality', 2011

Alexander CAMPBELL

  1. 'Wittgenstein and Free Will', 2011

Dylon MCCHESNEY

  1. 'Did the Universe Make Me Do It?', 2011


MA Students (Theology)


Glen MORGAN

  1. 'Religious and Civil Marriage in Canada' (MA, Faculty of Theology) completed 2009

Martin LEVESQUE

  1. 'Religion in the Public Sphere' (MA, Faculty of Theology) in progress (joint with William Danaher)