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Get to know your faculty and staff. FacultyAndrew Hunter
chair office JOR426 phone 416-979-5000 ext. 6160 ahunter@ryerson.ca- view more info...
Education BA (Carleton); MA, PhD (Toronto) Research Interests Philosophy of literature, film and culture; History of analytical philosophy; Metaphysics; Philosophy of mind and embodiment; Philosophy of language
John Caruana
Associate Professor office JOR-424 phone 416-979-5000 ext. 7414 jcaruana@ryerson.ca- view more info...
Education BA (McGill); MA; PhD (York University) Research Interests Contemporary European Philosophy; Philosophy of Film; Philosophy of Religion; Existentialism; Social and Political Thought
David Checkland
Associate Professor office JOR-408 phone 416-979-5000 ext. 6164 dcheckla@ryerson.ca- view more info...
Education 1991 Ph.D (Philosophy) University of Toronto. [Dissertation: Wittgenstein and Davidson: Meaning and Agreement]; 1981 M.A. (Philosophy) University of Alberta [Thesis: Grammar and Religious Discourse]; 1978 B.A. (Philosophy/History) University of Alberta
Research Interests Personal Autonomy/Decision-Making Capacity/Mental Competence; Philosophy of language (especially Speech-Act Theory, Metaphor and the pragmatics/semantics distinction); Media and non-linguistic "messages"; Philosophy of religion
David Ciavatta Associate Professor Jim Dianda Professor, Continuing Education Co-ordinator
office JOR-412 phone 416-979-5000 ext. 7185 jdianda@ryerson.ca- view more info...
Education BSc, MA, (Toledo); PhD (McMaster) Research Interests Early modern philosophy; Epistemology and the philosophy of science
David Hunter Associate Professor, Graduate Program Director
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Education BA (McGill, Montreal); PhD (MIT) Research Interests Early modern philosophy; History of analytical philosophy; Metaphysics; Epistemology and the philosophy of science; Philosophy of mind and embodiment; Philosophy of language; Agency and autonomy
Jo Kornegay Associate Professor office JOR-430 phone 416-979-5000 ext. 6161 kornegay@ryerson.ca- view more info...
Education MA, PhD (Toronto) Research Interests Normative ethics; Ancient Philosophy
Klaas Kraay Associate Professor - view more info...
Education B.A. (Toronto, 1997); Ph.D. (Toronto, 2002) Research Interests Early modern philosophy; Metaphysics; Epistemology; Philosophy of religion
Kym Maclaren Associate Professor office JOR-418 phone 416-979-5000 ext. 2700 kym.maclaren@ryerson.ca- view more info...
Education BA (Toronto); MA, PhD (Pennsylvania State) Research Interests Phenomenology; Existentialism; 20th century French philosophy (especially Merleau-Ponty); Philosophy of Mind and Embodiment; Philosophical Psychology; Social Philosophy Recent or Representative Publications “Emotional Clichés and Authentic Passions: A Phenomenological Revision of a Cognitive Theory of Emotion.” Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, Volume 10, No. 1 (2011): 45-65. “Emotional Metamorphoses: The Role of Others in Becoming-Oneself”, in Embodiment and Agency: New Essays in Feminist Philosophy, edited by Susan Sherwin, Letitia Meynell, and Sue Campbell. Pennsylvania State University Press, (2009): 1-45. “Embodied Perceptions of Others as a Condition of Selfhood? Empirical and Phenomenological Considerations.” Journal of Consciousness Studies Vol. 15, No. 8 (2008): 63-93.
“The Role of Emotion in an Existential Education: Insights from Hegel and Plato.” International Philosophical Quarterly Vol.48 (2008). “Emotional Disorder and the Mind-Body Problem: A Case Study of Alexithymia.” Chiasmi International: Trilingual Studies Concerning Merleau-Ponty’s Thought 8 (2007). “Merleau-Ponty’s Embodied Ethics: Rethinking Traditional Ethics.” In Existentialist Thinkers and Ethics, edited by Christine Daigle. McGill-Queen’s University Press (2006): 142-166. “Life is Inherently Expressive: A Merleau-Pontian Response to Darwin’s The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals.” Chiasmi International: Trilingual Studies Concerning Merleau-Ponty’s Thought 7 (2005): 241-261.
 Robert Murray Associate Professor office JOR-422 phone 416-979-5000 ext. 6568 rdmurray@ryerson.ca- view more info...
Education BA (University of Manitoba); MA (University of Manitoba); PhD (University of Toronto) Research Interests At the undergraduate level, I remain something of a generalist and have enjoyed teaching many of the undergraduate philosophy courses at Ryerson. At the graduate level, I specialize in moral theory and social and political philosophy, including the philosophy of race and Aboriginal rights. My current research project concerns the metaphysics, moral psychology, and moral identity of Kantian-Rawlsian moral agency.
Recent or Representative Publications (forthcoming) "Liberalism, Aboriginal Rights, and the Canadian Moral Identity" forthcoming in Philosophy and Aboriginal Rights: Critical Dialogues, Lorraine Mayer and Sandra Tomsons (eds.), New York: Oxford University Press
(2001) "Philosophy and Interracial Dialogue," The Philosophical Forum, XXXII: 107-124. (1999) "Liberalism, Culture, and Aboriginal Rights: In Defence of Kymlicka," Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 29: 109-138. (1998) Review of Divided by Color: Racial Politics and Democratic Ideals, Donald R. Kinder and Lynn M. Sanders, Philosophy in Review, XVIII. (1995) "Is Davidson's Theory of Action Consistent?" Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 25: 317-334.
 Glen Parsons Associate Professor - view more info...
Education BSc Hon. Biology (Acadia), 1994; BA Hon. English (Acadia), 1997; MSc Biochemistry; (University of Alberta), 1997 PhD Philosophy, (University of Alberta), 2001 Research Interests Aesthetics; Metaphysics; Epistemology and the philosophy of science
David Rondel Limited-Term Faculty
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Education PhD (McMaster University) Research Interests Normative ethics; Social and political philosophy; American Pragmatism
Meredith Schwartz Assistant Professor office JOR-434 phone 416-979-5000 ext. 2251 meredith.schwartz@ryerson.ca- view more info...
Education B.A. (Hon.), University of Toronto; M.A., Dalhousie University [Thesis: “Relational Responsibility and Health Care: To Punish or Protect”]; Ph.D., Dalhousie University. [Dissertation: “Respect and Health Care Ethics: Respect, Social Power, and Health Research Interests Ethics, Health Care Ethics, Feminist Philosophies, Public Health Ethics.
Elizabeth Trott Professor office JOR-410 phone 416-979-5000 ext. 6163 etrott@ryerson.ca- view more info...
Education B.A., M.A. (Toronto); Ph.D. (Waterloo); B.Ed, OSSTC (Toronto) Research Interests Social and political philosophy; Human rights, race, and multiculturalism; Aesthetics; Philosophy of literature, film and culture; Kant, Hegel and the 19th century; Metaphysics Recent or Representative Publications (2009) "John Watson and the Foundations and Applications of Moral Philosophy," The Moral, Social and Political Philosophy of The British Idealists, ed., William Sweet, Imprint Academic, pp. 269-288 (2007) "Saving the Wilderness: When Beauty is Not Enough," Maritain Studies, Vol. XXIII, pp. 53-63 (2007) "Bosanquet, Aesthetics and Education: Warding Off Stupidity with Art," Bernard Bosanquet and the Legacy of British Idealism, ed. William Sweet, University of Toronto Press, pp. 118-126 (2006) "Democratic Paradoxes: Thomas Hill Green on Democracy and Education," Paideusis, Vol. 15, No. 2. pp 61-78
Alex Wellington Associate Professor - view more info...
Education H.B.A., M.E.S., L.L.B., L.L.M., Ph.D. Research Interests Human rights, race, and multiculturalism; Health care ethics, policy and law
Sessional InstructorsPaul Bali Sessional Instructor
Kathleen Carlin Sessional Instructor
Mark Clamen Sessional Instructor
James Cunningham Sessional Instructor
Thomas Hart Sessional Instructor
Gary Toop Sessional Instructor
StaffMalu Maia Department Administrator
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