Philosophy

Andrew Hunter
Ph.D. University of Toronto
ahunter@ryerson.ca
Research Interests: philosophy of language; philosophy of mind; metaphysics; and the philosophy of film

Kathleen Carlin
Ph.D. University of Toronto
kcarlin@ryerson.ca
Research Interests: applied and professional ethics

John Caruana
Ph.D. York University
jcauana@ryerson.ca
Research Interests: contemporary European philosophy; philosophy of film; philosophy of religion; existentialism; social and political thought

David Checkland
Ph.D. University of Toronto
dcheckla@ryerson.ca
Research Interests: philosophy of mind; philosophy of language; philosophy of religion; health care ethics

David Ciavatta
Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University
david.ciavatta@ryerson.ca
Research Interests: Kant and 19th century continental philosophy (especially Hegel and Marx); phenomenology and existentialism; social and political philosophy; philosophy of action

Jim Dianda
Ph.D. McMaster University
jdianda@ryerson.ca
Research Ineterests: philosophy of science; early modern philosophy

David Hunter
Ph.D. MIT
david.hunter@ryerson.ca
Research Interests: philosophy of mind; philosophy of language; philosophical psychology; metaphysics; epistemology

Jo Kornegay
Ph.D. University of Toronto
kornegay@ryerson.ca
Research Interests: utilitarian ethics; virtue-ethics; and applied ethics, especially in the intersection between ethics and metaphysics.

Klaas Kraay
Ph.D. University of Toronto
kraay@ryerson.ca
Research Interests: metaphysics; epistemology; philosophy of religion; early modern philosophy

Kym Maclaren
Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University
kym.maclaren@ryerson.ca
Research Interests: phenomenology; existentialism; philosophy of mind and body; philosophy of emotions; history of philosophy (especially 19th century and ancient philosophy); feminism; ethics

Glenn Parsons
Ph.D. University of Alberta
gparsons@arts.ryerson.ca
Research Interests: the philosophy of science; metaphysics and aesthetics; especially environmental aesthetics and the aesthetic appreciation of nature

Elizabeth Trott
Ph.D. University of Waterloo
etrott@ryerson.ca
Research Interests: Canadian philosophy; philosophy of education; philosophy of art and design; multiculturalism; metaphysics; culture

Alex Wellington
Ph.D. York University
awelling@ryerson.ca
Research Interests: philosophy of law and justice; ethics and human rights; intellectual property law and policy; environmental law and policy

Paul Bali
Ph.D. University of Toronto
pbali@ryerson.ca
Research Interests: Philosophy of Religion, Logic, Critical Thinking, Ethics, and Applied Ethics

James Cunningham
Ph.D. OISE
j2cunnin@ryerson.ca
Research Interests: Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Sex and Love, Philosophy of Art, Contemporary Political Philosophy, Ethics

Allan Greenbaum
Ph.D. York University
eggplant@yorku.ca
Research Interests: Social and Environmental Ethics; Environmental Values; Environmental Law and Policy

Paul Los
Ph.D. University of Toronto
paullos@ryerson.ca
Research Interests: History of Philosophy (esp Analytic Philosophy) Logic; Critical Thinking; Ethics

Ken Montague
Ph.D.
montague@ryerson.ca
Research Interests: Philosophy of Biology, Critical Thinking, non-Western Philosophy, and the study of the history and nature of mythology

Gary Toop
Ph.D. University of Guelph
gtoop@ryerson.ca
Research Interests: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Existentialism and Phenomenology, Bioethics, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy and Film, Philosophy and Literature, Philosophy of Love and Sex.