Self, Agency, and Community

Our new one-year master’s program gives a unique focus to graduate work in philosophy while preparing students for doctoral study or for careers in government or the private sector. The program focuses on contemporary and historical perspectives on persons, and their relationships to themselves and others in moral, political and cultural settings. Students will explore metaphysical, epistemological, moral, and political questions about selves, agency and communities in five graduate level courses and will write a major research paper. During the second term students will also participate in a research seminar, in which they begin their major research papers and discuss their work-in-progress with other students in the program.  For more information, contact Dr. Jill Rusin (jrusin@wlu.ca).

Graduate Faculty

• Kathy Behrendt DPhil Oxford University (personal identity theory, self knowledge, philosophy of mind, metaphysics)
• Neil Campbell PhD McMaster University (philosophy of mind, mental causation, metaphysics)
• Renato Cristi PhD University of Toronto (metaphysics, political philosophy, legal philosophy)
• Leo Groarke  PhD University of Western Ontario (ethics, aesthetics, and the history of ideas)
• Stephen Haller PhD University of Guelph (philosophy of science, applied ethics, policy-making)
• Rockney Jacobsen PhD University of Alberta (philosophy of mind and language, Wittgenstein)
• Rebekah Johnston PhD University of Toronto (ancient philosophy, medieval philosophy, feminist  philosophy)
• Jonathan Lavery  PhD University of Guelph (Plato and ancient philosophy, Genres of philosophical writing, ethics)
• Robert Litke PhD University of Michigan (theories of the self, power, domination and violence, philosophy of the environment)
• Ashwani Peetush PhD University of Toronto (social and political philosophy, ethics, human rights, multiculturalism, Indian  philosophy)
• Jill Rusin PhD Johns Hopkins University (epistemology, action theory, feminist theory)
• Allison Weir PhD York University (feminist theory, social and political philosophy, continental philosophy)
• Byron Williston PhD University of Toronto (moral psychology, metaethics, history of ethics, early modern philosophy)
• James Wong PhD University of Toronto (social philosophy, epistemology, Foucault)