Graduate Supervision
MA Theses Supervised:
L. Odland, "Transcendence and Historicity in Karl Jaspers," completed, 20/8/85
S. Noble, "Silence and Language in the Philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty," completed, 20/9/93
D. Tachyk, "Heidegger and Technology", completed, 23/8/94
F. Cameron, "Nietzsche's Opposition to Morality," completed, 25/8/94
M. Ringma, "In(con)clusions: Exploring the Possibilities of an Amicable Relationship Between Feminism and Postmodernism," completed, 15/12/95
A. Fuyarchuk, "The Art of Making and the Essence of Truth in the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger," completed 27/8/96
P. Mueller, "Recognizing Human Differences in Hegel, Heidegger and Arendt," completed 27/5/97
G. Blume, "The Critical Trajectory of Nozickean Philosophy", completed 29/9/97 (co-supervisor with W. Cooper).
G. Kennedy, "The Destiny of Freedom in Technological Consumer Culture," completed 26/1/2000
C. Tomusiak, "The Ideal of Unconditional Love, completed 12/9/00
I. Günes, "Death and Selfhood in Heidegger's Being and Time," completed 9/7/01
L. Armontrout, "Nietzsche on Truth and Perspective," completed 12/11/02.
C. McTavish, "Plato as Hermeneutic in Heidegger and Levinas," completed 19/8/03
C. Bercea, "The Challenge of the Face," completed, 28/9/04
I. Drummond, "Aristotle's Science of Poetics," completed 14/12/04 (co-supervised with R. Bosley)
J. Czank, "Abstract Right, Reason and the State in Hegel's Philosophy of Right," completed 16/12/04.
Hector MacIntyre, "Lyric Philosophy and Temporal Phenomenology"," 4/1/07
Robert Kennedy, "The Problematic of Thinking in Heidegger," 23/4/07
Alan McLuckie, "From Religious Neurosis to Religious Being: Nietzsche on our Religious Instinct," completed 5/07
David McPike, "Historicity, Truth and the Possibility of Philosophy: An Heideggerian Essay," completed 11/12/07
Laurel Ralston, "A Derridean Approach to Musical Identity,"completed 28/1/08
Patrick Gamez, "The End of Law: Walter Benjamin's Conception of History," completed 28/5/08
Damon MacLeod, "Ethics for a Destitute Time," 24/6/10
Peter Buijs, "On the Relation of Historical Faith and Rational Religion in Kant," 30/6/10
Jordan Glass, "The Hither Side of Good and Evil and the Will to Power: A study of Nietzsche and Levinas on Value." (co-supervisor, M.E. Morin), 7/4/11.
Alex Buchinski, "Bernard Stiegler's Critique of and Supplement to Martin Heidegger's Accord of the Independence of Entitites," 25/8/11
MA Supervisory Committee Memberships:
M. Pozar, "Self and Time in Kant and Heidegger," completed, 7/8/84
K. O'Brien, "Michel Foucault's Anti-Humanism," completed 5/2/85
G. Genosko, "The Aesthetics of Sculpture," completed 22/2/85
M. Marden, "Dewey's Metaphysics and Via Media," completed 27/8/85
W. Williams, "A Semiotic Approach to Curriculum Inquiry," (Education), completed 24/8/88
W. Renke, "Moral Evaluation, Civil Disobedience and Pro-Life Activism," completed 28/9/90
B. Leier, "Toward a Wittgensteinean Ethics," completed 4/10/94
S. Y. Wong, "Kymlicka's Liberal Theory of Minority Rights," completed 22/12/95
R. Kramchynski, "Living Within Merleau-Ponty's Reversibility," completed, 17/1/96
M. Jackson, "Foucault's Askesis: The Ethical Work of Thinking Modernity Against Modernity," completed 16/9/98
S. Sahay, "Exploring the Macro and Micro in a Philosophy of Educational Technologies," 26/2/01
K. Martin, "Heidegger and the Humanities: Employing Language as an Instrument in English Studies Pedagogy," (English), 8/8/03.
H. Tuna, "Location/Location/Location: The Place of the deduction of Taste in Kant's Third Critique," 7/12/09.
S. Hartford "Overcoming Scepticism: Heidegger's Critique of the Cartesian Tradition," 13/4/10.
B. Viseau, "Badiou, Political Nihilism, and a Small-Scale Solution," 4/8/10
D. Pitcher
MA Thesis Defence, Extra-Departmental Examiner:
H. Yeu, "A Systems Approach to Education," (Secondary Education), 15/4/86
G. Strangway, "Politics and Art in the Work of Friedrich Schiller" (History) 2/10/91 (not granted)
D. Livingstone, "Nietzsche as Educator" (Political Science), 27/8/93
D. Briton, "A Critique of Modern Adult Education" (Adult, Career & Tech. Ed). 30/8/93
D. Brundage, "The Rat Hole" novel (English), 28/9/94
S. Silvester, "Conquered Adversity: A Study of Nietzsche's Twilight of the Idols," (Political Science), 30/9/94
A. Chinnery, "On Compassion and Intersubjectivity," (Ed. Foundations), 6/6/96
Kernahan, "The Politics of Poetry: Plato's Ion" (Political Science), completed 25/8/97
T. Craig, "Leo Strauss and Nietzsche on Liberal Education and History," (Political Science), completed 24/8/01
J. McCrum, "On 'A Kind of Philosophy'": A Synoptic Commentary on Plato's Timaeus (Political Science), completed 26/8/04
Rob De Luca, "Plato's Laches: A Commentary" (Political Science), completed 9/8/04
Mark Verbitsky, "On the Genealogy of Bad Conscience," (Political Science), 20/5/05
Ph.D. Theses Supervised:
H. Hopkins, "Positivism and Dialectic in Social Theory," completed 17/4/86 (co-supervised with W. Cooper)
B. Leier, "Schopenhauer Redux: Toward an Ethics of Compassion," completed 24/9/02
E. Lorkovic, "My Self as My Other, or How to Become a Self Worth Becoming" completed 29/9/03
A. Kessler,† "Kant's Concept of Rational Hope" (Nov 05, posthumous)
Charles Rodger, "The Project of Philosophy: The Ontological Proof in Hegel, Schelling and Heidegger," in progress.
Ph.D. Supervisory Committees:
G. Thomas, "The Search for Active Citizenship," (Secondary Education), completed 19/6/85
V. Bergum, "A Phenomenology of Childbirth," (Secondary Education), completed 23/6/86
J. Ford, "The Meaning of Palliative Care," (Secondary Education), completed 8/12/86
W. Pike, "Art Education and Computer Use," (Secondary Education), completed 22/4/88
D. Beebe, "Type Rites: Rituals of Technical Instruction," (Secondary Education), completed 27/8/88
S. Bauldurrson, "Technology, Computer Use & the Pedagogy of Writing," (Secondary Education) completed 16/12/88
S. Smith, "Phenomenology of Pedagogic Risk," (Secondary Education), completed 14/2/89
G. McConaghy, "Education for Work," (Secondary Education), completed 24/11/89
V. Sauvé, "Windows of Meaning in Adult ESL," (Secondary Education), completed 30/9/91
J. Paul, "Seeing Films Pedagogically," (Secondary Education), completed 14/12/92
J. Bellows, "Empowerment, Power and Education," (Ed. Foundations), completed 15/7/93
E. Sobstyl, "The Assent of Men: Toward a Feminist Philosophy of Science," (Philosophy), completed 17/2/95
R. Montgomery-Whicher, "Drawing: A Phenomenological Inquiry," (Secondary Education), completed, 20/6/97.
Brenda Cameron, "Understanding Nurses and Its Practices" (Secondary Education), completed 4/9/98
Anna V. Santos Salas, "Nursing Practices and the Experience of the Very Ill in the Home," (Nursing), 18/4/06.
Ph.D. Defence Examining Committee:
Y.S. Kim, "The Nihilistic Challenge to Curriculum and Pedagogy," (Secondary Education), 11/1/91
A. Winning, "The Language of Home and the Home of Language," (Secondary Education), 22/3/91
E. Isenor, "Self-Deception and Moral Education: The Freudian Legacy," (Ed. Foundations), 16/5/91
M. Fujita, "Lived Meaning & Dialogical Semiogenetics," (Secondary Education), 15/3/92
T. Pare, "A Phenomenology of Spiritual Experience," (Ed. Psychology), 11/12/96 (Pro-dean representative)
P. Hove, "Wonder and the Agencies of Retreat," (Secondary Education), completed 6/11/98
Duane Massing, "Men and Intimacy: Essaying the Politics of Absence," (Secondary Education), completed 14/12/98
F. Welfing, "Nietzsche's Configurations," (Modern Languages and Comparative Studies), completed 18/1/99
S. Ingram, "Zarathustra's Sisters," (Modern Languages and Comparative Studies), completed 28/1/00
K. Kozak, "Philosophical Aspects of the Tragic Subject," (Modern Languages and Comparative Studies), completed 18/10/02
Norman Friesen, "The Pedagogical Significance of the Computer-Student Relation," (Secondary Education), completed 30/4/03
Christopher Peet, "The Idealization of Personal Agency," (Pyschology), completed 29/10/03
Adam Dickenson, "Lyric Ethics: The Matter and Time of Ecopoetry," (English), 16/6/05
Dennis Westergaard, "The Politics of Plato's Symposium," (Political Science), 27/6/05
Tram Nguyen, "Gertrude Stein's (English), 23/1/08
Paul Sopcak. "Epiphanies of Finitude: A Phenomenological Study of Existential Reading," (Comparative Literature/Interdisciplinary Studies), 28/1/11
Ph.D. Candidacy Examinations:
G. Thomas, Secondary Education, 13/12/83
V. Bergum, Secondary Education, 16/1/84
J. Ford, Secondary Education, 6/12/84
W. Pike, Secondary Education, 22/4/86
D. Beebe, Secondary Education, 14/9/85
S. Bauldurrson, Secondary Education, 12/1/87
S. Smith, Secondary Education, 12/1/88
G. McConaghy, Secondary Education, 24/3/88
V. Sauvé, Secondary Education, 30/11/88
J. Paul, Secondary Education, 14/4/89
J. Bellows, Ed. Foundations, 15/9/91
D. Sumara, Secondary Education, 22/1/93
E. Sobstyl, Philosophy, 17/2/95
R. Montgomery-Whicher, Secondary Education, 23/6/93.
Brenda Cameron, Secondary Education, 14/9/94
Philo Hove, Secondary Education, 6/3/94
F. Welfing, MLCS, 10/6/96
M. Cash, Philosophy, 18/12/98
Patricia Ireland, Philosophy, 16/11/99
D. Westergaard, Political Science, 4/11/99
C. Peet, Psychology, 28/7/00
B. Leier, Philosophy, 22/11/00
Adam Dickinson, English, 27/3/02
Anna Santos Salus, Nursing, 8/6/02
Norman Friesen, Secondary Education, 12/6/02
E. Lorkovic, Philosophy, 28/11/02
Hong Dae Jeon, Secondary Education, 10/12/03
Tram Nguyen, English, 30/1/04
Anna Kessler, Philosophy, 26/1/05
Charles Rodger, Philosophy, 27/5/09
Trifon Heney, Music, 22/2/10
Erika Goble, Secondary Education, 20/11/10
Alison Hurlburt, English,
Kristin Rodier, philosophy, 5/8/11
Ph.D. & MA Defence, External Examiner:
R.D. Ulveland, "The Educational Insignificance of Technological Attendere," (Ph.D. Faculty of Education), Simon Fraser University, 29/11/96
Ann Chinnery, "Response and Responsibility: On Levinas and Moral Education," (Ph.D. Faculty of Education) Simon Fraser University, 5/6/03
Alex Colgan, "Tentativeness and Permeability in the political Thought of Hannah Arendt," (MA Soical and Political Thought) University of Regina, 2/5/11
Ph.D. Comprehensive Examination Committees:
P. Viminitz, Modern Philosophy, 1990
G. OuYang, Social and Political Philosophy, 1991
I. Berkeley, Modern Philosophy, 1991
K. Zwaitek, Social and Political Philosophy, 1991
S. Turner, Modern Philosophy, 1992
S. Turner, Social and Political Philosophy, 1992
E. Sobstyl, Social and Political Philosophy, 1992
H. Northwood, Aesthetics, 1992
M. Gillis, Epistemology and Metaphysics (University of Calgary), 1993
E. Swaitek, Modern Philosophy, 1994
P. Martin, Aesthetics, 1995
G. Barron, Social and Political Philosophy, 1995
M. Stephens, Modern Philosophy, 1996
B. Leier, Philosophy of Religion (Chair), 1996
F. Welfing, Nietzsche and His Interpreters (Comp. Literature), 1996
A. Fellbaum, Modern Philosophy (Chair), 1996
G. Barron, Philosophy of Religion (Chair), 1996
M. Stephens, Social and Political Philosophy, 1996
A. Fellbaum, Aesthetics (Chair), 1996 (adjourned)
A. Frimpong-Mansoh, Social and Political Philosophy, 1996
F. Welfing, MLCS, 1996
A. Frimpong-Mansoh, Modern Philosophy, 1997
Jeff Oss, Critical Theory (Sociology), 1997
Brendan Leier, Late Modern Philosophy (Chair), 1998
Lilliana Borsan, Aesthetics, 1998
Lilliana Borsan, Early Modern Philosophy, 1999 (adjourned)
Dennis Westegard, Political Theory & International Relations (Political; Science), 2000
Edvard Lorkovic, Ethics, 2001
Edvard Lorkovic, Late Modern Philosophy (Chair), 2001
Paul Beach, Medieval Philosophy, 2001
Anna Santos Salas, Human Science Research Methods (Faculty of Nursing), 2001
Paul Beach, Philosophy of Religion (Chair), 2001
Leah Armontrout, Medieval Philosophy, 2003
Anna Kessler, Early Modern Philosophy, 2004
Leah Armontrout, Early Modern Philosophy, 2004
John Simpson, Late Modern Philosophy (Chair), 2004
Anna Kessler, Late Modern Philosophy (Chair), 2004
Edwin Etieyibo, Early Modern Philosophy, 2005
Charles Rodger, Philosophy of Religion (Chair), 2006
Charles Rodger, Late Modern Philosophy, (Chair) 2007
Joel Buenting, Philosophy of Religion (Chair), 2008
Joel Buenting, Early Modern Philosophy, 2008
Chris Johnson, Philosophy of Religion (Chair), 2009
Kristin Rodier, Late Modern (Chair), 2010
Yasemin Sari, 19th and 20th Century (Chair), 2011
Rachel Loewen-Walker, 20th Century, (Chair) 2011