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
2014 The Epicureans
2015 Plato’s Theory of Forms
The Linguistic Turn in Antiquity
2016 Aristotle’s Metaphysics
2018 The Sophist and the sophists
Celebrated Texts of Aristotle
Recent & Current Graduate Students:
PhD Students (Philosophy)
Byron STOYLES
'Epicurean Arguments on the Value of Death' completed 2004 (joint with
Samantha Brennan) (now Chair of Philosophy at Trent University)
Dwayne RAYMOND
'Qua: Reinterpreting Aristotle's Logic' completed 2006 (now appointed at
Texas A&M University)
Julie PONESSE
'Aristotle on Moral Luck' completed 2007 (tenure-track appointments at
U of Wisconsin at Oshkosh, and at SUNY Brockport)
Sean MULLIGAN
'Thought Experiments in Aristotle', completed 2007 (Intelligence Officer
in the Royal Canadian Navy)
Alain DUCHARME
'Aristotle's Naïve Somatism' completed 2011 (postdoctoral fellow at the
University of South Carolina and one-year lectureship at DePauw University)
Nick FAWCETT
'The Idea of Nature in Greek Philosophy' completed 2011 (lawyer at
McKenzie Lake LLP, in London, Ontario)
Jason MARSH
'Creating & Raising Humans: Essays on Procreation, Upbringing & Harm'
(joint with Samantha Brennan) completed 2012 (now tenured at
St Olaf College)
Ryan MIDDLETON
'Weaving the Statesman: The Unity of Plato's Politicus’ completed 2015
(chosen as Western’s 2015 submission for the CGS/ProQuest award for the
best thesis in the Humanities)
Matthew SMALL
‘Aristotle on Imagination and Mind’ completed 2021
Pierre-Luc BOUDREAULT
‘Aristotle’s Concept of Time’ completed 2020
(tenure-track appointment at Thomas Aquinas College, Northfield Mass.)
Michael KORNGUT
‘Plato on Health and the Body’ in progress
Ashkan PARCHIZADEH,
‘The nature of Pyrrhonian skepticism’, in progress
MA Students (Philosophy / Ancient Philosophy)
Melissa MACAULAY
'The "Illusion" of Temporal Passage', 2010
Shawn BARTLETT
'The Problem of Agent Control in Event Causality', 2011
Alexander CAMPBELL
'Wittgenstein and Free Will', 2011
Dylon MCCHESNEY
'Did the Universe Make Me Do It?', 2011
Mike KORNGUT
‘Anticipatory Pleasures in Plato’, 2014
James SHORTLY
‘The Meaning of endoxa in Aristotle’, 2014
Matthew WATTON
‘Plato on the Pleasures of Laughter’, 2014
Paola CHAPA MONTES
‘Aristotle on the Source of Pleasure’, 2015
Adam FITTERER
‘Lonergan’s Use of the Posterior Analytics’, 2017
Mark HALLAP
‘Plato and Aristotle on Rhetoric’, 2017
Lindsay HACHEY
‘Some Comparisons between Greek & Hindu Metaphysics’, 2017
Wen XU
‘Aristotle on the Indefinite’ 2018
Dylan SKURKA
‘The Relationship between Pyrrhonism and Buddhism’ 2018
Shelby ENGELBRECHT
‘Explanatory Priority in Aristotle’s Causality’ 2018
Jeff ARCAND
‘The Political as the Complete in Aristotle’s Ethics’ 2018
Chizm PAYNE
‘The Possible Pre-existence of the Mind in de Anima III, 5’ 2019
Tim MCKEE
’Divine Imitation and Aristotle’s Theory of Happiness’ 2019
MA Students (Theology)
Glen MORGAN
'Religious and Civil Marriage in Canada' completed 2009
Martin LEVESQUE
'Religion in the Public Sphere' (joint with William Danaher) completed 2014
