PhD thesis external examiner:
Pedro Paulino
Title: "Shame, R.G. Collingwood, and Political Philosophy," PhD
thesis in philosophy, College dominicain de philosophie et de
theologie, in progress. Co-supervisor
Bernadette M Ibell
Title: "An analysis of mental health care in Australia, with
reference to the United Kingdom and the USA: 1800-2004", PhD thesis in
philosophy, Australian Catholic University (Melbourne, Australia),
2004. External examiner
Phramaha Boonrod Boongird
Title: "The Relation between Mind and Body in Buddhism: a
study," PhD thesis in philosophy, University of Madras (Chennai,
India), 2004. External examiner
C. Venkatamadava Reddy
Title: "A Study of Religion in Swamy Vivekananda," PhD thesis in
philosophy, Sri Venkateswara University (Tirupati, India), 2002.
External examiner
Stamatoula Panagakou
Title: "Self-Transcendence and the Dialectic of the Finite-Infinite
in the Philosophy of Bernard Bosanquet: Metaphysics, Religion and Political
Philosophy," Ph.D. thesis in politics, University of York (U.K.), 2001.
Philip Lancaster,
Title: "Reason, Necessity and Genocide" Ph.D. thesis in philosophy,
University of Ottawa, 2000.
K. R. Prasada Rao
Title: "The Place of Teacher and Student in Gandhian Educational Philosophy,"PhD
thesis in philosophy, Sri Venkateswara University (Tirupati, India), 1999.
C. Sivaiah
Title: "Social and Religious Philosophy of Swami Sivananda - A Study,"
PhD thesis in philosophy, Sri Venkateswara University (Tirupati, India),
1998.
PhD comprehensive examination
external examiner:
Mathew Anderson,
Title: "Maritain and Affective Knowledge," Ph.D. in philosophy, Institute
of Christian Studies, Toronto / Free University of Amsterdam, 2000.
M.Phil. Thesis
John Huisman
Title: "Hart and Plantinga on our Knowledge of God"
M.Phil thesis, Institute for Christian Studies, University of Toronto, 2004.
B.A. thesis / directed reading supervisor:
John Martin Capstick
Title: "TBA"
B.A. (Hons.) thesis, St Francis Xavier University, 2005.
Paul Curry
Title: "TBA"
B.A. (Hons.) thesis, St Francis Xavier University, 2005.
Fr Francis Joseph [Guntipilly], sj
Title: "Communal Violence in India"
Diploma in Social Development, Independent Study, Coady International Institute, 2003.
Ian Sunabacka
Title: "Education and Democracy"
B.A. (Adv. Major) thesis, St Francis Xavier University, 2002.
Joshua Leslie
Title: "The Moral Legitimacy of the State"
B.A. (Hons.) thesis, St Francis Xavier University, 2002.
Ellen Roderick
Title: "The Rights of the Family"
B.A. (Adv. Major) thesis, St Francis Xavier University, 2002.
Fr Thomas Tharakunnel
Title: "Indian Clergy and Social Response: A Critical Review of Training"
Diploma in Social Development, Independent Study, Coady International
Institute, 1998
Adam Fraser
Title: "Does Mill's On Liberty undervalue our duties to others?"
B.A. (Adv. Maj.) Thesis, St Francis Xavier University, 1999 [completed
but not submitted].
Irene McMullin
Title: "Civil Disobedience and Political Obligation"
B.A. (Hons.) thesis, St Francis Xavier University, 1998.
Brent Timmons
Topic: Contemporary Epistemology
Philosophy 499 (Directed Reading), St Francis Xavier University, 1995-96.
John Hombek
Title: "John Hick's Philosophy of World Religions"
B.A. (Adv.Maj.) thesis, St Francis Xavier University, 1996 [incomplete].
Patricia Langlois
Title: "Feminism, Cartesianism and the ‘Maleness' of Philosophy"
B.A. (Hons) thesis, St Francis Xavier University, 1993.
Timothy Pitt
Topic: Plato and Rousseau
Philosophy 430 (Senior Seminar), St Francis Xavier University, 1991-92.
Brian Rudrick
Topic: Metaphysics
Third-year Reading course, St Thomas More College, 1981-82.
Second reader for theses:
Brent Timmons, "Aquinas, Plantinga and Foundationalism," B.A. Hons. thesis in Philosophy, 1996.
Michael Conley, "Natural Law," B.A. (Adv.Maj.) thesis in Philosophy, 1996.
Jody Barron, "Kierkegaard: Faith and Ethics," B.A. Hons. thesis in Philosophy, 1995.
Gregory Emerson, "A Comparison of St Augustine's On Free Choice of the Will to On Grace and Free Choice of the Will," B.A. Hons. thesis in Philosophy, 1994.
Marc Ozon, "Wittgenstein's
Anti-Private Language Argument," B.A. Hons. thesis in Philosophy, 1993.