Teaching:

I regularly teach the following courses:

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I have also supervised graduate and undergraduate theses in political philosophy, ethics, applied ethics, feminist epistemology, and the philosophy of religion.


B.A. thesis / directed reading supervisor:

W.D. Ward
Title: “On a Right to Suicide”
B.A. (Honours) thesis, St Francis Xavier University, 2013.

Edward Taylor
Title: “The ethics of belief: An examination of the writings of William Clifford, William James and John Henry Newman on the relationship between belief and evidence”
B.A. (Advanced Major) thesis, St Francis Xavier University, 2011-12.

Greg Rodger
Title: “Confession: The Method and Unifying Principle of St. Augustine’s Confessions”
B.A. (Hons.) thesis, St Thomas University, 2009.

Paul Cormier
Title: “Challenging the Rights-Based Discourse: Discovering Simone Weil’s Mature Account of Justice”
B.A. (Hons.) thesis, St Thomas University, 2009.

Adam Fraser Murray
Title: “A Comparison of Foundationalist and Anti-foundationalist Approaches to Ethical
Problems Raised by New Biotechnologies”
B.A. (Hons.) thesis, St Thomas University, 2009.

Chandelle Gosse
Title: “Can Ugliness Exist?:  Bernard Bosanquet’s Concept of Difficult Beauty and Its Applications to Contemporary Film”
B.A. (Hons.) thesis, St Thomas University, 2009.

Dary Laughlin Robert Jessome
    Title: “Is Patenting the Human Genome Morally Permissible?”
    B.A. (Hons.) thesis, St Francis Xavier University, 2007.

John Martin Capstick
  Title: "David Chalmers & the Hard Problem of Consciousness: Objections, Responses, & Solutions"
B.A. (Hons.) thesis, St Francis Xavier University, 2005.

Paul Curry
  Title: "Individualism and Moral Responsibility: A Critical Comparison of the Political and Moral Theories of Robert Nozick and Jacques Maritain"
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.