I have also taught
and
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.