Dr. Maria Botero
PhD, Philosophy, York University
M.A., Philosophy, York University
My research is focused on interdisciplinary work that merges questions about science, mind and living
organisms. Though trained as a Philosophy major, I was also prepared to conduct studies in Primatology.
With the support of the Jane Goodall Institute and the Milton and Ethel Harris Research Initiative (MEHRI)
at York University, I designed and conducted a study of six mother-infant chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes
schweinfurthii) pairs from the Kasekela community at Gombe National Park, Tanzania. This unique opportunity allowed me to look closely
at the methods used in Primatology and at the same time to enrich my philosophical analysis of central aspects of the mind, such as
communication and the developing mind. I continue this research as an Assistant Professor at Sam Houston State University in Texas.
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Dr. Linda Carozza
PhD, Philosophy, York University
M.A., Philosophy, University of Windsor
Linda's areas of interest include Argumentation Theory, Critical Thinking, Conflict Resolution and Mediation,
and Transformative Justice. She currently teaches at York University, and is the Program Director of the
Conflict Resolution program at Tape Studies, affiliated with the University of Toronto, where she also
teaches. Linda's current theoretical research focuses on emotional arguments and transformative justice.
She is an avid restorative justice mediator and circle keeper at two not-for-profit organizations in Toronto.
Linda is bridging her interests in philosophy and conflict resolution in an empirical study.
Through a youth leadership program she is researching connections between critical thinking, conflict management styles, arguing styles,
and moral judgments.
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 Dr. Matthew Crippen
PhD, Philosophy, York University
M.A.., Philosophy, York University
My research focuses on pragmatism, continental philosophy, aesthetics and intellectual history. It also draws
support from linguistic philosophy and cognitive science, particularly environmental psychology. My publications
and conference presentations discuss Wittgenstein, Frankfurt School theorists, James, Dewey, Merleau-Ponty,
art, history of science, religious faith, freewill and more, and I have papers in progress that grapple with topics
ranging from ancient philosophy to philosophy of film. While diverse, my research unites around “ecological”
approaches that place objects of investigation in world-contexts, which here refers to everything from immediate
activities in environments to general historical settings.
It also unites around a long-term goal of mitigating subjectivistic and skeptical trends in modern thought. I have been pleased to teach a
multicultural and international population of students first at York University and now at the American University in Cairo.
Outside of the academy, I have spent years working as a musician, a mandolin and guitar teacher and a gymnastics coach.
I have also enjoyed uncounted hours hiking and cross-country skiing in the beautiful Hockley Valley region of Ontario where I grew up.
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 Dr. Susan Dieleman
PhD, Philosophy, York University
Trent University
Department of Philosophy
Website
My research combines elements of feminist philosophy, pragmatism, epistemology
and political philosophy.
In my dissertation, entitled "Revisiting Rorty: A
Pragmatist Feminist Solution to the Problem of Epistemic
Exclusion," I identify
and outline the problem of epistemic exclusion, where individuals are unable to
effect
change in the epistemic norms of a community because of who they are,
what they say or how they speak.
While a number of feminist theorists have
gestured toward this predicament over the past decade, I work out the specifics of the
problem,
and I recommend as a solution a detailed investigation into the work of Richard
Rorty to develop a contemporary pragmatist feminism.
Specifically, I show how the problem of epistemic exclusion can be solved via the adoption of Rorty's discursive theory of social progress.
My dissertation research is one example of the many overlapping issues that motivate and shape the
philosophical projects of feminist
philosophers and pragmatists, and I have begun to investigate other issues in this area.
The research in which I am currently engaged
introduces the resources of pragmatist feminism, a position I develop in my
doctoral work, to the emerging field of social epistemology,
including the issues of peer disagreement, the epistemic role of diversity, and the function of testimony, trust, and expertise in promoting
social progress.
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 Kyle Johannsen
M.A. completion, Philosophy Programme, April 2009, York University
PhD, Candidate, Department of Philosophy
Queen's University
email: 9kj29@queensu.ca
Research Interests: Political Philosophy and Applied Ethics, with a focus on International issues in both. |
 Dr. Matthew King
PhD, Philosophy, York University
MA, Philosophy, McMaster University
Website
Since turning his doctoral dissertation into a book titled Heidegger and Happiness, Matthew has
engaged in life-and-death struggles with Plato and Nietzsche. Like Kierkegaard, he believes that the
growth of advanced statistical metrics in baseball is a symptom of petty-bourgeois spiritlessness.
His primary research project aims to apprehend and describe the form of the good. Since 2006,
he has been a member of the executive of the Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory
and Culture. In October 2011, he caught an 18.5-inch small mouth bass in Wollaston Lake, Ontario.
One of his ongoing concerns is with what it means to be properly serious in philosophy, and in life.
He is still at York. |
 Dr. Slobodan Perovic
PhD, Philosophy, York University
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy
University of Belgrade, Serbia
Website
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 Dr. Jeremy Petch
PhD, Philosophy, York University
GD, Health Service and Policy Research, York Univeristy
MA, BA(h), Philosophy, Univeristy of Victoria
Jeremy is a researcher at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital. He is also an editor
and writer at HealthyDebate.ca, a web magazine that examines health policy issues in Ontario and Alberta.
He previously worked as research associate at the Institute for Work and Health. His current areas of research
include deliberative democratic theory and practice in the context of health care, physician regulation and
compensation, and the tension between ethics and the paradigm of evidence-informed policy making.
His doctoral research addressed Canadian regulation of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis at the intersection of ethics, law and public
policy. He enjoys mentoring graduate students who wish to put their philosophical education to use outside of the academy. |
Dr. James Pratt
PhD, Philosophy, York University
Research Officer, Faculty of Fine Arts
York University
Jamie’s doctoral research was in ethics and moral psychology, where he attempted
(not entirely successfully, in his opinion) to formulate a defensible concept of moral
character and character-driven moral theory in response to empirical challenges coming
mainly from social psychologists.
After completing his PhD he left York to pursue a career in government relations.
He has since returned to York, where he is the Research Officer in the Faculty of Fine Arts. However, he maintains
research interests in political philosophy (particularly in republican politicaltheory), philosophy of economics, and
early modern moral philosophy. He will be presenting a paper on the philosophy of Lord Shaftesbury at a conference
at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität in Nuremberg, Germany in 2012. |
 Dr. Serife Tekin
PhD, Philosophy, York University
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship,
Philosophy, Novel TechEthics, Dalhousie University
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
Website
My research program in philosophy of psychiatry is situated at the intersection of general philosophy of science, philosophy of mind,
and moral psychology. I aim to make the “self” central to philosophical, scientific and therapeutic approaches to mental disorders;
and span three areas of inquiry, (i) scientific research on mental disorders, (ii) philosophical models of the self informed by cognitive
sciences, and (iii) first-person memoirs of psychopathology.
I thus far primarily focused on psychiatric taxonomy, the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), and narrative
approaches to personal identity. I have criticized the DSM for sidestepping the complexity of the self, and raised concerns about the
reflective impact of psychiatric diagnosis on patients’ self-understanding, personal identity and flourishing. Recently, I have started
exploring neuroscientific and phenomenological models of mental disorders, with a special focus on schizophrenia. I am currently
working on a book project that aims to reintroduce the complexity of the self to the ways we understand, philosophize, taxonomize
and treat mental disorders.
I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Novel Tech Ethics at Dalhousie University within the project entitled "the States of Mind:
Emerging Issues in Neuroethics, funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). In the summer of 2012, I will be teaching
at the Department of Philosophy at Bogazici University in Istanbul. In September 2012, I will take a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the
Center for Philosophy of Science at University of Pittsburgh.
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 Dr. Ryan Tonkens
PhD, Philosophy, York University
MA, Philosophy, University of Windsor
Ryan is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at Novel Tech Ethics (Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, www.noveltechethics.ca).
His research interests are in Theoretical and Applied Ethics, Bioethics, and the Philosophy of Technology.
His current research focuses on the nature and ethics of parenthood and procreation, the ethics of assisted human reproduction, ontological embryology, and the ethics of artificial intelligence.
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