Supervisors
Prior to admittance into a graduate degree, you will need to find a supervisor willing to mentor and challenge you through the course of your degree. The philosophy department at the University of Lethbridge offers supervision for Master's degrees, but not for Ph.D. degrees.
Below is a list of professors who supervise graduate students. If you are interested in pursuing a Master's degree with one of them, please send them an email detailing your academic history, performance and interests and, if you wish, a writing sample.
Bryson Brown
- Logic
- Philosophy of Science
- Early Modern Philosophy
Susan Dieleman
- Pragmatism (Richard Rorty)
- Social and Political Philosophy (deliberative democracy)
- Social Epistemology (epistemic injustice)
- Philosophies of Trust and Distrust
Kent Peacock
- Logic
- Philosophy of Science
- Philosophy of Ecology
Victor Rodych
Prof. Rodych is happy to supervise in one of the areas listed below, but is especially interested in students pursuing a Master's Degree in the areas of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy, Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Mathematics, or Karl Popper’s Philosophy of Science.
- Philosophy of Science
- Philosophy of Mathematics
- Epistemology
- Wittgenstein
- Popper
Michael Stingl
Prof. Stingl currently has three graduate students, working on (1) intersexuality from a biological point of view, (2) euthanasia in cases of mental suffering, and (3) evolutionary ethics and social inequality. At this point Prof. Stingl is unable to accept any new graduate students.
- Evolution and Ethics
- Biomedical Ethics
- Euthanasia
Katharina Stevens
Prof. Stevens is happy to supervise in one of the areas listed below, but is especially interested in students pursuing a Master's Degree in the areas of Argumentation Ethics or Epistemic Justice/Injustice.
- Argumentation Theory
- Ethics in Argumentation
- Epistemic Justice/Injustice
- Legal Philosophy
- Legal Reasoning