Current MA Students
Student Leaders
The represents the interests of philosophy graduate students, and organizes many events and activities.
The executive officers for 2026-2027 are:
- Bailey Pickard, President
- Miha Taylor, Vice-President
- Lauren McKay, Social Convener
- Christian Denino, Speaker Series Coordinator
- Daniel Hernandez Davila, Minorities and Philosophy Convener
- Sebastian Quiquinta, Treasurer
New MA Students (Fall 2026)
Previous Institution: University of Toronto
Current Research Interests: Early modern philosophy, philosophy of mind, metaethics.
Email: alex.brissenden@torontomu.ca
Previous Institution: St. Francis Xavier
Current Research Interests: Political Philosophy, Virtue Ethics, Communitarianism, Liberalism, Aristotle.
Email: mya.burke@torontomu.ca
Previous Institution: University of Toronto
Current Research Interests: Bioethics, Applied Ethics, Social Philosophy.
Previous Institution: St. Thomas University
Current Research Interests: Continental Philosophy, phenomenology, aesthetics, metaphysics, logic, Hegel, Marx.
Email: mia.ferland@torontomu.ca
Previous Institution: Trent University
Current Research Interests: History of Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Belief, Philosophy of Religion.
Email: shane.herrell@torontomu.ca
Previous Institution: University of King's College
Current Research Interests: Benjamin, Arendt, Plato, Greek Tragedy, Continental philosophy, political thinking, Marxism, feminist philosophy, philosophy of technology.
Email: austin.hiltz@torontomu.ca
Previous Institution: ³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥
Current Research Interests: Critical Theory, Social and Political Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, Queer Theory.
Email: charles.liu@torontomu.ca
Previous Institution: University of Guelph
Current Research Interests: Hope, Critical Theory.
Email: mmanga@torontomu.ca
Previous Institution:
Current Research Interests: 19th Century Existentialism, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of/and Literature, Philosophy of Law, Logic, Philosophy of Life, Philosophy of Technology, Philosophy of/and History, Pragmatism, Environmental Philosophy/Philosophy of Nature, Philosophical Pessimism, Nihilism, Animal Rights, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Kant, Aristotle, R.G. Collingwood, C.S. Peirce, H.L.A. Hart, Rawls, Popper, Schopenhauer, Mainländer, Kafka.
Email: angus.mancini@torontomu.ca
Previous Institution: ³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥
Current Research Interests: metaphysics, logic, epistemology
Email: megan.morrison@torontomu.ca
Previous Institution: University of Toronto
Current Research Interests: Philosophy of Physics, Early Modern Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion.
Email: jolding@torontomu.ca
Previous Institution: Guelph University
Current Research Interests: ethics (normative, applied), epistemology, feminist philosophy, queer theory, existentialism.
Email: joliverio@torontomu.ca
Previous Institution: University of Toronto
Current Research Interests: phenomenology, existentialism, 19th-century philosophy, aesthetics, critical theory.
Email: edwin.park@torontomu.ca
Previous Institution: University of North Dakota
Current Research Interests: philosophy of technology, feminist philosophy, phenomenology, existentialism, media ethics.
Previous Institution: Guelph University
Current Research Interests: continental philosophy, philosophy of language, Wittgenstein, feminist philosophy, phenomenology, Merleau-Ponty, Nietzsche, Sartre, de Beauvoir, existentialism, Hegel, aesthetics and philosophy of art, Aristotle.
Returning MA Students
Previous Institution: ³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥
Current Research Interests: queer theory, Deleuze, critical disability studies, postcoloniality, affect theory.
Previous Institution: Queen's University
Current Research Interests: continental philosophy, philosophy of art, aesthetics, phenomenology, neo-Kantianism.
Email: dgarland@torontomu.ca
Previous Institution: Point Loma Nazarene University
Current Research Interests: philosophy of science, critical theory, continental philosophy.
Email: bailey.pickard@torontomu.ca
Previous Institution: University of Toronto
Current Research Interests: continental philosophy.
Email: squiquinta@torontomu.ca
Previous Institution: York University
Current Research Interests: Continental Political Philosophy, Critical Theory, Philosophy of Technology, Disenchantment Theory, Queer Theory.
Email: miha.taylor@torontomu.ca