EDUCATION

University of Toronto, PhD, Philosophy, 2015­ – 2024               

Dissertation: Disjunctive Dreams: An Analysis of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Influence on the Modern Imagination Model of Dreaming and Why Disjunctivism Would Improve the Case.                           

University of New Brunswick, BA, Philosophy, 2013 – 2015

McMaster University, MA, Labour Studies, 2000 – 2001

Carleton University, BA, History Honours, 1994 – 2000

AREA OF SPECIALIZATION:

Areas of Specialization: Philosophy of Mind (Perception and Imagination), Jean-Paul Sartre

Areas of Competence: Existentialism, Phenomenology, Kant, 17th and 18th Century Empiricism, Critical Thinking, Ethics, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Psychoanalysis (Freud)

AWARDS, PRIZES AND FELLOWSHIPS

Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, SSHRC

Graduate Completion Award, University of Toronto

Ontario Graduate Scholarship

Joseph Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, SSHRC

Mary H. Beatty Fellowship, University of Toronto                                    

Thomas A. Goudge Fellowship in Philosophy, University of Toronto            

Norman S. Fraser Prize in Arts (highest standing in the BA program) UNB