Placement Record
Thanks to Nicolas McGinnis for help in compiling this information. Please send any updates to the Graduate Placement Officer.
2011-12
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Name
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Dissertation Title
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Initial Placement
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Most Recent Position (if different)
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Chow, Sheldon
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“Heuristics, Concepts, and Cognitive Architecture: Toward Understanding How the Mind Works”
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Ducharme, Alain
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“Aristotle’s Naïve Somatism”
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Postdoc, University of South Carolina
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Fawcett, Nicholas
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“Aristotle's Concept of Nature: Three Tensions”
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Fillion, Nicolas
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“The Foundations of Mathematical Inferences”
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Postdoc, Dept. of Applied Math and Dept. of Actuarial Sciences, Western
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Hey, Spencer
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“Meta-heuristic Strategies in Scientific Judgment”
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Manafu, Alex
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“Emergence and Reduction in Science. A Case Study”
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Marsh, Jason
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“Creating and Raising Humans: Rethinking the Morality
of Procreation and Parenting”
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Asst. Prof., St. Olaf College (TT)
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Nicholas Ray
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“Ordinary Empirical Judgments and our Scientific Knowledge: An Extension of Reformed Empiricism to the Philosophy of Science”
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Limited Term Appointment, University of Waterloo
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White, Angela
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“A Rawlsian Idea of Deliberative Democracy”
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Postdoc in Bioethics, Rotman Institute of Philosophy, Western
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2010-11
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Name
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Dissertation Title
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Initial Placement
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Most Recent Position (if different)
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Chung, Kenneth
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“Kant and the Fact of Reason”
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Law Student, University of Toronto
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Doherty, Gareth
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“Intuitions, Cross-Cultural Cognition, and Experimental Philosophy”
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Lecturer, Western
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Strategic Planning Analyst with the Federal Government of Canada
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Gault, Dylan
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“Contemporary Cosmology as a Case Study in Scientific Methodology”
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Limited Duties, Western
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Porter, Amanda
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“The Ethics of Humanitarian Intervention”
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Junior Bioethics Fellow, St. Joseph’s Hospital
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Sirkel, Riin
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“The Problem of Katholou
(Universals) in Aristotle”
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Killam Postdoc, University of Alberta
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Asst. Prof., University of Vermont (TT)
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Walsh, Julie
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“Intentional Volitions: Malebranche and Locke on Human Freedom”
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SSHRC Postdoc, UC San Diego
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Asst. Prof., Université du Québec à Montréal (TT)
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2009-10
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Name
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Dissertation Title
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Initial Placement
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Most Recent Position (if different)
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Bland, Steven
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“An Analysis of Conventionalism in Early Analytic Philosophy”
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Limited Duties, Western
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Asst. Prof., Huron University College (TT)
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Hickson, Michael
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“Solomon’s Cipher: Evil, Skepticism, and Toleration in Bayle”
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Templeton Fellow, University of Notre Dame
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Asst. Prof., Santa Clara University (TT)
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Jerzykiewicz, Luke V.
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“A Cognitive Approach To Benacerraf’s Dilemma”
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Visiting Asst. Prof, Clark University
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Kuchar, Philip
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“Naturalism, Norms, and Mental Content”
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Lawson, Brian
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“Collective Responsibility and Individual Complicity”
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Postdoc, Queens University
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Full-time Lecturer, Grant MacEwan University
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Lublink, Sarah Patricia
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“Critical Thinking and The Ethics of Teaching”
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Limited Term, Huron University College
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Asst. Prof., Edison State College, Lee Campus (TT)
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Paxman, Katharina
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“Feeling, Impulse and Changeability: The Role of Emotion in Hume's Theory of the Passions”
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Postdoc, University of Antwerp
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Limited Duties, Western
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Watt, Julia
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“Moral Feelings and Participation in Collective Harms”
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Instructor, Dalhousie University
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2008-09
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Name
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Dissertation Title
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Initial Placement
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Most Recent Position (if different)
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Barth, Aaron
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“Reconstructive and Natural Language Applications of Linguistic Analysis”
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SSHRC Postdoc, Western
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Instructor, Western
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MacBean, Jeremy S.
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“Sellars, Scientific Realism, and the Philosophy of Mind”
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Limited Duties, Western
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Non-academic employment
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Robb, Ryan
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“Rights, Interests, Choices and Autonomy”
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Limited Duties, Western
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2007-08
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Name
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Dissertation Title
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Initial Placement
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Most Recent Position (if different)
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Andres, Gregory
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“The Metaphysical Basis of Logic”
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Limited Duties, Western
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Dea, Shannon
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“Peirce and Spinoza’s Surprising Pragmaticism”
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Asst. Prof., University of Waterloo (TT)
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Assoc. Prof., University of Waterloo
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Mulligan, Sean
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“If Fishes Were Made of Iron: Aristotle’s Thought Experiments”
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Non-academic employment
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Ponesse, Julie
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“Aristotle On Constitutive Moral Luck”
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Asst. Prof., University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (TT)
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Asst. Prof., SUNY Brockport (TT)
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2006-07
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Name
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Dissertation Title
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Initial Placement
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Most Recent Position (if different)
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Boutillier, David
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“Basic Logical Knowledge and its Justification”
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Instructor, University of Calgary
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Instructor, University of British Columbia (Okanagan)
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Raymond, Dwayne
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“Qua”
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Instructor, St. Thomas More College at the University of Saskatchewan
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Visiting Asst. Prof., Texas A&M
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Silver, Zachary
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“On The Nature and Possibility of an Ethics of Belief”
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Visiting Asst. Prof., University of Oklahoma
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Law Student, University of Toronto
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2005-06
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Name
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Dissertation Title
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Initial Placement
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Most Recent Position (if different)
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Bluhm, Robyn
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“The ‘Hierarchy of Evidence’ and the Structure of Medical Research: Implications For Evidence”
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Postdoctoral fellow in Neuropsychiatry, Western (Department of Psychiatry)
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Asst. Prof., Old Dominion University (TT)
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Crozier, Gillian
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“A Critical Examination of Cultural Evolution: Natural Selection in Bird Songs”
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Postdoctoral Fellowship, CIHR Ethics of Health Research & Health Policy Training Program, Dalhousie University
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Asst. Prof., and Canada Research Chair in Environment, Culture and Values, Laurentian University (TT)
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Peaker, Darin
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“Locke’s Direct Realism”
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Secondary School Teacher
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2004-05
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Name
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Dissertation Title
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Initial Placement
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Most Recent Position (if different)
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Brown, Derek
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“Relativity, Inversion and Color in Analytic Philosophy”
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Asst. Prof., Brandon University (TT)
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Assoc. Prof., Brandon University
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Campbell, Catherine
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“Getting Clear on Descartes’s Theories of Visual Depth Perception”
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Limited Duties, Western
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Non-academic employment
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Frappier, Mélanie
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“Heisenberg’s Notion of Interpretation”
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Asst. Prof., University of King’s college HST (TT)
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Lavers, Gregory
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“Meaning and Determinacy in the Foundations of Mathematics”
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Asst. Prof., Concordia University (TT)
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Assoc. Prof., Concordia University
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Laverty, David
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“Fregean Logicism and Conceptual Analysis”
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Instructor, University of Toronto
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Shani, Itay
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“Content and Its Problems: A Critique of Contemporary Naturalistic Semantics”
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Postdoc, University of Witwatersrand (Johannesberg)
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Research Fellow,
Philosophy, Kyung Hee University (Korea)
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Stoyles, Byron
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“The Value of Death”
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Asst. Prof., Trent University (TT)
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Assoc. Prof., Trent University
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2003-04
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Name
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Dissertation Title
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Initial Placement
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Most Recent Position (if different)
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Cocos, Cristian
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“Tuning the Sensors: Towards a Theory of the Generic Epistemic Subject”
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Postdoc, European Centre for Ontological Research, University of Saarland (Germany)
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Senior Ontologist at the Mayo Clinic
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Dempsey, Liam
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“Identity Theory and the Metaphysics of Conscious Experience”
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Asst. Prof., Trent University
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Gildert, Robin
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“Deriving Restorative Justice from Retributivism”
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Asst. Prof., University College of Cape Breton (TT)
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(Deceased)
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Grandi, Giovanni
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“Thomas Reid’s Theory of Vision”
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Visiting Assistant Professor, Auburn University (Alabama)
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Asst. Prof., University of British Columbia (Okanagan) (TT)
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Hreno, Travis
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“Jury Nullification in Anglo-American Criminal Law”
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Asst. Prof., University of Akron (TT)
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Hynes, Darren
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“Descartes as Faust: Dissimulation and Descartes as an Early-Modern Scientist”
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Visiting Asst. Prof., Memorial University Newfoundland
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Klatt, Carrie
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“Spacetime in Modern Physical Theories”
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Sessional Instructor, University of Victoria
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McDermid, Kirk
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“Systematic Dependencies and Contemporary Scientific Explanation”
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Asst. Prof., Montclair State University (TT)
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Meynell, Letitia
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“Representing, Imagining and Understanding: The Aesthetics and Epistemology of Images in Science”
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Asst. Prof., Dalhousie University (TT)
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Assoc. Prof., Dalhousie University
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Stapleford, Scott
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“Transcendental Arguments and Kant’s Critical Refutation of Dogmatism and Empiricism”
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Lecturer, University of Witwatersrand (TT)
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Assoc. Prof., St. Thomas University, New Brunswick
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Vopat, Mark
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“The Moral Status of Children: A Contractarian Approach”
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Asst. Prof., Youngstown State University (Ohio) (TT)
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Assoc. Prof., Youngstown State University
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2002-03
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Name
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Dissertation Title
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Initial Placement
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Most Recent Position (if different)
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Burrow, Sylvia
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“Showing Some Humean Sympathy: The Role of Emotion in Moral Reasoning”
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Visiting Asst. Prof., University of Utah
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Assoc. Prof., Cape Breton University
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Calder, Todd
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“The Nature of Evil: A Study in Moral Theory”
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SSHRC Postdoc, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Assoc. Prof., St. Mary's University, Halifax, NS
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Ramsay, Marc
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“The Pluralist Critique of Liberalism”
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Asst. Prof., Acadia University (TT)
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Assoc. Prof. and Dept. Head, Acadia University
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2001-02
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Name
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Dissertation Title
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Initial Placement
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Most Recent Position (if different)
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Hundleby, Catherine
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“Feminist Standpoint Theory As A Form of Naturalist Epistemology”
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Assoc. Prof., University of Windsor
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Sheridan, Patricia
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“Locke’s Ethics and the British Moralists: The Lockean Legacy in Eighteenth Century Moral Philosophy”
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Assoc. Prof., University of Guelph
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Vanderburgh, William
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“Dark Matters in Contemporary Astrophysics: A Case Study in Theory Choice and Evidential Reasoning”
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Asst. Prof., Wichita State University (TT)
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Assoc. Prof., Wichita State University
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2000-01
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Name
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Dissertation Title
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Initial Placement
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Most Recent Position (if different)
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Callaghan, Gerald
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“Concepts and Frege’s Concept-Script”
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Instructor, Wilfred Laurier University
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Extended Learning Coordinator, University of Waterloo
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Snyder, Eric
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“The Philosophy of Mathematics of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus”
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Non-academic employment
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1999-2000
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Name
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Dissertation Title
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Initial Placement
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Most Recent Position (if different)
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Bennett, Bryce
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“The Keplerian Revolution: Astronomy, Physics, and the Argument for Heliocentrism”
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Technical Staff, Dept. of Physics, Royal Military College of Canada
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Boulos, Pierre
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“From Natural Philosophy to Natural Science: The Entrenchment of Newton’s Ideal of Empirical Success”
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Fellow, Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation & Rhetoric, University of Windsor
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Feist, Richard
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“Hermann Weyl’s Mathematics, Science and Phenomenology”
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Assoc. Prof., Saint Paul University, Ottawa
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Howes, Moira
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“Immunology and the Indiscrete Self”
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Assoc. Prof. and Dept. Chair, Trent University
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Jakubowicz, Sammy
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“The Trouble With Touching: A Problem in Aristotle’s Continuity Theory”
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Non-academic employment
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Ketchen, James
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“Legality and Legitimacy in the Hart-Fuller Debate”
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Asst. Prof., Department of Law and Justice, Laurentian University (TT)
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Lindahl, James
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“Anthropological Approaches to the Philosophy of Translation”
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Lecturer in Philosophy and Humanities, San Jose State University
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1998-99
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Name
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Dissertation Title
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Initial Placement
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Most Recent Position (if different)
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deLaplante, Kevin
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“Toward a General Philosophy of Ecology”
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Assoc. Prof. and Dept. Chair, Iowa State University
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Flores, Francisco
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“Levels of Theory and Types of Theoretical Explanation in Theoretical Physics”
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Assoc. Prof., California Polytechnic State University
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Gannett, Lisa Anne
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“Genetic Variation: Difference, Deviation, Or Deviance?”
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Assoc. Prof., St. Mary’s University
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Guarini, Marcello
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“Rules and Representations in the Classicism-Connectionism Debate”
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Assoc. Prof., University of Windsor
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Holt, Jason
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“Blindsight: An Essay in the Philosophy of Psychology and Mind”
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Assoc. Prof., School of Recreation Management & Kinesiology, Acadia University
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Kenyon, Timothy
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“Philosophical Applications of Semantic Anti-Realism”
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Assoc. Prof. and Chair, University of Waterloo
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Larivière, Darrell
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“The Concept of Method among the Cartesians, 1650-1690”
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Assoc. Prof., Lakehead University
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Mason-Grant, Joan
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“Rethinking Pornography as a Practice”
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Asst. Prof., King’s University College at Western, Social Justice & Peace Studies Department
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(Deceased)
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1997-98
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Name
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Dissertation Title
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Initial Placement
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Most Recent Position (if different)
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Cutler, Darcy
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“Concepts of Logical Consequence”
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Instructor, Douglas College
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Hiscock, D. Michele
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“Science and Scepticism in the Seventeenth Century”
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Non-academic employment
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Landry, Elaine
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“Category-Theoretic Realism: A Linguistic Approach to the Philosophy of Mathematics”
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Assoc. Prof., UC Davis
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Martens, Rhonda
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“Kepler’s Archetypes in Discovery and Justification”
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Postdoc, University of Chicago
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Assoc. Prof., University of Manitoba
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Minto, William Richmond
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“Foundations For a Realist Theory of Causality”
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Muhit, Md. Abdul
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“The Regulative Ideal of Systematicity in Kant’s Critical Philosophy”
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Assoc. Prof., Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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Neill, Elizabeth
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“Rites of Privacy and The Privacy Trade: On the Limits of Protection for the Sacred Self”
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Adjunct Prof., Western
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Reynolds, Andrew
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“Irreversibility and Evolution in Peirce’s Cosmology”
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Assoc. Prof., Cape Breton University
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Temple, Daniel
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“Leibniz on The Metaphysical Foundation of Physics”
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Wray, K. Brad
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“The Role of Community in Inquiry: A Philosophical Study”
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Sessional Instructor, University of Calgary
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Prof., SUNY Oswego
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