Honours and Awards

This prize recognizes extracurricular scholastic achievement. It is awarded annually by the Graduate Department to those of its students who have been selected to read a refereed philosophy paper at an international, national or regional philosophy conference. The prize is distributed to winners on a proportional basis.

This fellowship is used for recruiting and other purposes.

The award recognizes the excellence of a philosophical essay written by a graduate student who is either registered in the Graduate Department or has completed one of its courses. One or more such awards may be given each year.  Nominations require the signature of the student and of a faculty member of the Department. The most recent winner of this award is Alex Sinha for the 2007-08 academic year.

The award is given to a Doctoral student who, as an undergraduate philosophy course instructor, has demonstrated to the Awards Committee a combination of skill, inventiveness, competence and enthusiasm which merits Departmental recognition and commendation. (The Committee may decide against recommending any winner in a given year.)

The award is in the form of a small stipend. Deadlines for nominations are announced by the TA coordinator annually. Normally the deadline is mid-November for Fall term and Summer instructors, and the end of February for Spring term instructors. Candidates may nominate themselves for this award, or they may be nominated by a faculty member. Nominations should be sent in the form of a brief letter or e-mail to the tri-campus TA Coordinator. The most recent winners of this award are Annette Dufner for 2007-08 and Ryan Beaton for 2008-09 academic years respectively.

This award recognizes the excellence of a Doctoral thesis in philosophy submitted and successfully defended by a student in the Graduate Department.  All theses defended within a three-year cycle are eligible for consideration and are nominated by the supervisors.  The most recent winners of this award are David Bronstein, “Learning and Meno’s Paradox in Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics”, and Sorin Bangu, “Pythagoreanism of Modern Physics”, for the three academic years, 2005-2008.