Published: March 22, 2024
Posted In: Alumni, Announcements, Graduate, St. George
Scott Alexander Howard, who earned his PhD in Philosophy in 2011 and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard, has published his much-anticipated first novel, The Other Valley (Simon & Schuster, 2024). Howard, whose academic work focused on the relationship among memory, emotion, and literature, has written a piece of speculative … Read More
Published: November 13, 2023
Posted In: Alumni, Announcements, Faculty, Graduate, St. George, UTM, UTSC
It is with great sadness that the Department of Philosophy announces that our colleague, friend, alumnus, and respected teacher David Gauthier has died. He passed away on Thursday, November 9, 2023, at the age of 91. Gauthier earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from our department in 1954, to then … Read More
Published: March 28, 2023
Posted In: Alumni, Faculty, General, Graduate, In the News, St. George, Undergraduate, UTM, UTSC
By Petra Dreiser A lone, forest-green banner fluttered in the breeze outside the University of Toronto Mississauga’s (UTM) Instructional Building on the morning of Saturday, March 4, 2023. It offered a rare flash of colour in a landscape blanketed in layers of frosty white by the season’s most intense … Read More
Published: February 13, 2023
Posted In: Alumni, Awards and Honours, General, Graduate, St. George
We are delighted to see included in the latest issue of Dialogue (61.3), a special issue on the Prizes of the Canadian Philosophical Association, three names associated with our program. Caitlin Hamblin-Yule, one of our current PhD students, won a prestigious Congress Graduate Merit Award (CGMA) for her essay “The Gallows … Read More
Published: September 1, 2022
Posted In: Alumni, Awards and Honours, Faculty, General, St. George, UTM, UTSC
A few months ahead of his 90th birthday, in May 2022, David Gauthier, professor emeritus and former chair of the Department of Philosophy at U of T, published not one but two volumes of collected writings with Oxford University Press. The achievement reflects perfectly Gauthier’s eminence in philosophy and the … Read More
Published: January 5, 2022
Posted In: Alumni, In the News, St. George
“Do your own research!” It’s not an unfamiliar call, especially more recently, in debates around controversial topics from vaccine effectiveness to the causes of climate change. And it sounds empowering and measured, but in an opinion piece published in the New York Times on January 3, 2022, alumnus Nathan Ballantyne … Read More
Published: December 2, 2021
Posted In: Alumni, General, St. George
Stephen Yablo, David W. Skinner Professor of Philosophy at MIT and an alumnus of the University of Toronto (BSc Philosophy & Mathematics, 1979), is widely recognized as a leading philosopher in his fields of inquiry: metaphysics, philosophy of logic an mathematics, and the philosophy of mind and language. The author … Read More
Published: November 10, 2021
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It’s hard to believe we’re already in November 2021, but it’s worth pausing for a moment to review the past six months in the Department of Philosophy: we welcomed new colleagues, celebrated many awards and promotions, and also proudly sent a few freshly minted PhDs into the world. Read issue … Read More
Published: September 27, 2021
Posted In: Alumni, Awards and Honours, General, Graduate
The Graduate Department of Philosophy is happy to announce that the 2020 David Savan Disseration Prize has been awarded to Catherine Rioux for her dissertation Rational Hope. The dissertation brings together insights from epistemology, philosophy of mind, decision theory, and normative ethics to explore the nature of hope as a doxastic … Read More
Published: September 21, 2021
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The Department of Philosophy is saddened to announce the passing of one of our most eminent alumni, Professor Charles Mills (MA 1975, PhD 1985). Professor Mills began his graduate work in philosophy at Toronto in 1973, after completing an undergraduate degree in physics at the University of the West Indies, … Read More
Published: July 7, 2021
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PhD candidate Emma McClure and alumnus Benjamin Wald, who is now a postdoctoral fellow at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, have participated in a pilot program that embeds ethics modules into existing undergraduate computer science courses in hopes that graduates will design and deploy future technologies in … Read More
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We are delighted to announce that an alumnus of the department, Dr. Charles W. Mills (PhD 1985), has received the 2021 Benjamin E. Lippincott Award, a recognition given biannually by the American Political Science Association. The honour recognizes a work of exceptional quality by a living political theorist that is … Read More
