Published: May 1, 2018
Posted In: Announcements, Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
The Doctoral Fellows at the Jackman Humanities Institute have been announced for the 2018-19 academic year, and we are very proud to count one of our own among them. PhD student Mason Westfall is one of this year’s recipients of the Chancellor Henry N.R. Jackman Graduate Fellowship in the Humanities. This … Read More
Published: April 26, 2018
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, St. George, UTM
We’re delighted to announce that Jennifer Nagel has been promoted to the rank of full professor, effective July 1. The promotion “couldn’t be more deserved,” says department Chair Martin Pickavé. Professor Nagel is not only an acclaimed scholar (her paper “Intuitions and Experiments: a Defense of the Case Method in … Read More
Published: April 24, 2018
Posted In: Announcements, Awards and Honours, General, Graduate, St. George, Undergraduate
The Superior Teaching Awards recognize some of the Faculty of Arts & Science’s most exceptional sessional lecturers and graduate student course instructors for their contributions to undergraduate education. David Cameron, dean of the Faculty of Arts & Science, presented the awards on April 19. Steven Coyne, PhD candidate in our department and Graduate … Read More
Published: April 10, 2018
Posted In: Alumni, Announcements, Faculty, General, Graduate, St. George, Staff, Undergraduate, UTM, UTSC
What started as a 4-page black-and-white newsletter in 1991 has now evolved into a full-colour, glossy, 30+ page annual philosophy magazine with compelling features and interviews from around our discipline’s community in Toronto and beyond. We’re very proud to present the latest issue of Philosophy News! We’ll be publishing individual articles … Read More
Published: February 27, 2018
Posted In: Announcements, Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George
Every year, Universities Canada publishes a round-up of researchers at Canadian universities who have won major international research awards. This year, philosophy professors Margaret Morrison and Cheryl Misak are two of the researchers profiled, each for their receipt of a Guggenheim Fellowship in the past year. These researchers “exemplify the creativity … Read More
Published: February 5, 2018
Posted In: Alumni, Announcements, General, St. George, UTM, UTSC
We’re pleased to announce that we’re relaunching The Aristotle, our philosophy essay contest for high school students. We’ll be awarding cash prizes for the finest philosophical work by current Canadian high school students! If you’re a high school student, educator, parent, or community organizer interested in the contest, head over to … Read More
Published: February 2, 2018
Posted In: Alumni, Announcements, Faculty, General, Graduate, St. George, UTSC
Our alumnus G. Anthony Bruno (PhD, 2013) recently joined Royal Holloway University of London as lecturer, and has now co-edited a new volume on skepticism with A. C. Rutherford titled Skepticism: Historical and Contemporary Inquiries (Routledge). The book features a chapter by Prof. Bruno himself as well as U of T professors … Read More
Published: January 30, 2018
Posted In: Alumni, Announcements, General, Graduate, St. George
Joseph Millum completed his PhD in our department in 2005 (his dissertation, The Adaptation of Morality, was supervised by Prof. Paul Thomson), and he is now a bioethicist for the Clinical Center Department of Bioethics and the Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States. Dr. … Read More
Published: January 26, 2018
Posted In: Announcements, General, Graduate, St. George
PhD student Emma McClure currently serves as the president of our department’s Graduate Philosophy Students’ Union (GPSU), but her participation in the governance of the philosophy community is about to extend well past U of T. Emma is one of the newest appointees to the American Philosophical Association’s Graduate Student Council, … Read More
Published: January 12, 2018
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, General, St. George
Published by Cambridge University Press, Prof. Lloyd Gerson has edited a volume that is the first complete edition of the Enneads in English in over 75 years, and also includes Porphyry’s Life of Plotinus. Gerson and his team have assembled a significant new translation from the best available text (the … Read More
Published: January 11, 2018
Posted In: Alumni, Announcements, Faculty, St. George
by Greg Evans Prof. Donald Dwight Evans (1927-2018) was a gifted philosopher, educator, mystic humanist, social activist, spiritual counsellor and mentor. Born September 21, 1927 to Ira Dwight Evans and Jesse Milliken Evans in Fort William (now Thunder Bay) Ontario, he lived a rich life, full of diverse intellectual pursuits. … Read More
Published: December 11, 2017
Posted In: Alumni, Announcements, Awards and Honours, St. George
The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce that one of our alumni, Shelley Weinberg (PhD, 2008) is the winner of this year’s Journal of the History of Philosophy Book Prize. Weinberg is currently associate professor of philosophy at the University of Illinois. Prof. Weinberg’s winning book, Consciousness in Locke, was published … Read More
