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David Dyzenhaus Receives Killam Prize for Social Sciences

Published: March 19, 2025

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David Dyzenhaus, a University Professor of Philosophy and Law at the University of Toronto, has received the prestigious Killam Prize for social sciences. The Killam Prize recognizes researchers at Canadian universities who have achieved international scholarly eminence in one of five fields: health sciences, natural sciences, engineering, social sciences or … Read More

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Nilanjan Das Wins the UTM Annual Research Prize in the Humanities

Published: February 24, 2025

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The UTM Research Awards Committee has chosen Nilanjan Das as this year’s winner of the UTM Annual Research Prize in the Humanities. The committee recognized Das’s contributions to the fields of epistemology and Sanskrit philosophy.  Gurpreet Rattan, the Chair of Philosophy at UTM, says of Das’s success, “Professor Nilanjan Das is … Read More

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Recent PhDs

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The Philosophy Department is proud to add four new PhDs to its roster:  Alexandra Gustafson defended “Arrested Attention: Essays on the Phenomenology of Love,” supervised by Andrew Franklin-Hall, in October 2024. Bowen Chan defended “The Spectrum of Virtue: From the Decent to the Excellent,” supervised by Tom Hurka, in November … Read More

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Viacheslav Zahorodniuk Awarded Hume Studies Essay Prize

Published: February 18, 2025

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Congratulations to Viacheslav Zahorodniuk, a former postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy working with Donald Ainslie. The editorial board of the Hume Studies journal recently selected him as the winner of the fourth-annual Hume Studies Essay Prize. Zahorodniuk has a current position as a Biruté Ciplijauskaité Postdoctoral Fellow at … Read More

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Four Students Win CPA Congress Graduate Merit Awards

Published: January 24, 2025

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For their essays, four graduate students from the department received Congress Graduate Merit Award (CGMA) Prizes at the 2024 Canadian Philosophical Association Conference: Joshua Brecka for “Social Knowledge and Rational Group Action”; Bowen Chan for “Tough Love, White Lies, Hard Truths, and Mixed Motives”; Julia Minarik for “The Imaginative Character of Text-to-Image … Read More

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Artificial Intelligence, Aesthetic Value, and Animal Rights: The 2024 Aristotle Contest Offers Fresh Takes on Old Debates

Published: November 1, 2024

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Congratulations to Angela Li, Jackson Rosenhek, and Vivianna Grande, the winners of the 2024 Aristotle Essay contest! In this year’s competition, again co-sponsored by the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto and the Ontario Philosophy Teachers’ Association (OPTA), high school students from across Canada submitted essays on three … Read More