Published: July 15, 2026
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, UTM
Congratulations to Owen Ware for receiving the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany. As a result, he is currently a fellow at the Center for Post-Kantian Philosophy at Potsdam University for the 2026 summer semester as well as for 2027. This summer he is working … Read More
Published: June 25, 2026
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George, UTM
We are delighted to announce five faculty promotions to the rank of professor in the department, all of which will take effect on July 1, 2026. Gwen Bradford (St George) studies value theory and normative ethics, and is particularly interested in ill-being—the opposite of well-being—and how perfectionism might account for … Read More
Published: June 15, 2026
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George
Congratulations to William Paris for winning the Canadian Philosophical Association’s (CPA) 2026 Book Award for Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation (Oxford University Press, 2025). By analyzing the writings of historical figures like W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Delany, Marcus Garvey, Frantz Fanon, and … Read More
Published: June 8, 2026
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, Graduate, St. George, UTM, UTSC
The philosophy department was very busy in Halifax in early June 2026 with the Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA) annual congress and awards for faculty member William Paris for the CPA Book Prize, Tarek Dika for an honourable mention for the book prize, PhD candidate Raphaelle Dupont for the Student Essay … Read More
Published: May 13, 2026
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George, UTM, UTSC
The Philosophy Department congratulates the latest PhDs to defend their dissertations. David Rattray defended “Getting Purposes in Mind,” supervised by Denis Walsh in October 2025. Denis Walsh describes David Rattray’s work as a highly innovative dissertation that “draws out some of the implications of agent-centred evolutionary biology for traditional issues … Read More
Published: February 2, 2026
Posted In: Announcements, Awards and Honours, St. George
How best to honour the legacy of a life-long teacher and critical thinker? This was the decision Cara Waterfall, a poet and mentor, had to make after the death of her father, Donald E. Waterfall (1943–2021). The elder Waterfall was an alumnus of and, later, sessional instructor in the Department … Read More
Published: January 30, 2026
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George, Undergraduate, UTM, UTSC
It is our pleasure to announce Kristen Beard as the winner of the 2024-25 Martha Lile Love Teaching Award for her outstanding work teaching PHLB13 Philosophy and Feminism. The committee was greatly impressed by Kristen’s solutions to the difficult task of teaching a large online class in the time of … Read More
Published: December 15, 2025
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George, UTM, UTSC
We are delighted to announce Alexander de Guzman as the winner of this year’s Martha Lile Love Essay Award for his paper, “Outsourced Deliberation: Attention, Advertising, and the Myth of Control.” He wrote the essay for an independent study with Sara Aronowitz. The selection committee noted about the award-winning essay, … Read More
Published: December 10, 2025
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George, UTM, UTSC
Congratulations to Liang Zhou Koh, the most recently minted PhD in the Department of Philosophy at U of T. He successfully defended his dissertation in the field of epistemology titled “Knowing Together,” written under the supervision of Jennifer Nagel. He has now taken on a postdoctoral fellowship in the Philosophy … Read More
Published: December 1, 2025
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, Graduate, In the News, St. George, Undergraduate, UTM, UTSC
On November 14, colleagues and former students came together to celebrate a man whose research on and teaching of ancient Greek philosophy has shaped the field for decades: Lloyd P. Gerson. After more than fifty years in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto and a prolific writing … Read More
Published: November 21, 2025
Posted In: Awards and Honours, St. George, Undergraduate, UTM, UTSC
Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 Undergraduate Essay Awards: Zifan Nameer claimed the Hypatia Award for advanced undergraduates with his essay titled “How Is Metaphysics Metaphysically Possible?” The Spinoza Award, which recognizes excellence in undergraduate philosophy writing for early-year students, went to Matthew DeKock for his paper titled “Do … Read More
Published: November 14, 2025
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George
Congratulations to Sara Aronowitz who has just been awarded a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC). She is one of 21 new Canada Research Chairs at the University of Toronto and the only new CRC in the Faculty of Arts & Science. Sara’s new chair is the Canada Research Chair … Read More
