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On a U of T blue background, from left to right, headshots of: Soouyoung Moon, Joshua Brecka,Alexander Drusda and Faisal Bhabha (top row); Jules Sheldon, Yi-Chen Lin, and Zoe Leslie (bottom row), all alongside their names in light blue

2025 Graduate Student Service Awards

Published: May 7, 2025

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At the Department of Philosophy’s annual Spring Party, Faisal Bhabha, Josh Brecka, Alex Drusda, Zoe Leslie, Yi-Cheng Lin, Sooyoung Moon, and Jules Sheldon each received a Graduate Student Service Award. The annual prize celebrates initiatives undertaken by graduate students to support and improve the community. “The functioning and climate of our … Read More

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Honorary Doctorate from Witwatersrand for David Dyzenhaus

Published: April 4, 2025

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David Dyzenhaus, a University Professor in the Department of Philosophy and in the Faculty of Law, has received an honorary doctorate from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, his alma mater. Wits awards honorary doctorates recognizing individuals who have made lasting contributions to their respective fields, advancing knowledge, research and … Read More

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Alice C. W. Huang Awarded John Leyerle-CIFAR Prize for Interdisciplinary Research

Published: March 28, 2025

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Alice Chao-Wei Huang, who earned her PhD from the department in 2024 and is now a postdoctoral fellow in Harvard’s Embedded Ethics Program, received the John Leyerle-CIFAR Prize for Interdisciplinary Research. The selection committee, composed of graduate appointed professors at the University of Toronto, awarded her the prize for her … Read More

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Kristen Beard & Brendan de Kenessey Awarded 2025 Marc Sanders Foundation Media Fellowships

Published: March 26, 2025

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Kristen Beard, a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy, and Brendan de Kenessey, an assistant professor, have been awarded 2025 Marc Sanders Foundation Media Fellowships. The Foundation’s Philosophy in Media Initiative aims to increase the presence of philosophy in print, audio, and video media by training philosophers to write … Read More

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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