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: August 4, 2022
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George
The department is delighted to announce that Sophia Moreau, a professor of Philosophy and Law, is one of the recipients of the Canadian Philosophical Association’s (CPA) 2022 CPA Book Prize for her work Faces of Inequality: A Theory of Wrongful Discrimination (Oxford University Press, 2020). Faces of Inequality defends an … Read More
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Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
Congratulations to Eric Shoemaker, a PhD candidate in the department, for winning the inaugural Erik Olin Wright Prize from the Havens Wright Center for Social Justice at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Shoemaker, who earned his JD from the University of Toronto in 2020 and specializes in democratic theory … Read More
Published: June 27, 2022
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George, UTM
Congratulations to Jennifer Nagel for having been awarded the 2023 Ernest Sosa Prize Lecture by the American Philosophy Association (APA). The Ernest Sosa Prize Lecture was established with the APA to honor substantial achievement in epistemology. Winners of the prize must be outstanding contributors to epistemology, able to explain complex ideas … Read More
Published: May 24, 2022
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
We’re delighted to announce that Griffin Klemick, a graduate student in the department and a part-time assistant professor (teaching stream) with us, successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on May 20, 2022. The thesis, titled “How to Be a Pragmatist in the End: Objectivity, Skepticism, and the Demands of Agency” and … Read More
Published: April 26, 2022
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
Congratulations to the department’s two most recent PhDs! Rory Harder successfully defended his thesis, titled “Joint Action Communication, with a Focus on Demonstratives,” on March 28, 2022. Imogen Dickie and Nate Charlow had served as Rory’s supervisors. Kamil Majcherek also passed his thesis defense without changes, on April 8, 2022. … Read More
Published: April 5, 2022
Posted In: Awards and Honours, General, Graduate, St. George
The past few months have proven a period of success and recognition for Felix Lambrecht, a Vanier Scholar and PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy with primary research interests in political philosophy, legal philosophy, and ethics. Not only did the School of Cities name him one of its 2022 … Read More
Published: April 1, 2022
Posted In: Awards and Honours, St. George, Undergraduate, UTM
Alex de Guzman, a specialist in UTM Philosophy and the president of its Academic Philosophy Society, is a 2021-22 Jackman Humanities Institute (JHI) Undergraduate Fellow (Jukka-Pekka Saraste Undergraduate Award in the Humanities). Read more about his JHI project, titled “Aesthetic Experience: Heroic Higher Pleasure.”
Published: March 17, 2022
Posted In: Awards and Honours, St. George, Undergraduate, UTSC
Marybel Menzies, a specialist in UTSC Philosophy and a major in Psychology, is a 2021-22 Jackman Humanities Institute (JHI) Undergraduate Fellow (Zoltan D. Simo Undergraduate Award in the Humanities). Read more about her JHI project, titled “Subjectivity and the Aesthetic Experience.”
Published: February 16, 2022
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
Congratulations to Felix Lambrecht for being awarded a 2022 School of Cities (SoC) Graduate Fellowship. This SoC program brings together an interdisciplinary group of University of Toronto doctoral students who share a passion for city-building and solutions to critical urban challenges. Throughout the fellowship, students will collaborate with scholars at … Read More
Published: February 10, 2022
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
Kayla Wiebe, a PhD candidate whose dissertation focuses on the concept of autonomy and who also serves as a bioethicist at SickKids hospital, recently won the 2021 Martha Lile Love Teaching Award for her course PHL 440—Clinical Bioethics. The course introduced students to this subfield of biomedical ethics, which zooms … Read More
Published: January 28, 2022
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
Congratulations to Natalie Helberg on passing her PhD defense, the department’s first of 2022, with flying colours. Helberg successfully defended her thesis titled “Catherine Malabou’s Dangerous Supplement,” written under the supervision of Rebecca Comay, on January 28, 2022. Helberg currently holds a position as lecturer in Concordia University’s Department of … Read More
