Published: March 4, 2020
Posted In: Announcements, Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
With great pride and pleasure we announce that Kamil Majcherek, a current PhD student in the department, has been awarded the 2020 Jan Wojcik Memorial Prize from the Journal for the History of Philosophy. Every year the prize goes to one exceptional graduate student to support their travel for research … Read More
Published: March 2, 2020
Posted In: Awards and Honours, St. George
Congratulations to Professor Willi Goetschel for receiving the 2020 Dessauer Moses Mendelssohn Prize. The Moses Mendelssohn Society in Dessau, Germany, dedicated to scholarship and education in the realm of German Jewish history and culture, awards the prize biennially to recognize scholarly work that advances “enlightened reason, the tolerant co-operation between … Read More
Published: February 18, 2020
Posted In: Announcements, Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George, UTM, UTSC
With great pleasure we announce that Eliran Haziza has emerged as the winner of this year’s Martha Lile Love Essay Award for his essay titled “Asserting, Implying, and Knowing That You Know.” In the piece, Eliran argues that if one accepts a knowledge norm of assertion, according to which one … Read More
Published: December 20, 2019
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate
It is our pleasure to announce that Emma McClure has won the 2019 Martha Lile Love Teaching Award for her outstanding work teaching PHL367 – Decolonial and Intersectional Feminism(s). The committee was impressed with McClure’s course design, assignment structure, and ability to motivate student engagement. In addition, Aaron Henry and Zachary Weinstein receive … Read More
Published: October 21, 2019
Posted In: Awards and Honours, UTM
Professors Gurpreet Rattan and Byeong Yi were awarded multiyear SSHRC Insight Grants in 2019. Rattan’s project, “The Intellect and Its Limits,” explores the necessary, principled, limits of the intellect, which derive from the very idea of trying to attain an objective perspective on the world.” Yi’s “Semantic Relationism and the … Read More
Published: September 16, 2019
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George
Assistant Professor, Brendan de Kenessey, and his project on Relationships and Moral Constraints has is one of 52 winners of the 2018-2019 Connaught New Research Award. The Connaught New Research Award is designed to help recipients establish a strong research program and increase their competitiveness for external funding. The Award … Read More
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The Collaborative Program in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (CPAMP) and the Department of Philosophy congratulate graduate student Douglas Campbell as the winner of the 2018-2019 Essay Prize in Ancient Philosophy for his essay “Tomb and Prison: Plato on the Body as Cause of Psychic Disorders.” External adjudicator, Professor Emeritus John … Read More
Published: August 21, 2019
Posted In: Awards and Honours, St. George
It is our pleasure to announce that Brendan de Kenessey is one of the winners of the APA’s (American Philosophical Association‘s) 2019 Public Philosophy Op-Ed Contest. Brendan received this recognition for a piece on addiction – “People are dying because we misunderstand how those with addiction think”. It was published … Read More
Published: July 4, 2019
Posted In: Alumni, Announcements, Awards and Honours, St. George
We’re delighted to announce that Owen Pikkert (PhD, 2018) has been selected as the winner of the 2018 David Savan Dissertation Prize for his dissertation Leibniz and the Principle of Sufficient Reason, supervised by Professor Marleen Rozemond. “I came to graduate school knowing two things about Leibniz. The first is that Leibniz believed that God … Read More
Published: May 24, 2019
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate
On May 17th, 2019, the list of recipients of the prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships (Vanier CGS) was made public, and we’re delighted to announce that our very own PhD student Felix Lambrecht has been appointed a Vanier Scholar. Felix Lambrecht’s research interests are in social and political philosophy and ethics. He is particularly … Read More
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Prof. Arthur Ripstein is a recipient of the JJ Berry Smith Doctoral Supervision Award, which recognizes his outstanding performance as a doctoral supervisor over 30 years. A Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Toronto, Dr. Ripstein has a broad, interdisciplinary knowledge base that enables him to mentor … Read More
Published: February 20, 2019
Posted In: Announcements, Awards and Honours, Faculty, General
We are immensely pleased to announce that the department’s acting chair, Professor Arthur Ripstein, will deliver the 2019 Tanner Lectures on Human Values at the University of California, Berkeley, on April 9-11. Professor Ripstein’s two lectures — titled “Rules for Wrongdoers” and “Combatants and Civilians” — will take on the … Read More
