Published: April 21, 2017
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, General, St. George
U of T philosophy alumnus Sari Kisilevsky (PhD, 2008) and Martin J. Stone have just published a collection of essays, Freedom and Force: Essays on Kant’s Legal Philosophy, that engages with U of T Professor Arthur Ripstein’s book Freedom and Force: Kant’s Legal and Political Philosophy (Harvard UP, 2009). From the publisher: “This … Read More
Published: April 12, 2017
Posted In: Announcements, Awards and Honours, Faculty, In the News, St. George
L: Cheryl Misak, R: Margaret Morrison The Department of Philosophy of the University of Toronto is proud to announce that two faculty members have won prestigious Guggenheim Fellowships in 2017 – of the 173 fellowships awarded for the United States and Canada this year. Cheryl Misak was awarded a fellowship … Read More
Published: December 10, 2016
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George
Congratulations to Donald Ainslie! He has been awarded the 2016 Journal of the History of Philosophy prize for the best book in the history of philosophy published in 2015. He receives this award for his book Hume’s True Scepticism (Oxford University Press, 2015). This is a great honor and recognition for an … Read More
Published: December 8, 2016
Posted In: Announcements, Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George
Congratulations to Professor Rachel Barney for being named Canada Research Chair in Ancient Philosophy. The following is from the December 2 online news story in U of T News, comprising profiles of U of T’s 25 newest Canada Research Chairs: Debate has long raged over the role of the sophists in the … Read More
Published: December 6, 2016
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, UTM
We’re delighted to announce that Prof. Andrew Sepielli is the winner of the first annual Research Prize in the Humanities at UTM. The UTM Annual Research Prizes were established by the Office of the Vice-Principal, Research and UTM’s Research Council in 2016 to recognize outstanding early-career faculty members at the University of … Read More
Published: December 4, 2016
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, General, Graduate, UTSC
Congratulations to Professor Jessica Wilson on becoming president of the Society for the Metaphysics of Science, a great honour and recognition of her outstanding work. Professor Wilson’s research interests include general metaphysics, the metaphysics of science/mind, and various topics in epistemology, including skepticism, a priori deliberation and the epistemology of necessity. Professor Wilson … Read More
Published: October 31, 2016
Posted In: Alumni, Announcements, Faculty, UTM
On 11 October 2016, the University of Toronto Mississauga lost a treasured friend and member of our family: Professor Jacqueline Brunning of the Department of Philosophy passed away at age 81. Jackie would dislike that I am writing this because she asked that no commemorations be held in her memory. But … Read More
Published: September 27, 2016
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, General, St. George
It is with great sadness that we mourn the passing of our colleague and friend Prof. Emeritus Joseph Boyle. Joe’s research interests were moral philosophy, ethical theory and applied ethics, natural law, Thomistic ethics and bioethics; in recent years he taught the graduate class in bioethics. Joe served the Philosophy Department as … Read More
Published: September 17, 2016
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, General, St. George
Cambridge Pragmatism – From Peirce and James to Ramsey and Wittgenstein, the new book by Cheryl Misak, has just been published by Oxford University Press. Congratulations, Cheryl! Here is an excerpt from the book description: “Cheryl Misak offers a strikingly new view of the development of philosophy in the twentieth … Read More
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Congratulations to Michael Morgan on his new book Levinas’s Ethical Politics! Here’s an excerpt from the blurb: “Emmanuel Levinas conceives of our lives as fundamentally interpersonal and ethical, claiming that our responsibilities to one another should shape all of our actions. While many scholars believe that Levinas failed to develop … Read More
UTSC lecturer Jonathan Rick’s areas of specialization include moral, social, and political philosophy, and the history of these areas (particularly from the 18th century onward). How did you get interested in Philosophy? At my undergraduate university, every second-year student was required to take a course on the history of Western Philosophy … Read More
Get to know UTSC Lecturer Kenneth Boyd, specialist in epistemology, pragmatism, and ethics. “What I want to bring to my class is a healthy skepticism.” How did you get interested in philosophy? I think I’ve always been interested in philosophy, at least in some sense, although I didn’t really know … Read More
