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
Published: June 10, 2016
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, General, UTSC
PhS student Jessica Wright, with her paper entitled “Disassociating Implicit Attitudes”, has won one of two first prizes awarded by Dialogue, the bilingual journal of the Canadian Philosophical Association. Up to three prizes are awarded each year to papers submitted by students for the Annual Congress of the CPA. Papers submitted … Read More
Published: June 2, 2016
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, General, St. George
Congratulations to Arthur Ripstein on his promotion to the rank of University Professor. University Professor is the highest professorial rank at the University of Toronto and it is usually reserved to less than two per cent of the tenured faculty. This is a great honour for Arthur and the two disciplines represented … Read More
Published: April 18, 2016
Posted In: Faculty, General, St. George
The Canada Council for the Arts has just announced the winners of the Killam Awards. Among this year’s winners is Arthur Ripstein, who has won one of the prestigious Killam Research Fellowship for his project on “Kant and the Law of War”. For more details see the U of T … Read More
Published: February 11, 2016
Posted In: Announcements, Awards and Honours, Faculty, General, St. George
Congratulations to Nick Stang, who has just been awarded a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Metaphysics and its History. He is one of 34 new Canada Research Chairs at the University of Toronto. The announcement was made on February 9 by Kirsty Duncan, the federal minister of science. Nick’s project … Read More
Published: February 10, 2016
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, General, St. George
Congratulation to Imogen Dickie on her new book Fixing Reference! Here’s an excerpt from the blurb: “Imogen Dickie develops an account of aboutness-fixing for thoughts about ordinary objects, and of reference-fixing for the singular terms we use to express them. Extant discussions of this topic tread a weary path through descriptivist proposals, … Read More
Published: December 13, 2015
Posted In: Alumni, Announcements, Faculty, St. George
Francis Sparshott, one of the Department’s most prominent scholars, died on August 24, 2015. An obituary (written by Mark Thornton) and a series of reflections about Francis (from his former students and colleagues) are below. In addition, the American Society for Aesthetics has posted an obituary of Francis Sparshott written by … Read More
Over the course of the recent federal election, University of Toronto Scarborough Emeritus Professor Lynda Lange recruited a cross-Canada group of experts to produce a policy audit, with each contributor providing non-partisan and peer-reviewed analysis of party platforms for their potential impact on lessening poverty. You can read a brief … Read More
Published: September 14, 2015
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, General, St. George
Congratulation to Donald Ainslie on his new book Hume’s True Scepticism! Here’s an excerpt from the book cover: “David Hume is famous as a sceptical philosopher but the nature of his scepticism is difficult to pin down. Hume’s True Scepticism provides the first sustained interpretation of Part 4 of Book 1 of Hume’s Treatise, … Read More
Published: September 11, 2015
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, General, St. George
Congratulations to Margaret Morrison on being elected as a new Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. The Royal Society was established in 1882 and functions as Canada’s National Academy. The primary objective of the Society is to promote learning and research in the arts, the humanities and the natural and … Read More
Published: September 1, 2015
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, General, St. George
The Department of Philosophy has just begun a major five-year research project on the theme of Styles of Reasoning. Made possible by the 2014 Balzan Prize awarded to University Professor Emeritus Ian Hacking, this project offers generous financial support to Toronto graduate students working in the Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, … Read More
Alex Koo is a lecturer at UTSC Philosophy. His research interest include the role of mathematics in scientific explanations. How did you get interested in philosophy? I took an intro course on a whim in my first year. It was such a different way of thinking from my mathematics courses that … Read More
