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
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: April 8, 2022
Posted In: Faculty, General, In the News, St. George, Undergraduate, UTM
Based on their experience helping Afghani UTM student and women’s rights advocate Sana Hashim escape her home country while continuing her studies at the University of Toronto, Jennifer Nagel and Sergio Tenenbaum consider what Canada might do to help vulnerable students living as refugees continue their higher education. Read the Toronto … Read More
Published: March 18, 2022
Posted In: Faculty, St. George, UTM, UTSC
We’re delighted to announce the recent publication of three books by or about the work of members of the Department of Philosophy. The Long Arc of Legality: Hobbes, Kelsen, Hart (Cambridge University Press, 2022), by David Dyzenhaus, breaks the current deadlock in philosophy of law between legal positivism and natural … Read More
Published: February 23, 2022
Posted In: Faculty, In the News, St. George
Recently, William Paris spoke to the Faculty of Arts & Science’s Sean McNeeley about his work, what originally drew him to explore thinkers from Africa and the African diaspora, and his current course, Philosophy and Social Criticism, which focuses on how our notions of justice change over time.
Published: February 4, 2022
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, St. George, UTM, UTSC
With deep sadness the department announces the passing of our colleague Frank Cunningham. He suffered from leukemia and died at his Vancouver home on February 4, 2022, assisted by the Canadian Medical Assistance in Dying program. Maryka Omatsu, his wife of more than 50 years, wrote: “Frank died as he … Read More
Published: January 6, 2022
Posted In: Faculty, St. George, UTM, Video and Audio
Mohan Matthen is a Jackman Humanities Institute (JHI) Faculty Research Fellow for 2021-2022. His research interests include the philosophy of mind, especially perception, and the philosophy of biology. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Watch this short video produced by the JHI to learn more … Read More
Published: December 13, 2021
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, St. George
Congratulations to Professor Franz Huber on his latest book, Belief and Counterfactuals: A Study in Means-End Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2021). This marks the first of two volumes on the topic, providing an introduction to ranking theory, a powerful formal theory with a broad range of applications in various areas of … Read More
Published: December 2, 2021
Posted In: Faculty, General, St. George
George Boys-Stones, professor of Classics and Philosophy, is one of the 2021-2022 Fellows at the Jackman Humanities Institute. In this spotlight, he answers a few questions about his current research project and shares some favourite pastimes.
Published: November 10, 2021
Posted In: Alumni, Announcements, Awards and Honours, Faculty, Graduate, In the News, St. George, Staff, UTM, UTSC
It’s hard to believe we’re already in November 2021, but it’s worth pausing for a moment to review the past six months in the Department of Philosophy: we welcomed new colleagues, celebrated many awards and promotions, and also proudly sent a few freshly minted PhDs into the world. Read issue … Read More
Published: October 22, 2021
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George, UTM
The department is thrilled to announce that Owen Ware has received the 2021 UTM Annual Research Prize in the Humanities for his outstanding contributions to the study of Kant, German idealism, and 19th-century philosophy. UTM Annual Research Prizes recognize excellence in scholarship for a period of up to two years … Read More
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Posted In: Faculty, General, Graduate, St. George
Anyone following events and courses at the Department of Philosophy for the past year and a half will have noticed something besides the pandemic preponderance of Zoom: lots of activity (including new hires) around topics and approaches often referred to as “global philosophy.” But what, precisely, constitutes global philosophy, who … Read More
