Published: February 24, 2025
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George, UTM
The UTM Research Awards Committee has chosen Nilanjan Das as this year’s winner of the UTM Annual Research Prize in the Humanities. The committee recognized Das’s contributions to the fields of epistemology and Sanskrit philosophy. Gurpreet Rattan, the Chair of Philosophy at UTM, says of Das’s success, “Professor Nilanjan Das is … Read More
Published: January 15, 2025
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George, UTM
For its 2024 prizes, the American Philosophical Association (APA) selected Jennifer Nagel to deliver the 2026 Patrick Romanell Lecture, which is presented annually at a divisional meeting of the APA on the topic of philosophical naturalism. The APA publishes the Romanell Lecture each year in the Proceedings and Addresses of … Read More
Published: January 7, 2025
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, Graduate, St. George
We are pleased to announce that an alumnus from our PhD program, Douglas Campbell, has received the 2024 Article Prize, awarded annually by the Journal of the History of Philosophy (JHP) to the best article in the publication’s pages. Campbell, now an assistant professor at Alma College in Michigan, earned … Read More
Published: December 20, 2024
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George, UTSC
It has been a fantastic year of recognition for the work of Andrew Y. Lee: the editorial board of the journal Analytic Philosophy just chose his essay “A Theory of Sense-Data” as the winning entry for the 2024 Marc Sanders Prize in Philosophy of Mind. The honour comes with a … Read More
Published: October 3, 2024
Posted In: Faculty, General, St. George, UTM, UTSC
As part of the Landmark Project on King’s College Circle, a tree and paver have been installed to honour the memory of two respected and beloved department members—André Gombay (1943-2014) and Joseph Boyle (1942-2016). This public recognition at the centre of the University of Toronto’s St. George campus became possible … Read More
Published: September 13, 2024
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, St. George, UTM
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our emeritus colleague Jack Stevenson, who passed away at the age of 92. He had joined the department in 1966, initially as a visiting professor from the University of Manitoba, then as a regular faculty member. Born in Ottawa, … Read More
Published: September 12, 2024
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George
Congratulations to Willi Goetschel for being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, one of the highest honours available to an academic in Canada. As an internationally acclaimed philosopher, literary historian, and leader in the field of German Jewish thought in Canada, Goetschel, cross-appointed to the Departments of … Read More
Published: June 7, 2024
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George
In April, Rachel Barney spoke at University of California, Berkeley to deliver the prestigious Tanner Lectures on Human Values. Barney’s three lectures, collectively titled “The Authority of Craft,” centered around recovering Plato’s idea of craft or art, technê, and the craft model: the idea that both the moral virtue of … Read More
Published: June 5, 2024
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George, UTSC
The Department of Philosophy extends its warmest congratulations to faculty members Avia Pasternak and Nick Stang for their promotion to the rank of professor. A member of the Graduate Department of Philosophy at St. George, Pasternak also teaches at the University of Toronto Scarborough campus. Her research centers around questions … Read More
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Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George
Professor Emerita Ingrid Stefanovic recently received an NSERC Alliance grant for her work looking at the problem of reducing greenhouse gases (GHGs), as part of a team headed by Ali Bayat at the University of Alberta. Canadians rely daily on underground infrastructure delivery services and utilities: water and wastewater, energy, … Read More
Published: May 7, 2024
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George, UTSC
Congratulations to Andrew Y. Lee, who emerged from a highly competitive field as the winner of the 2024 Marc Sanders Prize in Metaphysics with his essay “A Puzzle about Sums.” The biennial Sanders Prize is an essay competition open to scholars within 15 years of receiving their doctoral degree, as … Read More
Published: April 9, 2024
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George
In recognition of his service to the University of Toronto in a variety of roles, University Professor of philosophy and law Arthur Ripstein, Howard Beck, Q.C., Chair, has received the 2024 Vivek Goel Faculty Citizenship Award. The Vivek Goel Faculty Citizenship Award recognizes a faculty member who has served the University … Read More
