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
Published: October 14, 2021
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, St. George, UTM, UTSC
Wanting to add some titles to your bookshelf? Look no further than the most recent of our faculty members’ publications: In his Philosophical Foundations of Climate Change Policy (Oxford University Press, 2021), Joseph Heath tackles the extent of human obligations in the face of an anthropogenic climate crisis. Taking into consideration … Read More
Published: August 30, 2021
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, Graduate, UTSC
The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce that a paper by our late colleague Waheed Hussain has been selected for the 40th Philosopher’s Annual, a prestigious collection of the best philosophy articles published in the year 2020. Waheed Hussein’s article “Pitting People against Each Other,” appeared in Philosophy & … Read More
Published: August 28, 2021
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George
Congratulations to assistant professor Trevor Teitel for being awarded a 2021 Connaught New Researcher Award for his project, Modality and Spacetime Physics. The project seeks to show how contemporary work in the metaphysics of modality can be used to develop a novel substantivalist account of space and time. The Connaught New Researcher Awards … Read More
Published: July 26, 2021
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George
We are thrilled to announce that Professor David Dyzenhaus, who teaches in both the Department of Philosophy and the Faculty of Law, has been elected as a Corresponding Fellow to the British Academy in recognition of his outstanding achievements in the humanities. The British Academy this year welcomed 84 new … Read More
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Congratulations to Professor Sonia Sedivy on the publication of her edited collection, Art, Representation, and Make-Believe: Essays on the Philosophy of Kendall L. Walton (Routledge, 2021). The book is the first collection of essays focused on the varied work of Kendall L. Walton, who has shaped debate about the arts for … Read More
Published: June 30, 2021
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George, UTSC
Heartfelt congratulations to our colleagues Jessica Gelber and Julia Nefsky who have been granted tenure. Starting Thursday, July 1, 2021, both will be at the rank of Associate Professor with tenure. We could not be happier for them. About Jessica Gelber Jessica Gelber joined the department (St. George and Graduate … Read More
Published: June 28, 2021
Posted In: Faculty, In the News, UTSC
Jessica Wilson, who in May published Metaphysical Emergence (Oxford University Press, 2021), recently spoke to Richard Marshall for his philosophy interview series titled 3:16 (philosophy interviews after 3:00 AM). There the philosopher of metaphysics and epistemology discusses topics as divergent as gender and philosophy, why anyone would be pessimistic about … Read More
