Published: May 24, 2022
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
We’re delighted to announce that Griffin Klemick, a graduate student in the department and a part-time assistant professor (teaching stream) with us, successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on May 20, 2022. The thesis, titled “How to Be a Pragmatist in the End: Objectivity, Skepticism, and the Demands of Agency” and … Read More
Published: April 26, 2022
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
Congratulations to the department’s two most recent PhDs! Rory Harder successfully defended his thesis, titled “Joint Action Communication, with a Focus on Demonstratives,” on March 28, 2022. Imogen Dickie and Nate Charlow had served as Rory’s supervisors. Kamil Majcherek also passed his thesis defense without changes, on April 8, 2022. … Read More
Published: April 5, 2022
Posted In: Awards and Honours, General, Graduate, St. George
The past few months have proven a period of success and recognition for Felix Lambrecht, a Vanier Scholar and PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy with primary research interests in political philosophy, legal philosophy, and ethics. Not only did the School of Cities name him one of its 2022 … Read More
Published: February 16, 2022
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
Congratulations to Felix Lambrecht for being awarded a 2022 School of Cities (SoC) Graduate Fellowship. This SoC program brings together an interdisciplinary group of University of Toronto doctoral students who share a passion for city-building and solutions to critical urban challenges. Throughout the fellowship, students will collaborate with scholars at … Read More
Published: February 14, 2022
Posted In: Announcements, General, Graduate, St. George
‘Tis the season to consider romantic love—but what of the broken heart? In Psyche, graduate student Alexandra Gustafson takes us on a tour of literature and the everyday to ponder the sublimity of unrequited love.
Published: February 10, 2022
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
Kayla Wiebe, a PhD candidate whose dissertation focuses on the concept of autonomy and who also serves as a bioethicist at SickKids hospital, recently won the 2021 Martha Lile Love Teaching Award for her course PHL 440—Clinical Bioethics. The course introduced students to this subfield of biomedical ethics, which zooms … Read More
Published: January 28, 2022
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
Congratulations to Natalie Helberg on passing her PhD defense, the department’s first of 2022, with flying colours. Helberg successfully defended her thesis titled “Catherine Malabou’s Dangerous Supplement,” written under the supervision of Rebecca Comay, on January 28, 2022. Helberg currently holds a position as lecturer in Concordia University’s Department of … Read More
Published: January 14, 2022
Posted In: Graduate, In the News, St. George
In some of his recent courses, Daniel Munro, a recent graduate and now a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy, has tried assigning something different from the traditional essays and exams: creative public philosophy projects. In a guest post for the Daily Nous, he talks about both the benefits and … Read More
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Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George, UTM, UTSC
With great pleasure we announce that Kayla Wiebe has won the 2021 Martha Lile Love Teaching Award for her outstanding work teaching PHL440 –Clinical Bioethics. The committee was impressed with her thoughtful course design, approach to accessibility, and ability to motivate student engagement. In addition, Griffin Klemick and Zachary Weinstein received honourable mentions for their excellent work in teaching B33 – God, Self, World and PHL240 – Persons, … Read More
Published: December 21, 2021
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
Congratulations to Rashad Rehman for winning the Jonathan Hellmann Best Poster Award – Bioethics Week 2021 at SickKids with his poster “An Ethical Framework for Intersex Pediatric Surgery (IPS).” Posters eligible for the award were judged by an outside pediatric bioethicist based on clarity, depth, potential impact and design/format. “I’m … Read More
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: November 3, 2021
Posted In: Graduate, St. George
On November 18, Daniel Munro will likely feel the same elation and relief as thousands of other University of Toronto students that day: they are graduating. In Munro’s case, with a PhD in Philosophy, earned through years of coursework and a dissertation titled “Imagining the Actual,” supervised by Professor Jennifer … Read More
