Published: July 7, 2021
Posted In: Alumni, Graduate, In the News, St. George
PhD candidate Emma McClure and alumnus Benjamin Wald, who is now a postdoctoral fellow at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, have participated in a pilot program that embeds ethics modules into existing undergraduate computer science courses in hopes that graduates will design and deploy future technologies in … Read More
Published: June 28, 2021
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
Congratulations to our newest PhD, Damian Melamedoff-Vosters! Damian successfully defended “The Grounds of Transcendental Idealism,” written under the supervision of Professor Nicholas Stang, on June 28, 2021. No changes were required of his thesis. Damian’s dissertation focused on the role of ground in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. In it, Damian argued … Read More
Published: June 23, 2021
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, UTSC
We are delighted to share the news that Hamish Russell has won a 2021 UTSC Teaching Award for his outstanding work for the department over the past few years. The award recognizes the contributions by Unit 1 Course Instructors and their exceptional teaching promise. The Department of Philosophy at the University … Read More
Published: June 15, 2021
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
“It might seem daunting,” PhD student Zain Raza acknowledged in a video providing application tips to prospective students in the Department of Philosophy earlier this year. “The size, the privilege, the status, the reputation of the department” all might make you think of it as a place focused solely on … Read More
Published: June 10, 2021
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, Graduate, St. George, UTM, UTSC
To celebrate the wide range of publications produced by members of the Department of Philosophy in the past year (May 2020–May 2021), we highlight on this page the published work of faculty members, students, postdoctoral fellows, and lecturers. Once again, we are extremely proud of the wide range and innovation … Read More
Published: April 9, 2021
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
At the end of March, C Dalrymple-Fraser, one of the department’s PhD students and course instructors, received recognition for their dedication to accessible, equitable, and practice-based undergraduate instruction in the form of a Superior Graduate Student Course Instructor Teaching Award from the Faculty of Arts & Science. C’s PHL382 course, … Read More
Published: March 9, 2021
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
PhD student Rashad Rehman has received the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award for the 2020 Annual Concerned Philosophers for Peace (CPP) Conference for his essay “Pieper’s Defense of Aquinas on Peace.” The yearly conference had been rescheduled to January of this year from October 2020 because of the current coronavirus … Read More
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Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
Congratulations to Roberto Granieri who successfully defended his doctoral thesis on March 1, 2021. Written under the supervision of Lloyd Gerson, Roberto’s thesis was titled “Being as a Kind in Plato’s Sophist.” We look forward to seeing what’s next on your path, Roberto!
Published: February 18, 2021
Posted In: Announcements, General, Graduate, St. George
It was at the July 2020 meeting of the Graduate Philosophy Student Union (GPSU) that Andriy Bilenkyy and Alexandra Gustafson, both PhD students in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto (U of T), decided to address the elephant in the room: more needed to be done to … Read More
Published: January 27, 2021
Posted In: Announcements, Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
The Department of Philosophy is thrilled to announce that Robbie Matyasi successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on January 25, 2021, becoming the most recent PhD among our students. Robbie, who has taken on a number of roles in the department throughout the years, defended his thesis titled “Spinoza’s Metaphysics of … Read More
Published: December 18, 2020
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George, UTM
PhD student Lu-Vada Dunford has won the the Martha Lile Love Teaching Award for 2019-2020 for her outstanding course PHL204H5F Philosophy in Everyday Life, taught at the UTM campus in the fall of 2019. The adjudicating committee found that Lu-Vada brilliantly designed a course that would interest students from a … Read More
Published: November 17, 2020
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
Congratulations to our PhD student Henry Krahn for winning this year’s Martha Lile Love Essay Award with his essay “The Dilemma of Sanctioning: Blame, Responsibility, and the Participant Stance,” originally written for Brendan de Kenessey’s seminar titled “Morality and Accountability.” The adjudication committee composed of George Boys-Stones and Jonathan Weisberg described Henry’s … Read More
