Published: November 21, 2023
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
We are delighted to announce Chi-ho Hung as the winner of this year’s Martha Lile Love Essay Award for his essay “A Counterfactual Theory of Universal Statements.” The essay, written for Franz Huber’s graduate class, elicited the following praise from the 2023 award’s selection committee: “This superbly crafted paper offers … Read More
Published: November 13, 2023
Posted In: Alumni, Announcements, Faculty, Graduate, St. George, UTM, UTSC
It is with great sadness that the Department of Philosophy announces that our colleague, friend, alumnus, and respected teacher David Gauthier has died. He passed away on Thursday, November 9, 2023, at the age of 91. Gauthier earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from our department in 1954, to then … Read More
Published: September 11, 2023
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
Congratulations to three of our graduate students who recently earned their doctoral degrees. Hamish Russell, Lisa Doerksen, and Seyed Yarandi. Russell, whose thesis titled “Roles and the Filtering of Reasons” was written under the supervision of Joseph Heath, received the Best Dissertation Award from the Society for Business Ethics. The … Read More
Published: July 1, 2023
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, Graduate, St. George, Undergraduate, UTM, UTSC
The Department of Philosophy extends a warm welcome to two new faculty members, Brookes Brown and Andrew Y. Lee. Both are joining the department at the rank of assistant professor on July 1, 2023, Dr. Brown at UTM and Dr. Lee at UTSC. Brookes Brown, who holds a PhD in … Read More
Published: May 8, 2023
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
A great graduate department rests on more pillars than student excellence and a well-functioning administration. At least as important is a sense of thriving and supportive community—and while department leadership and staff certainly play a role in helping create such community, much of that work, often not or under-recognized, depends … Read More
Published: May 7, 2023
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, Graduate, St. George, UTM, UTSC
Every year, the Department of Philosophy hosts a Book Launch and Spring Party to celebrate major publications by faculty members, bring closure to one academic year, and welcome the possibilities of a new one. Once again in 2023, we wish to acknowledge the extensive academic output by members of the … Read More
Published: May 5, 2023
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, Graduate, St. George, UTM, UTSC
The Department of Philosophy mourns the sudden death of our cherished colleague and friend Professor Emeritus Thomas More Robinson, a distinguished expert in ancient Greek philosophy, a dedicated teacher, and, in later years, a widely published and translated playwright. He passed away on April 23, 2023, in Paris, France, following … Read More
Published: May 4, 2023
Posted In: Faculty, Graduate, St. George, UTM, UTSC
The Department of Philosophy is deeply saddened by the unexpected loss of our colleague and friend Professor Emeritus Derek Allen, Honorary Fellow Trinity College, University of Toronto. Allen was a respected scholar, consummate educator, and talented administrator who served for 16 years as Trinity College’s Dean of Arts & Vice-Provost. … Read More
Published: April 26, 2023
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, Graduate, St. George, UTM, UTSC
When the moral and political philosopher Waheed Hussain prematurely lost his life to cancer in January 2021, he left behind an immense sense of loss—family, friends, colleagues, and students mourned a man of deep insight, fierce engagement, wit, and warmth. He also left behind an unfinished book manuscript, eight chapters … Read More
Published: March 31, 2023
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
Alexandra Gustafson has added another feather to her awards and recognition cap: the Philosophy PhD candidate, researcher of love, popular teacher, and mental health advocate has received a Superior Graduate Student Course Instructor Teaching Award for 2022–2023 from the Faculty of Arts & Science. Nominations are received from across the … Read More
Published: March 30, 2023
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
Heartfelt congratulations to Lu-Vada Dunford, the latest PhD to emerge from our department. The award-winning teacher and popular Ethics Bowl judge who already holds a position in the Philosophy Department at St. Francis Xavier University of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, today passed her doctoral defense with flying colours. Her dissertation titled … Read More
Published: March 28, 2023
Posted In: Alumni, Faculty, General, Graduate, In the News, St. George, Undergraduate, UTM, UTSC
By Petra Dreiser A lone, forest-green banner fluttered in the breeze outside the University of Toronto Mississauga’s (UTM) Instructional Building on the morning of Saturday, March 4, 2023. It offered a rare flash of colour in a landscape blanketed in layers of frosty white by the season’s most intense … Read More
