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
Published: January 5, 2022
Posted In: Alumni, In the News, St. George
“Do your own research!” It’s not an unfamiliar call, especially more recently, in debates around controversial topics from vaccine effectiveness to the causes of climate change. And it sounds empowering and measured, but in an opinion piece published in the New York Times on January 3, 2022, alumnus Nathan Ballantyne … 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: August 11, 2021
Posted In: Graduate, In the News, St. George
The department is delighted and proud to announce that two of our graduate students, Kristen Beard and Alexandra Gustafson, have published pieces on the Blog of the APA. In “The Circle: How to Foster Community in the Classroom,” Kristen writes about the advantages of a teaching and discussion tool called … Read More
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: 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
Published: June 17, 2021
Posted In: In the News
“Is Philosophy Having a Moment?” wonders a recent article by Ian Coutts in University Affairs/Affaires universitaires. Examining the recent rise in enrollment in undergraduate philosophy courses throughout Canada, the author speaks to the department’s Professor Rachel Barney and incoming master’s student Munema Moiz, among others, to understand the reasons for … Read More
Published: April 28, 2021
Posted In: Faculty, In the News, St. George
Read an interview with Arthur Ripstein, 2021 Killam Prize winner and the author of a forthcoming book on Kant’s views on war and their present-day relevance. Here, Ripstein speaks to Sean McNeely from the Faculty of Arts & Science about the element of war that makes it distinctively wrong, in … Read More
Published: December 11, 2020
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, In the News, St. George
We are delighted to announce an important intervention into a current debate by Professor Emerita Ingrid Stefanovic: alongside Zafar Adeel (Simon Fraser University), she has edited Ethical Water Stewardship (Springer, 2020). An introduction to the topic for philosophers and non-philosophers alike, the tome for the first time links water ethics … Read More
Published: December 3, 2020
Posted In: Faculty, General, In the News, St. George
Members of the department have been in the news! Take a moment to listen to Sophia Moreau discuss the complex mechanisms of discrimination (and her book on the subject, Faces of Inequality: A Theory of Wrongful Discrimination [Oxford University Press]) on the Rights Review podcast. Alternatively, Mark Kingwell has appeared in … Read More
Published: October 26, 2020
Posted In: Alumni, Announcements, Awards and Honours, Faculty, Graduate, In the News, St. George, Undergraduate, UTM, UTSC
The past six months have passed in a whirlwind, but they’ve been incredibly productive and successful for the department! Take a look at a recap of our biggest news since March in issue 12 of the Department of Philosophy e-News. Accidentally missing from the announcements in the e-bulletin is another … Read More
Published: October 13, 2020
Posted In: In the News, St. George
A long-standing philosophical controversy deals with whether it is ever good in itself for bad people to suffer. In a recent Washington Post opinion piece, Professor Brendan de Kenessey took President Donald Trump’s recent diagnosis with COVID-19 as an entryway into the discussion, ultimately differentiating between wishing suffering on someone … Read More
