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
Published: September 29, 2020
Posted In: Graduate, In the News, St. George
Two weeks ago, Alexandra Gustafson, a current PhD student in the department and the current co-chair of the Graduate Philosophy Students’ Union (GPSU) newly established Mental Health & Disability Caucus, returned to The College of Wooster, her alma mater in Ohio. She spoke to undergraduates about her research project on … Read More
Published: September 24, 2020
Posted In: In the News, UTM
The recent death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg has once again stirred discussions around reproductive rights. In light of these, Philosophy postdoctoral fellow Matthew Scarfone (UTM), an ethicist, has recently published a piece on the moral arguments used to defend both the pro-choice and the pro-life positions in The Conversation. Read his … Read More
Published: June 3, 2020
Posted In: Alumni, Announcements, In the News, Undergraduate, UTM
This fall, U of T Mississauga’s Abraham Mathew will join MIT’s PhD program in philosophy, one of the top five programs in the English-speaking world. Here, the star student (he is U of T’s top-performing student overall this year) plans to continue to find ways to make his chosen field of … Read More
Published: May 19, 2020
Posted In: Alumni, General, In the News
Alumna Valerie Tiberius, who graduated from U of T with a specialist in Philosophy in 1990 and is now the Paul W. Frenzel Chair in Liberal Arts and a professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota, has published a timely piece on the pursuit of happiness during pandemic times. … Read More
