Published: May 7, 2025
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
At the Department of Philosophy’s annual Spring Party, Faisal Bhabha, Josh Brecka, Alex Drusda, Zoe Leslie, Yi-Cheng Lin, Sooyoung Moon, and Jules Sheldon each received a Graduate Student Service Award. The annual prize celebrates initiatives undertaken by graduate students to support and improve the community. “The functioning and climate of our … Read More
Published: May 6, 2025
Posted In: Graduate, St. George
Congratulations to Jovy Chan, who recently defended her doctoral dissertation with success, making her the department’s latest PhD. Chan wrote “Managing the Human Herd in the Digital World” under the supervision of Joe Heath. She now looks forward to beginning a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford. We look forward to your … Read More
Published: April 4, 2025
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George
David Dyzenhaus, a University Professor in the Department of Philosophy and in the Faculty of Law, has received an honorary doctorate from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, his alma mater. Wits awards honorary doctorates recognizing individuals who have made lasting contributions to their respective fields, advancing knowledge, research and … Read More
Published: April 2, 2025
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, Graduate, St. George, Undergraduate, UTM, UTSC
The Department of Philosophy is happy to announce four new faculty members, all of which will assume their positions with us in the summer. Michael Arsenault is a double graduate (BA and MA) of the University of Toronto, who earned his doctorate in philosophy at the University of California Berkeley … Read More
Published: April 1, 2025
Posted In: Faculty, Graduate, In the News, St. George, Undergraduate
Karina Vold, an assistant professor of Philosophy at U of T’s Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IHPST), spoke to Adam Segal about AI’s existential questions.
Published: March 28, 2025
Posted In: Alumni, Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
Alice Chao-Wei Huang, who earned her PhD from the department in 2024 and is now a postdoctoral fellow in Harvard’s Embedded Ethics Program, received the John Leyerle-CIFAR Prize for Interdisciplinary Research. The selection committee, composed of graduate appointed professors at the University of Toronto, awarded her the prize for her … Read More
Published: March 26, 2025
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, Graduate, St. George
Kristen Beard, a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy, and Brendan de Kenessey, an assistant professor, have been awarded 2025 Marc Sanders Foundation Media Fellowships. The Foundation’s Philosophy in Media Initiative aims to increase the presence of philosophy in print, audio, and video media by training philosophers to write … Read More
Published: March 19, 2025
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George
David Dyzenhaus, a University Professor of Philosophy and Law at the University of Toronto, has received the prestigious Killam Prize for social sciences. The Killam Prize recognizes researchers at Canadian universities who have achieved international scholarly eminence in one of five fields: health sciences, natural sciences, engineering, social sciences or … Read More
Published: March 13, 2025
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, St. George, UTM, UTSC
Faculty members of the Department of Philosophy published an impressive number of academic books in the past few months, ranging in topic from race and utopia, Romantic mythology, and the role of water in our psychological ecosystem. Be sure to stop by the display in the department hallway to browse … Read More
Published: March 3, 2025
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, Graduate, St. George, Undergraduate, UTSC
On Valentine’s Day, the Association of Philosophy Students (APS) at UTSC launched the first episode of their new philosophy podcast, The Agora. The podcast is one of several initiatives APS executives undertook to revitalize undergraduate philosophy at UTSC. Hosted by Samuella Ojo, a second-year student, their debut episode delves deep into … Read More
Published: February 24, 2025
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George, UTM
The UTM Research Awards Committee has chosen Nilanjan Das as this year’s winner of the UTM Annual Research Prize in the Humanities. The committee recognized Das’s contributions to the fields of epistemology and Sanskrit philosophy. Gurpreet Rattan, the Chair of Philosophy at UTM, says of Das’s success, “Professor Nilanjan Das is … Read More
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Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
The Philosophy Department is proud to add four new PhDs to its roster: Alexandra Gustafson defended “Arrested Attention: Essays on the Phenomenology of Love,” supervised by Andrew Franklin-Hall, in October 2024. Bowen Chan defended “The Spectrum of Virtue: From the Decent to the Excellent,” supervised by Tom Hurka, in November … Read More
