Published: January 19, 2026
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, St. George
Congratulations to Franz Huber and Cheryl Misak on the publication of their latest books. Huber‘s Causality, Counterfactuals, and Belief: More Means-End Philosophy just appeared with Oxford University Press. The work offers a novel approach to metaphysics, the philosophy of science, and philosophical logic by exploring means-end derivations of the logics of … Read More
Published: January 9, 2026
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, Graduate, St. George, Undergraduate, UTM, UTSC
The Department of Philosophy is delighted to welcome Stephen Menn, the inaugural Michael & Virginia Walsh Chair in History of Philosophy. His main areas of research are in ancient Greek philosophy (with current projects in Aristotle, in the pre-Socratics, and in neo-Platonism), in medieval Arabic and Latin philosophy, and in … Read More
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Posted In: Alumni, General, St. George, UTM, UTSC
In time for the new year–and the intention-setting that often goes along with it–Philosophy alumna Valerie Tiberius (BA 1990) spoke to MPR News about the difference between a pursuit of happiness and the pursuit of what she calls “flourishing.” Tiberius is now a professor of Philosophy at the University of … Read More
Published: October 20, 2025
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
We are delighted to announce that Jovy Chan has been selected as the winner of the 2025 David Savan Dissertation Prize for her thesis titled “Managing the Human Herd in a Digital World,” supervised by Joseph Heath. The selection committee described Jovy’s work as a “highly original dissertation [that] offers … Read More
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Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George, UTM, UTSC
The Department of Philosophy congratulates its three most recent PhDs: In September, John R. Miller successfully defended his dissertation titled “Wahkootowin Ethics: A Métis Approach to the Ethics of Kinship,” supervised by Andrew Franklin-Hall. Miller currently holds the position of lecturer at the University of Victoria. David Rattray and Kristen Beard … Read More
Published: October 15, 2025
Posted In: Faculty, In the News, St. George, UTM, UTSC
Are leading Canadian research universities doing enough to prepare students for life after graduation? Robert Gibbs wonders if they could be doing better by getting undergraduate students more involved and engaged in original research. It is what he explores in his latest book, What Could a University Be? Revolutionary Ideas for … Read More
Published: September 30, 2025
Posted In: General, Graduate, St. George, UTM, UTSC
In “The Privacy of First-Personal Perspective: Engaging with Indian Philosophy of Cosmopsychism,” published on the Blog of the APA, Philosophy graduate student Munema Moiz discusses one of contemporary philosophy’s most pertinent challenges–the so-called hard problem of consciousness–and then critically examines it through the lens of non-Western thought, specifically, that of … Read More
Published: September 17, 2025
Posted In: Faculty, Graduate, St. George, Undergraduate, UTM, UTSC
Congratulations to Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen and Bob Gibbs on the publications of their latest books: Larsen’s Psychopathy Unmasked: The Rise and Fall of a Dangerous Diagnosis, published by MIT Press, brings to the fore the scientific wrongheadedness of society’s fascination with psychopaths and examines how the criminal justice system has misused … Read More
Published: September 8, 2025
Posted In: Faculty, General, Graduate, St. George, Undergraduate
We are saddened to announce the passing of Professor Emeritus Brian Cantwell Smith on September 6, 2025. Although he held his main appointment in the Faculty of Information, Cantwell Smith had been cross-appointed in Philosophy since his arrival at the University of Toronto in 2003, and he regularly taught courses … Read More
Published: July 15, 2025
Posted In: Faculty, In the News, St. George, UTM, UTSC
Through the lens of the Chelsea Garden Show, Professor Sonia Sedivy in the Globe and Mail examines beauty as not just something of the moment but as a practical, political even, matter too–in this case, as a way to counter climate change. “Even with just a container or two, we … Read More
Published: July 2, 2025
Posted In: In the News, St. George, UTM, UTSC
Postdoctoral fellow Stephen Peprah‘s work explores the legacy of Anton Wilhelm Amo, an 18th-century African-German philosopher and former enslaved person who became a respected scholarly voice in Europe.
Published: June 25, 2025
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George, Undergraduate, UTM, UTSC
We are delighted to announce six faculty promotions in the department, all of which will take effect on July 1, 2025. Sara Aronowitz (St. George) and Tarek Dika (St. George) have both been promoted to associate professor with tenure, while Alex Koo (St. George) earned a promotion to associate professor … Read More
