Published: January 10, 2020
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, General, St. George, UTM, UTSC
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Professor Emeritus Colin Howson, who taught at U of T’s Department of Philosophy between 2008 and 2014. A lifelong Bayesian and prolific writer remembered by colleagues for his generous spirit and humor, he was also a former chair of … Read More
Published: December 3, 2019
Posted In: Graduate, In the News, St. George, Undergraduate, UTSC
It was already at the beginning of November that philosophers of science from across the globe gathered at Victoria College here at the University of Toronto for the fifth annual conference of the Society for the Metaphysics of Science, locally organized by the Department of Philosophy’s professors Michael Miller and … Read More
Published: November 20, 2019
Posted In: Alumni, Graduate, In the News, St. George, UTM
Recent UTM philosophy graduate Unnati Patel and her family this year celebrate fall Convocation, 30 years after her first graduation, when she received a degree in applied science and electrical engineering. Read more about Unnati’s journey in U of T News. You can also listen to Unnati speak with Matt … Read More
Published: September 16, 2019
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George
Assistant Professor, Brendan de Kenessey, and his project on Relationships and Moral Constraints has is one of 52 winners of the 2018-2019 Connaught New Research Award. The Connaught New Research Award is designed to help recipients establish a strong research program and increase their competitiveness for external funding. The Award … Read More
Published: August 21, 2019
Posted In: Awards and Honours, St. George
It is our pleasure to announce that Brendan de Kenessey is one of the winners of the APA’s (American Philosophical Association‘s) 2019 Public Philosophy Op-Ed Contest. Brendan received this recognition for a piece on addiction – “People are dying because we misunderstand how those with addiction think”. It was published … Read More
Published: August 1, 2019
Posted In: Alumni, St. George
The Department of Philosophy is sad to report the passing of Dr. Abbyann D. Lynch, C.M., O.Ont., L.M.S., Ph.D., LL.D (Hon.), D.S.L. (Hon.). Abbyann was a philosopher and bioethicist, a pioneer in bioethics in Canada, and one of the founders of the Department’s bioethics programs. She also offered the Department’s first … Read More
Published: July 29, 2019
Posted In: Graduate, St. George
The Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto is pleased to announce the 19th annual Graduate Philosophy Conference, to be held November 15-16, 2019 in Toronto, Ontario. Our theme this year is „Reconstructing Reason: Developing the concept of reason through history‟. The conference invites submissions from graduate students working … Read More
Published: July 4, 2019
Posted In: Alumni, Announcements, Awards and Honours, St. George
We’re delighted to announce that Owen Pikkert (PhD, 2018) has been selected as the winner of the 2018 David Savan Dissertation Prize for his dissertation Leibniz and the Principle of Sufficient Reason, supervised by Professor Marleen Rozemond. “I came to graduate school knowing two things about Leibniz. The first is that Leibniz believed that God … Read More
Published: June 13, 2019
Posted In: Faculty, St. George, UTM
Alex Koo joins the St. George and UTM Departments as Assistant Professor (Teaching-Stream). A renowned teacher of logic, Prof. Koo has already developed new pedagogical strategies for several large courses offered on both campuses. In particular, he has revamped PHL245H: Modern Symbolic Logic to be a hybrid and flipped course, … Read More
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Posted In: Faculty, St. George
George Boys-Stones, joins us as Professor of Classics and Philosophy. A leading scholar of Ancient Philosophy with wide ranging interests, George has a special interest in the philosophical movements of the post-Hellenistic period. Before coming to Toronto he was Professor of Ancient Philosophy in the Department of Classics and Ancient … Read More
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Posted In: Faculty, St. George
Michael Rosenthal (PhD Chicago, 1996) will join us in July 2019 as Grafstein Chair in Jewish Philosophy, with appointments in both the Department and the Anne Tannenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies. He received his bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and both his masters and doctorate in philosophy from the University … Read More
Published: May 24, 2019
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George
Prof. Arthur Ripstein is a recipient of the JJ Berry Smith Doctoral Supervision Award, which recognizes his outstanding performance as a doctoral supervisor over 30 years. A Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Toronto, Dr. Ripstein has a broad, interdisciplinary knowledge base that enables him to mentor … Read More
