Published: December 21, 2021
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
Congratulations to Rashad Rehman for winning the Jonathan Hellmann Best Poster Award – Bioethics Week 2021 at SickKids with his poster “An Ethical Framework for Intersex Pediatric Surgery (IPS).” Posters eligible for the award were judged by an outside pediatric bioethicist based on clarity, depth, potential impact and design/format. “I’m … Read More
Published: December 13, 2021
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, St. George
Congratulations to Professor Franz Huber on his latest book, Belief and Counterfactuals: A Study in Means-End Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2021). This marks the first of two volumes on the topic, providing an introduction to ranking theory, a powerful formal theory with a broad range of applications in various areas of … Read More
Published: December 2, 2021
Posted In: Faculty, General, St. George
George Boys-Stones, professor of Classics and Philosophy, is one of the 2021-2022 Fellows at the Jackman Humanities Institute. In this spotlight, he answers a few questions about his current research project and shares some favourite pastimes.
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Stephen Yablo, David W. Skinner Professor of Philosophy at MIT and an alumnus of the University of Toronto (BSc Philosophy & Mathematics, 1979), is widely recognized as a leading philosopher in his fields of inquiry: metaphysics, philosophy of logic an mathematics, and the philosophy of mind and language. The author … Read More
Published: November 17, 2021
Posted In: Awards and Honours, General, St. George, UTM, UTSC
Every year in the late summer, a special kind of excitement hovers over the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto—it’s when the time has come to read the submissions to the annual Aristotle Contest, a Canada-wide high school philosophy essay-writing competition co-sponsored by the department and the Ontario … 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: November 3, 2021
Posted In: Graduate, St. George
On November 18, Daniel Munro will likely feel the same elation and relief as thousands of other University of Toronto students that day: they are graduating. In Munro’s case, with a PhD in Philosophy, earned through years of coursework and a dissertation titled “Imagining the Actual,” supervised by Professor Jennifer … Read More
Published: October 22, 2021
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George, UTM
The department is thrilled to announce that Owen Ware has received the 2021 UTM Annual Research Prize in the Humanities for his outstanding contributions to the study of Kant, German idealism, and 19th-century philosophy. UTM Annual Research Prizes recognize excellence in scholarship for a period of up to two years … Read More
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Anyone following events and courses at the Department of Philosophy for the past year and a half will have noticed something besides the pandemic preponderance of Zoom: lots of activity (including new hires) around topics and approaches often referred to as “global philosophy.” But what, precisely, constitutes global philosophy, who … Read More
Published: October 14, 2021
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
It’s been a busy few months for doctoral defenses in the department. Congratulations and best wishes for the future to Steven Coyne, who successfully defended his thesis titled “Liberal Theories of Political Authority,” written under the supervision of David Dyzenhaus; Rachel O’Keefe, for her “A χαλεπὸν καὶ ἀμυδρὸν εἶδος: Plotinus’ … Read More
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Wanting to add some titles to your bookshelf? Look no further than the most recent of our faculty members’ publications: In his Philosophical Foundations of Climate Change Policy (Oxford University Press, 2021), Joseph Heath tackles the extent of human obligations in the face of an anthropogenic climate crisis. Taking into consideration … Read More
Published: September 21, 2021
Posted In: Alumni, General, Graduate, St. George
The Department of Philosophy is saddened to announce the passing of one of our most eminent alumni, Professor Charles Mills (MA 1975, PhD 1985). Professor Mills began his graduate work in philosophy at Toronto in 1973, after completing an undergraduate degree in physics at the University of the West Indies, … Read More
