Published: August 28, 2021
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George
Congratulations to assistant professor Trevor Teitel for being awarded a 2021 Connaught New Researcher Award for his project, Modality and Spacetime Physics. The project seeks to show how contemporary work in the metaphysics of modality can be used to develop a novel substantivalist account of space and time. The Connaught New Researcher Awards … Read More
Published: August 11, 2021
Posted In: Graduate, In the News, St. George
The department is delighted and proud to announce that two of our graduate students, Kristen Beard and Alexandra Gustafson, have published pieces on the Blog of the APA. In “The Circle: How to Foster Community in the Classroom,” Kristen writes about the advantages of a teaching and discussion tool called … Read More
Published: July 26, 2021
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George
We are thrilled to announce that Professor David Dyzenhaus, who teaches in both the Department of Philosophy and the Faculty of Law, has been elected as a Corresponding Fellow to the British Academy in recognition of his outstanding achievements in the humanities. The British Academy this year welcomed 84 new … Read More
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Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, St. George, UTSC
Congratulations to Professor Sonia Sedivy on the publication of her edited collection, Art, Representation, and Make-Believe: Essays on the Philosophy of Kendall L. Walton (Routledge, 2021). The book is the first collection of essays focused on the varied work of Kendall L. Walton, who has shaped debate about the arts for … Read More
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 30, 2021
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George, UTSC
Heartfelt congratulations to our colleagues Jessica Gelber and Julia Nefsky who have been granted tenure. Starting Thursday, July 1, 2021, both will be at the rank of Associate Professor with tenure. We could not be happier for them. About Jessica Gelber Jessica Gelber joined the department (St. George and Graduate … Read More
Published: June 28, 2021
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
Congratulations to our newest PhD, Damian Melamedoff-Vosters! Damian successfully defended “The Grounds of Transcendental Idealism,” written under the supervision of Professor Nicholas Stang, on June 28, 2021. No changes were required of his thesis. Damian’s dissertation focused on the role of ground in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. In it, Damian argued … Read More
Published: June 15, 2021
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
“It might seem daunting,” PhD student Zain Raza acknowledged in a video providing application tips to prospective students in the Department of Philosophy earlier this year. “The size, the privilege, the status, the reputation of the department” all might make you think of it as a place focused solely on … Read More
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Posted In: Announcements, Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George
Congratulations to Professor Nick Stang on his second term as a Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Metaphysics and Its History. In his ongoing project, Stang intends to broaden the scope of his work on Immanuel Kant and metaphysics from his first CRC term, which commenced in 2015. While his recent research … Read More
Published: June 10, 2021
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, Graduate, St. George, UTM, UTSC
To celebrate the wide range of publications produced by members of the Department of Philosophy in the past year (May 2020–May 2021), we highlight on this page the published work of faculty members, students, postdoctoral fellows, and lecturers. Once again, we are extremely proud of the wide range and innovation … Read More
Published: June 3, 2021
Posted In: Announcements, St. George
The Department of Philosophy is thrilled to welcome Belinda Piercy in her new role as assistant to the chair and Jordan Thomson as tri-campus teaching assistant (TA) coordinator. Both Belinda and Jordan are familiar and respected faces in the department, not only as lecturers but also as members of staff. … Read More
Published: May 19, 2021
Posted In: Awards and Honours, St. George
Congratulations to Joseph Heath, who has been awarded the 2020 Donner Prize.
