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: 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
Published: February 7, 2025
Posted In: Awards and Honours, St. George, Undergraduate, UTM, UTSC
In the fall of 2024, with the generous support of donor Anita Angelini, the Department of Philosophy launched two new tri-campus prizes for excellence in undergraduate philosophical writing: the Spinoza Award and the Hypatia Award. The Spinoza Award honours the best philosophy essay by an undergraduate in their first two … Read More
Published: January 15, 2025
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George, UTM
For its 2024 prizes, the American Philosophical Association (APA) selected Jennifer Nagel to deliver the 2026 Patrick Romanell Lecture, which is presented annually at a divisional meeting of the APA on the topic of philosophical naturalism. The APA publishes the Romanell Lecture each year in the Proceedings and Addresses of … Read More
Published: October 3, 2024
Posted In: Faculty, General, St. George, UTM, UTSC
As part of the Landmark Project on King’s College Circle, a tree and paver have been installed to honour the memory of two respected and beloved department members—André Gombay (1943-2014) and Joseph Boyle (1942-2016). This public recognition at the centre of the University of Toronto’s St. George campus became possible … Read More
Published: September 30, 2024
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George, UTM, UTSC
With great pleasure we announce that Alice Chao-Wei Huang has been selected as the winner of the 2024 David Savan Dissertation Prize for her dissertation “Diversity in the Time of Data,” supervised by Jonathan Weisberg. An honorable mention goes to Henry Krahn for his dissertation “Protest as Holding Others Accountable,” supervised by … Read More
Published: September 13, 2024
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, St. George, UTM
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our emeritus colleague Jack Stevenson, who passed away at the age of 92. He had joined the department in 1966, initially as a visiting professor from the University of Manitoba, then as a regular faculty member. Born in Ottawa, … Read More
Published: March 6, 2024
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George, UTM
Earlier this year the Philosopher’s Annual in its volume 42 made its selection for the 10 best articles published in philosophy in 2022. We are delighted to announce the inclusion in that illustrious grouping of James Allen‘s “Radicalism and Moderation in the New Academy,” originally published in Phronesis, no. 67. As … Read More
Published: December 1, 2023
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, In the News, St. George, UTM, UTSC
A generous donation from Michael and Virginia Walsh, matched by the Faculty of Arts & Science, will create a $5 million endowment to support the first endowed chair in the Department of Philosophy, the Michael & Virginia Walsh Chair in History of Philosophy.
Published: November 13, 2023
Posted In: Alumni, Announcements, Faculty, Graduate, St. George, UTM, UTSC
It is with great sadness that the Department of Philosophy announces that our colleague, friend, alumnus, and respected teacher David Gauthier has died. He passed away on Thursday, November 9, 2023, at the age of 91. Gauthier earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from our department in 1954, to then … Read More
Published: September 8, 2023
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George, UTM, UTSC
Immense congratulations to Professor Emeritus William E. Seager for his recent appointment as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada—a prestigious distinction reserved for the country’s most distinguished scholars, artists, and scientists. The RSC’s website describes Seager as “one of the world’s leading philosophers of mind” whose original and … Read More
Published: August 22, 2023
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George, UTM
Jennifer Nagel had the honour of being selected to give the 2023 John Locke Lectures at the University of Oxford. In May and June of this year, Nagel gave six distinct lectures on the topic of “Recognizing Knowledge: Intuitive and Reflective Epistemology.” The John Locke Lectures, begun in 1950, rank … Read More
