Conventional wisdom suggests that philosophy isn’t for kids: it’s too abstract, too attention-demanding, and too serious. Not so, according to the minds behind UTM’s new philosophy summer camps. The Little Thinkers Camp and the Philosophy Explorers Camp introduce children aged 6-11 to the wonders of philosophical questions about knowledge, reality, … Read More
Published: August 12, 2026
Posted In: Faculty, In the News, St. George, UTM
According to popular culture, psychopaths are dangerous, sometimes brilliant, but callous, incapable of empathy, and prone to antisocial behaviour and violent crimes. In the law, assessments of psychopathy are used to justify crucial judicial decisions. Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen, Associate Professor of Forensic Epistemology and Philosophy of Science at the University … Read More
Published: July 15, 2026
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, UTM
Congratulations to Owen Ware for receiving the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany. As a result, he is currently a fellow at the Center for Post-Kantian Philosophy at Potsdam University for the 2026 summer semester as well as for 2027. This summer he is working … Read More
Published: June 25, 2026
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George, UTM
We are delighted to announce five faculty promotions to the rank of professor in the department, all of which will take effect on July 1, 2026. Gwen Bradford (St George) studies value theory and normative ethics, and is particularly interested in ill-being—the opposite of well-being—and how perfectionism might account for … Read More
Published: June 8, 2026
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, Graduate, St. George, UTM, UTSC
The philosophy department was very busy in Halifax in early June 2026 with the Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA) annual congress and awards for faculty member William Paris for the CPA Book Prize, Tarek Dika for an honourable mention for the book prize, PhD candidate Raphaelle Dupont for the Student Essay … Read More
Published: May 13, 2026
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George, UTM, UTSC
The Philosophy Department congratulates the latest PhDs to defend their dissertations. David Rattray defended “Getting Purposes in Mind,” supervised by Denis Walsh in October 2025. Denis Walsh describes David Rattray’s work as a highly innovative dissertation that “draws out some of the implications of agent-centred evolutionary biology for traditional issues … Read More
Published: May 11, 2026
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, General, St. George, UTM, UTSC
It is with great sadness that the Department of Philosophy remembers our cherished colleague Professor Emeritus Hans George Herzberger, a philosopher and logician with a varied set of interests from Gottlob Frege’s inexpressible to the silence of Buddha. He passed away in the Rishi Valley, India, on January 30, 2026, … Read More
Published: January 30, 2026
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George, Undergraduate, UTM, UTSC
It is our pleasure to announce Kristen Beard as the winner of the 2024-25 Martha Lile Love Teaching Award for her outstanding work teaching PHLB13 Philosophy and Feminism. The committee was greatly impressed by Kristen’s solutions to the difficult task of teaching a large online class in the time 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: December 15, 2025
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George, UTM, UTSC
We are delighted to announce Alexander de Guzman as the winner of this year’s Martha Lile Love Essay Award for his paper, “Outsourced Deliberation: Attention, Advertising, and the Myth of Control.” He wrote the essay for an independent study with Sara Aronowitz. The selection committee noted about the award-winning essay, … Read More
Published: December 10, 2025
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George, UTM, UTSC
Congratulations to Liang Zhou Koh, the most recently minted PhD in the Department of Philosophy at U of T. He successfully defended his dissertation in the field of epistemology titled “Knowing Together,” written under the supervision of Jennifer Nagel. He has now taken on a postdoctoral fellowship in the Philosophy … Read More
