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Carefully Balancing Caution and Creativity: The Winners of the 2021 Aristotle Contest

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

Past Six Months in Review

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

Owen Ware Recipient of a 2021 UTM Annual Research Prize

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

Recent Book Titles by Faculty Members

Published: October 14, 2021

Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, St. George, UTM, UTSC

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

Celebrating Philosophy Publications 2020-2021

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

Gurpreet Rattan and Sonia Sedivy Promoted to Rank of Full Professor

Published: April 27, 2021

Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George, UTM, UTSC

The department is thrilled to announce that Sonia Sedivy and Gurpreet Rattan have been promoted to the rank of full professor, effective July 1, 2021. Sedivy, who has worked in the department for more than 20 years, serves as the current chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University … Read More

Donald Ernest Waterfall (1943 – 2021)

Published: April 16, 2021

Posted In: Announcements, St. George, Undergraduate, UTM

The department is saddened to announce the passing of a beloved sessional instructor, Donald (“Don”) E. Waterfall, at his Toronto home on Sunday, April 11, 2021. Waterfall, who had earned a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Toronto and a PhD in the same field from Princeton, had … Read More

New Book on Kant by Owen Ware

Published: March 5, 2021

Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, St. George, UTM

Congratulations to Professor Owen Ware on the publication of his latest book, Kant’s Justification of Ethics (Oxford University Press). Blending historical and analytical methods of interpretation, Ware’s new work offers a novel reading of Kant’s foundational arguments for freedom and morality, as well as of Kant’s theories of moral feeling, moral motivation, … Read More

Lu-Vada Dunford Receives Martha Lile Love Teaching Award for 2019-2020

Published: December 18, 2020

Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George, UTM

PhD student Lu-Vada Dunford has won the the Martha Lile Love Teaching Award for 2019-2020 for her outstanding course PHL204H5F Philosophy in Everyday Life, taught at the UTM campus in the fall of 2019. The adjudicating committee found that Lu-Vada brilliantly designed a course that would interest students from a … Read More

Two More Recent Publications with Oxford University Press: Joseph Heath and Owen Ware

Published: December 15, 2020

Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, St. George, UTM

Need some reading material in philosophy over the break? Look no further. Besides the books we have been announcing over the past weeks, two more have been published in recent months by members of the department. Joseph Heath‘s The Machinery of Government: Public Administration and the Liberal State (Oxford University Press) offers … Read More

October 2020 Departmental e-News

Published: October 26, 2020

Posted In: Alumni, Announcements, Awards and Honours, Faculty, Graduate, In the News, St. George, Undergraduate, UTM, UTSC

The past six months have passed in a whirlwind, but they’ve been incredibly productive and successful for the department! Take a look at a recap of our biggest news since March in issue 12 of the Department of Philosophy e-News. Accidentally missing from the announcements in the e-bulletin is another … Read More

Matthew Scarfone Contributes to The Conversation

Published: September 24, 2020

Posted In: In the News, UTM

The recent death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg has once again stirred discussions around reproductive rights. In light of these, Philosophy postdoctoral fellow Matthew Scarfone (UTM), an ethicist, has recently published a piece on the moral arguments used to defend both the pro-choice and the pro-life positions in The Conversation. Read his … Read More

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