Published: February 18, 2020
Posted In: Announcements, Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George, UTM, UTSC
With great pleasure we announce that Eliran Haziza has emerged as the winner of this year’s Martha Lile Love Essay Award for his essay titled “Asserting, Implying, and Knowing That You Know.” In the piece, Eliran argues that if one accepts a knowledge norm of assertion, according to which one … Read More
Published: January 10, 2020
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, General, St. George, UTM, UTSC
Colin Howson, a respected philosopher of science and decision theorist who taught at the University of Toronto’s Department of Philosophy between 2008 and 2014, passed away on Sunday, January 5, 2020, leaving behind his spouse of many years, Professor Emerita Margaret Morrison. At U of T, Howson led classes on … Read More
Published: November 20, 2019
Posted In: Alumni, Graduate, In the News, St. George, UTM
Recent UTM philosophy graduate Unnati Patel and her family this year celebrate fall Convocation, 30 years after her first graduation, when she received a degree in applied science and electrical engineering. Read more about Unnati’s journey in U of T News. You can also listen to Unnati speak with Matt … Read More
Published: October 21, 2019
Posted In: Awards and Honours, UTM
Professors Gurpreet Rattan and Byeong Yi were awarded multiyear SSHRC Insight Grants in 2019. Rattan’s project, “The Intellect and Its Limits,” explores the necessary, principled, limits of the intellect, which derive from the very idea of trying to attain an objective perspective on the world.” Yi’s “Semantic Relationism and the … Read More
Published: October 7, 2019
Posted In: Faculty, In the News, UTM
Professor Jennifer Nagel is one of thousands of Canadians who stepped forward in response to the Syrian refugee crisis to participate in private refugee sponsorship. John Lorinc (BSc 1987, UC), who writes about urban affairs and business for various media, including U of T Magazine, talks with Professor Nagel for … Read More
Published: September 12, 2019
Posted In: UTM
The UTM Department of Philosophy is delighted to announce that on September 24, Justice Beverley McLachlin will visit UTM to give us a glimpse inside her newly published memoir, Truth Be Told: My Journey Through Life and the Law (Simon & Schuster, September 2019). McLachlin, who holds BA and MA … Read More
Published: June 13, 2019
Posted In: Faculty, St. George, UTM
Alex Koo joins the St. George and UTM Departments as Assistant Professor (Teaching-Stream). A renowned teacher of logic, Prof. Koo has already developed new pedagogical strategies for several large courses offered on both campuses. In particular, he has revamped PHL245H: Modern Symbolic Logic to be a hybrid and flipped course, … Read More
Published: March 22, 2019
Posted In: Graduate, St. George, UTM
In March 2019, Prof. Jennifer Nagel of UTM Philosophy delivered the Presidential Address at the 2019 meeting of the American Philosophical Association’s Central Division in Denver, Colorado. Nagel is the first scholar from a Canadian university to be elected president of an APA division.
This article originally appeared on the UTM News website. Owen Ware earned his PhD in philosophy at the University of Toronto, and seven years later, he’s delighted to be back as an assistant professor at UTM. “It’s like coming full circle and being back home,” says Ware. “When I saw … Read More
Published: October 23, 2018
Posted In: Announcements, St. George, Undergraduate, UTM, UTSC
Founded in 1998, Noēsis is our department’s journal of undergraduate philosophy, and they are now accepting submissions for their 20th edition. All undergraduate students from a Canadian university (or on exchange at a Canadian university) are invited to submit their best papers for publication. Submission guidelines and instructions can be found on the … Read More
Published: September 28, 2018
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, St. George, UTM, UTSC
Five of our faculty members were recently announced as recipients of the Social Sciences and Humanities Council’s Insight Grants, a program whose goal is to support research excellence in all subject areas of the humanities and social sciences. Both emerging and established scholars are eligible to receive funding for research initiatives … Read More
Published: July 25, 2018
Posted In: Faculty, General, Graduate, St. George, UTM
The tri-campus Department of Philosophy is very proud of the breadth of specialists we have in all branches of philosophy, and we’ve started to feature brief reflections from a diverse range of our scholars on key issues in their particular fields. In the last issue of our annual magazine, Philosophy News, we … Read More
