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
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
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
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
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
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
Published: August 10, 2020
Posted In: Announcements, General, St. George, UTM, UTSC
Elizabeth Zhu is a name to remember. Last year, as a 16-year-old Grade 11 student, Elizabeth genuinely impressed the judges with her submission to the 2019 Aristotle Contest, an annual essay-writing competition co-hosted between U of T’s Department of Philosophy and OPTA, the Ontario Philosophy Teachers’ Association. The adjudicating committee … Read More
Published: June 25, 2020
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George, UTM, UTSC
We are thrilled to announce that three members of the department—Waheed Hussain, James John, and Owen Ware—have been promoted to rank of Associate Professor. Hussain and Ware have just received tenure; by the middle of next week (July 1), they will be at the rank of Associate Professor with tenure. … Read More
Published: June 3, 2020
Posted In: Alumni, Announcements, In the News, Undergraduate, UTM
This fall, U of T Mississauga’s Abraham Mathew will join MIT’s PhD program in philosophy, one of the top five programs in the English-speaking world. Here, the star student (he is U of T’s top-performing student overall this year) plans to continue to find ways to make his chosen field of … Read More
Published: May 13, 2020
Posted In: Announcements, Graduate, St. George, UTM, UTSC
We have two freshly minted PhDs in the department: Jessica Wright and Daniel Rabinoff. Jessica, who wrote her dissertation titled “Owning Implicit Attitudes” under the supervision of Jennifer Nagel, defended her thesis without a hitch on Tuesday, May 5, 2020—as is typical during our current moment, online, via Zoom. Today, … Read More
Published: April 30, 2020
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, General, Graduate, St. George, Undergraduate, UTM, UTSC
Every year, the Department of Philosophy hosts a Book Launch and Spring Party to celebrate major publications by faculty members, bring closure to one academic year, and welcome the possibilities of a new one. In 2020, things have turned out a little different—but that doesn’t mean we cannot acknowledge the … Read More
Published: April 17, 2020
Posted In: Awards and Honours, St. George, Undergraduate, UTM, UTSC
For 2019–2020, the Jackman Humanities Institute (JHI) chose “Strange Weather” as the annual theme for its Circle of Fellows. Two of our undergraduates, Olivia Smith and Zachary Rosen, spent the academic year as JHI Undergraduate Fellows in the Humanities. Smith, a fourth-year student double-majoring in Philosophy and Peace, Conflict, and … Read More
