Published: November 1, 2017
Posted In: General, In the News, Undergraduate, UTM
Robina Aryubwal, who left Afghanistan with her family after being threatened by a warlord, studies philosophy, political science and French at U of T Mississauga. Her family’s move from Afghanistan is detailed in a new book by CBC journalist Carol Off, All We Leave Behind, a finalist for the Governor General’s … Read More
Published: October 26, 2017
Posted In: Faculty, UTM, Video and Audio
“View to the U” is a series of podcasts hosted by Carla DeMarco of the UTM Office of Research. On a recent episode of the podcast, Professor Mohan Matthen discusses his research in perception, and the scientific perspective he brings to his particular branch of philosophy, as well as his more recent … Read More
Published: October 10, 2017
Posted In: Alumni, Announcements, Faculty, General, Graduate, St. George, Staff, Undergraduate, UTM, UTSC
Our annual newsletter, Philosophy News (PDF), covers the activities, events, and accomplishments of the Department of Philosophy’s faculty, staff, and students over the most recent academic year. 2016-17 was a busy and fruitful year for our department as the study of philosophy continued to grow in breadth and popularity at the … Read More
Published: September 26, 2017
Posted In: Alumni, Announcements, Awards and Honours, UTM
Philosophy specialist Rima Basu (’15), currently a PhD candidate at the University of Southern California, has won an APA Sanders Graduate Student Award for her paper “Moral Encroachment”. Rima’s research is at the intersection of ethics, epistemology, and philosophy of race. These annual prizes are awarded to the three best papers in mind, metaphysics, … Read More
Published: September 16, 2017
Posted In: Announcements, Undergraduate, UTM
The UTM Philosophy Clinic is an extremely useful resource offered for the benefit of students taking Philosophy courses at UTM. The purpose of the essay clinic is to help you improve your academic writing, and specifically your academic writing in Philosophy courses. Visit the UTM Resources page for more information. Winter … Read More
Published: August 31, 2017
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, Undergraduate, UTM
Assistant Professor Owen Ware has just joined the faculty at the University of Toronto Mississauga Department of Philosophy. Prof. Ware works primarily on Kant and early 19th century German philosophy. The focus of his research is on motivation, freedom, justification, and normativity, as well as other topics at the intersection of … Read More
Published: August 29, 2017
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Undergraduate, UTM
The UTM Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce its 2018-19 award winners. Top-of-the-Class Prizes, awarded to the students with the highest final grades in the four sections of PHL103 and PHL113. The 2018-19 winners are Alexander de Guzman, Anisha Hundal, Jeremy Baziw, Breanna Ashkar, and Jehuda Tjahjadi. Excellence 200 … Read More
Published: May 2, 2017
Posted In: Announcements, Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George, UTM
Winner of the 2016 David Savan Dissertation Prize, for best dissertation defended in the Department of Philosophy, is Dominic Alford-Duguid, for his work “Getting Properties in Mind,” supervised by Imogen Dickie and with external examiner Bill Brewer. The dissertation, writes Alford-Duguid, explores “how perception puts us in a position to think … Read More
Published: December 6, 2016
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, UTM
We’re delighted to announce that Prof. Andrew Sepielli is the winner of the first annual Research Prize in the Humanities at UTM. The UTM Annual Research Prizes were established by the Office of the Vice-Principal, Research and UTM’s Research Council in 2016 to recognize outstanding early-career faculty members at the University of … Read More
Published: October 31, 2016
Posted In: Alumni, Announcements, Faculty, UTM
On 11 October 2016, the University of Toronto Mississauga lost a treasured friend and member of our family: Professor Jacqueline Brunning of the Department of Philosophy passed away at age 81. Jackie would dislike that I am writing this because she asked that no commemorations be held in her memory. But … Read More
Published: May 3, 2016
Posted In: Announcements, Awards and Honours, General, St. George, UTM
Congratulations to Karolina Hübner (pictured), Peter King, Martin Pickavé, and Andrew Sepielli on their success in the past round of the Insight grant competition of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). The topics of the funded projects range from “Spinoza on Being” (Hübner) and “Moral Uncertainty … Read More
Congratulations to Diana Raffman on receiving two major awards. The American Philosophical Association (APA) has just announced that her recent book Unruly Words (OUP, 2014) is the winner of the 2015 Sanders Book Prize. The Sanders book prize is awarded “to the best book in philosophy of mind, metaphysics, or epistemology that … Read More
