Published: August 27, 2026
Congratulations to the recipients of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Grant competition. Read about the 12 projects below. The department set a record for most successful applications in one year! The successful colleagues are Donald Ainslie, David Barnett, Mike Caie, Jessica Gelber, Reza Hadisi, … Read More
Andrew Lee, Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy, has received the OVPRI Emerging Scholar Award, which recognizes outstanding early-career researchers at U of T Scarborough.
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 17, 2026
Posted In: Faculty
University Professor Emeritus Wayne Sumner has just published an article in the Canadian Journal of Philosophy called “Defending Morality.” It is a revised version of his recent Canadian Philosophical Association’s keynote address in June 2026. His article considers the work of Ronnie de Sousa, another Emeritus Professor from the department, whose … 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: August 7, 2026
Posted In: Faculty, St. George
With Canada’s sovereignty under threat from the United States, it turns out this is a good time for the first issue of the Canadian Journal of Political Philosophy to be published. Its advisory board includes figures such as Michael Ignatieff and John Ralston Saul as well as University of Toronto’s … Read More
Published: July 31, 2026
The Institute of Iranian Studies at the University of Toronto has presented Reza Hadisi with the Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Faculty Scholar Award. The Institute states that the award shall be granted to University of Toronto tenure-track faculty members in Iranian/Persian studies to assist in compiling successful tenure files. Activities covered may … 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 15, 2026
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George
Congratulations to William Paris for winning the Canadian Philosophical Association’s (CPA) 2026 Book Award for Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation (Oxford University Press, 2025). By analyzing the writings of historical figures like W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Delany, Marcus Garvey, Frantz Fanon, and … 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 28, 2026
Posted In: Faculty, In the News, St. George, UTSC
Eric Mathison, assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto Scarborough, comments in a Globe & Mail story about a disciplined MAID doctor in Ontario (May 28, 2026). “A single physician’s conduct shouldn’t lead us to conclude that MAID itself needs more safeguards any more than a single bad … Read More
