Published: June 25, 2026
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
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
Published: May 13, 2026
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George, UTM, UTSC
The Philosophy Department congratulates the latest PhDs to defend their dissertations. David Rattray defended “Getting Purposes in Mind,” supervised by Denis Walsh in October 2025. Denis Walsh describes David Rattray’s work as a highly innovative dissertation that “draws out some of the implications of agent-centred evolutionary biology for traditional issues … Read More
Published: May 11, 2026
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, General, St. George, UTM, UTSC
It is with great sadness that the Department of Philosophy remembers our cherished colleague Professor Emeritus Hans George Herzberger, a philosopher and logician with a varied set of interests from Gottlob Frege’s inexpressible to the silence of Buddha. He passed away in the Rishi Valley, India, on January 30, 2026, … Read More
Published: February 2, 2026
Posted In: Announcements, Awards and Honours, St. George
How best to honour the legacy of a life-long teacher and critical thinker? This was the decision Cara Waterfall, a poet and mentor, had to make after the death of her father, Donald E. Waterfall (1943–2021). The elder Waterfall was an alumnus of and, later, sessional instructor in the Department … Read More
Published: January 30, 2026
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George, Undergraduate, UTM, UTSC
It is our pleasure to announce Kristen Beard as the winner of the 2024-25 Martha Lile Love Teaching Award for her outstanding work teaching PHLB13 Philosophy and Feminism. The committee was greatly impressed by Kristen’s solutions to the difficult task of teaching a large online class in the time of … Read More
Published: January 19, 2026
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, St. George
Congratulations to Franz Huber and Cheryl Misak on the publication of their latest books. Huber‘s Causality, Counterfactuals, and Belief: More Means-End Philosophy just appeared with Oxford University Press. The work offers a novel approach to metaphysics, the philosophy of science, and philosophical logic by exploring means-end derivations of the logics of … Read More
Published: January 9, 2026
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, Graduate, St. George, Undergraduate, UTM, UTSC
The Department of Philosophy is delighted to welcome Stephen Menn, the inaugural Michael & Virginia Walsh Chair in History of Philosophy. His main areas of research are in ancient Greek philosophy (with current projects in Aristotle, in the pre-Socratics, and in neo-Platonism), in medieval Arabic and Latin philosophy, and in … Read More
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Posted In: Alumni, General, St. George, UTM, UTSC
In time for the new year–and the intention-setting that often goes along with it–Philosophy alumna Valerie Tiberius (BA 1990) spoke to MPR News about the difference between a pursuit of happiness and the pursuit of what she calls “flourishing.” Tiberius is now a professor of Philosophy at the University of … Read More
Published: December 15, 2025
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George, UTM, UTSC
We are delighted to announce Alexander de Guzman as the winner of this year’s Martha Lile Love Essay Award for his paper, “Outsourced Deliberation: Attention, Advertising, and the Myth of Control.” He wrote the essay for an independent study with Sara Aronowitz. The selection committee noted about the award-winning essay, … Read More
