Published: November 12, 2019
Posted In: Announcements, General
The evidence is clear: Canadian high school students do not shy away from the difficult questions. In collaboration with the Ontario Philosophy Teachers’ Association (OPTA), U of T’s Department of Philosophy this year once again called on budding philosophers in Canada to show their intellectual mettle and respond to one … 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 16, 2019
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George
Assistant Professor, Brendan de Kenessey, and his project on Relationships and Moral Constraints has is one of 52 winners of the 2018-2019 Connaught New Research Award. The Connaught New Research Award is designed to help recipients establish a strong research program and increase their competitiveness for external funding. The Award … Read More
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Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate
The Collaborative Program in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (CPAMP) and the Department of Philosophy congratulate graduate student Douglas Campbell as the winner of the 2018-2019 Essay Prize in Ancient Philosophy for his essay “Tomb and Prison: Plato on the Body as Cause of Psychic Disorders.” External adjudicator, Professor Emeritus John … 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: August 21, 2019
Posted In: Awards and Honours, St. George
It is our pleasure to announce that Brendan de Kenessey is one of the winners of the APA’s (American Philosophical Association‘s) 2019 Public Philosophy Op-Ed Contest. Brendan received this recognition for a piece on addiction – “People are dying because we misunderstand how those with addiction think”. It was published … Read More
Published: August 1, 2019
Posted In: Alumni, St. George
The Department of Philosophy is sad to report the passing of Dr. Abbyann D. Lynch, C.M., O.Ont., L.M.S., Ph.D., LL.D (Hon.), D.S.L. (Hon.). Abbyann was a philosopher and bioethicist, a pioneer in bioethics in Canada, and one of the founders of the Department’s bioethics programs. She also offered the Department’s first … Read More
Published: July 29, 2019
Posted In: Graduate, St. George
The Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto is pleased to announce the 19th annual Graduate Philosophy Conference, to be held November 15-16, 2019 in Toronto, Ontario. Our theme this year is „Reconstructing Reason: Developing the concept of reason through history‟. The conference invites submissions from graduate students working … Read More
Published: July 11, 2019
Elisa Freschi will join the department in February 2020. A specialist in South Asian philosophy, she is working on two major projects, one on deontic logic in classical Indian philosophy, and the other on issues in theology. Her main areas of research include philosophy of language and epistemology, with the … Read More
Published: July 4, 2019
Posted In: Alumni, Announcements, Awards and Honours, St. George
We’re delighted to announce that Owen Pikkert (PhD, 2018) has been selected as the winner of the 2018 David Savan Dissertation Prize for his dissertation Leibniz and the Principle of Sufficient Reason, supervised by Professor Marleen Rozemond. “I came to graduate school knowing two things about Leibniz. The first is that Leibniz believed that God … Read More
Published: June 13, 2019
Trevor Teitel will join the department as Assistant Professor of Philosophy in July 2020. Trevor earned his B.A. in the department, and was an early student in its award-winning Socrates Project. He then completed a B.Phil at Oxford, and is currently finishing a PhD at NYU. His main research interests … Read More
