Published: April 5, 2022
Posted In: Awards and Honours, General, Graduate, St. George
The past few months have proven a period of success and recognition for Felix Lambrecht, a Vanier Scholar and PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy with primary research interests in political philosophy, legal philosophy, and ethics. Not only did the School of Cities name him one of its 2022 … Read More
Published: April 1, 2022
Posted In: Awards and Honours, St. George, Undergraduate, UTM
Alex de Guzman, a specialist in UTM Philosophy and the president of its Academic Philosophy Society, is a 2021-22 Jackman Humanities Institute (JHI) Undergraduate Fellow (Jukka-Pekka Saraste Undergraduate Award in the Humanities). Read more about his JHI project, titled “Aesthetic Experience: Heroic Higher Pleasure.”
Published: March 18, 2022
Posted In: Faculty, St. George, UTM, UTSC
We’re delighted to announce the recent publication of three books by or about the work of members of the Department of Philosophy. The Long Arc of Legality: Hobbes, Kelsen, Hart (Cambridge University Press, 2022), by David Dyzenhaus, breaks the current deadlock in philosophy of law between legal positivism and natural … Read More
Published: March 17, 2022
Posted In: Awards and Honours, St. George, Undergraduate, UTSC
Marybel Menzies, a specialist in UTSC Philosophy and a major in Psychology, is a 2021-22 Jackman Humanities Institute (JHI) Undergraduate Fellow (Zoltan D. Simo Undergraduate Award in the Humanities). Read more about her JHI project, titled “Subjectivity and the Aesthetic Experience.”
Published: February 23, 2022
Posted In: Faculty, In the News, St. George
Recently, William Paris spoke to the Faculty of Arts & Science’s Sean McNeeley about his work, what originally drew him to explore thinkers from Africa and the African diaspora, and his current course, Philosophy and Social Criticism, which focuses on how our notions of justice change over time.
Published: February 16, 2022
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
Congratulations to Felix Lambrecht for being awarded a 2022 School of Cities (SoC) Graduate Fellowship. This SoC program brings together an interdisciplinary group of University of Toronto doctoral students who share a passion for city-building and solutions to critical urban challenges. Throughout the fellowship, students will collaborate with scholars at … Read More
Published: February 14, 2022
Posted In: Announcements, General, Graduate, St. George
‘Tis the season to consider romantic love—but what of the broken heart? In Psyche, graduate student Alexandra Gustafson takes us on a tour of literature and the everyday to ponder the sublimity of unrequited love.
Published: February 10, 2022
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
Kayla Wiebe, a PhD candidate whose dissertation focuses on the concept of autonomy and who also serves as a bioethicist at SickKids hospital, recently won the 2021 Martha Lile Love Teaching Award for her course PHL 440—Clinical Bioethics. The course introduced students to this subfield of biomedical ethics, which zooms … Read More
Published: February 4, 2022
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, St. George, UTM, UTSC
With deep sadness the department announces the passing of our colleague Frank Cunningham. He suffered from leukemia and died at his Vancouver home on February 4, 2022, assisted by the Canadian Medical Assistance in Dying program. Maryka Omatsu, his wife of more than 50 years, wrote: “Frank died as he … Read More
Published: January 28, 2022
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
Congratulations to Natalie Helberg on passing her PhD defense, the department’s first of 2022, with flying colours. Helberg successfully defended her thesis titled “Catherine Malabou’s Dangerous Supplement,” written under the supervision of Rebecca Comay, on January 28, 2022. Helberg currently holds a position as lecturer in Concordia University’s Department of … Read More
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Posted In: In the News, St. George, UTM
When Sana Hashim‘s life turned upside down, the UTM student used her studies as an anchor—and reached out to some of her professors for help. The department’s Sergio Tenenbaum was one of them.
Published: January 14, 2022
Posted In: Graduate, In the News, St. George
In some of his recent courses, Daniel Munro, a recent graduate and now a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy, has tried assigning something different from the traditional essays and exams: creative public philosophy projects. In a guest post for the Daily Nous, he talks about both the benefits and … Read More
