Published: June 3, 2021
Posted In: Announcements, St. George
The Department of Philosophy is thrilled to welcome Belinda Piercy in her new role as assistant to the chair and Jordan Thomson as tri-campus teaching assistant (TA) coordinator. Both Belinda and Jordan are familiar and respected faces in the department, not only as lecturers but also as members of staff. … Read More
Published: May 19, 2021
Posted In: Awards and Honours, St. George
Congratulations to Joseph Heath, who has been awarded the 2020 Donner Prize.
Published: May 7, 2021
Posted In: Awards and Honours, St. George, Staff
It’s hard not to feel at ease around him: a warm smile always on his face, Eric Correia, the Department of Philosophy’s undergraduate administrator, will do what he can to make your life less stressful. He feels it’s simply his job: “I’ve always tried to look at things from the … Read More
Published: April 28, 2021
Posted In: Faculty, In the News, St. George
Read an interview with Arthur Ripstein, 2021 Killam Prize winner and the author of a forthcoming book on Kant’s views on war and their present-day relevance. Here, Ripstein speaks to Sean McNeely from the Faculty of Arts & Science about the element of war that makes it distinctively wrong, in … Read More
Published: April 27, 2021
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George, UTM, UTSC
The department is thrilled to announce that Sonia Sedivy and Gurpreet Rattan have been promoted to the rank of full professor, effective July 1, 2021. Sedivy, who has worked in the department for more than 20 years, serves as the current chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University … Read More
Published: April 21, 2021
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George
Congratulations to Professor Joseph Heath for having his latest book, The Machinery of Government: Public Administration and the Liberal State (Oxford University Press, 2020), shortlisted for the prestigious 2020 Donner Prize. The award, founded in 1998, annually rewards excellence and innovation in public policy writing by Canadians. In bestowing this recognition, … Read More
Published: April 19, 2021
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, St. George
Architecture—so intertwined is it with our daily lives that most of us rarely pause to think about it, except maybe when travelling (remember that?) or reconsidering our places of residence. Yet the built environment, from the lowly doorknob to such spectacular feats of engineering as the 1,200-foot glass pedestrian bridge … Read More
Published: April 16, 2021
Posted In: Announcements, St. George, Undergraduate, UTM
The department is saddened to announce the passing of a beloved sessional instructor, Donald (“Don”) E. Waterfall, at his Toronto home on Sunday, April 11, 2021. Waterfall, who had earned a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Toronto and a PhD in the same field from Princeton, had … Read More
Published: April 9, 2021
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
At the end of March, C Dalrymple-Fraser, one of the department’s PhD students and course instructors, received recognition for their dedication to accessible, equitable, and practice-based undergraduate instruction in the form of a Superior Graduate Student Course Instructor Teaching Award from the Faculty of Arts & Science. C’s PHL382 course, … Read More
Published: March 24, 2021
Posted In: Awards and Honours, St. George, Undergraduate
Her graduation—in the summer of 2020—did not look quite as she had imagined: instead of stepping onto the stage in Convocation Hall under the applause of proud family, friends, and peers, Sophia Whicher stood at home, intensely watching a screen for her own name, whose appearance would mark her as … Read More
Published: March 18, 2021
Posted In: Awards and Honours, St. George, Undergraduate
Molly Dea-Stephenson and Sanghoon Oh, two of our Philosophy undergraduates, have been awarded a University of Toronto Student Leadership (“Cressy”) Award for their sustained and enthusiastic efforts on behalf of the student community. Molly, who is in the final year of her bachelor’s degree, has become a well-known entity in … Read More
Published: March 9, 2021
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
PhD student Rashad Rehman has received the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award for the 2020 Annual Concerned Philosophers for Peace (CPP) Conference for his essay “Pieper’s Defense of Aquinas on Peace.” The yearly conference had been rescheduled to January of this year from October 2020 because of the current coronavirus … Read More
