Published: July 15, 2020
Posted In: Faculty, St. George
Mark Kingwell, recent recipient of the 2020 Erving Goffman Award for his Wish I Were Here: Boredom and the Interface, recently published a short article titled “The Science of Denial” in Maclean’s magazine. Read about the place, power, and pitfalls of denial in the current political climate, or find out more … Read More
Published: July 6, 2020
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George
Peter King is an active contributor to a new five-year SSHRC Insight Grant project on the topic of “Practices of Commentary” centred at the University of Toronto (2020–2025). The project’s primary goal is to set new research agendas for the longue durée of an interpretive mode that has been used … Read More
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Posted In: Awards and Honours, St. George, Undergraduate
Congratulations to Amani Haskouri and Kate Kazimowicz, two recent Philosophy grads, for being honoured with awards from their home college, Vic. Kate, who graduated in the summer of 2019, received the John E. Engeland Award. This honour goes to the Victoria College graduating student with the highest overall A standing … Read More
Published: June 25, 2020
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George, UTM, UTSC
We are thrilled to announce that three members of the department—Waheed Hussain, James John, and Owen Ware—have been promoted to rank of Associate Professor. Hussain and Ware have just received tenure; by the middle of next week (July 1), they will be at the rank of Associate Professor with tenure. … Read More
Published: June 22, 2020
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George
Congratulations to Mark Kingwell, whose Wish I Were Here: Boredom and the Interface (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2019) won the Media Ecology Association’s (MEA) 2020 Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction. The prize recognizes outstanding work published in book form that focuses on social situations, symbolic … Read More
Published: June 19, 2020
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
This week, two more graduate students in the department successfully defended their doctoral dissertations: Mason Westfall‘s (pictured) “Understanding Minds: Essays on Social Cognition” passed the committee without changes on Monday, June 15. Evan Taylor followed suit on Friday, June 19, defending his thesis entitled “Knowledge and Anxious Thought,” also as … Read More
Published: June 12, 2020
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
We are delighted to go into the weekend with the announcement that Parisa Moosavi has been selected as the winner of the 2019 David Savan Dissertation Prize, awarded in recognition “of the excellence of a doctoral thesis in philosophy submitted and successfully defended by a student in the Graduate Department … Read More
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Posted In: Faculty, General, St. George
In the current moment, strongmen once again abound in global politics. David Dyzenhaus, the Albert Abel Chair of Law and a professor of both law and philosophy at U of T, moves beyond facile ideas of “populism” to examine the intellectual foundations and constitutional ideas behind the phenomenon in a … Read More
Published: June 3, 2020
Posted In: Alumni, Announcements, In the News, Undergraduate, UTM
This fall, U of T Mississauga’s Abraham Mathew will join MIT’s PhD program in philosophy, one of the top five programs in the English-speaking world. Here, the star student (he is U of T’s top-performing student overall this year) plans to continue to find ways to make his chosen field of … Read More
Published: June 2, 2020
Posted In: Alumni, Announcements, Undergraduate
As we celebrate and honour the graduating class of 2020 with the U of T Virtual Convocation 2020, a few words from our undergraduate chair and the department chair: Congratulations, Class of 2020! You—our graduating majors, specialists, and minors—have done us proud: above all through your commitment to philosophy during … Read More
Published: June 1, 2020
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, St. George, Video and Audio
Have 20 minutes? Then come join Cheryl Misak as she speaks to Nigel Warburton and David Edmonds on their philosophy podcast, Philosophy Bites. The episode, originally released on Saturday, May 30, 2020, has her talk about the subject of her recently published biography, Frank Ramsey, and his more widely known … Read More
Published: May 26, 2020
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George
Congratulations to Joseph Heath, who has been awarded a Killam Research Fellowship from the Canada Council for the Arts. “I am pleased and honored to have been awarded a Killam Research Fellowship,” says Heath. “The project that I will be working on is entirely new yet it also represents a return to … Read More
