Published: May 7, 2024
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George, UTSC
Congratulations to Andrew Y. Lee, who emerged from a highly competitive field as the winner of the 2024 Marc Sanders Prize in Metaphysics with his essay “A Puzzle about Sums.” The biennial Sanders Prize is an essay competition open to scholars within 15 years of receiving their doctoral degree, as … Read More
Published: April 9, 2024
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George
In recognition of his service to the University of Toronto in a variety of roles, University Professor of philosophy and law Arthur Ripstein, Howard Beck, Q.C., Chair, has received the 2024 Vivek Goel Faculty Citizenship Award. The Vivek Goel Faculty Citizenship Award recognizes a faculty member who has served the University … Read More
Published: April 8, 2024
Posted In: Awards and Honours, St. George, Undergraduate
Congratulations to Steven Coyne who, alongside his E3I colleagues Sheila McIlraith, Diane Horton, and David Liu, all from the Department of Computer Science, was honored with the 2024 Northrop Frye Award (Team), one of the prestigious U of T Alumni Association Awards of Excellence.
Published: March 22, 2024
Posted In: Alumni, Announcements, Graduate, St. George
Scott Alexander Howard, who earned his PhD in Philosophy in 2011 and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard, has published his much-anticipated first novel, The Other Valley (Simon & Schuster, 2024). Howard, whose academic work focused on the relationship among memory, emotion, and literature, has written a piece of speculative … Read More
Published: March 18, 2024
Posted In: Faculty, St. George
Enrollment trends in North American have shown a marked decline in the humanities (with a parallel increase in the social sciences, law and business, commerce, management, and math and computer science). This development has not manifested at the Department of Philosophy at U of T. In a recent post on … Read More
Published: March 6, 2024
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George, UTM
Earlier this year the Philosopher’s Annual in its volume 42 made its selection for the 10 best articles published in philosophy in 2022. We are delighted to announce the inclusion in that illustrious grouping of James Allen‘s “Radicalism and Moderation in the New Academy,” originally published in Phronesis, no. 67. As … Read More
Published: January 9, 2024
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George
Rachel Barney, internationally recognized as one of the world’s most innovative and creative researchers on ancient Greek philosophy, has received a 2023 Dean’s Research Excellence Award from the Faculty of Arts & Science at the University of Toronto. Launched last year, the Dean’s Research Excellence Awards recognize faculty members with … Read More
Published: January 5, 2024
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George
Congratulations to Rebecca Comay, a professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature, who was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Copenhagen on recommendation of its Faculty of Theology. Her citation described Comay as “an internationally renowned scholar who for more than three decades has made significant contributions to research … Read More
Published: December 20, 2023
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
With great pleasure we announce that Andriy Bilenkyy has won the 2023 Martha Lile Love Teaching Award for his exemplary work in teaching PHL388 Literature and Philosophy. Andriy’s thoroughgoing dedication to teaching and to rigorous reflection on pedagogy evident, the committee was impressed by his thoughtful of application of principles and practices derived from pedagogical research … Read More
Published: December 19, 2023
Posted In: General
All of us at the Department of Philosophy wish our community a safe, happy, and restful holiday season, as well as a peaceful, inspiring, and fruitful new year 2024. In line with the University of Toronto’s winter closure, the department’s administrative offices will close their doors at noon on Wednesday, … Read More
Published: December 15, 2023
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
In the past few months, a number of our graduate students have successfully defended their dissertations. We congratulate them on their success and look forward to seeing where their intellectual journeys will next take them. In order of defense date, they are: Rashad Rehman, whose thesis was titled “The Ethics … Read More
Published: December 1, 2023
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, In the News, St. George, UTM, UTSC
A generous donation from Michael and Virginia Walsh, matched by the Faculty of Arts & Science, will create a $5 million endowment to support the first endowed chair in the Department of Philosophy, the Michael & Virginia Walsh Chair in History of Philosophy.
