Published: June 18, 2024
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
The Philosophy Department is proud to add two new PhDs to its roster. On June 4, Alice Chao-Wei Huang defended a thesis titled “Diversity in the Time of Data,” supervised by Jonathan Weisberg. Eric Shoemaker also passed his doctoral defense for “The Rule of Ordinary People: The Case for a Sortition-Based … Read More
Published: June 14, 2024
Posted In: Graduate, St. George
In May, students Andriy Bilenkyy, Joshua Brecka, Alex Drusda, Julia Minarik, Tessa Ng, Nate Oppel, Jasmine Tremblay d’Ettorre, and Cameron Yetman each received a Graduate Student Service Award. The annual prize celebrates initiatives undertaken by graduate students to support and improve the community. The honourees bargained for better conditions through … Read More
Published: June 7, 2024
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George
In April, Rachel Barney spoke at University of California, Berkeley to deliver the prestigious Tanner Lectures on Human Values. Barney’s three lectures, collectively titled “The Authority of Craft,” centered around recovering Plato’s idea of craft or art, technê, and the craft model: the idea that both the moral virtue of … Read More
Published: June 5, 2024
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George, UTSC
The Department of Philosophy extends its warmest congratulations to faculty members Avia Pasternak and Nick Stang for their promotion to the rank of professor. A member of the Graduate Department of Philosophy at St. George, Pasternak also teaches at the University of Toronto Scarborough campus. Her research centers around questions … Read More
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Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George
Professor Emerita Ingrid Stefanovic recently received an NSERC Alliance grant for her work looking at the problem of reducing greenhouse gases (GHGs), as part of a team headed by Ali Bayat at the University of Alberta. Canadians rely daily on underground infrastructure delivery services and utilities: water and wastewater, energy, … Read More
Published: May 14, 2024
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
Congratulations to our most recently minted PhDs! In April, Michael Kirley successfully defended “The Cognitive Conception of Intentional Action,” written under the supervision of Sergio Tenenbaum and Philip Clark. In the first half of May, his success was followed by that of Henry Krahn and Felix Lambrecht. Krahn brought to … Read More
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
