Published: May 15, 2020
Posted In: Faculty, In the News, St. George, UTSC, Video and Audio
Do individual choices make a difference to large-scale problems (think global warming or the spread of a pandemic)? Is there such a thing as collective impact or does an individual’s relative insignificance mean that we can all do as we please? These are some of the questions our department’s Julia … Read More
Published: May 13, 2020
Posted In: Announcements, Graduate, St. George, UTM, UTSC
We have two freshly minted PhDs in the department: Jessica Wright and Daniel Rabinoff. Jessica, who wrote her dissertation titled “Owning Implicit Attitudes” under the supervision of Jennifer Nagel, defended her thesis without a hitch on Tuesday, May 5, 2020—as is typical during our current moment, online, via Zoom. Today, … Read More
Published: May 11, 2020
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
We are delighted to announce that Daniel Munro, a PhD student in the department, has won the first Philosophy of Memory Essay Prize awarded by the Centre for Philosophy of Memory at the Université Grenoble Alpes. His article, “Remembering the Past and Imagining the Actual,” set itself apart in a … Read More
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Mark Kingwell has a text on navigating the coronavirus crisis included in the first collection of reflections for “Sentencing the Present” with Public Seminar. Note that the editors are seeking further reflections that build on and respond to this first round and are encouraging more thoughtful contributions to this public … Read More
Published: May 5, 2020
Posted In: Faculty, General, In the News, St. George
They are becoming more prevalent on our streets and in grocery stores: face masks, some of them medical grade, many of them homemade. And while some countries, such as Vietnam, Argentina, and Germany, have made the wearing of masks in public settings mandatory, their use remains a mere recommendation in … Read More
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Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George
We are pleased to announce that David Dyzenhaus, a University Professor of law and of philosophy, has been awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship. It is one of the world’s most distinguished honours for mid-career academics who have produced groundbreaking scholarly work and continue to show exceptional promise for future research. Dyzenhaus joined U … Read More
Published: April 30, 2020
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, General, Graduate, St. George, Undergraduate, UTM, UTSC
Every year, the Department of Philosophy hosts a Book Launch and Spring Party to celebrate major publications by faculty members, bring closure to one academic year, and welcome the possibilities of a new one. In 2020, things have turned out a little different—but that doesn’t mean we cannot acknowledge the … Read More
Published: April 17, 2020
Posted In: Awards and Honours, St. George, Undergraduate, UTM, UTSC
For 2019–2020, the Jackman Humanities Institute (JHI) chose “Strange Weather” as the annual theme for its Circle of Fellows. Two of our undergraduates, Olivia Smith and Zachary Rosen, spent the academic year as JHI Undergraduate Fellows in the Humanities. Smith, a fourth-year student double-majoring in Philosophy and Peace, Conflict, and … Read More
Published: April 13, 2020
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, General, Graduate, St. George, Undergraduate
Emma McClure gives it her all in the classroom. While the Philosophy graduate student working at the intersections of feminism, critical race theory, and the ethics of conversation would not deny that teaching comes with its challenges, she finds the work of guiding undergraduates in their learning and thinking too … Read More
Published: April 9, 2020
Posted In: Alumni, General, In the News, St. George
Faced with the global emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, U of T Philosophy alumnus Andrew Potter (PhD, 2000) decided to taken action: on March 23, 2020, the former journalist and current associate professor at McGill University’s Max Bell School of Public Policy launched the first issue of Policy for … Read More
Published: April 6, 2020
Posted In: Faculty, In the News, St. George
As many of us oscillate between “paralyzing fear, listless apathy and the peculiar febrile nervousness that is one of boredom’s most distressing modes” in the new realities created by the current COVID-19 pandemic, Professor Mark Kingwell suggests we take the opportunity for reflection. In an opinion piece published in the … Read More
Published: March 27, 2020
Posted In: Faculty, General, Graduate, In the News, St. George, Undergraduate, UTM
Sunny skies and crisp air graced the Greater Toronto Area on March 7, 2020, but inside the University of Toronto Mississauga’s (UTM) Instructional Building, the heat was on: teams from 11 provincial high schools had come together to compete in the inaugural Ontario High School Ethics Bowl. Organized with diligence … Read More
