Published: December 5, 2024
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
Congratulations to PhD candidate Sanghun Han, the winner of this year’s Martha Lile Love Essay Award for his paper “A Puzzle about Observer Memory, and How to Solve It.” The selection committee said of Han’s essay: It “asks how a memory of a first-person experience can be accurate if it … Read More
Published: November 1, 2024
Posted In: Awards and Honours, St. George
Congratulations to Angela Li, Jackson Rosenhek, and Vivianna Grande, the winners of the 2024 Aristotle Essay contest! In this year’s competition, again co-sponsored by the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto and the Ontario Philosophy Teachers’ Association (OPTA), high school students from across Canada submitted essays on three … Read More
Published: October 14, 2024
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
In the past half year, several PhD candidates successfully defended their dissertation: Zachary Weinstein wrote “The Galleristic Encounter: Communication as the Intrinsic End of Modern Art,” supervised by Jonathan Weisberg, in July 2024. Caitlin Hamblin-Yule wrote “Kant on Personhood”, supervised by Nick Stang, in August 2024. Kayla Wiebe wrote … Read More
Published: October 3, 2024
Posted In: Faculty, General, St. George, UTM, UTSC
As part of the Landmark Project on King’s College Circle, a tree and paver have been installed to honour the memory of two respected and beloved department members—André Gombay (1943-2014) and Joseph Boyle (1942-2016). This public recognition at the centre of the University of Toronto’s St. George campus became possible … Read More
Published: September 30, 2024
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George, UTM, UTSC
With great pleasure we announce that Alice Chao-Wei Huang has been selected as the winner of the 2024 David Savan Dissertation Prize for her dissertation “Diversity in the Time of Data,” supervised by Jonathan Weisberg. An honorable mention goes to Henry Krahn for his dissertation “Protest as Holding Others Accountable,” supervised by … Read More
Published: September 13, 2024
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, St. George, UTM
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our emeritus colleague Jack Stevenson, who passed away at the age of 92. He had joined the department in 1966, initially as a visiting professor from the University of Manitoba, then as a regular faculty member. Born in Ottawa, … Read More
Published: September 12, 2024
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George
Congratulations to Willi Goetschel for being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, one of the highest honours available to an academic in Canada. As an internationally acclaimed philosopher, literary historian, and leader in the field of German Jewish thought in Canada, Goetschel, cross-appointed to the Departments of … Read More
Published: July 15, 2024
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George, Undergraduate
Each year, the University of Toronto (in collaboration with the Ontario Philosophy Teachers’ Association) administers the Aristotle Contest, which recognizes the best philosophical essays by current Canadian high school students. Entrants choose their subject from one of three different prompts relating to contemporary issues in philosophy. The winner receives a … Read More
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
