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
Published: May 19, 2020
Posted In: Alumni, General, In the News
Alumna Valerie Tiberius, who graduated from U of T with a specialist in Philosophy in 1990 and is now the Paul W. Frenzel Chair in Liberal Arts and a professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota, has published a timely piece on the pursuit of happiness during pandemic times. … Read More
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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Posted In: Faculty, In the News, St. George
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
