Published: August 21, 2019
Posted In: Awards and Honours, St. George
It is our pleasure to announce that Brendan de Kenessey is one of the winners of the APA’s (American Philosophical Association‘s) 2019 Public Philosophy Op-Ed Contest. Brendan received this recognition for a piece on addiction – “People are dying because we misunderstand how those with addiction think”. It was published … Read More
Published: August 1, 2019
Posted In: Alumni, St. George
The Department of Philosophy is sad to report the passing of Dr. Abbyann D. Lynch, C.M., O.Ont., L.M.S., Ph.D., LL.D (Hon.), D.S.L. (Hon.). Abbyann was a philosopher and bioethicist, a pioneer in bioethics in Canada, and one of the founders of the Department’s bioethics programs. She also offered the Department’s first … Read More
Published: July 29, 2019
Posted In: Graduate, St. George
The Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto is pleased to announce the 19th annual Graduate Philosophy Conference, to be held November 15-16, 2019 in Toronto, Ontario. Our theme this year is „Reconstructing Reason: Developing the concept of reason through history‟. The conference invites submissions from graduate students working … Read More
Published: July 11, 2019
Elisa Freschi will join the department in February 2020. A specialist in South Asian philosophy, she is working on two major projects, one on deontic logic in classical Indian philosophy, and the other on issues in theology. Her main areas of research include philosophy of language and epistemology, with the … Read More
Published: July 4, 2019
Posted In: Alumni, Announcements, Awards and Honours, St. George
We’re delighted to announce that Owen Pikkert (PhD, 2018) has been selected as the winner of the 2018 David Savan Dissertation Prize for his dissertation Leibniz and the Principle of Sufficient Reason, supervised by Professor Marleen Rozemond. “I came to graduate school knowing two things about Leibniz. The first is that Leibniz believed that God … Read More
Published: June 13, 2019
Trevor Teitel will join the department as Assistant Professor of Philosophy in July 2020. Trevor earned his B.A. in the department, and was an early student in its award-winning Socrates Project. He then completed a B.Phil at Oxford, and is currently finishing a PhD at NYU. His main research interests … Read More
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Posted In: Faculty, St. George, UTM
Alex Koo joins the St. George and UTM Departments as Assistant Professor (Teaching-Stream). A renowned teacher of logic, Prof. Koo has already developed new pedagogical strategies for several large courses offered on both campuses. In particular, he has revamped PHL245H: Modern Symbolic Logic to be a hybrid and flipped course, … Read More
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Jonardon Ganeri is the world’s most distinguished scholar of South Asian Philosophy, and an extremely influential advocate of the contemporary relevance of this set of philosophical traditions to current debates about consciousness, the self, the nature of knowledge, and the point of philosophy itself. He is the author of eight … Read More
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Posted In: Faculty, St. George
George Boys-Stones, joins us as Professor of Classics and Philosophy. A leading scholar of Ancient Philosophy with wide ranging interests, George has a special interest in the philosophical movements of the post-Hellenistic period. Before coming to Toronto he was Professor of Ancient Philosophy in the Department of Classics and Ancient … Read More
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Posted In: Faculty, St. George
Michael Rosenthal (PhD Chicago, 1996) will join us in July 2019 as Grafstein Chair in Jewish Philosophy, with appointments in both the Department and the Anne Tannenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies. He received his bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and both his masters and doctorate in philosophy from the University … Read More
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Prof. Paul Gooch was recently a guest on TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin to discuss his new book, Course Correction: A Map for the Distracted University. He discusses the University’s mission, its relationship with government and free speech on campus. The full interview can be found below.
Published: May 24, 2019
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate
On May 17th, 2019, the list of recipients of the prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships (Vanier CGS) was made public, and we’re delighted to announce that our very own PhD student Felix Lambrecht has been appointed a Vanier Scholar. Felix Lambrecht’s research interests are in social and political philosophy and ethics. He is particularly … Read More
