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Dr. Johanna Thoma wins 2017 Savan Dissertation Prize

Published: July 16, 2018

Posted In: Alumni, Announcements, Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George

We’re delighted to announce that Johanna Thoma (PhD, 2017) has been selected as the winner of the 2017 David Savan Dissertation Prize for her dissertation Advice for the Steady: Decision Theory and the Requirements of Instrumental Rationality, supervised by Professor Sergio Tenenbaum. Dr. Thoma’s dissertation was also the recipient of a Governor … Read More

Profile on epistemology: from cheshire cats to deep disagreement

Published: June 28, 2018

Posted In: Faculty, General, Graduate, St. George, UTM, UTSC

The tri-campus Department of Philosophy is very proud of the breadth of specialists we have in all branches of philosophy, and we’ve started to feature brief reflections from a diverse range of our scholars on key issues in their particular fields. In the last issue of our annual magazine, Philosophy News, we … Read More

Nate Charlow promoted to associate professor with tenure

Published: June 25, 2018

Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, St. George, UTM

We’re delighted to announce that Nate Charlow has been promoted to the rank of associate professor with tenure, effective July 1, 2018. Professor Charlow is not only an acclaimed scholar (his dissertation was one of the top 16 of 750 PhD dissertations at the University of Michigan in 2011); he … Read More

UTM Philosophy moves to LEED-certified building designed by Perkins + Will

Published: June 7, 2018

Posted In: Announcements, General, UTM

*Update: August 7, 2018* If you are a UTM Philosophy student, please be advised that the department has now moved to the New North Building on UTM campus. Your professors’ office locations have been updated on our website; make sure you check where their offices are if you plan on going … Read More

Philosophy’s first appearance at Science Rendezvous draws curious crowds

Published: May 22, 2018

Posted In: Faculty, General, St. George, Undergraduate

What qualifies as science? How are scientific observations and theories related? What is inference? How do we calculate likelihood? What methods do we use to know things? These and related questions are familiar to philosophers of science, and indeed to all philosophers, but they may not be commonly heard at … Read More

U of T publishes results from 2017 Alumni Impact Survey

Published: May 20, 2018

Posted In: Alumni, Announcements, General, St. George, UTM, UTSC

“U of T alumni help generate economic wealth and prosperity, are respected community volunteers and mentors, and are prolific creators of academic and creative works,” says the University’s 2017 Alumni Impact Survey. Conducted in 2017, the primary aim of the Alumni Impact Survey (AIS) was to analyse the impact made by … Read More

Alumnus Charles Mills on pedagogy, white supremacy, and the future of philosophy

Published: May 16, 2018

Posted In: Alumni, General, St. George

An alumnus of our department (PhD, 1985), Charles Mills is currently Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He specializes in social and political philosophy, particularly in oppositional political theory around issues of class, race, and gender. His first book The Racial Contract (Cornell University Press, 1997) has … Read More

From our archives: Ronald De Sousa interviews Ian Hacking (1992)

Published: May 10, 2018

Posted In: Alumni, Faculty, General, Graduate, St. George, UTM

In the winter 1992 edition of Philosophy News, Ronald De Sousa interviewed Ian Hacking (both are now Professors Emeriti in our department). Professor Hacking discusses his writing strategies and his philosophical influences, and even reveals that he threw his manuscript of a book about Foucault into the “dustbin”! Read the interview … Read More

Martin Pickavé renewed as Canada Research Chair in Medieval Philosophy

Published: May 8, 2018

Posted In: Announcements, Awards and Honours, Faculty, General, St. George

This year, U of T’s 275 Canada Research Chairs (CRCs) are the largest amount at one institution in the history of the program, and the most of any institution in Canada. We’re very proud that our departmental Chair, Professor Martin Pickavé, is one of this year’s renewed CRCs. As Tier … Read More

PhD student Mason Westfall awarded JHI Graduate Fellowship

Published: May 1, 2018

Posted In: Announcements, Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George

The Doctoral Fellows at the Jackman Humanities Institute have been announced for the 2018-19 academic year, and we are very proud to count one of our own among them. PhD student Mason Westfall is one of this year’s recipients of the Chancellor Henry N.R. Jackman Graduate Fellowship in the Humanities. This … Read More

Jennifer Nagel promoted to full professor

Published: April 26, 2018

Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, St. George, UTM

We’re delighted to announce that Jennifer Nagel has been promoted to the rank of full professor, effective July 1. The promotion “couldn’t be more deserved,” says department Chair Martin Pickavé. Professor Nagel is not only an acclaimed scholar (her paper “Intuitions and Experiments: a Defense of the Case Method in … Read More

UTM Socrates Project students wrap up the academic year

Published: April 25, 2018

Posted In: Undergraduate, UTM

The Socrates Project is a departmental initiative that allows exceptional senior undergraduate students to become teaching assistants for PHL101H5. The Project has been run on our St. George campus for some time now, and was recently launched at U of T’s Mississauga campus as well. In the Project, selected senior … Read More

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