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U of T alum publishes new book on parental rights and responsibilities

Published: January 30, 2018

Posted In: Alumni, Announcements, General, Graduate, St. George

Joseph Millum completed his PhD in our department in 2005 (his dissertation, The Adaptation of Morality, was supervised by Prof. Paul Thomson), and he is now a bioethicist for the Clinical Center Department of Bioethics and the Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States. Dr. … Read More

Graduate student Emma McClure appointed to APA GSC

Published: January 26, 2018

Posted In: Announcements, General, Graduate, St. George

PhD student Emma McClure currently serves as the president of our department’s Graduate Philosophy Students’ Union (GPSU), but her participation in the governance of the philosophy community is about to extend well past U of T. Emma is one of the newest appointees to the American Philosophical Association’s Graduate Student Council, … Read More

Philosophy students present work at ASSU Undergraduate Research Conference

Published: January 23, 2018

Posted In: General, St. George, Undergraduate

Every year, the U of T Arts and Science Students’ Union (ASSU) organizes the Undergraduate Research Conference, a full-day event which showcases the scholarly research of U of T’s best and brightest undergraduate students. The research projects presented come from a variety of multidisciplinary academic fields within the natural sciences, quantitative sciences, humanities, … Read More

U of T News profiles Mark Kingwell on the ethics of AI

Published: January 18, 2018

Posted In: Alumni, Faculty, General, In the News, St. George

The article below appeared in U of T News on Jan. 12, 2018, and features commentary from Prof. Mark Kingwell on the ethics and social implications of artificial intelligence, in advance of his Jan. 22 talk in London, titled “Humans and Artificial Intelligence – What Happens Next?” It’s time to talk about … Read More

Lloyd Gerson spearheads major new translation of Plotinus’ Enneads

Published: January 12, 2018

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

Published by Cambridge University Press, Prof. Lloyd Gerson has edited a volume that is the first complete edition of the Enneads in English in over 75 years, and also includes Porphyry’s Life of Plotinus. Gerson and his team have assembled a significant new translation from the best available text (the … Read More

In memoriam: Donald Evans (1927-2018)

Published: January 11, 2018

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

by Greg Evans Prof. Donald Dwight Evans (1927-2018) was a gifted philosopher, educator, mystic humanist, social activist, spiritual counsellor and mentor. Born September 21, 1927 to Ira Dwight Evans and Jesse Milliken Evans in Fort William (now Thunder Bay) Ontario, he lived a rich life, full of diverse intellectual pursuits. … Read More

From epistemology to emotions and beyond: grant-funded research projects underway

Published: December 20, 2017

Posted In: Faculty, General, St. George, UTM, UTSC, Video and Audio

Pictured: Jessica Wilson (L) and Jennifer Nagel (R). In summer of 2017, eight of our faculty members were recipients of the Social Sciences and Humanities Council’s Insight Grants, a program whose goal is to support research excellence in all subject areas of the humanities and social sciences. Both emerging and … Read More

Shelley Weinberg (PhD, 2008) wins Journal of the History of Philosophy Book Prize

Published: December 11, 2017

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

The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce that one of our alumni, Shelley Weinberg (PhD, 2008) is the winner of this year’s Journal of the History of Philosophy Book Prize. Weinberg is currently associate professor of philosophy at the University of Illinois. Prof. Weinberg’s winning book, Consciousness in Locke, was published … Read More

Martin Pickavé talks emotions in medieval philosophy on Peter Adamson’s podcast

Published: December 4, 2017

Posted In: Faculty, General, St. George, Video and Audio

This past weekend. Professor and Canada Research Chair in Medieval Philosophy Martin Pickavé was interviewed by Peter Adamson, professor of philosophy at the LMU in Munich and at King’s College London, on Adamson’s podcast, History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps. Incidentally, Prof. Adamson visited Toronto back in October of this year to present … Read More

Jennifer Nagel and Joe Heath awarded JHI Fellowships

Published: November 30, 2017

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

Associate Professor Jennifer Nagel (UTM) and Professor Joseph Heath (St. George) have each been awarded a Jackman Humanities Institute Faculty Research Fellowship for 2018-19. Each year, these fellowships are awarded under a research theme; the theme for this year is “Reading Faces – Reading Minds”, and focuses on what it means to read a … Read More

Jennifer Nagel elected Vice-President of APA’s Central Division

Published: November 29, 2017

Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, General, UTM

The department is proud to announce that our own Associate Professor Jennifer Nagel has recently been elected to serve on the Executive Committee of the American Philosophical Association’s Central Division. As Vice-President (President-Elect), Prof. Nagel joins U of T alumnus (and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at The Graduate Center at CUNY) Charles Mills, … Read More

Benjamin Wald wins 2017 Martha Lile Love Teaching Award

Published: November 28, 2017

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

The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce that the winner of the Martha Lile Love Teaching Award for 2017 is Benjamin Wald, for his excellent course design and pedagogical approach in teaching PHLC93H3Y: Topics in Political Philosophy in the summer 2017 semester at UTSC. Wald chose the timely topic of political … Read More

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