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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Published: November 13, 2017
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, General, St. George
What is the relationship between technology and culture? The sci-fi genre has endlessly grappled with this question. Now, Professor Joseph Heath, specialist in social and political philosophy, business ethics, moral philosophy, and distributive justice, has written an article in Sci Phi Journal on the science fiction writing of Scottish novelist … Read More
Published: November 2, 2017
Posted In: Announcements, Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
Ariel Melamedoff is the the winner of this year’s Martha Lile Love Essay Award. His paper, “Atomistic Time and Simultaneous Causation in Hume’s Treatise”, examines Hume’s claim that the possibility of simultaneous causation would entail the “utter annihilation of time.” The paper engages at a very high level with Hume scholarship … Read More
Published: November 1, 2017
Posted In: General, In the News, Undergraduate, UTM
Robina Aryubwal, who left Afghanistan with her family after being threatened by a warlord, studies philosophy, political science and French at U of T Mississauga. Her family’s move from Afghanistan is detailed in a new book by CBC journalist Carol Off, All We Leave Behind, a finalist for the Governor General’s … Read More
Published: October 26, 2017
Posted In: Announcements, Graduate, St. George
The 18th Annual University of Toronto Graduate Philosophy Conference, PsyPhi: Philosophy meets Psychology, invites submissions from graduate students working in all areas in philosophy that relate to the conference’s main themes. Submissions are due by January 31, 2018. Authors will be notified of decisions on or before March 1st, 2018. View the Graduate Conference CFP … Read More
