Published: June 20, 2017
Posted In: Alumni, Announcements, Awards and Honours, St. George
The Department of Philosophy is pleased to congratulate Dr. Johanna Thoma on being awarded the 2017 Governor General’s Gold Medal for academic excellence at the graduate level. Johanna Thoma was presented with the Governor General’s Gold Medal in a ceremony at the Faculty Club on May 25, 2017. In attendance … Read More
Published: June 14, 2017
Posted In: Announcements, Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George
The Department of Philosophy of the University of Toronto is proud to announce that University Professor Thomas Hurka has won a prestigious 2017 Killam Prize – one of five presented to top Canadian Scholars by His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, in a ceremony at … Read More
Published: May 2, 2017
Posted In: Announcements, Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George, UTM
Winner of the 2016 David Savan Dissertation Prize, for best dissertation defended in the Department of Philosophy, is Dominic Alford-Duguid, for his work “Getting Properties in Mind,” supervised by Imogen Dickie and with external examiner Bill Brewer. The dissertation, writes Alford-Duguid, explores “how perception puts us in a position to think … Read More
Published: May 1, 2017
Posted In: General, In the News
“If self-made billionaire Mark Cuban was starting college right now, he’d choose philosophy as his major over accounting,” writes CNBC in a story about the merits of a philosophical education in an age when automation is increasingly taking over the workplace. The thinking is that jobs that require strong cognitive … Read More
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Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, Graduate, St. George, Undergraduate
Parisa Moosavi has been recognized for teaching excellence with a Faculty of Arts & Science Superior Teaching award for 2017. Moosavi was recognized for her excellent work teaching Bioethics (PHL281HJF) this past summer. Her research interests are broad, ranging from epistemology and philosophy of science to ethics and metaethics. Read … Read More
Published: April 21, 2017
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, General, St. George
U of T philosophy alumnus Sari Kisilevsky (PhD, 2008) and Martin J. Stone have just published a collection of essays, Freedom and Force: Essays on Kant’s Legal Philosophy, that engages with U of T Professor Arthur Ripstein’s book Freedom and Force: Kant’s Legal and Political Philosophy (Harvard UP, 2009). From the publisher: “This … Read More
Published: April 12, 2017
Posted In: Announcements, Awards and Honours, Faculty, In the News, St. George
L: Cheryl Misak, R: Margaret Morrison The Department of Philosophy of the University of Toronto is proud to announce that two faculty members have won prestigious Guggenheim Fellowships in 2017 – of the 173 fellowships awarded for the United States and Canada this year. Cheryl Misak was awarded a fellowship … Read More
Published: January 27, 2017
Posted In: Announcements, Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
The Department of Philosophy celebrates recipients of the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship for their research in philosophy. Recipients of the Vanier scholarship receive $50,000 annually, for up to three years, to support their doctoral research, and are selected based on their leadership skills and high standards of scholarly achievement in … Read More
Published: December 10, 2016
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George
Congratulations to Donald Ainslie! He has been awarded the 2016 Journal of the History of Philosophy prize for the best book in the history of philosophy published in 2015. He receives this award for his book Hume’s True Scepticism (Oxford University Press, 2015). This is a great honor and recognition for an … Read More
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Congratulations to Eran Tal on having been awarded the 2016 Sir Karl Popper Essay Prize. The Prize is awarded annually for the best paper appearing in the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. He received the prize jointly with Elizabeth Irvine. For more information about Eran’s award-winning article see the British Journal … Read More
Published: December 8, 2016
Posted In: Announcements, Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George
Congratulations to Professor Rachel Barney for being named Canada Research Chair in Ancient Philosophy. The following is from the December 2 online news story in U of T News, comprising profiles of U of T’s 25 newest Canada Research Chairs: Debate has long raged over the role of the sophists in the … Read More
Published: December 6, 2016
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, UTM
We’re delighted to announce that Prof. Andrew Sepielli is the winner of the first annual Research Prize in the Humanities at UTM. The UTM Annual Research Prizes were established by the Office of the Vice-Principal, Research and UTM’s Research Council in 2016 to recognize outstanding early-career faculty members at the University of … Read More
