Over the course of the recent federal election, University of Toronto Scarborough Emeritus Professor Lynda Lange recruited a cross-Canada group of experts to produce a policy audit, with each contributor providing non-partisan and peer-reviewed analysis of party platforms for their potential impact on lessening poverty. You can read a brief … Read More
Published: November 1, 2015
Posted In: Awards and Honours, General, Graduate, St. George
Toronto PhD student Joshua Brandt is one of three winners of a Sanders Graduate Prize from the American Philosophical Association this year. He will read his prizewinning paper, “Partiality’s Negative Analogue,” at the January 2016 APA meetings in Washington, DC. This paper explores relationships that may justify unfavourable treatment, potential … Read More
Published: October 23, 2015
Posted In: General, Graduate, In the News, Undergraduate
An interesting article for those considering the merits of a philosophy degree.
Published: October 6, 2015
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
It is a pleasure to announce that Manish Oza is the winner of the 2015 Martha Lile Love Essay Award. Reviewing all nominated essays anonymously, our prize committee judged his paper “Hegel and Formal Idealism” to be the best in a strong field of nominees. Manish is a Qualifying Year … Read More
Published: September 24, 2015
Posted In: Announcements, Undergraduate, UTSC
Welcome back UTSC Students! Are you taking a Philosophy course this Semester? Come to our Social (Meet and Greet) on Wednesday September 30th in PO102 – Philosophy Lounge. It will be a great chance for you to get to know some of your professors as well as other students interested … Read More
Published: September 14, 2015
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, General, St. George
Congratulation to Donald Ainslie on his new book Hume’s True Scepticism! Here’s an excerpt from the book cover: “David Hume is famous as a sceptical philosopher but the nature of his scepticism is difficult to pin down. Hume’s True Scepticism provides the first sustained interpretation of Part 4 of Book 1 of Hume’s Treatise, … Read More
Published: September 11, 2015
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, General, St. George
Congratulations to Margaret Morrison on being elected as a new Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. The Royal Society was established in 1882 and functions as Canada’s National Academy. The primary objective of the Society is to promote learning and research in the arts, the humanities and the natural and … Read More
Published: September 1, 2015
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, General, St. George
The Department of Philosophy has just begun a major five-year research project on the theme of Styles of Reasoning. Made possible by the 2014 Balzan Prize awarded to University Professor Emeritus Ian Hacking, this project offers generous financial support to Toronto graduate students working in the Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, … Read More
Alex Koo is a lecturer at UTSC Philosophy. His research interest include the role of mathematics in scientific explanations. How did you get interested in philosophy? I took an intro course on a whim in my first year. It was such a different way of thinking from my mathematics courses that … Read More
Congratulations to Diana Raffman on receiving two major awards. The American Philosophical Association (APA) has just announced that her recent book Unruly Words (OUP, 2014) is the winner of the 2015 Sanders Book Prize. The Sanders book prize is awarded “to the best book in philosophy of mind, metaphysics, or epistemology that … Read More
Published: May 7, 2015
Posted In: Awards and Honours, General, Graduate, St. George, UTM, UTSC
Sean Smith has been awarded the 2014-15 TATP Teaching Excellence Prize for teaching assistants across all divisions of the University of Toronto. This year, he is the only winner from the Humanities and Social Sciences, recognized in particular for his work in the department’s second year Introduction to Continental Philosophy … Read More
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Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, General, St. George, UTM
The department is delighted that Diana Raffman’s recent book, Unruly Words: A Study of Vague Language, has been awarded a 2015 CPA Book Prize. Diana’s book (OUP 2014) was also the subject of an Author-Meets-Critics session at the recent Pacific APA. Diana brings lustre to a strong Toronto tradition. Previous … Read More
