Published: February 23, 2016
Posted In: Announcements, St. George, Undergraduate
Are you interested in being a TA in PHL100Y1 for 2016-17? Then you should apply for the Department of Philosophy Socrates Project. The Socrates Project allows exceptional senior undergraduate students to become teaching assistants for PHL100Y1. In addition to your responsibilities as a TA, you will be required to take … Read More
Published: February 11, 2016
Posted In: Announcements, Awards and Honours, Faculty, General, St. George
Congratulations to Nick Stang, who has just been awarded a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Metaphysics and its History. He is one of 34 new Canada Research Chairs at the University of Toronto. The announcement was made on February 9 by Kirsty Duncan, the federal minister of science. Nick’s project … Read More
Published: February 10, 2016
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, General, St. George
Congratulation to Imogen Dickie on her new book Fixing Reference! Here’s an excerpt from the blurb: “Imogen Dickie develops an account of aboutness-fixing for thoughts about ordinary objects, and of reference-fixing for the singular terms we use to express them. Extant discussions of this topic tread a weary path through descriptivist proposals, … Read More
Published: February 4, 2016
Posted In: General, In the News, Undergraduate
An interesting article from the Washington Post.
Published: December 13, 2015
Posted In: Alumni, Announcements, Faculty, St. George
Francis Sparshott, one of the Department’s most prominent scholars, died on August 24, 2015. An obituary (written by Mark Thornton) and a series of reflections about Francis (from his former students and colleagues) are below. In addition, the American Society for Aesthetics has posted an obituary of Francis Sparshott written by … Read More
Published: December 2, 2015
Posted In: Announcements, Undergraduate, UTSC
The Association of Philosophy Students (APS) has kindly organized review sessions for some UTSC (Scarborough campus) undergraduate courses. These review sessions will be led by the instructor or one of the TAs appointed to the course. All registered students are welcome to attend — no sign-up required! 1. PHLB50H3: Symbolic … Read More
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
