Published: March 3, 2014
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, UTSC
Dear Colleagues, Students, and friends of the department, It is my pleasure to announce that the Phi Beta Kappa Society in conjunction with the American Philosophical Association has awarded the Martin R. Lebowitz and Eve Lewellis Lebowitz Prize for Philosophical Achievement and Contribution to Jessica Wilson, Department of Philosophy, UTSC. … Read More
Published: February 12, 2014
Posted In: Announcements, Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George
Congratulations to Prof. Mark Kingwell for having his essay, “Building Cities, Making Friends: A Meditation, in Five General Propositions” selected for the anthology The Best Canadian Essays 2013, published by Tightrope Books. This is the second time in three years that Mark has had an essay selected for this annual anthology. … Read More
Published: December 19, 2013
Posted In: Awards and Honours, General, Graduate, St. George
The 2013 winner of the Martha Lile Love Award for Excellence in Teaching Philosophy, chosen from among graduate instructors who taught courses on any of the three University of Toronto campuses between September 2012 and August 2013, is Brian Embry PHL 210F 17th Century Philosophy St. George campus Summer 2013 … Read More
Published: November 28, 2013
Posted In: Announcements, General, Graduate, St. George
Normativity: Action, Mind, and Language On May 1st and 2nd, 2014, the Department of Philosophy and the Centre for Ethics will be jointly running the annual Graduate Conference in Philosophy. The conference is named “Normativity: Action, Mind and Language,” and as the name indicates, we want the conference to address … Read More
Published: October 31, 2013
Posted In: Awards and Honours, General, Graduate
The recipient of this year’s Martha Lile Love Essay Award is Eric Mathison, for his essay, “The Insufficiency of Neutrality for Environmental Policy”. Th essay award was instituted in 1979, to honour the memory of Martha Lile Love, a graduate student at the University of Toronto who had died that … Read More
Published: September 10, 2013
Posted In: Announcements, Awards and Honours, Faculty, General
Congratulations to Joe Heath! He has just been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Canada’s most important scholarly association. The citation notes: “Joseph Heath is an international leader in political philosophy and the theory of rationality, as well as one of Canada’s leading public intellectuals. He has made … Read More
Published: August 29, 2013
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, General, In the News
U of T News has published a lovely profile of our department member Cheryl Misak. Cheryl is about to complete her very successful term as the university’s provost, a role she had since 2009. We are looking forward to having her back! Read the profile on U of T News.
Published: August 27, 2013
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, General, In the News
Congratulations to Jennifer Nagel! Her paper “Intuitions and Experiments: A Defense of the Case Method in Epistemology” (Philosophy & Phenomenological Research 85.3 (2012), 495-527) was selected for this year’s Philosopher’s Annual. The Philosopher’s Annual selects the ten best articles published in philosophy each year.
Published: July 20, 2013
Posted In: Announcements, General, Graduate, Undergraduate
Congratulations to Franz Huber and Jonathan Weisberg! They have just launched Ergo, a new general online philosophy journal. The journal is entirely open access and is accepting submissions on all philosophical topics and from all philosophical traditions. This includes, among other things: history of philosophy, work in both the analytic and continental traditions, as … Read More
Published: June 23, 2013
Posted In: St. George, UTM, UTSC
Congratulations to Mark Schranz!! Mark is one of four (4) University of Toronto graduate students to have been awarded the 2013 TATP Teaching Excellence Award; Mark was selected out of a field of 182 teaching assistants, through 462 student and 62 faculty nominations. Recipients of this award will receive a … Read More
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Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, General, St. George
Professor Tom Hurka has been appointed a University Professor, the highest honour awarded to a University of Toronto faculty member. The designation recognizes unusual scholarly achievement and pre-eminence in a particular field of knowledge. University Professors are chosen by a selection committee chaired by the provost and receive a research … Read More
Published: June 6, 2013
Posted In: Faculty, General, St. George, Video and Audio
Check out episode 131, on “al-Farabi”, on the “History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps” podcast run by Peter Adamson (LMU München/King’s College London). The episode features an interview with our very own Deborah Black on al-Farabi’s innovations concerning knowledge and certainty.
