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.
Profs. Benj Hellie and Jessica Wilson spent May and June at the Philosophical Research Centre for Logic, Language, Metaphysics and Epistemology (Arché) at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Wilson presented her paper “No Work for a Theory of Grounding”; Hellie presented “Self-spectaturship and self-givenness”.
Published: April 22, 2013
Posted In: General, Undergraduate, UTSC
The UTSC (Scarborough campus) Department of Philosophy’s first year enhancement program, “Bring Reason to Life” was brought to life in Julia Nefky’s PHLA11 course. It featured an in-class debate between Prof. Andrew Seppielli and Prof. Russ Shafer-Landau (Univ. of Wisconsin – Madison), followed by a luncheon in the philosophy department … Read More
Published: March 22, 2013
Posted In: Faculty, UTSC, Video and Audio
In February, Professor Emeritus Ronald de Sousa gave a presentation at the TEDx conference held at UTSC. His presentation was intriguingly entitled “Against Nature”. You can watch it below or on Youtube.
Published: February 12, 2013
Posted In: Alumni, Awards and Honours, General, Graduate
The 2012 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 2011 and August 2012, is Lana Kühle for her PHL 232, Knowledge and Reality, St. George campus, … Read More
UTSC Professor Jessica Wilson‘s research is primarily in general metaphysics, metaphysics of science and mind, and epistemology. Get to know her in this brief Q&A! How did you get interested in philosophy? In a sense I was always interested in philosophy, but it took me quite a while to figure … Read More
UTSC Professor William Seager‘s research has been mostly in the philosophy of mind. He has published many articles in that area and two books, Metaphysics of Consciousness (1989) and Theories of Consciousness (1999). Get to know Prof. Seager in this brief Q&A! How did you get interested in philosophy? I stumbled into an introductory … Read More
