Published: June 23, 2013
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
UTSC Professor Philip Kremer research interests lie in logic and philosophy of language. Learn more about him in this Q&A! How did you get interested in philosophy? My interest in philosophy came from two directions. First, I had persistent questions that led me to take courses related to philosophy and … Read More
UTSC Associate Professor Karolina Hübner’s research interests are in the history of metaphysics and philosophy of mind, with particular focus on early modern philosophy, Jewish philosophy, philosophy of religion, and Spinoza. Get to know more about her in this Q&A! How did you get interested in philosophy? I got interested in … Read More
Benj Hellie’s research interests include philosophy of mind (consciousness, rationality, intentionality, perception, action, personal identity, interpretation, physicalism); epistemology and philosophical semantics (traditional and formal); and the history of analytical philosophy. Get to know him in this Q&A! How did you get interested in philosophy? From early days I have been … Read More
Sonia Sedivy is Associate Professor and Chair in UTSC Philosophy. Her primary teaching and research interests lie in the philosophy of mind (particularly philosophy of perception) and in the philosophy of art and the later work of Ludwig Wittgenstein. How did you get interested in philosophy? I became interested in philosophy while … Read More
