Published: February 18, 2025
Posted In: Awards and Honours, St. George
Congratulations to Viacheslav Zahorodniuk, a former postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy working with Donald Ainslie. The editorial board of the Hume Studies journal recently selected him as the winner of the fourth-annual Hume Studies Essay Prize. Zahorodniuk has a current position as a Biruté Ciplijauskaité Postdoctoral Fellow at … Read More
Published: February 7, 2025
Posted In: Awards and Honours, St. George, Undergraduate, UTM, UTSC
In the fall of 2024, with the generous support of donor Anita Angelini, the Department of Philosophy launched two new tri-campus prizes for excellence in undergraduate philosophical writing: the Spinoza Award and the Hypatia Award. The Spinoza Award honours the best philosophy essay by an undergraduate in their first two … Read More
Published: January 24, 2025
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
For their essays, four graduate students from the department received Congress Graduate Merit Award (CGMA) Prizes at the 2024 Canadian Philosophical Association Conference: Joshua Brecka for “Social Knowledge and Rational Group Action”; Bowen Chan for “Tough Love, White Lies, Hard Truths, and Mixed Motives”; Julia Minarik for “The Imaginative Character of Text-to-Image … Read More
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Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
It is our great pleasure to announce that Matthew Delhey has won the 2024 Martha Lile Love Teaching Award for his outstanding work teaching PHL217 Introduction to Continental Philosophy. Delhey’s course unified its theme—a survey of thinkers from Marx to Deleuze with a focus on their philosophies of technology—with every aspect … Read More
Published: January 15, 2025
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George, UTM
For its 2024 prizes, the American Philosophical Association (APA) selected Jennifer Nagel to deliver the 2026 Patrick Romanell Lecture, which is presented annually at a divisional meeting of the APA on the topic of philosophical naturalism. The APA publishes the Romanell Lecture each year in the Proceedings and Addresses of … Read More
Published: January 7, 2025
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, Graduate, St. George
We are pleased to announce that an alumnus from our PhD program, Douglas Campbell, has received the 2024 Article Prize, awarded annually by the Journal of the History of Philosophy (JHP) to the best article in the publication’s pages. Campbell, now an assistant professor at Alma College in Michigan, earned … Read More
Published: December 20, 2024
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Faculty, St. George, UTSC
It has been a fantastic year of recognition for the work of Andrew Y. Lee: the editorial board of the journal Analytic Philosophy just chose his essay “A Theory of Sense-Data” as the winning entry for the 2024 Marc Sanders Prize in Philosophy of Mind. The honour comes with a … Read More
Published: December 5, 2024
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
Congratulations to PhD candidate Sanghun Han, the winner of this year’s Martha Lile Love Essay Award for his paper “A Puzzle about Observer Memory, and How to Solve It.” The selection committee said of Han’s essay: It “asks how a memory of a first-person experience can be accurate if it … Read More
Published: November 1, 2024
Posted In: Awards and Honours, St. George
Congratulations to Angela Li, Jackson Rosenhek, and Vivianna Grande, the winners of the 2024 Aristotle Essay contest! In this year’s competition, again co-sponsored by the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto and the Ontario Philosophy Teachers’ Association (OPTA), high school students from across Canada submitted essays on three … Read More
Published: October 14, 2024
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
In the past half year, several PhD candidates successfully defended their dissertation: Zachary Weinstein wrote “The Galleristic Encounter: Communication as the Intrinsic End of Modern Art,” supervised by Jonathan Weisberg, in July 2024. Caitlin Hamblin-Yule wrote “Kant on Personhood”, supervised by Nick Stang, in August 2024. Kayla Wiebe wrote … Read More
Published: October 3, 2024
Posted In: Faculty, General, St. George, UTM, UTSC
As part of the Landmark Project on King’s College Circle, a tree and paver have been installed to honour the memory of two respected and beloved department members—André Gombay (1943-2014) and Joseph Boyle (1942-2016). This public recognition at the centre of the University of Toronto’s St. George campus became possible … Read More
Published: September 30, 2024
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George, UTM, UTSC
With great pleasure we announce that Alice Chao-Wei Huang has been selected as the winner of the 2024 David Savan Dissertation Prize for her dissertation “Diversity in the Time of Data,” supervised by Jonathan Weisberg. An honorable mention goes to Henry Krahn for his dissertation “Protest as Holding Others Accountable,” supervised by … Read More
