The Department of Philosophy is happy to announce four new faculty members, all of which will assume their positions with us in the summer.
Michael Arsenault is a double graduate (BA and MA) of the University of Toronto, who earned his doctorate in philosophy at the University of California Berkeley in 2023. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher associated with the ERC project “Text and Idea of Aristotle’s Science of Living Things” (TIDA) at the Universität Tübingen. Dr. Arsenault is an expert on Aristotle’s philosophy of perception. He has published in both generalist journals in philosophy and in specialist journals in the history of philosophy.
Yonathan Fiat is a doctoral candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). A specialist in epistemology, his research focuses on the normative rationale for the widely used (though also widely disparaged) scientific practice of significance testing.
Jason Stanley will be joining the Munk School of Global Affairs, with a 25 percent appointment in the Department of Philosophy. Dr. Stanley is widely known for his work in the philosophy of language and epistemology. His more recent work has focused on the ways in which language figures in political thought, including his How Propaganda Works (2015), and The Politics of Language (with David Beaver, 2023), and, most recently, Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future (2024).
Christian Tarsney has held research positions at the Centre for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the University of Groningen, the Global Priorities Institute at Oxford University, and the Population Wellbeing Initiative at the University of Texas at Austin. He works in practical philosophy, with an emphasis on decision-making under uncertainty and normative principles in domains like public policy and philanthropy. He has published in a variety of philosophical journals and currently has a book on small probabilities and high stakes under contract with Cambridge University Press. Dr. Tarsney will be joining the faculty at UTSC.
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