Published: April 9, 2020
Posted In: Alumni, General, In the News, St. George
Faced with the global emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, U of T Philosophy alumnus Andrew Potter (PhD, 2000) decided to taken action: on March 23, 2020, the former journalist and current associate professor at McGill University’s Max Bell School of Public Policy launched the first issue of Policy for … Read More
Published: April 6, 2020
Posted In: Faculty, In the News, St. George
As many of us oscillate between “paralyzing fear, listless apathy and the peculiar febrile nervousness that is one of boredom’s most distressing modes” in the new realities created by the current COVID-19 pandemic, Professor Mark Kingwell suggests we take the opportunity for reflection. In an opinion piece published in the … Read More
Published: March 27, 2020
Posted In: Faculty, General, Graduate, In the News, St. George, Undergraduate, UTM
Sunny skies and crisp air graced the Greater Toronto Area on March 7, 2020, but inside the University of Toronto Mississauga’s (UTM) Instructional Building, the heat was on: teams from 11 provincial high schools had come together to compete in the inaugural Ontario High School Ethics Bowl. Organized with diligence … Read More
Published: March 23, 2020
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, St. George, UTM, UTSC
We are proud to announce that two members of our department, Jennifer Nagel and Denis Walsh, have been appointed part of the inaugural Research Leadership Team of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, established in 2019. The Institute, under the leadership of Gillian Hadfield, brings together leading scholars … Read More
Published: March 16, 2020
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, General, Graduate, St. George, Staff, Undergraduate
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic means that the physical offices of the Department of Philosophy remain closed for the moment. Access to the Jackman Humanities Building is by fob and key only. All administrative staff and faculty members are currently working remotely and remain available to answer your questions and concerns. … Read More
Published: March 6, 2020
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, In the News, St. George
We are delighted to announce the publication of Cheryl Misak’s long-awaited biography of Frank P. Ramsey, one of the twentieth century’s intellectual luminaries whose untimely death in 1930 at the age of 26 condemned him to popular obscurity. Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers (OUP, 2020) details with care … Read More
Published: March 4, 2020
Posted In: Announcements, Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
With great pride and pleasure we announce that Kamil Majcherek, a current PhD student in the department, has been awarded the 2020 Jan Wojcik Memorial Prize from the Journal for the History of Philosophy. Every year the prize goes to one exceptional graduate student to support their travel for research … Read More
Published: March 2, 2020
Posted In: Awards and Honours, St. George
Congratulations to Professor Willi Goetschel for receiving the 2020 Dessauer Moses Mendelssohn Prize. The Moses Mendelssohn Society in Dessau, Germany, dedicated to scholarship and education in the realm of German Jewish history and culture, awards the prize biennially to recognize scholarly work that advances “enlightened reason, the tolerant co-operation between … Read More
Published: February 18, 2020
Posted In: Announcements, Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George, UTM, UTSC
With great pleasure we announce that Eliran Haziza has emerged as the winner of this year’s Martha Lile Love Essay Award for his essay titled “Asserting, Implying, and Knowing That You Know.” In the piece, Eliran argues that if one accepts a knowledge norm of assertion, according to which one … Read More
Published: January 10, 2020
Posted In: Announcements, Faculty, General, St. George, UTM, UTSC
Colin Howson, a respected philosopher of science and decision theorist who taught at the University of Toronto’s Department of Philosophy between 2008 and 2014, passed away on Sunday, January 5, 2020, leaving behind his spouse of many years, Professor Emerita Margaret Morrison. At U of T, Howson led classes on … Read More
Published: December 20, 2019
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate
It is our pleasure to announce that Emma McClure has won the 2019 Martha Lile Love Teaching Award for her outstanding work teaching PHL367 – Decolonial and Intersectional Feminism(s). The committee was impressed with McClure’s course design, assignment structure, and ability to motivate student engagement. In addition, Aaron Henry and Zachary Weinstein receive … Read More
Published: December 3, 2019
Posted In: Graduate, In the News, St. George, Undergraduate, UTSC
It was already at the beginning of November that philosophers of science from across the globe gathered at Victoria College here at the University of Toronto for the fifth annual conference of the Society for the Metaphysics of Science, locally organized by the Department of Philosophy’s professors Michael Miller and … Read More
