Published: June 6, 2022
Posted In: Graduate, In the News, St. George, UTSC
If you’re casting about for a short, thought-provoking read or have a half-hour to spare to listen to an equally absorbing podcast, look no further: On June 5, PhD candidate and president of the GPSU Alexandra Gustafson entered into conversation with David Rutledge on his podcast The Philosopher’s Zone to talk … Read More
Published: May 24, 2022
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
We’re delighted to announce that Griffin Klemick, a graduate student in the department and a part-time assistant professor (teaching stream) with us, successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on May 20, 2022. The thesis, titled “How to Be a Pragmatist in the End: Objectivity, Skepticism, and the Demands of Agency” and … Read More
Published: April 26, 2022
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
Congratulations to the department’s two most recent PhDs! Rory Harder successfully defended his thesis, titled “Joint Action Communication, with a Focus on Demonstratives,” on March 28, 2022. Imogen Dickie and Nate Charlow had served as Rory’s supervisors. Kamil Majcherek also passed his thesis defense without changes, on April 8, 2022. … Read More
Published: April 8, 2022
Posted In: Faculty, General, In the News, St. George, Undergraduate, UTM
Based on their experience helping Afghani UTM student and women’s rights advocate Sana Hashim escape her home country while continuing her studies at the University of Toronto, Jennifer Nagel and Sergio Tenenbaum consider what Canada might do to help vulnerable students living as refugees continue their higher education. Read the Toronto … Read More
Published: April 5, 2022
Posted In: Awards and Honours, General, Graduate, St. George
The past few months have proven a period of success and recognition for Felix Lambrecht, a Vanier Scholar and PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy with primary research interests in political philosophy, legal philosophy, and ethics. Not only did the School of Cities name him one of its 2022 … Read More
Published: April 1, 2022
Posted In: Awards and Honours, St. George, Undergraduate, UTM
Alex de Guzman, a specialist in UTM Philosophy and the president of its Academic Philosophy Society, is a 2021-22 Jackman Humanities Institute (JHI) Undergraduate Fellow (Jukka-Pekka Saraste Undergraduate Award in the Humanities). Read more about his JHI project, titled “Aesthetic Experience: Heroic Higher Pleasure.”
Published: March 18, 2022
Posted In: Faculty, St. George, UTM, UTSC
We’re delighted to announce the recent publication of three books by or about the work of members of the Department of Philosophy. The Long Arc of Legality: Hobbes, Kelsen, Hart (Cambridge University Press, 2022), by David Dyzenhaus, breaks the current deadlock in philosophy of law between legal positivism and natural … Read More
Published: March 17, 2022
Posted In: Awards and Honours, St. George, Undergraduate, UTSC
Marybel Menzies, a specialist in UTSC Philosophy and a major in Psychology, is a 2021-22 Jackman Humanities Institute (JHI) Undergraduate Fellow (Zoltan D. Simo Undergraduate Award in the Humanities). Read more about her JHI project, titled “Subjectivity and the Aesthetic Experience.”
Published: February 23, 2022
Posted In: Faculty, In the News, St. George
Recently, William Paris spoke to the Faculty of Arts & Science’s Sean McNeeley about his work, what originally drew him to explore thinkers from Africa and the African diaspora, and his current course, Philosophy and Social Criticism, which focuses on how our notions of justice change over time.
Published: February 16, 2022
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
Congratulations to Felix Lambrecht for being awarded a 2022 School of Cities (SoC) Graduate Fellowship. This SoC program brings together an interdisciplinary group of University of Toronto doctoral students who share a passion for city-building and solutions to critical urban challenges. Throughout the fellowship, students will collaborate with scholars at … Read More
Published: February 14, 2022
Posted In: Announcements, General, Graduate, St. George
‘Tis the season to consider romantic love—but what of the broken heart? In Psyche, graduate student Alexandra Gustafson takes us on a tour of literature and the everyday to ponder the sublimity of unrequited love.
Published: February 10, 2022
Posted In: Awards and Honours, Graduate, St. George
Kayla Wiebe, a PhD candidate whose dissertation focuses on the concept of autonomy and who also serves as a bioethicist at SickKids hospital, recently won the 2021 Martha Lile Love Teaching Award for her course PHL 440—Clinical Bioethics. The course introduced students to this subfield of biomedical ethics, which zooms … Read More
