News & Events

News

Congratulations to Philosophy BA Student Charles Liu on winning a Dennis Mock Student Leadership Award, for his outstanding work as president of the . Charles is pictured here with Prof. David Hunter, the Program Director for the BA in Philosophy.

Profs. Thomas Hart and Boris Hennig were recently interviewed on the about what constitutes pseudo-intellectualism.

After Toronto's record-breaking one-day snowfall, Prof. Katharine O'Reilly was , applying Aristotelian ethics to snow shovelling!
The Philosophy Department is hiring! We are seeking qualified applicants for a , at the Assistant Professor level.
Congratulations to BA graduate , who has won a prestigious for his project entitled "Linguistic Meaning, Expression, and The Nature of Slurs". Dinez is a PhD student at Dalhousie University.
Congratulations to Prof. on being awarded a prestigious for a three-year research project entitled "The Nature and Ethics of Romantic Love", together with Prof. (Laurier).
Welcome to all our incoming BA and MA students, and welcome back to our returning students! We wish you all the best for the academic year ahead!
On Sept. 21, Prof. Diane Enns presented a paper entitled "Interpreting Loneliness" at the , in Gyeongju, South Korea.
, led by Prof. , is holding a workshop on April 27-28, 2026. Here is the .
Prof. was featured on the website .
Congratulations to Prof. Jennifer Komorowski on her new tenure-track appointment at Western University! 成人大片's loss is Western's gain.
Congratulations to this year's undergraduate Philosophy award-winners!
Prof. and Liz Rosenberg (MA Class of 2024) will present their co-authored paper, "", on June 1st at the Canadian Philosophy Association conference.
Congratulations to (MA Class of 2014), whose seventh monograph has just been published by Oxford University Press. It is entitled .
Congratulations to Prof. Kym Maclaren, who is this year's recipient of the Faculty of Arts Students' Choice Teaching Award!

Upcoming Events

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For details about our regular Visiting Speaker Series, click here.
For details about events organized by the undergraduate Philosophy Course Union, .
The 12th Annual Meeting of the Association for Adorno Studies will take place at 成人大片 on March 20-12, 2026. For details, and the program, .

Recent Events

Profs. and Klaas Kraay organized an online conference on religious epistemology, which took place on Dec. 14-15, 2025. [Details]
The hosted an event entitled The Global Rise of Anti-Gender Ideology on Wednesday, December 10, 12:00-2:00 PM. This virtual panel brought together (Open University), (LSE), and (SOAS), to discuss the global rise of the anti-gender movement, with a particular focus on the UK and Europe more generally.
The department hosted a conference entitled Reenchanting the World: Philosophy, Spirituality, Ecology, Arts, from Oct. 16-18, 2025. []
The Multiverse and Philosophy. This conference took place on the 成人大片 campus from June 16-18, 2025.
On May 9th, 2025, 2:00-4:00pm, hosted a roundtable discussion on recent transnational feminist mobilization against gender-based violence, featuring four international scholars: Valentina Moro, Philosophy (Stony Brook University); Paola Rudan (History of Political Thought, University of Bologna); Ver贸nica Schild (Political Science, Western University); and Ver贸nica Zebad煤a-Y谩帽ez (Comparative Women's Studies, Spelman College).
On May 7th, 2025, 2:00-4:00pm, the Philosophy Department TRC Reading Group hosted a roundtable on Indigenous Philosophy and Theory, which included , (PhD Candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto); , (Assistant Professor in the Department of Women鈥檚 Studies and Gender Studies at Western University); , (PhD Student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto); and Jennifer Komorowski (Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at 成人大片).

Prof. co-organized a conference, entitled "Other Epistemic Achievements: Global Perspectives", which took place from May 2-4, 2025. He has also co-organized two other workshops, which are about how to integrate Chinese, Sanskrit, Indigenous, Latin American, and Africana philosophy into one's pedagogy. For complete details on these events, .
Prof. Jeta Mulaj co-organized a series of online talks on social reproduction theory in a global context, titled 鈥淐ritical Perspectives on Care.鈥� []