Faculty & Staff
Michael Baumtrog
Assistant Professor
Department of Law and Business
Ted Rogers School of Management
Email: baumtrog@torontomu.ca (external link)
Chris MacDonald
Associate Professor
Department of Law and Business
Ted Rogers School of Management
Email: chris.macdonald@torontomu.ca
Sareh Pouryousefi
Assistant Professor
Department of Law and Business
Ted Rogers School of Management
Email: sareh.pouryousefi@torontomu.ca
Hasko von Kriegstein
Assistant Professor
Department of Law and Business
Ted Rogers School of Management
Email: hasko.vonkriegstein@torontomu.ca
For all questions about our undergraduate programs (BA in Philosophy, double-majors, and minors), or to schedule a virtual or in-person appointment, please contact Anne-Marie Dawes and/or Jama Bin-Edward at phlundergrad@torontomu.ca.
Dr. S. Amir A. Mousavian
MA in Pure Logic, Tarbiat Modares University
PhD in Philosophy, Shahid Beheshti University
Amir Mousavian is a postdoctoral fellow, working with Dr. Boris Hennig, 2024-2026. He has worked on David Lewis’ counterfactual analysis of causation and on Aristotle’s natural philosophy, with a special focus on determinism, chance and Ibn Sina’s theory of causes and causation. Some of his main areas of interest are the ontology, identity, and questions about the nature of modality and haecciety.
Research interests: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Philosophy of Logic, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, Latin and Islamic/Arabic Medieval Philosophy
Email: amir.mousavian@torontomu.ca
To see TMU's definition of an Adjunct Professor, and the relevant role(s) click here.
The Philosophy Department has two Adjunct Professors:
- Nikolas Kompridis (Appointed from Sept 2025 to June 30, 2028)
Nikolas Kompridis is the author of Critique and Disclosure: Critical Theory between Past and Future (MIT), Philosophical Romanticism (Routledge), the Aesthetic Turn in Political Thought (Bloomsbury), and Cinematic Heterotopias: Fugitive Spaces of Refuge and Freedom (Routledge, 2027). He has published more than 60 referred articles on a wide range of topics in philosophy, political theory, and aesthetics, and is currently working on a new book proposing a transformation of “critical theory” that responds to the unprecedented challenges of the 21st century. Other projects include an edited volume on Anthropocene Aesthetics and a series of papers treating the power of unregulated AI to eliminate the epistemological conditions necessary for democracy and to erase the differences between human being and the “being” of AI. Since his “retirement” six years ago as Research Professor and Foundation Director of the Institute for Social Justice in Sydney, he has been a Fellow at the Center for Humanities and Social Change at the Humboldt University Berlin, Fellow and Faculty Associate at the Centre for Ethics at the University and Toronto. Currently, he is a Senior Researcher at the Berlin Centre for AI, Society, and Critique, and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Toronto Metropolitan University.
- Allison Weir (Appointed from Sept 2025 to June 30, 2028)
Allison Weir is a Canadian social and political philosopher. She co-founded the Institute for Social Justice in Sydney, Australia, where she was Research Professor and Director of the Doctoral Program in Social Political Thought until the Institute closed in 2018. Before moving to Australia, she held a tenured professorship in Philosophy and in Women and Gender Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. She returned to Canada in 2019, and is a Faculty Associate at the Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Decolonizing Freedom (Oxford University Press, 2024), Identities and Freedom (Oxford), and Sacrificial Logics (Routledge).