Faculty & Staff

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.

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 was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto, and the Center for Humanities and Social Change at the Humboldt University, Berlin. He was previously Research Professor in Philosophy and Foundation Director of the Institute for Social Justice at Australian Catholic University. He is the author of Critique and Disclosure: Critical Theory between Past and Future (MIT 2006) and the editor of The Aesthetic Turn (Bloomsbury 2014), Philosophical Romanticism (Routledge, 2006).  He is currently completing a monograph on romanticism and another monograph on receptivity. Kompridis has published widely in journals and edited volumes on a wide and diverse set of topics (see list of downloaded articles and chapters).

Originally trained as a musician (at the University of Toronto and Yale University), he was the founder and director of the Canadian contemporary music ensemble, Sound Pressure, during which time he worked with some of the world’s leading composers – Frederic Rzewski, Louis Andriessen, Martin Bresnick, David Lang, among others. After a decade-long career in music, he was drawn into an academic career, inspired by the Critical Theory tradition, which eventually took him to Frankfurt, where he worked with Jürgen Habermas as a postdoctoral fellow in the Philosophy Department at J.W. Goethe University in Frankfurt. Drawing on the traditions of Critical Theory, Political Theory, Philosophical Romanticism, and American Pragmatism, his work has been concerned with rethinking the meaning of reason, the theory and practice of critique, questions of normativity and agency, and reformulating these key concepts from the standpoint of his developing conceptions of “world disclosure” and receptivity. This larger project also involves rethinking democratic practices of collective self-reflection and of institutional and cultural change. More recently, Kompridis has been preoccupied with the unprecedented challenges of the “Anthropocene,” and the task of rethinking the human/non-human relationship in terms that go beyond the limitations of both humanism and posthumanism.

•    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).