News & Events

News

Congratulations to MA student Christian Denino, who has been awarded a prestigious Canada Graduate Research Scholarship (external link) from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Also, his paper entitled "The Facialization of Sex" was accepted for presentation at the 2026 Deleuze and Guattari Conference (external link) .

Congratulations to Philosophy BA Student Charles Liu on winning a Dennis Mock Student Leadership Award, for his outstanding work as president of the Philosophy Course Union (external link) . 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 oliSunvia YouTube channel (external link) about what constitutes pseudo-intellectualism.

After Toronto's record-breaking one-day snowfall, Prof. Katharine O'Reilly was quoted in the National Post, applying Aristotelian ethics to snow shovelling!
The Philosophy Department is hiring! We are seeking qualified applicants for a tenure-track position in Ethics, at the Assistant Professor level.
Congratulations to BA graduate Dinez Clarke (external link) , who has won a prestigious SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship (external link) for his project entitled "Linguistic Meaning, Expression, and The Nature of Slurs". Dinez is a PhD student at Dalhousie University.
Congratulations to Prof. Michael Milona (external link) on being awarded a prestigious SSHRC Insight Grant (external link) for a three-year research project entitled "The Nature and Ethics of Romantic Love", together with Prof. Lauren Weindling (external link) (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 2025 APEC International Gyeongju Forum for History and Culture (external link) , in Gyeongju, South Korea.
The Inquiry Network (external link) , led by Prof. Arianna Falbo (external link) , is holding a workshop on April 27-28, 2026. Here is the Call for Papers (external link) .
Prof. Arianna Falbo (external link) was featured on the website First Generation Philosophers (external link) .
Congratulations to Prof. Jennifer Komorowski on her new tenure-track appointment at Western University! TMU's loss is Western's gain.
Congratulations to this year's undergraduate Philosophy award-winners!
Prof. Michael Milona (external link) and Liz Rosenberg (MA Class of 2024) will present their co-authored paper, "Getting Real about the Guise of the Good (external link) ", on June 1st at the Canadian Philosophy Association conference.
Congratulations to Kirk Lougheed (external link) (MA Class of 2014), whose seventh monograph has just been published by Oxford University Press. It is entitled A Moral Theory of Liveliness: A Secular Interpretation of African Life Force (external link) .
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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Philosophy Department Events Calendar

Recent Events

The 12th Annual Meeting of the Association for Adorno Studies took place at TMU on March 20-12, 2026. For details, and the program, click here (external link) .

Profs. Daniel Rubio (external link) and Klaas Kraay organized an online conference on religious epistemology, which took place on Dec. 14-15, 2025. [Details]
The Society for Women of Ideas (external link) 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 Sophie Grace Chappell (external link) (Open University), Piro Rexhepi (external link) (LSE), and Alyosxa Tudor (external link) (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. [Details (external link) ]
The Multiverse and Philosophy. This conference took place on the TMU campus from June 16-18, 2025.
On May 9th, 2025, 2:00-4:00pm, The Society for Women of Ideas (external link) 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); Verónica Schild (Political Science, Western University); and Verónica Zebadúa-Yáñez (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 John Miller (external link) , (PhD Candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto); Renée Bédard (external link) , (Assistant Professor in the Department of Women’s Studies and Gender Studies at Western University); Cara Peacock (external link) , (PhD Student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto); and Jennifer Komorowski (Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Toronto Metropolitan University).

Prof. Pirachula Chulanon (external link) 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, click here (external link) .
Prof. Jeta Mulaj co-organized a series of online talks on social reproduction theory in a global context, titled “Critical Perspectives on Care.” [Details (external link) ]