York University has achieved significant progress in the field of philosophy, as revealed in the latest edition of the Philosophical Gourmet Report for the 2024-25 academic year. According to the report published by Leiter Reports in November 2024, York’s Ph.D. program in Philosophy, and its specializations in both cognitive science and the philosophy of law, […]
The Philosophy department in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) has received a generous donation of $100,000 over the course of five years from Benn Barrantes, a graduate of the Faculty’s undergraduate program in philosophy. This significant gift will establish the Barrantes Prizes in Philosophy, aimed at recognizing exceptional student essays that […]
Associate Professor Jacob Beck and Professor Kristen Andrews were honoured during the 2024 York University Research Awards Celebration. The York University Research Award Celebration honours York’s scholars across all faculties and schools for their remarkable achievements and contributions to creating positive change. Read the full story
Gerard Naddaf, Professor Emeritus of York University’s Department of Philosophy, has published a new book with McGill-Queen’s University Press that explores the importance of myths as creators of selfhood and group identity throughout history. To most, myths are merely fantastic stories. But for Luc Brisson, one of the great living Plato scholars and prominent philosophers of […]
York University17-18 June 2022 Speakers: Christopher Campbell (York University, Toronto)Gary Ebbs (Indiana University Bloomington)Hannah Ginsborg (University of California, Berkeley)Anandi Hattiangadi (Stockholm University)Henry Jackman (York University, Toronto)James Shaw (University of Pittsburgh)Olivia Sultanescu (University of Chicago)José Zalabardo (University College London) Organizer:Claudine Verheggen (York University) Image: René Magritte, L'art de la conversation (1950)
June 17-18, 2021 9:00am - 5:00pm EST Organizers: Kristin Andrews, Simon Fitzpatrick, and Evan Westra Register here What are the psychological and evolutionary foundations of moral and social norms? Are these normative capacities uniquely human, or are they also present in other species? How might the presence of normativity in nonhuman animals change our ethical […]
The Department of Philosophy is delighted to welcome Matthew Leisinger (PhD Yale 2018) as assistant professor in Fall 2020. Professor Leisinger was appointed to the department in 2019 and has been completing a post-doctoral fellowship at Cambridge University in the UK. His areas of research are early modern philosophy and moral psychology, focusing in particular […]
Professor Oisín Deery has won a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award from the government of Australia to investigate the moral problems raised by artificially intelligent systems. According to the Australian Research Council website: "Such artificial agents are becoming increasingly prevalent in contemporary society but raise moral problems, such as who, if anyone, is legally responsible […]
The Department of Philosophy is delighted to welcome two new professors in Fall 2020: Julianne Chung (PhD Yale 2015) will join the department as assistant professor, with a specialization in epistemology, philosophy of language, aesthetics, and Asian philosophy. She is interested in skepticism, fictionalism, and metaphor, as well as how cross-cultural philosophy can shed new […]
In December 2019, Idil Boran was in Madrid, Spain at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) leading York University’s largest observer delegation since 2009, when York University was first admitted as an observer organization in time for COP15 in Copenhagen. Boran is an associate professor at York University’s Department of Philosophy, Faculty […]