UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSO PHY
fall 2010
THE LIFE OF A PHILOSOPHER WHO WEIGHS LIVES AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN BROOME By Ellen Roseman The inaugural Roseman Lecture in Practical Ethics was delivered last October by John Broome, White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy and Fellow of Corpus Christi College at Oxford. Before speaking on “The Ethics of Climate Change,” he was interviewed by Ellen Roseman, financial columnist at the Toronto Star, alumna (MA, 1969), and benefactor of this new lecture series. Philosophy professors often steer clear of hot topics appearing on the front page of newspapers, but not John Broome. Maybe it’s because he came to philosophy late in his academic career after spending almost 30 years teaching economics. John Broome Born in Kuala Lumpur, where his father and later at Oxford University. (Though was in the colonial civil service, he went he doesn’t have a doctorate in philoso - government in 2006. Stern’s report was to Cambridge University from 1965 to phy, he did acquire an MA in philosophy savagely criticized by some U.S. econo - 1968. He thought he’d study philosophy at the University of London in 1973.) mists, such as Martin Weitzman of until a tutor at Clare College talked him “I never enjoyed economics,” Broome Harvard and William Nordhaus of Yale. out of it. “He advised me to leave the admits. “It wasn’t what I wanted to do. Broome sprang to his defense. “I have to university and get a job building roads, It was just an accident.” confess they made me angry,” he says. saying that would put the idea out of my In 1992, he wrote a book, Counting the “They thought economics should be an head quickly,” Broome says. That advice Cost of Global Warming , which was ahead ethics-free zone.” led him to get his BA in mathematics of its time. He drifted away from the As a former economist turned moral and economics at Cambridge and his subject for many years, but was bitten philosopher, Broome speaks with author - Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts by the bug again recently. He was ity and passion on the ethics of climate Institute of Technology in 1972. persuaded by economist Nicholas Stern change. He gave the inaugural Roseman He returned to his first love when hired to write something for the Stern Review lecture last fall – it was his first-ever trip as a philosophy professor at the on The Economics of Climate Change , a to Toronto – and went to the Univer- University of St. Andrews in Scotland 700-page report released by the British ...continued on Page 2 Comin g this spring The Jerome S. Simon Memorial Lectures sponsored by Charles Simon (BA, Philosophy 1967; LLB, 1970) and his family. John Campbell, University of California, Berkeley, will speak on March 8 and 10, 2011, at 3 - 5 pm.
We wish to thank the generous donors to the Department of Philosophy, without whom Philosophy News would not be possible. Please see the back page for details on how you can support the Department in endeavours like this one. ...continued from Page 1 “I had the forlorn hope of giving up read without wishing there were sity of Delaware to speak on the same economics. But now I realize that to more books of its kind.” topic the following weekend. do climate change, I have to work Soft-spoken and shy in person, with economists. They’re pretty good In the future, he hopes to write a Broome is confident in a public at this kind of thing.” Before getting serious book about climate change arena, while answering questions around to his book about climate for a wide audience, rather than writ - on his own work or pricking holes in change, however, he has to finish a ing for academics as he usually does. others’ work. It was a treat to meet book about rationality and reason that “We have to stop being in an ivory him in Toronto and to hear his views has preoccupied him for 10 years. tower when facing such an important about the future of humans on It’s been a long slog. issue,” he tells me over morning cof - this planet. fee a few hours before his Friday Not the most prolific of authors, he’s afternoon lecture. well regarded for a pair of books published in 1991 and 2004 respec - He tells me his wife is a translator, tively – Weighing Goods and Weighing fluent in six languages, who works Lives . Garrett Cullity of the for the World Health Organization in University of Adelaide calls both Geneva. They’ve been together since books “splendid.” Jacob Ross (BA, 1975 and live in a home they reno - 1998) of the University of Southern vated, a former cricket pavilion, in California says the later book is a the countryside a few hours north of masterwork that everyone interested Oxford. Their two children both in ethics should read. “The book work in public health, a daughter in involves some technicality, but every - England and a son in Australia. thing is clearly explained and should Ellen Roseman (MA, 1969), Broome is quick to acknowledge the be accessible to a wide audience… way his career has gone in a circle. lecture series benefactor In sum, Weighing Lives is impossible to ALUMNI NEWS Jennifer Bates (BA, 1987; PhD, 1997) has been tenured and pro - NEW GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP moted to associate professor at Duquesne University in IN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Pittsburgh. Her second book, This summer the Department received a very generous Hegel and Shakespeare on Moral donation for a graduate award in the Philosophy of Imagination , appears in bookstores Science from Stephen Bowman (BA, 1976; LLB, 1979), this September. She specializes in managing partner at Bennett Jones LLP. 19th century German Philosophy Stephen Bowman and has strong interests in His significant donation will be matched by the University, resulting Philosophy and Literature, in an annual award of approximately $5,000, which will be directed Environmental Ethics, French towards incoming doctoral students. The department is very grateful Feminism, and Buddhist to our alumni and other friends for their support of our students. Philosophy. Gwen Bradford (Honours BA, by the German Association of Andrew was the co-author with Trinity, 2003), finishes her PhD at University Professors and Lecturers. Professor Joseph Heath of Rebel Yale this year (dissertation title: She has been at the Free University Sell: Why the Culture Can ’t be Jammed . The Value of Achievement: It’s Worth the in Berlin since 2006 and is the first He is currently a columnist and Effort ) and takes up a post at Rice non-German scholar to receive the blogger with Maclean ’s magazine. University in Houston, Texas. award. Her area of specialization is moral If you have alumni news you’d like to philosophy. Andrew Potter (MA, 1994; PhD, 2000) published a new book share, please contact Anita Di Giacomo Heather Cameron (BA, 1991) this year: The Authenticity Hoax: How at [email protected]. was chosen “Professor of the Year” We Get Lost Finding Ourselves .
2 University of Toronto requirements has allowed us to maintain funding for our grad students. We still From the Chair quality even as our student-faculty ratio lose good students to richer schools to has more than doubled. the south, even to public institutions The global financial recession, as well as such as Michigan or Rutgers. Several Donald Ainslie continued budgetary pressure brought alumni, such as Sidney Robinson, Michael Herman, Richard Yee, and The word ‘tri-campus’ is about by such things as the abolition of mandatory retirement, has been particu - others, have been particularly generous ubiquitous at the in helping us to start alleviating this University of Toronto, larly challenging for the Faculty of Arts and Science on the St. George campus. handicap. Another alumnus has recently and probably has been established a graduate scholarship in phi - ever since the This past year, each department in the Faculty was asked to create a plan for the losophy of science (see opposite page). Mississauga campus We continue to need your support. (now ‘UTM’) opened in upcoming five years, including contin - 1967 (the ‘bi-campus’ period, starting gencies for reduced or flat-lined funding. The Faculty of Arts and Science with the opening of the Scarborough The Philosophy Department plan out - Planning Committee reviewed campus [now ‘UTSC’] in 1964, was lines a vision for undergraduate Philosophy’s plan, as well as those from short-lived). education that emphasizes our ongoing over 70 other units, and the results were commitment to providing our majors released this past summer. The Faculty For Philosophy, we entered a new has rightly chosen to emphasize the tri-campus era in 2003, with UTM’s and specialists with an excellent educa - tion in the history of our discipline and maintenance of our excellence in establishment of a second undergradu - research and ongoing improvement in ate philosophy department at U of T. the contemporary debates that have been shaped by it. We would like to the student experience as top priorities. With UTSC’s establishment of a third While the Planning Committee recom - undergraduate philosophy department maintain the innovative research-orient - ed initiatives we have developed over mended that some units be closed or this past summer (see p.4 for details), amalgamated as means to better achiev - we now have a fully symmetrical tri- the past five years, such as the Socrates Project and the Honours Project (see p. ing these goals, Philosophy’s plan was campus structure. Each campus has its well-received. We will be able to own undergraduate philosophy depart - 11). In addition, the Department prides itself on providing students in other pro - replace our retiring faculty and we ment, with all philosophy faculty on all received more secure funding for our three campuses participating equally in grams – be they in science, social science, or elsewhere in the humanities innovative and award-winning Socrates the Graduate Department of Philosophy. Project. The new tri-campus model means that the different campus-based departments can develop relatively independently of one another, even if our common par - ticipation in a unified Graduate Department means that we share a common vision for philosophy at U of T. Thus UTM decided to increase the fac - ulty complement in its Philosophy Department from five in 2002 to 13 in 2010. The new UTSC Philosophy Department expects to grow from its current seven faculty members into a more robust department in the next Donald Ainslie in Iceland. few years. – the opportunity to reflect on their In the tri-campus environment, the Meanwhile, the Philosophy Department place in society and the nature of intel - Department as a whole can continue to on the St. George campus has been on lectual inquiry. Finally, we continue to thrive even as one campus or another something of a diet, decreasing in size support several interdisciplinary under - faces serious challenges. With the cre - from 40-odd faculty members in 1989 graduate programs in such fields as ation of a new UTSC Philosophy to approximately 24 today. This reduc - Bioethics, Cognitive Science, Literary Department and with the positive tion was in part the aftereffect of the Studies, and Jewish Studies. response to our plan for Philosophy on amalgamation of the old college-based Our plan also addresses graduate educa - the St. George campus, I have no doubt philosophy groups. But it also reflects tion, though as a tri-campus program that Philosophy at U of T will continue budgetary pressures, as the Ontario gov - some of the issues discussed here are not not only as Canada’s preeminent philos - ernment continues to cut per-student specific to the Faculty of Arts and ophy department, but also as a leading funding (after inflation) and to restrict Science on the St. George campus. program internationally. tuition increases. We have nonetheless Nonetheless, we intend to consolidate learned how to do more with less, and our recent and stupendous gains in the Donald Ainslie now teach more students than we did in Chair, Department of Philosophy, reputation of our doctoral program, Faculty of Arts & Science; the 1980s. The recent introduction of a particularly by working to increase new, more rigorous set of program Chair, Graduate Department of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy News 3 A N EW PHILOSOPHY DEPAR TMENT AT U OF T On July 1, 2010, a new department philosophers were housed. for growth. There is enormous came into existence at the University This department had grown along student demand for our courses. of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC): with UTSC, with over 80 continuing Our first task will be to fill out our The Department of Philosophy. appointments, representing over 10 current strengths by hiring in value The creation of the Department of disciplines. theory, and filling out our comple - Philosophy is part of a long and con - In the course of the 2009-2010 ment in the history of philosophy. tinuing process of growth at UTSC, academic year, two disciplinary Beyond that, we plan to continue to which was founded in 1964 as groups within the department, develop our strengths, and Scarborough College, then a con - Philosophy and English, articulated a simultaneously to become one of stituent college of the Faculty of Arts clear desire for academic and admin - the leading undergraduate depart - and Science, and began its first full istrative autonomy. After a ments in philosophy in Canada, year of operations in 1966 with months-long consultative process, and to continue our role as a major 500 students. two new departments were created: player in the tri-campus Graduate By 2009, UTSC had over 10,000 Philosophy and English. Department of Philosophy at students and seven departments The Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. including the Department of UTSC is small, with seven continu - Phil Kremer Humanities, where the ing appointments, and a lot of room Chair, Department of Philosophy, UTSC FROM THE ST. G EORGE UNDERGRADUATE DEPARTMENT a
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o units in the Faculty of (Kingwell), the TA coordinator ( Niko t others in successful graduate and pro - o h Kingwell Arts and Science. The Scharer , who has since relinquished P fessional school admissions. Recent past year has been that position to Tom Berry ), and the U of T philosophy graduates are now marked by two teaching awards, the target course instructor ( Peter King , at Yale, Chicago, Columbia, Penn, and continued success of the Socrates past winner of the faculty’s Oxford, among others. We wish them Project and Undergraduate Research Outstanding Teaching Award). The and all of our graduates every success Coordinator, admissions success past year’s Socrates students, together and hope they will stay in touch as among our senior undergraduates, and with those who took the Individual their careers develop. the usual sheaf of enthusiastic teaching Studies Honours Seminar, held day- evaluations from our many students. long research meetings at the end of Mark Kingwell the past year. Associate Chair, Undergraduate Studies The Socrates Project itself is set for its (St. George) CAREER NIGHT 2 01 0 Students often wonder: “What do I do with a philosophy degree?” At our Career Night, a large group of third and fourth years heard five different answers to that question as alumni shared their experiences in building careers on the foundation of a philosophy degree. After a panel presentation, students had a chance to ask our speakers more informally about career devel - opment. The department is indebted to the alumni who volunteered to pass along their knowledge to our current students. Pictured, 2010 Career Night speakers (left to right): Laura Syron , Vice President Research, Health Promotion and Advocacy, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario (BA, 1988); Dan Dunsky , Executive Producer of The Agenda with Steve Paikin , TVO (BA, 1993); Greg Ross , Senior Vice President, Fixed Income Investments, AEGON Capital Management Inc (BA, 1991); Tamara Fernandes Ray , High School Teacher, Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board (BA, 2001); and John Duffy , Founder and Principal, StrategyCorp (BA, 1986) .
4 University of Toronto From the UTM P HILOSOPHY NEWS Graduate This has been a very exciting end of year for us. We have just created two new awards for outstanding philosophy undergradu - Department ate students at UTM: The Erindale Prize in Philosophy and the In my first note about the Gombay Prize in Philosophy. The Erindale Prize is awarded to a graduate program, I want student completing a major or specialist degree in Philosophy on to begin by thanking Phil the basis of exceptional academic achievement. The Gombay Kremer , who completed Prize is awarded to a student completing a major his 3-year term as Tenenbaum or specialist degree in Philosophy on the basis of Graduate Coordinator academic achievement in Philosophy and contri - on July 1. bution to the intellectual life of the UTM Philosophy Raffman Department. The inaugural winners were Rima Basu (Gombay I can’t do justice here to Prize) and Patrick Shirreff (Erindale Prize). The institution of Phil’s contribution—perhaps only those the Gombay Prize was also an opportunity to honour the impres - who have held the grad coordinator posi - sive contributions that André Gombay has made to our Brunning & Shirreff tion can truly appreciate what he has program. Those who do not teach at UTM might not know that accomplished. So let me say simply that André is not just a great philosopher and a fantastic human being, Phil has built our graduate program into he is also an outstanding and much beloved philosophy teacher. one that can compete with the very best We are so happy to have a chance to show our appreciation for all programs in the world. We are deeply that André has done for our department. grateful to him. We also received funding for a series of new initiatives that aim to Margaret Opoku-Pare, our extraordinary increase graduate student participation at our campus: the Graduate Administrator, also deserves Seminars in Philosophy Series, the Essay Clinic, and the Graduate- Gombay & Basu many many thanks for the fine state of the Undergraduate Philosophy Conference. We are looking forward to program. In all sorts of ways, Margaret is all the intellectual activity that these initiatives will generate next year! the person who keeps the program and the Sergio Tenenbaum office running; the job of grad coordinator Acting Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto at Mississauga would be impossible without her. Phil has also left me in the very happy position of welcoming an extremely strong UTSC P HILOSOPHY NEWS incoming class. Three students hold 2009-2010 was a milestone year as we accomplished our aim of Ontario Graduate Scholarships (OGS) and becoming an independent department! During the external two hold prestigious Canada Graduate review of the Department of Humanities of which we have been Scholarship Masters (CGSM) awards from a part, we were able to make a convincing case for the need for SSHRC. Their areas of interest are wide- departmental status for Philosophy. The process was long and ranging, from ancient and medieval arduous, as well as contentious and even acrimonious at times, philosophy and continental philosophy to making this term as Program Director especially difficult. But contemporary ethics and topics in meta - Sedivy we can now build a department that will reflect the decisions physics and epistemology. taken by philosophers in the best interests of philosophy at This brings the graduate program to an UTSC. The next five-year period will be exciting indeed as we form a depart - impressive total of 11 OGS, 2 CGSM, 6 ment from scratch under the leadership of our Chair Professor Philip Kremer . CGSD (Canada Graduate Scholarship I will help as Associate Chair. Doctoral awards of $35,000 per year), and As far as more detailed news is concerned, we were not able to hire in Ethics this 2 Vanier awards (see p.8 for news of year due to the freezing of all Humanities positions during the review process, but Jacob Weinrib’s winning this prestigious we are looking forward to filling that much needed position next year. We hosted award of $50,000 per year). our third annual undergraduate philosophy conference in March. The event was a We also have good news on the job front, great success with excellent papers by students from both United States and in spite of the terrible job market. Three of Canada, and a keynote address by Professor Muhammad Ali Khalidi. our PhD's have been hired as assistant pro - Our Emeritus Professor Howard Sobel who was an active teacher, researcher fessors, at Merrimack, Carleton, and and mentor throughout his retirement passed away in March and will be missed by UMass, and one as visiting lecturer at our whole community. Illinois; four will take up postdocs, at We are looking forward to being all together again at UTSC, as Professor UCLA, UBC, Holy Cross, and Bayreuth. William Seager returns from sabbatical, Professor Philip Kremer returns from Two have been hired into short-term his secondment as Graduate Coordinator and Associate Chair for the Graduate teaching-stream positions at U of T. Department of Philosophy, and as we continue to be joined for the second year Congratulations to all of them! by Dustin Stokes and Professor Emeritus Ronald de Sousa . Diana Raffman Sonia Sedivy Associate Chair, Graduate Studies Program Director, Philosophy, University of Toronto at Scarborough
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served as Acting Chair PROMOTIONS & A PPOINTMENTS of the UTM Department of Tom Berry University of Toronto Philosophy while Amy takes over from at Scarborough. Mullin was on research Niko Scharer as TA Amy Mullin Chair of leave; he will continue Coordinator. He will the UTM Department doing so this year while be serving until 2013. of Philosophy, has been Amy serves as UTM’s Kremer Tom Hurka has been appointed Interim Vice- Interim Vice-Principal appointed Interim Principal Academic and Academic and Dean. Berry Cunningham Director for the Centre Dean at UTM. Denis Walsh was for Ethics for the 2010 Diana Raffman has promoted to Full fall term; Frank been appointed to a Professor. He holds a Cunningham will be two-year term as the Canada Research Chair covering the post in the new Graduate in Philosophy of spring of 2011. Coordinator. Biology and is cross- Walsh Phil Kremer has been Sergio Tenenbaum appointed to the appointed Chair of the was promoted to Full Institute for the History and Philosophy Hurka new Department of Professor. Last year he Mullin of Science and Technology. Philosophy at the
IN MEMORIAM by Sonia Sedivy and William Seager Jordan Howard Sobel ness and respect as a gregarious and enthusiastic colleague with an unbounded passion for philosophical argument. We note with sorrow the passing of Jordan Howard Sobel on the A highly productive scholar, he published more than a hun - evening of Friday, March 26th, dred articles over the span of his career. He had four books 2010. He was predeceased by published between 1998 and 2009 with leading academic both his wife, Willa Freeman publishers. His books are Taking Chances: Essays on Rational Sobel and daughter, Grace. Choice ; Puzzles for the Will: Fatalism, Newcomb and Samarra, Determinism and Omniscience ; Logic and Theism – Arguments For Howard was born in 1929 in and Against Beliefs in God ; and Walls and Vaults – A Natural Chicago (but later took Canadian Science of Morals (Virtue Theory According to David Hume) . citizenship), and received his Ph.D. in 1961 from University of During this final fruitful period, Howard enjoyed visiting at Michigan. His dissertation, titled ‘ What if everyone did that? ’ St. Andrews University and a regular yearly visit as Research prefigured his life-long interest in morality, ethics, problems Fellow to the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the of social co-ordination and their logical underpinnings. Social Sciences (SCASSS) at the University of Uppsala where More specifically, his philosophical interests ranged from he was granted an Honorary Degree in 2003. rational choice theory to free will and determinism, philoso - In closing, it seems appropriate to offer two remarks that we phy of religion, and the moral philosophy of David Hume. received from students just days after Howard passed away. Howard’s research was widely recognized and admired for “Professor Sobel was like a philosophical grandfather; end - its clarity of thought and precision of lessly supportive and knowledgeable. Listening to him talk argumentation. was as close as a modern philosopher can get to sitting in a Howard joined UTSC in 1969 and became Professor in Greek symposium. He wrapped philosophy around you and 1976. He taught until his retirement in 1995, but continued made you a part of it. I will miss him a great deal.” to be actively involved, teaching two courses every year “Howard was a much beloved professor and person. He will until he became ill earlier this semester. He was deeply be greatly missed. We remember him for all the discussion committed to philosophy; his later years saw an extraordi - he provided us with his great dedication to his students, his nary synergy between his teaching and his research. He compassion and his fairness. Many of us owe much of our taught highly demanding courses that showed interested stu - philosophical development to Howard, having learned for - dents how rigorous thought could be brought to bear mal logic from him. His contribution to our growth and productively on difficult issues in ethics and religious belief. development as philosophers cannot be overemphasized. As his students have said, they will remember his dedication He will be forever remembered and forever missed.” to them, his energetic discussion, and “his compassion and his fairness.” We will always remember Howard with fond -
6 University of Toronto of mind and language and cognitive as well as the teaching of New Faculty science, he is adept at teaching social and ethics and applied ethics political philosophy, ethics, philosophy of courses. His year of Stephen Biggs , science and feminist being Lead Writing TA who has been with us as philosophy. for our Writing a post-doctoral fellow Instruction for TAs for the last three years, Sol Goldberg has been appointed to a two-year Program and his year as a will be taking up the MacKay position as a Lecturer in doctoral fellow at the position of Philosophy Centre for Ethics should Undergraduate Research Jewish Philosophy to be shared by the stand him in good stead for his work Coordinator for the Biggs this year. Department’s Honours Department of Goldberg Project Seminar, and he will be teaching Philosophy and the Michael Morgan (PhD, 1978), in the area of Philosophy of Mind as well. Centre for Jewish Studies. He spent the Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus of previous year at the U of T as the Senator Philosophy and Jewish Studies at Indiana Stephen has a broad background in Jerahmiel S. and Carole S. Grafstein University, will be taking up the Shoshana philosophy which makes him ideally suit - Fellow in Jewish Thought. Shier Distinguished Visiting Professorship ed to work with the wide range of topics in Jewish Studies at the Centre for Jewish he is sure to encounter with his Honours Doug MacKay , who is defending his doctoral dissertation with us in political Studies this fall. We are happy that he’ll Project students: besides his major be able to spend part of his time at the research areas of metaphysics, philosophy philosophy this fall, will be taking over the coordination of the Socrates Project Philosophy Department.
Awards & Honours
FACULTY AWARDS NORTHROP FRYE AwARD our programs. Mark’s upper year courses Arthur, who is cross- Brad Inwood received the 2010 are also in huge demand, and typically have appointed to the Faculty Northrop Frye Award. This University of waitlists that are larger than the total of Law, is an internation - Toronto Alumni Association (UTAA) enrollment of the course. al leader in legal and Award of Excellence is given to a faculty political philosophy. His member who best exemplifies the links work has changed our between teaching and research . Brad was ideas about the relation - honoured for his leadership in the ship between justice, Arthur Ripstein Collaborative Program in Ancient and responsibility, and duty. Medieval Philosophy and his contributions to teaching in Classics and Philosophy. cPA BOOk PRIzE Anjan Chakravartty was a winner of the Canadian Philosophical Association’s 2009 biennial Book Prize for A Metaphysics Dean Meric Gertler with Mark Kingwell for Scientific Realism: Knowing the Unobservable BEST ARTIcLE IN PHILOSOPHY (Cambridge, 2007). Two As the University’s Provost, Cheryl other faculty members Brad Inwood receives Northrop Frye Award Misak still finds time to write. Her article received honourable (from left: Carl Mitchell, President, UTAA; “Experience, Narrative, mention: Sergio Prof. David Naylor, President, U of T; Brad and Ethical Deliberation,” Tenenbaum for Inwood; The Honourable David Peterson, Appearances of the Good: Anjan Chakravartty Chancellor, U of T). which was published in Ethics , was named by The An Essay on the Nature of OUTSTANDINg TEAcHINg Philosopher’s Annual as one Practical Reason (Cambridge, 2007) and AwARD of the ten best articles in Evan Thompson for Mind in Life philosophy in 2008. (Harvard, 2007). Anjan is the fifth UofT Mark Kingwell received the Faculty of Cheryl Misak philosopher to win the CPA Book Prize – Arts and Science Outstanding Teaching ROYAL SOcIETY an impressive feat since this is only the fifth Award for 2008-2009. Mark has been OF cANADA time the biennial prize has been awarded. teaching introductory philosophy for many has been named a Former winners are Ronnie de Sousa , years, and his dynamic approach is one rea - Arthur Ripstein Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Joe Heath , Arthur Ripstein , and son for the significant student demand for Fred Wilson . ...continued on next page Department of Philosophy News 7 Awards & Honours
FACULTY AWARDS JHI FAcULTY RESEARcH and spectacle”; his project will focus specifi - Approach.” FELLOwSHIPS cally on “image and content in sensory We neglected to mention representation.” Mohan Matthen has last year that Paul been awarded a 12 - Evan Thompson has Franks received a month residential Faculty received a 6-month Chancellor Jackman Research Fellowship for Faculty Research Leave Research Fellowship in 2010-2011 by the to work on “Self- the Humanities for 2009- Franks Jackman Humanities Experience and the 2010; the theme that Institute to explore this Brain: A year was “Pressures on the Human.” Matthen year’s JHI theme, “image Phenomenological Thompson GRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS MARTHA LILE LOVE was Alex Sinha for his paper “Hastings and is currently completing a dissertation ESSAY cONTEST Rashdall on Humility.” that develops a dynamic theory of consti - Two graduate students VANIER tutional law. ( Ariel Zylberman , now in won the Martha Lile cANADA his 3rd year of the doctoral program, Love Essay Contest gRADUATE won a Vanier last year – the first year it for 2008-2009. Ariel ScHOLARSHIP was awarded.) JAckMAN AwARD Zylberman won for Jacob Weinrib is one his essay “Dual of this year's winners of Eran Tal , who is writing his dissertation Citizenship: Seneca’s the Vanier Canada on Measurement, Simulation, and the Ariel Zylberman Moderate Graduate Alex Sinha New Conventionalism, Cosmopolitanism,” and Scholarship . Worth has won a Chancellor Karin Nisenbaum $50,000/year over three Jackman Graduate won for her paper years, the Vanier Student Fellowship “Cartesian Skepticism Scholarship is perhaps in the Humanities . and the Genuine the most prestigious of He will be spending the Problem of Reality in Canada's graduate fel - year at the Jackman Heidegger’s Being and lowships. Jacob is in his Humanities Institute Time .” The winner of the Eran Tal Karin Nisenbaum 4th year of the Joint Law Jacob Weinrib where this year’s theme 2007-2008 competition and Philosophy program is Image and Spectacle. UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS & H ONOURS JHI UNDERgRADUATE Switzerland which ran at “It was a great opportu - FELLOwSHIPS the end of August. This nity to pursue my year’s central topic was interests in an eclectic Mark Thomson has “Emotion Regulation and manner that I wouldn’t been awarded a Management.” have been able to do Jackman Humanities anywhere else. I’m really Institute Undergraduate Last year (2009-2010) two of our students were grateful to those at the Fellowship for 2010- Charlie Cooper-Simpson JHI for making last year Rima Basu 2011. He will be JHI Undergraduate Fellows: Charlie Cooper-Simpson such a wonderful experi - working on “Emotions ence and to Paul Franks whose patience Mark Thomson and Imagination” as part and Rima Basu . Rima, who started off working on rationality and its connection I continually tested as I jumped from of JHI’s theme “Image topic to topic and finally discovered a and Spectacle,” and he will be supervised with our explanations of human action and agency and eventually settled on new research project that I hope to con - by Prof. Mohan Matthen . Mark was tinue to pursue in my graduate studies.” also accepted to the International working on normative properties in natu - Summer School in Affective Sciences in ralism, writes about her experience:
8 University of Toronto PcU wINS AwARD
The Philosophy Course Union won the ASSU (Arts and Science Students’ Union) Sanjeev (Sanj) Dewett Course Union of the Year Award for 2009-2010. Adam Simonini , President of the 09- 10 PCU, and his executive were extremely busy over the year organizing ASSU President Gavin Nowlan; Sanjeev Dewett; Nancy de Vera, PCU Bioethics Liaison; Adam Simonini, PCU President; Stephen Stitch, PCU Communications Coordinator; Lina Nikolova, various events and spending time at the PCU Secretary; Nick Howell, PCU Special Events Coordinator; Andrew Pawluch, PCU Treasurer department to support our undergrads. (missing: Thomas Sanderson, PCU Vice-President). ethica ScHOLARSHIP but even more importantly, the ethica schol - Natasha has also been awarded the ethica arship reaffirmed how important my scholarship for 2010-2011. In 2007 ethica Clinical Research Inc. funded a studies are to me. It’s already rewarding to Bioethics Scholarship in honour of Barry F. be studying subjects I have such a great Brown (MA 1963, PhD 1966), retired pro - interest in, and the award provided the fessor and founder of the undergrad bioethics extra encouragement to keep working hard program at U of T and St. Michael’s College, and never lose sight of my goals. If any - and Chair of ethica ’s Ethics Review thing, I am more passionate about Committee. exploring the opportunities that bioethics Natasha (Natalie) Jesenak , who was the may present to me in the future. I also felt left to right: Prof. Jacqueline Brunning, recipient of the 2009-2010 ethica scholar - fortunate to meet Barry Brown and Janice Prof. Barry Brown (retired), Natasha Jesenak, ship, writes: “It was a great honour to be Parente and other staff/faculty in the Janice Parente (President of ethica ), selected. The financial support was helpful, department who can give me a greater insight into the field.” Prof. Donald Ainslie.
UNDERgRAD UATE cONFERENcE PRESEN TA TIONS AND PUBLIcATIONS
We are very pleased that our tion and who is currently Two of our students pre - undergraduate students are in his 2nd year of a PhD sented papers at the presenting talks at conferences program at Berkeley, also AECDO (Association étu - and are having their work published had a paper published in diante du Collège in journals. Please read on: Arete - Rutgers University universitaire dominicain) Luke Davies presented Undergraduate Philosophy 10th Annual Student two papers last year: Journal in fall 2008; his Conference at Dominican “A Critical Analysis of was on “Referential Jim Hutchinson University College in Daniel Telech Robert Levine’s Account Descriptions and Ottawa in February 2010. of First Person Informed Communication.” Jim wrote the paper for Daniel Telech , a philosophy specialist cur - Consent” at University of Imogen Dickie ’s seminar on Reference rently in his 4th year, presented “Aristotle Windsor’s Undergraduate and Descriptions; he described the course as contra Plato: Metaphysics and the Good.” Luke Davies Conference, “Critical “extremely awesome, definitely the best Omar Sabry ’s paper was Reflections,” in March course I took at Toronto.” on “Avicenna’s argument 2010, and “Addicted Bodies, Disciplined Jeremy Seath , a 4th for God’s Existence.” Communities: A Foucauldian Analysis of year philosophy specialist, Omar, who is currently a Addiction Models and their Constitutive presented “The Anomaly 5th year philosophy spe - Subject-Communities” (for which he won a of Matter-Spirit cialist, writes: “Presenting prize) at the 21st Canadian Bioethics Society Interaction,” at the this paper to an audience Conference, “Voices of Communities” in June University of Western has allowed me to use cri - Omar Sabry 2010, in Kelowna, BC. Luke also had a paper Ontario’s School of tique from the floor published by Arete - Rutgers University Jeremy Seath Thought Undergraduate constructively to improve my argument, and Undergraduate Philosophy Journal (spring Philosophy Conference, to develop my argumentative skills.” Omar 2010): “Narrative Ethics and Decision- “The Mind/Body Problem” in March 2010. also presented a paper in April titled Making Capacity: an Alternate Jeremy’s presentation was a defense of an “The Function Argument in Aristotle’s Understanding of Value in Capacity article by Keith Campbell that attempts to Nicomachean and Eudemian Ethics ” at the Sixth Assessments.” show how obscure any sort of matter-spirit Annual New England Undergraduate Jim Hutchinson , (BA 2009), a philosophy interaction would be even if we adopt a Philosophy Conference at Providence specialist who graduated with high distinc - seemingly inclusive causal theory. College in Rhode Island.
Department of Philosophy News 9 OUR PHILOSOPHERS ABROAD Visiting Fellowship at Princeton Ethics Workshop Professor Joseph in Israel Boyle is spending Prof. Sergio Tenenbaum took three the 2010-2011 year graduate students to Jerusalem this at Princeton spring to participate in a workshop University’s on Practical Ethics. The workshop, Department of sponsored by the Canadian Friends Politics as the of the Hebrew University, was Joseph Boyle William E. Simon organized by Sergio and Prof. David Visiting Fellow in Heyd of Hebrew University to pro - Religion and Public Life. This vide an informal forum for grad Pictured are (standing) UofT students Kelin Emmett, fellowship is supported by a grant students from different traditions Luke Gelinas, and Sandra Raponi; kneeling are from the William E. Simon of moral reflection to discuss their Hebrew U grad student Dan Baras, and Professors Foundation and is sponsored by the research in theoretical and applied Heyd and Tenenbaum. (The plaque next to the door James Madison Program in ethics. says “House of Ethics.”) American Ideals and Institutions. Summer School in Bonn Graduate students Anthony Bruno and Christine Rooks attended the first annual International Summer School in German Philosophy at the University of Bonn. They were selected from a large group of applicants, along with students from N. America, Europe and Asia. The session took place June 14-25, 2010, and this year’s topic was “Transcendental Ontology and Issues in Epistemology in Post- Kantian Idealism.” Prof. Paul Franks delivered a keynote address on “Skepticism, Naturalism, Nihilism.” Participants (left to right): Anthony Bruno, Summer School Organizer Prof. Markus Gabriel, Christine Rooks, and Prof. Paul Franks. “Victory” for Philosopher-Playwright Tom Robinson in Italy Since July 1, 2002, 476 and 348 BCE, they constitute an the philosophers Heraclitus, when he retired from “Olympics of the Mind” as key figures Parmenides, Zeno, Democritus, the Department, in Greece meet for an evening of vig - Socrates, Plato and Aristotle; the tragic Professor Emeritus orous discussion and wine-drinking dramatists Aeschylus, Sophocles and Tom Robinson has after each of the three days of athletic Euripides; the comic dramatists been busy on a num - contests. Prominent among them are ber of fronts. He has ...continued on Page 14 Tom Robinson published three books, The World as Art Object (2004), Logos and Cosmos (2008), and The Concept of Soul from Homer to Aristotle (2010) [in Portuguese], and has continued to lecture in a number of Latin American countries, particu - larly Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia and Peru, with forays into China, Greece, Italy, Spain, France, and elsewhere. He has also (on the principle that one should re-constitute oneself at least once in a lifetime) moved into play-writing. Since 2006 he has written eleven plays, all of them centering on Greek philosophy and culture. Three trilogies (one each on the fifth and fourth centuries and a third on the Peloponnesian War) explore the interface between philoso - phy, poetry, politics and war. Set at “A toast to the victor in the pancration” – from Tom Robinson’s play ‘The Other Olympians’ per - various Olympic Games between formed this May in ancient Ascea in Italy.
10 University of Toronto DEPARTMENT ACTIVITIES Vancouver Olympics was the same as theology. In second place, The Aristotle Contest 2010 the flame lit at Olympia in Greece a Jane Koblyainski of Richmond Hill This year marked the fifth anniversary year before; our (timeless!) philosophy submitted an essay on the Olympic of the Aristotle national philosophy of mind question asked whether it flame, taking a surprisingly Idealist essay competition for Canadian high would be possible, in principle if not in approach to the question of the contin - school students, sponsored and run by practice, to build a machine conscious ued identity of an object. The bronze the Department of Philosophy, the of its own existence. A wide range of medal position went to Christopher University of Toronto Schools and the entries came in, and were judged by a Hillman of Leamington, Ontario, Canadian Philosophical Association’s team of Toronto faculty and secondary who wrestled bravely with functional - Philosophy in the Schools project. This school teachers. The winning essay, by ism to argue in support of the year’s questions were in metaphysics Joseph Worndl of Toronto, tackled possibility of a self-conscious machine. and philosophy of mind. Our (winter the self-consciousness question with The winning essays are available for season!) metaphysics question asked resources drawn from the unlikely whether the flame that lit the cauldron download at combination of Descartes, contempo -
cognition, to musical aesthetics. This ond term of the course. It is this research Undergraduate Research year’s presenters included Monica Barbir, they presented at the Socrates Project and the Socrates Project Thomas Sanderson, Ljiljana Stanic, Research Workshop. Participants in the On April 5th and 6th undergraduate stu - Andrew Jehan, Liron Taub, Aaron Henry, this yea r’s seminar were: Kevin Mills, dents from the Honours Project Seminar Mark Thomson, Luke Davies, Shereen Andrew Jehan, Jelena Markovic, Karina participated in the Second Annual Chang, Dmitri Pisartchik, and Ian Strung. Vold, Ljiljana Stanic, Arthur Ringis, Philosophy Undergraduate Research This spring our department also held the Harrison Porter, David Zvi Epstein, Liron Conference. first Socrates Project Research Workshop Taub, and Juan Pineros. These conference presentations represent - for students in the Socrates Project Congrats to all PURC and Socrates ed the culmination of year-long program. The Workshop was a day long Project participants for their innovative independent projects the event, held Friday March 19th, in which and challenging presentations, and much students had conducted under faculty students presented briefly on their thanks to all the faculty members who supervision while taking a research independent research, and engaged with came out to these events to support methods seminar that allowed them to questions from the audience. This undergraduate research in our workshop their papers in development. workshop is new to the Socrates Project department. The Honours seminar ran for the full year program, which last year won the Northrop Frye Award of Excellence, – Dr. Vida Panitch, Undergraduate for the first time, giving students in the Research Coordinator program the chance to use the feedback bestowed within the university for from both their supervisors and their innovative undergraduate initiatives. Vida Panitch (PhD, 2008), who has been peers to really develop their work, and The program offers our top undergradu - central to the undergraduate research effort even submit it for publication in under - ate students the chance to work as in the department as coordinator of both the graduate journals - with much success! teaching assistants for PHL 100Y, while Honours Seminar (PHL490Y) and the Socrates The quality of the presentations at this they take a concurrent seminar that Project (PHL489Y), has left us to take up a PURC was unsurprisingly high, and cov - explores at an advanced level the topics tenure-track position in the philosophy depart - ered topics from social contract theory and authors studied in the introductory ment at Carleton University. and criminal law, to Medieval course. Students in the seminar hear from Many congratulations to Vida, who will be metaphysics, to the role of emotions in faculty experts, with whom they conduct sorely missed. independent research projects in the sec -
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12 University of Toronto So the book, which to myself I called a Plea for Experiments (part of a Back-to-Bacon Movement), was hung on a peg which everyone was discussing at the time, but in which I had no serious interest whatsoever. As Richard Rorty once said to me, “scientific realism is Mickey Mouse.” In the course of the 1980s the philosophy, history, and sociology of experimental science did come into its own, but R&I was pretty much the first in that genre, t s o r with the great exception of Latour F
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I did not even know about when I o t o wrote my own book. Bruno Latour, h P let me add, is by far the most origi - Pictured above are (standing) Professors David Dyzenhaus (Law and nal thinker about the sciences of Philosophy) , Joseph Desloges (Principal, Woodsworth College) , our times. Cheryl Misak (Vice President and Provost) , André Gombay (Emeritus, What topics or areas in the philosophy Philosophy) , David Naylor (President) , Angela Hildyard (Vice-President – of science would you say are most Human Resources and Equity) , Donald Ainslie (Chair, Philosophy) , neglected at the moment? Meric Gertler (Dean, Faculty of Arts and Science) , Anjan Chakravartty I have no opinion about that. (Director, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology); (seated) Frankly, I would not know. The Honourable David R. Peterson (Chancellor) , Remember, I do not identify as and Professor Ian Hacking . a “philosopher of science”. I am a philosopher. written for The New York Review of say something about your political Yet you have conducted groundbreaking Books some time ago on Coetzee’s involvement in those days? studies of scientific practices and The Lives of Animals . My best aca - I was a fairly serious Ban-the- concepts. Why not identify yourself demic acquaintances around the Bomber. I like the (true) story that as a philosopher of science? world (meaning people I get on once I was arrested at Trafalgar very well with, and am always I am a philosopher who is interest - Square and spent the night in delighted to sit around and shoot Wormwood Scrubs (a notorious ed in many sciences (plural) and the breeze with, though not intimate many other things as well. I have prison) with Vanessa Redgrave. friends) tend to be anthropologists I continued being an activist when told you that at the summer solstice rather than philosophers. I began thinking seriously about the I spent a year in Princeton, interfer - philosophy of mathematics. I count Did you know that in the 1800 ing with atom bomb shelters and mathematics among the sciences, (Jäsche) version of his Logic lec - the like. I was the faculty sponsor of but even that is a moot point. My tures, Kant added “What is man?” a radical student organization stuff on looping effects has occu - to his previous list of the three I helped found there, called pied a good deal of my attention for questions of philosophy? (What can BRINK. When I started work at the past thirty years. Is that philoso - I know? What ought I to do? For UBC I was active in the NDP, and phy of science? In December I was what may I hope?) Then he said that was even the riding organizer for at an “authors meet critics” session Metaphysics, Morality , and Religion West Point Grey, a gerrymandered at the American Philosophical could all “be reckoned to be anthro - constituency which in effect Association meetings in New York. pology, because the first three disenfranchised the people who It arose from my contribution to a questions are related to the last.” I worked in the sawmills, long time book arising from an essay by Cora would be much happier to be called members of that great union, Diamond, called “The difficulty of a (philosophical) anthropologist The International Woodworkers of reality, the difficulty of philosophy.” than a philosopher of science. I am America, by bundling them togeth - The book was misleadingly called concerned with all things human, er with a large number of upper Philosophy and Animal Life , and fea - including animals and the sciences. middle class voters. Of course our tured McDowell and Cavell as well The previous issue of this newsletter fea - candidate lost, but it was a well- as Diamond and myself. I was asked tured a photo of you from 1960 fought fight. primarily because of a piece I had marching against the Bomb. Could you ...continued on next page Department of Philosophy News 13 INTERVIEW WITH IAN HACKING Tom Robinson’s Victory ...continued from Page 13 ...continued from Page 10 I regret that I have not lived up to Prior, just told me one day he was my youthful ideals. going to publish it whether I submitted Cratinus and Aristophanes; the sophists Protagoras, Thrasymachus In the same issue of the newsletter you it or not. Such an event is unthinkable and Gorgias; the military general gave some advice to younger scholars: do today. I lived in happier times, before and historian Thucydides; the the best at what you care about, and do philosophy had become a “profession.” military general and politician not pay attention to what figures of I still give the advice to students that Alcibiades; and a number of other authority say you should do to get a job. you quote, but I also tell them figures. Could you share with readers some of the frankly that I know it is tempting to The other two plays centre specifi - institutional challenges you faced when try to position yourself in a compet - cally on Socrates and Plato respectively. The first, The Diaries of trying to do what you cared about? itive market. I do discourage giving Socrates , is based on the imagined I have been extremely fortunate. in to the mindless professionaliza - discovery of three autobiographical I have never had any serious institu - tion in which from a sociological diaries that Socrates composed in tional challenge. This is partly point of view there is no discernible his jail cell in the last week or so of generational: when I was young there difference between a young philoso - his life. The second, The Monologues was not much competition, so jobs pher and a young accountant of Plato , is based on the imagined working on Bay Street, trying to discovery of three autobiographical were very easy to come by. I really letters of Plato which, for one rea - hate the way in which so many good crawl up the corporate ladder. son or another, were composed but young scholars in the humanities now But it does require a kind of courage never apparently sent. To date, The have to scrounge along on sessional that I did not need long ago when I Diaries of Socrates has been played in jobs for years until they find some was starting out. Greece, Canada, the USA, Spain security and a decent salary. Institutional hindrance? Well I did and China, with a Spanish-language performance in Venezuela; it will be Consider the anecdote about my just think of something. I said I came staged by the Ontario Philosophy PhD thesis I told in the answer to back yesterday from UBC. I was put Teachers Association in the spring your first question. I handed in a up in splendid residences named of 2011. The Monologues of Plato was dissertation called Part I, Proof , plus after Dean Walter Gage. I recall that performed in Spain in 2009. And when I applied for a graduating Part One of The Other Olympians Part II, which consisted of some (the trilogy on the fifth century) results in modal logic. They had scholarship of $300, Dean Gage per - sonally called me into his office and was performed in May of this year nothing to do with each other, and in Ascea, Italy, birthplace of the first would have failed on its told me it was absurd that I should Parmenides, as part of the annual own, though it was where my heart ever have thought of applying. Go Parmenidea symposium held there. was. No institution would let a stu - out and get a job! Actually The performance, in Italian, was dent do that today. And consider the I was about to go to work for Shell staged on the archaeological site of finding oil in Alberta, but late in the the ancient city by the Compagnia logic part. I felt no urge to publish del Giullare, of Salerno. this – I had no publications then – summer, I won an entrance scholar - and an editor of the Journal of ship to Trinity College, Cambridge, “I created these plays as ‘entertain - so the worthy Dean was just a blip. ments with serious overtones’, a bit Symbolic Logic , the kindly Arthur like My Dinner with André ,” says Tom. “If they get people talking about some of the issues raised, and OUR PHILOSOPHERS IN PROSE AND POETRY laughing at some of the comic stuff, While Plato thought that philoso - ence to Ian’s proving Gödel’s I shall be more than happy.” They phers and poets quarreled, our Theorem in a logic class that she are also very much ‘talk’ plays, he says, so they can just as easily be U of T philosophers seem to be took from him at the University read round a table (or performed as inspiring literary authors these of Virginia in 1961. a radio play) as staged in a theatre. days. Kelly Cherry , a poet and Meanwhile, Anik See has a new His hope is that various ones among Professor Emeritus of the book, Postcard and Other Stories , them will prove to be a useful Humanities at University of introduction to courses on Greek that includes “Kingwell,” a story philosophy, drama, poetry and poli - Wisconsin, Madison, recently in which “a displaced Toronto published a new book, The Retreats tics, with students playing the book designer deliberates dreams, various parts, and serve as a stimu - of Thought: poems , that includes a daydreams and delusions that lus to engagement with the ideas poem, “A Snowglobe for Ian result from a lone encounter with that such courses will themselves of Hacking .” Her previous book, philosopher Mark Kingwell .” course then go on to deal with in Writing the World , included a refer - more customary academic fashion.
14 University of Toronto UPCOMING EVENTS 20 10 PHILOSOPHY The University of Toronto Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy BOOK LAUNCH Friday, September 24, 2010 John Marenbon (Cambridge University), “Abelard’s Semantics.” Saturday, September 25, 2010 Katherin Rogers (U of Delaware), “Anselm on the Ontological Status of Choice.” Eduardo Záchia (U of Ottawa), “Thomistic Dualism and Compatibility Theory.” Ian Drummond (U of Toronto), “Duns Scotus on the Role of the Moral Virtues.” Sydney Penner (Cornell), “Francisco Suárez on Intending an End.” Authors at the launch: Vincent Shen, Mark Kingwell, Cheryl Misak, Mark Henninger (Georgetown), “Realism Lloyd Gerson, Danny Goldstick, and Arthur Ripstein and Anti-realism on Relations.” For more information please see The department’s 23rd Annual Book Launch, held on March 11th, 2010 ,featured: http://cpamp.utoronto.ca/pages/utcmp.php Lloyd Gerson. Ancient Epistemology. Cambridge University Press, 2009. or contact Dan Goldstick. Reason, Truth, and [email protected]. Reality. University of Toronto Press, 2009 . The workshop is free and open to the public. Joseph Heath. Filthy Lucre. Colloquia and Special Lectures HarperCollins, 2009. Mark Kingwell. Glenn Gould. Viking October 14, 2010 – Mark Johnston Canada 2009. (Princeton University), Edith Bruce Lecture on Immortality , “The Illusion Mark Kingwell and Patrick Turmel, of a Self Worth Caring About.” editors. Rites of Way: The Politics and Poetics of Public Space. Wilfrid Laurier Professors Emeriti Dan Goldstick, November 18, 2010 – Kenneth Taylor University Press, 2009. Fred Wilson, Francis Sparshott (Stanford University), World Philosophy at the Book Launch Day Lecture. Thomas Langan. Human Being: December 2, 2010 – Lisa Downing A Philosophical Anthropology. University of Missouri Press, 2009. (Ohio State University), colloquium . Cheryl Misak, editor. The Oxford Handbook of American Philosophy. March 8 and 10, 2011 – John Campbell Oxford University Press, 2008. (University of California, Berkeley), Arthur Ripstein. Force and Freedom: Kant’s Legal and Political Philosophy. Jerome S. Simon Memorial Lectures . Harvard University Press, 2009 . March 31, 2011 – Adam Morton Tsing-song Vincent Shen (Chinese translator). Zhongshiji Zhexue (University of Alberta), colloquium . Jingshen ( 中世紀哲學精神 ),. Chinese translation of Etienne Gilson’s April 15, 2011 – Philip Pettit L’Esprit de la philosophie medieval; simplified Chinese edition. Shanghai (Princeton University), colloquium and Century Publishing Company, 2009. keynote lecture of the annual Graduate Philosophy Conference. Alumni are invited to attend the 2011 Philosophy Book Launch which will be held on Thursday, March 3, 2011, 4-6 pm, at the Each talk will take place at the Jackman Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St. George Street, Room 418. Humanities Building, Room 100, (170 St. George Street) at 3:15 pm and will be fol - lowed by a reception. Shoshana Shier Distinguished Visiting Lecture Series Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Toronto Please check our website,
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