Department of Philosophy

Researchers from the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies secure additional funding from SSHRC Insight Grants program

Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) has awarded $5,786,741 in federal funding to York University researchers as part of the Insight Grants program. The funding supports 34 projects and builds on an additional $1.7M in funding that York researchers recently received through SSHRC Insight Development Grants, supporting scholars in the social sciences and humanities. Half […]

Researchers from the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies secure federal funding to pursue projects in the social sciences and humanities

Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) has awarded $1.7 million in federal funding to York University researchers as part of the Insight Development Grants program. The program will provide funding for projects lasting up to two years, supporting a broad range of topics and disciplines as researchers investigate key societal challenges. A number […]

Members of the LA&PS community honoured in President’s University-Wide Teaching Awards

York University faculty members were recognized with the President’s University-Wide Teaching Award and among the recipients were four members from the LA&PS community. The award recognizes the contributions made by faculty and instructors to student success and excellence in teaching. The awards were presented at the Spring Convocation and recipients will have their names engraved […]

LA&PS’ Philosophy Program Shines in National and Global Rankings

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, […]

LA&PS Philosophy department receives generous gift from former student to create new student prize  

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 […]

Two Philosophy Professors honoured at the 2024 York University Research Awards Celebration

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

Making Sense of Myth: Conversations with Luc Brisson

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 […]

Kripke's Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language at 40

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)

Normative Animals - Online Conference

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 […]

New Professor Matthew Leisinger to Join Department

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 […]