Book published by Monique Deveaux
Our Professor Monique Deveaux has (with Vida Panitch) published (January 2017) an edited volume Exploitation: from Practice to Theory (Rowman & Littlefield).
Philosophy News
Karyn Freedman's One Hour in Paris longlisted for 2017 Canada Reads
Congratulations to Professor Karyn Freedman of Philosophy, whose book, One Hour in Paris, has been longlisted for CBC's Canada Reads competition. The winner for 2016 was Professor Lawrence Hill of SETS with his book, The Illegal. The final five will be announced January 31, 2017. Find more information here: http://www.cbc.ca/books/2016/12/the-canada-reads-2017-longlist.html
Compelling Reading: Professor Karyn Freedman on the Huffington Post
Professor Karyn Freedman writes on the Huffington Post Blog about implicit misogyny.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/karyn-l-freedman/steven-galloway-letter_b_1...
Stefan Linquist wins SSHRC Insight Grant
Our Associate Professor Stefan Linquist is principal investigator on a new SSHRC Insight Grant. Congratulations, Stefan!
The use and abuse of function concepts in genomics
SSHRC Insight Grant: $85,279.
It might come as a surprise that only a small fraction of the DNA in our cells (less than 2%) encodes the various proteins that build our hair cells, bone cells, neurons, and all other human cell types. This raises the question of what, if anything, the remaining 98% is doing?
Maya Goldenberg on two major research grants
Two recently-announced research grants include our own Associate Professor Maya Goldenberg. Congratulations, Maya!
Across the Great Divide: Challenging the Qualitative-Quantitative Paradigmatic Gap
SSHRC Insight Development Grant, $58,000 , 2016-2018
Primary Investigator: Dr. Janet Parsons, Applied Health Research Centre, St. Michael's Hospital
Martin King awarded 3-year postdoc
Our recent PhD graduate, Martin King, has just (June 2016) been awarded a three-year postdoc as part of the “Epistemology of the Large Hadron Collider” project at the University of Wuppertal. Congratulations Martin!
Creation of the Diversity and Climate Committee
The Department has formed a Diversity and Climate Committee to work towards welcoming everyone into the practice of Philosophy.
Teaching award for Stefan Linquist
We're delighted that our Associate Professor Stefan Linquist has just won the 2016 University of Guelph Faculty Association Distinguished Professor Award for Excellence in Teaching. Much deserved—congratulations Stefan!
Book published by Joe Arel and Niels Feuerhahn
Our recent PhD alumni Joseph Arel and Niels Feuerhahn have just published their new translation of Heidegger’s Hegel with Indiana University Press.