Philosophy News

The Department has formed a Diversity and Climate Committee to work towards welcoming everyone into the practice of Philosophy.

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!

Our recent PhD alumni Joseph Arel and Niels Feuerhahn have just published their new translation of Heidegger’s Hegel with Indiana University Press.

With sadness we report the sudden passing of our colleague, Professor Brian Wetstein, on June 5, 2015. Brian had faced health challenges for some time and retired from the University in 2014.

Brian completed his PhD work in Philosophy (“The Role of Dialectic in Nietzsche’s Thought”) in 1994 at the University of Guelph, and had taught as a Lecturer at both UG and Guelph–Humber since that time. He was appointed as Assistant Professor in 2003.

Our Professor Ken Dorter recently gave a TEDx talk in Guelph titled, “What is free will free from?”

Our Associate Professor Karyn Freedman has just won the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction for her memoir One hour in Paris:  a true story of rape and recovery (University of Chicago Press, US publisher; Freehand Books, Canada p

Our Associate Professor Karen Wendling has published (February 2015) her edited anthology Ethics in Canada: Ethical, Social, and Political Perspectives (Oxford University Press).

Kyle Bromhall, now in our PhD program, has won the 2014 College of Arts Sessional and CLA [Contractually Limited Appointment] Teaching Award, for his performance as Instructor in PHIL 2100, Critical Thinking (Winter 2012 and Winter 2014).  Congratulations Kyle, on your excellent teaching!

Karen Houle is the inaugural Eastern Comma Writer-in-Residence Fall 2014.  From the announcement by the Musagetes Foundation: