ATLANTIC CANADA SEMINAR IN EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY 2025:
The David Braybrooke Memorial Lecture in the Austin and Hempel Series
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Why Study Philosophy
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ACSEMP and Colloquium
The Atlantic Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy (ACSEMP) is this week, July 9-11.
This week the colloquium is a joint presentation with the final talk from ACSEMP (July 11, 3-5).
For the ACSEMP program, see ACSEMP announcement up the webpage.
For Zoom links for each day, click the title of this message. To attend the colloquium, you should use the July 11 ACSEMP link at 3pm.
Our Department
The 新澳门六合彩开奖 Department of Philosophy is one of the most active and supportive philosophy departments in Canada. Our program will prepare you for any career because philosophy is the .
Where do I begin?
The basic skills practiced in philosophy are the very skills demanded and rewarded in the most lucrative, influential professions. Start your journey by registering for a first-year course or pick a second-year course in an area of interest to you.
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
All Philosophy courses at 新澳门六合彩开奖 emphasize the importance of academic integrity. Students are responsible for ensuring that all work they submit is their own, and, unless otherwise explicitly indicated by the instructor, AI-driven tools and generative AI models (including language models like the GPT suite, translation models like Google Translate or DeepL, editing tools like QuillBot, GrammaryGo, etc.) should not be used to generate ideas or written materials for any class offered by the Philosophy department.
AFFILIATED GROUPS
- Atlantic Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
- 新澳门六合彩开奖 Women Around Philosophy
- Evolutionary Studies Group
- Animal Studies Group
- The Canadian Philosophical Association - see the CPA's聽
- The 新澳门六合彩开奖 Philosophy Equity Committee
DEPARTMENT KUDOS
- Congratulations to聽Dr. Doolittle聽as聽one of 83 new appointments announced to the Order of Canada. Presented by the Governor General, the Order honours people from all sectors of society who鈥檝e made 鈥渆xtraordinary and sustained contributions鈥� to the country聽/news/2025/07/03/order-canada-ford-doolittle-companion.html?utm_source=dalnewsWeekly&utm_medium=email&utm_content=642&utm_campaign=dalnewsWeekly
- Congratulations to聽Dr. Derek Andrews who successfully defended his PhD dissertation, "Psychiatric Natural Kinds: Implications for Nosology, Practice, and Policymaking" in June, 2025.
- Clarisse Paron鈥檚 paper, 鈥淓ugenic Logics and the Pathologization of Children鈥檚 Bodies: Evaluating the American Pediatric Obesity Guidelines for Harmful Scientific and Medical Conduct鈥� is the winner of the 2025 Irving and Jeanne Glovin Award.聽Congratulations聽Clarisse!
- Congratulations聽to Tom Vinci on the eve of publication of his chapter 鈥楽ensibility and Intellect in Descartes鈥�, to appear in the forthcoming book聽The Cartesian Mind,听Edited By聽,听,听聽(Routledge, 2026). Tom鈥檚 chapter marks 51 years since his first publication in 1974 in the聽Journal of the History of Philosophy!
- Congratulations to Dr. Tiffany Gordon who successfully defended her PhD dissertation, "A Black Feminist's Defence of Retribution, Incarceration, and Reform" in November, 2024.
- Congratulations聽to Dr. Erik Nelson (who defended his dissertation last summer) on winning a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship under the supervision of聽 Dr. Kristin Andrews at York University.
- Congratulations聽to Erik Nelson who successfully defended his PhD dissertation, "The Nonlinguistic Mind: Nonlinguistic Concepts, Normativity and Animal Cognition"聽 in June, 2024.
- Congratulations聽to our PhD student, Clarisse Paron, for being awarded the聽聽for presenting on of the best two student papers at the Annual Meeting, June 2024. The title of her paper is 鈥淎re the New American Pediatric Obesity Guidelines Eugenic? Eugenic Logics and the Medicalization and Pathologization of Children鈥檚 Bodies.鈥�
- Congratulations聽to our PhD students, Lara Millman and Clarisse Paron, for being awarded 新澳门六合彩开奖鈥檚 聽President鈥檚 Graduate/Undergraduate Student Teaching Award聽(2 of 3 available university-wide awards!)
- Congratulations聽to Dr. Travis LaCroix, who has accepted a position as Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Durham University, starting in the fall of 2024.
- Congratulations to Dr. Travis LaCroix, who has been award an Insight Development Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council! Travis鈥檚 research project is entitled 鈥淧hilosophy on the Spectrum: The Philosophy of Autism and Autistic Philosophy.鈥�
- Tyler Hildebrand鈥檚 paper 鈥淚nductive Reasoning Involving Social Kinds鈥� (with Barrett Emerick) has been published in the聽Journal of the American Philosophical Association.聽
- Congratulations聽to Kayla Beals, who is the 2024 recipient of the F. Hilton Page Memorial Prize, awarded to a graduating student whose thesis is judged to be outstanding.聽
- Congratulations聽to George Arnott, who is the 2024 recipient of the Roland Puccetti Memorial Award for the best essay submitted by a student in a 3000- or 4000-level class. George鈥檚 essay is entitled "The Virtuous Cohort" Habituation and Character-Friendship as Rational Motivators for Aristotelian Courage.