Philosophy News

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Congratulations to our PhD student Amber Spence, who has a publication in Gnosis, entitled "The Precarity of Happiness in Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics'. 

You can find Amber's article here: https://gnosisjournalofphilosophy.wordpress.com/current_issue/

Congratulations to our doctoral student Josh Grant-Young! 

Josh has a paper coming out in an upcoming collection, Philosophy, Film and the Dark Side of Independence (Lexington Books, November 2020), entitled “Dissecting the Corrupted Body Politic: Fear, ‘Body Horror’ and the Failure of Relations”.

Congratulations to Gus Skorburg, who has just been appointed Co-Academic Director of CARE-AI: https://www.uoguelph.ca/ceps/news/2020/09/philosophy-prof-joins-care-ai-leadership

April Marratto and Josh Grant-Young have submitted videos for Guelph's Three-minute thesis competition! You can see their videos here.

The winner of this competition will move on to represent Guelph at the provincial competition hosted by the University of Windsor. 

Plus, there's a People's Choice Award (you can vote through this Qualtrics survey)! So, please try to visit the site and support Josh and April!

Kyle Barbour had the honour of being the subject of a recent APA member interview (on January 31st). You can find the interview on the APA blog: https://blog.apaonline.org/2020/01/31/apa-member-interview-kyle-j-barbour/

Congratulations Kyle!

Peter Loptson's new book, Reflections in Practical Philosophy and the Philosophy of Religion is now available from Cambridge Scholars Publishing (https://www.cambridgescholars.com/reflections-in-practical-philosophy-and-the-philosophy-of-religion).

Congratulations Peter!

Philosophy department newsletter for Fall, 2019.

Samantha Brennan is cited on lying in a recent Toronto Star article: https://www.thestar.com/amp/news/world/2019/09/12/how-do-you-hide-a-war-from-your-loved-one-lie-about-everything-including-the-bombs.html?__twitter_impression=true

Congratulations are in order for Karen Houle, whose latest book of poetry has received significant recognition:

It has been selected as a 2019 Finalist in the Poetry Category for the Governor General's Literary Award (https://ggbooks.ca/#poetry)