Overview
About the program
With over graduate faculty active in both teaching and research, the at the University of Toronto is able to offer supervision in all major areas of Philosophy, as well as a broad range of graduate courses every year.
Graduate students are a vital part of our research community, not only attending courses but also organizing reading groups and workshops, and participating in our very active calendar of lectures and conferences.
In recent years, our students have published papers in various journals. Graduate students receive special funding for travel, to present their research at conferences such as the American and Canadian Philosophical Association Meetings, the Joint Session meetings in the United Kingdom, and specialized workshops and conferences in a great variety of areas of philosophy.
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- Plato’s Metaphysics
- Topics in South Asian Philosophy: Seeing and Subjects
- Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy: Early Modern Naturalisms – Spinoza and Hume
- Seminar in Metaphysics: Modality, Time, and the Self
- Topics in Epistemology: The Self and Normativity
- Political Philosophy: Compliance, Disobedience, Rebellion
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 48 months
Start dates & application deadlines
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Other requirements
General requirements
- Applicants should have a master's degree in philosophy from a recognized university with an average grade of at least an A– in the applicant's overall program. Applicants must satisfy the department that they are capable of independent research in philosophy at an advanced level.
Direct entry:
- Applicants should have an appropriate bachelor's degree from a recognized university; a strong background in philosophy (roughly equivalent to an undergraduate major); and an average grade of at least a B+ in the overall program and at least an A– in philosophy courses.
Tuition Fee
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6390 CAD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 6390 CAD per year during 48 months. -
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6390 CAD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 6390 CAD per year during 48 months.
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