AWARDS & PRIZES

2009

Peter Schotch has been named Munro Chair of Philosophy (Metaphysics).

MA student Caleb Lee has won this year's Irving and Jeanne Glovin Award from the Oskar Schindler Humanities Foundation for his essay, "Intuition, Morality and Principles: Learning to Be Good without Rules."

2008

MA student Rebecca Mason received the Irving and Jeanne Glovin Award from the Oskar Schindler Humanities Foundation for her essay, “Reorienting Deliberation: Identity Politics and Good Human Conduct.”

2007

Susan Sherwin received the Canadian Bioethics Society Lifetime Achievement Award.

Gillman Payette won the Governor General’s Gold Medal in Humanities and Social Sciences for "the most outstanding Master's candidate in a thesis or non-thesis program."

PhD student Warren Heiti received one of three 2006/07 Dalhousie University President's Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards.

 2006

Steven Burns received the Faculty of Graduate Studies Distinguished Service Award.

Letitia Meynell won the Sessional Instructor's Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Susan Sherwin won the prestigious Killam Prize.

PhD student Meredith Schwartz received the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Doctoral Scholarship.

2005

PhD student Meredith Schwartz received the CIHR Douglas Kinsella Award in Bioethics.

The Douglas Butler Memorial Scholarship 

This Scholarship offers a monetary prize to the MA student whose essay is judged best of the year. Each student is encouraged to submit one essay from among those written for classes during the past academic year. 

The following have been the winners since its inception:

The F. Hilton Page Memorial Prize in Philosophy

This annual prize is normally awarded to the honours graduate whose Honours essay is judged to be outstanding. Here are our recent winners:

Michael DaSilva, 2008-09
Jared Keddy, 2007-08
Rebecca Mason and Sascha Lecours, 2006-07
Paul Barrette, 2005-06 ($350)
Victor Kumar, 2004-05 ($300)

The Department of Philosophy offers a medal to the top First Class Honours Graduate in recognition of superior achievement in the programme. Recent winners:

Dr. H.L. Stewart  Memorial Scholarship

This prize is awarded to the student with the best record entering the Final Year of an Honours Philosophy degree programme. Recent winners:

Congratulations to all!