Minerva's Aviary : : Philosophy at Toronto, 1843-2003 / / John G. Slater.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
• VerfasserIn: Slater, John G.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Philosophy has been taught at the University of Toronto, and its predecessor King?s College, since 1843. While much has changed in that time, the university?s Department of Philosophy remains one of Canada?s preeminent institutions for philosophical instruction. In Minerva?s Aviary, John G. Slater documents the history of Toronto?s Philosophy Department from its founding to contemporary times.In the early years, the teaching of philosophy at the university was an appendage to courses in religion. As time passed however, the discipline grew into the independent, largely secular subject it is today. The story of how this happened is told in terms of the people who taught in the department. Slater also recounts the histories and sometimes difficult integration of the philosophy departments that came with the smaller institutions that federated with the university around the turn of the twentieth century: Victoria University, St. Michael?s College, and Trinity College.Comprehensive and lovingly written, Minerva?s Aviary is the result of decades of research by one of the department?s most esteemed recent scholars. Slater?s intense investigations have uncovered a complex and evolving past that shatters some established myths but also roughly mirrors what was happening in universities throughout the English-speaking world. It thus adds greatly to our understanding of the intellectual history of the last two centuries.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part One. The Main Stream -- 1. The Rise and Fall of King's College -- 2. The Founding Professor: James Beaven -- 3. Teacher Extraordinary: George Paxton Young -- 4. The Battle over Young's Successor -- 5. The Emergence of Psychology -- 6. 'A Weakened Echo of Dr Young': James Gibson Hume -- 7. Gendeman and Scholar: George Sidney Brett -- 8. Graduate Study in Philosophy -- 9. The Last Autocrat: Fulton Henry Anderson -- 10. The First Chairman: Thomas Anderson Goudge -- 11. The Merging of the Streams -- 12. A United Department -- Part Two. Contributing Streams -- 13. Philosophy at Victoria College -- 14. Philosophy at Trinity College -- 15. Philosophy at St Michael's College -- 16. Some Reflections on This History -- Appendix A. Departmental Heads, Chairmen, and Chairs -- Appendix B. Faculty in Philosophy (1843-2005) -- References -- Illustration Credits -- Index