About
The SPJ is an academic journal highlighting student excellence in philosophy.
The SPJ is a peer-reviewed journal operated by philosophy students at Toronto Metropolitan University. The first edition of the SPJ will be published in Spring 2024.
The central aim of the SPJ is to encourage students to develop strong reading, writing, and editing skills; and, in turn, provide students with a space to publish their philosophical works.
The SPJ promotes serious and sustained academic engagement in philosophy and upholds the values of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. Furthermore, the SPJ fosters professional collegiality and camaraderie amongst students enrolled in philosophy programs across the globe.
“For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. Racism and homophobia are real conditions of all our lives in this place and time. I urge each one of us here to reach down into that deep place of knowledge inside herself and touch that terror and loathing of any difference that lives here. See whose face it wears. Then the personal as the political can begin to illuminate all our choices.”
― Audre Lorde
The following statement is Toronto Metropolitan University’s Land Acknowledgement:
"Toronto is in the 'Dish With One Spoon Territory’. The Dish With One Spoon is a treaty between the Anishinaabe, Mississaugas and Haudenosaunee that bound them to share the territory and protect the land. Subsequent Indigenous Nations and peoples, Europeans and all newcomers have been invited into this treaty in the spirit of peace, friendship and respect.”