Speakers James Stazicker (Kings College London) Frances Egan (Rutgers - New Brunswick) Peter Epstein (Brandeis University) Gabriel Greenberg (University of California, Los Angeles) Andrew Y. Lee (University of Toronto) Adrienne Prettyman (Bryn Mawr College) Organizers Sonia Sedivy (University of Toronto), Jacob Beck (York University), Bill Brewer (King's College London), Kevin ... Read More
This talk has unfortunately been cancelled. The Continental Philosophy Research Interest Group is delighted to welcome as guest speaker Dimitris Vardoulakis, who was the inaugural chair of Philosophy at Western Sydney University. Some of his books include Spinoza, the Epicurean: Authority and Utility in Materialism (2020); The Ruse of Techne: ... Read More
The Ethics and Political Philosophy Interest Group is pleased to welcome as its guest speaker Selim Berker, the Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University. He works on the foundations of normativity in all of its guises, including the ... Read More
This year, we welcome as 2026 UNESCO World Philosophy Day lecture speaker Laurie Paul, the Millstone Family Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science Yale University. She explores relationships between the nature of the self, transformative experience, preference change, subjective value, temporal experience, causation, time, and perception. Talk Title The paradox ... Read More
Join us for the two-day meeting of the North American Kant Society Eastern Study Group. DAY 1: Friday, November 20 – Room 100 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Practical Philosophy "Kant's Purely Practical Concept of Freedom" Noa Buckle (Toronto) *Nominated for Markus Herz Award* 10:40 AM - 12:10 PM Practical ... Read More
The Early Modern Philosophy Research Interest Group welcomes Raphaelle Dupont, a PhD student in the department. Her main research interests are in the history of philosophy, especially in the transition between late medieval and early modern metaphysics. Before joining the department, she completed her Master’s studies with a thesis on Spinoza’s ... Read More
The Global Philosophy Research Interest Group welcomes guest speaker Monica Z. X. Ding, a postdoctoral fellow in the philosophy department at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on the application of Classical Chinese philosophy to AI ethics. She is also interested in the nature of understanding and its applications ... Read More
The Department is pleased to welcome Olivia Bailey, an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy, at UC Berkeley for a colloquium on December 3, 2026. She works on questions in moral psychology and the history of moral philosophy (particularly the British moralists). Her current research is concerned with the ethical ... Read More
The Logic and Philosophy of Science Research Group is pleased to welcome as its guest speaker Gordon Belot, the Lawrence Sklar Collegiate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. Professor Belot's primary interests are in philosophy of physics, philosophy of science, metaphysics, and epistemology. His most recent book, Accelerating Expansion: ... Read More
The Aesthetics Reading Group is pleased to welcome as guest speaker Alexandra King, associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Simon Fraser University. Currently, she is thinking through what aesthetic normativity looks like: the shape it takes, its parallels and interactions with other varieties of normativity (like the moral and ... Read More
The Early Modern Philosophy Research Interest Group is pleased to welcome as its guest speaker Andreea Mihali (Wilfrid Laurier University) who is an expert in critical thinking, informal logic and argumentation theory, modern philosophy (Descartes to Kant) and visual and musical arguments. Talk Title Descartes’ Omissions Talk Abstract In the Meditations Descartes insists ... Read More
The Global Philosophy Research Interest Group is delighted to welcome as guest speaker Jeannie Miller, an associate professor in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Toronto. Her book, The Quibbler: Al-Jahiz’s Equivocations in Kitab al-Hayawan and Beyond is a study of the Arabic writings ... Read More
