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Rainer Forst in thinker pose in front of a blurred background of bookshelves

2023 Jerome S. Simon Lectures (Rainer Forst, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

Jackman Humanities Building 100, Victoria College 215, Claude Bissell Building 205

Rainer Forst (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt), winner of the 2012 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, works mainly on political theory, pragmatism, tolerance, and political and social justice. He is considered one of the world's most eminent authorities on the subject of toleration. This year's Simon Lectures occur under the general title "The Nature of Normative Concepts: Dependence vs. Independence."

Yellow Vest protestors surrounding a protest fire in the smoky streets of Paris, France

The Ethics of Uncivil Protest: A Workshop

Centre for Ethics Larkin Building, Room 200, 15 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON, Canada

This two-day workshop offers engagement with questions that have been at the forefront of political discourse in recent years: Can uncivil, violent resistance ever be justified as a means of protest? Speakers include Yann Allard-Tremblay (McGill), Candice Delmas (Northeastern), Jeffrey Howard (University College London), Cristina Lafont (Northwestern), Chong-Ming Lim (Nanyang Tech), José Medina (Northwestern), Temi Ogunye (Oxford), Avia Pasternak (Toronto), Erin R. Pineda (Smith College), Ẹniọlá Ànúolúwapọ́ Ṣóyẹmí (Oxford), and Daniel Viehoff (NYU).

Color etching of the 16th-century philosopher Francisco Suárez.

Francisco Suárez: Philosopher at the Crossroads

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

This two-day workshop with international guests will examine various aspects of the philosophy of Francisco Suárez (1548-1617), a scholastic philosopher working at the crossroads of late medieval and early modern philosophy.

Head shot of Julia Jorati, a white woman with short, dark blonde hair wearing glasses and standing in front of a reddish building background

Colloquium (Julia Jorati, Massachusetts Amherst)

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Julia Jorati is a professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The main focus of Dr. Jorati’s research is the history of early modern philosophy, at the moment especially debates about slavery and race in the 17th and 18th centuries.

James Madaio, white, bearded man with short hair, leaning against an outdoor railing against a backdrop of sea and seagulls.

Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (James Madaio, Czech Academy of Sciences)

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

James Madaio is a research fellow at the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. His areas of interest lie in Indian philosophical traditions, the historiography and genealogy of modern Hindu movements, Indic theories of the self, pedagogy, and hermeneutics, and cross-cultural philosophy and dialogues.

On the right, a headshot of a bespectacled Wahhed Hussain, sporting glasses and a stubbly beard. To the left, the cover of "Living with the Invisible Hand," featuring a futuristic inside of a building.

Book Launch: Waheed Hussain, Living with the Invisible Hand

Centre for Ethics Larkin Building, Room 200, 15 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON, Canada

Join us for the book launch of Living with the Invisible Hand: Markets, Corporations, and Human Freedom (OUP, 2023), by the late Waheed Hussain and edited by Arthur Ripstein and Nicholas Vrousalis.

Side-by-side headshots of Amie Thomasson (l), a middle-aged white woman with blonde hair to her ears wearing a turquoise top and blue necklace, smiling; and Christine Korsgaard (r), an older, larger woman with long dark hair, large wireframe glasses, and wearing a black blouse.

2023 Annual Toronto Graduate Philosophy Conference

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 & online 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Join us for the the 22nd Toronto Graduate Philosophy Conference with keynote speakers Amie L. Thomasson (Dartmouth) and Christine M. Korsgaard (Harvard).

Close-up of Valerie Tiberius, a middle-aged white woman with long gray hair and red glasses, smiling and wearing a gray top and a bright red necklace standing in front of a bookshelf.

Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Valerie Tiberius, Minnesota)

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Valerie Tiberius, a professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota, focuses her research and teaching on ethics and moral psychology, with a special interest in applying Humean principles to modern philosophical questions. Much of her work is centered at the junction of practical philosophy and practical psychology, examining how both disciplines can meaningfully improve lives.

Head shot of Sharon Street, a white woman with long, light brown hair, wearing a dark top and standing against a blurred grassy background

UNESCO World Philosophy Day (Sharon Street, NYU)

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Sharon Street, a professor of Philosophy at NYU, specializes in metaethics. She has authored a series of articles on how to reconcile our understanding of normativity with a scientific conception of the world. Her work concerns the nature of both practical and epistemic reasons, and it draws especially on an evolutionary biological perspective.

Photo of Kate Withy, a white woman with curly brown hair wearing a flowered scarf over a black sweater, standing against a backdrop of a wooded path, with another person walking in the background

Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (Kate Withy, Georgetown)

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Kate Withy, an associate professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, specializes in the work of Martin Heidegger, but she also has interests in 20th-century European philosophy and ancient Greek philosophy. Her research centres on Heidegger’s conception of the human being as open to meaning and subject to breakdowns of meaning.

Head shot of Roy A. Sorensen, a gray-haired white man smiling broadly into the camera wearing a blue button-down shirt

Graduate Workshop with Roy Arnold Sorensen (Texas at Austin)

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 401 170 St. George St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Roy A. Sorensen is a professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, a professorial fellow in Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, and the Jackman Humanities Institute's Distinguished Visiting Fellow for the academic year 2023-24. He has research interests in epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of language, areas in which he has published widely.

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