October 2019
EPP and LEMM Interest Group Talk (Katia Vavova, Mount Holyoke)
The Ethics and Political Philosophy Interest Group and Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Mind Interest Group welcome Katia Vavova, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Mount Holyoke College. Talk Title Moral Responsibility without Blame Abstract Philosophical orthodoxy has it that if you’re morally responsible for some bad act, you’re blameworthy for it. On the strongest version of this view to blame you just is to hold you responsible. I think this view is mistaken and leads us to misunderstand our agency and…
Find out more »History of Modern Philosophy Group Talk (Robbie Matyasi, U of T)
Robbie Matyasi is a Graduate Student with us whose primary interests are 17th- and 18th-century philosophy (especially Spinoza and other rationalists) and metaphysics (especially properties, composition, and causation). He is currently writing a dissertation on Spinoza’s metaphysics of ordinary objects and organisms. Talk Title: TBA About the History of Philosophy Group One of five departmental Research Interest Groups, the History of Philosophy Group is home to the History of Modern Philosophy Research Group, which focuses on the period, roughly, from Descartes to Kant.
Find out more »Difference and Alterity: Critical Models in Modern Thought
Programme Friday October 25 2:00-2:15 Opening Remarks 2:15-3:00 Idit Dobbs-Weinstein, The Same Is the Different: Nature, Fortune, History in Machiavelli 3:00-3:45 Oleg Gelikman, The Quake of the Real: on the Ontology of Relation in Montaigne 3:45-4:15 Coffee Break 4:15-5:00 Willi Goetschel, Writing Otherwise: Montaigne and La Boëtie 5:00-5:45 Warren Montag, “To Quit the Principles of Human Nature:” Locke's Notion of the Inhuman Saturday October 26 10:15-11:00 Tracie Matysik, Substance as Contingency in the Young Karl Marx 11:00-11:45 Michael Rosenthal, On…
Find out more »November 2019
History of Modern Philosophy Group Talk, (Vili Lähteenmäki, U. of Helsinki)
The History of Philosophy Group is pleased to welcome guest speaker Vili Lähteenmäki, distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of Helsinki and an Academy of Finland Research Fellow. Talk Title: Cartesian Self-Relations About the History of Philosophy Group One of five departmental Research Interest Groups, the History of Philosophy Group is home to the History of Modern Philosophy Research Group, which focuses on the period, roughly, from Descartes to Kant.
Find out more »5th Annual Society for the Metaphysics of Science Conference
The Society for the Metaphysics of Science (SMS) will be holding its fifth annual conference on November 7-9, 2019 at the University of Toronto. Register HERE Keynote Speaker: Katherine Brading (Duke University) Presidential Address: Max Kistler (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) Early registration fees (before 10 October 2019): Faculty: $75 Post-doc: $50 Students and Emeritus faculty: $10 Late registration fees (after 10 October 2019): Faculty: $125 Post-doc: $75 Students and Emeritus faculty: $15 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Giuliano Torrengo (Milan and Autònoma Barcelona), Chair Christian Mariani (Milan), Assistant…
Find out more »UTM Workshop on Indian Epistemology
Presented by the Centre for South Asian Civilizations at the University of Toronto Mississauga, this workshop convenes a group of scholars of analytic and Indian philosophy engaging contemporary problems in epistemology in light of debates occurring in premodern India. Our focus is Gangesa Upadhyaya (14th century CE), a philosopher who founded the “new reason” school of philosophy. His understudied work, The Philosopher’s Stone of Truth (Tattvacintamani) was hugely influential and engendered new modes of analysis and increased technical precision in…
Find out more »Philosophy of Religion Work-in-Progress Group Talk (J.L. Schellenberg, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax)
The group welcomes J. L. Schellenberg, professor of philosophy at Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax.
Talk Title
Faith, Fictionalism, and the Future
Find out more »History of Modern Philosophy Group Talk (Tito Magri, Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza)
The History of Philosophy Group is pleased to welcome guest speaker Tito Magri, distinguished professor of philosophy at the Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza. Prof. Magri’s research interests include political philosophy, in the philosophy of emotions, in the foundations of rational choice and in the philosophy of action. He also has interests in the history of philosophy, where he has done work on Hobbes, Rousseau, Hume and Locke. Talk Title: The present situation of the person is always that of the imagination About…
Find out more »19th Annual Graduate Philosophy Conference: “Reconstructing Reason: Developing the concept of reason through history”
19th Annual Graduate Philosophy Conference: "Reconstructing Reason: Developing the concept of reason through history", welcomes graduate students working in all areas in philosophy that relate to the conference’s main themes.
Find out more »UNESCO World Philosophy Day Lecture (Chike Jeffers)
This years' UNESCO World Philosophy Day lecture speaker, Chike Jeffers, is an Associate Professor of Philosophy cross appointed with Canadian Studies and International Development Studies at Dalhousie University. His research focuses on Africana Philosophy, Philosophy of Race, Social and Political Philosophy, and Ethics. Talk Title What Counts as a Collective Gift? Culture and Value in Du Bois' The Gift of Black Folk. A reception will follow the talk.
Find out more »History of Modern Philosophy Group Talk (Lonneke Oostland, University of Groningen)
The History of Modern Philosophy Group is pleased to welcome guest speaker Lonneke Oostland, a masters student of philosophy at the University of Groningen. Talk Title: TBA
Find out more »Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics and Mind Research Interest Group Talk (Declan Smithies, Ohio State)
The Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics and Mind Research Group welcomes Declan Smithies, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Philosophy at Ohio State University. Prof. Smithies specializes in epistemology and philosophy of mind. Talk Title TBA Abstract About the Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics and Mind Research Group One of five departmental research interest groups, the Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics and Mind Group undertakes research in philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognitive science, traditional and formal epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of language.
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