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Rethinking Perfectionism: Kantian and Post-Kantian Perspectives

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

This is a read-ahead event; for papers and registration, contact owen.ware@utoronto.ca Speakers Owen Ware (Toronto): “The Holy Revolution: Religion and Perfection in Romanticism”; Commentary by Marc-Andre Murray (Toronto) Karin Nisenbaum (Syracuse): “Schelling’s Autonomy-Preserving View of Kant’s Highest Good”; Commentary by Liam Barer (Toronto) Ariel Zylberman: “Goodness, Obligation, and Perfection in Kant” ... Read More

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Bringing Quine and Lewis Back Together

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

Speaker: Barry Loewer (Rutgers) This talk examines connections between Quine’s epistemology of science and Lewis’ metaphysics of science and their different conceptions of naturalness. I develop a metaphysical account of nomological modalities and fundamental properties Lewisian in spirit but dispensing with his possible worlds and his version of naturalness in ... Read More