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SUMMARY:Colloquium (Mitzi Lee\, Colorado\, Boulder)
DESCRIPTION:As speaker for our first Spring 2026 colloquium\, the department is delighted to welcome Mi-Kyoung (Mitzi) Lee\, an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado\, Boulder. Dr. Lee specializes in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. She is the author of Epistemology after Protagoras: Responses to Relativism in Plato\, Aristotle\, and Democritus (Clarendon Press\, 2005)\, which won an honorable mention in the American Philosophical Association Book Prize 2007\, for authors under 40. \nTalk Title\nJustice as a Natural Virtue in Aristotle’s Ethics \nTalk Abstract\n\nAristotle thinks that justice is\, like all the other virtues\, a natural virtue. What does this mean? How does he accommodate its connection to and dependence upon convention\, agreements\, and laws – the sorts of facts that would seem to make it an “artificial” virtue\, in Hume’s words?
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/colloquium-mitzi-lee-colorado-boulder/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall)\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:Colloquium (Barry Maguire\, Edinburgh)
DESCRIPTION:As speaker for our second Fall 2025 colloquium\, the department is delighted to welcome Barry Maguire\, a professor of moral and political philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. Dr. Maguire’s current central research project is the development of an ethical theory based on an ideal of caring solidarity. This approach aims to integrate standards of justification in the ethics of economics\, political philosophy\, and moral philosophy. \nTalk Title\nSocialism and the Collective Ownership of the Means of Production \nTalk Abstract\nThis paper was co-authored with Jan Kandiyali. \nHistorically\, socialism has been identified with collective ownership of the means of production. However\, in the face of the purported failure of central planning\, and influential arguments about the necessity of markets and private ownership\, many contemporary socialists have sought to sever the link between socialism and collective ownership. Here\, we aim to rehabilitate a constitutive relationship between them. The argument proceeds in three main steps. First\, the heart of socialism is an ideal of caring solidarity. The idea of caring solidarity enjoins us to engage in the shared activity of caring about one another\, or in other words\, to do what we can to meet others’ needs collaboratively. Second\, caring solidarity constitutively involves collective planning of the means of production\, and that planning is possible only if there is collective control of those means. Third\, collective control is incompatible with private ownership of the means of production but instead would constitutively involve collective ownership. Hence socialism\, as caring solidarity\, would constitutively involve the collective ownership of the means of production. 
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/colloquium-barry-maguire-edinburgh/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall)\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:UNESCO World Philosophy Day (Paul Boghossian\, NYU)
DESCRIPTION:This year\, we welcome as the 2025 UNESCO World Philosophy Day Lecture speaker Paul Boghossian\, the Silver Professor of Philosophy at NYU.  Dr. Boghossian also serves as the director of the New York Institute of Philosophy and the director of NYU’s Global Institute for Advanced Study. His research interests are primarily in epistemology\, the philosophy of mind\, and the philosophy of language.  Dr. Boghossian has written on a variety of topics\, including color\, rule-following\, eliminativism\, naturalism\, self-knowledge\, a priori knowledge\, analytic truth\, realism\, relativism\, the aesthetics of music\, and the concept of genocide. \nTalk Title\nShould We Be Moral Relativists? \nZoom Link\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://utoronto.zoom.us/j/89003127683 \nMeeting ID: 890 0312 7683\nPasscode: 490827 \n 
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/unesco-world-philosophy-day-paul-boghossian-nyu/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall)\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George,Undergraduate,UTM,UTSC
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250918T170000
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SUMMARY:Colloquium (Casey O'Callaghan\, Washington in St. Louis)
DESCRIPTION:As speaker for our first Fall 2025 colloquium\, the department is delighted to welcome Casey O’Callaghan\, a professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. O’Callahan’s research focuses on philosophical questions about perception\, in particular\, on auditory perception and the nature of its objects\, as well as on multisensory perception and consciousness. This work stems from a more general interest in how perceptual awareness relates to its objects and how it shapes our understanding of the natures of those objects. \nThis is an in-person event\, but those unable to attend the lecture in person may join via Zoom. \nPasscode: 904259 \nTalk Title\nWhat’s to Fear in Losing a Sense? \nTalk Abstract\n\nMany people fear losing one or more of their senses\, and most fear losing some more than others. However\, if a disability such as being without the use of a sense does not in the long run make a person worse off\, then such fears may not seem reasonable\, warranted\, or apt. This talk argues that our senses are distinctive sources of value. In particular\, our senses play an underappreciated axiological role. They figure deeply in our cares\, concerns\, and projects\, and they are sources of final or non-instrumental value. Moreover\, different senses comprise distinct collections of perceptual capacities that contribute in distinctive ways to a person’s cares\, concerns\, and projects. Therefore\, from one’s present evaluative perspective\, it makes sense to fear the loss of such a distinctive source of value\, and it makes sense to fear the loss of some senses more than others\, even if\, after adapting\, the loss of a sense does not impact one’s overall\, long-term well-being.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/colloquium-casey-ocallhan-washington-in-st-louis/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall)\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250523T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250524T180000
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SUMMARY:Second Toronto Bioethics Workshop
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce the second Toronto Bioethics Workshop for Friday\, May 23 & Saturday\, May 24\, on U of T’s St. George (downtown) campus. \nThe theme of the workshop this year is public bioethics. \nThe Pulitzer Prize–winning  journalist Katie Engelhart\, whose work focuses on medicine and ethics\, will serve as this year’s keynote speaker. \nSchedule\nFriday\, May 23\n1:00–2:15 pm \nPeter Zuk \nMental Privacy\, Self-Expression\, and Hermeneutical Injustice \n  \n2:30–3:45 pm \nLukas J. Meier \nYour Automated Clinical Ethicist Will See You Now \n  \n4:00–5:15 pm \nAdelle Goldenberg \nA Pro-Choice\, Anti-Ableist Abortion Politics \n  \nSaturday\, May 24\n9:00–10:15 am \nMark Ornelas & Carmen Taylor \nTreating Sickle Cell Disease: An Ethical Case Study for Base-Pair Gene Editing \n  \n10:30–11:45 am \nWayne Sumner \nWhat’s So Special about Medically Assisted Dying? \n  \nBREAK \n  \n1:15–2:30 pm \nAndrew J. Baldassarre \nPain Management as a Failed Proxy for Wellbeing \n  \n2:45–4:00 pm \nPrabhpal Singh \nResisting Commonsense and Taking Abortion Rights Serious \n  \n4:15–5:45 pm \nKatie Engelhart (keynote speaker) \nThe Moral of the Story: Reporting from the Frontline of Bioethics
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/second-toronto-bioethics-workshop/
LOCATION:Centre for Ethics\, 200 Larkin\, 15 Devonshire Place\, Toronto\, ON\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George,Undergraduate,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:Sanskrit Reading and Translation Workshop: Vācaspati Miśra on Yogic Perception
DESCRIPTION:The aim of this workshop\, organized by Elisa Freschi and Nilanjan Das\, will be to read and translate a critique of an influential Buddhist theory of yogic perception offered by the Sanskrit philosopher and polymath\, Vācaspati Miśra (9th/10th century)\, in his commentary Nyāyakaṇikā on Maṇḍana Miśra’s (8th century) Vidhiviveka. \nFor many Buddhist philosophers\, the insight that paves the way for awakening is an experience that presents things as they truly are: as suffering\, as impermanent\, and so on. It is the experience of things as the Buddha taught them through Four Truths of the Noble Ones (caturāryasatya). Buddhist epistemologists in the tradition of Dharmakīrti (7th century) call this experience ‘yogic perception’ (yogipratyakṣa). In Nyāyakaṇikā\, Vācaspati attacks Dharmakīrti’s theory of yogic perception. \nVācaspati’s critique is both historically significant in the context of studying Indian Buddhist philosophy. In the relevant section of the text\, Vācaspati engages with a range of Buddhist authors—not just Dharmakīrti but also other figures like Dharmottara\, Prajñākaragupta and Kamalaśīla. In this respect\, the text is an invaluable source of historical information about how Buddhist theories of yogic perception were received and interpreted by non-Buddhist thinkers towards the end of the first millennium CE. In turn\, Vācaspati himself became a target of attack for later followers of Dharmakīrti such as Jñānaśrīmitra (10th century) and Ratnakīrti (11th century). Thus\, without a proper understanding Vācaspati’s challenge for Dharmakīrti\, huge swathes of later Yogācāra texts like Jñānaśri’s Yoginirṇayaprakaraṇa and Ratnakīrti’s Sarvajñasiddhi are unintelligible. \nThe workshop will bring together leading experts\, junior scholars\, and graduate students whose research focuses on Buddhist and Mīmāṃsā philosophy. \nConfirmed Participants\n\nJed Forman (Simpson College)\nAlessandro Graheli (Toronto)\nBhikṣu Hejung (Joongang Sangha University)\nParimal Patil (Harvard)\nAkane Saito (Vienna)\nDavey Tomlinson (Villanova)\nLee Ling Ting (Vassar College)\n\nIf you are interested in participating\, please contact Nilanjan Das. \nThe organizers are grateful to the decanal fund at UTM\, the Centre for South Asian Critical Humanities at UTM\, and the Ho Centre for Buddhist Studies at U of T\, for funding the workshop and for helping with logistics. \n 
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/vacaspati-misra-on-yogic-perception/
LOCATION:MN 3230\, University of Toronto Mississauga
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George,Undergraduate,UTM
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250510
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SUMMARY:Second Kumārila Conference
DESCRIPTION:Kumārila ranks among the key Sanskrit thinkers\, and his massive influence has forever changed the course of Sanskrit philosophy\, from Buddhist epistemology to Nyāya ontology. This conference\, held at the Department of Philosophy on the St. George campus\, is the second time international experts on Kumārila’s philosophy can come together to discuss his masterpieces. These experts will workshop their translations of some of Kumārila’s works in two-hour reading sessions. Sessions will see us both reading and commenting on selected passages on a given topic (e.g.\, adhikāra in Ṭupṭīkā 6.1) and hearing a talk on the topic itself (e.g.\, mapping the intersection of adhikāra and sāmarthya). A discussion session will follow. Additionally\, scholars and advanced students will have the opportunity to present their Kumārila-related research in shorter\, 60-minute sessions. \nThe conference is coordinated by Elisa Freschi and Nilanjan Das and will see the participation of other experts in Sanskrit philosophy and philology. \nConfirmed Participants\n\nTarinee Awasthi\nHugo David\nAlessandro Ganassi\nAlessandro Graheli\nKei Kataoka\nMalcolm Keating\nLawrence McCrea\nJohn Nemec\nMonika Nowakowska\nAndrew Ollett\nSarju Patel\nParimal Patil\nJonathan Peterson\nAkane Saito\nTaisei Shida\nLong Yin Sin\nElliot Stern\nAlex Watson\nKiyotaka Yoshimizu\n\nFind the full program schedule. \nThis will be an in-person only event\, since we believe in the power of collective intelligence and collaboration\, which are challenging to replicate when some participants speak on Zoom while others are in the room. \nThe organizers gratefully acknowledge support for the conference from the Departments of Philosophy at UTSG and UTM\, as well as the Office of the Vice-Principal\, Research\, and the Decanal Fund at UTM. \n 
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/kumarila-conference-2/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building 100 & 401\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, ON\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George,Undergraduate,UTM
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SUMMARY:Other Epistemic Achievements - Global Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:To explore alternate pathways for theorizing epistemic achievements and virtues\, this three-day conference brings together scholars from 10 different philosophical traditions to engage in debate and discussion. These include perspectives from some Africana\, Arabic\, Chinese\, Early Modern European\, Greek\, Indigenous Andean\, Jewish\, Latin American\, Medieval Latin\, and South Asian traditions.  \nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\nZeyad El Nabolsy (York University)\, Participation as an Epistemic Achievement in African Philosophy\nMaria Heim (Amherst College)\, “Some hold back and some overreach; only those with eyes see”: Buddhaghosa on Learning How to See\nJing Iris Hu (Concordia): What Does Standing in Comparison to Moral Exemplars Tell Us about Ourselves?\nJari Kaukua (University of Jyväskylä)\, Between Epistemic Optimism and Pessimism: Before and after Avicenna\nTamer Nawar (Barcelona)\, The Epistemic Implications of Divine Omniscience and Foreknowledge\nYitzhak Melamed (Hopkins)\, The Apikorsut of the Void: A Heresy beyond All Heresies\nChristiana Olfert (Tufts)\, What Is the Aim of Pyrrhonian Skepticism?\nKristin Primus (Berkeley)\, Our Knowledge of Thought\nJorge H. Sanchez-Perez (Alberta)\, The Harmony of Reality and the Duties of Knowledge: Epistemic Humility and Moral Obligations\nClinton Tolley (UC San Diego)\, “In xóchitl in cuícatl”: Flower\, Song\, and the (‘Romantic’) Elevation of the Aesthetic Dimension of Truth and Knowledge in Ancient and Modern Mexican Philosophy\n\nRead the full program and schedule \nThis event is jointly hosted by the Departments of Philosophy at the University of Toronto and Toronto Metropolitan University\, with additional support from the Centre for Medieval Studies and the Vice-Dean\, Research & Infrastructure\, Faculty of Arts & Science\, University of Toronto. For more information\, check the event website.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/other-epistemic-achievements/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George,Undergraduate,UTM
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SUMMARY:Lecture in Celebration of Marc Sanders Prizes in Philosophy of Mind and in Metaphysics (Andrew Y. Lee\, Toronto)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a lecture by Andrew Y. Lee\, an assistant professor of Philosophy in the Graduate Department of Philosophy at St. George and in the Philosophy Department at UTSC\, in honor of his winning two Marc Sanders Prizes in 2024\, one in Philosophy of Mind\, the other in Metaphysics. \nThe lecture will be followed by a reception. \nTalk Title\nConsciousness and Continuity \nTalk Abstract\nLet a smooth experience be an experience with maximally gradual changes in phenomenal character. Consider\, as examples\, your visual experience of a blue sky or your auditory experience of a rising pitch. Do the phenomenal characters of smooth experiences have continuous or discrete structures? If we appeal merely to introspection\, then it may seem that we should think that smooth experiences are continuous. This paper (1) uses formal tools to clarify what it means to say that an experience is continuous or discrete\, and (2) develops a discrete model of the phenomenal characters of smooth experiences. As a result\, I’ll argue that introspection leaves open whether smooth experiences are continuous or discrete. Yet I’ll also argue—perhaps surprisingly—that the discrete theory may better fit our introspective evidence. Along the way\, I explain why the sense of ‘continuity’ ascribed to smooth experiences is distinct from the sense of ‘continuity’ ascribed to\nthe stream of consciousness.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/lecture-in-celebration-of-marc-sanders-prizes-in-philosophy-of-mind-and-in-metaphysics-andrew-y-lee-toronto/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100 & Room 418
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George,Undergraduate,UTM,UTSC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250403T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250403T170000
DTSTAMP:20260422T075153
CREATED:20241009T190514Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250314T162256Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED--Colloquium (C. Thi Nguyen\, Utah)
DESCRIPTION:Unfortunately\, this event has had to be cancelled for the moment. \nAs speaker for our second Spring 2025 colloquium\, the department is delighted to welcome C. Thi Nguyen\, an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah. Dr. Nguyen\, a former food writer\, writes about trust\, art\, games\, and communities\, interested in the ways our social structures and technologies shape how we think and what we value. His book\, Games: Agency as Art (Oxford University Press\, 2020)\, won the American Philosophical Association’s 2021 Book Prize. \nTalk Title\nTBD \nTalk Abstract\n\nTBD
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/colloquium-c-thi-nguyen-utah/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall)\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250313T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250313T170000
DTSTAMP:20260422T075153
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SUMMARY:Colloquium (Jocelyn Benoist\, Sorbonne)
DESCRIPTION:As speaker for our first Spring 2025 colloquium\, the department is delighted to welcome Jocelyn Benoist\, a professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He works in the areas of metaphysics\, philosophy of language\, and philosophy of mind and is the author of\, most recently\, Toward a Contextual Realism (Harvard University Press\, 2021). He is also a recipient of the Gay-Lussac Humboldt Prize. \nTalk Title\nA Plea for Reality \nTalk Abstract\n\nI’d like to open a discussion on the concept of reality. I will argue against its dismissal by some postmodern thought. I will contend that while “reality” can be an uncomfortable concept\, we cannot do without it. I will distinguish the usage of “reality” as a general concept and as applied in specific instances (e.g.\, “a real duck”). I will criticize Markus Gabriel’s “New Realism\,” which focuses on “existence” rather than “reality\,” and by so doing possibly blurs crucial ontological lines. From Gabriel’s criticism of the concept of reality I will return to Austin’s work on the adjective “real” that emphasizes the contextual relativity of this concept to a particular class of things. Ultimately\, I will show the limits of such an approach and argue that the question of reality does not come down to the mere belonging of something to a definite class of things. Thus\, I will argue for the metaphysical irreducibility of this notion.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/colloquium-jocelyn-benoist-sorbonne/
LOCATION:Centre for Ethics\, 200 Larkin\, 15 Devonshire Place\, Toronto\, ON\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241121T170000
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SUMMARY:UNESCO World Philosophy Day (Linda M. Alcoff\, CUNY)
DESCRIPTION:This year\, we welcome as the 2024 UNESCO World Philosophy Day Lecture speaker Linda Martín Alcoff\, a professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and the Graduate Centre\, CUNY. Alcoff has worked for many years on the intersections of knowledge\, identity\, and power. She specializes in social epistemology\, feminist philosophy\, philosophy of race\, decolonial theory and continental philosophy\, especially the work of Michel Foucault. Her recent books include Rape and Resistance (Polity\, 2018)\, The Future of Whiteness (Polity\, 2018)\, and Visible Identities: Race\, Gender\, and the Self (Oxford University Press\, 2006)\, the latter of which won the Frantz Fanon Award. \nThis is an in-person event\, but those unable to come to campus may attend via Zoom. \nPasscode: 612040 \nTalk Title\nPhilosophy and the Rise of the Far Right \nTalk Abstract\nIn this talk I will discuss the wide political variations in the history of philosophy but also show how the current rise of the  Far Right can be understood through a philosophical lens.  \n 
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/unesco-world-philosophy-day-linda-alcoff-cuny/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall)\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George,Undergraduate,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:Colloquium (Ralph Wedgwood\, Southern California)
DESCRIPTION:As speaker for our Fall 2024 colloquium\, the department is delighted to welcome Ralph Wedgwood\, a professor of Philosophy and the director of the School of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. Dr. Wedgwood works in ethics and epistemology\, more specifically\, in metaethics\, practical reason\, normative ethical theory\, and the history of ethics. Before coming to USC\, he was a professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. \nThis is an in-person event\, but those unable to come to campus may join via Zoom. \nTalk Title\nIntending the Improbable \nTalk Abstract\n\nOne reason why it can be irrational to intend a course of action is if it is clearly a bad thing to do – that is\, clearly inferior to an alternative that one has thought of and rationally regards as available. Another reason why an intention can be irrational – even if the intended course of action would be better than every alternative – is if it is highly improbable that one will take that course of action even if one intends to. How do these two dimensions of rationality relate to each other? \nSome philosophers suggest that it is rational to intend a course of action only if it is conditionally certain that one will take the course of action if one intends to. Others suggest that the “options” that must have maximal expected value if an intention is to be rational must always be “acts of will” rather than external courses of action. Neither of these views is acceptable. A different proposal is defended: these two dimensions of the rationality of intentions must simply be in a way balanced against each other. This proposal turns out to have illuminating consequences about the nature of practical rationality.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/colloquium-ralph-wedgwood-usc/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall)\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:2024 Jerome S. Simon Lectures (Cailin O'Connor\, California\, Irvine)
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce Cailin O’Connor as our esteemed speaker for the 2024 Jerome S. Simon Lectures. Dr. O’Connor\, a professor in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of California\, Irvine\, works in the philosophy of biology and behavioral sciences\, the philosophy of science more generally\, and in evolutionary game theory. Her books include Modeling Scientific Communities (Cambridge University Press\, 2023); The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread (Yale University Press\, 2020; with James Owen Weatherall); Games in the Philosophy of Biology (Cambridge University Press\, 2020); and The Origins of Unfairness: Social Categories and Cultural Evolution (Oxford University Press\, 2019). \nThe lectures are in-person events\, but if you would like to join via Zoom\, you may do so. \n  \nLecture 1\n(September 24\, 3-5 PM) \nTitle\nWhy Social Contracts Are Not Fair \nAbstract\nMany theorists have employed game theory to model the emergence of stable social norms\, or natural “social contracts.” One branch of this literature uses bargaining games to show why many societies have norms and rules for fairness. In cultural evolutionary models\, fair bargaining emerges endogenously because it is an efficient way to divide resources. But these models miss an important element of real human societies – divisions into groups or social categories. Once such groups are added to cultural evolutionary models\, fairness is no longer the expected outcome.  Instead “discriminatory norms” often emerge where one group systematically gets more when dividing resources. I show why the addition of categories to bargaining models leads to unfairness\, and discuss the role of power and minority status in this process. I also address how categories might emerge to support inequity\, and the possibility of modeling social change. Altogether this work emphasizes that if one wishes to understand the naturalistic emergence of social contracts\, one must account for the presence of categorical divisions\, and unfairness\, as well as for norms of fairness. \nLecture 2\n(September 25\, 3-5 PM) \nTitle\nSignaling\, Fairness\, and Social Categories \nAbstract\nPhilosophers and economists have used cultural evolutionary models of bargaining to understand issues related to fairness and justice\, and especially how fair and unfair conventions and norms might arise in human societies. One line of this research shows how the presence of social categories in such models allows for inequitable equilibria that are not possible in models without social categories. This is taken to help explain why in human groups with social categories inequity is often the rule rather than the exception. But in previous models\, it is typically assumed that these categories are rigid\, easily observable\, and binary. In reality\, social categories are not always so tidy. We introduce evolutionary models where the tags connected with social categories can be flexible\, variable\, or difficult to observe\, i.e.\, where these tags can carry different amounts of information about group membership. We show how alterations to these tags can undermine the stability of unfair conventions. We argue that these results can inform projects intended to ameliorate inequity\, especially projects that seek to alter the properties of category markers. \nLecture 3\n(September 26\, 3-5 PM) \nTitle\nMeasuring Conventionality \nAbstract\nStandard accounts of convention include notions of arbitrariness. But many have conceived of conventionality as an all or nothing affair. In this paper I develop a framework for thinking of conventions as coming in degrees of arbitrariness. In doing so I introduce an information theoretic measure intended to capture the degree to which a solution to a social problem could have been otherwise. I discuss its use to cultural evolutionary explanation\, and its possible uses to thinking about constraints in evolution by natural selection. And in particular\, I discuss its relevance to thinking about gendered division of labor. \n\nAbout the Simon Lectures\nOne of the department’s several endowed lecture series\, the Jerome S. Simon Lectures are a biennial series of colloquia given by a philosopher of international distinction. After a brief hiatus\, we are thrilled to reinvigorate the series in 2021. Past Simon lecturers have included David Velleman (Michigan)\, David Wiggins (Oxford University)\, Anil Gupta (Pittsburgh)\, Barbara Herman (UCLA)\, John Campbell (UC-Berkeley)\, Donald Rutherford (UC-San Diego)\, Jennifer Hornsby (Birkbeck\, London)\, Samuel Scheffler (NYU)\, Holly M. Smith (Rutgers)\, and Rainer Forst (Goethe University\, Frankfurt).
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/2024-jerome-s-simon-lectures-cailin-oconnor-california-irvine/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall)\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George
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SUMMARY:Knowledge\, Empiricism\, & the Political: In Debate with Danny Goldstick
DESCRIPTION:5:00 PM \nWelcome and Refreshments \n5:30 PM \nSpeaker: Duncan MacIntosh (Dalhousie) \nTitle: “Interrogating the Goldstick Maneuver: Arguing from Beliefs to Metaphysical Realities” \n6:00 PM \nReply from Danny Goldstick and discussion \n6:20 PM \nBreak \n6:30 PM \nSpeaker: David Alexander (Iowa) \nTitle: “Goldstick on A Priori Knowledge” \n7:00 PM \nReply from Danny Goldstick and discussion \n7:20 PM \nBreak \n7:30 PM \nSpeaker: Igor Shoikhedbrod (St. Francis Xavier) \nTitle: “Interrogating Goldstick on ‘Interests’” \n8:00 PM \nReply from Danny Goldstick and discussion \n8:30 PM \nEnd \n  \nFor more information\, please contact Belinda Piercy.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/knowledge-empiricism-the-political-in-debate-with-danny-goldstick/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall)\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George
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SUMMARY:Kumārila Conference
DESCRIPTION:The conference\, held at the Department of Philosophy at the UTM campus\, will bring together experts who will lead two-hour reading sessions on key passages of Kumārila’s texts and provide participants with the necessary tools to understand the hidden gems of Kumārila’s philosophy. More in detail\, these sessions will include the reading and commenting on selected passages on a given topic (e.g.\, adhikāra in Ṭupṭīkā 6.1) and a talk on the topic itself (e.g.\, mapping the intersection of adhikāra and sāmarthya) and then a discussion session. Besides\, there will be opportunities for scholars and advanced students to present their research related to Kumārila in shorter sessions (60′ and 30′). \nThe conference is coordinated by Elisa Freschi and Nilanjan Das and will see the participation of other experts in Sanskrit philosophy and philology. \nConfirmed participants: Dan Arnold\, Tarinee Awasthi\, Purushottama Bilimoria\, Hugo David\, Alessandro Graheli\, Ham Hyoung Seok\, Kei Kataoka\, Malcolm Keating\, Lawrence McCrea\, Sudipta Munsi\, John Nemec\, Monika Nowakowska\, Andrew Ollett\, Parimal Patil\, Akane Saito\, Wintor Scott\, Taisei Shida\, Elliot Stern\, Angela Vettikkal\, Alex Watson\, and Kiyotaka Yoshimizu. \nThis will be an in-person only event\, since we believe in the power of collective intelligence and collaboration and these are hardly replicable when some participants speak per Zoom and others are in the room. \nThe organizers gratefully acknowledge support for the conference from the Departments of Philosophy at UTSG and UTM\, as well as the Office of the Vice-Principal\, Research\, and the Decanal Fund at UTM.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/kumarila-conference/
LOCATION:Maanjiwe nendamowinan\, Room 3230\, UTM\, 1535 Outer Circle\, Mississauga\, ON\, L5L 1C6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George,Undergraduate,UTM
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SUMMARY:b2B Careers in Philosophy
DESCRIPTION:Are you wondering what to do with your philosophy degree? Then join us for our annual career panel event. \nThe Department of Philosophy invites you to the Backpack to Briefcase (b2B) Philosophy Career Panel. This is a great opportunity to connect with Philosophy alumni who are now working in these fields. The program aims to engage students through a moderated Q & A session to discover the various career opportunities after graduation. The panel will be followed by a short reception where you can meet our alumni face to face. \nDate: Thursday\, February 29\, 2024 \nTime: Panel – 5:00-6:15pm; Reception 6:15-7:00pm \nLocation: Jackman Humanities Building\, 170 St. George Street\, Room 418 \nPlease RSVP by emailing eric.correia@utoronto.ca \nPanelists\n\nMat Armstrong\, Director of Customer Success\, Blue J Legal\nNipa Chauhan\, Bioethicist\, Mount Sinai Hospital\nRishma Govani\, Director of Communications\, Global News\n\nModerated by James John\, director of undergraduate studies. \nPanelist Bios\nMat Armstrong \nMat Armstrong is the director of customer success at Blue J Legal\, where he’s worked for seven years. Mat graduated with a BA in Philosophy and English from the University of Toronto\, where his academic interests were primarily in Logic\, Ancient Philosophy\, Epistemology\, and Philosophy of Language. This foundation has served him well in his role\, where he leads the team focused on delivering success to Blue J’s customers\, with an eye to retaining and expanding revenue for the company. \nMat has filled various roles at Blue J Legal\, beginning as a Legal Research Analyst and then working his way over to a customer-facing role\, moving from building the product to delivering and selling it to clients. Mat believes strongly that his focus on Philosophy and English at the University of Toronto paved the way for success in navigating and succeeding in the corporate world. At the upcoming career night\, Mat looks forward to sharing insights from his journey from philosophy student to tech professional. \nNipa Chauhan \nNipa Chauhan\, a bioethicist specializing in reproductive ethics and women’s health\, graduated from the University of Toronto’s MHSc in Bioethics. She currently works in the Bioethics Department at Mount Sinai Hospital in downtown Toronto. With an honours Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Toronto\, double-majoring in Bioethics and Human Biology: Health and Disease\, Nipa is also a consultant and public speaker for fertility clinics worldwide\, fostering bioethics dialogue and informing policies. \nFascinated by assisted reproductive technologies and their international implications\, Nipa is passionate about teaching and knowledge translation\, contributing to undergraduate and graduate bioethics courses at the University of Toronto. Known for her approachability\, she enjoys hosting intellectually stimulating discussions\, reflected in her role as the founder and editor-in-chief of Café Bioethics. Café Bioethics provides an accessible platform for philosophical discourse\, catering to individuals without backgrounds in bioethics\, medicine\, or law. \nNipa welcomes conversations on bioethics and women’s health\, inviting anyone interested to engage with her! \nRishma Govani \nRishma Govani is an experienced communications professional with more than 20 years of experience in the media industry. She is currently the head of communications for Global News and Corus Radio\, a robust portfolio that includes close to 60 leading media brands across Canada. She is also the author of two kids books\, Sushi & Samosas and The Stars That Shine for You\, and has two additional children’s books in production. She is a champion for advancing diversity in children’s literature. Rishma is the proud mother of her two kids Khalil and Mila and considers her dog\, Hero\, her third child. (She considers her time at U of T as some of the best years of her life.) \nPlease contact Eric Correia with any questions. \n 
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/b2b-careers-in-philosophy/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George,Undergraduate
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SUMMARY:UNESCO World Philosophy Day (Sharon Street\, NYU)
DESCRIPTION:This year\, we welcome as 2023 UNESCO World Philosophy Day lecture speaker Sharon Street\, a professor of Philosophy at New York University. Dr. Street specializes in metaethics and 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. \nThis is an in-person event\, with a livestream available. \nZoom link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/83907159724 \nPasscode: 710782 \nTalk Title\nOn Recognizing Oneself in Mirrors and Others \n  \n 
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/unesco-world-philosophy-day-sharon-street-nyu/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall)\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George,Undergraduate,UTM,UTSC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231027T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231027T170000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Waheed Hussain\, Living with the Invisible Hand
DESCRIPTION:Please join us in celebrating and discussing the previously unpublished work of the late Waheed Hussain\, now available as Living with the Invisible Hand: Markets\, Corporations\, and Human Freedom (Oxford University Press\, 2023)\, edited by Arthur Ripstein and Nicholas Vrousalis. \nSpeakers\n\nChiara Cordelli (University of Chicago)\nAndrew Franklin Hall (University of Toronto)\nJoseph Heath (University of Toronto)\nLouis-Philippe Hodgson (York University\, Glendon)\nMartin O’Neill (University of York)\nEric Orts (The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania)
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/book-launch-waheed-hussain-living-with-the-invisible-hand/
LOCATION:Centre for Ethics\, Larkin Building\, Room 200\, 15 Devonshire Place\, Toronto\, ON\, M5S 2C8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George,Undergraduate,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:Colloquium (Julia Jorati\, Massachusetts Amherst)
DESCRIPTION:As speaker for our second Fall 2023 colloquium\, the department is delighted to welcome Julia Jorati\, 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 present\, she has a particular interest in philosophical debates about slavery and race in the 17th and 18th centuries. She has also published extensively on the philosophy of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. \nTalk Title\nThe Effects of Slavery on Enslaved People and Eighteenth-Century Antislavery Arguments \nTalk Abstract\nIn the eighteenth century\, many authors who write about slavery contend that enslavement degrades the human mind and causes enslaved people to exhibit inferior moral or intellectual abilities. Antislavery authors often use this contention to combat the racist claim that Black people are naturally inferior\, insisting instead that if there is an inferiority\, it’s simply an effect of enslavement. After examining this argumentative strategy and what makes it appealing\, I investigate the extent to which it’s nevertheless problematic. First\, this strategy was sometimes used to oppose immediate abolition: some eighteenth-century authors argued that many enslaved people have become incapable of living good lives outside of slavery and that freeing them would therefore be a mistake. Moreover\, this strategy is racist according to some philosophers of race\, it may further marginalize an already oppressed group\, and it can (seem to) blame enslaved people for their condition. I will end with some reflections on whether the strategy might nevertheless be useful for liberatory purposes.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/colloquium-julua-jorati-massachusetts-amherst/
LOCATION:Tartu College Event Space\, 3 Madison Avenue\, Toronto\, ON\, M5R 2S2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:2023 Jerome S. Simon Lectures (Rainer Forst\, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce Rainer Forst as our esteemed speaker for the 2023 Jerome S. Simon Lectures. His three individual lectures will be grouped under the general title “The Nature of Normative Concepts: Dependence vs. Independence.” \nRainer Forst is a professor of Political Theory and Philosophy and the director of the Research Center Normative Orders at Goethe University Frankfurt. His research focuses on questions of justice\, democracy\, and toleration\, as well as critical theory and practical reason. In 2012 he was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation\, the highest award for a German scholar. He is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. \nHe held numerous visiting professorships and fellowships in the United States\, for example\, at the New School for Social Research\, Dartmouth College\, Rice University\, the University of Michigan and NYU. In 2021\, he was a Fellow at the Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles. He is also Visiting Research Professor at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin. \nImportant publications: Contexts of Justice (1994\, engl. U of California P\, 2002)\, Toleration in Conflict (2003\, engl. Cambridge UP\, 2013)\, The Right to Justification (2007\, engl. Columbia UP\, 2012)\, Justification and Critique (2011\, engl. Polity\, 2013)\, Normativity and Power (2015\, engl. Oxford UP 2017)\, Die noumenale Republik (2021\, engl. forthcoming with Polity). \nHis work has received great international attention; for example\, in recent years\, five collections of critical essays on his work in English (Arthur Ripstein and Melissa Williams among the authors) with replies by him have been published. \nLectures\nThe Nature of Normative Concepts: Dependence vs. Independence\nGeneral Abstract\nIn these lectures\, I discuss an important distinction concerning the analysis of normative concepts. Some of these are normatively dependent\, that is\, they require other normative sources in order to gain normative value and substance. Solidarity and trust (but also toleration) are examples. Justice\, on the other hand\, is normatively independent\, as its core concept entails a normative content that guides the possible conceptions of justice\, which is not the case with solidarity or trust. Their core concept is of a descriptive nature. \nLecture 1—Solidarity: Concept and Conceptions\n(Tuesday\, October 3\, 3:00 – 5:00 PM\, Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100\, 170 St. George Street) \nAbstract\nThis lecture distinguishes between a general concept and several\, context-specific normative conceptions of solidarity. The general concept refers to a particular practical attitude and involves a form of “standing by” others based on a particular normative bond constituted by a common cause or a shared identity. Since solidarity is a normatively dependent concept\, the nature of such bonds\, causes or identities is not determined by the concept. Furthermore\, solidarity itself\, without the addition of further normative sources\, is not a value; it can serve worthy or unworthy causes. Also\, on the general conceptual level\, the questions whether solidary acts are of a supererogatory nature or presuppose a particular sort of reciprocity or symmetry are left open. These questions have to be dealt with on the level of particular conceptions of solidarity\, of which the article distinguishes four general ones: ethical\, legal\, political\, or moral. \n  \nLecture 2—Trust in Conflict\n(Wednesday\, October 4\, 3:00 – 5:00 PM\, Victoria College\, Room 215\, 73 Queen’s Park Crescent) \nAbstract\nIn this lecture\, I challenge widespread assumptions in trust research according to which trust and conflict are opposing terms or where trust is generally seen as a value. Rather\, I argue that trust\, as a normatively dependent concept\, is only valuable if properly justified\, and I locate such justifications in contexts of social and political conflict. The lecture proposes to define the general concept of a trust relation as a four-place term\, and it distinguishes the general concept from various conceptions of trust. With regard to the justification of trust\, a distinction between internal and full justification is introduced\, and the justification of trust is linked to the relations of justification between trusters and trusted. It is argued that trust in conflict(s) emerges were relations of a certain quality exist among the parties of a conflict\, often by way of institutional mediation. \n  \nLecture 3—Justice—Procedural and Substantive\n(Thursday\, October 5\, 3:00 – 5:00 PM\, Claude Bissell Building\, Room 205\, 140 St. George Street) \nAbstract\nIn this lecture\, I argue for the normative independence and priority of justice as compared to other values. For a conception of justice must provide higher-order reasons for the kind of\, e.g.\, liberty or equality that it allows members of a normative order to claim and demand of each other. Based on a distinction between two ways of thinking about justice\, relational-structural accounts versus outcome- and recipient-oriented approaches (such as luck egalitarianism)\, a conception of justice as justification is developed and located in the first paradigm. That conception considers the first question of justice to be what power individuals and groups have to co-determine the basic structure of their society. Developing the substantive and procedural aspects of this view requires an account of a basic structure of justification that secures the status of non-dominated legal\, political and social equals who ought to be the authorities within that order. \n\nAbout the Simon Lectures\nOne of the department’s several endowed lecture series\, the Jerome S. Simon Lectures are a biennial series of colloquia given by a philosopher of international distinction. After a brief hiatus\, we are thrilled to reinvigorate the series in 2021. Past Simon lecturers have included David Velleman (Michigan)\, David Wiggins (Oxford University)\, Anil Gupta (Pittsburgh)\, Barbara Herman (UCLA)\, John Campbell (UC-Berkeley)\, Donald Rutherford (UC-San Diego)\, Jennifer Hornsby (Birkbeck\, London)\, Samuel Scheffler (NYU)\, and Holly M. Smith (Rutgers).
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/2021-jerome-s-simon-lectures-rainer-forst-goethe-universitat-frankfurt-2/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building 100\, Victoria College 215\, Claude Bissell Building 205
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George
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SUMMARY:Colloquium (Jenann Ismael\, Johns Hopkins)
DESCRIPTION:As speaker for our first Fall 2023 colloquium\, the department is delighted to welcome Jenann Ismael\, the inaugural William H. Miller III Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Ismael concentrates her research on philosophy of physics\, metaphysics\, philosophy of science\, and the philosophy of mind. Before coming to JHU\, she was professor of Philosophy at Columbia University and an affiliate of the Zuckerman Institute. She has also taught at Stanford University (1996-98) and the University of Arizona (1998-2018). \nThis is an in-person event\, but for those who cannot join us on campus today\, a livestream is available. \nTalk Title\nGödel Meets Laplace \nTalk Abstract\nThere’s an understanding of what determinism entails illustrated by the familiar image that Laplace gave us of a demon that can predict everything that will happen in the universe\, from knowledge of initial conditions. I’ll argue that there are both specific and general reasons that there could never be a Laplacian demon in the world: not for classical mechanics\, not for any theory.   
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/colloquium-jenann-ismael-johns-hopkins/
LOCATION:Claude T. Bissell Building\, BL 205\, 140 St. George Street\, Toronto\, ON\, M5S 3G6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230909T180000
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SUMMARY:Conference in Honour of Tom Hurka
DESCRIPTION:This conference will celebrate the work and life of our cherished colleague Tom Hurka\, who is retiring this year. It will take place in person in the Jackman Humanities Building at the University of Toronto\, as well as being live-streamed. To register for the Zoom link\, please contact the assistant to the chair at phl.chairassistant@utoronto.ca. \n  \nSchedule\nFriday\, September 8\n3:10 PM \nWelcome (Martin Pickavé) \n3:15-4:30 PM  \nGwen Bradford (Rice)\, “Why You Should Be Miserable” \nChair: Sergio Tenenbaum (Toronto) \n4:45-6:00 PM  \nShelly Kagan (Yale)\, “Hurka on Comparative Desert:  Wrong\, Wrong\, Wrong (and Wrong)!” \nChair: Brendan de Kenessey (Toronto) \nSaturday\, September 9\n9:30-10:45 AM \nWayne Sumner (Toronto)\, “Goods: Personal and Otherwise” \nChair: Rachel Barney (Toronto) \n11:00 AM-12:15 PM  \nRob Shaver (Manitoba): “C.D. Broad on Common Sense Morality” \nChair: Andrew Franklin-Hall (Toronto) \n BREAK \n2:00-3:15 PM  \nJohann Frick (Berkeley): “The Value of Life\, the Value of Virtue” \nChair: Hasko von Kriegstein (Toronto Metropolitan) \n3:30-4:45 PM  \nJeff McMahan (Oxford): “Revising Hurka’s Variable Value View” \nChair: Eric Mathison (Toronto) \n5:00-6:00 PM  \nTom Hurka (Toronto)
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/conference-in-honour-of-tom-hurka/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building 100
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George,Undergraduate,UTM,UTSC
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230713
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230716
DTSTAMP:20260422T075153
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SUMMARY:Celebrating Mohan Matthen
DESCRIPTION:This three-day event will celebrate the life and work of our dear colleague Mohan Matthen\, who is retiring this year. \nProgram\nJULY 13\n9:00-9:15 AM \nIntroduction and Welcome \n9:15-10:15 AM \nLana Kuhle (Illinois State)\, “The Tone of Embodiment in Perception & Action” \n10:30-11:30 AM \n Casey O’Callaghan (Washington in St. Louis)\, “A Capacities Approach to the Perception-Cognition Distinction” \n11:45-12:45 PM \nDustin Stokes (Utah)\, “Expertise\, Perceptual Content\, and Pluralism” \n12:45-2:30 \nLunch \n2:30-3:30 PM \nJennifer Nagel (Toronto)\, “Metacognitive Experience and Epistemic Action” \n4:00-5:00 PM \nVincent Bergeron (Ottawa)\, “Assigning Functions to Brain Structures: How Teleology Gets in the Way” \n6:00 PM \nDinner \n  \nJULY 14\n9:30-10:30 AM \nJonathan Cohen (California\, San Diego)\, “Wine Tasting\, Blind and Otherwise: Blindness as a Perceptual Limitation” \n11:00-12:00 PM \nMatthew Fulkerson (California\, San Diego)\, “Musical Emotion and Multi-Affective Interactions” \n12:00-2:00 PM \nLunch \n2:00-3:00 PM \nDominic Lopes (UBC)\, “Diversity or Disinterest? Bernard Bolzano and Mohan Matthen on Aesthetic Value” \n3:15-4:15 PM \nKevin Connolly (Minerva Schools at KGI)\, “Perceptual Learning: Variations on Mohanian Themes” \n6:00 PM \nDinner \n  \nJULY 15\n10:45-11:45 AM \nMarc Ereshefsky (Calgary)\, “Matthen on Homology and History” \n11:45-2:30 PM \nLunch \n2:30-3:30 PM \nGurpreet Rattan (Toronto) \n4:00-5:00 PM \nMohan Matthen (Toronto) \n5:00-7:00 PM \nReception
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/celebrating-mohan-matthen/
LOCATION:University College\, Rooms UC 140 & UC 240\, 15 King's College Circle\, Toronto\, ON\, M5S 3H7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George,Undergraduate,UTM,UTSC
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230519
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230521
DTSTAMP:20260422T075153
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SUMMARY:Fifth Annual Scientific Understanding and Representation (SURe) Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Representations play a central role in scientists’ understanding of the world. From mathematical models to diagrams\, different representations in highly varied contexts yield diverse insights across the physical\, biological\, and social sciences. Although how a phenomenon is represented has far-reaching ramifications for how it is understood\, the literatures on scientific understanding and scientific representation remain largely independent of each other. The time is ripe to foster greater synergy between these two areas in the philosophy of science\, as they face complementary problems—and hold the promise of complementary solutions. \nThis hybrid conference will be held in honor of the late Margie Morrison. Keynote speakers are Eran Tal (McGill) and Agnes Bolinska (South Carolina). \nThose interested in attending in person should register here. Those wishing to attend online can do so at this link.  \nFind out more about the SURe workshop series.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/fifth-annual-scientific-understanding-and-representation-sure-workshop/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100 & online\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230511T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230511T180000
DTSTAMP:20260422T075153
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SUMMARY:Celebrating the Life of Kathryn P. Morgan
DESCRIPTION:In honour of our late colleague Professor Emerita Kathryn P. Morgan\, the Women and Gender Studies Institute (WGSI) and the Department of Philosophy will be hosting a memorial service to celebrate her life\, legacy\, and work. \nAll those planning to attend are asked to RSVP no later than March 31\, 2023. \nMasks are encouraged at the event.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/celebrating-the-life-of-kathryn-morgan/
LOCATION:William Doo Auditorium\, 45 Willcocks Street\, Toronto\, ON\, M5S 1C7
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230321T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230323T170000
DTSTAMP:20260422T075153
CREATED:20220722T172541Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED---2023 Jerome S. Simon Lectures (Rainer Forst\, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
DESCRIPTION:We are sorry to announce that these lectures are cancelled at this time due to illness. They will be rescheduled at a later date. \nWe are pleased to announce Rainer Forst as our esteemed speaker for the 2023 Jerome S. Simon Lectures. His three individual lectures will be grouped under the general title “The Nature of Normative Concepts: Dependence vs. Independence.” \nRainer Forst is a professor of Political Theory and Philosophy and the director of the Research Center Normative Orders at Goethe University Frankfurt. His research focuses on questions of justice\, democracy\, and toleration\, as well as critical theory and practical reason. In 2012 he was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation\, the highest award for a German scholar. He is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. \nHe held numerous visiting professorships and fellowships in the United States\, for example\, at the New School for Social Research\, Dartmouth College\, Rice University\, the University of Michigan and NYU. In 2021\, he was a Fellow at the Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles. He is also Visiting Research Professor at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin. \nImportant publications: Contexts of Justice (1994\, engl. U of California P\, 2002)\, Toleration in Conflict (2003\, engl. Cambridge UP\, 2013)\, The Right to Justification (2007\, engl. Columbia UP\, 2012)\, Justification and Critique (2011\, engl. Polity\, 2013)\, Normativity and Power (2015\, engl. Oxford UP 2017)\, Die noumenale Republik (2021\, engl. forthcoming with Polity). \nHis work has received great international attention; for example\, in recent years\, five collections of critical essays on his work in English (Arthur Ripstein and Melissa Williams among the authors) with replies by him have been published. \nLectures\nThe Nature of Normative Concepts: Dependence vs. Independence\nGeneral Abstract\nIn these lectures\, I discuss an important distinction concerning the analysis of normative concepts. Some of these are normatively dependent\, that is\, they require other normative sources in order to gain normative value and substance. Solidarity and trust (but also toleration) are examples. Justice\, on the other hand\, is normatively independent\, as its core concept entails a normative content that guides the possible conceptions of justice\, which is not the case with solidarity or trust. Their core concept is of a descriptive nature. \nLecture 1—Solidarity: Concept and Conceptions\n(Tuesday\, March 21\, 3:00 – 5:00 PM) \nAbstract\nThis lecture distinguishes between a general concept and several\, context-specific normative conceptions of solidarity. The general concept refers to a particular practical attitude and involves a form of “standing by” others based on a particular normative bond constituted by a common cause or a shared identity. Since solidarity is a normatively dependent concept\, the nature of such bonds\, causes or identities is not determined by the concept. Furthermore\, solidarity itself\, without the addition of further normative sources\, is not a value; it can serve worthy or unworthy causes. Also\, on the general conceptual level\, the questions whether solidary acts are of a supererogatory nature or presuppose a particular sort of reciprocity or symmetry are left open. These questions have to be dealt with on the level of particular conceptions of solidarity\, of which the article distinguishes four general ones: ethical\, legal\, political\, or moral. \n  \nLecture 2—Trust in Conflict\n(Wednesday\, March 22\, 3:00 – 5:00 PM) \nAbstract\nIn this lecture\, I challenge widespread assumptions in trust research according to which trust and conflict are opposing terms or where trust is generally seen as a value. Rather\, I argue that trust\, as a normatively dependent concept\, is only valuable if properly justified\, and I locate such justifications in contexts of social and political conflict. The lecture proposes to define the general concept of a trust relation as a four-place term\, and it distinguishes the general concept from various conceptions of trust. With regard to the justification of trust\, a distinction between internal and full justification is introduced\, and the justification of trust is linked to the relations of justification between trusters and trusted. It is argued that trust in conflict(s) emerges were relations of a certain quality exist among the parties of a conflict\, often by way of institutional mediation. \n  \nLecture 3—Justice—Procedural and Substantive\n(Thursday\, March 23\, 3:00 – 5:00 PM) \nAbstract\nIn this lecture\, I argue for the normative independence and priority of justice as compared to other values. For a conception of justice must provide higher-order reasons for the kind of\, e.g.\, liberty or equality that it allows members of a normative order to claim and demand of each other. Based on a distinction between two ways of thinking about justice\, relational-structural accounts versus outcome- and recipient-oriented approaches (such as luck egalitarianism)\, a conception of justice as justification is developed and located in the first paradigm. That conception considers the first question of justice to be what power individuals and groups have to co-determine the basic structure of their society. Developing the substantive and procedural aspects of this view requires an account of a basic structure of justification that secures the status of non-dominated legal\, political and social equals who ought to be the authorities within that order. \n\nAbout the Simon Lectures\nOne of the department’s several endowed lecture series\, the Jerome S. Simon Lectures are a biennial series of colloquia given by a philosopher of international distinction. After a brief hiatus\, we are thrilled to reinvigorate the series in 2021. Past Simon lecturers have included David Velleman (Michigan)\, David Wiggins (Oxford University)\, Anil Gupta (Pittsburgh)\, Barbara Herman (UCLA)\, John Campbell (UC-Berkeley)\, Donald Rutherford (UC-San Diego)\, Jennifer Hornsby (Birkbeck\, London)\, Samuel Scheffler (NYU)\, and Holly M. Smith (Rutgers).
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/2021-jerome-s-simon-lectures-rainer-forst-goethe-universitat-frankfurt/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall)\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George
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SUMMARY:UNESCO World Philosophy Day (Agnes Callard\, Chicago)
DESCRIPTION:This year\, we welcome as 2022 UNESCO World Philosophy Day lecture speaker Agnes Callard\, an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago and that department’s director of undergraduate studies. Dr. Callard’s primary areas of specialization lie in ancient philosophy and ethics. She is also noted for her popular writings and work on public philosophy. \nTalk Title\nThe City of Idiots \nTalk Abstract\nIn the city where expertise goes missing–either because there are no experts\, or because we don’t know who they are–is mutual assistance possible?  Can we help each other without knowing how to do so?  According to Socrates\, the answer is yes. \n  \nThis event will be held in-person and live-streamed via zoom. \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://utoronto.zoom.us/j/87436952357 \nMeeting ID: 874 3695 2357\nPasscode: 282186
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/unesco-world-philosophy-day-agnes-callard-chicago/
LOCATION:George Ignatieff Theatre\, 15 Devonshire Place\, Toronto\, ON\, M5S 2C8
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George,Undergraduate,UTM,UTSC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221020T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221020T170000
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SUMMARY:Colloquium (Harvey Lederman\, Princeton)
DESCRIPTION:As speaker for our second Fall 2022 colloquium\, the department is delighted to welcome Harvey Lederman\, professor and Jonathan Edwards Bicentennial Preceptor at Princeton University. Dr. Lederman has broad interests in contemporary philosophy and in the history of philosophy. He is currently working on two larger projects\, one about Frege’s puzzle\, and one about the moral psychology and epistemology of the great Ming dynasty philosopher Wang Yangming (1472-1529). In March 2022\, he\, together with P. J. Ivanhoe and Snow Xueyin Zhang\, an international conference on Wang Yangming\, Wang Yangming and Ming Thought. Dr. Lederman also organized the Princeton Talks in Epistemology and Metaphysics (TEAM) conference series in 2018\, 2019\, and 2020. \nTalk Title\nTrying without Fail (with Ben Holguín) \nTalk Abstract\nAn action is agentially perfect if and only if\, if a person tries to perform it\, they succeed\, and\, if a person performs the action\, they try to. We argue that trying itself is agentially perfect: if a person tries to try to do something\, they try to do it; and\, if a person tries to do something\, they try to try to do it. We discuss how this claim sheds new light on the idea that basic actions are themselves tryings\, as well as on the logical structure of intentional action. On the way to these central ideas\, we extend important work by Hornsby (1995) and Ludwig (1992)\, offering new arguments for the claims that a person can try to do something even if they believe it is impossible that they will succeed\, that a person can try to do something even if they do not want to succeed\, and that a person can try to do something even if they do not intend to succeed.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/colloquium-harvey-lederman-princeton/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall)\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220930T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220930T181500
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SUMMARY:Margaret Morrison Memorial
DESCRIPTION:Please join us as we remember and celebrate the life and legacy of our late colleague Professor Emerita Margaret “Margie” Morrison. \nThis hybrid event will take place both in the Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418 & and on Zoom. Those attending in person are asked to RSVP to Belinda Piercy. \nJoin the Zoom Meeting: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/86019637268 \n  \nSCHEDULE\n2:00-4:00pm \nINTERVENTIONS\nMary Morgan (LSE)\, Marcel Boumans (Utrecht)\, Roman Frigg (LSE) \nTALKS\nStephan Hartmann (LMU Munich)\, “Morrison’s Particularism” \nAlisa Bokulich (Boston)/Wendy Parker (Virginia Tech)\, “Uncertainty and the Evaluation of Data Adequacy-for-Purpose” \nBob Batterman (Pittsburgh)\, “Emergence\, Symmetry Breaking\, and Order Parameters” \nBREAK\n4:15-6:15pm \nINTERVENTIONS\nMargaret Schabas (UBC)\, Mauricio Suárez (Complutense Madrid)\, Sonia Sedivy (Toronto)\, Mohan Matthen (Toronto)\, Joseph Berkovitz (Toronto)\, James Robert Brown (Toronto) \nTALKS\nEran Tal (McGill)\, “Measurement\, Models\, and Evidential Power” \nSorin Bangu (Bergen)\, “The Discreet Charm of Linear Momentum: Causal and Noncausal Explanations (in Physics)”
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/margaret-morrison-memorial/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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