Celebrating Wayne Sumner
OnlineWe are celebrating and paying tribute to our colleague, teacher, and friend Wayne Sumner for his 80th birthday.
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Bernard D. Katz Retirement Conference
OnlineRyerson University is hosting a conference in honor of Bernard Katz's retirement. Please see the Ryerson event page for a full schedule of speakers and abstracts. Bernard D. Katz worked in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto from 1976 until his retirement in 2021. This conference is ... Read More
UNESCO World Philosophy Day (Vanessa Wills, George Washington)
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), Room 2212 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaThis year's UNESCO World Philosophy Day lecture speaker, Vanessa Wills, is Assistant Professor at George Washington University. Her areas of interest include moral and political philosophy (particularly Karl Marx) and philosophy of race. Her recent work includes "Revolutionary Admiration" (The Moral Psychology of Admiration, 2019) and "'Man is the Highest ... Read More
Underrepresented Philosophy Conference 2022
OnlineThe 2022 Underrepresented Philosophy Conference aims to spotlight and lend esteem to philosophy and philosophers underrepresented (or otherwise maligned) within the discipline and in the academy at large.
A Celebration of David Gauthier
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 & Room 418Join us as we gather in celebration of our colleague and former chair of the department David Gauthier.
Colloquium (Robert Pasnau, Colorado Boulder)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRobert Pasnau, a professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado Boulder, has main interests in the history of philosophy, especially the end of the Middle Ages and the beginnings of the modern era. His colloquium talk will focus on the Hume's philosophy.
Margaret Morrison Memorial
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaJoin us as we remember and celebrate the life and legacy of our late colleague Professor Emerita Margaret "Margie" Morrison.
Colloquium (Harvey Lederman, Princeton)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaHarvey Lederman is professor and Jonathan Edwards Bicentennial Preceptor at Princeton University, with broad interests in contemporary philosophy and the history of philosophy.
UNESCO World Philosophy Day (Agnes Callard, Chicago)
George Ignatieff Theatre 15 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ONAgnes Callard is 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., and she is also noted for her work in and on public philosophy.
CANCELLED—2023 Jerome S. Simon Lectures (Rainer Forst, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRainer 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."
Celebrating the Life of Kathryn P. Morgan
William Doo Auditorium 45 Willcocks Street, Toronto, ONThe Women and Gender Studies Institute and the Department of Philosophy are hosting a memorial service in honour of the late Professor Emerita Kathryn P. Morgan celebrating her life, legacy, and work.
Fifth Annual Scientific Understanding and Representation (SURe) Workshop
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 & online 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaThe fifth annual SURe Workshop, in honour of Margie Morrison and with keynote speakers Eran Tal (McGill) and Agnes Bolinska (South Carolina) aims to foster greater synergy between scientific understanding and scientific representation in the philosophy of science, as they face complementary problems—and hold the promise of complementary solutions.
Celebrating Mohan Matthen
University College, Rooms UC 140 & UC 240 15 King's College Circle, Toronto, ON, CanadaThis three-day event will celebrate the life and work of our dear colleague Mohan Matthen, who is retiring this year. Program JULY 13 9:00-9:15 AM Introduction and Welcome 9:15-10:15 AM Lana Kuhle (Illinois State), "The Tone of Embodiment in Perception & Action" 10:30-11:30 AM Casey O’Callaghan (Washington in St. Louis), ... Read More
Conference in Honour of Tom Hurka
Jackman Humanities Building 100This 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 ... Read More
Colloquium (Jenann Ismael, Johns Hopkins)
Claude T. Bissell Building, BL 205 140 St. George Street, Toronto, ON, CanadaJenann Ismael is the inaugural William H. Miller III Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. She specializes in philosophy of physics, metaphysics, philosophy of science, and the philosophy of mind.
2023 Jerome S. Simon Lectures (Rainer Forst, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
Jackman Humanities Building 100, Victoria College 215, Claude Bissell Building 205Rainer 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."
Colloquium (Julia Jorati, Massachusetts Amherst)
Tartu College Event Space 3 Madison Avenue, Toronto, ON, CanadaJulia 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.
Book Launch: Waheed Hussain, Living with the Invisible Hand
Centre for Ethics Larkin Building, Room 200, 15 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON, CanadaJoin 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.
UNESCO World Philosophy Day (Sharon Street, NYU)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaSharon 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.
b2B Careers in Philosophy
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaJoin Philosophy alumni in working in various non-academic fields to learn about their career paths and the role of philosophy in following them.
Kumārila Conference
Maanjiwe nendamowinan, Room 3230, UTM 1535 Outer Circle, Mississauga, ON, CanadaThe conference, organized by Elisa Freschi and Nilanjan Das and 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
Knowledge, Empiricism, & the Political: In Debate with Danny Goldstick
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada5:00 PM Welcome and Refreshments 5:30 PM Speaker: Duncan MacIntosh (Dalhousie) Title: "Interrogating the Goldstick Maneuver: Arguing from Beliefs to Metaphysical Realities" 6:00 PM Reply from Danny Goldstick and discussion 6:20 PM Break 6:30 PM Speaker: David Alexander (Iowa) Title: "Goldstick on A Priori Knowledge" 7:00 PM Reply from Danny ... Read More
2024 Jerome S. Simon Lectures (Cailin O’Connor, California, Irvine)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaCailin 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.
Colloquium (Ralph Wedgwood, Southern California)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRalph Wedgwood, a professor of Philosophy and the director of the School of Philosophy at the University of Southern California, works in ethics and epistemology, more specifically, in metaethics, practical reason, normative ethical theory, and the history of ethics.
UNESCO World Philosophy Day (Linda M. Alcoff, CUNY)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaLinda Martín Alcoff, a professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and the Graduate Centre, CUNY, 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.