Holly M. Smith, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Rutgers University, works on questions in normative ethics, moral responsibility, and structural questions transcending normative theories.
We are celebrating and paying tribute to our colleague, teacher, and friend Wayne Sumner for his 80th birthday.
Ryerson 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
This 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
The 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.
Join us as we gather in celebration of our colleague and former chair of the department David Gauthier.
Robert 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.
Join us as we remember and celebrate the life and legacy of our late colleague Professor Emerita Margaret "Margie" Morrison.
Harvey Lederman is professor and Jonathan Edwards Bicentennial Preceptor at Princeton University, with broad interests in contemporary philosophy and the history of philosophy.
Agnes 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.
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."
The 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.
The 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.
