Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Alejandro Pérez Carballo, UMass Amherst)

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

Alejandro Pérez Carballo, an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, is interested in questions in the philosophy of mind and language, especially as they relate to issues in the philosophy of mathematics and metaethics, as well as in some questions in metaphysics and formal epistemology.

History of Philosophy Research Group Talk (Stephen Peprah, Toronto)

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

Stephen Peprah, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, works in ancient and early modern philosophy. One of his two main current research projects focuses on the philosophical works of Anton Wilhelm Amo, an eighteenth-century Ghanaian-German slave-turned-academic.

Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group Talk (Neil Sinhababu, Singapore)

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

Neil Sinhababu, an associate professor of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore, works in ethics, Nietzsche, political philosophy, metaphysics, as well as philosophy of mind and action.

Other Epistemic Achievements – Global Perspectives

This conference, organized by Pirachula Chulanon & Reza Hadisi and hosted jointly by the University of Toronto and Toronto Metropolitan University, will bring together scholars from different traditions to explore alternate pathways for theorizing epistemic achievements and virtues.

Second Kumārila Conference

Jackman Humanities Building 100 & 401 170 St. George Street, Toronto, ON, Canada

The 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

Sanskrit Reading and Translation Workshop: Vācaspati Miśra on Yogic Perception

MN 3230, University of Toronto Mississauga

The aim of this international workshop, organized by Elisa Freschi and Nilanjan Das and held at the Department of Philosophy at the UTM campus, 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.

Second Toronto Bioethics Workshop

Centre for Ethics, 200 Larkin 15 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON, Canada

The second Toronto Bioethics Workshop focuses on public bioethics, featuring the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Katie Engelhart as keynote speaker.

Hermann Cohen’s “Ethics of Maimonides”

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Join us for a three-day conference on Hermann Cohen’s "Ethics of Maimonides" organized by Michael Rosenthal and Ynon Wygoda.

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