Speaker: Mark Alznauer (Northwestern) More info to come. This event will be followed by an all-day workshop on Saturday, September 5, on Mark Alznauer's forthcoming book, Hegel's Sole Idea: The Last Great Metaphysical System (Chicago, 2026).
The workshop will be about Prof. Mark Alznauer's forthcoming book, Hegel's Sole Idea: The Last Great Metaphysical System (Chicago, 2026). More information to come. Contact Nick Stang (nick.stang@utoronto.ca) for workshop materials.
Join us on Wednesday, September 9, for our annual philosophy book sale, held in Room 401. The book sale will run from 10 am - 5:00 pm. Cash only, please. Proceeds from the sale will go to the Graduate Philosophy Student Union (GPSU).
Speaker: Daniel Nolan (UC, Santa Cruz) The 'Olamā-ye Eslām is a Zoroastrian apologetic work, perhaps from the thirteenth century CE. This paper argues that it contains a distinctive response to the problem of why an omnipotent and all-good deity would permit the existence of evil. Ormazd, the great good deity ... Read More
Please join us for the 2026 edition of the University of Toronto Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy. Program FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 Session I (3:30 – 6:00 pm) Martin Pickavé (University of Toronto): Welcome Stephen Dumont (University of Notre Dame): Deborah as a Scholar, Friend, and Colleague Peter Adamson (LMU Munich): What’s ... Read More
We are pleased to announce Barbara Vetter as our esteemed speaker for the 2026 Jerome S. Simon Memorial Lectures. Dr. Vetter is a professor of theoretical philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin, and co-director of the "Human Abilities" project (www.human-abilities.de). Her work focuses on the metaphysics and epistemology of modal properties ... Read More
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
Join us for a one-day workshop on linguistic internalism and externalism featuring Peter King (University of Toronto), Gyula Klima (Fordham University), Simone L. Migliaro (Humboldt University, Berlin – University of Toronto), Calvin Normore (University of California, Los Angeles), Claude Panaccio (Université du Québec à Montreal), and Giorgio Pini (Fordham University). ... Read More
Join us for the 25th Annual Toronto Graduate Philosophy Conference with keynote speakers Don Garrett (NYU) and Alva Noë (University of California, Berkeley). All sessions are in JHB 418 except for the keynote sessions, which are in JHB 100. The draft program is also available as a PDF. Schedule Friday, October ... Read More
The Toronto Workshop on Moral Psychology and Moral Theory is a forum for work at the intersection of empirical moral psychology and fundamental moral theory.
