Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Nate Oppel & Stacy Chen, Toronto)

Jackman Humanities Building 100

Nate Oppel, a graduate student in the Department of Philosophy, will give a talk on our intentional capacity to revise beliefs, while Stacy Chen, also a U of T graduate student in Philosophy, will address in her lecture reasonableness in medical decision-making.

Public Lecture in Celebration of World Logic Day (Branden Fitelson, Northeastern)

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

Branden Fitelson, a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Northeastern University, shows how to apply the insights of David Lewis to repair Lewis's own triviality argument against the Adams's thesis, leading to a more reasonable rendition of the equation.

b2B Careers in Philosophy

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

Join Philosophy alumni in working in various non-academic fields to learn about their career paths and the role of philosophy in following them.

Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Sara Aronowitz, Toronto)

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

Sara Aronowitz, an assistant professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, studies learning and memory in humans, machines, and idealized thinkers. In this talk she will consider the question of ideal rationality.

Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Mark Schroeder, Southern California)

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

Mark Schroeder (Southern California) works on areas of philosophy in some way connected to metaethics. He is interested in the ways in which rationality, reasons, value, and other "evaluative’" or "normative" categories are related to the mundane, physical world in which we live, in which things are round, red, or left of one another. For example, are there really facts about what is rational or not, to go along with the facts about what is round or not?

Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Hagop Sarkissian, CUNY)

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

Hagop Sarkissian, professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy at CUNY, as well as a professor at CUNY's Graduate Center, focuses his research on moral psychology, drawing on other relevant disciplines (evolutionary biology, experimental psychology, Chinese philosophy) to inform his work.

The 15th Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (ATWAP)

Great Hall, Lillian Massey Building 125 Queen's Park, Toronto, ON, Canada

Join us for the 2024 edition of the Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (ATWAP). This year the workshop will focus on early Christian philosophy.

CANCELLED—Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group Talk and Workshop (David Morris, Concordia)

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

David Morris, a professor of Philosophy at Concordia and the graduate director at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture there, has main research interests in phenomenology, especially Merleau-Ponty, with a focus on the philosophy of the body, mind, and nature in relation to current biology and science.

Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Daniel Muñoz, UNC)

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

Daniel Muñoz is an assistant professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, where he also forms part of the core faculty of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program. His work mostly counts as “normative ethics,” which means it’s too concrete to be “meta,” but not concrete enough to be useful. He is writing a book called "What We Owe to Ourselves." 

Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (Jeta Mulaj, Toronto Metropolitan)

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

Jeta Mulaj, an assistant professor of Philosophy at Toronto Metropolitan University, specializes in feminist philosophy, social and political philosophy, critical theory, Marxism, and decolonial thought.

Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group Talk (Ellie Anderson, Pomona)

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

Ellie Anderson, an assistant professor of Philosophy at Pomona College, specializes in continental European philosophy, with an emphasis on twentieth-century French philosophy and feminist theory. She also co-hosts the philosophy podcast Overthink.

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