Join us for the 25th Annual Toronto Graduate Philosophy Conference with keynote speakers Don Garrett (NYU) and Alva Noë (University of California, Berkeley). Don J. Garrett is Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He specializes in early modern philosophy, with particular interests in the philosophy of David Hume, Baruch ... Read More
The Aesthetics Reading Group is delighted to welcome as guest speaker John Dyck, assistant professor emeritus in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Mississippi State University. Talk Title The Veracity of Beauty and the Ambition of Realism Talk Abstract Some have said that the beauty of some things (perhaps ... Read More
The Ethics and Political Philosophy Interest Group is pleased to welcome as its guest speaker Iwao Hirose, a professor in the Department of Philosophy with a joint appointment with the Bieler School of Environment at McGill University. The area of his research is moral philosophy; more specifically, he works on ... Read More
The Continental Philosophy Research Interest Group welcomes guest speaker Thimo Heisenberg, an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Rice University. Professor Heisenberg is a specialist in 19th and 20th century German Philosophy. Having earned his PhD from Columbia in 2019, his work has appeared in journals such as ... Read More
The Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Mind Research Interest Group is delighted to welcome as guest speaker Brian Hedden, a professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT. He works in epistemology and decision theory, as well as related areas of ethics and political philosophy. Talk Title TBD Talk ... 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.
Speakers Santiago Echeverri (National Autonomous University of Mexico) Frances Egan (Rutgers - New Brunswick) Peter Epstein (Brandeis University) Gabriel Greenberg (University of California, Los Angeles) Andrew Y. Lee (University of Toronto) Adrienne Prettyman (Bryn Mawr College) Organizers Sonia Sedivy (University of Toronto), Jacob Beck (York University), Bill Brewer (King's College ... Read More
The Continental Philsophy Research Interest Group is delighted to welcome as guest speaker Dimitris Vardoulakis, who was the inaugural chair of Philosophy at Western Sydney University. Some of his books include Spinoza, the Epicurean: Authority and Utility in Materialism (2020); The Ruse of Techne: Heidegger’s Magical Materialism (2024); The Agonistic ... Read More
The Ethics and Political Philosophy Interest Group is pleased to welcome as its guest speaker Selim Berker, the Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University. He works on the foundations of normativity in all of its guises, including the ... Read More
This year, we welcome as 2026 UNESCO World Philosophy Day lecture speaker L. A. Paul, the Millstone Family Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science Yale University. Paul explores relationships between the nature of the self, transformative experience, preference change, subjective value, temporal experience, causation, time, and perception. Talk Title TBD ... Read More
Join us for the two-day meeting of the North American Kant Society Eastern Study Group. DAY 1: Friday, November 20 – Room 100 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Practical Philosophy "Kant's Purely Practical Concept of Freedom" Noa Buckle (Toronto) *Nominated for Markus Herz Award* 10:40 AM - 12:10 PM Practical ... Read More
The Global Philosophy Research Interest Group welcomes guest speaker Monica Z. X. Ding, a postdoctoral fellow in the philosophy department at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on the application of Classical Chinese philosophy to AI ethics. She is also interested in the nature of understanding and its applications ... Read More
The Department is pleased to welcome Olivia Bailey, an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy, at UC Berkeley for a colloquium on December 3, 2026. She works on questions in moral psychology and the history of moral philosophy (particularly the British moralists). Her current research is concerned with the ethical ... Read More
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The Logic and Philosophy of Science Research Group is pleased to welcome as its guest speaker Gordon Belot, the Lawrence Sklar Collegiate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. Professor Belot's primary interests are in philosophy of physics, philosophy of science, metaphysics, and epistemology. His most recent book, Accelerating Expansion: ... Read More
The Aesthetics Reading Group is pleased to welcome as guest speaker Alexandra King, associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Simon Fraser University. Currently, she is thinking through what aesthetic normativity looks like: the shape it takes, its parallels and interactions with other varieties of normativity (like the moral and ... Read More
The Early Modern Philosophy Research Interest Group is pleased to welcome as its guest speaker Andreea Mihali (Wilfrid Laurier University) who is an expert in critical thinking, informal logic and argumentation theory, modern philosophy (Descartes to Kant) and visual and musical arguments. Talk Title TBD Talk Abstract TBD
