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  • Head shot of Michael Della Rocca, a middle-aged man with short gray hair and glasses wearing a black shirt, standing smiling beside a book shelf.

    Public Lecture (Michael Della Rocca, Yale)

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

    Michael Della Rocca (Yale) is an authority on the history of early modern philosophy, rationalism, and contemporary metaphysics, as well as on epistemology and the philosophy of action.

  • Engraving of R. Descartes holding a carved pumpkin

    Phantoms and Philosophy

    Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), Room 8214

    Calling all Witches and Wittgensteinians, all Golems and Gödelians, all Fairies and Fregeans, and all other philosophers with a taste for the eerie: the Philosophy Course Union (PCU) is excited to announce the return of its annual "Phantoms and Philosophy" event. Come dressed as your favourite philosopher and sit in on three presentations whose topics deal with the scarier side of philosophy.

  • Side-by-side headshots of Amie Thomasson (l), a middle-aged white woman with blonde hair to her ears wearing a turquoise top and blue necklace, smiling; and Christine Korsgaard (r), an older, larger woman with long dark hair, large wireframe glasses, and wearing a black blouse.

    2023 Annual Toronto Graduate Philosophy Conference

    Centre for Ethics (Larkin 200), Jackman Humanities Building 100 & online

    Join us for the the 22nd Toronto Graduate Philosophy Conference with keynote speakers Amie L. Thomasson (Dartmouth) and Christine M. Korsgaard (Harvard).

  • Close-up of Valerie Tiberius, a middle-aged white woman with long gray hair and red glasses, smiling and wearing a gray top and a bright red necklace standing in front of a bookshelf.

    Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Valerie Tiberius, Minnesota)

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

    Valerie Tiberius, a professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota, focuses her research and teaching on ethics and moral psychology, with a special interest in applying Humean principles to modern philosophical questions. Much of her work is centered at the junction of practical philosophy and practical psychology, examining how both disciplines can meaningfully improve lives.

  • Head shot of Sharon Street, a white woman with long, light brown hair, wearing a dark top and standing against a blurred grassy background

    UNESCO World Philosophy Day (Sharon Street, NYU)

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

    Sharon Street, a professor of Philosophy at NYU, specializes in metaethics. She has authored a series of articles on how to reconcile our understanding of normativity with a scientific conception of the world. Her work concerns the nature of both practical and epistemic reasons, and it draws especially on an evolutionary biological perspective.

  • Photo of Kate Withy, a white woman with curly brown hair wearing a flowered scarf over a black sweater, standing against a backdrop of a wooded path, with another person walking in the background

    Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (Kate Withy, Georgetown)

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

    Kate Withy, an associate professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, specializes in the work of Martin Heidegger, but she also has interests in 20th-century European philosophy and ancient Greek philosophy. Her research centres on Heidegger’s conception of the human being as open to meaning and subject to breakdowns of meaning.

  • Dark purple illustration of a door slightly ajar to let some white light in, alongside the words, "Grad Studies in Philosophy" in white and orange.

    Applying to Grad School Workshop

    Online

    Interested in a graduate program in Philosophy at U of T? Have a panel of experts share their advice and insights.

  • Head shot of Roy A. Sorensen, a gray-haired white man smiling broadly into the camera wearing a blue button-down shirt

    Graduate Workshop with Roy Arnold Sorensen (Texas at Austin)

    Jackman Humanities Building, Room 1040

    Roy A. Sorensen is a professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, a professorial fellow in Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, and the Jackman Humanities Institute's Distinguished Visiting Fellow for the academic year 2023-24. He has research interests in epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of language, areas in which he has published widely.

  • Head shot of Chris Smeenk, a man with borwn hair and a short beard, smiling and wearing a checkered shirt standing in front of a university building covered in red ivy

    Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Chris Smeenk, Western)

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

    Chris Smeenk, a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Western University, and the director of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy, has research interests in the history and philosophy of physics, general issues in the philosophy of science, and seventeenth-century natural philosophy.

  • Head shot of Mohammed Rustom, who has short dark hair, a short beard, and glasses, sitting in a beautifully lit park with a lake and trees.

    Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Mohammed Rustom, Carleton)

    Jackman Humanities Building, Room 519

    Mohammed Rustom, a professor of Islamic Thought and Global Philosophy at Carleton University and the director of the Carleton Centre for the Study of Islam. focuses his research on Islamic philosophy, Arabic, and Persian Sufi literature, Quranic exegesis, translation theory, and cross-cultural philosophy.

  • Head shot of G. Anthony Bruno in front of a brick wall

    Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (G. Anthony Bruno, Royal Holloway)

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

    G. Anthony Bruno is an assistant professor at Royal Holloway University of London whose research focuses on metaphysics and epistemology in early modern, Kantian, and post-Kantian philosophy.

  • Head shot of a smiling Anil Gomes, a brown man with curly black hair and glasses wearing a sweater and tweed jacket standing in front of greened wall.

    Workshop on the Self with Anil Gomes

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

    Anil Gomes is a Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Trinity College, Oxford, and a professor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Philosophy in the University of Oxford. He works mainly in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and has a long-standing interest in the work of Iris Murdoch.