CANCELLED–Colloquium (C. Thi Nguyen, Utah)

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

C. Thi Nguyen, an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah, writes about trust, art, games, and communities, interested in the ways our social structures and technologies shape how we think and what we value.

Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (Espen Hammer, Temple)

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

Espen Hammer, professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy at Temple University, is a Norwegian philosopher whose main focus is on the post-Kantian European tradition of philosophy. Most of his work deals with questions of ethics, politics and subjectivity.

2025 Undergraduate Philosophy Research Conference

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

Let ideas take flight: Join us for the annual conference showcasing the best undergraduate research in Philosophy of 2025, as well as keynote speaker TBD from TBD.

History of Philosophy Research Group Talk (Sarah Tropper, Toronto)

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

Sarah Tropper, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, specializes in early modern philosophy, medieval philosophy, and metaphysics.

Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Stefan Linquist, Guelph)

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

Stefan Linquist, an associate professor at the University of Guelph, is a philosopher of biology with research interests in ecology, genomics, and evolution. His current work examines theoretical issues in genomics and ecology. 

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.

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

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