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SUMMARY:Toronto-London Workshop on Perception
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an international workshop on perception. \nOrganized by Jacob Beck (York University)\, Bill Brewer (King’s College London)\, Kevin J. Lande (York University)\, Sonia Sedivy (University of Toronto\, Scarborough)\, Matthew Soteriou (King’s College London)\, and James Stazicker (King’s College London) \nProgram\nFriday\, Nov 1 \n9:30-11:00 – Kevin Lande (York University): “The Spatial Unity of Perception” \nComments: Andrew Rubner (NYU) \n11:15-12:45 – James Stazicker (King’s College London): “Metacognition\, Informative Identity\, and Related Ways of Underestimating Consciousness” \nComments: Matthias Michel (MIT) \n12:45-2:00 – Lunch \n2-3:30 – Matthew Soteriou (King’s College London): “Time Consciousness and the Temporal Phenomenology of Perceptual Consciousness” \nComments: Sara Aronowitz (University of Toronto) \n4-5:30 – Jessie Munton (University of Cambridge) “How Long Is a Visual Experience” \nComments: Andrew Lee (University of Toronto\, Scarborough) \nSaturday\, Nov 2\n10:30-12:00 – Bill Brewer (King’s College London): “The Role of Concepts in Perceptual Objectivity” \nComments: Myrto Mylopoulos (Carleton University) \n12-1:30 – Lunch \n1:30-3:00 – Umrao Sethi (Brandeis University) & Dominic Alford-Duguid (University of British Columbia): “Perceiving Particulars” \nComments: Alison Springle (University of Miami) \n3:30-5:00 – Imogen Dickie (University of Toronto): “Indeterminacy as a Phenomenon of Focus – the Case of Property Representation” \nComments: Frances Egan (Rutgers University)
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/toronto-london-workshop-on-perception/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall)\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Amod Sandhya Lele\, Northeastern)
DESCRIPTION:The Global Philosophy Research Interest Group is delighted to welcome as guest speaker Amod Sandhya Lele\, the associate director of the Ethics Institute at Northeastern University who also runs the Love of All Wisdom Substack newsletter and co-authors the Indian Philosophy Blog. They have taught in the Philosophy Department at Boston University and the Religion Departments at Colorado College and Stonehill College\, and have published in journals including the Journal of Buddhist Ethics\, Philosophy East and West\, and Asian Studies Review. \nThis is an in-person talk\, but those unable to come to campus may attend via Zoom. \nJoin Zoom meeting: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/83522515332 \nPasscode: 397027 \nTalk Title\nŚāntideva’s Opposition to Anger: A Defence for the Current Context \nTalk Abstract\nThis presentation applies the critique of anger made by Śāntideva\, the eighth-century Indian Mahāyāna Buddhist philosopher\, to a contemporary context of racial and gender injustice. Supplementing Śāntideva’s critique with ideas from Martin Luther King Jr. and Martha Nussbaum\, the presentation points out the ways in which anger can harm the angry person as well as others. It responds to several objections made on anger’s behalf\, several of which fail to persuade\, and others of which require only qualification\, not rejection\, of the thesis that we human beings should generally avoid anger. \nThe Global Philosophy Research Interest Group explores the benefits of drawing on diverse traditions of thought in approaching philosophical questions. These include novel insights into familiar problems\, new questions and research directions\, and fresh methodologies. We work to deprovincialize and decolonize all aspects of philosophy in the academy. The group currently has strengths in Sanskrit philosophy\, and Chinese philosophy\, Indian philosophy in English\, and classical Islamic philosophy.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/global-philosophy-research-interest-group-talk-amod-lele-northeastern/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:UNESCO World Philosophy Day (Linda M. Alcoff\, CUNY)
DESCRIPTION:This year\, we welcome as the 2024 UNESCO World Philosophy Day Lecture speaker Linda Martín Alcoff\, a professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and the Graduate Centre\, CUNY. Alcoff has worked for many years on the intersections of knowledge\, identity\, and power. She specializes in social epistemology\, feminist philosophy\, philosophy of race\, decolonial theory and continental philosophy\, especially the work of Michel Foucault. Her recent books include Rape and Resistance (Polity\, 2018)\, The Future of Whiteness (Polity\, 2018)\, and Visible Identities: Race\, Gender\, and the Self (Oxford University Press\, 2006)\, the latter of which won the Frantz Fanon Award. \nThis is an in-person event\, but those unable to come to campus may attend via Zoom. \nPasscode: 612040 \nTalk Title\nPhilosophy and the Rise of the Far Right \nTalk Abstract\nIn this talk I will discuss the wide political variations in the history of philosophy but also show how the current rise of the  Far Right can be understood through a philosophical lens.  \n 
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/unesco-world-philosophy-day-linda-alcoff-cuny/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall)\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George,Undergraduate,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:Québec-Ontario Workshop on Early Modern Philosophy
DESCRIPTION:Join us for  the sixth annual Québec-Ontario Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy\, organized by Marleen Rozemond. \nPlease contact Vincent Lee with any questions. \nProgram\nFriday\, November 22\, 2024\n(OISE RM 4426) \n9:00-9:30 \nCoffee and pastries \n9:30-11:00 \nJon Miller (Queen’s)\, “Grotius and Spinoza on Human Nature” \nComment: Vincent Lee (Toronto) \n11:15-12:45 \nMitia Rioux-Beaulne (Ottawa)\, “Publish or Perish: The Problem of Clandestine Philosophy in Diderot’s ‘History of Philosophy’ Articles in the Encyclopédie” \nComment: Emmanuel Mabille (Montréal)  \n12:45-2:15 \nLunch \n2:15-3:45 \nManuel Vasquez-Villavicencio (McMaster)\, “The Pleasures of Truth and Intrinsic Motivation in Hume’s Account of Curiosity and Inquiry” \nComment: Thierry Côté (Toronto) \n4:00-5:30 \nMargaret Schabas (UBC)\, “Hume on Economic Inequality” \nComment: Carole Bongrand (Québec à Montréal) \n\nSaturday\, November 23\, 2024\n(JHB 418) \n10-10:30 \nCoffee and pastries \n10:30-12:00 \nLisa Shapiro (McGill)\, “Gabrielle Suchon on the Desire for Knowledge\, Habit\, and Women’s Solidarity” \nComment: Raphaelle Dupont (Toronto) \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/quebec-ontario-workshop-early-modern-philosophy/
LOCATION:Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)\, Room 4426 & Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:Language\, Epistemology\, Metaphysics\, and Mind Research Interest Group Talk (Joshua Schechter\, Brown)
DESCRIPTION:The Language\, Epistemology\, Metaphysics\, and Mind Research Group welcomes as guest speaker Joshua Schechter\, a professor in and current chair of the Department of Philosophy at Brown University. Dr. Schechter’s research ranges from epistemology to metaethics\, the philosophy of logic\, and technical issues in logic itself. \nMuch of his work concerns the epistemology of logic and inferential reasoning—including the development of accounts of the justification of our logical beliefs and basic inferential practices and an explanation of our reliability about these matters. Additional work concerns the epistemology of other a priori domains\, notably moral belief; the rationality of mental states other than beliefs such as emotions and desires; and the nature of logic and validity. He also works on general issues in epistemology—for instance\, on the theoretical significance of the a priori/a posteriori distinction and on the question of which epistemological statuses (e.g.\, knowledge\, justification\, or rational credence) are primary. \nTalk Title\nRational Defeat beyond Belief \nTalk Abstract\nEpistemologists have typically discussed rational defeat as applying to beliefs and other cognitive states. But there is a wide range of mental states that can be rationally defeated\, including emotions and desires. For instance\, the information that such-and-such is not in fact dangerous can (at least apparently) reduce the rationality of one’s fear of such-and-such. The information that some action will not in fact help to achieve some desired end can (at least apparently) reduce the rationality of having an instrumental desire to carry out that action. In this talk\, I argue that there are strong analogies between the rational defeat of beliefs and the rational defeat of other kinds of mental states. I then develop a general account of rational defeat that applies to a wide range of mental states\, with a particular focus on unifying the cases of cognitive states and emotions. \nAbout the Language\, Epistemology\, Metaphysics and Mind Research Group\nOne of six departmental research interest groups\, the Language\, Epistemology\, Metaphysics and Mind Group undertakes research in philosophy of mind\, philosophy of cognitive science\, traditional and formal epistemology\, metaphysics\, and philosophy of language.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/lemm-interest-group-talk-joshua-schechter-brown/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall)\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:History of Philosophy Research Group Talk (Thierry Côté\, Toronto)
DESCRIPTION:The History of Modern Philosophy Group is pleased to welcome as its guest speaker Thierry Côté\, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. Dr. Côté specializes in early modern philosophy and aesthetics\, with additional interests in the philosophy of music\, the philosophy of literature\, and contemporary French philosophy. He earned his PhD from the Université de Montréal in 2023\, with a dissertation titled “Musique\, parole et signification au siècle des Lumières.” \nTalk Title\nHume on the Redirection and Enlargement of Passions \nTalk Abstract\n\nFor Hume\, culture is not the process by which rational representations come to govern passions. It is\, instead\, a naturally induced\, self-enforcing process of refinement\, redirection and enlargement of natural tendencies. This talk’s purpose is to clarify and question the logic of this process\, and show how it is both produced and limited by core human tendencies. It will especially focus on the two central notions of redirection and enlargement. I will first concentrate on Hume’s account of the origins of justice\, and what he means when he claims reason cannot motivate\, but only provide a “new direction” to natural passions (T 3.2.5.9). I will then address the role of sympathy in Hume’s theory of artificial virtues\, and see how shared moral standards result from of an “intercourse of sentiments” (T 3.3.3.2). Finally\, I will explore how evaluations by standards relate to motivation itself. In my view\, Hume’s purpose as a skeptical moralist is not so much to make metaethical claims about reason’s inertness\, but rather to account for a complex interplay between our cultivated and unpliable natures. \n\nOne of six departmental Research Interest Groups\, the History of Philosophy Group explores topics in ancient and/or medieval philosophy\, the period from Descartes to Kant\, and Jewish philosophy from the medieval period to the 20th century.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/history-philosophy-group-talk-thierry-cote-toronto/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall)\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Andrew Y. Lee\, Toronto)
DESCRIPTION:The Logic and Philosophy of Science Group is pleased to welcome as guest speaker Andrew Y. Lee\, an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. Dr. Lee is interested in the structure of consciousness. His work examines how structural concepts—such as degrees\, dimensions\, continuity\, discreteness\, parts\, wholes\, isomorphisms\, and state-spaces—can be applied to conscious experiences. Some of his work can be described as “mathematical phenomenology.” \nThis will be a discussion of recent work\, to be circulated in advance. Please get in touch with Denis Walsh to receive a copy. \nTalk Title\nA Puzzle about Sums \nTalk Abstract\nA famous mathematical theorem says that the sum of an infinite series of numbers can depend on the order in which those numbers occur. Suppose we interpret the numbers in such a series as representing instances of some physical quantity\, such as the weights of a collection of items. The mathematics seems to lead to the result that the weight of a collection of items can depend on the order in which those items are weighed. But that is very hard to believe! A puzzle then arises: How do we interpret the metaphysical significance of this mathematical theorem? I first argue that prior solutions to the puzzle lead to implausible consequences. Then I develop my own solution\, where the basic idea is that the weight of a collection of items is equal to the limit of the weights of its finite subcollections contained within ever-expanding regions of space. I show how my solution is intuitively plausible and philosophically motivated\, how it reveals an underexplored line of metaphysical inquiry about quantities and locations\, and how it elucidates some classic puzzles concerning supertasks. \nNote\nI’m working on a new philosophical puzzle—about Hotel infinity—that’s closely related to the subject-matter of this paper. I’ll start the session by briefly presenting the new puzzle\, and then open up discussion on either “A Puzzle about Sums” or on the new puzzle. \nAbout the Logic and Philosophy of Science Group\nOne of six departmental Research Interest Groups\, the Logic and Philosophy of Science Group hosts talks on logic\, general philosophy of science\, and philosophy of the particular sciences\, as well as talks in allied areas such as formal epistemology\, decision theory\, and the metaphysics of science.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/logic-science-andrew-lee-toronto/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building 519
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Eric Hutton\, University of Toronto)
DESCRIPTION:The Global Philosophy Research Interest Group is delighted to welcome as guest speaker Eric Hutton\, the Richard Charles and Esther Yewpick Lee Visiting Professor in Chinese Thought and Culture at the University of Toronto. His home institution is the University of Utah\, where has also served as departmental chair in Philosophy. His research focuses on Chinese philosophy\, Greek philosophy\, and ethics. On the Chinese side\, he focuses on the pre-Qin period\, especially Confucianism. On the Greek side\, his work centers around the moral/political views of Plato and Aristotle. \nThis is an in-person talk\, but those unable to come to campus may attend online. \nPasscode: 765578 \nTalk Title\nOn Trust\, Politics\, and Justice in Early Confucianism and Plato \nTalk Abstract\nMost studies comparing ancient Greek and Chinese philosophy first identify certain Greek ideas and then argue that the Chinese sources contain similar ideas. In this talk I reverse that direction of comparison by using Confucianism to re-examine Plato. In particular\, I focus on Confucian ideas about xin 信 (“trust” or “trustworthiness”) and investigate the extent to which Plato is sensitive to the concerns of the Confucians. I argue that Plato does display an interest in the phenomena on which the Confucians focus\, but largely subsumes the relevant issues under the rubric of justice. I end by considering how the Confucians might challenge Plato’s views and vice versa\, and what we might learn about trust and justice from such a debate.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/global-philosophy-research-interest-group-talk-eric-hutton/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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