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.

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.

2024 Undergraduate Philosophy Research Conference

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 & Room 418

Let ideas take flight: Join us for the annual conference showcasing the best undergraduate research in Philosophy of 2024, as well as keynote speaker Kym Maclaren of the Department of Philosophy at Toronto Metropolitan University.

Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (Sophie-Jan Arrien, Laval)

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

Sophie-Jan Arrien is a professor of Philosophy at the Université Laval. Her research focuses on phenomenology, hermeneutics, aesthetics, German, and French philosophy, with a particular interest in the work of Martin Heidegger, Edmund Husserl, and Paul Ricoeur.

History of Philosophy Research Group Talk (Antonia LoLordo, Virginia)

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

Antonia LoLordo, George C. and Clare F. Downing Memorial Professor of Philosophy and the chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Virginia, works on 17th- and 18th-century European philosophy, with a special interest in figures such as Gassendi, Locke, and Shepherd and topics such as causation, freedom, rationality, and canon formation.

Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (Bara Kolenc, Ljubljana)

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

Bara Kolenc, a research associate at the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, is also affiliated with the Ljubljana School of Psychoanalysis and currently serves as the president of the International Hegelian Association Aufhebung.

Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (Gregor Moder, Ljubljana)

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

Gregor Moderis a senior research associate at the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. He co-founded Aufhebung—International Hegelian Association.

CANCELLED—Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Curie Virág, Warwick)

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

Curie Virág, a senior research fellow at the University of Edinburgh, works in early and medieval Chinese philosophy and intellectual history, specializing in the history of ethics, moral psychology, and emotions.

CANCELLED—Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (Joseph K. Schear, Oxford)

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

Joseph K. Schear is a regular faculty member in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oxford interested in post-Kantian European philosophy, especially phenomenology, philosophy of mind (esp. the theory of intentionality), and some issues in metaphysics.

Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy (YUSEMP) (UPDATED)

Lillian Massey Building, Room 301 125 Queen's Park, Toronto, ON, Canada

The inaugural YUSEMP seminar, organized by York University's Matthew Leisinger, Zeyad El Nabolsy, and Ian MacLean-Evans, aims to be a small, informal venue for scholars of early modern philosophy at various career stages to share and discuss their work. Featured keynote speakers: Marleen Rozemond (Toronto) and Patricia Sheridan (Guelph).

Inaugural Toronto Bioethics Workshop

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

The inaugural Toronto Bioethics Workshop focuses on philosophical bioethics, with a specific emphasis on health, healthcare, and health research, including public health, research ethics, clinical ethics, neuroethics, and reproductive ethics. Keynote speaker is Dominic Wilkinson (Oxford).

2024 CPA Summer Institute Lecture (Meena Krishnamurthy, Queen’s)

Centre for Ethics Larkin Building, Room 200, 15 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON, Canada

Join us for the public lecture for the 2024 CPA Summer Institute at the University of Toronto, featuring Meena Krishnamurthy, an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Queen's University.

Kumārila Conference

Maanjiwe nendamowinan, Room 3230, UTM 1535 Outer Circle, Mississauga, 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

Rediscovering the Philosophy of Ralph Cudworth

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

Join us for a two-day international conference on the philosophy of Ralph Cudworth (1618-1688), an English philosopher and clergyman who defies classification within customary categories of the history of philosophy.

Mary Shepherd’s Philosophy at 200

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 & Room 418

A two-day workshop on the work of philosopher Mary Shepherd (1777-1847) on its 200th anniversary.

Platonist Discourses on Dualism: First Century BC to Third Century AD

Lillian Massey Building, Room 205 125 Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

This two-day, interdisciplinary workshop explore the concept of dualism in Platonist discourses in the Imperial Age, seeking to help create an inclusive overview of the concept for the era by also taking into consideration sources not strictly philosophical.

2024 Toronto Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy

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

Join us for a two-day colloquium comprising talks and workshops in ancient and medieval philosophy. The colloquium is organized by Martin Pickavé, Deborah Black, and Peter King.

CANCELLED—History of Philosophy Research Group Talk (Qiu Lin, Simon Fraser)

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

Qiu Lin, an assistant professor of Philosophy at Simon Fraser University, has main research areas in early modern philosophy, history and philosophy of science, and Chinese philosophy, especially Chinese Islamic philosophy.

Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (Joseph K. Schear, Oxford)

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

Joseph K. Schear is a regular faculty member in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oxford interested in post-Kantian European philosophy, especially phenomenology, philosophy of mind (esp. the theory of intentionality), and some issues in metaphysics.

Colloquium (Ralph Wedgwood, Southern California)

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

Ralph Wedgwood, a professor of Philosophy and the director of the School of Philosophy at the University of Southern California, works in ethics and epistemology, more specifically, in metaethics, practical reason, normative ethical theory, and the history of ethics.

Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Amit Chaturvedi, Hong Kong)

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

Amit Chaturvedi, an assistant professor at the University of Hong Kong, has a particular interest in the contributions of Indian philosophical traditions to contemporary debates concerning non-conceptual perception and reflexive self-awareness.

History of Philosophy Research Group Talk (Anik Waldow, Sydney)

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

Anik Waldow, a professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney, works mainly in early modern philosophy and has published articles on the moral and cognitive function of sympathy, theories of personal identity, the role of affect in the formation of the self, skepticism, and associationist theories of thought and language.

Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Jacob Beck, York)

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

Jacob Beck is a York Research Chair in the Philosophy of Visual Perception in the Department of Philosophy at York University. Beck’s research makes progress on longstanding philosophical puzzles about the mind by reconceptualizing them in light of contemporary cognitive science.

Toronto-London Workshop on Perception

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

Join us for an international workshop on perception. Organized 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) Program Friday, Nov 1  9:30-11:00 – Kevin Lande (York University): ... Read More

UNESCO World Philosophy Day (Linda M. Alcoff, CUNY)

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

Linda Martín Alcoff, a professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and the Graduate Centre, CUNY, 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.

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