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Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Chris Smeenk, Western)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaChris 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.
Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Mohammed Rustom, Carleton)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 519Mohammed 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.
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, CanadaG. 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.
Workshop on the Self with Anil Gomes
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaAnil 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.
History of Modern Philosophy Group Talk (David James Barnett, Toronto)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaDavid James Barnett, an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, specializes in epistemology and the philosophy of mind. He is interested in the epistemic significance of self-consciousness and the boundaries of the self.
Workshop: Maṇḍana on Various Types of Commands
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaIn this weeklong workshop, we will read, translate, and discuss Maṇḍana's Vidhiviveka ("Discernment about Commands"), chapter 15, with a group of international scholars.
Public Lecture in Celebration of World Logic Day (Branden Fitelson, Northeastern)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaBranden Fitelson, a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Northeastern University, shows how to apply the insights of David Lewis to repair Lewis's own triviality argument against the Adams's thesis, leading to a more reasonable rendition of the equation.
Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Sara Aronowitz, Toronto)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaSara Aronowitz, an assistant professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, studies learning and memory in humans, machines, and idealized thinkers. In this talk she will consider the question of ideal rationality.
Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Hagop Sarkissian, CUNY)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaHagop 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, CanadaJoin 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, CanadaDavid 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.
Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Mind Research Interest Group Talk (Trenton Merricks, Virginia)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaTrenton Merricks is Commonwealth Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia. He specializes in metaphysics.
Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (Jeta Mulaj, Toronto Metropolitan)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaJeta 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, CanadaEllie 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.
Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Mind Research Interest Group Talk (Snow Xueyin Zhang, Berkeley)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaSnow Xueyin Zhang, an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley, works on formal epistemology, philosophy of probability, and the philosophy of statistics.
2024 Undergraduate Philosophy Research Conference
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 & Room 418Let 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 (Igor Shoikhedbrod, St. Francis Xavier)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaIgor Shoikhedbrod, an assistant professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at St. Francis Xavier University, works on political theory, legal theory, ethics, law, and political economy.
Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (Sophie-Jan Arrien, Laval)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaSophie-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, CanadaAntonia 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, CanadaBara 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, CanadaGregor 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, CanadaCurie 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, CanadaJoseph 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, CanadaThe 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, CanadaThe 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, CanadaJoin 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, CanadaThe 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, CanadaJoin 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.
Ibn ‘Arabi and the Shi’i Tradition: Texts, Ideas, Receptions
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaJoin us for a day-long conference on Islamic Philosophy, co-sponsored by the Shi'a Research Institute.
Mary Shepherd’s Philosophy at 200
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 & Room 418A 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, CanadaThis 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, CanadaJoin 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, CanadaQiu 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, CanadaJoseph 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, CanadaRalph 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.
Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Mind Research Interest Group Talk (Declan Smithies, Ohio State)
Jackman Humanities Building 318Declan Smithies, a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Ohio State University, works primarily on issues in epistemology and the philosophy of mind.
Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Amit Chaturvedi, Hong Kong)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaAmit 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, CanadaAnik 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, CanadaJacob 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, CanadaJoin 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
Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Amod Sandhya Lele, Northeastern)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaAmod Sandhya Lele is the associate director of the Ethics Institute at Northeastern University. They also run the Love of All Wisdom Substack newsletter and co-author the Indian Philosophy Blog.
UNESCO World Philosophy Day (Linda M. Alcoff, CUNY)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaLinda 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.
Québec-Ontario Workshop on Early Modern Philosophy
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), Room 4426 & Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418Join us for a workshop on early modern philosophy.
Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Mind Research Interest Group Talk (Joshua Schechter, Brown)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaJoshua Schechter, a professor in and current chair of the Department of Philosophy at Brown University, pursues research in epistemology, metaethics, the philosophy of logic, and in technical issues in logic itself.
History of Philosophy Research Group Talk (Thierry Côté, Toronto)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaThierry Côté, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, specializes in early modern philosophy and aesthetics, with additional interests in the philosophy of music, the philosophy of literature, and contemporary French philosophy.
Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Andrew Y. Lee, Toronto)
Jackman Humanities Building 519Andrew Y. Lee, an assistant professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, 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.”
Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Eric Hutton, University of Toronto)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaEric Hutton is a visiting professor from the University of Utah. 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.