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    Ideas of Women in Philosophy

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

    A one-day event celebrating the ideas of women in philosophy as presented by women from our very own department. Speakers are Cheryl Misak, Amy Mullin, Marleen Rozemond, and Simona Vucu

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    Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Mind Research Interest Group Talk (Annina Loets, Wisconsin-Madison)

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

    Annina Loets is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests lie in metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of language, and currently, she is working on a larger research project on agentive possibilities such as abilities, opportunities, and options.

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    Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Hannah Kim, Arizona)

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

    Hannah Kim is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Arizona and a faculty affiliate with the Center for East Asian Studies at Arizona. She works on aesthetics, metaphysics, and Asian philosophy, and has recently been bringing together literary theory and close reading with analytic philosophy to study fiction across cultures and media.

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    Applying to Grad School Workshop

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

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    History of Philosophy Research Group Talk (Tarek Dika, Toronto)

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

    Tarek Dika is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at U of T who specializes in phenomenology, especially Heidegger and contemporary French phenomenology. He also has research interests in early modern philosophy and science, especially Descartes.

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    Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Mind Research Interest Group Talk (Melissa Fusco, Columbia)

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

    Melissa Fusco is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University and the director of graduate admissions there. She works in philosophy of language---especially formal semantics---decision theory, and philosophical logic. She also has interests in metaethics and metaphysics. Current projects include natural language theories of modality and the semantics of disjunctive questions.

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    Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Miguel Ohnesorge, Boston)

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

    Miguel Ohnesorge is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at Boston University. Dr. Ohnesorge is a philosopher of science and a historian of science and philosophy.

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    In Celebration of Lloyd P. Gerson

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

    An afternoon celebrating the research and teaching of recently retired Professor Emeritus Lloyd P. Gerson.

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    UNESCO World Philosophy Day (Paul Boghossian, NYU)

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

    Paul Boghossian is the Silver Professor of Philosophy at NYU and Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Birmingham in the UK.  Dr. Boghossian also serves as the director of the New York Institute of Philosophy and the director of NYU's Global Institute for Advanced Study. His research interests are primarily in epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. 

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    Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (Alberto Toscano, Goldsmiths, London/Simon Fraser)

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

    Alberto Toscano, professor emeritus of Critical Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London, and currently teaching at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, divides his current research into three main strands: a theoretical and historical inquiry into the politics of authoritarianism and their links to the racial, geopolitical and gendered crises of capital; artistic efforts to represent or ‘map’ racial capitalism, and in the revitalization of a critical theory of political action informed by anti-colonial and anti-racist thought; the translation and reception of Italian literature, literary criticism, and critical theory.

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    Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Marcus Schmücker, Austrian Academy of Sciences)

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

    Marcus Schmücker is a senior researcher at the Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia (IKGA) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In addition to interdisciplinary work in the fields of theology and philosophy, his research interests focus on the traditions of Ad­vaita Ve­dānta and Viśiṣṭādvaita Ve­dān­ta.

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    Colloquium (Barry Maguire, Edinburgh)

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

    Barry Maguire, a professor of moral and political philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, is pursuing as his current central research project the development of an ethical theory based on an ideal of caring solidarity.

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    Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group Talk (Johannes Haag, Potsdam)

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

    Johannes Haag is a professor of theoretical philosophy at the University of Potsdam. His systematic interests in theoretical philosophy concern the philosophy of language, epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and in particular the theory of intentionality. Historically, he works mainly on issues in early modern philosophy, the philosophy of Enlightenment, the philosophy of Kant and German Idealism. In addition to Kant and Descartes, he is especially interested in Spinoza, Berkeley, and Fichte.

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

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

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