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.
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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.
Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Lancaster)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaChakravarthi Ram-Prasad is a Distinguished Professor of comparative religion and philosophy at Lancaster University and a Fellow of the British Academy. His research interests include Indian philosophy, comparative philosophy of epistemology, metaphysics, and phenomenology, and classical Indian religions.
Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group Talk and Workshop (Karin Nisenbaum, Syracuse)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaKarin Nisenbaum is an assistant professor of philosophy and the Renée Crown Professor in the Humanities at Syracuse University. She specializes in Kant, German Idealism, and 19th & 20th-century Jewish thought.
Colloquium (Jocelyn Benoist, Sorbonne)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaJocelyn Benoist, a professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, is the author of, most recently, Toward a Contextual Realism (Harvard University Press, 2021). He is also a recipient of the Gay-Lussac Humboldt Prize. He works in the areas of metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind.
Colloquium (C. Thi Nguyen, Utah)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaC. 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.