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  • A white bust of Aristotle against a clear, blue sky, alongside the words "Workshop on Metaphysics Iota"

    Workshop on Aristotle’s Metaphysics Iota

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

    Join us for a two-day workshop on Aristotle’s Metaphysics Iota .

  • Close-up headshots of, from left to right: Cheryl Misak, Simona Vucu, Amy Mullin, Marleen Rozemond, all of them white women.

    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.

  • Grad Studies in Philosophy on a black-and-white background with a red knot neatly reeling into a clean spiral.

    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.

  • A young man with short, curly brown hair and a moustache smiling broadly into the camera wearing a sweater under a jacket and standing in front of fall trees.

    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.

  • A clean-shaven white man with short, white hair wearing a black suit jacket over a blue striped shirt standing in front of a bookshelf.

    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.

  • A man with short, gray hair wearing a black button-down and dark glasses looks seriously into the camera against the backdrop of bookshelves.

    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. 

  • A smiling middle-aged white man with wavy, longer graying hair and goatee looking straight into the camera wearing a flowered shirt and glasses.

    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.