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SUMMARY:Language\, Epistemology\, Metaphysics\, and Mind Research Interest Group Talk (Annina Loets\, Wisconsin-Madison)
DESCRIPTION:The Language\, Epistemology\, Metaphysics\, and Mind Research Group welcomes as guest speaker Annina Loets\, an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Loets’s research interests lie in metaphysics\, epistemology\, and the philosophy of language. Currently she is working on a larger research project on agentive possibilities such as abilities\, opportunities\, and options. More generally\, she is interested in the metaphysics of ordinary objects\, persons\, and the social world\, as well as the kinds of questions about identity\, modality\, reference\, and vagueness to which such things give rise. \nTalk Title\nFission as Division \nTalk Abstract\nCould a person divide? And if so\, what would happen to them in the process? While so-called “fission cases” in the literature on personal identity are often introduced as cases in which a person divides\, the idea that fission would leave one literally divided is usually dismissed outright. The aim of this talk is to argue that this dismissive stance is premature. Properly developed\, what I call the “Division View” of fission offers a serious alternative to extant accounts in the literature and sheds new light on questions about what matters in survival. \nAbout the Language\, Epistemology\, Metaphysics and Mind Research Group\nOne of six departmental research interest groups\, the Language\, Epistemology\, Metaphysics and Mind Group undertakes research in philosophy of mind\, philosophy of cognitive science\, traditional and formal epistemology\, metaphysics\, and philosophy of language.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/lemm-interest-group-talk-annina-loets-wisconsin/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:Ideas of Women in Philosophy
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a one-day event celebrating the ideas of women in philosophy as presented by women from our very own department. Anyone is welcome to attend!  \nSchedule\n9:30-10:45AM \\ Cheryl Misak on the ideas of Margaret Macdonald \n10:45-11AM \\ coffee & snacks from GPSU \n11-12:15PM \\ Amy Mullin on the ideas of Anca Gheaus \n12:15-1:30PM \\ LUNCH \n1:30-2:45PM \\ Marleen Rozemond on the ideas of Margaret Cavendish  \n2:45-3PM \\ Break \n3-4:15PM \\ Simona Vucu on the ideas of Christine de Pizan \n6PM \\ DINNER (at Magical Taste of China)
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/ideas-of-women-in-philosophy/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,Undergraduate,UTM,UTSC
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251003T180000
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SUMMARY:Workshop on Aristotle’s Metaphysics Iota
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a workshop on Aristotle’s Metaphysics Iota. \nSchedule\nThursday\, October 2\n14.15-14.30 \nWelcome \n14:30-16:00 \nChris Shields (UC San Diego)\, “Ways to Be One“ \nChair: Ulysse Chaintreuil \n16:15-17:45 \nStephen Menn (McGill/Toronto)\, “Unity in Iota and Unity in Some Other Books of the Metaphysics” \nChair: Christian Pfeiffer \n  \nFriday\, October 3\n9:30-11.00 \nUlysse Chaintreuil (Toronto)\, “Metaphysics Iota on the Oppositions between one and Many” \nChair: Jessica Gelber \n11:15-12:45 \nGábor Betegh (Cambridge): “On the Unity of Iota” \nChair: Rachel Barney \nLunch Break \n14.30-16:00 \nTaylor Pincin (Cincinnati): “The Unity of Form\, the Unity of Definition\, and Metaphysics Iota” \nChair: Michael Arsenault \n16.15-17:45 \nAdam Crager (UCLA): “Aporia and Argument in Met. Iota 2” \nChair: James Allen \n  \nOrganizers: Ulysse Chaintreuil & Christian Pfeiffer
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/workshop-on-aristotles-metaphysics-iota/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:St. George,UTM,UTSC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250926T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250926T170000
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SUMMARY:Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group Talk and Workshop (Robert Pippin\, Chicago)
DESCRIPTION:The Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group is delighted to welcome Robert Pippin as its guest speaker. Dr. Pippin is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought\, the Department of Philosophy\, and the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books and articles on German idealism and later German philosophy\, including Kant’s Theory of Form; Hegel’s Idealism: The Satisfactions of Self-Consciousness; Modernism as a Philosophical Problem; and Idealism as Modernism: Hegelian Variations. He was twice an Alexander von Humboldt fellow\, is a winner of the Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award in the Humanities\, and was recently a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is a member of the American Philosophical Society. He is also a member of the German National Academy of Arts and Sciences. \nTalk Title\nHegel after Heidegger \nTalk Abstract\nMartin Heidegger claimed that German Idealism\, especially the thought of Hegel\, had brought to light a deficiency in the entire rationalist tradition of philosophy\, which\, when exposed as clearly as Hegel had\, meant that the tradition could no longer credibly continue. He went on to argue that the implications of this deficiency had spread far beyond academic philosophy\, were manifest in the daily life of the modern West\, contributing to a historical world dominated by the technological predation of nature\, conformism\, thoughtlessness and a degraded cultural life. The tradition\, he said\, had “culminated” in the thought of Hegel; that is\, the deficiency and its implications had finally become clearest in his system. The question raised in this lecture is whether Heidegger meant to charge that Hegel had simply neglected a question (“the meaning of being”) which he should have raised\, or whether that neglect renders suspect the many other issues Hegel raises. \nIn addition to this lecture\, Dr. Pippin will host an all-day workshop on September 27. The topic of the workshop will be his recent book The Culmination: Heidegger\, German Idealism\, and the Fate of Philosophy\, and it will feature comments by Nick Stang\, Tarek Dika\, and Dave Suarez\, with replies by Robert Pippin. \nThose interested in participating in the workshop on September 27 should email Nick Stang ahead of the event.\n \nThe Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group is a a subgroup of the History of Philosophy Research Group\, which focuses on European philosophy in Kant and post-Kantian traditions.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/post-kantian-talk-and-workshop-robert-pippin-chicago/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Patrick Girard\, Auckland)
DESCRIPTION:The Logic and Philosophy of Science Group is pleased to welcome as guest speaker Patrick Girard\, an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Dr. Girard works in philosophy of logic\, metaphysics\, and philosophy of mathematics. \nTalk Title\nThe Frog and the Mouse Battle: Logic\, Politics\, and Justice \nTalk Abstract\nThe 1920s saw the rise of modern logic: Hilbert’s formalist programme\, Gödel’s theorems\, and Brouwer’s intuitionism offered competing visions for the foundations of mathematics. At the centre was a clash between Hilbert and Brouwer over the law of excluded middle—a dispute that turned political in the wake of WWI. It ended with Hilbert expelling Brouwer from the Mathematische Annalen\, prompting high-profile resignations\, including Einstein’s. While the episode had political dimensions\, it also reveals a form of epistemic injustice that is logical in nature. Drawing on my recent work in logic\, I’ll offer a fresh analysis of the logical injustice at the heart of the coup that ultimately ended Brouwer’s career. \nAbout the Logic and Philosophy of Science Group\nOne of six departmental Research Interest Groups\, the Logic and Philosophy of Science Group hosts talks on logic\, general philosophy of science\, and philosophy of the particular sciences\, as well as talks in allied areas such as formal epistemology\, decision theory\, and the metaphysics of science.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/logic-science-patrick-girard-auckland/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:2025 Toronto Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the 2025 edition of the Toronto Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy. \nProgram\nFRIDAY\, SEPTEMBER 19\nSession I (4:30 – 6:30) \nChair: Boris Hennig (Toronto Metropolitan University) \nYoav Meyrav (University of Hamburg): “Hasdai Crescas and the Ex Uno Principle” \nCommentator: Davlat Dadikhuda (Ludwigs-Maximilians University Munich) \n  \nSATURDAY\, SEPTEMBER 20\nSession II (10:00 – 12:00) \nChair: Giorgio Pini (Fordham University) \nTherese Cory (University of Notre Dame): “The Problem of the Substrate of Thought in Some Greek – Arabic – Latin Treatises De Intellectu” \nCommentator: Richard Taylor (Marquette University) \n  \nSession III (2:00 – 4:00) \nChair: Léo Melançon-Thibault (University of Toronto) \nMatthew Wennemann (University of Colorado\, Boulder): “Being and Being This: Haecceity and Scotus’s Univocal Concept of Being” \nEmma Emrich (Fordham University): “Richard of Mediavilla on the Relationship between Forms” \nDiego Espinoza Bustamante (University of Toronto): “Ockham and Deference to Authority” \n  \nSession IV (4:15 – 6:15) \nChair: Peter Hartman (Loyola University Chicago) \nChristophe Grellard (École Pratique des Hautes Études\, Paris): “The Good\, the Bad and the Ugly. Heroic Virtues and Bestiality in John Buridan’s Ethics” \nCommentator: Aline Medeiros Ramos (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières/Université du Québec à Montréal) \n  \nAll sessions are free and open to the public and will be held in Room 100 of the Jackman Humanities Building (170 St. George Street). \nThe colloquium is sponsored by the Department of Philosophy\, the Collaborative Specialization in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy\, the Centre for Medieval Studies\, the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies\, and the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. \nOrganizers: Deborah Black\, Reza Hadisi\, Peter King\, Jon McGinnis\, and Martin Pickavé \n 
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/toronto-colloquium-medieval-philosophy-2025/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall)\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:Colloquium (Casey O'Callaghan\, Washington in St. Louis)
DESCRIPTION:As speaker for our first Fall 2025 colloquium\, the department is delighted to welcome Casey O’Callaghan\, a professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. O’Callahan’s research focuses on philosophical questions about perception\, in particular\, on auditory perception and the nature of its objects\, as well as on multisensory perception and consciousness. This work stems from a more general interest in how perceptual awareness relates to its objects and how it shapes our understanding of the natures of those objects. \nThis is an in-person event\, but those unable to attend the lecture in person may join via Zoom. \nPasscode: 904259 \nTalk Title\nWhat’s to Fear in Losing a Sense? \nTalk Abstract\n\nMany people fear losing one or more of their senses\, and most fear losing some more than others. However\, if a disability such as being without the use of a sense does not in the long run make a person worse off\, then such fears may not seem reasonable\, warranted\, or apt. This talk argues that our senses are distinctive sources of value. In particular\, our senses play an underappreciated axiological role. They figure deeply in our cares\, concerns\, and projects\, and they are sources of final or non-instrumental value. Moreover\, different senses comprise distinct collections of perceptual capacities that contribute in distinctive ways to a person’s cares\, concerns\, and projects. Therefore\, from one’s present evaluative perspective\, it makes sense to fear the loss of such a distinctive source of value\, and it makes sense to fear the loss of some senses more than others\, even if\, after adapting\, the loss of a sense does not impact one’s overall\, long-term well-being.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/colloquium-casey-ocallhan-washington-in-st-louis/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall)\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250905T170000
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SUMMARY:History of Philosophy Research Group Talk (Paul Rateau\, Sorbonne)
DESCRIPTION:The History of Modern Philosophy Group is pleased to welcome as its guest speaker Paul Rateau\, a professor of Philosophy at the Université 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Dr. Rateau works in the history of philosophy\, with a focus on the work of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. \nTalk Title\nLeibniz’s Proof of the Existence of God from the Contingency of the World: A Comparison between the Monadology and the Theodicy \nTalk Abstract\n\nI compare Leibniz’s proofs of God’s existence from contingency in the Monadology (paragraphs 31–55) and the Theodicy\, showing they rely on distinct argumentative strategies. In the Monadology\, Leibniz explicitly employs the principle of sufficient reason alongside the principle of contradiction to distinguish truths of reason (necessary) from truths of fact (contingent). Contingent truths lack a sufficient reason within the world\, leading to the necessity of a being outside the world—God—as their ultimate cause. In contrast\, the Theodicy defines contingency more metaphysically\, emphasizing that the world could have been otherwise and thus requires a necessary being for its explanation. The Monadology develops a more logical and analytical approach\, grounded in infinite regress and the analysis of propositions\, while the Theodicy emphasizes divine attributes (intelligence\, will\, and power) and God’s moral necessity to choose the best possible world. I highlight differing conceptions of divine perfection and the role of the principle of the best in both texts. Ultimately\, I argue that although both texts affirm God’s existence from contingency\, they present complementary rather than identical arguments. \n\nOne of six departmental Research Interest Groups\, the History of Philosophy Group explores topics in ancient and/or medieval philosophy\, the period from Descartes to Kant\, and Jewish philosophy from the medieval period to the 20th century.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/history-philosophy-group-talk-paul-rateau-srbonne/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250612
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SUMMARY:Hermann Cohen’s "Ethics of Maimonides"
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a three-day conference on Hermann Cohen’s Ethics of Maimonides. Below please find the draft schedule. \nProgram\nMonday\, June 9\, 2025\n9:30-9:45am – Greetings \n9:45-10:45am – Frederick Beiser (Syracuse University) \n“Cohen and Maimonides and the Rationalist Tradition in Theology” \nChair: Robert Gibbs (University of Toronto) \n10:45-11:00am – Break \n11:00-12:00am – Shira Billet (Jewish Theological Seminary) \n“Maimonides on Eudaimonia and the Virtue of Humility in Hermann Cohen’s Ethics\, Politics\, and Philosophy of Judaism” \nChair: Sol Goldberg (University of Toronto) \n12:00-1:30pm – Lunch (kosher with vegetarian options) \n1:30-2:30pm – Martin Pinckney (University of Toronto) \n“In Beauty’s Absence: On the Role of Privation in Cohen’s Aesthetics” \nChair: Sarah Tropper (University of Toronto) \n2:30-2:45pm – Break \n2:45-3:45pm – Michael Rosenthal (University of Toronto) \n“The Trouble with Transcendence:  Three Problems for Cohen’s Arguments in the Ethics of Maimonides” \nChair: Ori Werdiger (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute) \n3:45-4:00pm – Break \n4:00-5:00pm – Michael Zank (Boston University) \n“’Right for the Wrong Reasons?’ Revisiting Cohen and Strauss on Maimonides’ Platonism” \nChair: Alexandra Zirkle (SUNY Buffalo) \n6:30pm – Conference Dinner (kosher with vegetarian options) \n  \nTuesday\, June 10\, 2025\n10:15-11:15 – David Lemler (University of Paris – Sorbonne) \n“Hermann Cohen’s Selective Reading of Maimonides: Changing A Dogmatical Monotheism into an Ethical Monotheism” \nChair: Elias Sacks (University of Colorado Boulder) \n11:15-11:30am – Break \n11:30am -12:30pm – George Y. Kohler (Bar-Ilan University) – on Zoom \n“Maimonides’ Theory of Divine Attributes as an Example of Infinite Judgements in Hermann Cohen” \nChair: Shira Billet (Jewish Theological Seminary) \n12:30-2:00pm – Lunch \n2:00-3:00pm – Anne-Marie Fowler (University of Toronto) \n“The Ethical as Necessarily Temporal: A Reading of Cohen’s Discussion of Maimonides’ Distinction between the Negative and the Privative” \nChair: Ynon Wygoda (University of Toronto) \n3:00-3:15pm – Break \n3:15-4:15pm – Ynon Wygoda (University of Toronto) \n“Maimonides and Cohen on Job as the Figure of Perplexion and Knowledge” \nChair: Michael Rosenthal (University of Toronto) \nNo group dinner on this day \n  \nWednesday\, June 11\, 2025\n9:00-10:40am \nCohen and Commentary \n\nOri Werdiger (Polonsky Academy\, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute)\n\n“Jacob Gordin and the Limits of Cohen’s Maimonides” \n\nAlexandra Zirkle (SUNY Buffalo)\n\n“Hermann Cohen between Graetz and Susman: Exegetical Interplays” \n\nShira Billet (Jewish Theological Seminary)\n\n“Hermeneutics and the Holy Spirit: Hermann Cohen on Psalm 51 and Isaiah 63” \nChair & Respondent: Elias Sacks (University of Colorado Boulder) \n11:00am-12:30pm \nCommentary in Modern Jewish Thought \nA roundtable discussion \n\nShira Billet\nElias Sacks\nOri Werdiger\nYnon Wygoda\nAlexandra Zirkle\n\n12:30pm – Lunch \n  \n  \nOrganized by Michael Rosenthal (Toronto)\, Ori Werdiger (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute) & Ynon Wygoda (Toronto) \nSponsors: Grafstein Chair in Jewish Philosophy\, Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies\, Department of Philosophy\, University of Toronto
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/hermann-cohens-ethics-of-maimonides/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall)\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250523T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250524T180000
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SUMMARY:Second Toronto Bioethics Workshop
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce the second Toronto Bioethics Workshop for Friday\, May 23 & Saturday\, May 24\, on U of T’s St. George (downtown) campus. \nThe theme of the workshop this year is public bioethics. \nThe Pulitzer Prize–winning  journalist Katie Engelhart\, whose work focuses on medicine and ethics\, will serve as this year’s keynote speaker. \nSchedule\nFriday\, May 23\n1:00–2:15 pm \nPeter Zuk \nMental Privacy\, Self-Expression\, and Hermeneutical Injustice \n  \n2:30–3:45 pm \nLukas J. Meier \nYour Automated Clinical Ethicist Will See You Now \n  \n4:00–5:15 pm \nAdelle Goldenberg \nA Pro-Choice\, Anti-Ableist Abortion Politics \n  \nSaturday\, May 24\n9:00–10:15 am \nMark Ornelas & Carmen Taylor \nTreating Sickle Cell Disease: An Ethical Case Study for Base-Pair Gene Editing \n  \n10:30–11:45 am \nWayne Sumner \nWhat’s So Special about Medically Assisted Dying? \n  \nBREAK \n  \n1:15–2:30 pm \nAndrew J. Baldassarre \nPain Management as a Failed Proxy for Wellbeing \n  \n2:45–4:00 pm \nPrabhpal Singh \nResisting Commonsense and Taking Abortion Rights Serious \n  \n4:15–5:45 pm \nKatie Engelhart (keynote speaker) \nThe Moral of the Story: Reporting from the Frontline of Bioethics
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/second-toronto-bioethics-workshop/
LOCATION:Centre for Ethics\, 200 Larkin\, 15 Devonshire Place\, Toronto\, ON\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George,Undergraduate,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:Sanskrit Reading and Translation Workshop: Vācaspati Miśra on Yogic Perception
DESCRIPTION:The aim of this workshop\, organized by Elisa Freschi and Nilanjan Das\, will be to read and translate a critique of an influential Buddhist theory of yogic perception offered by the Sanskrit philosopher and polymath\, Vācaspati Miśra (9th/10th century)\, in his commentary Nyāyakaṇikā on Maṇḍana Miśra’s (8th century) Vidhiviveka. \nFor many Buddhist philosophers\, the insight that paves the way for awakening is an experience that presents things as they truly are: as suffering\, as impermanent\, and so on. It is the experience of things as the Buddha taught them through Four Truths of the Noble Ones (caturāryasatya). Buddhist epistemologists in the tradition of Dharmakīrti (7th century) call this experience ‘yogic perception’ (yogipratyakṣa). In Nyāyakaṇikā\, Vācaspati attacks Dharmakīrti’s theory of yogic perception. \nVācaspati’s critique is both historically significant in the context of studying Indian Buddhist philosophy. In the relevant section of the text\, Vācaspati engages with a range of Buddhist authors—not just Dharmakīrti but also other figures like Dharmottara\, Prajñākaragupta and Kamalaśīla. In this respect\, the text is an invaluable source of historical information about how Buddhist theories of yogic perception were received and interpreted by non-Buddhist thinkers towards the end of the first millennium CE. In turn\, Vācaspati himself became a target of attack for later followers of Dharmakīrti such as Jñānaśrīmitra (10th century) and Ratnakīrti (11th century). Thus\, without a proper understanding Vācaspati’s challenge for Dharmakīrti\, huge swathes of later Yogācāra texts like Jñānaśri’s Yoginirṇayaprakaraṇa and Ratnakīrti’s Sarvajñasiddhi are unintelligible. \nThe workshop will bring together leading experts\, junior scholars\, and graduate students whose research focuses on Buddhist and Mīmāṃsā philosophy. \nConfirmed Participants\n\nJed Forman (Simpson College)\nAlessandro Graheli (Toronto)\nBhikṣu Hejung (Joongang Sangha University)\nParimal Patil (Harvard)\nAkane Saito (Vienna)\nDavey Tomlinson (Villanova)\nLee Ling Ting (Vassar College)\n\nIf you are interested in participating\, please contact Nilanjan Das. \nThe organizers are grateful to the decanal fund at UTM\, the Centre for South Asian Critical Humanities at UTM\, and the Ho Centre for Buddhist Studies at U of T\, for funding the workshop and for helping with logistics. \n 
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/vacaspati-misra-on-yogic-perception/
LOCATION:MN 3230\, University of Toronto Mississauga
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George,Undergraduate,UTM
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SUMMARY:Memory Distortions across the Lifespan: Theoretical and Empirical Issues
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a workshop on aging and memory\, organized by Sara Aronowitz (University of Toronto) and Jay Richardson (Université Grenoble-Alpes). \nThe study of memory distortions and confabulation has been a central driver of progress in understanding the functioning of human memory. The prevalence and etiology of these errors seem to have a characteristic developmental trajectory along with somewhat predictable breakdown patterns in ageing. How does the study of mnemic error across the lifespan inform the prevalent taxonomies of memory systems? Might it lead to insights into the nature of successful remembering? What might be the theoretical consequences\, if any\, of comparing the development and decline of accuracy and precision in memory? When it comes to philosophical theorizing\, the function of memory is usually studied in abstraction from differences across the lifespan. But age-related differences in memory raise important questions about what a success or failure of memory means. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers from empirical and theoretical fields to start to ask these questions.   \nSpeakers\n\nDonna Rose Addis (Toronto)\nBailey Agard (Toronto)\nSara Aronowitz (Toronto)\nBryan Hong (Toronto)\nJohannes Mahr (York)\nRyan Panela (Toronto)\nDenis Perrin (Grenoble-Alpes)\nJay Richardson (Grenoble-Alpes)\n\n\nSchedule\n9:20-9:30 AM \nWelcome \n9:30-10:30 AM \nDonna Rose Addis \n10:30-11:00 AM \nRyan Panela \n11:00-11:30 AM \nCoffee break \n11:30 AM-12:30 PM \nDenis Perrin \n12:30-1:30 PM \nLunch (catered) \n1:30-2:30 PM \nJohannes Mahr \n2:30-3:00 PM \nBailey Agard \n3:00-3:30 PM \nJay Richardson \n3:30-4:00 PM \nCoffee Break \n4:00-4:30 PM \nBryan Hong \n4:30-5:30 PM \nSara Aronowitz
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/workshop-on-aging-and-memory-aronowitz/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 519
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sara Aronowitz":MAILTO:s.aronowitz@utoronto.ca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250505T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250506T140000
DTSTAMP:20260423T110455
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SUMMARY:Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group Talk and Workshop (Clinton Tolley\, UC San Diego)
DESCRIPTION:The Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group is delighted to welcome Clinton Tolley as its guest speaker for two separate lectures on May 5 (3-5 PM) and May 6 (12-2 PM). Dr. Tolley is a professor of Philosophy at UC San Diego and works in the areas of the history of modern philosophy\, philosophy of culture\, and social philosophy. He also serves as affiliated faculty in German studies\, Latin American Studies\, and the Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science at UCSD. Dr. Tolley coordinates the History of Philosophy Roundtable and the Phenomenology Research Group there\, as well as co-coordinating (with Manuel Vargas) the Mexican Philosophy Lab. \nTalk Title Lecture 1\n(Monday\, May 5\, 2025\, 3-5 PM)\nKant on the Existence of the Objects of the Ideas of Reason \nTalk Abstract Lecture 1\nThe largest part (by far) of the Critique of Pure Reason (roughly half of the 880 page B-edition) is devoted to Kant’s investigation into the possibility that ‘pure reason’ is a source not just of representations\, concepts\, or ‘thoughts’\, but of true cognitions and knowledge about things themselves. While this focus seems fitting\, given the work’s title\, Kant’s interpreters have been split in several directions as to what Kant takes himself to have accomplished in this section\, and also why its task requires so many pages.  In some circles it has been common to see the first 350 pages (in the ‘Aesthetic’ and ‘Analytic’) as having already positively established the limits of human cognition\, in terms of the interaction of the faculties of sensibility and the understanding in experience\, which leaves to the analysis of pure reason (in the ‘Dialectic’) only the negative task of fending off ‘illusions’ that any further cognition is possible via those concepts (‘ideas’) which are distinctive of pure reason.  Especially of late\, however\, others have sought to go beyond this sort of ‘negativism’ concerning cognition by pure reason\, by highlighting a more positive role in relation to cognition that Kant eventually proposes for pure reason and its ‘ideas’ — namely\, their use in ‘regulating’ activity of the understanding itself and its cognitions in experience.  Here I will go farther still and argue that\, by the end of the Dialectic\, Kant means to establish something even more positive and ‘objective’ than either the ‘negativists’ or even the ‘regulativists’ allow — namely\, that pure reason can and does achieve true cognitions and knowledge about the existence of the objects of its ‘ideas’\, i.e.\, achieves a kind of cognition and knowledge of these things themselves. \nTalk Title Lecture 2\n(Tuesday\, May 6\, 2025\, 12-2 PM)\nKant and Hegel on the Relation of Reason to Spirit \nTalk Abstract Lecture 2\nIt has been a common and effective strategy\, especially of late\, to try to find pathways into Hegel’s idealism by tracing out the marks of Hegel’s engagement with Kant\, in order to then use Hegel’s overlaps with\, and departures from\, more familiar theses from Kant to provide interpretive guidance for how to understand Hegel’s own position.  Here I want to take the opposite approach\, and explore the possibility that Hegel’s speculative development of a philosophy of ‘spirit’\, on the basis of his own dialectical examination of reason in the Phenomenology\, can function as an interpretive guide for how best to understand the version of ‘spiritualist’ metaphysics that Kant himself ultimately takes to form the contents of reason’s ‘belief’\, as a result of his own critique of pure reason.  By reading Kant’s Critique ‘speculatively’\, rather than just ‘dialectically’\, I will aim\, first\, to foreground the fact that Kant agrees with Hegel in taking dialectical reflection on reason to provide grounds for a commitment to a conception of the absolute as itself a ‘substance which is subject’\, to use Hegel’s own gloss on the term ’spirit’.  I will also aim\, secondly\, to sharpen the comparative-interpretive question of to what extent (if at all) the Phenomenology’s transition from ‘Reason’ to ‘Spirit’ is meant to be\, in and of itself\, a critique of the conclusions of Kant’s own critique of reason\, if Kant and Hegel ultimately agree that dialectical reflection on reason yields grounds not just for the necessity of the formation of the ‘idea’ of spirit\, but also for the rational commitment to the real existence of spirit itself. \n  \nThe Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group is a a subgroup of the History of Philosophy Research Group\, which focuses on European philosophy in Kant and post-Kantian traditions.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/post-kantian-talk-and-workshop-clinton-tolley-us-san-diego/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 519
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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ORGANIZER;CN="Nick Stang":MAILTO:nick.stang@utoronto.ca
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250505
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250510
DTSTAMP:20260423T110455
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SUMMARY:Second Kumārila Conference
DESCRIPTION:Kumārila ranks among the key Sanskrit thinkers\, and his massive influence has forever changed the course of Sanskrit philosophy\, from Buddhist epistemology to Nyāya ontology. This conference\, held at the Department of Philosophy on the St. George campus\, is the second time international experts on Kumārila’s philosophy can come together to discuss his masterpieces. These experts will workshop their translations of some of Kumārila’s works in two-hour reading sessions. Sessions will see us both reading and commenting on selected passages on a given topic (e.g.\, adhikāra in Ṭupṭīkā 6.1) and hearing a talk on the topic itself (e.g.\, mapping the intersection of adhikāra and sāmarthya). A discussion session will follow. Additionally\, scholars and advanced students will have the opportunity to present their Kumārila-related research in shorter\, 60-minute sessions. \nThe conference is coordinated by Elisa Freschi and Nilanjan Das and will see the participation of other experts in Sanskrit philosophy and philology. \nConfirmed Participants\n\nTarinee Awasthi\nHugo David\nAlessandro Ganassi\nAlessandro Graheli\nKei Kataoka\nMalcolm Keating\nLawrence McCrea\nJohn Nemec\nMonika Nowakowska\nAndrew Ollett\nSarju Patel\nParimal Patil\nJonathan Peterson\nAkane Saito\nTaisei Shida\nLong Yin Sin\nElliot Stern\nAlex Watson\nKiyotaka Yoshimizu\n\nFind the full program schedule. \nThis will be an in-person only event\, since we believe in the power of collective intelligence and collaboration\, which are challenging to replicate when some participants speak on Zoom while others are in the room. \nThe organizers gratefully acknowledge support for the conference from the Departments of Philosophy at UTSG and UTM\, as well as the Office of the Vice-Principal\, Research\, and the Decanal Fund at UTM. \n 
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/kumarila-conference-2/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building 100 & 401\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, ON\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George,Undergraduate,UTM
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250502
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250505
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SUMMARY:Other Epistemic Achievements - Global Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:To explore alternate pathways for theorizing epistemic achievements and virtues\, this three-day conference brings together scholars from 10 different philosophical traditions to engage in debate and discussion. These include perspectives from some Africana\, Arabic\, Chinese\, Early Modern European\, Greek\, Indigenous Andean\, Jewish\, Latin American\, Medieval Latin\, and South Asian traditions.  \nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\nZeyad El Nabolsy (York University)\, Participation as an Epistemic Achievement in African Philosophy\nMaria Heim (Amherst College)\, “Some hold back and some overreach; only those with eyes see”: Buddhaghosa on Learning How to See\nJing Iris Hu (Concordia): What Does Standing in Comparison to Moral Exemplars Tell Us about Ourselves?\nJari Kaukua (University of Jyväskylä)\, Between Epistemic Optimism and Pessimism: Before and after Avicenna\nTamer Nawar (Barcelona)\, The Epistemic Implications of Divine Omniscience and Foreknowledge\nYitzhak Melamed (Hopkins)\, The Apikorsut of the Void: A Heresy beyond All Heresies\nChristiana Olfert (Tufts)\, What Is the Aim of Pyrrhonian Skepticism?\nKristin Primus (Berkeley)\, Our Knowledge of Thought\nJorge H. Sanchez-Perez (Alberta)\, The Harmony of Reality and the Duties of Knowledge: Epistemic Humility and Moral Obligations\nClinton Tolley (UC San Diego)\, “In xóchitl in cuícatl”: Flower\, Song\, and the (‘Romantic’) Elevation of the Aesthetic Dimension of Truth and Knowledge in Ancient and Modern Mexican Philosophy\n\nRead the full program and schedule \nThis event is jointly hosted by the Departments of Philosophy at the University of Toronto and Toronto Metropolitan University\, with additional support from the Centre for Medieval Studies and the Vice-Dean\, Research & Infrastructure\, Faculty of Arts & Science\, University of Toronto. For more information\, check the event website.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/other-epistemic-achievements/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George,Undergraduate,UTM
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250501T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250501T170000
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SUMMARY:Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group Talk (Neil Sinhababu\, Singapore)
DESCRIPTION:The Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group is delighted to welcome as its guest speaker Neil Sinhababu\, an associate professor of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore. Dr. Sinhababu’s areas of research include ethics\, Nietzsche\, political philosophy\, metaphysics\, as well as philosophy of mind and action. \nTalk Title\nNietzsche and the Eternal Recurrence \nTalk Abstract\nThe idea of the eternal recurrence is that everyone will live the exact same lives again an infinite number of times. Nietzsche appreciates that this would multiply the value of a single life by infinity\, justifying intense emotional responses. His unpublished notes anticipate Poincaré’s recurrence theorem with a cosmological argument for the eternal recurrence. Thus Spoke Zarathustra describes its hero discovering this argument and struggling to accept the resulting infinities of everything bad in his life. He eventually comes to love the eternal recurrence because it provides infinities of everything good in his life. \n  \nThe Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group is a a subgroup of the History of Philosophy Research Group\, which focuses on European philosophy in Kant and post-Kantian traditions.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/post-kantian-talk-neil-sinhababu-singapore/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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ORGANIZER;CN="Nick Stang":MAILTO:nick.stang@utoronto.ca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250501T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250501T120000
DTSTAMP:20260423T110455
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SUMMARY:History of Philosophy Research Group Talk (Stephen Peprah\, Toronto)
DESCRIPTION:The History of Modern Philosophy Group is pleased to welcome as its guest speaker Stephen Peprah\, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto\, currently working with Rachel Barney. His interests lie in ancient philosophy\, early modern philosophy\, metaphysics\, and ethics. One of his current research projects focuses on the philosophical works of Anton Wilhelm Amo\, an eighteenth-century Ghanaian-German slave-turned-academic (three of Amo’s philosophical works remain extant). Another of Dr. Peprah’s book projects is tentatively titled “Plato on the Individual\, Polis\, and Political Authority in the Republic.” \nTalk Title\nAnton Wilhelm Amo on Practical Philosophy \nTalk Abstract\n\nAnton Wilhelm Amo is now known mainly for his metaphysical views: the mind and body are exclusively distinct\, such that they can only relate through a commerce (commercio). But his conception of practical philosophy has not received attention. This paper’s goal is twofold: to account for Amo’s practical philosophy and to defend the view that his epistemology and metaphysics have direct relation with his practical philosophy. To these effects\, the paper advances three claims. First\, it argues that for Amo\, whenever we engage in philosophy\, we are (ought to be) inseparably connected with three main aims: (a) the act of understanding and willing by which we are concerned with things in themselves (b) to know them distinctly and adequately; and (c) the application of the acquired knowledge to perfecting humanity and nature. Therefore\, for Amo\, the contemplative life ought necessarily to culminate in practical life. Second\, it shows how Amo’s metaphysics and epistemology are necessary conditions for his practical philosophy. It concludes that for Amo\, ethical problems (human and ecological crisis) result from epistemic failures. \n\nOne of six departmental Research Interest Groups\, the History of Philosophy Group explores topics in ancient and/or medieval philosophy\, the period from Descartes to Kant\, and Jewish philosophy from the medieval period to the 20th century.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/history-philosophy-group-talk-stephen-peprah-toronto/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250427
DTSTAMP:20260423T110455
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SUMMARY:The 16th Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (ATWAP)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the 2025 edition of the Annual Toronto Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (ATWAP). This year will focus on Aristotle’s Parva Naturalia. \n  \nSchedule\nFRIDAY\, APRIL 25\nSession I (2:15 – 3:45pm) \nChair: Christian Pfeiffer (Toronto) \nKlaus Corcilius (Tübingen) “The Soul Itself vs. Common to Body and Soul” \nCommentator: Brad Inwood (Yale) \n  \nSession II (4:15 – 5:45pm) \nChair: Jim Lennox (Pittsburgh) \nClaire Bubb (New York University) “Water\, Taste\, and Nutrition: De sensu 4 and Aristotle’s Theory of Nutritive Juices” \nCommentator: Léa Dérome (Toronto) \n  \nSATURDAY\, APRIL 26\nSession III (9:00 – 10:30am) \nChair: Caterina Pellò (Geneva) \nTim Clarke (Yale) “What Is the Nature That Does Nothing in Vain?” \nCommentator: Alex Stooshinoff (McGill) \n  \nSession IV (11:00am – 12:30pm) \nChair: Rachel Barney (Toronto) \nAndrea Falcon (Venice) “The Architecture of the Science of Living Beings: Aristotle’s De juv. (Resp. included) as a Case Study” \nCommentator: Devin Henry (Western University) \n  \nLunch talk (12:45 – 1:45pm) \nJustin Winzenrieth (Tübingen): “Editing Aristotle’s Parva Naturalia (with A New Branch)” \n  \nSession V (2:15 – 3:45pm) \nChair: Paolo Crivelli (Geneva) \nHendrik Lorenz (Princeton) “Remembering in Aristotle’s De Memoria et Reminiscentia” \nCommentator: Mark Johnstone (McMaster) \n  \nSession VI (4:15 – 5:45pm) \nChair: James Allen (Toronto) \nKaterina Ierodiakonou (Geneva) “Aristotle on Recollection” \nCommentator: Rachel Parsons (Montreal)
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/the-16th-annual-toronto-workshop-in-ancient-philosophy-atwap/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100 & Room 418
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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ORGANIZER;CN="Collaborative Specialization in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy":MAILTO:george.boys.stones@utoronto.ca
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250424T150000
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SUMMARY:Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Alejandro Pérez Carballo\, UMass Amherst)
DESCRIPTION:The Logic and Philosophy of Science Group is pleased to welcome as guest speaker Alejandro Pérez Carballo\, an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Dr. Pérez Carballo is interested in questions in the philosophy of mind and language\, especially as they relate to issues in the philosophy of mathematics and metaethics\, as well as in some questions in metaphysics and formal epistemology. Dr. Pérez Carballo obtained his PhD in philosophy from MIT. Before that\, he studied musicology (Paris IV)\, logic (Paris I\, Paris VII)\, and philosophy (Paris I) at the University of Paris. \nTalk Title\nAsking Questions \nTalk Abstract\nTBD \nAbout the Logic and Philosophy of Science Group\nOne of six departmental Research Interest Groups\, the Logic and Philosophy of Science Group hosts talks on logic\, general philosophy of science\, and philosophy of the particular sciences\, as well as talks in allied areas such as formal epistemology\, decision theory\, and the metaphysics of science.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/logic-science-alejandro-perez-carballo-umass-amherst/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250422T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250422T170000
DTSTAMP:20260423T110455
CREATED:20250409T205809Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250421T173942Z
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SUMMARY:Lecture in Celebration of Marc Sanders Prizes in Philosophy of Mind and in Metaphysics (Andrew Y. Lee\, Toronto)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a lecture by Andrew Y. Lee\, an assistant professor of Philosophy in the Graduate Department of Philosophy at St. George and in the Philosophy Department at UTSC\, in honor of his winning two Marc Sanders Prizes in 2024\, one in Philosophy of Mind\, the other in Metaphysics. \nThe lecture will be followed by a reception. \nTalk Title\nConsciousness and Continuity \nTalk Abstract\nLet a smooth experience be an experience with maximally gradual changes in phenomenal character. Consider\, as examples\, your visual experience of a blue sky or your auditory experience of a rising pitch. Do the phenomenal characters of smooth experiences have continuous or discrete structures? If we appeal merely to introspection\, then it may seem that we should think that smooth experiences are continuous. This paper (1) uses formal tools to clarify what it means to say that an experience is continuous or discrete\, and (2) develops a discrete model of the phenomenal characters of smooth experiences. As a result\, I’ll argue that introspection leaves open whether smooth experiences are continuous or discrete. Yet I’ll also argue—perhaps surprisingly—that the discrete theory may better fit our introspective evidence. Along the way\, I explain why the sense of ‘continuity’ ascribed to smooth experiences is distinct from the sense of ‘continuity’ ascribed to\nthe stream of consciousness.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/lecture-in-celebration-of-marc-sanders-prizes-in-philosophy-of-mind-and-in-metaphysics-andrew-y-lee-toronto/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100 & Room 418
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George,Undergraduate,UTM,UTSC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250418T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250418T170000
DTSTAMP:20260423T110455
CREATED:20250319T205729Z
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SUMMARY:Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group Talk and Workshop (W. Clark Wolf\, St. John's College\, Annapolis)
DESCRIPTION:The Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group is delighted to welcome as a speaker W. Clark Wolf\, who teaches at St. John’s College\, Annapolis. Dr. Wolf’s research interests concern Kant and German idealism\, the philosophies of language and mind\, and the history of metaphysics. He was awarded the 2022 Routledge\, Taylor & Francis Prize by the American Philosophical Association. \nIn addition to his talk on April 18\, Dr. Wolf will also host an all-day workshop on Saturday\, April 19. Those interested in participating should email Nick Stang (nick.stang@utoronto.ca) ahead of the event. \nTalk Title\nThe Janus-Faced Project of Hegel’s Doctrine of the Concept \nTalk Abstract\n\nIn this paper\, I offer an account of the project of Hegel’s Doctrine of the Concept (DoC)\, the third and final Book of his Science of Logic. On this reading\, the DoC must be read as having a dual-facing goal. The first\, backward facing task of the DoC is to consolidate Hegel’s critique of metaphysics in the Objective Logic. I argue that the Objective Logic does not itself make metaphysical assertions but primarily presents a critical account of the concepts of metaphysics. The backward facing task of the DoC is to show that the ground of these metaphysical concepts is the “subjective” and formal logical concepts (i.e.\, forms of thought\, judgment\, and syllogism) of the first part of the Concept Logic. The second\, forward-facing task of the DoC is not commonly emphasized in readings of Hegel’s Logic. This is a constructive task: namely\, an attempt to vindicate a domain of positive philosophical truth that Hegel calls the Idea. This side of his project looks forward to the “concrete” philosophical sciences (the Realphilosophien of nature and spirit). A feature of this account is that it shows why Hegel privileges philosophical truth in the domain of human culture and mind over that of nature. \n\n\n  \nThe Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group is a a subgroup of the History of Philosophy Research Group\, which focuses on European philosophy in Kant and post-Kantian traditions.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/post-kantian-talk-and-workshop-w-clark-wolf-st-johns-annapolis/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Stefan Linquist\, Guelph)
DESCRIPTION:The Logic and Philosophy of Science Group is pleased to welcome as guest speaker Stefan Linquist\, an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Guelph. Dr. Linquist is a philosopher of biology with research interests in ecology\, genomics\, and evolution. In the past\, he studied cultural evolution and whether cultures of honour evolve in response to specific environmental variables. His current work examines theoretical issues in genomics and ecology. \nThis is an in-person event\, but those unable to come to campus are invited to join via Zoom. \nJoin Zoom Meeting:\nhttps://utoronto.zoom.us/j/82469453826\nPasscode: 229048\nTalk Title\nMuch Ado about a Marmot? Aesthetic Value as a Justification for Species Conservation \nTalk Abstract\nTBD \nAbout the Logic and Philosophy of Science Group\nOne of six departmental Research Interest Groups\, the Logic and Philosophy of Science Group hosts talks on logic\, general philosophy of science\, and philosophy of the particular sciences\, as well as talks in allied areas such as formal epistemology\, decision theory\, and the metaphysics of science.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/logic-stefan-linquist-guelph/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:History of Philosophy Research Group Talk (Sarah Tropper\, Toronto)
DESCRIPTION:The History of Modern Philosophy Group is pleased to welcome as its guest speaker Sarah Tropper\, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. Dr. Tropper specializes in the intersection of late medieval scholastic philosophy and early modern rationalist theories of matter\, distinction\, and composition. She earned her PhD at King’s College London with a dissertation on Leibniz. \nTalk Title\nMany\, One\, None? Why and How to Save Bodies in Early Modern Rationalist Theories \nTalk Abstract\n\nEarly modern rationalist metaphysics in their most prominent forms lend themselves to be interpreted as contrary to how we ordinarily think about the world\, especially insofar as they tend to do away with individual bodies as genuine material entities. But such an understanding of these philosophies not only runs the risk of failing to account for the world we experience\, but it also – and more importantly – seems to run counter to the explicit commitments of rationalist thinkers. I argue in this paper that there is a variety of different (ethical\, physical\, epistemological\, but also metaphysical) reasons as to why we should take Descartes’s\, Spinoza’s\, and even Leibniz’s talk about genuine material entities or bodies in a robust sense seriously and how\, from their various remarks\, different conceptions of what makes a unified material object emerge. \n\nOne of six departmental Research Interest Groups\, the History of Philosophy Group explores topics in ancient and/or medieval philosophy\, the period from Descartes to Kant\, and Jewish philosophy from the medieval period to the 20th century.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/history-philosophy-group-talk-sarah-tropper-toronto/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:2025 Undergraduate Philosophy Research Conference
DESCRIPTION:It’s that time of year again! Join us for exciting debates and new ideas in undergraduate philosophy scholarship at the 2025 Undergraduate Philosophy Research Conference. Expect two days of insight\, discussion\, and community. \nThis year’s keynote speaker is Pirachula Chulanon (TMU)\, who will be speaking at 3:30 PM on Tuesday\, April 8\, 2025. Dr. Chulanon’s areas of expertise include Kant\, early modern philosophy\, philosophy of mind\, and aesthetics. \nPlease check back soon for a fuller event schedule. \nSchedule\nMonday\, April 7 (JHB 418)\n\n\n\n10:00 – 11:00\nSamantha Filion\n“Parmenidean Ascent”\n\n\n11:00 – 12:00\nDavid De Martin\n“Thomas Aquinas on Divine Causality and Human Free Choice”\n\n\n12:00 – 1:00\nLunch\n\n\n\n1:00 – 2:00\nChi Zhang\n“Reasons and Relevant Persons\, Degreed Partiality\, and Disagreement”\n\n\n2:00 – 3:00\nMolly Cooper-Gray\n“Advanced Dementia: Death of the Organism versus Death of the Person”\n\n\n3:00 – 3:30\nBreak\n\n\n\n3:30 – 4:30\nJonah Stein\n“Agent-Causal Hylomorphism”\n\n\n\nTuesday\, April 8 (JHB 418)\n\n\n\n10:00 – 11:00\nDalia Golovco\n“Truth through Tragedy”\n\n\n11:00 – 12:00\nZifan Nameer\n“The Problem of the Possibility of Metaphysics”\n\n\n12:00 – 1:00\nLunch\n\n\n\n1:00 – 2:00\nJoseph Boyce\n“Friends of Sinners: An Interpretation and Analysis of Kant’s Argument against Association with the Scandalously Vicious”\n\n\n2:00 – 3:00\nKrista Wenxin Tao\n“Kant and the Category of Substance”\n\n\n3:00 – 3:30\nBreak\n\n\n\n3:30 – 5:00\nPirachula Chulanon (Keynote)\n“The Concept of Mind: Rylean and Kantian Reflections”\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/2025-undergraduate-philosophy-research-conference/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:St. George,Undergraduate,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (Espen Hammer\, Temple)
DESCRIPTION:The Continental Philosophy Research Group is pleased to welcome Espen Hammer\, professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy at Temple University. Dr. Hammer’s main interests are in Kant and German idealism\, social and political philosophy\, modern European philosophy\, phenomenology\, critical theory\, and aesthetics. He has previously held professorships at the University of Oslo (Norway) and University of Essex (UK)\, and visiting professorships at the New School for Social Research and the University of Pennsylvania. He is a former Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Frankfurt. \nDr. Hammer will be also be holding a workshop on his recently published After the Death of God: Secularization as a Philosophical Challenge from Kant to Nietzsche(University of Chicago Press\, 2025) ) earlier on this Friday\, April 4\, from 10 AM-12 PM\, in JHB 401. \nTalk Title \nThe Greening of Critical Theory \nTalk Abstract \nIn the paper I discuss the prospects for developing or reconstructing an ecological awareness within the tradition of critical theory. While both the Marxian background of early critical theory and Habermas’s discourse theory prove to be ethically and morally anthropocentric and thus insufficiently equipped to generate a persuasive critique of our relationship to nature\, there are resources in Adorno’s philosophy\, outlining a form of experiential moral realism\, that prove more promising. I examine and defend those. \nAbout the Continental Philosophy Group \nOne of six departmental research interest groups\, the Continental Philosophy Group works in the traditions of textual interpretation of human consciousness\, phenomenology\, and post-structuralist critical theory\, among other related traditions of thought.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/continental-philosophy-research-group-talk-espen-hammer-temple-april/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED--Colloquium (C. Thi Nguyen\, Utah)
DESCRIPTION:Unfortunately\, this event has had to be cancelled for the moment. \nAs speaker for our second Spring 2025 colloquium\, the department is delighted to welcome C. Thi Nguyen\, an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah. Dr. Nguyen\, a former food writer\, writes about trust\, art\, games\, and communities\, interested in the ways our social structures and technologies shape how we think and what we value. His book\, Games: Agency as Art (Oxford University Press\, 2020)\, won the American Philosophical Association’s 2021 Book Prize. \nTalk Title\nTBD \nTalk Abstract\n\nTBD
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/colloquium-c-thi-nguyen-utah/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall)\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group Workshop (Matthew Delhey & Jelscha Schmid\, Toronto)
DESCRIPTION:The Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group is delighted to welcome Matthew Delhey and Jelscha Schmid as workshop guest presenters. Both are current postdoctoral fellows with the Department of Philosophy\, Matthew on the St. George campus\, Jelscha at UTM\, working with Owen Ware. \nSchedule\n2:00–3:30 PM\nJelscha Schmid\, “Fichte and the Conceptual Problem of other Minds”\n\n4:00–5:30 PM\nMatthew Delhey\,”Visions of Community at the University of Berlin: Kant\, Fichte\, Schleiermacher”\n  \nThe Kant & Post-Kantian Philosophy Group is a a subgroup of the History of Philosophy Research Group\, which focuses on European philosophy in Kant and post-Kantian traditions.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/post-kantian-workshop-matthew-delhey-jelscha-schmid-toronto/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Will Davies\, Oxford)
DESCRIPTION:The Logic and Philosophy of Science Group is pleased to welcome as guest speaker Will Davies\, an associate professor and Gabriele Taylor fellow in Philosophy at St. Anne’s College\, University of Oxford. Dr. Davies’s research interests lie in the philosophy of mind – including philosophy of psychology and psychiatry – and related areas of epistemology and metaphysics. His work examines colour constancy\, social mechanisms in psychiatry\, and biosychosocial psychiatry. \nTalk Title\nSeen the Light? The Nature\, Spatial Structure\, and Perception of Illumination \nTalk Abstract\nIn viewing a city scene\, one sees many material objects of varying sizes\, shapes\, and colours. One sees light-emitting objects\, like billboards and street lights. Plausibly\, one also sees the scene as illuminated in certain ways: shadowed here\, brightly lit there; a swathe of gloom here\, a shaft of sunlight there; and so forth. In perceptual theory\, however\, the orthodoxy is that we do not strictly see illumination; we see only illuminated objects\, or objects with such-and-such illumination-dependent properties. This scepticism is linked to the assumption that illumination is simply light. For physics tells us that light is photons or electromagnetic waves\, and these are not candidate objects of perception. Photons are massless\, immaterial parts of the quantum world. Streams of photons lack surfaces and are not organised into parts. Photons propagate effectively instantaneously\, hence are not trackable. Experimentalists ‘observe’ photons\, only by detecting their effects on matter. Contrary to the assumption\, however\, illumination and light are nonidentical: they are different kinds of stuff. Illumination is a macroscopic part of natural environments\, constituted by accretions of light reverberating between earth\, sky\, and everything in between. These reverberations produce stable\, coarse-scale systems of aggregate light flow. These systems are informationally rich and ecologically significant\, being structured by matter and light sources within the environment. Drawing on Gershun’s (1939) geometrical optics and Gibson’s (1986) ecological optics\, I develop an account of the nature and spatial structure of illumination. I use this account to characterise familiar features of illumination\, such as its flow through space and across surfaces; its co-location or interpenetration with material objects; and its often amorphous or unbounded character. I argue that the account meshes with the visual phenomenology of illumination\, and that this mesh is substantiated by models in computational vision science. Contrary to popular belief\, then\, illumination deserves a place among the ‘ordinary’ objects of visual perception. \nAbout the Logic and Philosophy of Science Group\nOne of six departmental Research Interest Groups\, the Logic and Philosophy of Science Group hosts talks on logic\, general philosophy of science\, and philosophy of the particular sciences\, as well as talks in allied areas such as formal epistemology\, decision theory\, and the metaphysics of science.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/logic-science-will-davies-oxford/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 418\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (James Bahoh\, Memphis)
DESCRIPTION:The Continental Philosophy Research Group is pleased to welcome as guest speaker James Bahoh\, an assistant professor at the University of Memphis\, where he also serves as the Department of Philosophy’s director of undergraduate studies. Dr. Bahoh’s main research is in phenomenology\, post-phenomenological Continental philosophy\, and ontology/metaphysics in the context of German and French thought from Kant to today. He is especially interested in Heidegger and Deleuze and is a proponent of drawing on the history of philosophy to advance and address issues in 21st-century postanalytic/continental divide philosophy. He also has interests in social and political\, as well as early modern philosophy. \nDr. Bahoh is author of Heidegger’s Ontology of Events (2020) and is currently working on a new book on the relation of the concept of event to the metaphysics and ontology of identity\, difference\, and representation. The book focuses on the theories of events advanced by Heidegger and Deleuze\, and ways these theories engage Kant and post-Kantian thought. Since May 2024\, Dr. Bahoh has served as Presiding Officer of the Heidegger Circle Executive Committee. \nIn addition to his talk on March 21\, Dr. Bahoh will also be giving an all-day workshop the following day\, Saturday\, March 22\, 2025\, in JHB 418. To register for the workshop and for more information\, please contact Tarek Dika. \nTalk Title\nHeidegger on Fundamental Principles \nTalk Abstract\nIn this paper\, I examine the role of Grundsätze or ‘fundamental principles’ in Heidegger’s critique of metaphysics and in his larger ontology. I outline his distinction between ‘positive’ and ‘radical’ modes of science to show a major problem that the ‘recuperative’ dimension of his critique of metaphysics raises: that of simultaneously differentiating between and establishing the systematic unity of metaphysics and ontology. I focus on the way key principles like identity\, non-contradiction\, and reason are suggested to have a foundational position in metaphysical inquiry but simultaneously an openness to deeper ontological grounding. And on this basis\, I argue that these principles act as liminal concepts that help to solve the difference/unity problem. \nAbout the Continental Philosophy Group\nOne of six departmental research interest groups\, the Continental Philosophy Group works in the traditions of textual interpretation of human consciousness\, phenomenology\, and post-structuralist critical theory\, among other related traditions of thought.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/continental-philosophy-research-group-talk-james-bahoh-memphis/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building 519
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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SUMMARY:Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Kara Richardson\, Syracuse)
DESCRIPTION:The Global Philosophy Research Interest Group is delighted to welcome as guest speaker Kara Richardson\, an associate professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University. Dr. Richardson works primarily in the history of philosophy. She focuses on medieval Aristotelians\, especially Avicenna\, Aquinas\, and Suarez\, as well as on Descartes. Her research interests lie in the history of metaphysics\, with a focus on causality. Dr. Richardson is also affiliated with Women’s and Gender Studies\, Medieval and Renaissance Studies\, and Middle Eastern Studies at Syracuse. \nThis is an online-only event.  \nJoin the Zoom meeting: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/86317534593 \nPassword: 799756 \nTalk Title\n Avicenna on the Principle of Sufficient Reason and the “Same Cause-Same Effect” Principle \nTalk Abstract\nThe “same cause-same effect” principle is usually associated with Hume\, who regarded it as empirically supported. In this paper\, I argue that Avicenna attempts to establish the “same cause-same effect” principle by appeal to the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR). The context is a discussion of voluntary motion in Metaphysics IX.2 of The Book of Healing. The main aim of the paper is to advance research on Avicenna’s use of the PSR and its role in his account of (efficient) causation. A second aim is to examine the role of the PSR in his account of the cognitive principles of voluntary agency. \nThe Global Philosophy Research Interest Group explores the benefits of drawing on diverse traditions of thought in approaching philosophical questions. These include novel insights into familiar problems\, new questions and research directions\, and fresh methodologies. We work to deprovincialize and decolonize all aspects of philosophy in the academy. The group currently has strengths in Sanskrit philosophy\, and Chinese philosophy\, Indian philosophy in English\, and classical Islamic philosophy.
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/global-philosophy-research-interest-group-talk-kara-richardson-syracuse/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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