Global Philosophy Research Interest Group Talk (Amit Chaturvedi, Hong Kong)

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

Amit 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, Canada

Anik 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, Canada

Jacob 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, Canada

Join 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

UNESCO World Philosophy Day (Linda M. Alcoff, CUNY)

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

Linda 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.

History of Philosophy Research Group Talk (Thierry Côté, Toronto)

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

Thierry 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 519

Andrew 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.”

Colloquium (Jocelyn Benoist, Sorbonne)

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

Jocelyn 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, Canada

C. 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.

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